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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7576923" data-attributes="member: 92305">SHEMMISH ROOTA root and powerful hallucinogen.  Half a root will satisfy an entire room of noblemen.  In large amounts, the root can have supernatural qualities.When prepared, Shemmish Root is used for sacrificial rites.  The source of this is the Dynamite Queen Sonja comic, volume 3, Coming of Age.  The story is set in Pah-Disha, a Hyrkanian City State on the eastern shore of the Vilayet.  The root is hard to grow in these lands.In the story, a sorcerer uses a piece of raw root, placing a dead moth in his hand.  After uttering words that men should never hear, the moth moves, glow faintly green, flaps its wings, and flies out of the sorcerer's palm.When the root is being prepared, its scent has a long range, but a bit like pheromones, the scent is close to being undetectable.  But, it will start to play on a person's senses.  Red Sonja feels the air get thick, muggy, hard to breathe.  Later, she gets woozy and has double vision.  Not all characters are effected, so, if you use this idea in a game, you may want to include a Fort Save for the smell (and maybe even have different effects possible).There is a scene that reminded me of the orgy scene in the 1982 Conan The Barbarian film.  Lots of captive virgins are sprawled on the floor, barely able to stand, all of them blasted out of their minds.  They smile, they giggle.  They suck on their partners, female on female, and pleasure themselves in all sorts of manner.The effect of the root.In this cavern room, there is a large cauldron, stewing over a fire.  A man stirs it with a paddle the size of a long boat oar.  The root is in the cauldron, being prepared this way, and the man calls to another brute to bring more virgin blood.The women don't resist.  One is taken from the floor.  She laughs as she is thrown on a slab, and she doesn't scream until the man raises a meat cleaver and cuts off her leg below the knee.  Blood spurts.  The man passes the leg, and it is held over the cauldron, draining blood down into the pot.Instead of the amorous effect, Sonja is inflicted with blood lust due to the effect of the root.  She has to be reminded of the mission of theft.  She'd rather just fight.  Obviously, she didn't make her save.</blockquote>

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