You would love to make the techie do something, but he seems to be spaced out. Suddenly, he yells.
"I CAN FEEL THE MACHINE!" You would discard this immediately, if not for the fact that his lab equipment suddenly discharged even though there is several failsafes to ensure this doesn't happen.
After Valk gets a little less...Insane... He tells you what just happened to him.
"It appears Valkium screws with you a ton. I don't even want to know what a kilo does. Now, for some reason, I can hear the thoughts of machines. This is a pretty sweet deal, but it would be incredibly stupid to even try to sell this as a drug. It'd just led to a lot of superheroes, at best." Valk sighs.
I am just going to show you the races of the crew.
Valk: Nordic: Furry kobold-like creature, well adapted for life on extremely cold planets.
You: Human: Rather boring creature, a middleman. Tries to dominate galaxy politics, fails miserably due to a lack of interest.
K'alk: Insect-like humanoid. Oddly, it's a solo creature. Very good with weapons, thanks to evolving on a planet where sight is the best thing you could have.
You expose the mineral to the Blacks. They all are differently affected. There are 7 left, so you can see what happens to them.
1: Melded with weapons.
2: Exploded in gore.
3: Can shape body into weapons.
4: Nothing happened.
5: Turned into a horrifying beast with no sentience at all.
6: Constantly burning alive, while not dying.
7: Turned into a fluffy creature.