1.Reagents (Days 1-2)
Hybrid black flowers + "special hay" from the stable + cellar base wine
The dark side: The hay relates to the horse's health — the horse is gone on day three.
FILE DIARY-03
Alchemy & the Recipe
Flower genetics, the elixir, the price of the recipe.
Flower Genetics Table
| Cross | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Red × White | Pink (100%) | Classic incomplete dominance. All F1 hybrids are pink. |
| Pink × Pink | Red 25% / Pink 50% / White 25% | Segregation. Stable reds need two generations of selfing. |
| Gold × Any | Gold 50% | Gold is dominant but homozygous-lethal — gold × gold always fails. One of the recipe's dark jokes. |
| Black × R/W/P | Black 75% | Black is super-dominant. The final recipe reagent — and the second-hardest puzzle. |
| Black × Gold | Black 40% / Gold 40% / ? 20% | The 20% "?" is the hidden white mutation — a second-run achievement. See Achievements. |
The Four Stages
2.Prep (Night 2)
Moon-dried petals; boiling to the exact schedule
The dark side: The moon symbols are literal moon phases — completion requires a specific phase. Ritual, not chemistry.
3.Synthesis (Day 3)
The cellar apparatus; the final ingredient goes in
The dark side: The final ingredient "concerns" the servant (deliberately vague). The three readings diverge exactly here.
4.Completion
A golden elixir AND a black cube are produced
The dark side: Cubes are memory vessels (saga canon). The elixir for the body, the cube for the soul. The family collects both.
★ Editorial: the genetics ARE the ending explained
Gold: dominant yet homozygous-lethal. Black: super-dominant. Translated: the closer to the recipe's core, the higher the price and the less self-sustaining. The "perfect" recipe is biologically doomed. Not puzzle design — thesis statement.
“Took three sites to piece the flower genetics together. Then I realized the genetics themselves foreshadow the ending — nobody spoiled me. Mendel did.”