The World of Avlis

I've heard conflicting opinions from players on drug addiction. Some people say that it is possible to become "addicted for life." I'm assuming this means your character never gets over cravings. Other people just say that it takes a long time if you take to much to get over the cravings. Could a DM or someone who knows for sure clarify this?

If your character doesn't do anything about it, it will stay addicted, or at least it will seem so.

My character Janur for example got addicted to the Spite cure back in late march I think, and only now the cravings have dwindled away to the point where he hardly notices them.

But I know of others who have overcome the addiction within a much smaller timeframe.

Hope that helps, without giving away too much

As far as I know the length of the addiction is coded to rests. It takes a certain number of rests to drop the addiction a level.

Gunter had big cravings for the cure but I rested him as often as possible when I played him. And soon enough the craving went to major to mild and of no bother anymore. I'm assuming when you use Janur you wouldn't rest him a hell of a lot eh Jolly?

Sicko

The addiction goes down not by the number of rests. It is a % chance each rest based on the addiction level. The higher the addiction level, the smaller chance you have of reducing the addiction.

so, a few more questions, what exactly does the sauna do towards relieving addiction? Would resting in the sauna give an increased chance of lowering the addiction level? or does the sauna itself do that? Also, sometimes when my character enters the world, his addiction is not present, sometimes it takes an hour realtime to show up sometimes it only takes a minute. Does resting and/or sauna-ing during these non-addicted periods still count toward lowering addiction level?

I think some of these questions would be better asked in game. You're addicted to drugs, start looking for the Avlis equivalent of the Betty Ford Center.

I will say that I took 70 of each of the spite cure and got the bleeding eyes and nasty addiction and thought for a while my character was unplayable. Due to hearing that the addiction maybe perminant without doing some quest that i couldnt ask anyone about IC because that wouldnt make sence. But it does go after enough time and you just got to sit there and soak it up, and on the bright side its a great time to take up a craft