Using the three Boosters out of the Artemis series together (this + Valhalla Vial + Berserker’s Wrath) is an absurdly powerful combination – as designed, of course!
Alone, Valhalla Vial is an order of magnitude powerful than Opus Manhattan. Besides the ‘expected’ outcomes, it also feels like it is retroactively boosting previously wired circuits. Overgrowth comes on fast. Your brain will be humming and buzzing with this in a brand new way and it will keep doing that for a long time. One of my Valhalla Vial ‘doses’ kept me swimming in accelerated brain growth for more than 20 hours – if you play this, you might as well commit to brain wiring for the day!
With Berserker’s Wrath, brain wiring operations come on even faster. As the signalling system upgrades, your brain will literally do more work in less time. Overgrowth is nearly immediate. Overgrowth symptoms (such as but not limited to… blurry vision, inability to type or use words properly, light/sound sensitivity, random muscle misfires like your limbs aren’t the right length anymore, clumsiness, inability to look people in the face, dizziness, disorientation, overwhelming fatigue, headaches…) will very possibly come faster than you can account for. Where before, maybe you could feel the overgrowth coming on and so bail out and use Plasma Brain before it became debilitating, this can come on faster than you can predict. Buckle your seat belt!
Strahl 332 ‘balances’ and ‘smooths’ the pair of them while also making them even more effective. It doesn’t necessarily forestall the overgrowth or anything, but makes it more tolerable. Of course, each of the three Boosters cuts Overgrowth, so extra rounds throughout the day will make everything a little more manageable. That’s right – as counterintuitive as it may seem, Boost more to overcome Overgrowth!
With the three of these in play, a week’s worth of wiring feels like a month’s worth (probably more, but I don’t want to over sell anything) of wiring even compared to very excellent Boosters like Brain Key and Opus Manhattan. You just do more with less. They feel exponential – like the more you use them, the more you get out of them. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the folks who pick these up early and commit to their use are going to burn hard and fast enough that they’ll be hard to catch up with.
Admittedly, it may not be a comfortable ride. But are rockets supposed to be comfortable? Some turbulence at lift-off should be expected. You will be slammed back into your chair and your skull will be rattled like a piggy bank full of loose change. You might black out. G-forces are wild! That’s how you get the momentum to clear the embrace of Earth’s gravity well. You can’t get to the stars by taking it slow and gentle.
And at this velocity, we’ll be on a one-way journey to Alpha Centauri before too much longer.