Dateline: Byzantium 1415 AD
Blob Relinquishes Hold On City
Reports coming in from Byzantium indicate "The Blob", which held the people of that city in its evil thrall for 2 terrifying days, has gone, leaving as mysteriously as it came.
Yet, as our artists impression below shows, nobody amongst Byzantium's booming population of 3 was killed.
Naturally, business in the market quarter has come to a standstill as everybody speculates for hours about this astounding phenomenon.
"It's a warning from the great god Alt-Tab, I tell you" says NoDice, a local carpet vendor. "People expect Alt-Tab to instantly change the world for them. They abuse His generosity too often. When enraged, he destroys the very colours we see, turning everything to grey as a foretaste of the death which awaits us all. It serves us right".
"I blame the government!" complains Maleficence, an army Spearman. "They built this city 10 bloody squares away from Rome, that's just too far. Naturally all our officials are totally corrupt because..er...because, well you know..er..it's the distance...it um..corrupts things...somehow. I hate distance, don't you? Ah, excuse me, I just have to demolish this here tank..."
"This so-called Blob thingy is nothing to worry about" declares citizen Razorwing, a contrarian from Lutetia. "If people would just clean their Windows a bit more often, they'd be able to see the true colour palette of this most wonderous city. Of course everything looks grey if your Windows are dirty, what do you expect?".
Whatever the reason, the world was Saved and 2 days later, when the good citizens of Byzantium woke up, the Blob had vanished. Let us pray it never comes again.
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