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Cementing Process - Research into Unconventional Alchemy XXXII

Journal of Conrad Azohi - Day 1,372 after embarking

We are beginning to get comfortable in this place. While we may be prisoners, there is no animosity towards us. Even if they believe we may be spirits of a death land, the townsfolk treat us with kindness. Whenever a visitor from elsewhere comes, brandishes some manner of animosity towards us, the townsfolk push them out as though they were defending one of their own. They feed us, make clothing for us, and have even started including us in some of the celebrations they have during the nights.

I am unsure how to interpret these conflicting messages. I dislike being a prisoner a great deal, but my companions are taking well to the atmosphere of the town. I'm also becoming swayed to be comfortable here because I have become enamored in the work of the chemist I have befriended.

I have many entries to make, over the next few days. I want to record down a few pathways that the crystal precursor can be used. One in particular, which the chemist showed me yesterday, astonished me. I will note it when I reach that entry. However, it has made me realize that the technology of this mountain state may be on par with the imperial lands. I am ecstatic to be the first from the imperial lands to record it.

I will focus on some of the more interesting pathways present, beginning with the manner in which they produce the stone sheets that make up their homes.

The sweating putty that I described in my last entry is a precursor to the stone sheets. While the putty is still fresh, before it has sweated too much of the sticky liquid away, it is shaped into the desired shape, before being heated to red-hot temperatures and then quenched in a bath of water. The heat spreads the putty and the liquid compound evenly, and then the rapid drop in temperature fuses them together into a crystalline lattice. Thus, the sheet of putty becomes a sheet of stone.

Here, I'm recording a single unit of the crystal structure, and methods by which the two compounds present in the sweating stone are converted to this unit.