1. Sometimes I look over the ledge of a Firestorm Citadel floor, and want to just walk and fall to my death. However, when I try to walk over, I only walk in a repetitive motion without falling off, as if there was an imaginary wall there. Does this have to do with the knight's automatic ability to sense danger, the laws of physics of Cradle, the fact there really is an invisible wall there, all of them, or none of them?
2. How is it bosses revive and arise from the dead? I've killed Lord Vanaduke 696969 times already........
3. We have all heard of the Radiant Fire Crystal drought by now. Does this have to do with an enemy thieving them, a problem with temperature levels in Cradle, or are being used for the production of new guns and gunner armors in the so called Gunner Update?
4. What exactly are Grimalkins? Where did they originate and for what purpose? Why were they made, and why are they invincible? Is there anything that can possibly destroy them?

I apologize if these questions have been asked.

Have we seen gremlin eyes?

Yes. Hello Nonna.

Why do gremlins wear goggles all the time?

Why don't you try burning down a poisonous infested laboratory chock-full of explosives next time without visual protection?

Why don't they reveal their eyes?

They don't want to be identified as traitors to Tinkinzar.

Do they even have eye-

Before you ask, look at the first question again.

Rather simple? Warmaster Seerus-Voltbreaker wants to have tea time with you.

As for the knights, why is it that we need a "token/ticket" to allow us to change eyes? How can we change height as we please with these "tickets", as well as personal colors?

@Potatoe
http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Nonna
I'm pretty sure those are goggles, rather than an intricate fur design used to attract mates due to its striking difference among others of the same kind.

The knights could take a stab with the gun, but the way the blade is positioned would make it ineffective as a melee weapon.

Also, knights are bio-mechanical for lack of a better term. The tickets for heights and eye shapes pretty much alter the code of a Knight to the specified state. Pretty simple in concept.

I don't have much expertise in the study of gremlin language, I'll leave it to someone else.

We may be very biological, but we are in part mechanical, however it is hard to know to exactly what degree.

Also, code was referring to the Knight equivalent of DNA but also possibly to actual coding.

Who knows. I surely don't :3

The Fang of Vog is actually a prototype energy collector/sword hybrid that spends most of its non-combat time harvesting copious amounts of energy; however, due to how frequently it is used in battle, large deposits of energy are not possible, as the "battery" would be damaged severely every battle, resulting in potentially disastrous results, as shown by the proto-prototypes (yes, it was so dangerous the prototype had a protoype). This means that there is only a small, but still devastating, capacity for energy to be stored; the blade converts the excess energy into heat which is then applied to the blade of the weapon, raising its temperature high enough to set enemies aflame from ordinary sword swings. For this reason, it is often placed away from the other assortments in a knight's arsenal. However, due to the nature of how the energy collector works, it appears to also absorb some of the momentum of the blade when swung, making ordinary strikes inferior to, say, a Combuster.

When the Fang of Vog is charged and released, it executes an order that releases the highly volatile stores of energy inside the weapon at once, engulfing the user in a blaze of flame whose heat has been said to roast marshmallows a hundred feet away. The explosive blast is so powerful that it swings the user around several revolutions, oftentimes hitting stationary hostiles consecutively, more often than not completely obliterating their ashes. Fortunately, a standard knight's power armor is able to resist the blaze, though non-flaming monsters beg to differ. In the case of the user, however, he or she is in the heart of the blaze, where the temperature is somehow even more intense the already incredibly fiery perimeter explosion. Due to the Fang of Vog being a protoype, the temperature at the center of each explosion fluctuates, and it is almost entirely up to chance whether or not the knight will catch aflame.

Brinks will only award these highly dangerous armaments to knights who have shown themselves to have braved the Firestorm Citadel innumerable times, currently a site where recons will often cloak and sleep in without need of a blanket due to the high temperatures there. It was dubbed the Fang of Vog from Stranger folklore, though I am not a historian or mythologist. There is no such thing as magic, no matter the beliefs of the local landlords.

^These sound really painful. Reconstruction? OUCH.

"Do you know what Vog is? There's a link conveniently at the top of the page you linked. Do you think Fist of Guthix is Guthix's actual fist? :P "

I should've phrased my question a little better. I was wondering how the knights go about acquiring Vog teeth, and how they forge them into swords (I was sort of hoping for your speculation).

How do Impostocubes get their mustaches and pipes?

Well, the Impostocubes are well groomed jelly cubes, so I propose that the hair is made up of dried cells similar to the spikes, but not completely dry so that it can take the shape it has. As for the pipes, they're probably littered about some areas of the clockworks where knights that smoke had left them. Normal jellies ignore them, however the impostos would've picked it up (by sliding over it and then absorbing it, ewww)
Another possible explanation would be knights with toupees and dappers die the hair and pipe stay and jellies take them.

