Zippet & Gondolable
Designation: the BACKPACK, ZIP LINE, & SKY GONDOLA cillimorphs
Group: TECHNO
Native Biomes: PLANET BOLDERO
Size: SMALL & LARGE
Interesting Facts: Zippet can be worn and used to store things, but if you put snacks in it they might disappear. Gondolable’s body technically includes the posts supporting its cable, but they’re usually so far away you don’t see them.
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Divvy & Divvyup
Designation: the DEEP SEA EXPLORATION & SUBMARINE cillimorphs
Group: TECHNO
Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY
Size: SMALL & LARGE
Interesting Facts: Divvy adjusts its internal pressure so it’s always bouncing off the sea floor as if in low gravity. As Divvyup they explore and salvage shipwreck parts to weld handheld weaponry.
Amptove & Orchmudge
Designation: the CAMPING STOVE & SMUDGE POT cillimorphs
Group: TECHNO
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: They like to spend their time keeping trees warm in the winter. The adult grows fiery fruit that it leaves lying around to warm people, morphs, and plants when it’s not there. Miraculously, they don’t spread and you can even eat them, very spicy though.
Prinklegnash & Drenchfoot
Designation: the SPRINKLER cillimorphs
Group: TECHNO
Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET SPLISHY
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: These two aggressively water all surrounding flora, like they’re mad at it or something. The juvenile’s pumps out so much it can fly. Don’t ask them to look at you or you’ll get a face full.
Gamba, Arengee, & Laddylu
Designation: the GAMBLING, RNGESUS, & LADY LUCK cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER, PLANET URBANIAK, & CYBERSPACE
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Gamba loves to place wagers on everything, tracking the results online. They always lose, so it’s good they don’t have any actual money. The adult males use their connectivity to generate an endless font of water and, for some reason, bread and fish related cillimorphs. The female instead produces coins taken from the physical world and online, usually nabbed from morphs like Toldgooth and Overhoarder.
Minpul & Pulsoar
Designation: the EMP & PULSAR cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK & OUTER SPACE
Size: SMALL & LARGE
Interesting Facts: Often popping out of electronics and fluttering away, Minpul annoys everyone by temporarily disabling nearby devices with flaps of its wings. Pulsoar is even more of a hazard, with its constant searchlight beams turning off everything in their cones of influence. They are at least decent navigation markers at a distance, as they tend to pick a cozy spot in space and stay there for long periods, revolving, for fun I guess.
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(estimated reading time: 1 hour, 53 minutes)
Ring around the Rose-colored Glasses
Was it possible for the spirit to reside on some heavenly beach while the body still walked a mortal plane? Al was really reaching for explanations as to what was going on inside him. Logically nobody should have better insight than him, but at the same time, wasn’t he the least likely person to ever tear himself open, turn his eyes around, and examine the goings-on?
A beach made sense to him because he was getting the sensation of buoying surf, highs and troughs, almost rhythmically now. During the fight, when the lightning should’ve been taking him from medium well to well done, he instead felt nearly weightless, lifted by intangible tides. Then, after it had died down, the low of bruises and shivers. Continue reading
Trax & Traxmax
Designation: the TRAIL MIX & TRAIL REMIX cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET BOLDERO & CYBERSPACE
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Trax gathers nutrients in its transparent bag-body, shaping them into various rations it can freely distribute. Maturing sends it online where it learns the power of remixing, allowing it to build three different bodies.
P-p-prin & Isuite
Designation: the BLUEPRINT & ICE HOTEL cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL & LARGE
Interesting Facts: P-p-prin plots out its face in two dimensions before growing it in the third from frost. Isuite grows enclosed spaces large enough for people to stay in, but they are frightfully cold, and sometimes it forgets to make an exit.
(estimated reading time: 1 hour, 12 minutes)
Ace the Test
The police station was on the precipice of the Ice Fields, while technically being in the Connections, a sore spot the commissioner tried to cover by shelling out public funds for some diamond veneers on everything from wall lamps to pen caps, the latter on diamond chains of course.
As a result the rest of the materials were subpar, composite board desks, flaky black paint on all the filing cabinets, green felt covering any unsightly water stains but only masking the associated mildew smells with its own sneeze-inducing fibers. The whole place, even with its high ceiling, felt like an office through which movers were transporting the belongings of a much wealthier neighbor. Continue reading
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