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Chemistry/Bastet/Guide
Bastet Exploratory Chemistry Guide
This is an informal guide to the kind of exploratory chemistry we're going to be doing for a while in Bastet. There are other useful chemistry guides for when we've actually got some of the numbers figured out.
Equipment and Skills
In order to participate in Essence Chemistry, you will need the Advanced Chemistry 2 skill. You'll also need a Chemistry Lab which has been upgraded with an alcohol lamp and essential macerator. Installing 5 pieces of well-calibrated glassware is a big help.
As consumables, for basic essence distillation, you'll need a large quantity of different types of Spirits, as well as 50db or more of any source material you want to test.
Essences, Essential Compounds and Extracts
There are three main types of products in Essence Chemistry:
- Essences, produced by distillation, are the basic feedstocks of the process
- Essential Compounds are formed by combining 5 different essences
- Extracts are made by using an essential compound that meets a set of random requirements
What we Need to Research
Essences may be made from Herbs, Metal Salts, Pheromones, Resins, and Marble Dust. Each Essence has different properties.
There are two things we need to learn about each essence:
- The correct temperature for distillation
- The value, from -3 to 3, of each of the eight properties of the essence (Aromatic, Astringent, etc.)
To find the temperature, we perform test distillations of the source material. Each test consumes 10 spirits and 10 db of the material, so you'll likely need about 50 db of each to successfully test.
