Tward & Driftward
Designation: the DRIFTWOOD cillimorphs
Group: GROWER
Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY & OUTER SPACE
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Fueled by glowing tidal energies and lodged galaxy pearls, these morphs use all that power to just drift in water or space. I guess they’ll be able to do it for a very long time. The power must get bored inside Driftward, because it starts growing out the back as wriggling kelp.
Freezefly & Dryoxide
Designation: the ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & OUTER SPACE
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: In such a silly solar system lots of sugar crystals wind up drifting around in space. Freezefly gathers them in its orbit as frozen balls, keeping them spinning so it can just stick out its tongue and taste them as they go by. Dryoxide is made of so many sugar balls that it just gives them out for free. If you’re in space at that time you won’t even have to stand in line, since queues can’t form in zero G: one of the factors that helped cillimorphs prevent profiteers from taking civilization over a second time.
Pligg & Ziggybridge
Designation: the GUITAR PICK & GUITARDINE cillimorphs
Group: FISHY
Native Biomes: OUTER SPACE
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: These little Pliggs can pluck away at the cosmic strings, presumably proving the string theory in physics, since, you know, there they are. Ziggybridge focuses galactic energy into a pair of hands that can play a shredding solo on its body whenever it enters a rasslin’ duel.
Lug & Fulgrum
Designation: the LIGHTNING SLUG & FULGURITE SNAIL cillimorphs
Group: SPINELESS
Native Biomes: OUTER SPACE & PLANET BOLDERO
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Lug is the fastest sluggish thing to ever exist, streaking everywhere with intense electrical energy. When it strikes the ground of Boldero it fuses soil into a charged shell of glass and matures into Fulgrum.
Hopsicle & Nomantern
Designation: the ICICLE HOPPER & SNOWMAN LANTERNFLY cillimorphs
Group: SEGMENTED
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Hopsicle hangs upside down in tree branches, encasing itself among the icicles to hide, but the ring that usually forms is a dead giveaway. Nomantern instead disguises itself as a snowman, where the standout feature is its look of general disdain.
Idewinder & Widewinder
Designation: the CURSIVE SIDEWINDER cillimorphs
Group: REPTOPHIBIAN
Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Idewinders use their bodies to spell out messages, traveling upright and sideways so they’re easier to read. This must be for humans, as cillimorphs are illiterate, not to mention their generally poor tastes in entertainment. Some letters require separated pieces, which is why they can polarize their silliness fields to repel certain scales and draw them back in. When it matures it gets longer, lengthening its messages without making them any more intelligent/intelligible.
Ememeow & Emendary
Designation: the MMO PET & MMO MOUNT cillimorphs
Group: MAMMALISH
Native Biomes: PLANET BOLDERO & CYBERSPACE
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Found frolicking flashily in fantasy online games, Ememeow has a bad habit of cozying up inside your inventory, pushing out your other items to take a nap. Emendary prefers to retire offline and sleep in caves and treetops. In dead zones they lose access to game accounts and are downgraded from legendary to default skins.
These stories were written live on stream based on prompts provided by the viewers. They have been edited, with this second more in-depth edit occurring much later, but not meaningfully rewritten or expanded so as to preserve the spirit of the exercise. Sadly, the prompts themselves were not recorded until many stories in. Sometimes the prompts were silly challenges, or quirky thoughts, or dark ideas, or utter nonsense. I did my best each time.
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prompt provided by swetankarmy
The cruise liner Seraphina had sunk more than a year ago. Its bow stuck out of the slimy sand at the bottom of the ocean like the jagged lid of a can pried open. Her contents had spilled out, settling into a swath next to her. Bacteria had come. Worms had come. Now the eels were enjoying their day in the accidental reef.
They came by the hundreds to hide and sleep in its shadows, but Seraphina provided them so much more. The eels hadn’t realized what living in the nearly lightless depths had done to their minds, with nothing to focus on, or to cherish, as it all simply drifted until it was buried. Now, here was something prolonged in burial and lively in construction. Eel minds experienced attention, new things to see beyond a dim horizon of marine snow. Continue reading
Luusguus & Platytuud
Designation: the PSEUDOCRYPTOMORPH cillimorphs
Group: BIRDISH
Native Biomes: PLANET BOLDERO & PLANET SPLISHY
Size: N/A & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: These ones, yeesh. Where do you even start? The juvenile’s silliness field obscures all efforts to record its complete appearance. As if that’s not bad enough, the mature form looks like a giant platypus, making you think it’s actually mammalish, because despite the bill the platypus is a mammal. But no. This is actually a birdish cillimorph, like it’s trying to double fake you out. Anyway they mostly wander around acting way stupider than their weird cryptomorph-like life cycle suggests. Just ignore them.
Lambud & Alpspaca
Designation: the LAMB’S EAR cillimorphs
Group: GROWER
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: These icy environment growers are extremely fluffy. Lambud’s giant leaves are perfect for rolling equally giant snowballs and hucking them, after which they retract into the ground to avoid responsibility. Alpspaca instead spits icicles, and doesn’t hide it.
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