Lust Dust was a simple piece of magic, easily created by any mage who had incentive to create magical aphrodisiacs, and so there were many different varieties of the stuff floating around. Wizards had a tendency to 'personalize' their creations by adding specific ingredients, some of which were more commonly utilized in love spells and love magic. The reasons for this varied from individual to individual, but four specific 'additives' were the most well-known additions.
Zyzyx's Binding Reagent was utilised to form temporary telepathic and empathic connections between two individuals, allowing them to hear each other's thoughts and sense their feelings. Theoretically, a person could use it for interrogation or communication purposes, but its primary usage was in love magic, as it enabled the couple to know what their partner was thinking and understand their emotions with little chance of misinterpretation. It was usually mixed into Lust Dust to heighten the experience; after all, being able to sense the other person's own lust and pleasure would surely stimulate a person's own, right?
Moloch's Aetherical Resonance was fairly unique in that it was expressly designed with lust magic in mind. It caused the couple's souls to literally meet and mingle during the actual act, adding an element of spiritual depth to the act. The understandable emotional bond that resulted afterwards, however temporary it might prove to be, meant that this additive had found acceptance in love magic as well.
Up until his dying days, the wizard Phineas had been forced to defend the uniqueness of his Mental Rhapsody from other magi who insisted it was simply a derivative or extrapolation of Moloch's Aetherical Resonance. It operated under similar principals, but its effect was fundamentally different. Rather than a meeting of souls, Mental Rhapsody brought about a meeting of minds, allowing the couple to know their partner more intimately than they ever had before, gifting them with full access to the memories, thoughts and feelings of the other person, thus enabling them to see the world through their love interest's eyes, if only for a moment. The Mental Rhapsody of Phineas was thusly more useful for love magic; in fact, after its creator's death, those who were part of the occultic world had come to swear by its usage when dealing with arranged marriages. After all, how better to start things right then by allowing the future bride and groom to experience each others' perspective?
The final of the four most notorious additives was known simply as "Y'gramal's Honeymoon". Nobody knew who Y'gramal was, or why it was called that, but it was the most unusual compound of them all and thusly the least common. Mainly because it was functionally a teleportation spell, transporting the couple to some place that the two desired to be. As the name suggested, it made having a honeymoon a lot easier than would normally be the case.
As Cologne had suspected, the Lust Dust that Mousse had used had contained at least one additive, though whether it had been "spiked" without his knowledge or he had planned on it was something that only the unconscious duck knew. His plan having backfired as spectacularly as it had, that meant that the girl he loved, and the boy he hated, were not only engaging in coitus, but also receiving the benefit of...
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