Crasyte

Crasyte is a variety of rare mineral identified by it's colors, with the yellow colored form thought only to be found underneath the foundations of Gold Industries (though more locations very likely exist). It creates unexplainable time fluxations to those who encounter it. Only a small percentage of Crasyte actually distorts time due to a variety of different forms of the mineral exhibiting different properties- and all evidence of the yellow, time altering crasyte was seized by the US Government in 2010 following the events of Double Vision.

Reality Distortion
The foundation of David Gold's Gold Industries is lined with several types of the mineral. Crasyte makes people hallucinate and if handled too long can produce very realistic images in the brain. It can also (in used in the correct manner) make a time warp- creating a very primitive and very short lived time machine. Using a sample of Crasyte, Joseph Packard was able to build a time machine using technogoly he was developing while in the U.S. government.

Zosimos Q. Cosmos used the mineral's properties to send Monster X back in time so that he could escape the Unknown Forest. The machine had sent Monster X to the depths of hell due to a slight malfunction (at least that is what is claimed). Joseph Packard used Crasyte in order to return back to the 1980's before he was sent to the Unknown Forest, as well as to 2010 so he could see what the future was like before coming back into the Unknown Forest. David Gold used the time mechanics of the mineral to go to the Unknown Forest in order to try and kill The Host while he was there- though all of this is shrouded in confusion by any who try to make sense of the debacle. (See David Gold)

It is rumored that Gold had known that something strange was underneath Gold Industries and hid some other varieties away in secrecy- but this is simply a rumor.

Varieties
So far, these varieties of Crasyte are known to exist:


 * 1) Yellow Crasyte: The time altering variety of the mineral, with which Gold Industries is lined with. Mined out of the foundations of Gold Industries by the US Government following Double Vision and seized.
 * 2) Orange Crasyte: A variety of Crasyte that has explosive properties when impacted against a hard surface.
 * 3) Green Crasyte: A form that is still largely unknown, but may be linked to the supernatural.
 * 4) Red Crasyte: Red crasyte has been thought to be medicinal when ground up, mixed with chemicals, and injected.