[Dragonmail] Artemis

[firecracker_hopping]

[So on Sunday evening, Artemis finds a bunch of stuff delivered to his house by dragonmail: 15 slime hearts sealed in jars, 20 bear stomachs in glass cases, two wooden cases of firewater, five sealed pitchers of waterfire, and six bottles of a green gas called forest vapor.]

[And a note.]

Rest assured, the bears were very angry.

I trust this will suffice for the fuel?

Comments

[graveyardmoon]

[What is all this even.]

Pardon?

[firecracker_hopping]

I sent you an inquiry about making synthetic fuel for rockets yesterday morning by text message. These are the materials you asked for?

[graveyardmoon]

I must regretfully inform you that my phone was stolen during an excursion to Bastan on Friday.

I am not the one who requested these materials.

[firecracker_hopping]

What.

So these materials are useless.

[graveyardmoon]

That does depend on what you wanted done with them.

Slime hearts are a primary ingredient in several Saftan delicacies.

[firecracker_hopping]

I... I wanted you to make fuel for rockets. As in the sort that would be launched into space.

[...]

...what sort of delicacies?

[graveyardmoon]

Ah, yes, they are quite useless for that.

The sort you might expect from slime hearts.

Why are you launching rockets into space?

[firecracker_hopping]

I'm going to have words with whoever got your phone and sent me on a wild goose chase.

We'll need to be able to get our own satellites up eventually. Long-range communications rely on them, so it would be best if we had the ability, rather than hope nations we can't reach or talk to do so. It's a long-term problem, but no harm in thinking about it.

[graveyardmoon]

[brb googling satellites and rockets and all that shit she just talked about]

I see.

That seems a rather complex matter. If your intent is purely the synthesis of fuel for existing rocket designs, that's merely a question of finding the correct formula for brewing. That would require a sample to work from.

However, it seems as though in the long run it would be more effective to design a completely different sort of rocket that utilizes alchemy more efficiently. That would require quite a bit of research.

[firecracker_hopping]

That's a good idea. Better than trying to retrofit any rockets we can find, for certain.

I'll have to tell the Khshathra. Do you want to be on the project? It won't take too much of your time, I think.

[graveyardmoon]

[ehhh he's got this other major project he's working on right now tho]

[...but it is a chance to learn more Earth tech, and the idea of getting things into space seems fascinating...]

Yes.

[firecracker_hopping]

Glad to hear it. I'll mention it to her.