BriarFox
11-12-2010, 06:37 PM
"A perfectly round lemon-hued citrine brushed with cloudy tendrils"
Found digging at Ebon Gate.
Show:
Murky white occlusions wind their way through the interior of the circular cabochon of translucent yellow citrine. The surface of the citrine is polished to a smooth, glassy gleam that accentuates the gem's natural sunny hue.
Passive scripts:
The lemon-hued citrine on your forehead flickers softly, causing pastel yellow flames to briefly flare within your eyes.
The lemon-hued citrine on your forehead dims, then suddenly brightens in a luminous plume of tiny silver and pastel yellow sparks that radiate out from your eyes in a feather-like pattern.
Your lemon-hued citrine pulses against your forehead, giving off a faint pastel yellow glow.
Your lemon-hued citrine glimmers in the ambient light, swirling with liquid flecks of silver, gold, and pastel yellow.
An ebon shadow swirls through your a perfectly round lemon-hued citrine brushed with cloudy tendrils, momentarily casting your countenance in darkness.
The veins in your lemon-hued citrine glow a brilliant pastel yellow color.
A delicate silver filigree pattern swirls briefly within the lemon-hued citrine against your forehead.
Your lemon-hued citrine flares into pastel yellow flames, causing the air around you to waver.
The veins in your lemon-hued citrine glow a brilliant pastel yellow color.
The lemon-hued citrine on your forehead dims drastically as a cloud of darkness roils deep within the gem. After a moment, it fades, returning to its normal state.
Your lemon-hued citrine sparkles brilliantly as an errant ray of light hits it.
Your lemon-hued citrine dims and then suddenly brightens again as silver sparks swirl around in the gem.
Loresong:
As you sing to a perfectly round lemon-hued citrine brushed with cloudy tendrils, it glimmers slightly, and slowly, a vision begins to unfold.
A young boy plays with his friends, gleefully slogging through the muck and mire of a small stream. Something glittering in the riverbank catches his eye, and he stops to look. To the great delight of his friends, he has found a small, clear sapphire. Soon, all the boys are covered head-to-toe in mud as they try to find their own buried treasure. Each boy returns with a handful of pebbles and brightly colored stones, but no more gems.
The moon rises, and the young boy sits on his bed, staring in rapt fixation as starlight glints off his sapphire. Suddenly, he pulls a small knife from a pile of string, rocks, and other typical boy fare and begins to chip away at the gemstone. He pauses, holding it up catch the starlight again and then gently carves away, humming beneath his breath. Soon, a tiny heart-cut clear sapphire lies in the palm of his hand.
Roundtime: 10 sec.
Your vision quickly reappears as you sing to the citrine. The boy is older now, almost a man, and before him are several gemstones, each meticulously carved. He holds a violet feystone in his hand, singing to it as he carves away every flaw and turns the simple gem into a breathtaking miniature rose. He sings as he polishes it, and the feystone rose grows brighter. A light blue aura surrounds it briefly before being absorbed into the gem.
The scene changes, and the boy stands in a shop, showing his feystone rose to a stooped old man. The man takes the rose and rubs it. He chortles happily as a light blue glow seeps into his skin. He hands the boy a few gold coins.
The vision fades as a very happy boy runs down the street to his home.
Roundtime: 14 sec.
As you whisper your song to the citrine, a new scene unfolds. Several years have gone by, and the boy is now a man. He sits in a small shop filled with carved gemstones, each shelf holding a sign explaining the properties the stones hold. He is deep in concentration over a star-cut ruby, pausing in his singing every so often to press it against his forehead and letting it fall into his open palm again.
He jerks up from his work as a bell jingles, and his shop door opens. A beautiful young woman walks in.
Flashes of time pass before your eyes as the young man courts the woman. You see a cottage with a garden of bright roses and tall lilac trees. A kiss, an altar, a ring. You see both working, her in metal and him in stone. And when he presses a peridot against her forehead one day, it stays, casting a cerulean light across her face. The woman cheers, and they kiss exuberantly. An overwhelming sense of happiness infuses each scene, and as your song's influence fades, the vision disappears.
Roundtime: 18 sec.
You barely start to sing to the citrine before a vision appears. The joy that permeated the previous scene is nowhere to be found here. The young man's countenance is haggard, his appearance disheveled. He looks the madman as he rants and raves in the garden. A raven lands nearby, and the man throws a diamond at it. The bright roses have all gone to dark shades, and even the lilac trees look denser, more foreboding. Yet, the garden is well-tended, and even as the man mutters and weeps to himself, you see him lovingly caring for each bush and tree.
He sleeps in a thicket of lilacs and washes himself in the pond, and you get the impression he never enters the cottage, perhaps never leaves the garden at all. As time passes, an older woman, his mother, brings him food, passing it over the garden walls and imploring him to come out. Time and again, he refuses.
The vision grows black, and as it disappears, you hear him whisper resolutely to the four winds, "I am keeper of the garden, for of the garden she is. And here, forever we are."
Roundtime: 22 sec.
Taking trade offers for the moment. Mostly looking for interesting and/or functional toys.
Note: The gem IS alterable by an experienced jeweler, such as Chalat in Ta'Illistim. See: http://www.play.net/forums/messages.asp?forum=102&category=12&topic=29&message=22153
Found digging at Ebon Gate.
