Chemist
Closely guarded recipes, returning customers.
The highest-margin line on the station: mix, cut and finish product in a lab, then sell it to people who will come back for the same thing next week.
Recipes are the real capital of the trade. The Chemist start supplies lab equipment and a supplier who notices how much you buy, and the reputation that follows decides which buyers keep visiting the counter.
The chemist start is the only scenario that begins with a supplier who is actively keeping score. Chemistry rewards patience — a batch left unfinished is stock that cannot be sold, and stock that cannot be sold is a rent payment you have already spent.
Where the trade differs from water is repeat custom: the same buyer returns for the same product, so a clean batch protects tomorrow’s revenue as much as today’s price. Cutting purity for a quick sale is a loan against next week.
Counter protocol
- Chemistry is a chain of machine passes: extract, separate, finish.
- Measure purity before negotiating; buyers pay for what is in the bottle.
- One recipe mastered beats a shelf of half-learned ones.
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Where this comes from
Profitable chemicals depend on recipes that are not public.
“Profitable chemicals rely on closely guarded recipes.”
The cartel relationship is the chemist’s supplier channel and starts near a reputation threshold.
“Reputation of 25 with the cartel, your”
Caption as spoken (verbatim)
reputation of 25 with the cartel, your
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