Drugs

 CAPTURE SCENT

An anesthetic, similar to chloroform, widely employed to render its victims unconscious. A rag soaked with it is held over the mouth and nose or shot into the victim as an anesthetic dart. 

"She opened her eyes, and shook her head.’ What is this?’ she said. “Capture scent,’ I said." 

’Shall I hold again the vial beneath her nose?’ I asked. Soaked in a rag and scarf and held over the nose and mouth of a female it can render her unconscious in five Ihn. She squirmed wildly for an Ihn or two, and then sluggishly and then falls limp. It is sometimes used by tarnsmen; it is often used by slavers. Anesthetic dart, too are sometimes used in the taking of females; these maybe flung, or entered into the body by hand; they take effect in about forty Ihn; she awakens, often, in a slave kennel.

--Marauders of Gor, pp. 115-116 

FROBICAIN

A sedative injection used during Voyages of Acquisition to render a captured barbarian unconscious. 

"The man with the thief's scar again emerged from the ship, this time with a syringe. He injected a tiny bit of serum into each girl, entering the needle in the girls back, on the left side between the hip and backbone, passing the needle each time into a small vial he held in his left hand. 

’They will not awaken now’, said the man with the thief's scar, ‘for better than an Ahn.’"

--Assassin of Gor, pg. 99 

"’They seem very quiet,’ I observed. 

‘We permit them,’ said Flaminius, deigning to offer a bit of explanation, ‘five Ahn of varied responses, depending on when they recover from the frobicain injection. Mostly this takes the form of hysterical weeping, threats, demands for explanation, screaming and such. They will also be allowed to express their distress for certain periods at stated times in the future.’"

--Assassin of Gor, pg. 126 

GIERON

A drug, an allergen, which causes a yellowing of the whites of the eyes; in combination with sajel, it reproduces the symptoms of the Bazi plague. Not infectious. 

I simply did not feel ill. I was slightly drunk and heated from the paga, but I did not believe myself fevered. My pulse and heartbeat, and respiration seemed normal. I did not have difficulty catching my breath. I was neither dizzy nor nauseous, and my vision was clear. My worst physical symptoms were the irritation about my eyes and the genuinely nasty itchiness of my skin. I felt like tearing it off with my own fingernails.

--Explorers of Gor, pg. 136 

"’My pursuit of you was foiled,’ I said, ‘by the results of the drug you placed in my paga.’ 

‘The drug,’ said Shaba, ‘was a simple combination of sajel, a simple pustulant, and gieron, an unusual allergen. Mixed they produce a facsimile of the superficial symptoms of Bazi plague.’ 

’I could have been killed,’ I said, ‘by the mob.’ 

‘I did not think many would care to approach you,’ said Shaba. 

‘It was not your intention then that I be killed?’ I asked. 

‘Certainly not,’ said Shaba. ‘if that was all that was desired, kanda might have been introduced into your drink as easily as sajel and gieron."

—Explorers of Gor, pg. 154 

PARALYSIS DRUG

Sullius Maximus invented such a drug. 

’Sullius Maximus,’ he said, ‘invented such a drug. He tested it, by pinpricks, on the limbs of a captured enemy, paralyzing him from the neck down.’

--Marauders of Gor, pg. 19 

SAJEL

A drug that causes harmless pustules to erupt on the body; in combination with Gieron, it reproduces the symptoms of the Bazi plague. It is a non-infectious condition. See Gieron. 

TASSA POWDER

Tassa powder is a traceless, reddish but tasteless, effective drug normally concealed in wine. It is used to render the unsuspecting one who drinks it unconscious. 

Tassa powder had doubtless been used on her. It is traceless, and effective.

--Players of Gor, pg. 66 

Inside, in a previously prepared room, on a great table, were aligned two hundred goblets of wine. Each contained Tassa powder. When the pirates, unsuspecting, were within, and giving themselves to the wine, the door would be locked.

--Guardsman of Gor, pg. 113 

Throughout all that had transpired in the booth she had not regained consciousness. Tassa powder is efficient.

--Players of Gor, pg. 75 

I had been forced, sitting in the courtyard, my head back and nose held, to swallow a draft of water, into which a reddish powder had been mixed. I had shortly thereafter lost consciousness. 

‘In the courtyard below,’ I said, ‘I was drugged.’ 

‘It was done by Tassa powder,’ she said. 

‘It was tasteless, and effective,’ I said. 

‘Slavers sometimes use it,’ she said. ‘It is well for a girl not to drink with a strange man,’ she laughed. 

‘It shows up, of course,’ I said, ‘in water.’ 

‘It is meant to be mixed with red wine,’ she said.

--Fighting Slave of Gor, pp. 222—224 

These credentials had been loaned to me by a fellow down whose throat I had stuffed enough Tassa powder to put a kailiauk under for several Ahn.

—Players of Gor, pg. 293 

SEDATIVES

’Stand quietly,’ the judge warned her, ‘or you will be forced to drink a sedative.’

--Nomads of Gor, pg. 121 

"Sometimes, said Flaminius, shock cannot be so easily prevented. Indeed sometimes the lash itself drives the girl into shock. Then sedations and drugs are called for." 

--Assassin of Gor, pg. 128

EMETICS AND LAXATIVES

Some girls, I have been told, sometimes try to swallow small coins, but this is foolish. The coin can be produced swiftly enough in such cases by emetics and laxatives.

--Dancer of Gor, pg 238