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[brewer bob]

There's only one of it, so I'd strongly recommend not shattering it.

..so maybe something that doesn't consume the crystal.

Try shining a light through the crystal, or putting it in a glass of water.  Do either of them have any noticeable effect?

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[Chiefwaffles]

Day 3.

Try shining a light through the crystal, or putting it in a glass of water.  Do either of them have any noticeable effect?

These experiments prove easy enough to do, not taking up much of the day.

Via the use of one of the many holes your residence's patchwork roof, you conduct the light test first. Light does pass through the crystal yet appears... off. You can't put your finger on it; it's just not the same. Fiddling around with the arrangement and exact positioning all produces the same result. You notice that when clouds pass under the sun the effect is diminished in intensity; the light that does pass through is more "normal" looking. In all, interesting. You move onto the next test:

• Step 1: Fetch a bowl.
• Step 2: Fill bowl with water.
• Step 3: Place crystal in bowl.
• Step 4: Wait & observe.

All four steps are done with ease. Relative ease -- there wasn't a lot to do while you waited. At the end of the day, you take a proper look at it. Nothing. Identical to bef--wait.
Lowering your face as close to the water as possible, you stare at the crystal. Tiny -- tiny -- nubs(?) seem to be emerging from it. Unfortunately the nubs are far too small to have anything gleaned about them beyond their existence. In an action you deem afterwards to be somewhat careless, you reach in with your hand and run it across the object. While they feel similar enough to the crystal, they snap off and disintegrate(?) easily. Just moving the crystal destroys all the growths. A shame, but if you need to replicate this then bowls of water aren't all that rare.


By now the sun is setting and you find yourself tired after a long day of waiting. With nothing to do at night, you put the crystal back in your pack and do your best to sleep on the rough ground in your hovel.

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

(For the time food and supplies are not an issue as you can just barely sustain yourself on the land and surrounding area. It's not fun, though.)
Residence
Abandoned Hovel
Possessions

• Strange Crystal - A small dark-green crystal said to be capable of enhancing and improving individuals. Uncomfortable to hold, and faint beating can be heard from within.

Knowledge

• Nothing; yet?

There's clearly more than one "right" way to make use of the artifact. But while both tests showed results, both are missing... something. Perhaps though, upon finding the missing element, a procedure -- or rather, a ritual -- for proper use of the artifact could be made.

[BlackPaladin99]

shine a light through the crystal, but this time let the shined-through light hit you.  create the nubs again, but this time hold the cystal over your head when you break them off. 

[Naturegirl1999]

shine a light through the crystal, but this time let the shined-through light hit you.  create the nubs again, but this time hold the cystal over your head when you break them off.

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Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep

[Devastator]

Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep

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[A_Curious_Cat]

Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep

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[VoidSlayer]

Lick the crystal.

[King Zultan]

Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep

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Lick the crystal.

You know what, why the hell not +1.

[brewer bob]

Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep

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Lick the crystal.

You know what, why the hell not +1.

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[Mercur]

Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep

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Lick the crystal.

You know what, why the hell not +1.

+1 to all of these

+1 to all as well

[Chiefwaffles]

Day 4.

Try to place the crystal somewhere where where moonlight can shine through the crystal and on us when we sleep
...
Lick the crystal.

You tentatively lick the crystal.
Other than a deep fear and even greater sense of "why am I doing this?", you don't really accomplish anything. It does taste weird, for what it's worth. Gross. Like a mineral but with the slightest hint of... raw meat? You don't even know and you'd really really rather not have to keep on doing this. As you put down the artifact, you notice the slightest amount of light(?) coming from it. Reaching to feel it, you realize your hands (and to a lesser extent, tongue) are actually a bit cold. The crystal itself is probably around the temperature your hands are normally at. After a few seconds, the effect fades away. You can repeat this process quite reliably; it's likely you just didn't directly handle it for long enough often. And when you did, you were distracted by other things.
The rest of the day is spent on meandering, observing, monologuing, and contemplation. Nothing to note here.

Before you sleep, though, you climb onto the top of your hovel (managing not to fall through the roof) and place the crystal over a small hole. A few twigs are fashioned around it to keep it from falling off. Finished with this task, you once again (eventually) fall asleep on the ground before, a sliver of moonlight falling through the crystal and landing on your sleeping body.
You wake up, feeling... the same. Almost exactly the same, at least. For about an hour after waking up you feel a very mild yet strange kind of queasy.

As the sun rises in the early morning of the next day, you watch the dim light shining through the crystal. It seems like the more intense the light, the more intense the effect. If When you make some proper progress with the crystal, you should probably not use yourself as a test subject. Unless you're feeling particularly brave at least.

Spoiler: You (click to show/hide)

(For the time food and supplies are not an issue as you can just barely sustain yourself on the land and surrounding area. It's not fun, though.)
Residence
Abandoned Hovel
Possessions

• Strange Crystal - A small dark-green crystal said to be capable of enhancing and improving individuals. Uncomfortable to hold, and faint beating can be heard from within.

Knowledge

• Nothing; yet?

You can feel you're getting closer to understanding the crystal. The knowledge needed to make use of it is slowly but surely falling into place.

[Devastator]

Maybe it doesn't know what to do.

Shine crystal light on that beggar while he's begging.

[Mercur]

Try asking the crystal, if it has a heartbeat, it probably is alive

[King Zultan]

Maybe it doesn't know what to do.

Shine crystal light on that beggar while he's begging.

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[VoidSlayer]

Touching does something.  We need someone desperate and gullible to experiment on.

Maybe intent does something as well.

Find someone hungry and see if it touching it to them with the intent of them losing their hunger removes the hunger.  Try to have the test subject also concentrate on the same thing.  Maybe some chanting or something ritual like?