@EgonVM The part with the gnomes reminded me of an anecdote from The Sims 3:
One time, I was playing a regular household, and I decided to get the alchemy thing for fun. I had one of my sims start placing random things (mainly old newspapers) onto it and turn them into gold. Eventually, I thought it would be funny to try to turn a gnome into gold. Unfortunately, this is when the spell backfired, and my sim got turned into a golden statue and died. The statue remained even after his death and sometimes I would see it in my peripheral vision and get spooked. I’m still weary of gnomes in The Sims to this day.
