So it's been a few months. I'm beginning to figure out a few basic "rules," if we can call them that. This Stuff behaves like nothing I've ever learned about in any chemistry class I've ever been in. Granted, I was a biology major, so my focus was organic chemistry, but what I do know is that there are four states of matter, and you need to add or take away energy to get substances to switch, like adding energy to water to vaporize it and taking away energy to freeze it.
But no matter what I do, this Stuff has a mind of its own, and it takes on a new state of matter at seemingly random times. Today I found a Bunsen burner in the abandoned lab and tried to heat up the stuff; after about 10 minutes of my holding it right over the flame with a pair of calipers, it froze solid, taking on a near-perfect hexagonal prism shape. It changed back and forth between liquid and solid for the next hour before turning into a gas and changing colors. Oh yeah. When I first found it, the Stuff was red. Now it's purple.
I'm gonna keep messing with this Stuff until it kills me. With all the people hunting me, I'm gonna die anyway; I might as well make it fun.
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Xychronium
Science Fiction"Do not, under any circumstances, open this box." What kind of person sees that and doesn't immediately get the burning curious urge to do exactly the opposite? If anything, whoever wrote this warning is at fault for what I did. Now I regret my deci...
