#crystallised

Their little dungeon-lab had been carefully set up with antique armchairs and breakable nicknacks moved carefully out of the way. The circular shape of the room and the table complimented each other. The human skull sat on the middle of the table just completed the feel of symmetry. But Skully was much more interested in the contraption, the absolute monster of a device, than any aesthetic satisfaction at this moment in time. Saph had asked them the purpose of all the complicated nuts and bolts and copper wires, but her eyes had kind of glazed over when Skully had launched into a detailed description. In short it was...hopefully...a fully functioning tool that would help them to achieve full skeletal crystallisation. They'd painstakingly built it, Andy the Skelefella double checking that every single piece of the glorious monstrosity was fitted perfectly. One last time, Skully checked that the copper rod was touching the skull in just the right place. Whether it worked or not, this was truly going to be something. Andy was uncharacteristically and unsettlingly silent beside them, watching the blue crackles of electricity swirl up and down Skully's cane. They were so used to Andy's boney pseudo spider legs impatiently tapping loudly on the wooden floor as they worked that his stunned silence set a tension running through their own bones. They'd decided not to tell Andy about the last three necromancers who had attempted this and in a completely unrelated turn of events had found themselves and their workrooms burned to ash. Their deep breaths broke into the silence as they focused purely on the energy coursing along, pulling at the twisting ropes, gently at first and then more firmly. The magic was coming easier than they expected. Within moments it had formed the perfect ball to launch straight at the receptacle in the contraption. They both had the briefest of seconds to watch the energy move through the contraption before a blinding blue light broke through the room. It was accompanied by a loud bang and an explosive amount of smoke which couldn't have come from anywhere but the contraption. How disappointing. Skully waved the smoke away from their face, not ready to give up hope despite the rather chaotic scene. Andy hadn't moved and was just staring at the table, at the space where the smoke was starting to clear. At the skull. The bright, blue crystalline skull! Tentatively, Skully reached out a hand, fingers following the unmistakable sharp texture of crystals up and down the skull where bone had once rested. It worked. The spell had worked. They were going to be famous. They were going to be rich! Wait until she tells Saph. "Ouch," said the skull. "Did nobody tell you it was rude to touch people without permission." Andy jumped back in surprise as Skully yelled loudly"It's alive," brandishing the cane in the air. Andy tore his pseudo-eyes away from their newest roommate to give Skully a disdainful glare. "That isn't any funnier than the last 56 times you said that, you know." Skully sighed dramatically, thumping the cane on the floor. "Oh Andellica, you just don't understand genius. It's funnier because it's not just an ordinary run of the mill skull, this is a bonefied crystalline skull. This is a miracle."