Week 11 Unstable Sovrium

UNSTABLE SOVRIUM

by spectria.limina

METRICS
Cycles > Cost
Instructions > Cycles > Cost

> is used as an arrow and indicates tiebreaker order.

REAGENTS
Elemental Quintessence

PRODUCTS
Sovrium

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Vinel's alchemy team has given us a number of "fascinating" compounds in recent years, but sovrium is perhaps the most astounding. Not for its properties—although they are remarkable—but for the simple fact that they even tried to make it at all.

I, like most alchemists, won't work with a triplex bond without taking precautions. Keeping it properly stabilised. Not working in an enclosed space. Keeping the triplex-bonded fires safely away from other volatile atoms.

Sovrium could only be made by throwing all those precautions out the window, and praying that your limbs won't soon follow.

— Kered Haigh, excerpt from "Things I Won't Grab", Popular Alchemist, Vol. XLVII, p. 23

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download: OM2024Weeklies_UnstableSovrium.puzzle (where do i put this?)

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