Fly Agaric
Fly Agaric
Poison
Common Requires Attunement
Psychoactive Properties. The active ingredients can cause hallucinations leading to it being used to gain advantage on an Insight or Religion roll per day. At the DMs discretion, can be used as a spell component in some spells. Possible Allergen & Overdose. There is always a risk that the person that uses it is allergic to the compound or takes too much (which is easily done with this drug). On a 50% roll 1d100 , the user has to make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 7 2d6 poison damage. Addiction. There is a relatively high chance that the user can become addicted to this substance. After using this on 5 consecutive times, the user has to make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or become addicted having one level of exhaustion per 24 hour period. Each 24 hour period requires a further saving throw with disadvantage until passed, then they start to remove one level of exhaustion after that, and no more saves are needed.
Fly Agaric is a type of related mushrooms usually with a white stalk & gills, red head, with white spots, though some have yellow or white heads. These contain a couple of hallucinogenic compounds called Ibotenic Acid & Muscimol. These are removed if parboiled at least twice, and believed to be tied to the Berserker cults though no real evidence exists. The effects of the mushroom leads to many shamanistic practices in Finland, Estonia, the Sami, right across into Siberia. They are sometimes used in other cultures usually by shamans & animist cults for their properties. The Sami & Siberian tribes have a religious outlook on what these mushrooms can do.
Very few people have been killed by the use of Fly Agaric, though without the help of an experienced shaman or elder, a person could still have serious negative health issues cause by it. The hallucinations that are caused can easily take any form, but with the proper training the shaman can easily talk to spirits, travel to the other world, and have lucid dreams. In some cultures and regions, use of the Fly Agaric is strictly controlled, and is used in some forms of worship only, magical usage, or as a form of medicine only. Any use beyond this is not tolerated, and can incur penalties.
Muscimol is the main psychoactive drug in the mushroom, with Ibotenic Acid being a prodrug, that when took together allows more of the Muscimol to be absorbed and increase it's intensity. The acid also is also a neurotoxin. A fatal dose is estimated to be around 15 caps. Drying helps to increase the dosage, and the Laplanders will let reindeer eat it to process it to a degree, to make it more edible. The effects can be unpredictable, and nausea, drowsiness, audio-visual distortions, mood changes, ataxia, euphoria, relaxation, and loss of equilibrium being some of the side effects.
Cost: 3 CPs
Weight: 0.1 lb
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