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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. ......,-††
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#$††-,.... IT'S HIGHLY ADDICTIVE, AND POSSESS ....,-††$#
##$††-,... STRONG PSYCHOTROPIC EFFECTS. ...,-††$##
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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 ......,-††
$††-,..... AIR, WHICH THEN ARE LEFT OVERNIGHT AND .....,-††$
#$††-,.... HARVESTED THE NEXT DAY. ....,-††$#
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###$††-,.. MOST SPACES ARE SOMEWHAT MAZELIKE, AND ..,-††$###
####$††-,. IT'S NOT UNCOMMON FOR LIZARDS IN KIRUGU .,-††$####
###$††-,.. VESZELLE CITY TO KEEP A FEW JARS (OFTEN ..,-††$###
##$††-,... HANGED FROM THE CEILING IN METAL CROWNS ...,-††$##
#$††-,.... MADE FOR THIS PURPOSE). HOWEVER, THESE ....,-††$#
$††-,..... MAY TAKE WEEKS TO FILL. .....,-††$
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,......... , AS A DRUG , .........,
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††-,...... . ONE SPOON . ......,-††
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#$††-,.... THE DRUG IS USED BY THE LIZARDS IN ....,-††$#
##$††-,... THESE SMALL (BUT OFTEN CONTINUOUS) ...,-††$##
###$††-,.. DOSES. THIS HEIGHTENS THE SENSES ..,-††$###
####$††-,. SOMEWHAT BUT AT THE COST OF A LESSENED .,-††$####
###$††-,.. ABILITY TO MULTI-TASK - CONTEXT ..,-††$###
##$††-,... SWITCHING MIGHT TAKE LONGER AND BE MORE ...,-††$##
#$††-,.... CONFUSING. ....,-††$#
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†-,....... . FOUR SPOONS . .......,-†
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,......... 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 ......,-††
$††-,..... ARE VERY FRAGMENTED AND HARD TO .....,-††$
#$††-,.... DECIPHER, UNLESS YOU ARE AT A SIMILAR ....,-††$#
##$††-,... LEVEL OF SPOONS). AT THIS POINT THE ...,-††$##
###$††-,.. BODY IS HARD TO MOVE, AND STARTS LOSING ..,-††$###
####$††-,. WATER. .,-††$####
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#$††-,.... . NINE SPOONS AND ABOVE . ....,-††$#
$††-,..... ..... .....,-††$
††-,...... 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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##$††-,... , DANGERS , ...,-††$##
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###$††-,.. MOST DEATHS ARE DUE TO LOSS OF WATER - ..,-††$###
##$††-,... THIRST IS ONE OF THE LAST SENSES TO ...,-††$##
#$††-,.... RESTABLE AFTER COMING DOWN, OFTEN GONE ....,-††$#
$††-,..... FOR UP TO TWENTY FOUR HOURS. AT HIGHER .....,-††$
††-,...... 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). .........,
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†-,....... 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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