If you missed Episode one thru eleven They are all scattered in the Sandbox. And have provided the links as well.
Episode 1- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=852037
Episode 2- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=860786
Episode 3- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=872510
Episode 4- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=879098
Episode 5 http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=885633
Episode 6- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=905614
Episode 7- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=925055
Episode 8- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=940471
Episode 9- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=954859
Episode 10- http://eccie.net/showthread.php?t=967986
Episode 11- http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=973317
Otherwise none of this is going to make any fuckin sense. Drama...aint no drama like what ABQ has gone thru. Feel me? I suffer from dramaitis. The beginning of episode 12 concludes the events that started in Episode 10 and continued in Episode 11. So they must be read to understand what is going on in this episode.
Disclaimer…. This is for entertainment purposes only anything else that happens between the author and the reader is purely fictional in nature. This is a purely fictional dramatic tale End of Disclaimer.
The question becomes are there parts of this episode that are real or fiction? It is another long one so my apologies. Looks like 2 episodes left. How will it end?
Bath salts, the synthetic drug made infamous by incidents of psychotic “zombie” attacks, is more potent and potentially addictive than methamphetamine, numerous studies has shown. As an example Rats pressed a lever as many as 900 times in an attempt to get a dose of the powerful stimulant, nearly four times the effort they would exert to get a similar dose of highly addictive methamphetamine, according to experiments done at a known Research Institute.
While on the drug, the rats exhibited obsessive behaviors, licking biting and sniffing the sides of their cages. Such "stereotypying" has been correlated with extreme behavior among humans high on stimulants. Those results, kind of lend credence to media reports and law enforcement videos showing "zombie-like" behavior among users.
Symptoms of intoxication include euphoria, hyper-alertness, anxiety, agitation, psychotic behavior and hallucinations, loss of motor control, and elevated heart rates and blood pressure. The effects of 3,4 methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV. The drug, marketed as “bath salts” and other names, is the latest generation of designer stimulants to hit the U.S. markets in recent years and its potency is thru the roof.
It’s referred to in the popular press as bath salts, but it’s a diversity of compounds and they’re all based on what’s called the cathinone core. It’s very similar to amphetamine. There are an awful lot of designer entities, designer drugs, which have been springing up in the recreational market that are based on this cathinone core. MDPV is just one of them.
Cathinone is derived from khat, a leaf commonly chewed in areas of the Horn of Africa, notably Somalia, and in the Arabian Peninsula. Most law enforcement seizures have pointed to China as a source for the drugs designed around that core molecule.
After a surge in emergency room visits and arrests associated with abuse of MDPV, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in 2011 placed MDPV and two similar synthetic cathinone compounds on its Schedule I list under the Controlled Substances Act. Many states and cities banned the sale of bath salts and similar products. Use of the drug may be falling, however. The American Assn. of Poison Control Centers reported 6,136 calls related to bath salts in 2011, up from 304 the year before. By the end of 2012, such calls dropped to 2,656, and through the first half of this year, the centers received 528 calls.
MDPV acts on several neurotransmitters, predominantly dopamine, which is associated with reward circuitry in the brain. It also affects levels of serotonins and norepinepherine. It’s very potent, so you would need a relatively small amount of it to have a relatively large effect as a dopamine transporter, and it is relatively selective for a dopamine transporter.
The side effects of bath salts are zombie-like because when you have increased dopamine levels mixed with lack of sleep and all of the other crazy side effects, your central nervous system doesn't work properly -- you don't feel pain. [Bath salts users] aren't really there, they are just a body walking around aimlessly with limited motor functions to help them.
Of course depending on the dose, bath salts aren't actually known to induce a deathly need for human meat, but they do have some zombie-like effects, and it goes back to what will happen to a person on it: paranoia, fear, hallucinations, restlessness, the inability to sleep, hyperthermia, fluctuations in mood and horrible attention span. Some bizarre stuff if you ask me and that is what is slowly happening to the people down below in the club. I have heard thru back channels that the most potent of all bath salts is “Cloud 9.”
The history of how they came to be, after doing some research on the Khat plant, and Cathinone (the substance that bathsalts is based on). Many different Cathinone derivatives exist, both natural and synthetic. Bathsalts are a mixture of these synthetic derivatives. Cathinone = Beta-Keto-Amphetamine if anyone is wondering. Bear in mind, natives have ingested the leaves for thousands of years just like the coca plant, with no ill effects. Bathsalts ARE/CAN be very dangerous though. And it probably comes down to the right mixture of a synthetic bath salt.
