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<blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5668020" data-attributes="member: 6677945">Nice, you've made it look quite a bit more professional than how I had it.Yeah. The opal simply by the power it's described as having, I would consider the most powerful. The book handled it by not making the future visions controlled; they came in random bursts at inopportune times and tended to show disturbing visions of the future that rarely helped the protagonists. It got to the point where the hero was often careful to avoid direct physical contact with the opal so that he wouldn't accidentally activate its power by touching it, and I recall one time when he did try (in desperation, hoping it might help him) to get a future vision and the gem refused to comply, giving no visions for once.Potentially it was the most powerful of the gems I think, but it had the biggest drawbacks and was perhaps the least frequently used of the seven. The most used was the ruby, specifically its detect evil powers. It got tons of use. It helps that the ruby was the second gem obtained, recovered much earlier than the emerald and thus it had more opportunities to be used. The opal was third, so it's not like there was a lack of opportunities for it though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SnowleopardVK, post: 5668020, member: 6677945"] Nice, you've made it look quite a bit more professional than how I had it. Yeah. The opal simply by the power it's described as having, I would consider the most powerful. The book handled it by not making the future visions controlled; they came in random bursts at inopportune times and tended to show disturbing visions of the future that rarely helped the protagonists. It got to the point where the hero was often careful to avoid direct physical contact with the opal so that he wouldn't accidentally activate its power by touching it, and I recall one time when he did try (in desperation, hoping it might help him) to get a future vision and the gem refused to comply, giving no visions for once. Potentially it was the most powerful of the gems I think, but it had the biggest drawbacks and was perhaps the least frequently used of the seven. The most used was the ruby, specifically its detect evil powers. It got tons of use. It helps that the ruby was the second gem obtained, recovered much earlier than the emerald and thus it had more opportunities to be used. The opal was third, so it's not like there was a lack of opportunities for it though. [/QUOTE]

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