use $name, not %name.
it's crashing because it's trying to use the %n part of '%name' in your last message as a format specifier.
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I muck about @ The Forge.
say(rand 99>49?'try '.('0x'.join '',map{unpack 'H*',chr rand 256}1..2):'incoherent nonsense')while our $Noport=1;
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