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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 12, 2006 3:55:55 GMT -5
There's a family a few houses down from us, and I am sure they are Controllers - they all belong to the Sharing and stuff and the father has connections to some well-known Yeerk partnerships. But recently something strange has happened. One of thier teenage kids came round for a sleepover with my sister, and in the morning, they ate oatmeal for breakfast. The yeerk-kid became really strange and crazy! My family thought it was just a game but she kept on shouting the words 'I'm a slave to the yeerks!' as well as stuff which I couldn't understand. A few days later, I saw that Yeerk-family bring home thier shopping - and they had bought a tonne of oatmeal!
Now they are acting very strangly, and other yeerks (I think they are yeerks) are visiting their house - and one yeerk had a GUN! Is this a coincidence or does cereal and rice and stuff have an effect on yeerk bodies?
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Post by pologoddess81 on Jul 12, 2006 5:30:29 GMT -5
Oatmeal? What, like porrige and stuff? Hmm... seems unlikely to me.
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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 12, 2006 8:29:41 GMT -5
well, you never know how they react to that stuff! Maybe there is something in the wheat that affects them. Like some humans are allergic to gluten or whatever.
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Post by logarithm3 on Jul 12, 2006 12:29:16 GMT -5
I have fairly good evidence that it is the maple and ginger flavored oatmeal. and only the instant kind. it seems to be addictive to yeerks, like a narcotic drug. it replaces part of the yeerks' brain (yes they have brains..) and abolishes their need for kandrona rays, after prolonged exposure.
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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 12, 2006 14:40:13 GMT -5
They won't need the kandrona? WHAT?! But that would destroy their only weakness!
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Post by logarithm3 on Jul 12, 2006 14:50:32 GMT -5
yes, but it drives the yeerk insane, and causes it to be able to remain in its host indeterminately.
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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 12, 2006 16:20:47 GMT -5
Oooh. So it's kinda a double edged sword. Drives them insane, but stops them from needing kandrona. Does the host go crazy too or can he act for himself?
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Post by stargater2k on Jul 12, 2006 16:26:34 GMT -5
Host can usually act for himself. Yeerk goes crazy, and is insane while in control. Depends, usually, on the type of the oatmeal.
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Post by logarithm3 on Jul 12, 2006 17:57:07 GMT -5
Yes, the host is apparently unaffected by the Yeerk's madness, and as the Yeerk's brain becomes more damaged it eventually can't control when it is control of its host. Hence, random outbursts.
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Post by stargater2k on Jul 13, 2006 2:55:42 GMT -5
It is considered contraband by the Yeerk Empire. Possession of it is punisheable by death with a Dracon beam.
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Post by jenn21uk on Jul 13, 2006 10:21:54 GMT -5
Right, so it's not really a weapon we could use then, is it. If it ends up with the host dead or in a psych hospital.
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Post by philyp9 on Nov 1, 2007 12:47:33 GMT -5
And I just thought oatmeal was really bad for yeerks.
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Post by helmacronsrule98 on Apr 9, 2008 20:14:02 GMT -5
It has to be instant - maple oatmeal
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Post by Laura* on Apr 16, 2008 15:25:20 GMT -5
Well, I don't like any kind of oatmeal. Period.
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