Just by looking at this, I could not get what all of this was for. The colors of the bottles were black, purple, blue, yellow and red. I just had to come out and ask Old Kipler about it. He just smiled and gestured at the box. "These are the next hot things on the black market." he said. I could tell. Several more people tried to rob me and take the package than normal. I t had to be worth it. I asked what they did. Old Kipler pointed at the colored bottles. The bottles had to do something cool. "These are drugs for layers. As I am sure you know about by now, but some people capture layers and harvest their eggs. Using these you can raise the production rates and quality of the eggs that come out." Old Kipler explained. The Black bottle stopped egg production. If you wanted the layer to produce your heirs, you could give it to them after the egg developed. That way all of the nutrients could go to that egg and that egg alone. The others increased the production. Purple raised it by 25%. Blue was 50%. Yellow was 75% and red was 100%. Three doses over the course of three days made all of it permanent.
Knowing that, these drugs were pretty cool. I pointed at the yellow bottle. "How much would I have to pay to get the yellow bottle!?" I asked him. He smiled and said "You want to start off with the yellow bottle? Not the purple or red one? That's interesting." I held his gaze without saying anything. He did not need to know what I was planning on doing with it. "I'm sure that we can come to a deal." he told me. He wanted $20,000 dollars for it. I made more than that on selling my eggs to him. That was not mentioning all of the money given to me for the missions that I had completed. It was easy for me to pay. I got the yellow bottle and one of the hypodermic needles in the set of four. I did find it odd that there were less needles than bottles. Normally, there would be much more needles as you would want clean ones. "This layer drug is intramuscular. Who knows what would happen if you shot it in the vein? I don't recommend it personally." he warned. I nodded my head. I put them in my inventory. The bottle held ten doses. I knew that the slum hospital had a clean needle initiative. I went there.
Clean needles were given out for free as using dirty needles could get dangerous. I was able to get one from the attendant. By causing a distraction, I was able to swipe another three. That gave me five of them now. My rate of egg production was 1.5. If I took the drug myself, it would shoot up to 2.25 a day. Every fourth day I would lay three eggs. I was already fine with how many eggs I could lay. Something I wanted to see was whether or not this drug could be used on people that were not layers. If the yellow drug in the bottle did give regular people the ability to lay eggs, their egg production rate would be .75. That amounted to three eggs every four days. Ivan only laid an egg every other day. The way to determine that would be to give a person that was not a layer this drug. It was not ethical as this could fuck their life up. There was a reason this was getting its start on the black market. The stigma and vulnerability for layers was a large concern. I probably would want to find someone to test all of it on that either wanted it or was a person I would not care if bad things happened to them.
