ASSESSMENT REPORT
-CLASSIFIED-
-28 JULY 2011-
26 July 2011; 16:18 GMT - Notch posts the first image of a new mob on Google+. It i a black creature with long, thin limbs, and has the ability to carry blocks. Where it gets the blocks, or what it does with them, is unknown. The image is quickly reposted to Reddit and enhanced.
Fig.1 Original Image
Fig.2 Doctored Image
26 July 2011; 18:09 GMT - Inspired by a redditor's comment, Notch names the new mob Enderman, as a reference to Slenderman, a horror character created by the SomethingAwful forum which has since become memetic.
Source:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/j09ma/notch_posts_images_of_new_mob/c282dzr
26 July 2011 - 28 July 2011 - Minecraft players of multiple communities speculate on the nature of the Endermen, making dozens of suggestions and making many people butthurt (for intel on "butthurt, refer to doc 171.5A). Notch acknowledges that some suggestions were used.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/96513433134043136 and
https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/96513551266615296
28 July 2011, ~16:00 GMT - Notch begins twittering details on the behavior of Endermen.
Notch said:
at least you can make them stop teleporting by looking directly at them now
Notch said:
The Endermen are peaceful. If you look straight at them, they freeze and look at you. When you look away again, they run fast. And teleport.
Notch said:
They run TOWARDS you, not away. So if you happen to look at one, do not look away.
Notch said:
(they stop being peaceful if you look straight at them)
29 July 2011, 23:00 GMT - Endermen specimens 001 though 007 identified. Method of entry into realspace unknown. Accepted theory postulates physical manifestation of specimens via synchronized nocturnal visualizations by Minecraft segment of population. Specimens contained in reactor #5, status stable. Maximum containment period five (5) days.
2 August 2011, 17:32 GMT - Containment breached, specimens 002 and 005 eliminated, remainder status unknown. Personnel casualties exceed 30%, nine (9) confirmed fatalities.
2 August 2011, 21:19 GMT - Contact with containment facility lost. Final transmission indicate breach of external entrance by nine (9) unidentified entities. Record purge of Containment Facility #[REDACTED] approved.
SPECIMENS 001, 003, 004, 006, 007, 008, 009, 010, 011
CODENAME: Enderman
HEIGHT: 3 Meters
WEIGHT: Unknown
INTELLIGENCE: Unknown
REPRODUCTION: Unknown
HABITAT: Unknown