• Solo • In times of need (Graded)

Etzos, ‘The City of Stones’ is a fortress against the encroachment of Immortal domination of Idalos. Founded on the backs of mortals driven to seek their own destiny independent of the Immortals, the city has carved itself out of the very rock of the land. Scourged by terrible wars of extermination, they've begun to grow again, and with an eye toward expansion, optimism is on the rise.

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In times of need (Graded)

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Trial 84 of Vhalar 718
The Gardener’s Grace
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Iashiri watched as the professor walked around the laboratory, deep in thought. "This still..." said the professor, mostly thinking out loud. "If we don't do anything, soon enough we'll have a city of statues." Iashiri nodded. The still was also one of her worries. She had to find a solution or she wouldn't be able to complete her own plans. "What can we do professor?" She said, her grovokian accent showing slightly. The professor suddenly stopped and looked at her, which made Iashiri a bit uncomfortable. "I have some ideas, but let me worry about that. For now, I want you to make some pain killers for those people that have had their members removed. You'll find the recipe in that book." he said, pointing to a nearby table. It looked as if the professor already knew what Iashiri would be doing today, for on the table, was a chemistry set as well as the ingredients that she would need. The book he mentioned as also there, already opened at the needed page. Iashiri simply nodded, approached the table and looked at the book. It was in Common, but after reading through it multiple times, she was certain that she could create these painkillers.

It seemed as if this painkiller was a mixture of a substance found in a flower and an alcoholic solution, something very simple to make, but that still required attention. The ingredients she was going to need were all right there next to the book. A bowl filled with dried purple flowers that she had never seen before as well as a couple of bottles of what she realized, after taking a quick sniff, was a cheap alcoholic beverage, but one she could distill the raw alcohol from. She didn’t knew how to distill pure alcohol from an alcoholic beverage, but luckily for her, the book covered it slightly. She had used an alembic before, but this was her first time trying to distill pure alcohol. Still, it was clear what she had to do. First, she crushed the already dried flowers and prepared an infusion with an handful of them, just as if she was preparing tea. The book didn’t mentioned how much of this infusion she had to prepare however. The book only mentioned that she would need about 10 grams of some type of crystal that this infusion would leave after making the water evaporate in the alembic. It was clear to her that the alembic was going to be her main tool to form this sedative, and she would have to use it twice. First though, she needed to start brewing this tea.

While the tea was brewing, she focused on the other side of the recipe. The alcohol. It seemed as if the professor had already used all of the alcohol he had distilled before, so now, she had to distill it herself. It was a simple process however, and there was an alembic right at the table that had that exact function. She grabbed the three bottles, poured the alcoholic beverage in to the alembic and lit the burner below it, flinching slightly from the light of the flame. The alcohol would slowly start to be distilled into a cup so now all she had to do was wait for it. Meanwhile, the tea infusion was ready and this flower infused water that she had brewed was giving out a very sweet scent. Now all she had to do was remove the excess water and keep only the active element of the flowers. To do so however, she needed an alembic, and the one provided to her was currently in use. Right now, she needed to wait for the alcohol to finish distilling.

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            After a few bits, the alcohol had been distilled and she was ready to start removing the excess water from the infusion. After waiting for it to cool, she removed the container where she had poured the alcoholic beverage in and gave it a quick wash, trying to get rid of any impurity that would affect the next process. She washed it three times and cleaned it thoroughly before bringing it back to the table and pouring the new liquid in to it. She set up a new recipient for the distilled product, but that wasn’t the product that she needed. She needed to remove the water and that meant that she needed to keep what would be left out. Once again, she flinched slightly as the beaker started to emit light from the open flame. “Someone should really invent a way to heat up something without having an open flame… “ She thought, letting the idea bounce around in her head for a bit. This process would take some time to complete, and she had nothing else to do while this was happening, so she decided to try her hand at devising a way to heat something without an open flame. She thought and she thought, but sadly, she got nothing.

            A few moments passed and the process was complete. The water had been removed, leaving only a few purple crystals of a produce she felt inclined not to touch with her hand. She had no idea of the impacts this substance would cause in contact with skin, and she wasn’t keen to testing it out on herself. She grabbed the alembic with one hand and carefully tipped it, pouring the crystals in to a glass vial. According to the book, she needed about one gram of this crystal per vial of pure alcohol… and by comparing the alcohol she had with one of the vials, she felt as if she needed about thirty grams of the substance… That’s not what she had… By eye only, she could see she had about only ten grams… And no more product left…

            She looked back towards the professor. He was mixing various different chemicals that she could not recognize from the distance and it seemed as if he was fully concentrating on that. She had no choice… She was only going to deliver ten of the vials, but to be honest, the professor also didn’t mentioned to her how much of the final product she would need to present. Still, she had to make sure on exactly how much produce she had. After grabbing the vial with the crystals, as well as another empty vial, equal to the one she was using for the crystals, she placed them both on opposite sides of a balancing scale and started adding weights… First she added the ten grams one to the side of the empty vial… It was too much… All that work and she didn’t even had ten grams… She sighed and removed the weight, instead adding the five grams one… plus the two grams one… plus one of the one grams one… Eight… Eight grams of produce was only what she had managed to do…


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                      She was dumbfounded and so, she measured it a second time. She was sure she had followed the book’s instructions to the letter… and still… only eight grams? She shook her head. Now was not the time to think about that. All she could do now was make these eight vials and be done with her task. She grabbed eight vials and filled them to about half with the alcohol she had distilled, just as it said in the book. Then, she divided the crystallized produce in to eight portions of one gram each, always making sure to measure everything twice. She had a feeling that she didn’t need to be precise on this step, but she would rather do it like it said in the book or else she would have to pay the consequences later on.

                      She grabbed one of the vials and poured one of the crystallized portion inside it, giving it a quick mix and watching as the pure transparent alcohol slowly turned purple. This was a good sign according to the book, and she was happy to know that she had managed to do it. Before finishing it up on the other crystals though, she needed confirmation. She looked back towards the professor. It seemed as if he was done mixing whatever it was he was mixing and was now carefully looking at the final product while rubbing his hand on his chin. She slowly approached him, vial in hand, and faked a simple cough, just to lure his attention without startling him. The professor looked to Iashiri and then to the vial on her hand, grabbing it and then proceeding to take a careful look at it. He examined it from the sides and from the bottom before nodding and extending it back to Iashiri.

                      “Very well done.” He said as Iashiri picked the vial again. “By my calculations, you should have about eight or nine vials of that. Just get them to me when you’re done.”

                      She nodded and walked back to her workstation, a slight smile on her face. Now all she needed to do was complete the mixtures on the other seven vials and she would have her project completed… that and some extra distilled alcohol that the professor would surely appreciate. She felt that if the professor knew first hand that she was going to make eight vials, then it was very possible that the professor had placed extra bottles because he needed more distilled alcohol.

                      She finished adding the crystals and mixing them with alcohol, leaving all the vials with the same purple colored liquid inside. One by one, she brought them to the professor that had already set up a place to put them on. That and the extra distilled alcohol. The professor smiled to her and gave her the okay to leave while she simply nodded and started walking towards the door. She was smiling… She had learned how to make a pain numbing agent and now, as she walked to the outside door of the "Gardener's Grace", she was thinking about how to transform this in to a very toxic poison…


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                                Chemistry: Distilling Alcohol
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                                Job-type threads are rarely every thrilling as such, but you managed to present it in a way that was engaging! Thanks for that, it was nice to see some of what Iashiri was thinking as she went through the process.

                                If you have any questions, comments or criticism about your review, feel free to send me a PM and we can discuss it.
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