Jr smiled, "<i>Very observant, the mercury is a Tanser. An unnatural Tanser, corrupted by the substance. Its a lethal chemical, and kills the body, rots the mind and makes madmen. Mad Hatters originated from the substance and caused a lot of problems in the LUC, ahhh back when I was a trapper. Anyway, you are right, the Mercury is indeed the problem. This Tanser is fueling the blizzard and that is what allowed the river to freeze. The beast is romping around in this darkness right in the Silverwood valley. The source it's looking for is more fuel to more blizzards. A mercury well that was too dangerous to move, and that is how we'll kill it. It wants the substance but much like Jade the touch is what it's after. Mercury is a very interesting metal as it mostly remains in a liquid state, but that is poisonous to the beast, hence why it must be cold. We're going to give it to the beast hot." </i>Jr smiled as he looked to Kryner and Del,<br/>"How exactly are we gonna do that? It's kinda cold out there."<br/>"<i>Lithium. Its a soft buttery metal, but it melts and burns to water even in the air. We're going to use the lithium in my old ladies's hubbies' packing sticks. He was an old demolition in the army, and he's got some boxes of it still on the shelf from his surplus in the garage</i>."<br/><br/>Kryner knew his Papa was in the army but he didn't know that was what he did, "Interesting, alright we'll have to venture back out there... but it's so late and I'm dead tired." Kryner had to admit and didn't know if he'd be able to go on like this and venture through the cold to find this stuff running on fumes.