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Wooly the Bat

Monster type: Trickster (Motivation: to create Chaos)

Wooly the Bat is an animated character from the early days of animation. He is also an actual vampire that spreads a dangerous mutating plague wherever he goes.

Wooly the Bat is the star of Feeding Follies, a 1928 Animated short produced by Maneater Studios (at least they are the ones credited, no information on Maneater studios seems to exist). The short was never released to theaters and remains an obscure footnote in animation history, highly sought after by collectors.

Feeding Follies is a 7 minute long short which consists of Wooly the Bat, an anthropomorphic vampire bat living in a decrepit haunted town called “Ghostberg”, searching for someone he can bite and drain blood from. He encounters various anthropomorphic animal monsters: A cat witch, a Mummy duck, a Frankenstein monster like creature made of a combination of cow and pig parts, all done in the same cutesy rubber hose animated style. Each individual is unable or unwilling to feed Wooly. Eventually he becomes dejected and morose, and looks at the screen, before smiling and saying “Oh, I think my luck has changed.” Before the film abruptly ends.

From the few people who have seen it, there seems to exist a second alternate version of the short, in which Wooly does not appear at all; all scenes with him are just empty and silent. Any scenes that feature another character have Wooly absent, and the other character standing around awkwardly, apparently unsure how to proceed.

In truth, there is no second version of the short, the reason Wooly is absent in these viewings is because he is out hunting.

Wooly is not just an animated image, he is a fully sapient creature who is somehow aware of our world, and capable of crossing over to our world. He does not do so every time the film is viewed, but he can every time the film is viewed. Wooly is aware that there is a danger if he is discovered, so he only emerges if he thinks there is no danger to him; he will not reveal himself to a large group of people, and if someone is trying to prove he’s real he’s more than happy to play dumb.

Wooly is a vampire, and as such is compelled to feed on blood. Fortunately he never kills his victims, the problem comes from the fact that his bite infects his victims with a curse that slowly turns his victims into living cartoon characters, who go forth and spread more chaos and destruction in his wake. Wooly does not care for the carnage that comes in his wake, he is only interested in slaking his hunger.

Wooly resembles a three foot tall humanoid bat depicted in grey scale black and white. He is dressed like a stereotypical vampire (complete with cape and widows peak). He has a cute rounded appearance that belies his dangerous nature. Also he always resembles a 2D drawing no matter what angle he is seen from.

Powers: Cartoon immortality and physics, flight, incredible speed. An infectious vampire bite.

Attacks: Bite: 1 harm, intimate, life drain.

Armor: 3 (toon physics)

Harm Capacity: 6

Weaknesses: Wooly has a few weaknesses.

Firstly he cannot be away from his home for long. If he stays out of his movie for more than twelve hours he begins to melt into a puddle of ink, permanently killing him. All copies of his film are portals to the same domain, so as long as one exists he can jump into it regardless of the format (If it ends up on the internet he may become unstoppable).

Secondly, Wooly has the standard vampire weaknesses…. After a fashion. Sunlight will make him look scorched and smolder but will not actually hurt him, What can really harm him are T Bone Steaks, which both repel him, and if he is hit in the chest with one he will fall down and appear dead until its removed. It doesn’t actually harm him, but the compulsion is so strong he cannot resist.

Third, paint thinners and cleaning solutions can melt his body and potentially destroy him.

Toon Flu

Phenomenon type: Teratogen (Motivation: To turn people and creatures into monsters)

This is a magical plague/cure which is spread by Wooly’s bite. It can also be spread by the ink sweat of those in the late stages of infection. This curse causes a victim to slowly be overtaken and transformed into exaggerated cartoon characters.

The disease has several stages:

Initial infection: immediately after exposure the affected area begins to ooze black ink. The victim suffers an elevated temperature but is otherwise fine.

Stage one: The victim becomes full of energy, beginning to feel hyperactive and impulsive. They also begin to sweat black ink.

Stage two: The victim becomes more erratic, the ink sweat begins to coat their body, except for their faces, they still look mostly human, just wearing a latex body suit.

Stage three: The ink body suit begins to swell out into the form of a cartoon animal, the victim becomes even more erratic and irrational, and their original personality starts to be subsumed under a new, toony personality. An animal head begins to form around their normal head, making them look like they are in a mascot costume.

Stage four: The ink coating swells out more, it is no longer possible to see the human the victim used to be under the costume. At this point the victims personality is completely overtaken, to the point they no longer remember their old life. A victim can still be saved at this point, but time is running out.

Stage five: Indistinguishable from the previous stage, but at this point the human within the cartoon character has been totally dissolved, at this point the original person is effectively dead and all that is left is the toon.

Stage six (Terminal): Eventually, the Toon will slow down, and begin to melt, leaving behind a puddle of ink and a pile of human bones.

The transformation process takes approximately 24 hours to reach stage five, after that the new toon will live twelve hours before stage six takes hold.

In addition to this effect, any inanimate object that comes into contact with the ink will turn into a cartoony version of itself in a matter of minutes. Fully transformed creatures and objects are not infectious, only the ink in its raw form is.

Weakness: In order to cure the Toon Flu in its early stages, a victim must be scrubbed with bleach, paint thinner, or some other chemical that will dissolve the ink. This is easy enough with the early stage victims, but later stage victims will be much more difficult to hold down and keep still long enough to wash.

Living toons

Minion type: Plague (Motivation: To swarm and destroy)

These are late stage victims of the flu. They resemble black and white humanoid cartoon animals. They are extremely chaotic and destructive, often running around causing chaos every which way.

Powers: Cartoon physics.

Attack: Cartoony implement of violence: 2 harm, hand, Loud, Quick

Armor: 1 (cartoon body)

Harm capacity: 3

Weaknesses: Paint thinners and anything that will dissolve ink. Eventually melt away to nothing once the virus runs its course.

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