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.
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.
Lemmygo & Rustyblow
Designation: the MAGNET FISHING & RUSTY PUFFER cillimorphs
Group: FISHY
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: These urban fishies exclusively inhabit concrete waterways, storm canals, and dumping lakes, using their mouth magnets to hold onto the tastiest pieces of rust. They come in several bright colors which are maintained when they mature into Rustyblow, which inhales water filled with rust flakes to process them into the spines on its skin.
Gingernut & Grandthingy
Designation: the GINGERBREAD MAN & GINGERBREAD CLOCK TOWER cillimorphs
Group: COLONIAL
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & PLANET WOODZY
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Sometimes colonial cillimorphs have truly whimsical forms, since they can make anything out of their own bodies interlocking with raw materials. Gingernut’s gingerbread shell contains multitudes of madness that whizzes and bangs out into the open if it lifts its hollow cap. Grandthingy is so large it gets mistaken for trees and houses, and you can actually walk into the structures on the exterior of its legs, but be ready to be thoroughly jostled if it starts walking.
Humprick & Basecamel
Designation: the CAMEL CRICKET cillimorphs
Group: SEGMENTED
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK & PLANET SCORCHER
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: People don’t really like Humpricks showing up out of nowhere and hanging out in their basements, but sometimes its worth it to keep them around, because when they mature into Basecamels they become reliable beasts of burden with bodies so squishy they look more like mammalish morphs than segmented ones.
Compuff & Aukshift
Designation: the COMET PUFFIN & RED SHIFT AUK cillimorphs
Group: BIRDISH
Native Biomes: PLANET BRRR & OUTER SPACE
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: In the Cilli system, between its six planets, there are plenty of comets streaking around brazenly, and a lot of these ice balls are secretly riddled with hollows where cillimorphs melt the water and make swimming pools. Compuff and Aukshift are the quintessential comet splashers.
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All it Took was a Swimming Pool Full of Cappuccino
by
Blaine arcade
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
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