What is a Lho- stick?

Mostly, just think 'space-cigarette' whenever you see 'lho-stick'. Though apparently, rather than a pure stimulant like nicotine, whatever they burn is also very mildly narcotic. Not enough to get the user high, but able to exacerbate the calming effect. And given the high-stress world of the 41st millennium, they probably need it.

Lathi said:

So... a space cigarette. After all, the unspace cigarettes are a mild narcotic and quite calming to those who have an addiction to them....

Lho sticks are basically just hand rolled tobacco.Sometimes Obscura is added which is an opiate analogue.

Jericus creed said:

Or if we're gonna be gritty hive worlders, we'd have to think that organic tobacco is a luxury reserved for the rich. Normal hab workers and scum have to make do with corpse starch flakes laced with cut obscura or synthetic nicotine.

It's a hard life in the grimdark, where not even bad habits like smoking can be "standard" but most citizens will have to settle for something downright disgusting.

Varnias Tybalt said:

When I hiver goes and smokes that punk what's been movin in on his turf, he really smokes him!

you called?

Now that my PCs has finally got bionic limbs, he can start smoking lho-sticks again

BTW yesterday, we used up one last lho-stick to calm down one NPC, who was very, very nervous...