Aayela (1996)
> x crystal (@ Marble Room)
It is a perfect, multi-faceted crystal, about the size of your fist. It burns with a pure, white light, yet is quite cold to the touch.
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Jewels in Interactive Fiction 
Let's examine some jewels! This page is about generic gems, gemstones, jewels, and crystals. They might have a size, a color, value, brightness, or purpose, but they're not explicitly a type of gem like diamonds, quartz, or cubic zirconium unless we're examining a mixed collection.
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Aayela (1996)
> x crystal (@ Marble Room)
It is a perfect, multi-faceted crystal, about the size of your fist. It burns with a pure, white light, yet is quite cold to the touch.
According to Cain (2022)
> x gem (@ A Fragile Earth)
The blue lumens gem is strung to a loop of leather cord.
The gem has a singular property: When worn, it will reveal surfaces laden with strong memories from the past.
Ailihphilia (2018)
> x ME gem (@ Work Row)
You feel a strong urge to keep this and not share it, because of all the crazy things you did to get it, but you know that's not quite right. You wonder of its origin--perhaps it was chipped off from Le We Jewel, or it was originally engraved in the Ring O' Zognir. Or was it the Ring of Ufognir?
Also, it looks nothing at all like the emerald in Zork I, which was also in a buoy, so stop thinking that.
It doesn't feel destructive, so it's not a gem of omega, or anything.
Beet the Devil (2011)
> x heap of shining jewels (@ Treasure Room)
There are so many colors that it's like looking at the pieces for a whole stained glass window. With just one of these, you could probably buy about a dozen stained glass windows for the church.
> x sparkling gem (@ Treasure Room)
Looking past the sparkles, you can see the room around you reflected in the gem, only the room's gone all tiny and it's full of little dark rainbows.
The Bryant Collection (2009)
> x Amber Star (@ Purple Room)
This is the most precious jewel in the world: the Amber Star. It's the size of your head, and a brilliant shining yellow. It's held firmly in place by a silver stand.
Cold Iron (2011)
> x glass bead (@ Fallen Oak)
The bead is smooth glass, not exactly clear, but clean. It's special.
Color and Number (2002)
> x crystal (@ Underground Shrine)
The small, round crystal is embedded directly above the passageway which leads southeast. The crystal dimly glows [color].
Cragne Manor (2018)
> x crystals (@ Curiosity Shop)
A rainbow of colors in every shape, not all together, but scattered in clusters throughout the other goods. They range in size from your smallest fingerbone up through a bulky blue piece that would take both hands to lift. Each one has a sticker noting its type and where it was cut.
The Cruise (2001)
> x orange crystal (@ Gift Shop)
The crystal glows iridescently, nearly blinding you with its orange light. It is about the size of an orange.
The Crystal Palace (2011)
> x bismuth crystal (@ bedroom)
It is a crystal, the size of your fist. The peculiar crystal formations form little cubes and lines that almost look architectural. You know, it looks a bit like a city.
The Cube (2010)
> x crystals (@ Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Way Up High))
As you look at the crystalline flowers, you are reminded of that exhibition of Swarovski crystals your wife took you to last year just before Christmas, the one where she dropped very strong hints that she wanted you to buy her a sculpture, specifically a yellow sunflower on a green stem with emerald leaves, surrounded by red ladybugs. The present crystals are just like that, only lifesize. You are suddenly plagued by a pang of regret that you didn't buy her the gift she wanted.
Down, the Serpent and the Sun (2015)
> x gemstones (@ Gullet)
Amethysts, rubies, garnets, diamonds.
Dragon Flies Like Labradorite (2011)
> x bismuth crystal (@ Merchant Guy's Specialty Minerals and Archery Supplies)
A weirdly-shaped hunk of silvery matter with a bit of a pinkish tinge.
Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage (2002)
> x crystal (@ Hallway)
A small, sparkling clear crystal.
The Enchanted Castle (2019)
> x jewel (@ Inner Court)
The jewel sparkles in the bright sunlight.
Enlightenment (1998)
> x starjewel (@ At The Wrong Side Of The Bridge)
It's almost as large as a quail's egg, and sparkles with inner light. [Footnote 3]
Escape from the Arboretum (2002)
> x green crystal (@ in a secret room under a temple)
The crystal is green and rectangular.
It has unearthly symbols and an arrow on one side.
Everybody Loves a Parade (1997)
> x cart crystals (@ Mound of Quartz)
The crystals bask in the glow of class struggle.
The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth (2011)
> x bismuth crystal (@ At the window)
This velvet houses a bismuth crystal. It was given to you by the grandson of Claude François Geoffroy, in recognition of your travels to Antarctica in the early 1860s.
It was in early 1863, 6 months after you left, that Maura was born. You only received the news on your return to Spitzbergen in 1865. And when you finally returned home, she was already toddling around the living room.
The Four Eccentrics (2019)
> x crystal monument (@ Rhomboid Square)
In one obtuse corner of the market plaza is a huge block of crystal, a geometric solid of some kind without any right angles. Inside, somehow, is a highly lifelike statue of an extremely disgruntled looking rotund man, holding his arms akimbo as if gesticulating in the midst of argument.
