Wouldn't it be super tempting to use all your intellect to either on your own or in conjunction with a chemist, try to replicate the compound? I mean if you knew you only had 100 pills you'd be wanting to get onto it pretty quickly.
Curses! Foiled again! So it is, the small shall always seek to bring low the great.
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
All along, I was actually thinking about The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. If anyone has played it a bit more, you are probably well aware of the "formula":
Make a potion of Fortify Intelligence Drink it Make a better potion of Fortify Intelligence with the better intelligence Drink it Make an even better potion of Fortify Intelligence with the much better intelligence Drink it Make a far better potion of Fortify Intelligence with the extra good intelligence Drink it etc.
Until eventually you have an Intelligence of around 5000 points, where the normal "maximum" is 100 points...
Totally agree. If his brain in functioning that highly I doubt he is going to overlook this. It's basically the most important thing for his survival. Survival being a concept he talks about a lot too. Guy with 1k IQ: " I will be president in 4 years although I have a drug supply lasting me 3 months." K.
Let's not forget that it was he himself who told us that his IQ is over a thousand. But considering his insanely stupid decisions throughout the movie it was probably more like 180 on NZT.