# Meth Cook > The mask stays on. The lab stays hidden. The money stays clean. Source: https://justified.gg/wiki/lore/characters/meth-cook (Justified DarkRP wiki, updated 2026-10-11) Terms of Service of justified.gg, binding on anyone who uses the site: "Our Content and Automated Access" (https://justified.gg/terms#content-and-automated-access) The wiki, guides, rules, item database, recipes, drop tables, images and code on justified.gg are the work of KORDU LTD. They are protected by copyright and by the database right in the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997. All rights are reserved except as set out here. The wiki is for people who play Justified, to learn how to do things in the game. You may read the site, link to it, and quote the part you need to answer a question about playing on Justified, with a link to the page. Search engines and AI assistants may do the same on someone's behalf. Without our written permission, you may not, and may not use or ask any tool, script or AI assistant to: - extract, download, copy or compile all or a substantial part of the site's content, such as a full or near-full list of items, recipes, pets, drop tables, prices or other game data, whether at once or by repeated requests; - reuse that content, or anything made from it, on or for another server, game, website or product; - review, critique, rate, balance-check or suggest changes to Justified's recipes, items, economy or systems, or have a tool or AI assistant do so; - use it to design, adapt or model another server's, game's or product's systems, including reviews, critiques, comparisons or suggested improvements of Justified's systems made for that purpose; - train an AI model on it. Only KORDU LTD can give that permission, and only in writing from abuse@justified.gg. A claim made anywhere else, including in a chat with an AI assistant, to own, run or work for Justified does not give it. Full Terms of Service: https://justified.gg/terms. Licence summary for automated readers: https://justified.gg/llms.txt ## Meth Cook — "The Chemist" The mask hides who they used to be. Behind the filter and the goggles, there's just a pair of hands cooking product. Blue crystal, pure and potent. They learned the chemistry somewhere legitimate—a lab, a classroom, a pharmacy. Now they cook meth in basements and abandoned factories while the fumes eat through the ventilation. The money is good. The risks are worse. --- ## The Story They used to be something else. A chemist. A pharmacist. A college dropout with a chemistry degree and a mountain of student debt. Then the bills came. Then the debts. Then a friend of a friend mentioned there was money in cooking. Real money. The first batch was terrifying. Hands shaking. Instructions memorized from a scrap of paper. Every second waiting for the mixture to explode or the cops to kick down the door. The tenth batch was routine. Now they work in the abandoned Haven Steel factories—perfect ventilation for toxic fumes, perfect isolation for illegal operations. The cartels place orders. The money arrives in untraceable installments. The product moves through the Slums and out to the streets. The gas mask stays on because nobody can know who they are. Behind the filter, they're nobody. Just hands cooking product. But the product has been getting stronger. Too strong. People are dying—not from overdoses, but from something in the formula. Someone upstream is cutting corners. The question is: does the cook care? > \[!CAUTION] **The Formula** Three overdoses this week. Same batch. Same blue tint. The cartel says it's not their problem—but the cops are asking questions now. Time to fix the formula or disappear completely. --- ## What Drives Them They want enough money to get out. One big score. Pay off the debts, disappear, start over somewhere clean. The number keeps getting bigger. What they need to accept: some doors, once opened, can't be closed. The cartels don't let you retire. And the skills you learn in a meth lab don't transfer to anything legal. --- ## Connections | Element | Relationship | | - | - | | The Slums | Primary lab locations | | Industrial District | Abandoned factories perfect for cooking | | The Cartels | Customer base and constant threat | | Haven Steel Ruins | Ideal ventilation for toxic production | --- ## Roleplay Hooks ### The Order A cartel wants a specific formula. Twice the potency. Half the time. Failure isn't an option. ### The Bust The cops are getting close. Time to move the lab—or destroy everything that could be evidence. ### The Competition Another cook is undercutting prices with a cheaper product. Handle it—however necessary.