Slumped against the side of the block which is closest to upright is a bored-looking guard.
In a Tomb with a Donkey (2023)
> x jewels (@ Sarcophagus room)
Even with your lack of interest in gold, you can tell that this sarcophagus must be worth a vast amount in immagical money - especially with all those beautiful jewels decorating the exterior.
Jewel of Knowledge (1999)
> x radiant blue jewel (@ Jewel Room)
The blue jewel is about as big as a medium-sized pumpkin. It is exquisitely cut and has fourteen reflective faces that are each exactly alike. It pulses out steady beams of light from each of its faces and radiates an unnatural energy that draws you to it. You know it's the Jewel of Knowledge. You feel smarter just looking at it.
John's Fire Witch (1995)
> x red gem (@ Inside the Vault)
This brilliant red gem seems to almost sparkle with a light of its own. It feels slightly warm to the touch.
> x blue gem (@ Pedestal Room)
This brilliant blue gem seems to almost sparkle with a light of its own. It feels slightly cool to the touch.
> x crystal obelisk (@ Trophy Room)
The large obelisk is made out of some type of purple crystal. There seems to be something inside the obelisk, the unmoving form of a beautiful woman in crimson robes.
Ka (2010)
> x crystal (@ The Dodecahedron)
Krakatoa Tuna Melt (2002)
> x glowing crystal (@ Village)
It's a crystal. It's glowing and green. I dunno what it is. Kryptonite? (yeah, right)
> x broken crystal (@ Hidden Clearing)
The broken green crystal is dark and lifeless, and part of the bubble's controls.
The Lonely Troll (2022)
> x pearl (@ Ocean)
A large, beautiful pearl, iridescent and glowing.
Lydia's Heart (2007)
> x jewel (@ The Threshold of the Room of Sand)
The rapidly pulsing red jewel is spherical. Its light yearns toward you so fervently that you nearly set foot on the shifting sand, danger forgotten. But not quite.
> x jewels (@ The Threshold of the Room of Sand)
Each jewel sits serenely on its low white pedestal. Some of them are perfect spheres, others are many-faceted. All of them are throbbing with light, each pulsing in its own slow, hypnotic rhythm. [if jewel untaken and distinctive, add:] As your eyes wander down the line of pedestals, you notice one jewel, not too far away, whose pulse is quicker than those around it. Its light is brighter, too. The quickly pulsing red jewel almost seems to be calling out to you.
Mite (2010)
> x jewel (@ At a Fork in the Path)
Nothing But Mazes (2019)
> x crystals (@ Crystal Chamber)
The crystals take up one whole side of the room. They sparkle brilliantly.
> x crystal (@ Museum)
[if on olive pedestal] The crystal is sitting on the olive pedestal. [else] This is the crystal you got from the olive pedestal.
Light catches this crystal in a beautifully irregular manner.
Perdition's Flames (1993)
> x jewel (@ Amulette Shoppe; Underwater Cave)
It's a large, multi-faceted, clear blue jewel stone. It's attached to a gold chain, for wearing it around the neck.
The Quest of the Golden Banana (2004)
> x crystal (@ Large Cave)
The crystal is almost cylindrical, except that it has a hexagonal cross-section. It's about eight inches long and pulsates with a faint blue light.
Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone (2020)
> x gem (@ Ancient Tomb)
An unremarkable stone. You are at a loss as to the reason for its interment here.
Suveh Nux (2007)
> x crystal (@ Vault)
A perfectly clear crystal with many facets, about the size of your fist and shaped like a teardrop.
Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life (2013)
> x crystal (@ The Apex of the Temple)
The block of crystal is the real apex of the temple, occuring as it does at the top of the room. It is here that the rays of the sun are focused into a beam of light, and that light directed down to the pedestal.
To Catch A Dragonfly (2011)
> x bismuth crystal (@ Junk room)
The crystal is made of bismuth; it looks like how crystals should form in a world governed by M. C. Escher.
Toonesia (1995)
> x jewels (@ Outside the Mine)
You don't have a chance to examine the vast array of glittering jewels because Dizzy throws himself across the wheelbarrow as soon as he sees you eyeing them. "Don't even think about it," he sputters.
> x jewels (@ Inside the Mine)
Any one gem in this mine could finance Fuld Industries for decades to come.
Unity! (1998)
> x gemstone (@ Northwest of Plain)
It's a beautiful red gemstone, cut into an octagonal shape. Peering into its ruby depths you see dark, formless shapes swirling on the threshold of perception.
Wearing the Claw (1996)
> x crystal (@ Hall of the Goergs)
This lovely clear crystal, whose spherical shape tapers to a point at the top, is about the size of your fist. Its many facets reflect the light beautifully, and from some angles it appears to have multicolored smoke swirling inside it.
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist (2016)
> x Jewel (@ Final Void)
It is a celestial jewel that contains all that is, was, and will be within its facets.
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it (2011)
> x bismuth crystal (@ Walled quadrangle)
A heavy lump of strangely lustrous crystal. Its stairstep pattern makes the iridescent colors even more striking.
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