Twice in a row my gong has come up with 'the gong grants wisdom' but nothing happened. Am I missing something?!

I have a lady who is 59 (or something like that!) and she is master at everything except she is an adept builder.

I've taken to using an untrained villager to bang the gong. The hope being that if the effect is bad it can't do too much harm to the gong-ringer. Even if he's killed the loss is less. Twice running I've had "The gong grants wisdom". The first time the villager became a Master Scientist , which is fair enough. The second became a Master Parent.

From what I've learned the gong result doesn't necessarily affect the ringer. I had an elder ring the gong which granted youth resulting in another elder turning into a five year old.

I had a couple of days of travel so today I rang the gong and it took health. But - I do now have a 2-year old that is probably already an Adept Doctor. I'll take that as a good one! LOL

Ok... I feel like one of my slow to learn villagers... I rang the gong again. I'm asking myself why, WHY, WHY, WHY!!! The last time was such horrible result (over 75k in food taken away)that I have been too scared to ring the gong since. Then tonight my nephew said he wanted someone to ring the gong. So, I rang the gong. Nope, didn't lose 75k in food... lost 790k in food!!

I guess it's alright... my village was becoming a doomsday, stockpiling, fundaMENTAList group with all that food just laying around. So now my little 50 person village is back to farming out of necessity and not out of habit.

When it comes to the gong... JUST SAY NO.

Backup your save game file before you ring the gong. If you are unhappy with the result, restore your save game file, undoing the negative result. You may continue doing this until you get an effect you like.

This method could also be used if someone would like to create a "Gong Effects" guide similar to the one esteemed elder has for island events.

How do you make villagers sick?,so you can use your healers.

One time when I rung the gong flower petals came out and it said it granted vision. When I looked at my graveyard it looked like a ghost was there. Did anyone else get this?

Yeah, I noticed that too, Renji.