say welcome to the first of a series of theory-based lectures around the alchemist profession.

say While I am grateful to you all for your attendance I ask you entertain a certain etiquette.

say A few simple requests to be observed so I may keep focus for the brief amount of time this presentation will take :)

say please refrain from excess fiddling, speaking or lewd acts during proceedings. If you need to leave please do so as quietly as possible

emote smiles brightly and claps her hands together.

say Good! Now with that out of the way, let us start

Say as you know, this lecture is about a theory I have developed which had been named quite unimaginatively, "Theory of prime propagation"

say this theory I created to answers some of the questions I asked myself after I
learnt how to extract and began to roam the mountain ranges stuffing my rift with
primes like...

emote suddenly stills, disparate eyes glancing back and forth as if searching for
something

say ...uh... :?.

say *uncertainly ... an alchemist stuffing their rift with primes

say witty and humourous analogies are not my forte. Fortunately for you there will be no more attempts :(

emote awkwardly clears her throat and regains some of her former vigour

say Anyway..those questions were along the lines of : Why can I not sit in the one spot and continuously extract the same prime over and over again? Why, once an area is extracted, new primes appear after a period of time? Why can I not just dig up primes?

say *quietly my proposed theory has a very simple one with a very familiar basis.

say *quietly Seeds.

nod

set voice louder

say seeds! Or, seeding minerals to be exact

set voice CLEAR

say deep in the rocks of the mountains, of the caves and caverns, exists groups of 'prime seeding minerals'. These seeding minerals are not the primes themselves and they are not affected by the solvents we were given by our alchemist tutors to extract with.

say the process in which primes propagate from the seeding material is a cyclic process so forgive me if it is not completely clear until the end.

emote gives a small, but violent flick of her wrist, and pellet of black ink appears in her previously empty hand.

say I will start with start, end and most familiar stage : Extraction

emote draws a thick, black line between herself and the audience ++ kneeling down,

Say this line will represent the top of the ground, the space between it and you is the earth.

say  I will need three volunteers to represent the three types of seeding minerals.

emote purses lips her lips in thought

tmote points at $name, declaring loudly "Salt."

tmote points at $name, declaring loudly "Mercury."

tmote points at $name, declaring loudly "Sulphur."

say The three of you, please sit about two steps in front of the crowd.

nod

say Solvents are poured onto the ground and the prime is forced to the surface in which it is collected. I do not think I need to elaborate on this further other than to say that in the soil now exist two vital players in this theory.

say the seeding primes...

emote gestures towards the seated three.

say ... and the solvents.

emote gives another flick of her wrist, and pellets of blue, red and yellow ink appears in her previously empty hand. Crushing them, places each one on the black 'surface' line and blows gently.

emote 's breath, the crushed ink begin to swirl ever so slightly before sending out intertwining tendrils of dust that slowly creep towards the seated volunteers. ++ In response to

say The three solvents are now work their way down into the rock until it comes into contact with the seeding minerals, at which the next stage is initiated

say Growth


say The solvents that come into contact with the seeding prime are now catalyzed and spontaneously solidify. This solidification causes a chain reaction to occur.

say The solidified material promote the solidification of the solvents around it, and these new materials promotes the solidification of the solvent around it... and so on and so forth until all of that particular solvent has solidified.

tmote gives a small gesture towards $name

say to *name Mercury seeding mineral, would you please come into contact with the mercury solvent represented by the blue powder??

emote 's features as she subtle moves her hand. Originating from the point of contact like ripples in a pond, the powder falls to the floor to form a spacious web of thin, blue lines ++ A small frown crosses

say Now, salt please touch the yellow, and sulphur the red.

emote repeats the actions and the powders fall into their own thin lines, forming an intertwined network of blue, red and yellow.

say Now all the solvent has been changed into what I have dubbed "unmatured primes" and the growth ceases. At this stage they are still unaffected by our solvents.

say The next stage is maturation, the step in which the unmature primes change to become reactive to our solvents.

say Does any alchemist in the room know what specific time this is??

*wait*

say Midnight, exactly. When the moon is at it's zenith.

say Maturation occurs when the moon's affects on Sapience are the strongest and directly overhead. At this point the unmature primes take on another structural change, they become what we commonly call primes and are susceptible once more to our solvents.

emote waves her hand grandly over the network of colours. A brief and nearly imperceptible shudder in the air is the only suggestion that something has occurred.

say Then we are back at the beginning stage, extraction. An alchemist comes along and pours their solvents onto the ground. The now mature prime is pulled out of the rock, collected and the alchemist moves on.

emote kneels once more and presses three fingers onto the black surface line. She inhales deeply, the inks quickly flow across the floor without regard for the others to paint individual her fingers separate colours.

say And so on and so forth...

emote  smudges and removes the ink leaving her hands clean. ++ passing her red,
blue and yellow fingers beneath her other hand,

say that's the basics of my theory explained in detail, but I will give a brief recapturing of the important concepts

say Extraction : the addition of solvents to the ground and the removal of mature primes.

say Growth : the solidification of the excess solvent catalysed by contact with seeding minerals to produce unmature primes

say and Maturation : The change of unmature primes to mature, harvestable primes by influence of the moon at it's apex.

emote smiles and bows fluidly to the three sitting on the floor

say Thank you to my seeding primes.

That is my "Theory of Prime Propagation"

say Comments and questions are now welcome.