[Spoon-business] Now with 35% more foomp

["Alex Truelsen" <a_skywalker85@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You cannot escape the foomp.

                                            -BvS-

I propose:

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__Foomp__

[[Well, it was another lovely day on the Grid. The sun was shining, the 
world had just been righted, all DimShips had vanished from existence, and I 
had just landed, in the Team Turquoise end zone, on a no loner flaming but 
still quite warm Grid. Lovely. As I stood there, hopping around to cool my 
feet, and wondering when Wonko, off towards Grid central, would wander over 
to the Football and toss it my way, my belt-mounted Bonus Box Detecto-Matic 
Radar Thingy (TM) suddenly began beeping wildly. I pulled the thing off and 
looked at the display. Just south of my position, a blip. I looked that way, 
but Bonus Boxes have a nasty habit of not being visible until uncovered.

Let's see, a Bonus Box... could be a lot of things, among them gnomes, 
points... a wide grin crossed my face at the very idea of all the good 
things that could happen. Obviously, I had to have it. So, trying to run 
over and blow on my feet simultaneously, I managed to fall down repeatedly, 
but reached the box in due course.

Upon reaching the box?s location, I dug around for a bit, until the Box was 
before me, shining dully in the sunlight. I grabbed the lid and opened it, 
reached in, and pulled out... a limp arm? Suddenly, a hissing sound of 
compressed air being released told me I had gotten more than I had bargained 
for. As the Siren expanded, I tried to run, but then the song started. A 
melody soothing and attracting, luring and possessing, it was all I could do 
to take another step, then another, then...

Rooted to the spot, I fought to ignore the creature, but I knew I was 
trapped. Unless... I grabbed my Rule-Making Omni-Gadget Thingy (TM) with the 
wireless modem and fired off an entry to Rules.nom, hoping it might save 
me.]]

Add to the end of section B of Rule 441/2 the following SHESGOTME delimited 
text:

SHESGOTME
B.14. Bomb Gnomes

There exist Gnomes of type Bomb. A player with a Bomb Gnome may throw it at 
a Grid location, a Big Rock, or another player. If a player throws a Bomb 
Gnome at a Grid Location, the Bomb Gnome is destroyed and that Grid 
location's substance becomes Fire for one nweek. If a player throws a Bomb 
Gnome at a Big Rock, the Bomb Gnome is destroyed and that Big Rock and any 
Sirens on it are destroyed. If a player throws a Bomb Gnome at another 
player, and the targeted player fails to catch it within 3 ndays, the Bomb 
Gnome is destroyed, the targeted player loses 15 points, the targeted player 
is placed in Limbo, and the substance of eir Grid location is set to Fire 
for one nweek. If the targeted player catches the Bomb Gnome, 1d(4-n) is 
rolled, where n is the number of times the Bomb Gnome has been thrown. On a 
1, the Bomb Gnome is destroyed, the targeted player loses 15 points, the 
targeted player is placed in Limbo, and the substance of eir Grid location 
is set to Fire for one nweek.
SHESGOTME

Add to the end of section C of Rule 441/2 the following HELPME delimited 
text:

HELPME
A Fire Gnome plus an Air Gnome plus an Earth Gnome makes a Bomb Gnome.
HELPME

[[Then, my resistance wearing thin, I waited. I tried biting my lip, hoping 
the pain would keep me in reality. Then, just as I felt I would soon bite 
completely through, there was a beep from my Omni-Gadget. Success! Good. 
Looking into my Gnome Bag, I grabbed the needed Gnomes and rammed them 
together at high speed. Taking the resulting Bomb Gnome, I spun around and 
hurled it at the Siren.

That was three months ago. I'm still here, and she's still singing. A tip to 
all of you: when you throw a Gnome, make sure you take aim first, and don?t 
throw while spinning. Sorry, Wonko. How's Limbo?]]
}}

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