The Alchemist’s Debt

A modern chemist tests his serum of life on himself and wakes up as someone else entirely: a broke, drunk village alchemist with an angry wife and a blacksmith arguing over what they thought was his corpse. The mismatch between his brain and his new life is the joke, and the debt collectors don't care whose brain it is.

Waking up doesn't fix anything. The shack is filthy, the village chief wants money he doesn't have, the neighbors think he's a joke, and the wife he inherited didn't sign up for whoever's actually running the body now. He has to figure out the trade, work off the debts, and change what the village thinks of him without any of the modern lab or funding he's used to relying on.

Play centers on managing that fall from grace: scraping together coin, dealing with the people around him day to day, and slowly turning distrust into something else. Expect the small-village cast to notice him in ways that go beyond debt collection, with the usual mix of teasing and being watched more closely than he'd like.