Chal-Shenn | The Silent Sedation

Derived from trace compounds in the resin of the T'riva blossom, a bio-luminescent plant that only grows on high-altitude cliffs in the mist-swept canyons of Kelu-Vaar 3, Chal-Shenn is one of the most insidiously effective psychoactive substances known in the outer systems.
  The T’riva resin itself is not psychoactive, but when processed with synthetic neural keys and a precision-folded lipid shell, it becomes a translucent violet liquid that can be consumed.
  Chal-Shenn affects neurotransmission across several species with frightening efficiency. It suppresses critical thinking, enhances suggestibility, dissolves short-term memory formation, and induces a dulled euphoria often described by victims as “floating inside a warm light” once they recover, if they remember anything at all.
  Its most dangerous property lies in how cleanly it rewrites cognition. Users under its influence can appear calm, even content, despite undergoing trauma or exploitation. For this reason, it has become a favoured tool among traffickers, brothel owners, and black-market handlers.
  On the streets, it’s whispered that once you’ve been kissed by a ghost, you don’t come back whole.
  Prolonged exposure causes neurodegeneration, aphasia, and possible permanent cognitive damage. A few users become addicted, unable to function without the haze. Detox is lengthy, brutal, and can end with permanent damage to cognitive function.
  Its elusiveness adds to its appeal: Chal-Shenn leaves behind no conventional chemical trace and is only beginning to be understood by medical researchers. Its faint odour is largely imperceptible. except to a small percentage of beings with a specific olfactory gene cluster. These individuals report a smell that is haunting, revolting, or inexplicably nostalgic.
 

Earthlings would attribute the smell to a vulgar mixture of cockroaches and chocolate.

  Efforts to detect or regulate Chal-Shenn are ongoing. But for now, its victims remain voiceless, floating in the fog.