Goo Attack - Attack of the fast, hard to see ... cube thing

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At 5pm Wednesday Tuesday (what was I thinking?) SLT, sim Luskwood got hit with a self-replicating cube. In various regions around Second Life over the next 3-4 hours, several other regions (eg: Kuula, Fairchang Island, and Epilais to name a few) have reported sightings and contacted Live Help.

While not very widespread or impressive visually, the replicating cubes moved very, very quickly, and were not always visible. They were all owned by an avatar named "The Gymnast", now missing from Second Life's directory -- Linden Lab is notoriously swift with the ban-stick when a goo attack takes place.
Vessus Candour was momentarily taken aback by their high velocity. "These were the fastest ones I'd seen," she said, " I thought someone was shooting things at first."

Hardworking Linden Liaisons promptly attended affected locations, closed off scripts on those regions, and cleaned up. Final cleanup is still in progress with scripts still disabled in at least one region, but hardly any of the 12,000 residents on the Second Life grid at present are even aware that something happened.

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