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You wake stuck to the bed by prodigious quantities of mucus. It takes days for the snails to drill through your skull with their radulas. You have plenty of time to regret all that escargot.

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Calcite-Fu

Mutant snails, eating all the concrete to grow their ever-larger and more elaborate shells, caused more loss of life than the 2054 Flea Flu.

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By the time the advance guard of cones had dragged their shells to the Plaza, there was no one left to sting. The cephalopods had been driven off; all that remained was a distant black cloud that quickly dispersed in the high-altitude current.