This stuff is... well, odd. Handy to have, but odd.
Generally speaking, Heaven doesn't have pollution
issues. The very idea is considered a
bit perverse. If Heaven is anything,
it's clean; the only messes allowed are appropriate ones. Inappropriate ones are dispatched with all
due haste. Therefore, theoretically
there wouldn't be any, say, permanent residue left over from the creation of
Vessels; it would simply be miracled away by the appropriate agencies. Indeed, for quite some time this was in fact
the standard procedure. However, the
Archangel of Lightning is always ready to experiment with interesting
materials, and the aforementioned residue certainly qualified. A good bit of fiddling and prodding
eventually resulted in a luminescent goop that was pseudo-stable on the
corporeal plane, yet completely invisible to mundane eyes.
The usefulness of this can be easily seen, if one
will pardon the pun.
Corposant was first mostly used for its
light-emitting properties, but it was soon discovered that the goop made for a
fairly decent invisible ink, provided that you were only trying to hide secrets
from mortals. Many Tethers use
Corposant ink for their essential paperwork and wall signs. Archangel Michael's organization also uses
it in its training exercises as a variant to paintballs; it did not take long
for someone to realize that a paintball load that is both invisible and
undetectable by humans would be useful in surveillance operations.
And, when all else fails, it doesn't taste half
bad. One dose of it will keep a regular
human going for two or three days, although it's recommended that nobody try
living on it for too long. Roughage,
and all that.
Generally speaking, Corposant comes in standard one
pint bottles. The stuff is sufficiently
bright that one dose can 'illuminate' a standard-sized living room at night
(provided, of course, that the viewer has Symphonic Awareness). It can also be applied to physical surfaces
(one bottle is barely enough to cover the average human completely); mundanes
will not be able to sense Corposant, but celestials will. Angels find Corposant soothing and demons
find it irritating, but neither get any sort of bonus or penalty for contact.
Cost: 5 per six-pack.