soyed: (alternate dimensions)
David Wong ([personal profile] soyed) wrote2020-11-08 09:06 pm
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Soy Sauce


"It be opening doors to other worlds, mon."

The basic description is simple: it's an unknown mind-altering drug given the street name Soy Sauce (probably on account for its color and consistency) that guarantees any of its users the chance of having an out of body experience. Seems pretty exciting right?

What they don't tell you is that 99% of people who try it either die or end up comatose. And then die shortly after. There are a variety of random side effects that one can encounter which mostly work to benefit the user, but then there's the case of the lasting effects that'll probably be lifelong and gradually deprave you of your chance at retaining normality.

The real truth is that no one really knows what the stuff is, they might think they know, but they don't. It may be from another world too, but whatever it is, apparently it's sentient, comes in a liquid form, and can be taken either intravenously or orally (should one be scared of needles). It also has the capability to stab, bite, or dig its way into your body (and potentially turn into flies).

Basically; the sauce chooses you. You don't choose it.

"So the black stuff, the soy sauce, it's a drug right? And it makes you smarter? When you take it, it lets you read minds and all that?"

"Not really. It heightens your senses. I think. I don't know. When you're on it, it's like overload, like if you hooked up your car radio to one of those interplanetary SETI antennas. You get shit from all over the place, can see things you shouldn't be able to see, but I don't think it'd help you to do your taxes."

Side effects include, and are definitely not limited to: the promised out of body experience, interdimensional travel, time travel, insight and super intelligence, knowledgeability, premonitions, and stopping time.

Lasting effects include: seeing and hearing monsters (inter-dimensional? manifestations), audio and visual hallucinations (sometimes the result of the invisible world screwing with your head, sometimes other) screaming hamburgers, and the occasional ghost sighting.

"We don’t know where it came from or what exactly it does. But in those first hours after you take it, your brain is tuned in like nothing you can imagine. Eyes like the Hubble telescope, sensing light that’s not even on the spectrum. You might be able to read minds, make time stop, cook pasta that’s exactly right every time. And you can see the shadowy things that share this world, the ones who are always present and always hidden."


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