The Gem Alchemist: A Cozy Crystal Workshop

Welcome to your workshop, Wizard! Behind a stained-glass window on a quiet street sits a small gem shop, and it's yours. Customers walk in with odd requests: "something warm," "a green stone for a betrothal ring, nothing cloudy, please." It's up to you to make the perfect stone. No timers, no rush. Every customer waits while you work. That's the job. Someone comes in from the street, tells you what they're after (sometimes all you get is "something warm"), and you go into the back room and make it. Nobody taps their foot. There's no clock running. Grow every gem by hand Grind minerals in your mortar, pour them into the crucible and turn the growth wheel to steer a seed crystal across the Lattice Map. Every mineral pushes the seed its own way. Land in the heart of a gem zone for a flawless stone, but stray onto a fracture and it cracks. 18...