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he drug had a huge spike in users around the summer of 2012. But by early 2013 it went back to below level normals. Yet the question is why? Did people realize the huge danger of this and say dude even taking this drug is not worth it? There is hardly ever mention of it on news outlets or even you tube in 2013. Why? Simple the drug has gone underground. To the point of certain individuals trying to perfect it. But the question is why?
Part of the drop is undoubtedly thanks to a national crackdown on the once-legal drug. Last July, President Obama signed a sweeping and somewhat controversial ban on “bath salts,” synthetic marijuana and other related drugs.
Basically new ones have been invented and distributed to replace those banned by the law last summer. New drugs, including hallucinogens like 2C-I, which has a similar effect to that of Ecstasy, have already hit the market, leading drug enforcement officials to often compare the fight against synthetic drugs to a game of Angry Birds. Yes I realize that makes no sense. The sensational media coverage may have turned off potential users who concluded it was just too risky. And from what I am seeing down below that is a fair assessment.
The drug was so new in 2012 that it was easy for toxicology reports to miss one of its many variations and warned that the risks of the drug are serious and deadly. The attack was reminiscent of “amphetamine psychosis,” and studies in mice have even found that when used in groups, the drug can make otherwise docile creatures violent and murderous.
It has been at least a half hour since the unknown middle aged man was thrown to the wolves so to speak. For the first fifteen minutes or so the majority of the people down below and all naked just sniffed him. Maybe trying to get to figure out why he smelled different than the others. Some became agitated and went to the corner where Steak Taurate was plentiful, a few growled. My focus was on one of the goth chics with the big juggs who went back to this unknown man, her eyes red and like a cat hissed and hissed at him and then crawled away to one of the corners of the club. My eyes were transfixed on her, something was about to happen. She just waited there for a few minutes. Then slowly started to crawl back, slipping and sliding on the blood from the floor. Then she jumped on him and bit a piece of his left arm off. The man was screaming in pain.
“Get me out of here please! Help me!.” That was all he said like a broken record. All I could think about was how fucked up this was.
“I do not see any sort of bartender down there. How do they drink?” I turn my attention back to Raymone. He puts on a new song by a group called “Brutal Youth” before turning his attention to me.
“In the far corner are bowls and bowls of water, there are also a few bowls of vodka. So they smell it and decide which one they want to drink. The alternative side to that is drinking blood.”
“But they are not vampires.” I retort
“Hey a zombie wanna be has to do what a zombie wanna be has to do. There is no way you can get a real bartender in there. Plus their motor skills are diminishing and hallucinations are starting so that is way too dangerous.” Raymone tells me.
He turns back to his mixing of punk rock and just then I see Napoleon pushing people away and growling. Some of the people seem to be in a big circle almost somewhat curious at Napoleon as it look as if his agitation is increasing. Napoleon smells the naked man and then without hesitation begins to eat and then bite his left ear off. The main in what I can only imagine is in obvious pain as his screams turns to shrieks, his body seems to convulse. At first Napoleon begins to try and eat the ear on the floor. I guess he does not like the taste so he spits it out.
Like a rabid dog he turns back to the man and starts to look at his mid section and from what I can tell starts to chew on his balls. Ripping skin and blood spatters upward.
“Ok. I have seen enough. Cmon Pete lets get out of here.”
“I find this horrific and incredibly entertaining all at once.” Pete tells me.
“Pete, you are one sick fuck. Cmon lets go.
But before I do I turn my attention back to Raymone. “So why is that guy down there more agitated than the rest.” Still sickened as he is still chewing on the man’s nut sack. Trying to come across like I do not know him.
“The only time I have seen this type of violence and agitation is when someone has a lot of marijuana in their system. That and bath salt and Datura makes for a very bad combination. It is only a matter of time before someone makes the right formula and the zombie apocalypse will be under way. Now, it may not be right away. It may not be this year or the next but this is not just a club.
There are certain people in high up places that know about this place. Let me just say that. Now there is a trap door over there use it and take the stairs down one level to a freight elevator but be careful and walk slowly. Take the elevator and get out of here. It took me a while to come to terms with this place myself and with each month it only seems to get worse and more bizarre. As the hours go by paranoia, fear, hallucinations will take over.”
