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@†††-.,,,, THE HONEY IS A CONDENSATION OF A THICK ,,,,.-†††@
@†††-,,,,, LIQUID, INHERENT TO ALL MAZES. ,,,,,-†††@
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###@$††-., ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
#@†††--,,, MAINLY COLLECTED BY THE LIZARDFOLK OF ,,,--†††@#
###@$††-., THE KIRUGU VARGIR DESERT, IN THE ,.-††$@###
##@$$††-., UNDERLYING TUNNELS. IT'S USE AND ,.-††$$@##
@$$$†††-., POSSESSION IS ILLEGAL WITHIN THE CITY. ,.-†††$$$@
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###@$††-., . PROPERTIES . ,.-††$@###
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#$†--..,,, THE HONEY IS A REDDISH AMBER, VERY ,,,..--†$#
###@$††-., VISCOUS (BUT STILL POURABLE). IT SMELLS ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., SLIGHTLY OF EUCALYPTUS, AND HAS A ,.-††$@###
@†††--,,,, MOSTLY BITTER TASTE. ,,,,--†††@
@†††.,,,,, ,,,,,.†††@
#@††....,, IT'S HIGHLY ADDICTIVE, AND POSSESS ,,....††@#
@$$$†-..,, STRONG PSYCHOTROPIC EFFECTS. ,,..-†$$$@
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#@$†..,,,, .............. ,,,,..†$@#
@††....,,, . COLLECTION . ,,,....††@
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###@$††-., THE HONEY MATERIALIZES IN VACCUUMS ,.-††$@###
##$†-.,,,, WITHIN ANY LABYRINTHINE SPACE. THE MORE ,,,,.-†$##
###@$††-., FOLDED AND AMBIGUOUS, THE FASTER IT ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., EMERGES. THE CAVERNOUS SYSTEMS UNDER ,.-††$@###
#$††.,,,,, THE DESERT OF KIRUGU SERVES THIS ,,,,,.††$#
###@$††-., PURPOSE VERY WELL - THE LIZARDS USE ,.-††$@###
##@††††-., PUMPS TO EMPTY SMALL BOXES OR JARS OF ,.-††††@##
##@$$††-., AIR, WHICH THEN ARE LEFT OVERNIGHT AND ,.-††$$@##
##$$$††-., HARVESTED THE NEXT DAY. ,.-††$$$##
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
####@$†-., MOST SPACES ARE SOMEWHAT MAZELIKE, AND ,.-†$@####
@@††-,,,,, IT'S NOT UNCOMMON FOR LIZARDS IN KIRUGU ,,,,,-††@@
###@$††-., VESZELLE CITY TO KEEP A FEW JARS (OFTEN ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., HANGED FROM THE CEILING IN METAL CROWNS ,.-††$@###
@$†-----., MADE FOR THIS PURPOSE). HOWEVER, THESE ,.-----†$@
###@$††-., MAY TAKE WEEKS TO FILL. ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
##@@$††-., ,.-††$@@##
###@$††-., ............. ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., . AS A DRUG . ,.-††$@###
#@†-,,,,,, ............. ,,,,,,-†@#
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
##$†-.,,,, , ONE SPOON , ,,,,.-†$##
###@$††-., ,,,,, ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., THE DRUG IS USED BY THE LIZARDS IN ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., THESE SMALL (BUT OFTEN CONTINUOUS) ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., DOSES. THIS HEIGHTENS THE SENSES ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., SOMEWHAT BUT AT THE COST OF A LESSENED ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., ABILITY TO MULTI-TASK - CONTEXT ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., SWITCHING MIGHT TAKE LONGER AND BE MORE ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., CONFUSING. ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
#@†--,,,,, ,,,,,--†@#
###@$††-., , FOUR SPOONS , ,.-††$@###
#@†††.,,,, ,,,,, ,,,,.†††@#
@@††--.,,, MULTITASKING BECOMES VERY HARD (THE ,,,.--††@@
###@$††-., THOUGHT DOES NOT OCCUR). SENSES MORE ,.-††$@###
@††--.,,,, ACUTE BUT "UNIMPORTANT" (IGNORED). ,,,,.--††@
###@$††-., INNER PERCEPTIONS TAKE THE UPPER HAND, ,.-††$@###
