Arcane Booze

[Janick Beauchamp]

"Perhaps a yellow alchemical crystal could make sense to you now"

Made of mead, of course. The hard part is pressurizing the mead and simultaneously heating it, she thought, while she proceeds to focus her efforts on pressurizing the mead into a lightsaber crystal-sized blob. With [member="Zesiro"] now watching how Janick was going around creating the crystal, starting with the mead in the glass, which turned into a cylinder-shaped raw crystal in time, after pressurizing its content; she could feel the crystalline structure changing as the proto-crystal heats up under pressure, very much like how artificial diamonds are created from coal, wood or even crunchy peanut butter, using what Griet and others in the business of mining engineering called HPHT (high-pressure, high-temperature). Once the yellow raw, chemically inert crystal is ready, and she feels confident that she can actually work it, cut it down to its facets so as to be usable in a lightsaber, and once the whole process of alchemizing a crystal was done, she could then give the crystal to Zes, hereby claiming the rain check, oblivious as to how Zes could have been a Sith while in GE service. She thus gives the crystal...

"There, try to get the yellow alchemized crystal into the lightsaber and make sure it actually comes out the yellow you intended it to be"

 

[Zesiro]

It was an idea Zesiro had not thought of and turning that mead into a crystal to replace her red one. The process was lost on her, but didn't feel interested in learning how to perform the skill. It wasn't something she could use in her day to day work.

She did observe the process that was done, but not the how. The results were amazing though and she could see through the glass of the jar as the crystal was formed. Watching as formed and condensed, when it was done, Janick handed the finished crystal to her and took the rain check back.

Taking her lightsaber off her belt, Zesiro would take it apart like she knew how to and replaced the red crystal inside with the yellow one that was made for her moments ago. Sliding it in and putting the saber back together, she stood up to give the new crystal a try.

The almost unfamiliar hum of the lightsaber filled the room and the blade glowed a dark yellow color that matched the mead it had come from.

[member="Janick Beauchamp"]

 

[Janick Beauchamp]

"I don't blame you for not wanting to learn how alchemy happens, but at least I'm satisfied that the crystal actually worked inside a real lightsaber"

Crystallography was hard work, and she knew [member="Zesiro"] would still have a lot to learn if she ever wanted her own alchemized crystals, since most alchemists began their careers in the field with either metallurgy or chemistry (and, more often than not, organometallics, which is a topic that she only got started to learn about when she got to crystallography). That, even though she knew that a few alchemists didn't know a whole lot about metallurgy or chemistry proper, and hence had limited knowledge to actually go around crafting what they had to do. I guess, I could have added cuprates to the mead if she wanted crystals that channeled lightning; it's in times like these where I should be grateful for all the knowledge I can actually hold, but at the same time, regretting not taking a certain course of action, she thought, while also being reminded of her very first artificial lightsaber crystals, which contained cuprates. Cuprates, oh cuprates, she wondered whether it was actually worth getting a supply of cuprates, whether the markup for the ability to channel lightning was enough to justify the cost of cuprates, knowing that mead and tihaar are much cheaper than cuprates.

"Goodbye, Zesiro"