Halloween 2k5: Grunny Invasion

The Recreation of the G-Virus event took place on October 28 2005. The halloween event essently brought the site to its knees with too many users accessing it at once.

Bucho invited everybody to the mansion for a halloween party. In the update, Gino was wondering whether he would meet Gambino's fate, then showed Ian and Sasha around the new mansion, where it is revealed he has rebuilt the Underground Research Facility, although he doesn't mean it to be secret. Gino invites Sasha to the mansion for dinner. Ian then tries to reveal what he found to Sasha to keep her from going, but he can't find the item, which is possibly the bottle of pills.

The scene switches to the research facility, where LabTech 123 has recreated the G-virus using samples from Grunny's DNA. The power goes out and the cage release is pulled by a mysterious figure, who turns out to be LabTech X. This started a forum game where users posted to capture grunnies for items and eventual transformation. The stages of the infection were as follows:


 * 15 grunnies: Initial Symptoms. The user received a Grunny Shirt.
 * 35 grunnies: Impaired Motor Functions. The user received a pair of Grunny Slippers.
 * 176 grunnies: Total Incapacitation. The user's Avatar's skin turned a grayish color and gained reddish orange eyes.
 * 350 grunnies: Initial Transformation. The Avatar's skin turned completely white and grew what appeared to be stubby rabbit ears.
 * 500 grunnies: Complete Tansformation. A Grunny had been incubating inside of the user the whole time and it manifests itself gnawing on the avatar's head.

The event was ended 6 hours early so the Trick-or-Treating event could be fixed to handle the high number of users that would be on Gaia.