Terrascin Skink Venom

[MrNexx]

Just an idea I played with while driving in today:

Terrascin Skink Venom

Derived from the Terrascin Skink (now since hunted to near extinction), Skink Venom is a stimulant popular among petty thugs and gang members, and certain unscrupulous sport fighters. Injected, Terrascin Skink Venom leads to an itchy, feverish high and a degree of resistance to pain. The high lasts for about an hour, and during that time, one is immune to the immediate effects of a Stun, and to Stun Weapons.
This comes with some drawbacks and caveats, however. First of all, the skink venom makes you twitchy and unstable, resulting in a -1D from all Dexterity checks and skills, as well as from social skill rolls; this lasts not only for the hour, but for another hour afterwards in the "crash". Secondly, while you shrug off the initial effects of the Stun, the stun is still affecting you; each hit with a stun weapon, or stunned result from a non-stun weapon, counts towards the stuns still affecting you, and when you reach a number of stuns equal to your Strength Dice, you still go unconscious.
Prolonged use of skink venom can have negative side effects. Each dose taken requires separate opposed Willpower and Stamina checks against the number of doses taken over the previous month. Failure on either of these results in addiction, so that NOT having a dose of skink venom in Strength Die Code days results in -1D to Dexterity and Perception. Overcoming this requires a month without skink venom, followed by Very Difficult Stamina and Willpower checks (or a Moderate Medicine check and a medpac).

Cost: 5-10 credits a dose
Legality: 1, R or X
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[Pel]

Given the Skink is almost extinct, maybe dial up Availability to a 2 or 3? 1 indicates it's readily available everywhere. You might want to boost the cost as well.
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[Zarn]

Also, comments on how it would work with a variety of races might also be interesting. Such as being a powerful hallucinogen for some races, and perhaps an aphrodisiac for reptilian species, such as tiss'shar.

[MrNexx]

[Pel]

Ok, you did start the original post with 'Derived'.

I like where you're going with this. Do you have plans to introduce a rare and expensive natural version of the venom?
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[MrNexx]

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

I notice that Bazine Netal, from the Force Awakens, carries a dagger coated with the neurotoxin, kouhun venom.