>>6144011Action 1: Alchemy Laboratory (Construct on the X)
Hohenholm originally was nothing but a jumped up laboratory, expanding into a fully fledged capital city as an unending tide of Homunculi spilled out from its crucibles. Now we must re-engineer the city, so much of our oldest research buildings have already been transformed into dormitories or meeting chambers or simply fallen into disrepair.
A new alchemy quarter is designed from the ground up. Classrooms and libraries are made for lectures to be delivered and all our written alchemical knowledge to be collected, copied and loaned out to students and experts alike.
No expense is spared on the convoluted and precise apparatuses that go into the various new laboratories that are constructed across the city, where new experiments may be performed following on from what the Masters were able to accomplish before their departure.
Much of the common everyday work in these new facilities is reagent preparation, sorting reagents by potency and dividing them into perfectly portioned measurements to be used in further alchemy.
Areas are dedicated to the research and understanding of the Crucibles themselves, those arcane machines that give us life. Not all of the crucibles are functional, and those in a state of disrepair allow incredible insights into the inner workings of these machines.
Aside from the incredible research potential offered by these new Labs, the laboratory will allow our potions to be made more accurately, with finer quality control and thus greater potency.
Action 2: Potion Brewery (Construct on the triangle)
Across the river a massive potion brewing complex is established. Great steel vats and complex glassware and maze-like networks of flowing tubes and spiralling pipeworks, filtration columns and steam-machines and boiling pots and so much more can be found here. There can be no doubt that this site is fully equipped to produce industrial quantities of whatever arcane potion the Vitruvians may desire.
Regular shipments of prepared reagents are expected from the Hohenholm laboratory across the river, where they are then mixed, crushed, dissolved in water, burnt and the smoke collected, vaporised, infused into resin or any other number of bizarre steps. Those operating the brewery equipment are not experts in the craft of potion brewing, indeed many of them only know enough to follow the instructions given and what to do if something goes wrong. Even so, the infrastructure here allows vast amounts of potion to be produced accurately and in a standardised units and concentrations.
All our previous alchemical successes will seem small compared to what this institution is able to produce, the quality and quantity of our alchemy boosted massively in such a short time.
