Say you’re at the tail end of your dose right before a re-up, when you catch a fever which leaves you bedridden for a week, shaky and unable to work the philter. You’d want to be shuffled off the board? For a fever?
Or you come back from an unexpectedly extended mission: already in withdrawal but salvation’s just a few minutes away, and all it needs is a healer to administer the cure.
There are so many ways this might happen. It’s smart to have contingencies.
[ Operation Fuck Off Out Of My Business: critical failure.
He exhales like a horse. ]
It's usually a daily draught. The spoons they give us in the kit, it's more or less a standard size—one of those worth of lyrium.
I've had to go without before. Sometimes I skip just to help with not building up a tolerance. Last time, four days is when it started to be a serious problem. But not a deadly one.
Good, thank you. ( Taking notes. The scratch of a quill. They’re not detailed, but 1D is easy enough to jot down. )
And the interspersed skipping, that’s a good idea. Even if you’re not full-on quitting, you can at least wean yourself down, stretch out that period to give yourself some flexibility — prevent yourself from reaching the point of diminishing returns.
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Say you’re at the tail end of your dose right before a re-up, when you catch a fever which leaves you bedridden for a week, shaky and unable to work the philter. You’d want to be shuffled off the board? For a fever?
Or you come back from an unexpectedly extended mission: already in withdrawal but salvation’s just a few minutes away, and all it needs is a healer to administer the cure.
There are so many ways this might happen. It’s smart to have contingencies.
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He exhales like a horse. ]
It's usually a daily draught. The spoons they give us in the kit, it's more or less a standard size—one of those worth of lyrium.
I've had to go without before. Sometimes I skip just to help with not building up a tolerance. Last time, four days is when it started to be a serious problem. But not a deadly one.
[ He could quit.
If he were a QUITTER. ]
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And the interspersed skipping, that’s a good idea. Even if you’re not full-on quitting, you can at least wean yourself down, stretch out that period to give yourself some flexibility — prevent yourself from reaching the point of diminishing returns.
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That's the dream.
Anything else, serah?
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( Phew. Success. )