Luiren spring cheese

Cheeeese was a type of cheese that acted as a drug to halflings.

Effect
Foxilon Cardluck described cheeeese as "special, like black opium or booze". The drug appeared to be hallucinogen that made a person go into an internal world controlled by simple thoughts. The drug was highly addictive, and ex-users had a high chance of relapsing, even a Hin who knew its horrible effects.

History
It was unknown where cheeeese came from but there was cheeeese in Luiren and Saerloon.

The case in Luiren involved a human named Joribel, who created a dependency amongst halflings to then use them as thieves, robbers, murderers, and sex slaves. One halfling of note was Foxilon Cardluck, who was first given the drug by Joribel. After a time, Joribel started to ration the cheeeese to the halflings under his control. He manipulated them to kill, raid, and steal in order for them to have their supply of the drug, even going so far as to force them to fight in an arena for his pleasure. Joribel enjoyed the pain and suffering of others so this abuse was perfect for him.

Foxilon struggled against the addiction but his will faltered at the sight of more cheeeese, until a larger halfling bully kept stealing his share, forcing Foxilon to dry out and break the habit. Foxilon was sent to the arena to fight as he had no skill in other fields when affected cheeeese.

Finally, when he had dried out enough, he was a beggar at one of Joribel's banquet, and saw a young halfling girl whom he thought he knew and cared for, being taken by Joribel for his pleasure. Foxilon became enraged and attacked Joribel by stabbing him, before grabbing the girl and escaping. In the escape, he toppled a plate of cheeeese that stopped most of their pursuers, but not the bully, who charged after them and was finally killed under the falling portcullis of Joribel's castle. At this point, Foxilon meet Dwalimar Omen and Minder and told them his story, prompting Omen to obliterate Joribel's castle. The girl turned out to be unknown to Foxilon and she ran away when he told Omen.

After this point, Foxilon was clean and thought he had finally kicked the addiction, until he fell for it again in Saerloon. In a hallucination, he talked to a figure that might have been his guilty conscience, who guided him through the dark times of addiction. This figure claimed that the girl had fall enfor the drug again, and had a horrible life and a horrible death. After breaking the hallucination, Foxilon threw the remaining cheeeese overboard, determined to kick the addiction for good.

Appearances

 * Forgotten Realms #10: "Head Cheeeese"