Club Wonderland Drink Rules:
Club Wonderland House Drinks:
Any number of other positive and negative effects can be gained from The Jabberwock at storyteller/bartender discretion, but nothing permanently detrimental can happen from drinking The Jabberwock. At most, a derangement might be gained for a month from drinking several glasses.
Each of these can be used to negate one of the above effects of The Jabberwock:
The shot-taking ability can be expended to negate the effects of The Jabberwock, like all other drinks, but a single Willpower point must also be expended in the same turn.
Example
Darby orders three White Rabbits and chugs them. He escapes the effects of the first glass with some lucky tests, he gains Obnoxious and Clumsy from the second glass, and he gains the automatic Impatient x2, Obnoxious, and Clumsy from the third glass. Since he drank two glasses that each gave him more than one negative trait (his second and third glasses of White Rabbit), his Courage incremented by a half-point twice, putting him now at Courage of 3.5.
Darby still isn't ready for The Jabberwock. He orders the daunting "Duchess". Sadly, he loses the test.
Darby is resembling a smelly, convulsive slug with six o'clock shadow right about now and he's convinced that Joseph Stalin is riding a plaid dolphin through the underwater world of the original Super Mario Bros. game right in front of him. He can't win the Courage test to swallow The Jabberwock without raising his Courage half a point more, but he can't take any more negative traits. Since he's fortunate enough to both have Huge Size and Efficient Digestion, he calls on both to negate four of his traits (3 Oblivious and 1 Clumsy, bringing the total down to 17. He could blow a Willpower point to completely regain his composure, but then his Courage rating will drop back down to two. He wants to drink something tame like a Cheshire Cat to boost his Courage that tiny bit further, but the Cheshire Cat can only raise his Courage 1 point above his normal rating (3). The Duchess is the only thing that can raise his Courage 2.5 points above normal, just high enough to stomach the legendary drink. With amazing conviction, Darby somehow grasps a second Duchess and pours its contents into his liquor-soaked gullet. Tragically, he again loses his test.
Any more negative traits and Darby might fall victim to the dreaded "So Fucked Up" state! Fortunately, he can now test his luck against The Jabberwock, having now the necessary Courage rating. Darby slams back the sparkling purple glass.
All of that happened a year ago today. That's why Darby is the way that he is now, and the way that he will forever be.
o Mock Turtle: Some beautiful soup for the faint of heart.
oo Cheshire Cat: Will show you that we're all mad here and paint pretty pictures for your mind. Watch out for the fangs.
ooo White Rabbit: A pick-me-up for the unpunctual.
oooo The Duchess: Our specialty. You don't need to sneeze to get hammered by this bitch.
ooooo The Jabberwock: Hast thou been slain by the Jabberwock?
All drinks are made from a large glass of blood...
Mock Turtle: ...with a bit of wine mixed in. No test is necessary, intoxication is very unlikely.
Cheshire Cat: ...taken from someone on LSD, mixed with three shots of vodka and a half-shot of Dave's Insanity Sauce.
First glass:
First test: Gain Oblivious (from hallucination) on a loss
Second test: Gain Lethargic on a loss
Second glass:
First test: Gain Oblivious (from hallucination) on a tie
Second test: Gain Lethargic on a tie
Third or more glass:
No test is necessary. Drinker gains Oblivious x2 and Lethargic
A Cheshire Cat can only raise a character's Courage 1 point above normal.
White Rabbit: ...taken from someone on speed, mixed with tequila and served with a twist of lime.
First glass:
First test: Gain Impatient on a loss
Second test: Gain Obnoxious on a loss
Second glass:
First test: Gain Impatient on a tie
Second test: Gain Obnoxious on a tie
Third test: Gain Clumsy on a tie
Third or more glass:
No test is necessary. Drinker gains Impatient x2, Obnoxious, and Clumsy.
A White Rabbit can only raise a character's Courage 1.5 points above normal.
The Duchess: ...taken from someone on heroin, mixed with four shots of everclear.
First glass:
Test:
Win: Gain Lethargic x2 and Clumsy x2
Tie: Gain the above, plus Witless, Tactless, Oblivious
Loss: Gain all of the above, plus Shortsighted, Forgetful, Gullible, and one level of bashing damage. Ouch.
Second or more glass:
No test, all negatives and one level of bashing damage are gained
The Duchess can only raise a character's Courage 2.5 points above normal.
The Jabberwock: ...from an unknown source, with unknown additives.
Upon drinking a single glass, a Rötschreck test is made versus 4.5 traits. On a win, the drink is swallowed and the character takes one level of lethal damage. On a tie, the drink is swallowed and the character takes two levels of lethal damage. On a loss, the drinker vomits up anything that may have been swallowed, along with an additional blood trait from his own pool, takes a level of lethal damage, and proceeds to go into Rötschreck. If the drink is swallowed, then for the rest of the scene:
Darby wants to try The Jabberwock. He orders a glass and tips it back. "BWAAA HA HA ARRRGGHH!!!" he screams, having lost a trait of blood, taken a level of lethal damage, and gone into Rötschreck. Darby only has a Courage rating of 2, you see. He's a lightweight. Next scene, he reenters the club, having composed himself and gotten a change of pants. He orders a Mock Turtle to begin his night of feeble attempts to drink Borachio under the table. Darby smugly chugs it and sets it back down on the table, smirking at the other patrons of the club. Borachio forgoes explaining to Darby that the Mock Turtle is just Boone's Farm peach wine watered down with dishwater. Darby next moves up to the Cheshire Cat. He almost loses his cool when the half-shot of Dave's Insanity Sauce kicks in, but he keeps it back. He makes his first test and loses, gaining the Oblivious trait. He makes his second test and ties, avoiding the Lethargic trait. Feeling pretty confident, he drinks a second glass. On his first test, he ties, gaining a second Oblivious trait. On his second test, he wins, again avoiding the Lethargic trait. He's still intimidated by the drinks to come, so he braves another draught of Cheshire Cat, automatically gaining an additional Oblivious x2 and Lethargic. Since he has now gained more than one negative trait from a single glass, his Courage rating goes up by a half-point to 2.5. His courage rating didn't increase before, because the first two glasses that he drank only gave him a single negative trait each. He was able to control himself enough to avoid the negative effects, so the positive effects escaped him too.
Effects so far: Gained Oblivious x4 (hallucinating) and Lethargic, raised Courage to 2.5
Effects so far: Gained Oblivious x4 (hallucinating), Lethargic, Impatient x2, Obnoxious x2, Clumsy x2, and raised Courage to 3.5
Effects so far: Gained Oblivious x5 (hallucinating), Lethargic x3, Impatient x2, Obnoxious x2, Clumsy x4, Witless, Tactless, Shortsighted, Forgetful, Gullible, took one level of bashing damage, and raised Courage to 4
(That's 21 negative traits, Club Wonderland's lucky number!)
Effects so far: Gained Oblivious x3 (hallucinating), Lethargic x5, Impatient x2, Obnoxious x2, Clumsy x5, Witless x2, Tactless x2, Shortsighted x2, Forgetful x2, Gullible x2, took two levels of bashing damage, and raised Courage to 4.5