I take one look back as two goth girls are biting on each others faces. But there seems to be a sense of exctasy to it. “Cmon Pete we need to get some sleep and then go back to work.
I write down my cell number to Raymone. “Call me in a day or two and lets go for coffee.” He nods in approval.
“Pete don’t you worry there will be another time for you to see this place and you can watch for the full twenty four hours if you like.”
Sunday 6:15PM
Pete and I are back on the catwalk between New York New York and MGM Grand. Going back to slingin some more Cheetos puffs. After what I saw earlier I have already gone thru two small bags of flaming hot Cheetos. Yes, the addiction continues for me. I need to break that cycle as well.
“So you going to help me to some more slingin or what? Pete says kinda loudly in my face.
“Maybe later there is something I have to do first.” As soon as I finish my last word I see that stripper bitch Cody approach me. This time she is with a tall, and very busty (big ass bolts and bits) smoking hot blonde.
“So you got me seven hundred dollars you broke ass motherfucker bitch.” I look back at Pete who has a big smile on his face at the blonde. I just shake my head.
“This is the skank that tried to scam me out of seven hundred motherfuckin dollars.” Pete approaches but I gesture for him to back away. I got this. I turn back to the stripper from hell. For some reason I have a flashback to bridezilla from hell. I tell you FML!!!!
“See you are lucky because you have caught me in a transitional period in my life where I want some spiritual growth and I do not feel like swearing at you or calling you every name in the book. Instead I just grab a microphone and it is time to raise the vocal chords once again. Thinking to myself what song is appropriate. And just like that Bruno Mars comes to mind and I begin to serenade my mean hostile stripper. Fuck it time for ABQ to go all out.
Ohhhhh ohhhhhh ohhhhhh ohhhhhhh
Oh, her eyes, her eyes (A spring of energy comes to me as I say this)
Make the stars look like they're not shinin'
Her hair, her hair
Falls she wishes perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful (Not)
And I tell her everyday this
Yeah
I know, I know
When I compliment her she won't believe me cause I am a lying fuck
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think that she don't see what I see (Ice cold veins)
But every time she asks me, "Do I look okay?"
I say,
When I see your face (face, face...)
There's everything that I would change
'Cause you're not amazing (amazing)
Just the way you are (are)
And when you smile (smile, smile...)
The whole world stops and stares for a while as I am regurgitating (regurgitating)
'Cause, girl, you're amazing (amazing but only you wish)
Just the way you are (are).
Yeah
Her lips, her lips
I could kiss them all day if she'd let me (Not)
Her laugh, her laugh
She hates but I think it's so sexy (In a whole different lifetime)
She's so beautiful
And I tell her everyday, (just wishing she was someone else)
Oh you know, you know, you know
I'd never ask you to change (Except everyday)
If perfect's what you're searching for
Then just stay the same
So don't even bother asking if you look okay
You know what I'll say,
When I see your face (face, face...)
There's not a thing that I would change (Except Everyday)
'Cause you're amazing (amazing in your own damn mind)
Just the way you are (are)
And when you smile (smile, smile...)
The whole world stops and stares for a while (At those ice cold veins)
'Cause, girl, you're amazing (amazing)
Just the way you are (are but wishing you were somebody else)
The way you are
The way you are
Girl, you're amazing (amazing to no one)
Just the way you are (are)”
“Fuck you” Was all Cody/Nichole says as she begins to walk the other way.
But I am not even done with my song I can finish my song. Ahhh gotta love Bruno Mars. He does have an amazing voice. Cody is obviously embarrassed as some flock around me. This is only the second time I have seen the little cunt and she is for the first time nearly speechless. For some reason Pete runs after her friend and begins to talk to her. I see him pull out a wad of cash. Her eyes light up. He puts it back in his pocket. Pete then turns around after about another minute of talking with bits and bolts blonde and with a swagger walks up to me.
“Got me a date for tonight and it is only going to cost me fifteen hundred dollars. Life is good.”
“Pete you’re an idiot.” I say shaking my head in disgust.
I see Cody look at me one last time and I just wave goodbye.
7:48 PM
I knock on the door and Michael lets me in. He closes the door behind him and locks it. Well that is not a good sign.
