Motif · from book 2

Addiction

Katia's four drugs, from the Desperado Club, where blitz sticks are sold openly, and its frozen-yogurt drug den Carl told her about: a painkiller, ground fairy wings, blitz sticks of false memories, and Glory Bound, a coma that relives one — stats scrambled, a rainbow into Louis's bucket, a cure that is a bad trip through her worst memory. Carl thinks of his father, and then of himself. 'I do understand. I don't want to. That's the problem.'

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

As of book 7. Blitz sticks offered at a bar in book 2, a game guide who smokes them in book 3, Katia's secret in book 5, four drugs and a cure in book 6; in book 7 the cure is the drug: Glory Bound taken a second time to be cured of the first, and the memory it kept showing her, seen at last with Carl beside her. A gargoyle takes a blitz stick to see his mistress before he detonates an army.

Through book 2

A waitress offers blitz sticks instead of earth tobacco and a pharmacist to go with them; 'the last thing I needed was a new addiction' (B2 ch. 15).

Through book 3

Blitz sticks are 'highly-addictive', smell of patchouli, and permanently raise intelligence when smoked; Carl keeps one (B3 ch. 19). Mistress Tiatha, Elle says, spends her days drinking and smoking them (B3 ch. 22).

Through book 4

Carl offers a camel a blitz stick from Quint the pharmacist's stock, and Clay shows his off (B4 ch. 1).

Through book 5

Not the smell of a blitz stick from the gnolls' room (B5 ch. 32); twenty blitz sticks on a hunter's corpse (B5 ch. 54); and Katia's secret — sticks found on one of Eva's victims, and 'Show me Annie', every time (B5 ch. 78).

Through book 6

Bliss Surfing (B6 ch. 28); four drugs and a bucket (B6 ch. 30); a tremor (B6 ch. 34).

Through book 7

Glory Bound taken a second time to be cured of the first, in a jar of fizzing green gel (B7 ch. 16); the memory the drug kept showing her, seen at last (B7 ch. 17); a blitz stick in a gargoyle's lap — 'Show me Mistress Henspar' (B7 ch. 35).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	1/26	Ch. 15 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	2/35	Ch. 19, Ch. 22 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	1/35	Ch. 1 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	3/78	Ch. 32, Ch. 54, Ch. 78 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	4/74	Ch. 24, Ch. 28, Ch. 30, Ch. 33 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	2/89	Ch. 16, Ch. 35 · the book's own page

By book

Addiction in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

A waitress offers blitz sticks instead of earth tobacco and a pharmacist to go with them; 'the last thing I needed was a new addiction' (ch. 15).

Addiction in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Blitz sticks are 'highly-addictive', smell of patchouli, and permanently raise intelligence when smoked; Carl keeps one (ch. 19). Mistress Tiatha, Elle says, spends her days drinking and smoking them (ch. 22).

Addiction in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Carl offers a camel a blitz stick from Quint the pharmacist's stock, and Clay shows his off (ch. 1).

Addiction in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Not the smell of a blitz stick from the gnolls' room (ch. 32); twenty blitz sticks on a hunter's corpse (ch. 54); and Katia's secret — sticks found on one of Eva's victims, and 'Show me Annie', every time (epilogue).

Addiction in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Blitz sticks sold in the open by the club's pharmacists (ch. 24); a drug den set up like a frozen-yogurt bar, where Katia gets a nasty debuff and passes out Bliss Surfing, reliving a memory (ch. 28); 'It was so real, Carl' — four drugs, and Louis holding a bucket (ch. 30); how many in the club's secret rooms are former crawlers (ch. 33); a tremor (ch. 34).

Addiction in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

Glory Bound taken a second time to be cured of the first, in a jar of fizzing green gel (ch. 16); the memory the drug kept showing her, seen at last (ch. 17); a blitz stick in a gargoyle's lap — 'Show me Mistress Henspar' (ch. 35).