*smiling warmly and confidently*
"Ah, but a hundred years is but a day to a mighty dragon, and merely a long week-end to his faithful and powerful gnomish servants."
*bowing*
"Our thanks to you, sir, for your fateful service. If you would be so kind as to give us sufficient directions and a description of our destination, then we shall depart. Rest assured that we will soon supplant those pesky 'gaw-blins' that plague our dragon leige and once we again rule the lands in his name, your assistance shall not be easily forgotten."
*after getting sufficent directions, he turns to the others, and says in a high, squeaky voice*
"My friends! We are off! We shall brave the dangers of the plains and soon find the dragon we seek! It shall be a glorious journey of danger and woe, but though we may not all survive, we shall be triumphant! And soon all the world will know that we, the gnomes of the Dragon, are the gnomes who serve the mighty dragon!" *he waits for the cheer* *Cheer?* "Well, Let us go!"
*he boldly strides out*