User blog:Regimango/Faience Experiments (How to make a Tjehenet)

The lab was all but silent for the ominous footsteps creeping nearer as they came down the hallway. The room was a consistent metallic grey, with steel tables, chairs with straps and all sorts of experimental paraphernalia. There was a row of such tables, each with an Azurite, Cuprite or Quartz strapped to it, each of their faces displaying pure terror. Above was a small windowed viewing platform, where none other than Yellow Diamond herself was watching intently on the proceedings. A thin, small gem stepped into the lab, signing off each gem on a clipboard. “Log date 26B; the experimental gem ‘fusion’ did not succeed in the previous test. Test B will commence now,” She stated coldly into her recording device, “Don’t worry little gems, this will not be as painful as you imagine, it will be worse.”

The gem pulled a lever and each strapped gem began being squeezed harder, the straps tightening around them. Until, *poof*, each of their forms vanished and their individual gemstones fell into a funnel, eventually sliding into a collection tray. The laboratorian then took the tray to a sterile steel table. She examined each for a second, then as quick as blinking she split the gemstones apart with a chisel, and continued to do so until each was in tiny shards. She scooped the shards into a bowl and began crushing them into dust.

“The initial stages are complete, the samples shall now be put into incubation,” once more speaking aloud to her device. She collected the dust, mixed in various stone samples, then placed it into an incubation chamber in several different clumps. The chamber contained vein-like tubes carrying super-hot magma which would be used to heat and incubate the to be gemstones. “The prospective gems are now incubating, let us hope they succeed,” she proclaimed before turning off her device, “For all our sakes,” she muttered under her breath, giving a fearful look to Yellow Diamond, stern and imposing as ever.