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Chapter 26

Demolition Diaries: Alchemical endeavours
Added Mon May 16 07:23:29 2022 at level 51:

I was performing a fairly basic demonstration. Arleshi's familiar was being
somewhat recalcitrant about the possibility of seeing if the mana suffusing
him would serve as a viable ignition source. I'm confident it will, though
he is being somewhat difficult to talk around. That's not that important
though, we've got time (at least, I have, and he has until he agrees).

Anyhow. I wished to demonstrate how a member of the legion could be
suffused with the elixir, and this could serve as a sort of impact based
detonation source. I've done it so many times before I never really thought
about it, but I suppose when you stop in the moment and there isn't an
enraged maran or battlerager charging at you, some smaller details become
apparent.

And in this case?

It was the label. Davarrah's elixir.

I've read it before, obviously. But kind of like when you read the Spire
paperwork, there are a bunch of names you skip, some vague notations about
due procedure, then the important bit at the end. Noone reads the names and
actually thinks about them.

But...

Why the blazes should I not make my own?

I mean, it will probably blow up in my face. That seems distinctly likely.
I've never touched alchemy in my life before, but if Davarrah can do it
then why can't I do it better?

Tamazin's more unstable elixir... well, perhaps not. The name needs some
work, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Time to do a little bit of research. How hard can it be?

Note: the demonstration did not bring him round. It seemed to have quite
the opposite result, in fact.