Sack Boogies

is this pasteurized or do I have to worry about cowfee tuboogiulosis now

"So, uh, Professor... is this safe to drink?"



Macrocyst: "Oh, yes! Quite so! For although the wild shadow manifestations are malicious in nature, the ones in my laboratory have been safely bound.

"Thanks to our mastery of the New Science, we've been able to entangle Sack Boogies, inverting their instincts and binding their wills to the inner vortices of the precious Boogie Sacks."



"For you see, each Sack Boogie is birthed from shadows of a particular kind, and it is to these shadows that they seek to return at daybreak. Keuriglets, for example, are coffee-type, able to wholly conceal themselves in the shadows of coffee, disappearing entirely from our plane of existence, a process which we refer to as umbrification."



"Other kinds of shadows do not draw the Keuriglets with the same strength, nor can they umbrificate and disumbrificate in such shadows except with difficulty.

"But the Boogie Sacks are engineered to exploit this bond. Once a Sack Boogie has tasted the inner shadows of a Boogie Sack, it will be drawn to it even more strongly than to its own genesis shadow. Bound Sack Boogies will return to the sacks with great pleasure, serving faithfully at the command of their Sack Masters."



Macrocyst: "The trouble, of course, is capturing the Sack Boogies in the first place. They are dangerous in the extreme, posing an unceasing existential threat to humanity. Only with the help of aspiring young Sack Masters like yourself can we hope to delay our inevitable doom."

The professor is pretty much just rambling right now. As a big Sack-fan, you learned all this stuff years ago.

Anyways doc, you mentioned nightmares but these are a bit, uh. Not-Nightmarish. Cowfee there is pretty disturbing, but not really nightmarish per-say. Keuriglets practically look like good pet material. Not some deadly secret these little fellers have, is there?

...Oh, what about ones that live under beds? Blue, red eyes, lots of teeth?

"The Keuriglets don't look too scary, Professor. Are Sack Boogies really all that dangerous?

"Like, if I hypothetically had a toothy, red-eyed Sack Boogie under my bed for the last two years, that's pretty normal, right?"



Macrocyst: "We fear and avoid the Sack Boogies for good reason, Bingo. They may seem cute and unassuming, but their familiar--even benign--appearance is a weapon."

The professor starts trundling deeper into the laboratory while he talks. You follow along a pace or two behind.



Macrocyst: "When our settler ancestors first encountered the shadow demons, which they called Boogie Monsters, they were baffled. Some were driven to madness. Though they can inflict grievous injury upon man and machine, Sack Boogies cannot be harmed by human hand or weapon... indeed, they cannot be described or detected in the terms of the Old Science at all. The entire process of Umbrification is precluded by the principles upon which Old Science was founded!"



"...So the Old Science was abandoned. And the great scientists of history worked together to study the shadow beasts and unravel their secrets. Much of their ancient knowledge is now lost, but their breakthroughs led to the creation the Boogie Sacks and the formalization of the New Science.

"Of course, the Boogie Sacks themselves are only useful if you can first subdue a wild Sack Boogie. And since the only thing that can harm a Sack Boogie is another Sack Boogie, every prospective Sack Master needs a 'starter' Sack Boogie."



"So.. Are you ready to select your starter Sack-portable Boogie monster?"

>Ask if you can get a free Keuriglet, they're cute tho

"Can't I just have one of your Keuriglets? You've got like four or ten of them."



The professor's expression turns severe.

Macrocyst: "This is not a decision to made lightly, young Bingo. Every type of Sack Boogie has weaknesses and strengths in relation to the others. Your starter will have a major influence on how and whether you succeed as you begin your sacred duty."



Macrocyst: "You've already seen the Keuriglet, a coffee-type Sack Boogie. I have three other types of subdued Sack Boogies available for you to choose from. Here are the three types: "