decaying winter Perk And Other Ideas

joy addict

A while ago, soken had a little...problem

Soken IS very kind and energetic, but it's scaled down compared to a few months ago.

Soken was addicted to orange Stims for a while.

This stim was designed to reduce stress to the consumer, improving mood and stamina, actually using this would allow unlimited sprinting.

The draw back is after the effects wore off the consumer would experience major disorientation and tinnitus, deafening amounts of tinnitus.

(The tinnitus Debuff mutes other noises while applied)

The addictive part about the orange stim is the mood improvement, it's very much like a drug, well I mean it is a drug, makes you feel happy and calmer, Inturn making you desire to feel it.

Usage of the stim is rare, not even 6 uses it when someone dies, preferring to show respect and mourn the loss...or just drink multiple bottles of Dan janels.

But back on topic, soken was addicted majorly.

It was obvious soken was hiding something with constant excuses to sneek off, the effects of the stim are short, like smoking (don't smoke it's bad for you)

Eventually mute decided to check up on soken, well can't say he was expecting to see soken injecting some of that orange juice into herself.

Now here's a fact about mute, he was a terrible smoker, downed a pack a day, decided to not kill himself from lung cancer and went through the pain of going sober.

Seeing how soken was going down a similar hole, mute worked with soken to stop taking the stim, unlike getting lung cancer, mute was afraid of the possibilities the stim could have on soken.

It definitely took a long time, and withdrawal from any addictive substance is pretty stressful, how ironic

If anything mute would have preferred soken being a smoker, it would be easier to help with the experience.

After a painfully long time, soken was freed of the joy addiction, mutes most effective strategy was just distracting soken with petting, since the addiction was stress related, and headpats also help calm soken, mute had a easy time keeping soken content. Now she's addicted to getting headpats from mute.

Why use a highly addictive stim to improve your mood when you have a mute gun expert to supply unlimited petting and dopamine.