The Facility of Fatality

Six-dozen years prior, the gold-barons of the South had recruited and sponsored a collection of alchemists and philosophers. Dually under patronage and coercion, these fine minds were kept in a purpose-built and heavily guarded facility where they toiled in matters of ‘natural science’. Of course, when pressed for the breakthroughs that would launch the cities of the South into a new golden age, t…