What kind of experiments might Alchemy Department do? Preferably

>>50454399
As many and various as science can get at using real and fantastic ingredients, without being outright magical.

Unless your setting says that alchemy is magic, in which case you are doing magical science.

The point is Science.

>>50454399
Complain that the are on the same level as wizards.

>fucking potion peasents

>>50454399
>turning lead into steel - just think of the possibilities
>turning urine into nitrates for black powder in a new, much more efficient way

>>50454525
Propery Wizardry beats Alchemy every time lad. Who would you rather trust; the wise, intelligent one who can destroy with a mere thought? Or the gibbering, mumbling pillock with no eyebrows?

>>50454399
>taking wizards' heads out of their asses

>Preferably a stinky one.
Nah, you really want sticky.

>>50454399
Acid from captive slime monster plus plain old cotton cloth to wipe spills + fire = BOOM

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>alchemist requests the party to adventure for him
>In the caverns outside the city lies a Beholder. I need you to kill him and bring me his eye for... experiment.
>the next time you see him after delivering the eye, the alchemist is suddenly more attractive loking, like several years younger and with far fewer chemical burns
>alchemist successfully extracted beauty from the eye of the beholder