@$†--,,,,, ABSTRACTION AND MEMORY FACULTIES ARE ,,,,,--†$@
@@†††††-., SHARPENED SEVERELY. SLIGHT TELEPATHY ,.-†††††@@
#@††-...., (MOSTLY MOODS) WITH OTHER HONEY EATERS. ,....-††@#
##$$†-,,,, SENSE OF THIRST DISSAPPEARS. STILL EASY ,,,,-†$$##
###@$††-., TO MOVE AROUND THE BODY (IF SO ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., INCLINED). ,.-††$@###
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#@$††.,,,, ,,,,.††$@#
@††-,,,,,, , SEVEN SPOONS , ,,,,,,-††@
###@$††-., ,,,,, ,.-††$@###
#@$††††-., THE HONEY EATER BECOMES UNRESPONSIVE TO ,.-††††$@#
###@$††-., NORMAL STIMULI, BUT ABLE TO OVERRIDE ,.-††$@###
##@$†††-., THEIR OWN SENSES WITH DREAMLIKE ,.-†††$@##
###@$††-., IMAGERY. SHARING OF THOUGHTS WITH OTHER ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., EATERS, MOOD READING OF THOSE WHO STAY ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., SOBER (WORTH NOTING THAT THE THOUGHTS ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., ARE VERY FRAGMENTED AND HARD TO ,.-††$@###
#@$†††-,,, DECIPHER, UNLESS YOU ARE AT A SIMILAR ,,,-†††$@#
###@$††-., LEVEL OF SPOONS). AT THIS POINT THE ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., BODY IS HARD TO MOVE, AND STARTS LOSING ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., WATER. ,.-††$@###
#@†-..,,,, ,,,,..-†@#
@††††--,,, ,,,--††††@
###@$††-., , NINE SPOONS AND ABOVE , ,.-††$@###
#@@@$††-., ,,,,, ,.-††$@@@#
###@$††-., OVERDOSE. BODY LOSING WATER QUICKLY, ,.-††$@###
#@†-..,,,, AND IS COMPLETELY UNABLE TO MOVE. THERE ,,,,..-†@#
###@$††-., IS INTERMITTENT THOUGHT SHARING WITH ,.-††$@###
#@†††.,,,, SOBER PERSONS (ALTHOUGH ,,,,.†††@#
#@$†-.,,,, UNINTELLIGIBLE). MEMEORIES ARE SHARDED ,,,,.-†$@#
@††--..,,, OR NOT FORMED. ,,,..--††@
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#@††---.,, . DANGERS . ,,.---††@#
##$$†††-., ........... ,.-†††$$##
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
#@@$†††-., MOST DEATHS ARE DUE TO LOSS OF WATER - ,.-†††$@@#
###@$††-., THIRST IS ONE OF THE LAST SENSES TO ,.-††$@###
#@@$$††-., RESTABLE AFTER COMING DOWN, OFTEN GONE ,.-††$$@@#
###@$††-., FOR UP TO TWENTY FOUR HOURS. AT HIGHER ,.-††$@###
#@@$$††-., DOSES IT'S HARD TO MOVE, EVEN IF YOU ,.-††$$@@#
@@$†-.,,,, WOULD REMEMBER DRINKING (WHICH IS ALSO ,,,,.-†$@@
#@@††††-., MADE HARDER BY THE ATTENTION FOCUSING ,.-††††@@#
##$††---., PROPERTIES OF THE HONEY). ,.---††$##
###@$††-., ,.-††$@###
@@$$$††-., PEOPLE ARE KNOWN TO SUFFER INJURIES ,.-††$$$@@
##$†--,,,, FROM BEING STILL IN UNFAVOURABLE ,,,,--†$##
####$††-., CLIMATES FOR TOO LONG, SOMETIMES TO THE ,.-††$####
####@$†-., POINT OF DEATH. ANOTHER DANGER IS ,.-†$@####
@$†-..,,,, ACTUALLY LOCOMOTION OF THE BODY... ,,,,..-†$@
@@†-,,,,,, WALKING AROUND IS STILL SOMEWHAT ,,,,,,-†@@
###@$††-., POSSIBLE AFTER LOSING SIGHT, WHICH HAVE ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., LEAD TO SEVEAL FALLS. ADDITIONALLY, ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., ROBBERIES OF THE INTOXICATED ARE COMMON. ,.-††$@###
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#$†-..,,,, LASTLY, ALBEIT VERY RARE, IT'S POSSIBLE ,,,,..-†$#
##$†-,,,,, TO DIE OF PURE OVERDOSE (ON THE SCALE ,,,,,-†$##
###@$††-., OF JARS OF HONEY) BEFORE BEING KILLED ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., BY THIRST. THERE ARE RUMORS THAT THIS ,.-††$@###
###@$††-., LEAVES "GHOSTS", WHO WILL STILL SHARE ,.-††$@###
@$†††-.,,, THEIR THOUGHTS LONG AFTER THEIR BODIES ,,,.-†††$@
##@††-.,,, ARE DEAD AND GONE. ,,,.-††@##
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