LJ Release 92: Bubonic Boogaloo!

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OCD-free mayhem is go. Discuss, suggest, have fisticuffs with ruminants, bring pie and/or cake.

Random Event for Thursday: Evil Goat Invasion!

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In news utterly unrelated to any OOC events of the day, on Thursday, Fandom Island will be invaded by five hundred and three evil gray yellow-eyed goats that seem to appear out of nowhere. Their goal: to devour anything communications or information-related that they can find! Letters, books, your homework, your iPad, your phone, the wires to your network connections, the radio squirrels... all fair game.

Magic won't banish them. Teleportation won't touch them. Guns, edged weapons and energy beams will only make them cry. You don't want them to cry. They're really, really creepy when they cry. (The occasional very very evil goat will bring out his own weapons instead of weeping at you. Or even worse, while weeping at you. )

The only way to get rid of them is to punch them. Hard.

When you do so, 99% of the time, the goats will vanish into a puff of fur and smoke, and you might be lucky enough to get your chewed-up stuff back unharmed. Or not. (All radio squirrels will, however, be returned undamaged. If slightly slobbered on.)

The remaining 1% of the time, the goats will melt into a sticky puddle of varnish, instead. So... if you're worried, try to punch them on a table?

Goats are udderly utterly moddable, but if you'd like an NPC ruminant, we'll toss up a post tomorrow morning for that, too.

And yes, they really are evil; those characters who can sense such things are welcome to pick up their black, malicious auras.