Zynx sent the following report to TMN:
Heya folks,
I discovered a lone earth-zu today in NWF. I spent some time observing its specific properties. Here is what I discovered:
1. Earth-zu is extremely hardy. Regular zu takes me one hit to kill most of the time. Earth-zu plants took me on average 3-6 hits to kill.
2. Earth-zu is also harder to hit. Although I hit the zu most of the time, I wiffed it a good 2 out of 10 swings. Also, when Relkin (he was with me for some of the time) morphed to a vermin, he had a hard time hitting the Earth-zu.
3. The original plant took a long time to die: 45 OOC minutes or so. This is a lot longer than the original seed in regular zu takes to die.
4. Earth-zu grows much slower than regular zu. New seedlings appear once every 10-15 OOC minutes!
5. The seedlings often grow into slightly different colors. Whether this means anything, I am not sure.
6. When a full grown plant finally dies, it does not do so gradually, it just disappears.
I was unable to get any seedlings, unfortunately. It seems these new zu are both rare and hard to harvest. Good luck to anyone who encounters more of these odd zus.
Thought you folks might be interested.
BEER!
-Zynx
Posted by Para at October 15, 2005 06:43 PM