About this story
Burned, and giddy at a discovery that turns matter into gold and power for London, you try to make your friend Lawson see the danger before a reporter and a stolen plate take the choice from your hands. Within a year, the War Office wants a demonstration with a hundred times the material, in a week.
How it opens
Rain traced the high laboratory glass while pumps clicked around a shielded bismuth sample.
Laboratory PorterDoctor Holsten, the night staff left two hours ago and asked me to lock up.
Your calculations predicted induced disintegration; the apparatus had disproved them for eleven months.
Laboratory AssistantOne final charge, Holsten, then sleep before error begins resembling courage.
Choose
Cut the current and drop the inner vessel into the sand pit.
Get behind the brick screen; the reaction is feeding itself.