Avalon/Roleplay Section/Kain/Alchemy in Norjke

Part I

Kain leaves his room and runs downstairs to his personal laboratory of alchemy located in the basement of his palace in Norjke

"I think i have it!!" does he say while he runs through the passages. The servants he meets on his way know already that he is a lover of Science.

"Go for it, Sir...! Maybe you get something usefull this time..." yells one servant while he laughs out loud hoping not to be heard by the hero.

But Kain is too busy trying not to forget the percentage of the components he dreamed of... acqua forte 63%, silber 15%, 21% of undead's blood and just 1% lead to obtain the preciated gold... The myth of obtaining gold of lead is very old and considered by many as a child-story. But Kain was convince that the undead blood had to have magical power, because it mantained undead flesh alive! The silber had to be present in the solution, because it was also a preciated metal... The Alchemy is the only science which principal tool was superstition.

While he enters the room he grabs a leg from an undead cadavre near the door, that he was analyzing to know their anatomy. His first surprise came when he didn't find any organs ruling its organism. No stomach, no lungs... just black heart, because of the dry blood recovering it. He determined that the dry blood was because of the fast degeneration of the undead's body after its dead. After 10 hours their blood got totally dry, while 20 hours later there was no dry blood at all, because it vanished in the air. For this reason he put the broken leg of the undead into water for consrving the blood fresh.

After getting the blood out of the leg he achieves to get 20 ml of it. Remembering the percentages he gets out of the undead some drops more. Finally he reaches the correct percentage of undead blood. The piece of lead over the table breaks easily with Kain's sword, getting some little pieces of lead. He throws it into the recipient where the undead blood is starting to get dry. He can't find such a big piece of silver in his laboratory, but then the throws two rings made out of silver, while he thinks "For the glory of science!" hoping not to have wasted silver... Finally comes the main component: acqua forte. It's a latin expression which traduced means strong water.

In the norht lands of Colonies it was discovered by Sir Nobel, an outertilogian scientist. He tried to "burn" air, convinced that not just oxygen was there. A strange gas came out and quickly he got that into a tube. He burned it during hours and saw how it became liquid. He thought that it was a special kind of water and thought to taste it to look for new flavours. But before that his ring fell down from his finger.... luckily! He saw how this "water" destroyed the gold. It took him a while to accept how something could make gold soluble while it didn't destroy the glass of the bottle which contained it. That's why he called it "strong water". Or in latin acqua forte.

Finally he puts the acqua forte in the solution and waits... After half an hour of *very* uneasy waiting he gets bored and goes cleaning his hands after using the undead's leg.

"Damn dream! It gives me illusions... without success!" Kain gets angrier and angrier...

"Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!" he shouts while he grabs the soap he was washing his hand with and throws it to the pot of acqua forte. "HERE! HAVE THIS!!! DESTROY IT AND BE USEFUL!!!" shouts he to the pot.

He leaves his laboratory very angry and returns to his room thinking of any solution for the eternal question of getting gold from lead.

In the laboratory the complex solution with undead's blood continued wihtout reactioning... but the soap in the pot started bubbling slowly...

To be continued