{"id":1103,"date":"2010-03-04T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:46:59","slug":"plant-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2010\/03\/plant-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Merdi, day 8 of Summer, 578<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen many strange invasions in the more than four decades I&#8217;ve lived in Puddleby (my, how time flies!), but none quite so strange as the one I saw today.  Apparently, many forest creatures aren&#8217;t too happy with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoomcare.com\/archives\/003541.html\">new road to UoP<\/a> that was built recently (and I can&#8217;t blame them&#8211; I&#8217;m not too thrilled with it either).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the forest actually decided to do something about it, leading to Puddleby&#8217;s first kudzu invasion.  The usual muddy streets of Puddleby were filled end to end with kudzu, making it nearly impossible to move.  The kudzu were aided by patches of <a href=\"http:\/\/puddleopedia.org\/entry.php?n=Entry.Corsica\">Corsica<\/a>, which are especially deadly when you&#8217;re immobile, as well as Tree Giants and packs of foxweirs.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the townsfolk were able to push the forest creatures back, and started clearing the road to UoP, which was completely covered in kudzu.  I tagged along, planting a few seedlings along the way (they actually look rather nice on the side of the road).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1107\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/files\/2010\/03\/kudzu-road.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/files\/2010\/03\/kudzu-road.gif\" alt=\"Kudzu Road\" title=\"Kudzu Road\" width=\"346\" height=\"254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Follow the kudzu-covered road<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The invasion culminated in a big battle in front of the University, where exiles were finally able to overwhelm the forest.  There were a few more waves of plants in town, and one kudzu even made some half-hearted attempts at negotiating with exiles, but eventually they ended up being smoked by the pirate, <a href=\"http:\/\/josh.trexion.com\/pirates\/\">Stinkfist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1110\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/files\/2010\/03\/jaqen-negotiates-kudzu.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1110\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/files\/2010\/03\/jaqen-negotiates-kudzu.png\" alt=\"Jaqen Negotiates Kudzu\" title=\"Jaqen Negotiates\" width=\"293\" height=\"208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1110\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaqen: Kudzu Negotiator<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So it looks like the ugly road to the University is here to stay.  The only question that remains is: what are we going to do with all this mulch?<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1112\" style=\"width: 457px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/files\/2010\/03\/kudzu-town-center.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1112\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/files\/2010\/03\/kudzu-town-center.png\" alt=\"Kudzu Town Center Puddleby\" title=\"Kudzu Town Center\" width=\"447\" height=\"394\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1112\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last of the kudzu invaders<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merdi, day 8 of Summer, 578 I&#8217;ve seen many strange invasions in the more than four decades I&#8217;ve lived in Puddleby (my, how time flies!), but none quite so strange as the one I saw today. Apparently, many forest creatures aren&#8217;t too happy with the new road to UoP that was built recently (and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[52,72,75],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}