29.16 Sapience commands for Prince or Princess alone.

Should a city be successful in forging and filling a great golden egg
with wealth of sufficient value to persuade the great dragon of Sapience
to act on their behalf during the month of Hindyear it is the Prince or
Princess who must determine its actions.

Prince or Princess may type EGGWORTH to assess the worth of the golden
egg to be offered to the dragon. He or she may type DRAGON STATUS to
review the current requests for actions on behalf of the city during the
waking month. The dragon of Sapience is a whimsical beast and has little
time for human foibles. It will bestow three simple boons. The first, to
protect citizens of a favoured city against enemies trespassing on said
city's homesoil. Prince or Princess may type DRAGON PROTECT followed by
the amount of egg-worth to expend on this boon to determine the extent
of the dragon's focus on city protection. Its protection, let it be
said, is deadly and invincible, but not eternal. Secondly it may send
destructive flames to burn fields of those cities listed as enemies of
that which it favours at precisely the point of their crop ripening.
Type DRAGON CROPFLAME followed by the amount of egg-worth to decide on
this route. Thirdly, it may augment the favoured city's own crops by
gift of a blessing rain. Type DRAGON CROPAID followed by the egg-worth
to expend to determine the extent of this boon occupying the dragon's
attention. Use DRAGON RAIN to set the amount of egg-worth used to steal
commodities from about the land to shower them about the streets of your
home city during the autumn months. Bear in mind the dragon will shower
commodities on citizens in the friend-city and only on those citizens not
sharing the location (or adjacent to) enemies.

The dragon of Sapience will return to sleep once it has depleted the
entirety of the various golden egg offerings or at the dawn of the New
Year, whichever comes first. It will then seek to awaken once again on
the subsequent Hindyear. On those years without offerings the dragon
will not come forth.

Be sure that you have allotted your amounts via DRAGON PROTECT, DRAGON
RAIN, DRAGON CROPAID and DRAGON CROPFLAME before the month of Hindyear
else your egg's value will be wasted.

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