“Look I am sick of running. It was completely wrong of me to do what I did to you.” I tell him holding out my hands in a position so he can tell that I am giving the gesture to handcuff me.
“Put your hands down Rodrigo. I looked at your Albuquerque rap sheet again yesterday. I have to say I am amazed that you got out of New Mexico. You are like some sort of Houdini not only escaping there but getting away from me and my boy on a few separate occasions. I could take your ass back there and you will be sitting pretty for a long time. Or I can have some buddies beat you within an inch of your life. I can even call Las Vegas Vice to what you are doing on the catwalks. Yes, that is right I know exactly what you have been doing.”
“Do whatever you want I am tired of running from you. I just want this to be over and if the end result is prison for me then so be it. I do not have the energy to do your little State park ABQ is the animal get him games any longer.”
Michael just folds his legs and listens albeit with a smirk. He takes a drink of what looks like scotch on the rocks. Puts his drink down ever so slowly and then responds.
“First thing you are lucky I am retired and recovered from the injuries I sustained because of you. If I was still active I would have no choice but to lock you and your friend up. BUT I have been thinking over the last few days and want to give you a do over. At least temporarily. I am and will always be a US Marshall so I can hunt you down anytime I want to.
Now, with all that being said. Let me give you some backstory in the seven plus months since you last seen my daughter. Shortly after what happened to me by YOU, her engagement was called off. But like I said you have to be one of the luckiest motherfuckers I have ever come across. Here is why, my daughter’s engagement as of three weeks ago is back on. So this is what is going to happen. First off you are going to give me back the ten thousand dollars + I have invested in her wedding. I do not care how but you will pay for my daughter’s wedding. I mean everything.”
Michael pulls his chair closer to mine. Then points his finger at me after taking yet another sip of his drink. “Now listen fuck face whatever my daughter wants you say no problem. If my daughter wants Elvis to return from the grave to sing at her wedding you make it happen. I do not care if it costs thirty thousand or fifty thousand dollars you will get the money and make it happen. Because if you do not then the deal is off and I hunt you until you are six feet under. Do we understand one another? Anything and I do mean anything my daughter wants you nod and say no problem.”
Thoughts are spinning thru my head. Is this really the out I need to get this guy finally off my back? “Yes, But I need more time to get the money to pay for this wedding.”
“I give you three weeks in Vegas to do whatever you have to do. Then your ass will be in San Antonio to meet with my daughter and plan her luxurious wedding. Are we clear on this?”
I nod my head.
“Good. Now get out of my sight.”
Tuesday Morning
Still no word from Cabron or what happened to Napoleon once the club closed and it has been a good 24 hours. I am sitting here at Sunrise coffee house as it is about 10:30 in the morning. Across from me is Raymone.
“So are you really serious about this?”
“Yes. I want to be whole again. I want to be more spiritual and I need purification. I need to fix myself internally” This may be the most honest I have been to another person in years. “I want to get away from what I have been doing and I want to start over but do not know how.”
“Free your mind, allow negative energy to be released. Just let it all go. Once you do that you can do whatever you want. But you have bad juju and I can tell it is coming from the biggest internal energy source that we have as humans. Let me tell you something Rodrigo and listen very carefully.”
I take a big chunk of my Banana nut muffin, take a deep breath and listen intently.
“Very few understand the complexities of the heart. It is rarely understood by most and part of my path to happiness was having a better knowledge of it. In actuality, if the heart opens, the potential is there to fall in love. If we stop feeling it all together, there is a sad and emptiness to us that yes can even lead to depression or worse my new friend. All of this happens because the heart goes thru many changes. So the energy shifts and variations to them run our lives. But remember this as I read in a wonderful book You are not the heart but merely an experiencer of your heart.
It is one of the most powerful energy centers that we have and yes it affects our daily lives. So how is the heart an energy center? What does it feel like when you are confident and strong? What does it feel like when you are happy? It is simple it controls this energy flow by simply opening and closing. That is it and yes it is that simple. Just like any valve or even pipe for that matter it can allow energy to flow thru or even restrict it.
You can be experiencing great feelings of love while in the presence of someone who care a great deal about. But what happens if that person says something you do not like or hurts your feelings? Your heart then quickly closes. You may want to close down, be stubborn about it and just let it sit there in your heart creating negative energy. The longer it is there the worse it will be for you. Rodrigo your heart is closed and I can feel it. So how long has it been?
