Ask Awdz

[awdz]

<ooc - Tsargoth asked if I'd be willing to be a "Dear Abby" for questions, and I happily agreed. We started with a couple questions in Marketplace that I answered there, and which I'll post here... and I'll try to answer any in-character questions along this theme in game or pm'd to me with suitable gnomish in-character answers. Not sure how much I can keep up but I'll try! Also, if anyone else wants to post in-character questions/answers here, I'd love to see the alternative advice.>

Dear Awdz, I accidentally spilled jar of salt into the cookie dough I was making for the festival. I don't want to be wasteful and start over if I can help it. I'm just starting to learn the trade and it took me a very long time to gather everything I need to make this. Is there anything I can do to save this batch of cookies?-- Keabler

well keabler, you have several options of what to do with your cookie batch.
--if you want to bake the dough, i'd suggest rinsing the dough with water to get the excess salt out. of course, this means you will have to bake them longer to get all the extra moisture out.
--you could just cook them as they are, and feed them to hatchlings - they'll eat pretty much anything.
--or you could add [<!--LI 8432625 11652473>Thick and sticky Liquid<!--/LI>] to the dough, shape figures like gnomes and hatchlings out of the dough, bake them in a kiln and paint them to sell.

Dear Awdz, I'm attending a formal celebrations for an Elven friend in a few days and I can't decide what to wear. Should I wear the traditional Sslik jungle clothes, should I go with something Elven? I guess I really don't know what's expected. What do you suggest? --Embarrassed Sslik

well embarrassed, everyone knows the elves love fashion. as long as you have as many matching accessories as exist to whatever out fit you wear, you should impress them well enough. just be sure to wear something, the showier the better. it shows your elven friend you care, to put on the finest.

[awdz]

Dear Awdz,I want to get my dragon friend a gift for his Ancient Rite of Passage, but I don't have a lot of coin. I also want to make the gift really special and unique. What do you suggest?-- Dragon-loving Biped

ooh dragon-loving, that has tons of possibilities!
--you know dragons love hoard, so you can always give them a piece of that and tell them it represents something special - like a sword to represent each of their long, sharp talons, a bell to represent the melody of their life that has now crescendo'ed, a crown since they rule the skies, stuff like that
--if you really really love them and you're a gifted gnome or a gifted dryad, you can do similarly to what megalania_unity suggested, coat yourself with something tasty, let them eat you and then recall - you can't get much more personal than that
--or you could gather items to make something for them that they'll never get from anyone else... a fan made of [<!--LI 8432625 11215375>Giant Chicken Tail Feathers<!--/LI>], a blanket you paint with dyes, a strand of [<!--LI 8432625 11086649>Special Spool<!--/LI>] with a [<!--LI 8432625 9777801>Token of Esteem<!--/LI>] on it

the good news is, since dragons ascending to ancient already have everything they need, you don't have to get them something useful! :-)

[sparkcal]

um awdz i have a question myself

[awdz]

um awdz i have a question myself

ahh, myself, questions are where we start when tinkering something new. some prefer the more philosophical questions, which do not really have a particularly correct answer - the goal with those seems to be to keep babbling on and on, something i'm pretty good at. others prefer more concrete questions, the kind with a very specific answer. yet more involve possibilities for a choice to be made. and then there are the rhetorical questions, which are not meant to be answered at all.

some questions are asked publically, some are asked privately, and some are never asked at all. what kind of question do you have, myself?

[AguaRush]

((oh man i gotta try this))

Dear Awdz,
Have you ever heard of Chocolate Gnomes? Many dragons like to eat them, but certainly I don't being a Helian and all...anyhow do you really think they are gnomes that were dipped in chocolate.... or simply chocolate in the shape of gnomes? I don't think I will ever look at chocolate the same again.
Sincerely,
Concerned-Helian

P.S What is in Klava anyways?

((that was fun, hope it wasnt horrible cant wait for Awdz's reply""

[Darkwing_Duck]

(I so gotta try this this is gonna be a fun one XD)

Negadragoon asks:
Dear Awdz,
I come from a background of dragons lunus of course, who use gnomes as slaves. My family gnome was more a father figure to me then a slave. He`s also my tinkerer trainer, and mentor. Is it wronge to have a gnome living in my lair? and should I call him father instead of servant? *smirks*

(Takes Nega a lot of guts to ask that lol! he`s got too much pride XD Hope you have fun with all the "Q`s" )

[awdz]

(I so gotta try this this is gonna be a fun one XD)

Negadragoon asks:
Dear Awdz,
I come from a background of dragons lunus of course, who use gnomes as slaves. My family gnome was more a father figure to me then a slave. He`s also my tinkerer trainer, and mentor. Is it wronge to have a gnome living in my lair? and should I call him father instead of servant? *smirks*

(Takes Nega a lot of guts to ask that lol! he`s got too much pride XD Hope you have fun with all the "Q`s" )

Dear Negadragoon,

Gnomes love exploring lairs and tinkering with things they find along the way. Definitely if a gnome wishes to live there, it is perfectly fine for you to host him. I do not recommend forcing one to stay, however; gnomes have a way of tinkering their own ways out of any gnome trap.

As for what to call him? I called me da, "Da," but that was back in Rachival and I do not know if the New Rachival gnomes still use that. I think it would be best if you call him whatever he is pleased to hear you call him. Do you happen to know his name? That usually works well. If you do not know his name by now, are you sure you have had the same gnome all along?

Please stock your lair with some interesting contraptions as long as you know you have gnome(s) wandering about it. That, or unique hoard items are always fun to find.

[sparkcal]

is it normal to have a blight dragon on the blight shard i mean theres selarth for the order shard but is it ok to have one on the blight shard? -confused with doubt

[awdz]

is it normal to have a blight dragon on the blight shard i mean theres selarth for the order shard but is it ok to have one on the blight shard? -confused with doubt

There is Blight on all the shards, with plenty of undead Blighted dragons. Any dragon affected/powered by Blight that does not seek to kill Gifted on sight is an extreme aberration compared with everything the imperial scholars have studied. That said, I do not know of anything on the Blight shard preventing it from having the same things that exist on Order or Chaos. Personally, I would be wary of approaching any Blighted dragon until sure of what to expect from it.

[awdz]

((oh man i gotta try this))

Dear Awdz,
Have you ever heard of Chocolate Gnomes? Many dragons like to eat them, but certainly I don't being a Helian and all...anyhow do you really think they are gnomes that were dipped in chocolate.... or simply chocolate in the shape of gnomes? I don't think I will ever look at chocolate the same again.
Sincerely,
Concerned-Helian

P.S What is in Klava anyways?

((that was fun, hope it wasnt horrible cant wait for Awdz's reply""

Mmmm, chocolate gnomes! A wonderful variation on the gingerbread gnomes baking concept. At Gnomekindle there were all kinds of goodies to be had, and I always favor the chocolate kind. They are delicious! They are not just gingerbread gnomes dipped in chocolate, but a special treat all their own.

I do not think you need worry about eating them as a Helian; I've never seen a dragon take ill from them or anything. If you ever get the chance to have some, I highly recommend enjoying chocolate gnomes.

And by all means, have some klava to wash it down! I do not know what your favorite wake up beverage is, but mine involves lots of chocolate. Everyone's klava is specific to them, so there are no ingredients that I can say are included in every cup.

Oh now you've made me all hungry! *scampers off to get a snack*