Alcohol

Drinking alcohol has the following effects (before applying traits, see below):

Beer

• +1 Alcohol Level

• +1 Tolerance

• +3 Fat

• +10 Mood

• +10 Thirst

Wine/Champagne

• +2 Alcohol Level

• +2 Tolerance

• +4 Fat

• +20 Mood

• +10 Thirst

Vodka/Whiskey/Rum

• +3 Alcohol Level

• +3 Tolerance

• +6 Fat

• -10 Thirst

Moonshine

• +5 Alcohol Level

• +4 Tolerance

• +6 Fat

• -10 Thirst

Getting drunk

The PC's alcohol level determines how drunk she is:

• 1: Buzzed

• 2-3: Tipsy

• 4-5: Drunk

• 6-9: Very Drunk

• 10+: Wasted

The PC's alcohol level has a 50% chance of decreasing by 1 at the end of each hour. A better method of sobering the PC up is to drink juice, water, coffee, or tea. Each drink will reduce the PC's alcohol level by 1.

Effects

At the end of each hour that the PC is very drunk her Volleyball and Running skills will degenerate. If she is wasted her Strength, Endurance, and Intelligence will degenerate as well.

Certain events might trigger if the PC is drunk. For example, if the PC gets very drunk at the disco (ie. alcohol level of 6 or higher) and then tries to dance, there is a 50% chance that Katja Meynold will intervene and take the PC home. This can only happen after Katja's storyline has been started during school hours.

Traits

There are two traits that affect the PC's tolerance for alcohol: Lightweight and Heavyweight.

There is an internal Tolerance variable which starts at zero and is increased by drinking (see above; up to 9 points per day). However, if the PC doesn't consume alcohol that day, it decreases by 2 instead.

If Tolerance goes below -50, the PC gains the Lightweight trait. This increases the effect of alcohol by 50% (ie. if a lightweight PC drinks wine, her alcohol level will be increased by 3), and can only be removed by increasing Tolerance above 0.

If Tolerance goes above 50, she gains the Heavyweight trait, which decreases the effect of alcohol by 50%, and will be removed if Tolerance goes below 0.

Consequently, if the PC has a beer every day she will eventually become a Heavyweight. If she only binges on the weekend, she will have to drink at least 10 beers (or equivalent) to avoid eventually becoming a Lightweight.

Alcohol = P:

Sveta usually starts with high inhibition. This is a short guide on how to use alcohol to get past this limitation. 

The two major money makers that have inhibition checks are prostitution and porn filming, both of which require less than 60 total inhibition. Prostitution requires that Sveta passes this check each time, but porn filming only requires Sveta to pass the initial check to sign up as a porn actress. Drink at the bar in St. Petersburg's industrial region until your inhibition is sufficiently low, and then go to the porn studio. The bar opens at 16, so you should have enough time. Same with prostitution. With prostitution, you can keep going at too high inhibition, as long as it was sufficiently low when you started for the night. Do not take a break if you have too high inhibiiton, or you'll be locked out for the night unless you manage to lower it again.