Thermuff & Gillfrill
Designation: the FURRY TROUT cillimorphs
Group: FISHY
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & PLANET SPLISHY
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Thermuff’s stripe and tail bulb measure temperature, so it can double check to make sure it’s as cold as it feels, which doesn’t seem helpful. Gillfrill’s fluffy gills trap warm air and leave bubble trails.
Reeple & Tictuttle
Designation: the GRIM REAPER & DEATHWATCH BEETLE cillimorphs
Group: SEGMENTED
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Reeple has six legs, but it usually stands on the tips of its wing case, looking like a menacing little creeper. It crawls inside walls, staring through any holes. Tictuttle is much less subtle, using the clock pattern on its wing case and its rotating hand-shaped antennae to warn you that you’re running out of time. Time for what? They never say… because cillimorphs can’t talk.
Quicsip, Letterflow, & Waddlepond
Designation: the HUMMINGBIRD FEEDER, FOUNTAIN, and BIRDBATH cillimorphs
Group: GROWER
Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Quicsip hangs in trees, generating a sweet fluid that birdish cillimorphs like to sip at. If it matures on planet Urbaniak it becomes a Letterflow, which enjoys being the center of attention, wandering away whenever people get annoyed at the sticky residue it leaves everywhere.
If Quicsip matures on planet Woodzy it becomes Waddlepond, which prefers more serene surroundings and only leaves if you bother it.
Viniveal & Hefferhot
Designation: the BLEU CHEESE & BUFFALO WING cillimorphs
Group: MAMMALISH
Native Biomes: PLANET SCORCHER
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Viniveal has a secondary clumpy coat that sits over top like a blanket, absorbing desert heat. Hefferhot can fly, and on a related note, has wings.
Sandime & Sandolla
Designation: the COIN & SAND DOLLAR cillimorphs
Group: SPINELESS
Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY & PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Sandime buries itself in the sand, but leaves its metallic eye exposed so it can stare into the sun, you know, for fun. If you go barefoot on the beach and step on one you’ll burn your feet, and worse, they won’t apologize. They also like to replace manhole covers; nobody knows what happens to the originals.
Sandolla is more lighthearted; it likes being used as a surfboard and being held like a giant novelty check.
(estimated reading time: 55 minutes)
Tame the Cock
The Wicky Sticket heard many bad ideas over the course of those two days, concentrated in the empty ballast tank where the challengers made camp, guarded at most hours by some of the collaborating eggties.
Suggestions swirled about the tiny table quickly cobbled together from scrap wood. The representatives of the Death-or-Glory gang suggested they kill Zamshy by dropping directly onto him knives in hand, hoping that one went deep enough into the neck. There wasn’t much confidence in the idea, as they recalled dragon slaying being a rather rare skill, and Zamshy was at least half dragon. His serpentine flailing could buck them all off before they’d found a good spot to stab. Too many variables, the Wayfarer and Vesperos agreed. Continue reading
Pinberg & Mastodontist
Designation: the ODOBENOCETOPS & ELEPHANT SEAL cillimorphs
Group: MAMMALISH
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & PLANET SPLISHY
Size: MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Pinberg augments its bigger tusk with an icy sheath; it leaps out of the water in an arc to show off both of them. Mastodontist exchanges the sheath for an ice cube hammer on its trunk, which it uses to strike its tusks like bells and make music. It’s alright, not really my scene. I’m more of a ska guy.
Millistone & Millidozer
Designation: the MILLSTONE & ROLLER cillimorphs
Group: SEGMENTED
Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET BOLDERO
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: These dudes use their goofy funnel mouths to mix spit and grit and make means of transportation, mostly wheels and rollers. You’ll want to hang out with them when they’ve got rocks stuck in their mouths, because when they don’t they’re always trumpeting stupid little jingles that get stuck in your head.
(estimated reading time: 52 minutes)
Study the Cock
“They call it the Dreamtime, far more south than I’ve ever coasted,” the Wayfarer said, guiding Vesperos through the quietest alleys of a worker’s district. It was just the pair of them, and a little distance from the boisterous toads was something of a relief. Not that the bee didn’t like them, or feared their insectivorous nature, it was just that his cell back in the hive had been such a perfect sort of peace, not silent, alive with the hum of all the other bees and wasps, but free of conflict. It had been the sound of harmony, of vibrating on the same wavelength as the planet. A symptom perhaps, to enjoy such a thing this far into his divine degradation, but no matter. It was closer to Psyche.
“Dreamtime,” he repeated, only to keep the Wayfarer talking. The sanded grain of the rat’s affable voice was almost as good as the hum, and he hardly seemed aware he was a font of incredibly varied knowledge. ‘Coasting’ as he described it had taken him from Constantinople to near the summit of the world, but never far inland. Continue reading
Doughen & Pumpermew
Designation: the DOUGH & INBREAD CAT cillimorphs
Group: MAMMALISH
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Doughen is very difficult to hold; they always slip out of your grip. They make great pets for children, and when the kids get bored Doughen can mature and bake itself at the same time, becoming the better adult pet of Pumpermew, with a crustier personality and always smelling of fresh sourdough. Smelling them makes you want soup. It’s probably why they’re always licking themselves.
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