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add touchstone information to mythos.

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@@ -192,6 +192,30 @@ Orcrist, Sting Tolkien
Magicbane loosely based on the magic knife "Carnwennan"
in "The Coming of the King" by Nikolai Tolstoy
Grayswandir Corwin's sword in Roger Zelazny's Amber saga
touchstones A touchstone in real life was historically used
to judge the quality of a supposed sample of gold.
Different purities of gold rubbed on a stone leave
different colors/intensities streak. The term
"touchstone" is still in use by analogy for something
that helps you judge the value of a thing.
The basic operation is this: a touchstone is a kind
of Gem that can be applied. Applying the touchstone
means choosing an item to rub on the stone. If the
chosen item is a gem, glass will "make scratch marks"
while real gems will leave colored streaks based on
their type. Rings can be rubbed, and they also leave
the appropriate streaks. This could help people know
what gems leave what streaks: a diamond ring leaves
white streaks, and a white gem that leaves white streaks
is either a diamond or a dilithium crystal, while a white
glass "gem" just scratches. Gold rubbed leaves gold
streaks. Anything else just says "scritch, scritch".
Blessed touchstones definitively identify rubbed gems,
and otherwise act the same. Archeologists are always
equipped with a blessed touchstone, so they continue to
have the same ability as before 3.3.2.
Part V Game Monsters (not described in data.base)