Alchemy at Station VIII (Guide)

Late Railroad 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 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
		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 p] 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
			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
			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
			Milking a Hellworm	None	Get 1x Discriminating Aconite Get 126x Discriminating Aconite Bribe the opponent at court
			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
			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 and . You can get one of them at random by marking a crate during a tour. It costs 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 and and the Fillip for . 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 , and .

Next up, we have (also obtainable from Gaider's Mourn) and (available in the Prelapsarian Museum). These are only useful to craft and obtain . Not much more to say.

(Obtainable via ) 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.

Cost Analysis

can be obtained for 5 actions or 3 actions + . The former is actually better because travelling between St8tion and London twice will net you , so those 2 extra actions earn you 5 in addition to saving you 7.5.