Editing Gilkey (section)

==Chronology==
===Before the story===
A group of [[Alchemy|alchemists]] had tried to work together to improve how alchemy was practiced before eventually turning on one another.<ref>Twenty years ago, there had been a group of alchemist enclaves working together in this area of Ontario.  They’d heralded themselves as more rational, more clever, their practice one of the ones closer to ''science''.  They had shared goals more often than others.  So they’d work together.<br><br>Then the backstabbing, the warfare, the stolen ideas, the individuals who crossed lines.  Creating alchemical constructs that preyed on innocents, chimeric life, augmenting themselves as [[Hyde]]s, only to spiral like most Hydes did.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.z]]</ref> One of these alchemist either made a mistake or was sabotaged whilst working on something in their garage. Gilkey isn't certain of all the details what happened<ref>There was a story here and he’d resigned himself to never getting the full story.  The evidence had been scoured away.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.z]]</ref> but the house and the area around it was permanently poisoned by the accident, everything inside transmuted, only contained due to hastily set up wards.<ref>Gilkey remembered the grief, the desperate setup of the wards before his brain had turned into gelatin in his skull.  Wards to keep people away and keep the poison contained.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.z]]</ref> A women and her baby and a young child had died as a result, as did their pet dog.<ref>He stopped by a gelatinous mass.  Faint white shapes in the gelatin spelled out the skeleton of the dog it had once been.<br><br>...<br><br>In the bedroom, two skeletons in their own gelatin, the line between body and what had once been sheets impossible to discern.  Both were translucent, both melted like candle wax over the mattress and the wood that had framed it.  One skeleton was a woman.  The other was the child she’d held to her chest as the poison had made them too weak.<br><br>...<br><br>In the living room, a child turned their head to look at him with holes in a gelatinous head, two for the eyes, one for the mouth.  The flesh had dissolved and blended into the half-ring of toys around them.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.z]]</ref>

===Modern day===
He had been operating the way he had for something like two decades ago.

He was sent to investigate [[Maricica]] for the Lord of Thunderbay, she managed to trick him into trying to destroy the [[Primeval|primodial beast]] that was following her.

While he was held within for weeks he failed in his task.
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