# of sips ... Reason 1 ... For every 'Molten Gold/Bronze', 'Sapphire Blue', 'Harper Blue', 'Emerald Green', 'Klah Brown', etc. you impress. 2 ... For every one you named. 1 ... For every similar dragon name you spot. 2 ... For every pair of dragons you spot with the same name. 1 ... For every bronze hatchling in a Big Black Egg. 1 ... For every green hatchling in a Coppery Bronze Egg. 1 ... For every time a 'wedge-shaped head' is mentioned. 1 ... Every time the steward/headwoman impresses bronze/gold. 1 ... Every time your FLs routinely lug around your stuff. 1 ... Every time your weyrmate's dragon flies your own/you fly your weyrmate's dragon. 2 ... If it's a WL flight. 1 ... For every weyrling that goes idle cos they didn't like the dragon they Impressed, even tho it's the color they asked for. 1 ... Every time someone gets on your dragon w/o asking. 1 ... Every time someone goes around picking up FLs. 2 ... Every time someone tries to pick up your dragon. 1 ... Every time someone goes around saying 'Red Star!' to clean up all the FLs. 1 ... Every time a dragon rumbles, warbles, bugles, trumpets, or croons. 1 ... Every time a FL croons, chitters, chirrups, or warbles. 1 ... Every time a dragon's hide matches the rider's eyes. 1 ... Every time a dragon or FL makes an anthropomorphic pose (winks, shrugs, etc). 1 ... If your FL is sitting around and a couple starts TSing where it can see. 2 ... If your FL poses, and they don't stop. 1 ... If you impress an FL you didn't really pose to. 1 ... For every FL or dragon that should be chromatic but has a metallic tinge to its hide. 1 ... For every Really Big Bronze or Brown. 1 ... For every sickly blue. 3 ... For every sickly bronze that gets RPed that way after impression. 1 ... For a sickly FL who impresses to a healer who then tends to it lovingly. 2 ... For a sickly gold/bronze that dies just before or after impression. 2 ... For all the OOC bitching and IC whining about the poor thing's death. 3 ... If someone writes a song about it. 3 ... For someone who has more than 5 FLs and actually RPs the terrors of mass feedings and oilings. 1 ... Every time the gold hatches and everyone immediately ignores any other FLs to spam for it. 2 ... Every time a long person goes after the ignored hatchling. 1 ... Every time someone poses thoughts to a dragon or FL.
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