420 weed update lol

Critical Marijuana Update

• Weed is now a pretty good painkiller. It has 4 levels of intensity: stoned, baked, blazed, and zooted.

• The first level (stoned) gives -1 perception and has minimal drawbacks. The penalties for getting higher than that are fairly significant, especially to intelligence and speed. It also makes you get sleepy faster, which might be useful if you need to rest up following an injury. It should be noted that being high also makes you 90% less likely to vomit, so it may be useful for keeping food down when you're sick or you don't have anything good to eat.

• Weed now uses the "vitamin" system, meaning the mg of THC in your body is tracked much like with alcohol or opioids. This allows for much more flexible dosing and will eventually allow for things like tolerance and overdose. This also means that it will take a while for edibles to kick in, so maybe wait an hour before you decide they're "not working."

• Removed the "depressants" effect from weed. These are very old and bad effects that did not do a good job simulating stimulants and depressants at all, and are being phased out as we go. This means you can no longer smoke yourself to death.

• Weed is now addictive. Cannabis addiction is not very serious, but can make it harder to sleep while sober and will proc comparatively minor morale penalties. At higher levels, you will occasionally get nauseous without your smoke.

• Added a Cannabis Addiction background to character creation.

• Added snippets and dreams for cannabis addiction.

Other Drug Updates

• Crack addiction has been folded into cocaine addiction. They're the same substance, just a different delivery method.

• Cleaned up a lot of addiction code.

• Cleaned up several addiction-related snippets.

• Reduced a lot of smoking-related spam.

• Fixed some errors with NSAID timers.

Wiki Update

• If you head over to the wiki (https://cataclysmtlg.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page) there's a section on the left called Secondary Stats. Click that, and then click on Pain. This page has a full explanation of how pain medication works. To sum it up: Pain medication provides a buff that blocks a numerical amount of pain. This buff is constant and always benefits you whether you get the buff before or after the pain. Not all pain medication can be combined, but you can combine an NSAID, acetaminophen, alcohol, and cannabis for example to get a huge amount of pain relief/prevention. Just be careful not to rely too heavily on it, as most of these sources are unhealthy and/or habit forming!

Happy 420! Remember that marijuana is against the law!!!!