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All it Took was a Swimming Pool Full of Cappuccino

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All it Took was a Swimming Pool Full of Cappuccino

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Some writers will say that the greatest talents are the most persnickety. Talent’s exponential increase is matched by how trivial an offense can derail an entire work day. If it’s just pulp you’re pumping out, you’re fine to tap paragraph after paragraph into your smudged smartwatch screen with a barbecue sauce coated finger halfway through the longest roller coaster on the hottest day on the planet Scorcher. Continue reading →

Zlounge & Vaporlator

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Zlounge & Vaporlator

Designation: the LOUNGE LIZARD & VAPORWAVE cillimorphs

Group: REPTOPHIBIAN

Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY & CYBERSPACE

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Zlounge is almost always found sleeping on a rock with a leaf over its eyes; the only reliable way to wake it up is to pop its snot bubble, but if it’s sunny it will probably go right back to sleep. Since they also exist in cyberspace, your screen’s brightness being turned too high counts as the sun too. Turn night mode on in a web page to really see them party. With Vaporlator the party never stops. They love to steal Hawaiian shirt images off online ads and turn them into the real thing when they cross over. When they’re full after snacking on packets of corrupted data, they use the rest as radical sunglasses.

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Cadmong & Leglesteppe

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Cadmong & Leglesteppe

Designation: the DESERT SKULL & MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM cillimorphs

Group: SPINELESS

Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER & PLANET BOLDERO

Size: SMALL & LARGE

Interesting Facts: Cadmong likes to hide inside only the most stereotypical desert skulls, which are pretty few and far between with so few cowish cillimorphs having humdrum proportions. People produce artificial ones and scatter them about to please these shy little morphs. When it matures it integrates the skull into its body, separating the horns to make lance gauntlets. It is a fierce beast always ready for a fight, even if a mountain is the only available opponent.

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Ookbobby & Goonboon

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Ookbobby & Goonboon

Designation: the LIGHT GUN BABOON & VR OFFICER cillimorphs

Group: MAMMALISH

Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK & CYBERSPACE

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Vigilantly watching both the streets and the worlds wide web, these self-appointed cillimorphs have to interrupt everybody’s fun to make sure you’re not breaking up any of their made-up rules. Ookbobby’s flashing bottom alerts you to its approach, and it powers its energy gun finger with confiscated. batteries it keeps on its tail belt. Goonboon’s goggles show it all the virtual bad guys hanging around, which it diligently guns down with its hologram boomstick.

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Mannbao & Bibliobab

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Mannbao & Bibliobab

Designation: the MANNA FROM HEAVEN & BIBLICALLY ACCURATE BAOBAB cillimorphs

Group: GROWER

Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: Mannbao rests inside sand dunes, crystallizing sugars into a little crown that smells positively divine. It’s said that you can find one and dig out of the dessert by scent alone. This is very annoying for a sleepy Mannbao, so they mature into winged Bibliobabs in order to fly away from irritating humans, with a hundred eyes to see them coming from any angle.

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Needlenerd & Maelstromeo

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Needlenerd & Maelstromeo

Designation: the RECORD PLAYER & DJ FRIGATEBIRD cillimorphs

Group: BIRDISH

Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Needlenerd’s wing grooves contain a song, which it can play by falling through the air in a specific shape and running its specialized beak tip across the grooves. If it can’t finish the song in time it’ll plunge into the ocean, but be no worse for wear. Maelstromeo is much more skilled, carving sea shells into song discs they carry around and play on the fly, spinning them in their oddly-shaped feet.

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Lacecup & Doilydid

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Lacecup & Doilydid

Designation: the LACEWING TEA PARTY cillimorphs

Group: SEGMENTED

Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET URBANIAK

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Lacecup’s frilly wings are perfect for gathering dew, which it then pours into the silken cup and saucer always on its hands as gloves, so it can be a fancy little tea sipper whenever it wants. Doilydid will always try to fill up your drink, no matter what it is, or whether it’s full already.

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Flipthorn & Doggelear

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Flipthorn & Doggelear

Designation: the FLIPBOOK & THORNY DEVIL cillimorphs

Group: REPTOPHIBIAN

Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER & PLANET BOLDERO

Size: SMALL & MEDIUM

Interesting Facts: These lizardish morphs take different forms better adapted to which of their native planets they’re currently on, achieved by whipping away a shed skin all at once, so quickly that it looks like a flipbook animation. These gross peeled skins can be rolled up to make bonking clubs.

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Aurzo & Goldeluxe

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Aurzo & Goldeluxe

Designation: the FLOWER GIRL & GOLDILOCKS ZONE cillimorphs

Group: COLONIAL

Native Biomes: OUTER SPACE

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Aurzo frolics through low orbit collecting stray organic matter to then throw as biologically confused confetti; they celebrate every ship’s arrival and departure this way. Goldeluxe can celebrate itself, having nurtured its foraged goods and trimmings until they grew into a tiny forest city. Don’t look in the little windows, as it’ll just confuse you more.

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Rivaut & Jennyhan

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Rivaut & Jennyhan

Designation: the DEAD LEAF FISH & JENNY HANIVER cillimorphs

Group: FISHY

Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY

Size: SMALL

Interesting Facts: Rivaut closes and turns its big goofy eye so it can pretend to be a dead leaf floating in the water. A matured Jennyhan grows legs and waddles around, but never stops the dead leaf hustle, this time hunkering down and pretending to be a whole pile of them. The disguises really only work in fall, because neither of them has mastered green or white.

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