The DJ’s at those Raving Dance Parties are doing more than just taking the kids on a journey…..
The Rave Scene has finally attracted the attention of the OU, who have been remarkable slow on the uptake in this respect. A group of Narquis scattered across the country have been hard at work making pills that, when taken, not only produce a killer high but make the pineal gland’s psychic emanations containable. the Narquis then bribe DJ’s to play a certain song at around 2-3am, when everyone is peaking their hardest. The song is actually one half of a ritual that is completed by the listener dancing, which of course everyone is doing. The ritual then funnels a portion of the listener’s latent psychic power to a pre-established point, a receptacle of some sort.
The downside to this is two-fold. First, this pills (which are being sold as Ecstacy), have an inherent level of physical addiction more similar to cocaine than MDMA, and are being sold at roughly two-thirds the going rate for E, hence the ravers are not only hooked but can actually afford the habit.
Secondly, and much more nastily, is the long-term affects of the pill / song combination.
Ecstacy acts by inhibiting your serotonin re-uptake, and the comedown is the total lack of serotonin (which works hand-in-hand with endorphins to make you happy etc). Long-term E use is thought to make that crappy, ‘flat feeling’ harder to come back from, lowering your overall ability to be, well, a happy person.
The pills drain on your psychic capacity means for a few days afterwards, you’re just not in touch with your spiritual side. Seeing shapes in clouds is harder, asking yourself philisophical questions will draw a blank, and any magick use will only have half the normal outcome. Furthermore, your aura is dim and the colours look like they’re the same dull gray as that Metallica shirt you’ve been wearing for the last eight years.
Long term affects are up to the GM, but could include a complete disappearance of aura, permanent loss of magickal ability, and Self Checks as the user becomes further and further removed from their spiritual side.
Also up to the GM is what the Narquis are doing with all the energy they are storing up….