Sunday, October 09, 2005

Mad Cow disease hits Second Life!

To read about previous cases of Mad Cow disease, click here and here.

The dangerous strain of Mad Cow disease dubbed "Bordemvine Spongy-tummy Encel-apathy" by leading Therian Physicians has once again mutated and this time crossed server boundaries into Second Life!! "We believe we may have found a possible explanation for the disease's sudden ability to transcend server boundaries and infect additional virtual worlds, however it has become extremely difficult to find a living host to study who is infected with the disease." says world-renowned physician, Doctor I. C. Shivers. Apparently, the already brutal disease has further mutated into something even more horrific. It now possesses the ability to infect avatars from completely different virtual worlds! Scientists blame this recent behavior on a small group of Therians who felt the sudden, inexplicable need to reject their previous way of life and move to Second Life. The stresses on their bodies due to the crossover were tremendous, allowing the disease an opportunity to escape and infect others in the Second Life community.

One such avatar was so irrational that she disfigured herself in order to pass as a Therian. She was seen roaming around Paiz proclaiming her superiority over all Therians. Consistent with previous documented cases, she was harassing newbies; criticizing their choice of virtual worlds, sprinkled with some profanity here and there. Luckily, There recently installed a profanity filter. One thing that could not be suppressed, however, were the obscene names she chose for her avatars. As staff member Greeter_Ice banned one of the infected avatars, the virus would duplicate not only itself, but its entire host to continue the harassment. Scientists believe the virus uses harassment as a means of subduing victims it wishes to infect. The disease-stricken avatar was quoted saying such nonsense as "U NEED TO QUIT THIS GAME NOW play SECONDLIFE.com im wanring people". One of the most prominent side effects of this new strain is the inability to speak anything that makes any amount of grammatical sense. Scientists have adopted a name to describe this specific case: The "basket case".

"Avatars who have succumbed to this level of mental deterioration are far beyond hope." claims Doctor I. C. Shivers. The afflicted avatar was promptly put out of her misery. Screenshots of this incident were withheld due to their disturbing content. Therians who find themselves in close proximity to an infected Second Life avatar are reminded to beat the avatar over the head with the nearest heavy object. You'll be doing them a favor.


Jon Quixote was There.

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