My theories anyway. It is slight proof of the former theory because some knights have been seen with a pipe. As for the latter theory, we see some knights with hair, so yeah.

Maybe Nick just spawns them from his magical impostocube body.

How do knights receive the Iron Wolf, Dragon, Wolver Tail, and other items from Steam?
Surely that's magic!

How do knights receive the Iron Wolf, Dragon, Wolver Tail, and other items from Steam?

Steam is short for Snipes Tasked for Espionage, Additionally Miscellaneous (deeds). They are the reason you randomly get mail in the middle of intense combat, and put their life on the life every day in order to deliver the mail, as well as other tasks.

The Iron Costumes were recently released to avid collectors in order to supplement the Spiral Order's funds to trade with Strangers.

And that is why you should never have do acronyms ever.

Why does the cobalt armor line not provide any shock resistance, but also not provide any fire weakness too? Exception with Almirian Crusader Armor. Shouldn't knights be roasted inside with such a metal armor, and as for why there should be shock resistance...

sandwitch, those are the standard weapons and armor of the order, we had them before we went on cradle and as such before we knew about damage types existing on cradle. the morai used more piercing than elemental, that is why we have piercing armor.

Punch has many ways to get a UV. he decides on instinct, that's why it's random.

vise uses the energy you give him to reset the weapon to its original state (which is why it loses heat levels, too.)
yes, we could give that job to a knight of the order, but he does its job every time without failing, so we keep him.

slooms are still there, but we are not allowed to enter in contact with them until we have proper defenses against that buggy stat-I mean, until we are use that the sleep protection we are wearing is the right one. till now, it has been revealed that it is not working as expected.

see the answer for grimalkins for the owlite things.

how do we get into the citadel exactly?

i't all I've got for now, I gotta go to bed.

I mean, INFILTRATING the Jelly King Palace HAVE BEEN COMPLETED ALREADY!

Except that Recon Rangers are equipped with lightweight armor to reduce noise, and that they would stand no chance against even a group of minis, let alone a big tummy that can spawn dozens of them. Also, jellies originally in the palace were capable of producing deadly biotoxins that would kill any trespasser within seconds; recons with gas masks, supported by S.T.E.A.M., assisted in high-priority assassinations. It took days; oh, the days I spent treating people blubbering about purple plastic beavers and Luminite cookies.

And they already WERE in the Wildwoods; they set up the beast bells, remember?

And the IMF; Gremlin espionage.

And FSC; S.T.E.A.M. comes once again! It's like mail; a letter, but it's public.

Oh, and I just received a new letter from S.T.E.A.M. - they've renamed to Snipes Tasked with Espionage-based Ambitious Missions.

Why do bosses always respawn?

The slooms went to bed.

I think you're getting too meta, Zaffy.

Next.

Well, so what if Sloom bedrooms have slime all over the place like a pillow? Don't oppress the natives.

Do Owlites speak the same language as knights? Their writing is apparently the same, as knights can understand it (An Occurrence at Owlite Keep). In addition, does this also apply to Almirians, as shown in Legion of Almire?

How do jellies talk? Impostoclaus can, unless he's secretly impersonating as a jelly, though I don't know why anyone would do that.

Why is a generic Zombie able to inflict stun with its breath, but other status variations can't have stun supplementing their said status theme?

The bells were placed by fellow Spiral Knights, who couldn't fail to notice that the Snarbolax was immune to harm without being stunned.

I'm going to answer myself and now I have schizophrenia.

Do Owlites speak the same language as knights? Their writing is apparently the same, as knights can understand it (An Occurrence at Owlite Keep). In addition, does this also apply to Almirians, as shown in Legion of Almire?

Owlites and Almirians do share similar enough languages with Spiral Knights for any of them to be able to, with some inferencing, understand each other's penmanship and speech. Assuming they don't have sloppy handwriting.

How do jellies talk? Impostoclaus can, unless he's secretly impersonating as a jelly, though I don't know why anyone would do that.

It seems that some jellies, like a genetic mutation, are capable of higher-level thinking than most of their gelatinous comrades. They are able to move their body cells in certain patterns (shapeshift), and Impostoclaus communicates by "shapeshifting" its body, which his assistant Randolph proceeds to translate and communicate to the knights. At least, that's how it started. More recently, a few technicians have implemented a translator-like device that allows it to voice its thoughts.

Well, since this is my fifth post now, I need to break the fifth wall... Now where is that magical fifth wall?