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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mercury to silver is an easy transformation. You just take a vial of quicksilver, and make it run laps until it's really tired.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But that's not all that useful, since it's not stable and will turn soon into quickersilver

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That's why you break mercury's legs instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

While this may work short-term, eventually you'll end up with a bunch of quickersilver, which is much harder to convert. While it's a bit more work, I find the conversion from mercury to improvised cudgel is an easier transformation so long as you perform it in locations already high in gold content. Do note that this is a potentially volatile and dangerous reaction.