Nood

Noods are a creature able to exist in physical reality as well as within information storage devices, such as books or computers.

Appearing like a cross between various types of weasels such as ferrets, stoats and martens, crossed with Chinese dragons, Noods are long, flexible creatures that support themselves easily due to having a surprisingly light body weight. Typically a Noods size will vary depending on the information device it resides in, with the Noods head size matching the device it appears from, being the size of a page, mobile phone screen or 50 inch tv screen. It's body will similarly be proportionate.

While able to appear physically for extended periods of time, Noods feel far more comfortable living amongst information, and regularly make themselves a home within the words of a scroll, book, and have been known to enjoy living within digital programs. They have even been able to piggyback on communication systems, making them able to travel and spread far faster then most creatures, mostly noted with the Adventure Scouts communicators.

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Originally discovered in ruins within Thistleland, Noods there hid within the spell scrolls of an Adventurer, and quickly spread town to town. While there are not many Noods in total, and they seem to breed slowly if at all, their natural spread has meant there have been encounters in almost all civilised parts of Thistleland.

Due to their presence within magic scrolls interfering with the magic of the scroll until their departure, and the occasional display glitching their presence causes, Clerks have a love-hate relationship with Noods, while Mages outright despise them and consider them pests.

Noods appear to feed in an unconventional way. they do not feed on meat, plants or information, and instead feed on the libido of intelligent creatures. To feed, a Nood will emerge from it's information and leech the libido from a person in a manner similar to kissing. They can also taste a persons libido via sniffing and licking, and will actively head to a digital device of someone experiencing high libido. When fed on, the victim will experience a greatly diminished sex drive, typically lasting up to a couple hours. If hungry enough, a Nood may attempt to feed in a way as to supply it's own nourishment via stimulation. Larger forms of Noods may attempt to claim a person for extended feeding, drawing them into the Noods information lair after consumption.

While generally considered harmless, affectionate, social and quite intelligent, Noods have been treated by some such as Mages as pests or vermin. One effective method of killing a Nood, discovered by Mages, is to burn the scroll the Nood is inside, or destroy the computer it is in. The Nood will either attempt to flee the device (and be killed conventionally) or die as the information held on the device is destroyed.

The most effective way to summon a Nood that may sense communication such as over the internet is to request to "Send Noods", though correct spelling is not needed as Noods appear to read words as they are spoken.