Just had my slowest villager get the pearl event. Remember reading that crushed increased energy, but couldn't find that thread. Does this last the rest of her life or does it wear off?

For the rest of their life, I believe.

whooo---hooo
She was getting so annoying...lol

Woot!

Slowpoke got game now! Yes! It is life long! This needs a POWER-woot!

Funny how the "Likes: Running," "Dislikes: Running" doesn't cancel each other out.

I had a slow villager once, when ever there was a celebration he was the last to celebrate, but now you have a runner, yay for you!

I think that the last one that was applied is the one that sticks; running is probably more like a switch with three settings - slow, medium, fast. Slow was set at birth - it was switched to fast upon the event.

Very interesting. I've often wondered what the effect of such an event would be on a non-runner but it's never happened to me and I've not seen it reported in the forums before. Several times I've had the event happen to a villager who already was a runner, and he/she just had "running, running" as part of the likes, with no other difference.

I do wish that non-runners would speed up to a walk when the time came for running; getting away from an unwanted suitor or seeking shelter from the rain, for instance.

Update-----

When I get back to her village, I have tagged her for my next JOAT (her mother was my first for this village). When she found the pearl, she was 34yo, had no master in skills, and was an adept parent after 3 kids. She is now 35yo, master scientist, almost master farmer, just over adept builder, and just made trainee doctor. The girl has really been moving...lol.

Her family is interesting. Her sister was the baby of the landing party, she was the first conceived on the island, and she was named after her grandmother, by the computer-not by me...lol. Her father was my first esteemed elder. She was really a disappointment when running was her dislike after that lineage..lol. She is definitely making up for it now.

When I encountered my first "slow" villager, I imagined that he had a heart condition and needed to take it easy. It would take him a long time to haul those big turtle shells!