Alchemy problems

[aylad]

I don't know if this is a bug or just an annoying bit of programming, so I'll put it here.

Usually when you cast alchemy on a full cauldron you get one message like "the cauldron sparks" or "the cauldron shakes violently." Everything's nice and happy.

But from time to time, I get TWO messages like that with ONE casting, and then the cauldron is either A. empty, or B. contains slag -- even when the ingredients were perfect!

I just lost 14 phosphorus because it did it twice in a row when I was trying to make philosophical phosphorus!

If this is a bug, I'd like to get my phosphorus back (the stuff's expensive). If this is natural, would someone please change it? It hardly seems fair when we already have a chance of not identifying the finished product, and losing money that way....