Oh no! I’ve lost my Alchemist’s Cookbook! I’m not sure I can remember how to make things without it.
I’ve got a few things in my lab and maybe they’ll help me remember.
I know if I grind up some titanium and manganese and mix it together it turns into silver – great!
And I tried mixing some fluorine and sodium but all I got was this chalky substance – well maybe I can use that to write down recipes on my blackboard so I don’t keep forgetting them.
But I’ve noticed that when I heat or cool things it all goes a bit bonkers. For example, when it got a bit stuffy in my lab I mixed some nitrogen and hydrogen I got some nice fresh oxygen, but then when heated it up it turned into sulphur and stank the whole place out!
And when I mixed some iodine and phosphorus I got some erbium, but when I chucked it in the freezer overnight I woke up to find nothing but cadmium in my icebox.
Oh I just don’t know what to do about this – I don’t understand it. I need to find my Alchemist’s Cookbook. If I help you make a compass can you help me locate it please? I can at least remember how to do that. Here are the ingredients to make the compass materials:
COMPONENT #1
First take some of that chalky stuff I made earlier and mix it with some helium and copper. That’s the first compass component made. Easy!
COMPONENT #2
Then take some titanium and some nitrogen and mix them together. Then heat the mix. Once it’s hot remember to cool it down again by sticking it in the freezer, otherwise you’ll burn your fingers. Once it’s cooled that’s the second component done.
COMPONENT #3
Next mix some rhenium with some thorium, then heat it up. Once the result is off the boil and back to room temperature mix in some boron and chromium. And then finally heat the whole lot again to make the component you need.
COMPONENT #4
Onto the next stage. Get some more of that chalky stuff. Chuck it in the freezer. Can you see what happens as it cools?!? As if by magic! You’ve made a new element! Let’s call it Magicum!
COMPONENT #5
Next get some phosphorus, carbon and fluorine. Mix it all together, and then put that in the freezer too. That’s that component finished.
COMPONENT #6
Finally, the most difficult component to make – here we go.
First of all you need to find some…er...oh dear...it’s on the tip of my tongue…oh I don’t believe this – I’ve forgotten!!! You know the stuff I’m thinking of – you need to be quick about it because it’s only got a short half life – about 8.3 hours. Anyway, get some of that. Mix it with some iridium but do it quickly. Take the resultant mixture and heat it up. Then take it off the boil and allow it to come back to room temperature. Add some boron and some of that smelly stuff I made earlier. Then chuck what you’ve made in the freezer. Once it’s cooled, take it out and add some Magicum. Then, blast it with some heat and we’re done!
I really hope you can make my compass and use it to find my Alchemist’s Cookbook!
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