3,4-Methylenedioxy-Methamphetamine

"Well, if anyone else wants to lend a hand we'll be down in the ISL. It's my suggestion, however, that we belay the talks until the lizards are drugged and empathetic, just to avoid a massacre" Artemis said, dragging Boyd away.

OOC-Artie and Boyd have left the group to make the MDMA

Innovative Sciences lab

Artemis screwed the lid back on the industrial plasmatic lubricant, after somehow managing to get a child's HAZMAT suit on Boyd.

"You might want to shower later, that stuff has a tendency to make people sterile" Artemis said, putting the can away. He then pulled a specialized ILIAD HAZMAT suit from the clothing locker, and slipped it on (the last thing he needed was to get hallucinogenic drugs all over his chassis).

"Alright Boyd, let's get started. First, we need to run calibrations on the chemical reactors, I can do that since I'm sure you'll kill us both attempting it. I want you to collect the precursor chemicals from storage" Artemis said, hovering over to the reactors and running initial diagnostics.

"Okay, so...what?" Boyd asked.

"There are many ways to make MDMA, but considering the lack of precursor chemicals aboard the ship at the moment, we're going to use what I know I have on stock. We need Safrole, which I already have on hand thanks to the Sassafras in the Arboretum. I also need Palladium to use as a catalyst, you can probably lift some from the scrap in the storerooms in the neighboring cargo bays, look for Ceramic Capacitors, they use Palladium as the electrode. I also need some of these prescription psychoactive drugs from my storage bay, I uh...used to take them. And..."

Artemis tossed a list that he wrote on the way to the ISL to Boyd.

"Get these as well"

"Okay....so is Safrole a Pokemon? I don't think there's any on the ship" Boyd asked.

"No...look, I have the Safrole and the psychoactive meds here, you can get them using my electronic catalog. The Missus and I organized the lab stem to stern on our honeymoon, even a simpleton could find Safrole using it....oh, what a night" Artemis remembered his honeymoon fondly while Boyd cracked open a can of beer, shotgunned it, and crushed it on his head.

"Just put the damn catalog numbers into the catalog and the robots will do the rest" Artemis said.

"'Kay" Boyd went off into the ISL's storage facility while Artemis prepped the reactor.

Boyd returned twenty minutes later, surprisingly, with the correct items, including the Palladium.

"Where did you get the Palladium? You didn't even leave the lab!" Artemis asked, taking the items.

"You said it was in electronics so I broke one of the cleaning robots and pulled its guts out" Boyd said, finishing another beer and crushing the can on his head.

"Huh, well...good guess. Let's get started shall we?"

Artemis loaded the chemical reactor and put it through its "Wacker Process" routine to oxidize to MDP2P using the Palladium catalyst.

"So, how much are we making?" asked Boyd while the Reactor ran.

"Quite a bit, we're going to have drug the entire population to get them to comply. I assume that the cake will suffice, however, I'm pondering an airborne application by reducing the powder to a fine enough form that we can release it into the ventilation systems of the Arboretum. The air flow should be strong enough to carry it"

"What about us, because, I've done some pretty gnarly stuff but Ecstasy isn't really my thing"

"We'll be fine so long as we wait until the MDMA has run its course, though the cake is still our best option if we want to avoid contamination"

The reactor buzzed, indicating that it had finished its cycle.

Artemis shifted the program to a Reductive Amination program that slowly changed the MDP2P into MDMA, he then had Boyd dump it into a mixer where the pair added in the medication that would mask the hangover and mask any linger effects.

Once finished, Artie and Boyd had created a new type of super-drug, capable of extreme euphoria, sexuality, and compliance, among other things. It also had a limited hangover effect, making it something you could use on someone "without them realizing you've actually drugged them". Hopefully, it wouldn't have any unforeseen effects on the Huzards.

"Alright, we've got the stuff, let's go see what the others want to do" Artemis said while Boyd loaded the ice white powder into a bin. They wheeled the bin back up to the upper decks, where they hoped to add it to a cake, or dump it into the ventilation system.

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So, are we gonna dump the MDMA in the vents or into a few cakes? Does anyone else have an application that might work? Also, do any of our medical doctors have anything that might work alongside the drugs?

Also, did the group go through with the initial visit or did they wait for the Ecstasy Cakes?