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Luusguus & Platytuud

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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.

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Lambud & Alpspaca

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Lambud&Alpspaca

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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Lemmygo & Rustyblow

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Lemmygo&Rustyblow

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.

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Gingernut & Grandthingy

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Gingernut&Grandthingy

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.

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Humprick & Basecamel

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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.

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Compuff & Aukshift

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Compuff&Aukshift

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

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This story takes place in our cillimorphs universe, the team of monster buddies and the broad strokes customized by palaver89 over on our interactive fiction writing Twitch stream.  Head on over there and give it a follow if you want a team and a story of your very own!

All it Took was a Swimming Pool Full of Cappuccino

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Blaine arcade

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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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