add touchstone information to mythos.

2002-01-09 05:25:04 +00:00
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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)