To taste Cordelias famous cocktails for some is the beginning of a life illuminated after an evening communicating with the spirits. For others it is the early end of a promising future as the narcotic ingredients destroy all sanity and leave them a husk of there old selves. Despite the risk this years annual awakening ceremony saw its highest number of pilgrims from all corners of society from above and below. How many will wake in three days members if the Cordelian Society and how many will awaken in old Loundon Sanitarium remains to be seen.