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Story in caption. Week 9 - Lost Balance

I am delighted to affirm that last week I met researchers from the brilliant gnomish design and engineering company ‘Tinker Toll’. Being a gnome myself, how could I resist an invitation to their main research and development facility? And I feel like I am in tinkering heaven! Their current R&D focus is the creation of dragons that are animated by an intricate union of biologics, mechanics and magic. Semi sentient and way meeker than their mighty paragons, Tinker Toll predicts for them to bring our lives and economy to a whole new level. Yet, as always, working at the ultimate frontier of science and magic, things are bound to go wrong at the first attempts. But because of the gnomes’ deep love for their creations and their firm belief that everything has a function - even as a lesson on how not to do something - they keep and treasure every prototype from their projects. I especially liked one called Drang. This prototype burned alcohol to power the mechanical parts of the construction. Yet, the engineers never managed to seal the fuel lines tightly. So thanks to the constant internal leakage of alcohol, it was drunk permanently, and it lost its balance completely. After several failed attempts to seal the lines, they retired the prototype to a cushioned compound erected to keep it safe.

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Week 11 - Element of Fear

I have limited alchemical and thaumaturgic knowledge. But I know that all the surrounding matter comprises chemical elements interacting with magical fields and particles. Apparently, on other planes, unique elements exist. From the ravaging planes of evil, bold gnomish explorers brought back a hitherto unknown element. Striking profound fear into the heart of anyone looking, they aptly called it ‘element of fear’ and designated it the three letter symbol ‘Ono’! Curious as we gnomes are, the Tinker Toll R&D department promptly set out to explore applications for the new element. The most distinguished schools for training heros are constantly looking for new teaching tools. So they designed one of their bio-mechanical and magical dragons, made of Ono. Aiming to create the most fearsome creature, they constructed it as a tool to toughen up the heroes in training, teaching them methods to control their fear. But the biological components turned out to be the breaking point of the design. While the Ono worked just fine on the outside, it also upset the inside. The dragon’s behavior ruined the intended fearsomeness, as it tried to hide from everything, trembling in deadly terror! Only the most empathic of Tinker Toll’s employees can attend the poor prototype.

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