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<span style='color:red'>Edit: * Got Homonculus? * (Isn't a homonunculus a homonculus' uncle?)</span>

I thought I'd pass along the good news from the Avendar Message Forum!

Originally Posted by <span style='color:tan'>Alchemy! Author: Jolinn Date: 10-21-05 19:32 So, as of tonight, we're releasing our alchemist class. The design for this class is in large part five years old, with modifications based on changes to Avendar in the interim and a modest helping of the salt of experience and the madness of age. Like the alchemical texts of the middle ages, I had copied my notes from one hard drive to another, preserving the flickering flame of their contents from one frail vessel to another, convinced that each library that it found its home in might be the last, until finally my design notes found harbor in Gmail, where they were preserved in the mind of some sort of proto technological God until I could convince the right people that we should implement them. My inspiration for alchemy arose from my background in physics and mathematics, both of which are disciplines which at times strive to codify the world in terms of a universal grammar. No, I didn't really design a formal mathematical system for alchemy, but I was driven by a desire for a system of magic that matched the physics of our own world. What's the crux of this idea? Imagine that the world of Aristotelian physics worked, and you could use it to produce magic. Imagine if the medieval alchemists were right, and you really could derive all there is to know of the world by mixing together certain elements. That's alchemy, and we hope you enjoy it.</span>

I would add that this was worth waiting five years for. With 830+ skills/spells in Avendar for alchemic works to draw from, alchemists for years to come will be discovering, creating and collecting recipes, as well as ferreting out and inferring the complex lore of elemental and platonic biases that underlies the system. In the words of the class coder, Raestral, "There are easter eggs buried a mile deep in this class."

Check out the details on the class here: http://avendar.com/alchemist.php

[Iacobos]

Just to scintillate, titillate, and otherwise interest-ate, here's the run-down for alchemists' skills. Note that you miiiight not get them all perfectly at 100%.

Cheers.
(see the website for the appropriate helpfiles - however, we are in the middle of a website revamp, so caveat websurfor)

Level 1: dagger 100%
mace 100%
staff 100%
sword 100%
discern magic 100%
Level 4: harrudim talc 100%
Level 6: poultice 100%
Level 7: parry 100%
Level 8: wands 100%
Level 9: haggle 100%
Level 10: meditation 100%
Level 11: staves 100%
Level 12: brew 100%
make 100%
Level 13: find items 100%
Level 14: smokescreen 100%
Level 17: dodge 100%
Level 19: second attack 100%
Level 20: mix 100%
apply oil 100%
Level 21: fast healing 100%
rynath's brew 100%
Level 22: boil 100%
Level 23: flash powder 100%
dissolve 100%
Level 24: pulverize 100%
create wand 100%
Level 25: dilute 100%
Level 26: distill 100%
Level 27: reforge 100%
Level 28: animate golem 100%
Level 30: trance 100%
delay reaction 100%
Level 35: caution 100%
Level 40: alchemic stone 100%
Level 42: create homonculus 100%
Level 51: concentrate 100%