First to answer Salazar's post:
yes, the bodies of homins obviously must be able to transform/digest Goo - because no homin who has been poisoned by the Goo has ever infected other homins and we never had to put anyone who survived a short-termed Goo-infection under quarantine, as seemingly the Goo-infection heals up all by itself. Homins can also live close to Goo-sources for a very long while without going mad beyond control or turning unreasonably aggressive, like a bunch of Goo-tribes do.
About events:
The first Goo-event was launched at the end of Open Beta in the night of September 13th 2004; featuring Goo-infected ("poisonous") Gibbai, Ragus' and Yelks with french names - plus attackable Goo-sources/Goo-mounds with health-points that later on turned healable for a very short time, as some players might remember. Sadly the CD with all my screenshots from that time could not be read any longer one day and not forseeing this I hadn't made a copy :(
On Leanon the second Goo-event was in April 2005, called "das Goo ist aufgewühlt" ("the Goo is stirring"). http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=13695 A General called Bai-Jimao, "healer of the holy order", wanted to research the Goo because of rumors and was accompanied to the rims of the Goo by a group of valiant homins. Later on the General wrote a letter in which he explained that the "bubbles" and "shifts" of the Goo were getting more active and dangerous.
The General himself did not return though, and because of this the healer Sheng Yanfan went searching for him, with the help of a group of homins. Bai-Jimao's tame gingo was found Goo-infected on the way - he carried a letter from Bai-Jimao in which the General was calling for help because he had become Goo-infected. The General was found inside the Goo and saved, but his sickness had made him mad - he cried out that "they" were gathering in the Goo and would attack the cities before the next winter. The healer Sheng Yanfan claimed that he would need flesh and/or blood from the creatures who had infected the General Bai-Jimao to be able to heal him.
On April 23rd, 2005 three Goo-sources welled up from the ground in the Witherings and poisonous Gibbai started to invade the amber cities. They were non-aggressive though, maybe because of their Goo-infection. After killing a number of Gibbai, a more dangerous Gibbai appeared at each of the Goo-sources, and after this one had been killed too the sources themselves also vanished. But still more and more Goo-infected Gibbai came out of the Goo and even appeared from nowhere in the cities of intuition... Also two more Goo-sources were sighted; located in Void and in Knot of Dementia, where no Gibbai spawned at all.
On April 26th, 2005 we were told OOC by GMs that the Goo-event had to be "interrupted" for a while, and the Gibbai stopped spawning - but the event was never continued afterwards and no GM ever wanted to talk to us about all of this as if it had never happened :(
yes, the bodies of homins obviously must be able to transform/digest Goo - because no homin who has been poisoned by the Goo has ever infected other homins and we never had to put anyone who survived a short-termed Goo-infection under quarantine, as seemingly the Goo-infection heals up all by itself. Homins can also live close to Goo-sources for a very long while without going mad beyond control or turning unreasonably aggressive, like a bunch of Goo-tribes do.
About events:
The first Goo-event was launched at the end of Open Beta in the night of September 13th 2004; featuring Goo-infected ("poisonous") Gibbai, Ragus' and Yelks with french names - plus attackable Goo-sources/Goo-mounds with health-points that later on turned healable for a very short time, as some players might remember. Sadly the CD with all my screenshots from that time could not be read any longer one day and not forseeing this I hadn't made a copy :(
On Leanon the second Goo-event was in April 2005, called "das Goo ist aufgewühlt" ("the Goo is stirring"). http://forums.ryzom.com/showthread.php?t=13695 A General called Bai-Jimao, "healer of the holy order", wanted to research the Goo because of rumors and was accompanied to the rims of the Goo by a group of valiant homins. Later on the General wrote a letter in which he explained that the "bubbles" and "shifts" of the Goo were getting more active and dangerous.
The General himself did not return though, and because of this the healer Sheng Yanfan went searching for him, with the help of a group of homins. Bai-Jimao's tame gingo was found Goo-infected on the way - he carried a letter from Bai-Jimao in which the General was calling for help because he had become Goo-infected. The General was found inside the Goo and saved, but his sickness had made him mad - he cried out that "they" were gathering in the Goo and would attack the cities before the next winter. The healer Sheng Yanfan claimed that he would need flesh and/or blood from the creatures who had infected the General Bai-Jimao to be able to heal him.
On April 23rd, 2005 three Goo-sources welled up from the ground in the Witherings and poisonous Gibbai started to invade the amber cities. They were non-aggressive though, maybe because of their Goo-infection. After killing a number of Gibbai, a more dangerous Gibbai appeared at each of the Goo-sources, and after this one had been killed too the sources themselves also vanished. But still more and more Goo-infected Gibbai came out of the Goo and even appeared from nowhere in the cities of intuition... Also two more Goo-sources were sighted; located in Void and in Knot of Dementia, where no Gibbai spawned at all.
On April 26th, 2005 we were told OOC by GMs that the Goo-event had to be "interrupted" for a while, and the Gibbai stopped spawning - but the event was never continued afterwards and no GM ever wanted to talk to us about all of this as if it had never happened :(
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