CovertJaguar even without the telescope they look better than the idea in my head, I especially like the different colour mana crystals
When I mentioned the dragons it was mainly due to the fact that the only picture of one of the detectors I could remember had them as the motif. Really you could just have aything that could 'hold' the crystals untill disturbed, maybe some of your complex tubework would be nice.
The potion does look much clearer, and therefore a little bit better
Keep up the good work!