Black Sunshine
From Infictive
A very powerful hallucinogen, so named for its ability to reverse dark and light visually like a photograph negative. A popular but rare and expensive rave drug.
"I'm not going to kid you, this stuff works to destabilize your emotional blockages. You will be different. Being different is an irrevocable side effect. And you will trip your balls off, no doubt about that. It lasts five or six hours, no more if you up the dosage but the effects get a lot more intense. The come down's longer though, and you can accomplish a lot of shit during the aftermath. The heightened intelligence shit's only part of it. Reality is more malleable, you can force coincidence if you plan for it, and even random desires trigger strange occurrences." Astrix fingered the shards of the translucent black drug.
"Everyone wants to be more than they are if they've bought into modern social criticisms of their performance." He looked at Lucy. "Temper expectation with this knowledge at all times. This should stay with you even in the most distant inner subjective journey of dream, hallucination, and recall, Honey. You're doing this to be more than you are, because you've bought into society's critique of your individual value. The rats loved this shit, and it made them fucking smart too."
"Smart how?" Lucy Honey asks, her tone less suspicious, more comprehending now than when Astrix had first begun to explain how he'd come by the strange black shards he'd spread across a bar napkin.
"They wove a ramp on this shit. Strangest thing I ever seen, I tell you what. They grouped together and wove a ramp, sides flush to the glass and kinda domed out, a slope right? And used that so they didn't have to stretch to get water." He looks at her for a moment. "I had to try it. So I stole some, and synthesized it right here, in the basement."
"Here's the weird thing though, all the research was done trying to increase intelligence but I was hoping it'd turn out similar to an acid experience, right? And it does both. I kind of think that since I was the first human test subject, that I kind of set the frequency for what it's become."
