Subject: Rule of Funny does play a part...
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Posted on: 2010-06-22 08:28:00 UTC
But I'd suggest that our pseudo-alcoholic Bleeproducts (synthesised alcohol, if I recall correctly, to avoid explosions) only cause inebriation if it would be funny. Otherwise, they just numb the pain and allow the Agets to get on with their jobs as normal.
Of course, Bleepsinthe has a massive effect in any case, and that's the strongest stuff I'm currently aware of.
I wasn't sure, but do Bleepka and the other alcoholic Bleep varieties cause inebriation? Rule of Funny would suggest that they do (drunk agents + weapons + Sues = potential hilarity) but I don't want to mess with canon if that wouldn't agree with what's been written in the past.
But I'd suggest that our pseudo-alcoholic Bleeproducts (synthesised alcohol, if I recall correctly, to avoid explosions) only cause inebriation if it would be funny. Otherwise, they just numb the pain and allow the Agets to get on with their jobs as normal.
Of course, Bleepsinthe has a massive effect in any case, and that's the strongest stuff I'm currently aware of.
That makes sense. We don't have many drunks lolling around HQ avoiding their missions, and we probably shouldn't let it. Maybe alcohol just doesn't have a lasting effect?
... but they were drinking actual alcohol, not Bleeproducts.
Just that we don't seem to have any agents around who are drunk all the time.
Is it stronger than Bleepsinthe? I have my agent hungover from the stuff, which, I assume, means that she was drunk at some point.
--anamia
Take a look at the wiki article.
As far as I know, yes. I doubt agents would mix the two if there weren't inebriating side-effects.
You know how if you're in a ridiculous amount of pain, and then the pain stops, you feel happy and euphoric for a good half hour? (If you haven't, I envy you. But it's similar to a runner's high, which most people probably have experienced.) Has to do with the way your body pumps out endorphins to try to deal with it.
Well, what if agents respond similarly to badfic? And then, when the bleeprin removes the badfic effects, you're left with the euphoria of your brain putting out a buncha chemicals to try to help you cope. It's like a high out of sheer relief. I mean, why else are half our agents psychologically addicted to Bleeprin? It's not physically addictive; but you sure do become dependent, if you're exposed to enough badfic.
It mightn't be so much the fake alcohol, but the knowledge that you're going to feel better, and the sudden removal of badfic effects. And, anyway, people can get "drunk" just thinking they're drinking alcohol, when they actually aren't.
Just throwing that out there.