week 0

[productions]

murder manor week zero



friday

[You wake in an unfamiliar bedroom, with no memory of how you came to be there and a sensation that something you once had is gone. The room you're in is luxurious and comfortable, but there is a musty feeling of disuse and decay in the air. Still, you've provided with new wardrobe perfectly tailored for you, a key ring that will unlock your bedroom door, so surely you're welcome to explore the manor?

Have a look around and make yourselves at home. You'll soon find you're not alone, but if any among you knows the secrets of this place, they aren't speaking.]

This is an open mingle log for arrival at the manor. Please put your character's name, location, and the time in the header of their comments. Characters are welcome to explore the manor and get to know one another; nothing else will be revealed to them today.

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[pandacea]

[Her look of confusion deepens.]

Huh? That doesn't make any sense. There's nothing magical about alchemy or alkahestry - it's just deconstructing and reconstructing an object's base components. If their scientists already figured out how atoms and chemical compounds react to each other, then developing a form of alchemy should have naturally come next.

[reunified]

[ Altman frowns slightly, brows knitting together. ]

Alchemy was early science, but it didn't accomplish anything solid besides laying the foundations for processes and equipment and so on. True science and medicine replaced alchemy, since alchemy was more... philosophical and spiritual and that sort of thing.

[pandacea]

[SHE IS SO LOST IN THIS CONVERSATION.]

No no, you've got it all wrong! It's only because we started fully understanding how atoms interacted with each other that alchemy and alkahestry was developed. Knowledge of composition is the first step in any alchemical transmutation - you can't decompose and recompose something if you don't know what it was made of and how it was linked together in the first place. There's nothing spiritual about it, other than the taboos you aren't allowed to commit.

[reunified]

[ WHY ARE YOU DISRESPECTING SCIENCE, CHILD. ]

...What are you talking about? Transmutation? Like lead into gold? Alchemy never accomplished that sort of thing, it just died out and was replaced by processes and logic that actually made sense.