“Four long and agonizing years. I saw her again a few weeks ago and it just made me more sad and incomplete. For her I think it was closure.” Why do I feel like I am talking to a shrink.
“Your heart is severely closed because it has simply becomes blocked. By energy patterns from your past. You are unable to let go and because of that your heart will remain closed off. Let me give you an example. Say you have been thinking about your ex, the love of your life and are down in the dumps for days. Not wanting to do anything. Your heart remains closed.
Your energy is low. Say an hour later she knocks on your door and says she now wants to be with you and made a horrible mistake. That you are the one she loves now and forever. A huge surge of energy comes up into the heart and it opens once again. Nothing has changed except your ex walking thru that door but now you seem to have the energy to leap over buildings. Why? Because of the internal energy source, the heart.
You are being touched at a very deep level. And it then also affects your mind maybe even passing thru your consciousness. But you have buried so much hurt in your heart that you have resisted that release, the ability to let go. So that energy gets packed up and forced deep inside within the heart. Energy is all around us and it will expand outward if not contained. If the build up is a lot you may find yourself in some sort of depression. Maybe everything becomes dark and you live your life in a state of blah. Eventually everything you do becomes negative. You see things the wrong way. You interpret what others are saying in maybe the wrong way. Your energy is now one of depressed energy. Little by little over these past four years your heart has gotten blocked big time dude. Not everything in life though gets blocked, it may pass right thru. But if you have layers upon layers of hurt and negative energy in your heart this can becomes much more difficult.
You have to be willing to experience life instead of constantly fighting it. You have to reach the deep and lower depths of yourself and see the secrets of the heart. Remember that the heart is the place through which energy flows to sustain you.
So how do you get past your problems Rodrigo? Keep the heart open no matter what. The more it closes, the more negative energy will begin to block it and try and keep it closed. Take deep breaths, relax thy heart, love thy heart. Be able to forgive and move on with life. Have an abundance of love for everyone even those who feel have wronged you. Just let go and your inner cage will be free. What is stored in your heart is pain and probably a lot of it. To release it is going to cause you pain. But it will pass and it will so be worth it. It only hurts for a few minutes or so and then release it. It is about releasing and cleansing. It is about the purification of oneself.
Try and stay centered, live your life in love as it will strengthen your inner being. This will help you keep an open heart. But above all else remember that the Heart is the greatest internal energy source that we have. Control only what you can and then let go. What is her name?” Raymone asks.
“Aitiana.”
“Let Aitiana go. Allow growth and transformation within yourself. You may feel tremendous resistance to wanting to do this. Your heart will want to pull away because of how long that pain has been there but do not let it. Let that pain pass thru you because after all it is just energy. If you close around said pain and stop it from passing thru, it will just stay there. Like an unknown disease slowly ravaging your body. Dare to face your problems and have the strength to let it go and move on. You want spiritual growth?
This is the first step. Let Aitiana go and do the things you want with your life. You must want the pain inside to be free. If not you will end up in this vicious cycle of emptiness.”
All I can do right now is sigh. This is going to be harder than I thought.
Tuesday 2:15 PM
I leave Pete out on the catwalk slinging as I go to my room at the MGM grand. For some reason I just do not want to be slingin anymore. I need to somehow break free of that. I open the door and see Cabron on the sofa just staring with a look of anger on his face.
“What the heck happened to you cuz?” He has a cast on both of left arm and left leg. Shock and bewilderment over take me.
“Your boy Napoleon broke my arm and leg. I am assuming because of all the weed he had in his body the effects of the bath salts wore off at least an hour before everyone else. He was waiting for me outside. Frito Lay/PepsiCo wants a war with the Cartel well then they got one.”
“Where is he now?” I say with a deep frightened fear that is overcoming me. I now see more proof of how many ways he can hurt a guy with his hands and feet.
“You got me cuz. I am assuming he will lay low for a while. Do you know what that fucker said as I was on the ground withering in extreme pain? That he was still coming after my two boys.”
“Fuck my life!.” Damn I needed some tequila right about now.
All I can think to myself are two things. First, this cannot be good. Secondly, well this sure puts a damper on my spiritual growth.
Episode 13- The return of Bridezilla