Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20150722184854/@comment-5583506-20150811153650

"Do any of you know the main principles of alchemy?" he said. "It's pretty simple really. One cannot create something out of nothing. An alchemist can only create something from an equivalent matter. Let's say that you would like to create gold. Gold is a metal. That means that you would have to make use of another metal in order to create it. Some uneducated fools would like to believe that creating gold would be the greatest work ever achieved by man. But gold can't buy you everything in the world now, can it? There simply isn't enough time to achieve happiness for it."

Montinette rose up from the armchair and headed over to an unwashed window, gazing out on the streets below him. "But what if there was enough time? What if one could bring himself the opportunity of achieving whatever he wanted over a span of time he chose for himself?"

He glanced back at them. "The Great Work. The Magnum Opus", he said. "Is in fact the goal of achieving true immortality... Now, you would say that immortality already exists naturally in the world. And this is true. Vampires, for example. They are eternal, are they not? Until someone stabs a stake into their hearts. But have anyone of you ever asked a vampire how they would describe their own existence? I have. And believe me when I say that I pity them. They may live forever, but it is not a pleasant immortality. They can never walk in the bare sunlight again. They must feed on blood in order to survive and can never have another ordinary meal. They are forced to be outcasts and live in complete and utter darkness. Is that immortality? Is that what it is to live forever? It is. But it is not true immortality..."