Alchemy at Station VIII (Guide)

Late Railway Content and Onwards

Ah, welcome to the Station near Factory VIII. You wish to know what are we doing here, yes? Well, most of it is confidential, but when did that ever stop you? Today I will explain the basics of chemical experiments on pure sentiments that we are conducting here, or, as I like to call it, Alchemy.

Introduction

When you arrive to Station VIII, you will find a few new opportunities present themselves. One of these opportunities is cooking food in a kitchen nearby. Another is the subject of this guide. While most of those reagents are not particularly useful, they provide access to three Tier 8 items. They also have applications in the above mentioned kitchen and other places.

Getting Started

In order to conduct experiments, you need to first find where they are conducted. Of course, the Overseer would not allow you to even come close to the place, so you need to sneak in after working hours and find the door in question yourself. You will also need Necessary Paperwork to pick up sentiments from Pinnock in London. Just follow the Station VIII storyline and you will get it eventually.

Mechanics

Making a reagent is as easy as one-two-three!

1. In Station VIII, get a permission to collect "the goods"
2. In London, meet with the Pinnock and acquire a sentiment
3. In Station VIII, transform the sentiment into a reagent

In total, you will spend 5 actions per reagent including travel time.

Table of Reagents

Sentiment	Reagent	Cost	Alternative reagent sources	One-time uses	Repeatable uses
Obliviscere Mori	Crystallised Euphoria	Free	A Transaction with Mr Fires Rip out the words (With Discordant Studies 1 and Steward 6) Sell an Exceptional Thesis to The Wistful Stoker WHITSUN Sell an Invigorated Pelagic Egg to De Gustibus	Fill in Parabolan Arnaments (increases Cultivator) Dedicate the Church to the Drummer Establish a route between Adulterine Castle and your Parabolan Base-Camp Upgrade your canteen to level 4	Prepare a Solacefruit Champagne Royale
Elation at Feline Oration	Oil of Companionship	x2 Antique Mystery x2 Consignment of Scintillack Snuff	A Transaction with Mr Fires Milking a Hellworm	Preach a doctrine of community in your Burrow Church	Dig up a Prismatic Frame in the St8tion
Vindication of Faith	Salve of Righteousness	x2 Direful Reflection x2 Comprehensive Bribe	A Transaction with Mr Fires Milking a Hellworm	Dedicate the Church to Saint Cecilia	Get 5x Holy Sanguinarine Ointment Get 130x Holy Sanguinarine Ointment Plead that your client has already repented
Exhilaration from Achieving Justice	Distillation of Retribution	x6 Bazaar Permit x6 Blackmail Material x6 Comprehensive Bribe x5 Legal Document x1 Parabolan Orange-apple	Milking a Hellworm	None	Get 1x Discriminating Aconite Get 126x Discriminating Aconite Bribe the opponent at court Sell at the Rat Market
Horrifying Confirmation that you were Right All Along	Concentrate of Self	x10 Touching Love Story x2 Favour in High Places x2 Searing Enigma x2 Nodule of Pulsating Amber	Milking a Hellworm Build all GHR statues of yourself for the first time Finish a Parabolan Campaign against yourself after completing any of the Ambitions	None	Several recipes in the Kitchen Making your own Myth-Moth
Unthinkable Hope	Powder of Renewal	22x Blackmail Material 5x Diary of the Dead 1x Dreadful Surmise 10x Tin of Zzoup 10x Tinned Ham	Ha! You wish	Open a daughter-church at Station VIII	Trade it for the Secret College

Other Alchemical Substances

There are a few other things falling under the purview of this guide. The first ones are Halcyonic Tonic and Fillip of Effervescence. You can get one of them at random by marking a crate during a tour. It costs 1x Extraordinary Implication and 3 actions.
You need both of these items to upgrade your canteen to level 4 and to progress the Watchful Gains storyline. Either of those can be sold on The Railway and the Great Game card with the Tonic giving you 200x Fistful of Surface Currency and 65x Well-Placed Pawn and the Fillip for 5x Knob of Scintillack. These are not great investments, but they let you recover some money and time spent on getting the item you don't need. Fillip of Effervescence can also be used for a Champagne Royale and Halcyonic Tonic can be sold to the Nonspecific Academic in University in London for 5x Dark-Dewed Cherry, 10x Hand-picked Peppercaps and 35x Jasmine Leaves.

Next up, we have Holy Sanguinarine Ointment(also obtainable from Gaider's Mourn) and Discriminating Aconite(available in the Prelapsarian Museum). These are only useful to craft A Tasting Flight of Targeted Toxins and obtain A Stalking Stone Shadow Beyond the Glass. Not much more to say.

Secret College (Obtainable via Powder of Renewal) is really good if you're a nerd who spends any time doing research in lab. Like, really really good. Seriously, it's the most useful T8 by a large margin. It's also a relatively convenient way to get an impossible theorem.

Cost Analysis

Crystallised Euphoria can be obtained for 5 actions or 3 actions + 3x Sworn Statement. The former is actually better because travelling between St8tion and London twice will net you 2x Rumour of the Upper River, so those 2 extra actions earn you 5 in addition to saving you 7.5.