Oh man, I'm on drugs right now.

[Nighthawk 0]

Not really, no. Much of it is logged here at the board, and I did save the aim chat I had with Rando in which we discussed an interesting time travel idea I had.

 

That's good to know as it's apparently 1 bottle per plateau. Had I been inclined to go further, I wouldn't have liked trying to guess how much to take, and then fuck around and go to the 4th.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Typical, the night I accidentally go to bed early is the night that it works. At least my sleep cycle is finally normal again.

[Nighthawk 0]

How much did you take? Actually half a bottle?

 

I figure there must be some strong variance in the dosage required. I can't imagine anybody going to the 4th plateau because they'd have to drink four bottles of Robitussin! I'm almost throwing up thinking about it.

[Art Sandusky 0]

No, I meant the night it worked for someone else so that I could see it from the outside. I didn't do anything last night except annoy my friend who went to the trouble of rolling a blunt to sell by itself to me only to have me not show up or be awake to answer the phone when he called.

 

And when I did it, it was more like 2/3 of a bottle.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That's why capsule products like dexalone are preferable for upper-plateau adventuring.

[Nighthawk 0]

You're right. That's what I'm getting from now on.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

See, but now the pain in the ass is that you'll have to recalculate your dose. If you can pound two bottles of tussin, you can at least eat a whole box, probably. Hey, and don't use any Coricidin variant unless you feel like risking Olmey's lesions.

[Nighthawk 0]

By the way, Agent, how far have you gone with DXM yourself?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Hell.

[Nighthawk 0]

So does that mean you're the second type of user or you took too much?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Both, actually. I was 2nd plateau, but I was 2nd plateau for the better part of a day. I spoke to a person that didn't exist, and woke up in my bathtub, covered in vomit.

[Nighthawk 0]

I read some stuff about it, apparently cough syrup which also contains acetaminophen will kill you slowly and painfully. I can already guess what's going to happen, Hard Copy or some such thing will get wind of the epidemic and run an expose, causing uneducated youths to snatch up any cough suppresant they can find and kill themselves.

That's perversely funny.

 

This is pretty heavy stuff. I may not do it again after all. I liked it but it seems like a lot of trouble and responsibility. I didn't like it that much.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Don't be a pussy, Milky. DXM likes you, remember? You could go third, probably.

[Nighthawk 0]

Eh, maybe. By the way, I had mistakenly taken the cold and cough formula which is supposed to give you a stroke, but seeing as I didn't have one, that speaks well of my ability to handle it. I wouldn't mind seeing what the third's like... people seem to say it's different for everybody.

The fourth doesn't even sound like something I'd be interested in. It sounds like it's for hippies.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

More like for people who are already gone and have nothing to lose.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Seeing as how the trend is fading, that usually marks the time I start doing it. I'm going 2nd plateau this weekend, hopefully.

[Art Sandusky 0]

I need to not stop by my friend Matt's dorm before a class ever again. I mean, that was the best Sociology class ever, but man was it weird to be in class and the whole college day atmosphere high.

[Jingus 0]

...ugh. I now have some new advice: if you're gonna experiment with robotrippin' and getting drunk multiple times in a 48-hour period with basically no sleep in between, make for godDAMN sure that you take some vitamin E or some of that Chaser shit along with it. I just spent about eight hours straight curled in a little ball on the bathroom floor with all the lights off and the kind of headache that feels like someone's literally driving a railroad spike thru your head. FUCK, that was unpleasant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...but then again, I've always been the stubborn type. ::goess to store to buy more Tussin::

[Jingus 0]

I need to not stop by my friend Matt's dorm before a class ever again. I mean, that was the best Sociology class ever, but man was it weird to be in class and the whole college day atmosphere high.

No, the worst times to be high are the following:

 

1. When you suddenly run into this girl you're interested in, and you're trying to be a fountain of wit and scintillating conversation, and about all you can manage to get out is "so... come here often?"

 

2. Anything involving your parents. (Unless they smoke pot too.)

[Art Sandusky 0]

Actually, my body snaps into as close to sober as it can get when I encounter family. Very few slipups, which I explain away quickly anyway.

