Remove Alchemist class and associated skills/code

Alchemy has always been ridiculously broken and there's been a huge
amount of horrible code to support it. Sorry to any fans of
Alchemy, but it's got to go.

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-~~~~~01|Alchemist
-~~~~~02|Classes|Alchemist
-#####R=== Alchemists ===
-
-#####GDescription
-Alchemists are the only class that can harness the abilities of the 
-essences found in the dungeon. They can add these essences to staves, 
-rings, wands, rods, and sometimes weapons and armour to create new items
-or recharge old ones. They can also extract essences from magical items
-they find. Using these abilities, Alchemists can get very good items at
-low levels. The trouble is getting them to survive later on.
-
-Alchemists are extremely proficient with all kinds of magical devices,
-and have made a fine art of extracting, storing, and using these 
-objects' magical energies.  Because they neither fight well nor cast 
-powerful spells, Alchemists rely on their craftsmanship to cope with 
-the dangers of the dungeons.  They will quickly learn to create damage-
-dealing wands, rods, and staffs, forge powerful weapons and armour, 
-make highly useful objects of other kinds, and eventually, at great cost 
-to other knowledge, they can learn the perilous art of artifact creation 
-itself.
-
-#####GStarting Stat Modifiers
-Strength         -5
-Intelligence     +3
-Wisdom           +0
-Dexterity        +1
-Constitution     -2
-Charisma         +1
-Hit Die          +d0
-Spell Points     +0%
-Exp Penalty      30%
-
-#####GStarting Skills:
-#####BSkill                   Start Level     Skill Point Gains
-Combat                  1.000           [0.700]
-  Weaponmastery         0.700           [0.700]
-Sneakiness              1.000           [0.900]
-  Stealth               0.000           [0.400]
-Magic                   3.000           [0.900]
-  Magic-Device          1.000           [1.250]
-  Geomancy
-    Fire                0.000           [0.100]
-    Water               0.000           [0.100]
-    Air                 0.000           [0.100]
-    Earth               0.000           [0.100]
-  Meta                  0.000           [0.500]
-  Conveyance            0.000           [0.100]
-  Divination            0.000           [0.500]
-  Temporal              0.000           [0.100]
-  Mind                  0.000           [0.100]
-  Nature                0.000           [0.100]
-  Necromancy            0.000           [0.100]
-  Runecraft             0.000           [0.700]
-  Thaumaturgy           0.000           [0.100]
-  Alchemy               1.000           [0.800]
-Spirituality            1.000           [0.800]
-  Prayer                0.000           [0.500]
-Monster-lore            0.000           [0.500]
-
-*An Alchemist cannot learn the Geomancy skill, but it is shown in his skill 
-screen because the elemental schools are sub-skills of it.
-
-#####GInnate Abilities:
-#####BAbility              Character level
-Perfect casting             1
-
-#####GStarting Equipment
-An Alchemist begins the game with:
-    a Dagger
-    six Essences of Explosion
-    an Empty Bottle
-    a Set of Leather Gloves
-~~~~~03|Alchemist|Alchemy powers explained
-~~~~~05|Skills|Alchemy - Alchemy powers
-#####GAlchemy
-[[[[[BThe alchemical techniques are accessed using the 'm' key.]  
-Alchemists may then 'E'xtract essences or add 'P'owers. The Alchemist [[[[[vmust]
-be wearing GLOVES to use their alchemy powers.
-
-An Alchemist is also capable of [[[[[Bcreating their own artifacts], but
-this is a time-consuming, and costly, activity. To do so, he must first 
-learn the ability *****ability.txt*09[Artifact Creation], which costs a whopping 70 skill points
-to learn, and requires some high pre-requisites. Once he has done so, 
-he needs to imbue an ego item with a number of essences of magic (equal
-to their skill level) and then wield the item. While using the item, 
-it will gain experience (which reduces the amount of exp the wearer 
-gains during this time). When the Alchemist feels that the item is 
-powerful enough, he can finalise the artifact by "buying" powers using
-the experience the artifact has collected. He will also require exotic
-ingredients to add the abilities.
-
-Most (but not all) potions, scrolls, wands, staffs, rods, rings, and 
-amulets contain usable magical energies.  An Alchemist taps that 
-energy, using the technique "'E'xtract essences" to create one or more
-essences of a type appropriate to the original object.
-
-The drained object itself is now called "of nothing".  Unlike any
-other kind of object, it can have new magics added to it.
-
-An Alchemist can add power to such items by using essences he made or
-found.  He does this with the technique "'P'ower".  He can then select
-the object he wishes to enchant, and the kind of object he wishes to
-create. Only object types for which he knows the recipe will be displayed,
-and ones for which essences are lacking will be displayed in red. Objects
-whose level exceeds his own are sometimes difficult to create, though
-he can always add gold to improve the chances of his success.
-
-[[[[[BA few pointers:]
-     -Recipes are (usually) logical. Acid essences don't make Dragon 
-      Weapons. And you can always look at the recipes you know with
-      the "recipe 'B'ook" command.
-     -Not all objects or ego-item types can be made using alchemy.
-     -Alchemy is mostly reversible.  Most items that you can 
-      'E'xtract from, you can later re-create, if you learn about
-      them when extracting from them. You won't always get enough
-      essences from destroying an item to recreate it, though the 
-      chance of doing so will get higher as you increase in skill.
-     -*Identifying* an object that you can destroy will always teach
-      you how to create it (if creating it is possible).
-     -Since you can't create abilities in artifacts that you aren't
-      aware of, make sure to *identify* all the artifacts you can.
-     -You can't *identify* things you buy in shops, so you'll have
-      to extract from them and take your chances.
-
-[[[[[BSome Recipes:]
-Any Alchemist worth his salt knows lots of recipes.  By extracting from
-items in the dungeon, he learns to create more and more items. You can
-see the recipes you know using the "recipe 'B'ook" command. The Alchemist
-starts off knowing some basic recipes, and gains more recipes as time 
-goes on.
-
-More details can be found in the *****essences.txt*0[Essences SPOILER]).
-