Show:
Murky white occlusions wind their way through the interior of the circular cabochon of translucent yellow citrine. The surface of the citrine is polished to a smooth, glassy gleam that accentuates the gem's natural sunny hue.
Passive scripts:
The lemon-hued citrine on your forehead flickers softly, causing pastel yellow flames to briefly flare within your eyes.
The lemon-hued citrine on your forehead dims, then suddenly brightens in a luminous plume of tiny silver and pastel yellow sparks that radiate out from your eyes in a feather-like pattern.
Your lemon-hued citrine pulses against your forehead, giving off a faint pastel yellow glow.
Your lemon-hued citrine glimmers in the ambient light, swirling with liquid flecks of silver, gold, and pastel yellow.
An ebon shadow swirls through your a perfectly round lemon-hued citrine brushed with cloudy tendrils, momentarily casting your countenance in darkness.
The veins in your lemon-hued citrine glow a brilliant pastel yellow color.
A delicate silver filigree pattern swirls briefly within the lemon-hued citrine against your forehead.
Your lemon-hued citrine flares into pastel yellow flames, causing the air around you to waver.
The veins in your lemon-hued citrine glow a brilliant pastel yellow color.
The lemon-hued citrine on your forehead dims drastically as a cloud of darkness roils deep within the gem. After a moment, it fades, returning to its normal state.
Your lemon-hued citrine sparkles brilliantly as an errant ray of light hits it.
Your lemon-hued citrine dims and then suddenly brightens again as silver sparks swirl around in the gem.
Loresong:
As you sing to a perfectly round lemon-hued citrine brushed with cloudy tendrils, it glimmers slightly, and slowly, a vision begins to unfold.
A young boy plays with his friends, gleefully slogging through the muck and mire of a small stream. Something glittering in the riverbank catches his eye, and he stops to look. To the great delight of his friends, he has found a small, clear sapphire. Soon, all the boys are covered head-to-toe in mud as they try to find their own buried treasure. Each boy returns with a handful of pebbles and brightly colored stones, but no more gems.
The moon rises, and the young boy sits on his bed, staring in rapt fixation as starlight glints off his sapphire. Suddenly, he pulls a small knife from a pile of string, rocks, and other typical boy fare and begins to chip away at the gemstone. He pauses, holding it up catch the starlight again and then gently carves away, humming beneath his breath. Soon, a tiny heart-cut clear sapphire lies in the palm of his hand.
Roundtime: 10 sec.
Your vision quickly reappears as you sing to the citrine. The boy is older now, almost a man, and before him are several gemstones, each meticulously carved. He holds a violet feystone in his hand, singing to it as he carves away every flaw and turns the simple gem into a breathtaking miniature rose. He sings as he polishes it, and the feystone rose grows brighter. A light blue aura surrounds it briefly before being absorbed into the gem.
The scene changes, and the boy stands in a shop, showing his feystone rose to a stooped old man. The man takes the rose and rubs it. He chortles happily as a light blue glow seeps into his skin. He hands the boy a few gold coins.
The vision fades as a very happy boy runs down the street to his home.
Roundtime: 14 sec.
As you whisper your song to the citrine, a new scene unfolds. Several years have gone by, and the boy is now a man. He sits in a small shop filled with carved gemstones, each shelf holding a sign explaining the properties the stones hold. He is deep in concentration over a star-cut ruby, pausing in his singing every so often to press it against his forehead and letting it fall into his open palm again.
He jerks up from his work as a bell jingles, and his shop door opens. A beautiful young woman walks in.
Flashes of time pass before your eyes as the young man courts the woman. You see a cottage with a garden of bright roses and tall lilac trees. A kiss, an altar, a ring. You see both working, her in metal and him in stone. And when he presses a peridot against her forehead one day, it stays, casting a cerulean light across her face. The woman cheers, and they kiss exuberantly. An overwhelming sense of happiness infuses each scene, and as your song's influence fades, the vision disappears.
Roundtime: 18 sec.
You barely start to sing to the citrine before a vision appears. The joy that permeated the previous scene is nowhere to be found here. The young man's countenance is haggard, his appearance disheveled. He looks the madman as he rants and raves in the garden. A raven lands nearby, and the man throws a diamond at it. The bright roses have all gone to dark shades, and even the lilac trees look denser, more foreboding. Yet, the garden is well-tended, and even as the man mutters and weeps to himself, you see him lovingly caring for each bush and tree.
He sleeps in a thicket of lilacs and washes himself in the pond, and you get the impression he never enters the cottage, perhaps never leaves the garden at all. As time passes, an older woman, his mother, brings him food, passing it over the garden walls and imploring him to come out. Time and again, he refuses.
The vision grows black, and as it disappears, you hear him whisper resolutely to the four winds, "I am keeper of the garden, for of the garden she is. And here, forever we are."
Roundtime: 22 sec.
Taking trade offers for the moment. Mostly looking for interesting and/or functional toys.
Note: The gem IS alterable by an experienced jeweler, such as Chalat in Ta'Illistim. See: http://www.play.net/forums/messages.asp?forum=102&category=12&topic=29&message=22153