 

As for running into girls, it only sucks because I have too much coming out of that fountain as I won't stop talking. I mean, the material's all gold because they laugh their asses off, but nothing's ever accomplished because I was speaking 80% of the time.

[Nighthawk 0]

Next day reflections:

I'm still not totally down. When the DXM wore most of the way off, I began to feel what I presume was the pseudoephedrine. I can see how this stuff could give you a heart attack, but luckily I'm a golem so I'm just sort of tense and jittery.

If I were Agent, I'd mention the additive that promises a slow and painful death specifically the next time I recommended this.

I had some difficulty getting an erection. I'm the wrong guy for that to happen to.

I knew a girl who used to trip off cough medicine, but she used coricidin pills. From what I read today, she's fucked up her brain badly.

I'm somewhat surprised that a psychoactive drug which has the potential to be more powerful than acid or mushrooms and is easily more dangerous is just sold over the counter.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Ephedrine is a motherfucker. I used to take that shit and I ended up losing my marbles one night and had to be stopped from slashing myself up with a steak knife. Intense and wonderful body buzz.

[Jingus 0]

Ephedrine (Yellowjackets) and pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) are two completely different things. Both can give you a heart attack if overused, but ephedrine will do it a LOT quicker, you have to do a ludicrous amount of pseudoephed to have anything real bad happen.

 

I had some difficulty getting an erection.

 

I wasn't gonna say nothing, but that happened to me too.

[Nevermortal 0]

This plateau shit is scary.

 

BY THE POWER OF GOOGLE:

 

Approximately 25 hours after the first ingestion, I woke up, for the first time realizing where I was and what I'd done. I crawled to the bathroom, and found I'd lost about 4lbs due to sweating, and was severely pale and shaky. I crawled back to my room, and found the floor absolutely soaked with sweat, which smelled like coricidin. I then passed out again, and woke up 6 hours later completely refreshed, but with a slight stomachache. I grabbed come chocolate milk and that gave me some energy back. Enough to reflect, at least. It was then that I counted the empty foil wrappers and learned what I'd done. I laid back and thought about this, and couldn't remember much, but did come to believe that the 'divine voice' I'd heard was nothing more than my brain screaming at me.

[Nighthawk 0]

That's an overdose I think. Many of the fourth plateau testimonials I saw were like "And I met the cosmic coyote in the palace of the fire Buddha, who created the universe in an atom, and with a wink, I knew all."

 

There's also supposedly a fifth plateau which you get by staggering a fourth plateau dosage properly.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Ephedrine (Yellowjackets) and pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) are two completely different things. Both can give you a heart attack if overused, but ephedrine will do it a LOT quicker, you have to do a ludicrous amount of pseudoephed to have anything real bad happen.

 

I had some difficulty getting an erection.

 

I wasn't gonna say nothing, but that happened to me too.

Ephedrine is a base ingredient in speed/meth/crank, or so I've heard. After taking quite a few of them, I agree there was a similar effect, but not nearly as wonderful as dexedrine. That has all the same effects in that you'll stay up forever, come up with loads of abstract conversation, and not eat/increased metabolism, but without the nasty feelings your body feels when on speed. It's hard to explain unless you've done it. But dexedrine would be my pill of choice.

 

Anyways, that should give some insight as to why ephedrine is a tad more dangerous than one would normally think. I'd say almost everything that makes up what comes out to one of the above versions of the drug is dangerous by itself.

[Jingus 0]

Actually, it's pseudoephedrine which is used to make crystal meth and related crap. Yes, that's right, fucking SUDAFED is the evil poison that is the building blocks of all those meth labs.

[Guest BrokenWings]

I just smoked a pure crystal joint and am pretty high. That is all.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I hope you mean THC crystals, because I think an actual crysta,l joint would be impossible. Or at least extremely dangerous.

[Guest BrokenWings]

Yes, THC. Could legitamate crystals actually be smoked? I imagine that would be very unhealthy.