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Oh, my god. I'd totally forgotten about this until I spotted it on Bittorrent just now. Has anybody else (except Cichli and XOR) seen the "Eating Pattern" episode of Lexx? It was another major influence on Strangewarp, and if anybody interested in Strange can get a hold of it, they should watch it. I don't remember every detail of the plot [update: plot!], but the characters land on a planet infected by parasites that turn their victims into creepy, blissed-out idiots obsessed with sex, violence, and the disgusting overconsumption of a bioactive called "Pattern." (Of course, Strangevirus doesn't induce idiocy -- if anything, I would imagine it making you too damn intelligent to remain sane, like the Neural Chernobyl virus from Bruce Sterling's Globalhead, which is also decent Puzzlebox material if a bit Terracentric.)