You’re not throwing them at your enemies hard enough.
Healed for -5 HP
The crystals, they do nothing!
@ickplant That's completely wrong. Each rock/mineral has a hidden skill. Once acquired, you have less money.
Some crystals like torbernite and asbestos have a special skill too, called "radiation poisoning" and "lung cancer"
There are a bunch of crystals that do shit, like molly and meth.
Also, less fun stuff like salt and sugar.
Placebos can still be effective on a person who knows it’s a placebo.
I was a skeptic but a friend who worked at a crystal shop was ALWAYS around them. Even hauling them by the box then two in a matter of months. He was jacked!
/s just in case
Hey, some of those are polestones, and are perfectly capable of storing Stormlight! Just gotta wait for the next hightstorm
Kelek's breath man, when is the last time you ever heard of a highstorm outside of Roshar?
Some of them do shit. Specifically, exploit the impoverished adults and children who mine them so that rich Westerners can wear them.
Devil’s advocate time: the placebo effect is incredibly powerful, and for many people it’s all that’s needed.
I'm all for this but it's a slippery slope. People seem to go from using a crystal to get over a small psychological road block to thinking that vaccines cause autism real quick.
What about the healing powers of enjoying yourself with a hobby like collecting a bunch of minerals and just looking at them?
Surely, having a hobby can improve some people's mental health.
That depends. Is your hobby overrun by charletans using your ignorant faith in easily disproven claims to sell false promises of a better life? Because not only is that detrimental to your mental and financial health, but it is bad for society as a whole as it erodes trust in science and knowledge itself.
People who like shiny crystals decorating their homes aren't a problem. People who spend money they don't have on magic because government doctors are trying to put chips in your brain are a real and existential problem.
Obsidian isn't even a crystal...
Neither is lapis. Like come on, rock is literally in the name people
Jesus Christ, they're minerals Marie!
Actually, that's not true. Fluorite has a slight healing power for your teeth.
Ok, fuck, you got me. Now I have to admit that crystals do have healing power.
Also Quartz is used extensively in electronics, including medical devices that help people with healing or managing their ailments.
What about diamond? Those can be traded for large sums of money which can significantly improve your health.
Or severely degrade your life if you need to mine them for subsistence.
coprolite?
𝓓𝓸𝓮𝓼𝓷'𝓽 𝓭𝓸 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓽
Great guide, could you tell me what sort of benefits I might expect from Selenite?
I know it doesn’t do something I just can’t remember what that something was…..
No worries I got you. The something was nothing.
If it doesn’t do nothing isn’t it doing something?
Now now, some powerful minerals, when ground into a powder, have the ability to grant the user silicosis
True, but if you like looking at them and it soothes your stress, that kind of helps. Stress = inflammation after all. Plus, there's the placebo effect, which is surprisingly effective sometimes.
Have you tried eating any of those before posting this?
Checkmate
It's really hard to argue with superb logic and science like this.
Incorrect. Fluorite is made of calcium fluoride. You can mix that shit with some sulfuric acid and make poison acid gas. Don't do this though, it definitely won't cure autism or help you pray the gay away. Hydrogen fluoride is like the complete polar opposite of magical healing powers.
They're pretty good as door stomps.
Eggcorn?
Fetid fluorite will sometimes give off pure fluorine, which is the exact opposite of healing, but I think it's cool though as I normally only get to breathe the fumes of the organic solvents at my lab. I would love to have perfluorinated lungs, so I myself can become the forever chemical.
And then most of them will be colored resin anyway.
I was in Sedona, AZ, and I witnessed what I can only call a church service about crystals. Interesting place.
I have a lapis lazuli rock the size of a child's fist on my desk at home. It's a beautiful rock and I'm happy it doesn't do shit
Don't ever Google "tuning fork". Damn.
I mean, the thing by itself is kinda cool. But the moment they start to "tune" themselves, things quickly go south.
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