Newsreport 1
"– unknown what is causing these changes, but they've sparked in various places all over the globe," the newscaster said, and Richard's eyes bugged out as he saw the picture in the corner of the screen – a coyoteman and a woman who seemed to be halfblue jay, of all things. "No less than twenty outbreaks of what is being called 'zooanthropy' have been seen around the globe. Vivianna has a report, Vivi?"
Vivianna was a wellknown reporter from Spain, who apparently had been caught by these changes as well – she was now a horsewoman, her long black hair now something of a mane. Richard noticed that, despite now being half a different species, she was still a heartbreaker. "Thank you, Harold. As you can see from my own issues, the changes have affected virtually everyone, and the only pattern seems to be original locale, affecting everyone inside a rather fuzzy border, and only creating a specific animalfolk. Each animal has been native to the region where the outbreak occurs. However, each outbreak only seems to last a week, and it does not seem to be contagious."
The camera led to an Indian doctor in a physical room. "Say 'ahh'," the doctor said, and the patient, apparently halfantelope, complied. The voiceover of Vivianna came through:
"Doctors have not found any disease, virus, or other infection to cause 'zooanthropy', as scientists have insisted on dubbing it."
"Zooanthropy is, I suppose, only the proper phrase," said the doctor on the screen in his interview, apparently living somewhere in the US. "I know little of ancient Greek and Latin, but a quick Google will tell you that 'zoo' and 'anthrop' are Greek words, meaning 'animal' and 'human'.
As we all know, lycanthropy is the werewolf curse of the theaters, but this encompasses more species, so we can't call them all wolfmen, now can we?"
Written by Machaeus on 21 November 2015