Entropy Dust Applications

[u/mauricejc]

Artificers and craftsmen in Tarrnakka make use of the entropy dust in a variety of different applications in a wide array of fields.

The surgeons and feldshers use a solution of aqvavit, vodka or any other distilled spirit with rose oil and/or honey and different concentrations of entropy dust to quickly cool down flesh wounds, to clean wounds, suppress infection, rapidly cool damaged flesh, and constrict the blood vessels around an injury, slowing severe bleeding. At higher concentrations, the solution can deliberately freeze tissue, which the surgeons use to destroy diseased growths or cauterize damaged areas. The surgeons are used to saying “better frostbite than death” and they apply that principle very liberally. The entropy dust solution can also be used to reduce inflammation and body temperature or prevent heatstroke or to slow down the venom's spread, giving the feldsher more time to administer an antidote or remove the affected tissue. The use of this medicine can, in rare occasions, have severe side effects like irreversible liver and kidney damage, limb necrosis, blood rot and different cancers but those take longer to develop and the risks can be somewhat mitigated with good aftercare. The specific formulas and ingredient ratios are a closely guarded secret of the alchemy and medical guilds and the supply of the raw ingredients is tightly controlled. Tarrnakkan military has the legal priority to acquire those ingredients in bulk quantities and they keep stockpiles of those ingredients to be able to rapidly increase production in times of need.

In recent history, some tobacco and smokeleaf growers began adding small amounts of entropy dust to their products. Entropy tobacco and hemp quickly became fashionable among Tarrnakkan sailors and soldiers, who prized the sharp coldness it left in the throat. Surgeons and feldschers warned that prolonged use could damage the lungs, but the warnings did little to diminish its popularity and the Guild of Leafwrights worked hard to promote its use as a symbol of freedom, funding studies to paint foreign unadulterated tobacco and hemp as poison while Tarrnakkan ones as cleaner because the entropy dust has sterilizing qualities and helps you out on a hot day.

Why settle for raw leaf when you can have pure Tarrnakkan Golden Leaves? “Tarrnakkan Golden Leaves™, It’s Entropied!”

Seeing the success of entropy dust smokeables and a rapid growth of newly established entropy dust consumables market, Tarrnakkan guilds began a rapid drive to experiment with them and to put new entropy consumables to the market. Some of the upcoming products include entropy sugar, entropy candy and sweets, entropy ice cream, entropy milkshakes, entropy pastries and entropy liquor.

“Tarrnakkan Entropy Goods™ - Live Cold. Live Free.”

Entropy dust-based coolants and salts can be enclosed in brass, silver or lead to create temperature-controlled and insulated containers that can keep whatever is inside them fresh, refrigerated or frozen for as long as the entropy-based chemical inside isn't all used up. This is particularly useful to transport luxury products, meat or fish, as a standalone rechargeable appliance in homes of the wealthy or in community and/or guild halls where each member of the community gets a small portion of the internal space to store their own goods. Entropy dust can also be used in specially designed chambers altho those quickly become prohibitively expensive when the room becomes decently sized so its mostly used for military and government purposes and for commercially essential cold storage.

[u/OceansCarraway]

The marketing jingles and riffs for this stuff have to be absolutely nuts.