These Dark Alchemists work towards completion of THE WORK. But what even is THE WORK? And why does it involve turning people into inflated balloons? Don’t ask the kobolds, or their managers, or upper management. They don’t have answers. They just do their work for the machine. To create THE WORK. Any costs necessary.
To complete THE WORK it is important to have an excess amount of potions and potion extracts. There is an ingredient which is capable of multiplying potions. Called Fools’ berry by the common folk, it is more properly known as Alchemists’ berry. It is a legendary fruit which when properly extracted and filtered, can be mixed with any potion to multiply it. But how does one activate a potion? Ah, yes. There is an essential component to the equation.
To activate a potion, someone must drink it. This is why the ingredient is called the Fools’ berry by the common folk. A village fool might stumble across the glowing berries and eat some. They’ll have to be rolled back home unfortunately… And juiced. In this image here you see one being siphoned.
Anyways, these dark alchemists will take particularly productive subjects and integrate them into the workings of their machinery. A productive potion converter/multiplier will likely be stuck as an inflated balloon, broken down to little more than a cog in the machine. And worst of all? They might even enjoy it…
