Pocket Stories of Grand Adventure, Arch 1: The Alchemist's Dilemma The Private Hart Academy for Alchemic Arts is where all true alchemists yearn to go. It is where the one true goal of life (so they claim) is pursued, to distill the chaos aether of the word into the ever golden Elixir of Life. Thousands apply, only the already powerful get in. Vettie has taken an oath of service to the Academy and works in it's halls as a maid. When she receives a Request to clean an upper floor laboratory, she is pulled into a race for immortality, where there are many players, but only one winner.