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| Action Id: 1435 | Crisis: | Participants: Valery | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: Nov. 25, 2017, 5:44 p.m. | Public: True | GM: Pax |
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Action by Valery
Valery is upgrading her smoke bombs. She's adding pigments to her mixture of saltpetre, baking soda and sugar to get colorful smoke. She's trying with different colors: red, yellow, green and blue.
Result
It's an unusual mixture that Valery comes up with, and it's entirely by mistake.
She starts out simply enough, working with the formula until her smoke is a deep crimson red. Unfortunately, the red smoke seems to highly irritate the eyes as well, and so when she begins working on the yellow pigment her eyes are still a bit watery. It's a bit careless, really, but with her vision still blurred she grabs the wrong vial for her mixture and doesn't even notice until it's too late.
What she produces as a result is unlike anything she's previously seen: the cloud of gas isn't dark and smokey, but rather a cloud of glimmering light. It takes almost ten minutes to diffuse, and it casts her entire workshop in bright, clear light as it does so. Stunning, really. It takes another few days of tries -- and waiting until her eyes have cleared -- before she gets the mixture exactly right to reproduce her fortuitous accident. The substance seems to activate immediately upon mixture, making it difficult to store for later use, but it's still stunning.
Yet something about the quality of the light seems familiar; the more Valery looks at it, the more it reminds her of the alchemical street-lamps of Arx, the ones that have been around for longer than anyone can remember. Could it be that she's stumbled on a variant of the gas used in those?