A Dose of Humiliation

A Dose of Humiliation is a story which Kitty Angel started writing for Camp NaNoWriMo July 2022.

Characters

• Lorna Peen - narrator and main character, who is given an infantilising injections
  • Marcie - Lorna's friend with excessive, overbearing parents
    • Elspeth - Lorna's friend and Marcie's gf. Tends to go off the deep end when something makes her angry. Wants to study molecular biology in college
      • Serena Tong - older girl who befriended Elspeth in order to get close to Marcie because she has an obsessive fascination with the punishment pill and loves talking to people about their experiences
  • Jodie - Lorna's friend
  • Nikki - Lorna's friend
    • Lance - Nikki's boyfriend
• Andy Becker - A local pharmacist who hates Lorna
  • Todd Becker - A school bully who Lorna managed to outwit
    • Clint Walsh - at school with Lorna; from Barbados originally, still has an accent, but his family have moved all over the world. Was beaten up by Todd's gang but won't give up on his dream to be a skateboarder. Uses his brother's board, which was a gift and has some emotional significance.
• Mrs Yuan - Owns a hat/accessory shop, "The Hat Trick". In the mall one level below Becker's pharmacy, just visible across the atrium. Several of her former assistants now run branches in other nearby towns.
• Lin Parker - Fairly rich kid, family has a big house with a pool on the edge of town. Two maids. Threw a party on Monday night.
  • Josh Eversen - Tanned boy from Lin's party. Lorna's struggling to resist hormones around him. Pretty good on a skateboard; drives a sportscar, but nothing like Serena's status symbol.
    • Garth - One of Josh's friends; family runs a liquor wholesale company, so he brings the booze
    • Ste - One of Josh's friends. Has access to Skim.

Lorna's parents are John and Marsha, and she has a little brother called Walt.

Punishment Pill

There are 23 possible "doses" available, each of which is designed to humiliate the patient in a different way. They have a basic effect, as well as additional effects which can be added by giving the patient an 'intensity booster' shot. Intensity boosters can usually be stacked, making the same effect more intense. there is also an 'overloaded booster' effect, which is caused by giving an intensity booster while an existing booster (of any kind) is still acting on the body. By law, parents are required to keep track and leave 6 hours between boosters. These effects are also seen as the "final form" of a dose after repeatedly adding intensity boosters

Ones mentioned so far include:

Dose name	Normal effect	Intensifier effect	Overloaded boosters
Antidex	Reduces coordination, requiring concentration to type	Even harder to type, and increases clumsiness. Balance may be impaired after multiple boosters	Can only handle objects by grasping; probably unable to walk or stand without help
Diffusion	Evolves nitrogen gas in the large intestine, causing frequent bloating and flatulence	Patient must pass gas more often, and may smell worse. In some patients may cause occasional diarrhea and nausea, and may sometimes cause accidents	near-constant involuntary flatulence and spontaneous (usually once or twice daily) incontinence
Floodgate	Causes sporadic bedwetting	Progressively weakens pelvic floor muscles, making accidents more likely with a full bladder	Complete loss of bladder control
Loquaciousness	Causes a lisp, which may make you hard to understand for some people	Less control of tongue and vocal folds; a growing speech impediment. For an hour or so after the booster, subjects may be unable to speak at all, but they can usually learn to be understood again with some effort	Unable to speak except in baby talk. Muscle interference changes randomly so there's no way to adapt to it
PearShape	Causes lethargy, weight gain, and changes body fat distribution to make it more obvious	increased weight, decreased energy, increased perspiration	Uncontrolled weight gain, loss of muscle tone
SkinDeep	Causes acne and itching	Spreads to more parts of the body; for some subjects can mutate into an eczema-like rash	whole body covered with acne
Sux2B	Causes mild oral fixation; patients may start to feel uncomfortable without something in their mouth, and unconsciously start sucking or chewing on anything that comes to hand	Harder to avoid sucking things; sucking anything placed near your mouth is almost a compulsion	Extreme discomfort from the mouth being empty; unable to resist sucking whatever comes to hand. Often causes involuntary thumb sucking

I'll add others when I have time