Throbbing Nectar

THIS IS NSFW!!! The coming description, if it was not obvious from the name, will contain references to things resembling drug use, drug addiction, sexual content, and body horror, very likely in that order. Reader discretion is advised.

Oy, yes you laddie, yeah I'm talking to you. You got yourself a pretty missus there, you want to show her a time she'll never forget? I can help with that. Right here, this little vial, aye. Take it half an hour before the deed. She'll never forget you I promise you that. I also promise that there will be no sleeping tonight. A gold sun is all it costs for a proper throbbing good time.

A street level dealer trying to hustle a sale.

It is a cuisine in a manner of speaking, one must agree. The idea of a little special cocktail, a little plant protein beverage to...enhance ones ability within the bedroom with their significant other (or others, we don't judge here). And of course, the supplement, this so called delicious, nutritious and sexually awakening natural product known as Throbbing Nectar is said to provide.

The truth of course, well the truth is a complex matter. To discuss any truth we must first establish the facts. So what is this strange little beverage?

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Throbbing Nectar, Contents

Throbbing Nectar is just a street name, meant to dress it up, to sell it. After all it sounds inevitably erotic and sensual, just saying it aloud may arouse certain....feelings. But what is important to know is that name is indeed just window dressing. Oh the effects are all to real and at first may seem as promised. Hours of pleasure, consistent ease of recovery and...near immediate return to an aroused and erect state for any male imbiber. It is potent stuff and can seem exciting and daring.

However what is used to make this concoction is more excitement and far more daring than anyone would ever wish. Throbbing Nectar is merely Spine-Saw Sap mixed 3-1 with a bit of honey to make the taste bearable, sweet even, with about two grams of powdered Spine-Saw thorns mixed into it, providing a slight (but not unpleasant or pleasure denying, merely lengthening...at first) paralytic numbing effect. This works because the type of paralysis the Spine-Saw Vine inflicts is one of rigimortis, that is, locking and stiffening all the tendons and muscles in an afflicted creature's body. As is well known amongst humanoid the penis is in fact naught but a muscle tissue and many blood vessels. So one may be able to see the beginnings of how it may in fact act as an aphrodisiac. The problem however, is tha this paralytic is designed to be predatory in nature. The reason prey items don't escape the Vines is because their muscles cease to work without a small dose of the drug over time, as they lose marrow, as they are weakened by the plant's feeding process, it continually reapplies this toxin, creating a dependancy for muscle structures to work at all, and insuring they never work normally.

This can happen with abuse of this Nectar as well. That alone would be unfortunate, but not worthy of trying to outlaw such a substance that seems to becoming more prevalent. No the real danger here is the sap itself. Spine-Saw Sap is a calcifying agent of untold proportions, as is well known. It has many medicinal uses when prepared and handled properly by someone alchemically qualified. With a proper dose one can regrow and repair shattered and broken bones almost overnight. But raw Spine-Saw Sap is much stronger than that which is used medically. This is where the issues truly lie with this new party beverage making the rounds to young men in many cities across Valerick.

Erect Petrification

The true concern is when inevitably, perhaps weeks or months after starting semi-regular usage of Throbbing Nectar, even as little as one or two times a week. It is at this point the Sap begins to affect a regular user's tendons and muscle tissues. Joint pain, as if arthritis is the first warning the lucky ones get. However it is not arthritis. It is their tendons literally crystalizing and calcifying into bone.

But in rare cases, some unlucky man has found himself, upon release with a partner (or partners, again we do not judge) unable to...well release. Oh they will achieve a climax....only to find themselves in crippling pain, their anatomy unable to physically release their seed from the member, as it has partially crystallized and become bone. This will also trap blood and limit blood flow as the veins and arteries are squeezed and pinched, but not split, not initially. Many whom experience partial Erect Petrification end up having to have their penis amputated due to the onset of necrosis in the tissue that remains from the lack of blood flow. Others will break, and yes I do mean break it when attempting to...relieve the pressure by their own means, and doing so to assertively. The pain of such a mistake has been described as everything from unbearable to downright unholy, as if some punishment from a fell being for crimes both past and future. In rarer cases still those whom cause a break do so in such a way where they rupture their femoral within the member. These individuals, from a pain perspective are very lucky. They die relatively quickly.

Thankfully, this substance is not cheap, with one dose running at least a full gold sun in most circles, with two or even three being the most common pricing. This is likely due to the expense involved in getting individuals out into the thickest woodlands, deep in mountain ranges all about Durol, places well known for their lack of safety and their distance from any civilized location or any aid of any kind should one need it. However in spite of this expensive process to acquire the ingredients, the market for Throbbing Nectar is a sadly stable one, even as governments, churches, schools and others attempt to educate and provide better information to new waves of young men all across Valerick.