Anataeus (Shabby): Before you ask, no, this gin is not because I am taking things poorly. It’s for alchemy.
Concordia (Shabby): I wasn’t about to ask.
Anataeus (Shabby): It’s a rather brilliant scheme, actually! I’m going to isolate individual elements from the alcohol.
Anataeus (Shabby): It’s essentially the reverse of the process I used earlier, when—
Concordia (Shabby): Anataeus?
Anataeus (Shabby): Yes?
Concordia (Shabby): Don’t ever give up alchemy.

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Anataeus (Shabby): This is definitely doing things the hard way. But, oddly, it’s kind of fun.
Concordia (Shabby): Good thing there’s plenty of cheap alcohol to be found around here.
Anataeus (Shabby): Unfortunately, alcohol only gets us part of the way. We need base metals, too.
Concordia (Shabby): Securing a large quantity of metal without raising questions? That’ll be far more difficult.
Anataeus (Shabby): We’ll have to come up with some kind of plan.
Concordia (Shabby): I have some ideas.