add touchstone information to mythos.

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@@ -192,6 +192,30 @@ Orcrist, Sting     Tolkien
 Magicbane      loosely based on the magic knife "Carnwennan"
                in "The Coming of the King" by Nikolai Tolstoy
 Grayswandir    Corwin's sword in Roger Zelazny's Amber saga
+touchstones    A touchstone in real life was historically used
+               to judge the quality of a supposed sample of gold.
+               Different purities of gold rubbed on a stone leave 
+               different colors/intensities streak.  The term 
+               "touchstone" is still in use by analogy for something 
+               that helps you judge the value of a thing.
+               The basic operation is this: a touchstone is a kind 
+               of Gem that can be applied.  Applying the touchstone
+               means choosing an item to rub on the stone.  If the 
+               chosen item is a gem, glass will "make scratch marks" 
+               while real gems will leave colored streaks based on 
+               their type.  Rings can be rubbed, and they also leave
+               the appropriate streaks.  This could help people know 
+               what gems leave what streaks: a diamond ring leaves 
+               white streaks, and a white gem that leaves white streaks 
+               is either a diamond or a dilithium crystal, while a white 
+               glass "gem" just scratches.  Gold rubbed leaves gold 
+               streaks.  Anything else just says "scritch, scritch".
+               Blessed touchstones definitively identify rubbed gems, 
+               and otherwise act the same.  Archeologists are always 
+               equipped with a blessed touchstone, so they continue to 
+               have the same ability as before 3.3.2.
+
+
 
 Part V    Game Monsters (not described in data.base)