OK - personal experience here - took a few lollies [Edit for wazza's benefit: lollies being a combination of MDMA powder, green versaces and blue blanks] over the course of the evening, after having had 75mg 5htp about 45mins-1hr after dropping the first pill.
Effects: felt the first pill come-on nicely, then had the 5htp. Got to a nice level of choppedness [Edit (2): feeling the effects of MDMA eg body rushes, light head feelings, empathy], before about 30-45minutes later entering scattered land [Edit (3): unable to communicate with any degree of understandability, lack of body rushes, mental feeling of being smacked with a trout, basically the after effects of being chopped]. I was scattered for probably the next 5-6hours. Sure i was chopped (although the body sensation was definately poor for the amount i had taken) - but the scatteredness made it almost impossible to communicate and almost an irritating experience. 5 hours or so of scattness starting from only 1.5 hours after you first drop a pill is not my idea of an ideal time.
So, having tried the 5htp while pilling - yes it makes the experience last longer, but at the expense of making it just mashed and scattered for nearly the entire time, and not really that enjoyable. I'll stick to taking 5htp afterwards only in the future. And yes, all the gear tested black, good pills, blah blah blah.
[Edit (4): sorry for my jive talking]
[ 07 August 2002: Message edited by: SupaspeeD ]