Alchemy (Dark Jazz)

Alchemists working at TL5 or higher enjoy the benefits of modern laboratory equipment and procedures. In a TL5+ professional-grade laboratory that provides at least a +1 bonus or greater, a skilled alchemist enjoys the following benefits:

• Recipe costs are reduced by 30%. (Retail costs are unaffected.)

• Time required to produce any non-secret (common retail cost less than $1000) elixir is reduced by half. Round up half-days.

• Alchemist can batch produce up to Skill x TL doses without the usual -1/dose penalty, provided enough raw ingredients for the recipe are available.

Example: Love potion (M 219) normally costs $600 per dose and requires 3 weeks to process. In a TL5+ laboratory the recipes costs are reduced to $400 per dose and the time required halved to 11 days. An alchemist with skill 16 may batch produce up to 112 doses Love potion in the lab without any penalty - assuming the alchemist has the $44,800 in ingredients.