When I'm drunk, bread always helps fix the problem. Just curious if there was a way this could be implimented IG. It's not a big conern, and it doesn't necessarily need to have a coded affect to be RPed through I suppose... but for us lone drunks out there who's like to drop that "completely intoxicated" down to a "semi-intoxicated" it might be kinda helpful.
Thoughts?
-MJKL
That'd be cool to add in
With a sly look, his overly-swank speech slurring as he speaks slowly:
"Barmaiden, bring us your best wine along with a good, warm loaf of bread, will you?"
With a common dip of the head and a happy smile, the barmaiden walks off to the bar, readying a few things.
I hate to burst your bubble Majikal, but if bread sobers you up it is purely psychological. Bread, along with cold showers and coffee, does nothing to sober you up. Although you may feel more alert and energetic from the coffee or cold shower, you have the same amouint of alcohol in your bloodstream. I hope you're not eating bread in an attempt to sober up before you drive a car.
SanityAssassin is correct.
My solution for absolutlely plastered condition? Take a nice quiet nap in a safe place then go outside and take a long piss on the tavern's side wall. You wouldn't imagine how little people actually allow their players to relieve themselves! You're all twinkish!!! I think I should start a completely new thread on the subject. "Why doesn't your character relieve him/herself?" :twisted:
One could argue that Zalanthan bodies don't sober up that way, even though it's a bit of a stretch.
But for the time being, time and Vivaduan magicks are the only cure for drunkenness. Suck it up, and take it like a man! :wink:
Still, roleplay thinking that bread sobers you up.
QuoteTake a nice quiet nap in a safe place then go outside and take a long piss on the tavern's side wall.
Or, if you didn't take a long enough nap, stay inside and piss on the tavern's wall. :lol:
I think what would be a better idea is that if you are coded as full, you get drunk a lot less quickly. Nothing gives you the spins like going out on a bender when you haven't eaten anything.
A full stomach is the key to a lighter hangover and slows down the intoxication proccess.
QuoteI hate to burst your bubble Majikal, but if bread sobers you up it is purely psychological. Bread, along with cold showers and coffee, does nothing to sober you up. Although you may feel more alert and energetic from the coffee or cold shower, you have the same amouint of alcohol in your bloodstream. I hope you're not eating bread in an attempt to sober up before you drive a car.
True.
QuoteA full stomach is the key to a lighter hangover and slows down the intoxication proccess.
True.
Source of information:
Texas Alcoholic and Beverage Commission course for waiters.
[derailment]Damn... There used to be a Rukkian of mine. He got really drunk one day, so he retreated to Ruk's lap and slept, finding out even a few hours are not enough. So he staggered to the Vivaduan Temple, asked for an animation and got bitchslapped by the angry vivaduan. I just wanted to say 'thanks, I laughed a lot.' to that imm. [/derailment]
Aside from the facts that drag this down, I think people spam-eating bread to sober up would be terrible. Which is what would happen.
Being full when you start drinking might make you get drunk slower. But if you drank enough, being too full might also mean you start throwing up everywhere. Same thing if you start to spam eat things when you're already wasted, you should just throw it right back up.
I'd support this change if coded vomiting came in along with it. :)
Does drink a ton of water not help flush the alcohol out of your system?
Oh wait that's for the morning after...my mistake.
Water works to relieve hangovers because alcohol dehydrates you and that's one of the main reasons why many people get headaches after being drunk.
I think everything in this thread is subjective. Some people may feel better eating bread, downing tobasco-sauce or taking speed, but there is no single thing that works for everyone, because I'm sure we'd all know about it.
As for me, nothing cures my hangovers apart from 24hours of lying in the foetal position.
Drinking liquids other than alcohol can be beneficial. Why, you might ask? Because not only does it dilute the alcohol you may have in your stomach, but it also helps your system to filter out the alcohol faster.
The human liver can process one ounce of alcohol every hour. Diluting it will cause you to not get drunk as quickly. Thus how, in comparison, an ounce of beer will not even get you close to being drunk, but an ounce of 90 proof liquor might give you a buzz, depending on your tolerence levels.
But, as we all know, the more liquids you drink the more often you need to take a leak. If you have an over abundance of something in your system, it flushes it, along with water.
I really have no idea where I'm going with this. But! I do think that going from totally plastered to sober shouldn't take three IG days of sleeping.
...Ramble ramble.
I think the drunk code should make you puke involuntarily.
Now THAT'S an idea.
Quote from: "SanityAssassin"I hate to burst your bubble Majikal, but if bread sobers you up it is purely psychological. Bread, along with cold showers and coffee, does nothing to sober you up. Although you may feel more alert and energetic from the coffee or cold shower, you have the same amouint of alcohol in your bloodstream. I hope you're not eating bread in an attempt to sober up before you drive a car.
Bread won't sober you up, but if will slow the digestion of alcohol in your stomach.
Ever realized you were getting *way* too drunk, just after you finished another? Well, that beer won't be in your blood for a good ten or twenty minutes, at least not all of it. Eating bread (or anything--but preferably something absorbant) will slow down the rate at which that additional alcohol is abosrbed pretty significantly. It will also mean you stay drunk a bit longer, as that same amount of booze will now be made "time release", so to speak. :)
EDIT: Reading up, looks like some of this might be superfluous. Oh well.