Some alchemical projects are pure insight problems. You can spend an entire week exploring the search space to the best of your ability and find nothing, only for a stray comment to inspire you.

I shouldn't say pure insight, I suppose. It was an enormous pain thereafter, too. This local anaesthetic will be useful for the surgery to fix my headache. Goodnight, everyone.

- Alchemist Kazyan, /u/StillNotABrick