Ringding & Ringdongle
Designation: the NOTIFICATION BELL cillimorphs
Group: SPINELESS
Native Biomes: CYBERSPACE
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: These internet dwellers love to steal your notifications and play with them before revealing them to you. The more notifications they have, the more hyperactive, however they become extremely agitated when they don’t have any. Introvert cillikeepers often avoid these, as it’s difficult to avoid feeling like a disappointment and kind of a loser.
Whammet & Concustard
Designation: the BIRD STRIKE cillimorphs
Group: BIRDISH
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Whammet generates a magnetic field to help it navigate, but this results in all kinds of metal human junk flying at them at all times. They make themselves dizzy so the debris doesn’t get the satisfaction. By the time it becomes Concustard, a large lump of metal has fused and is constantly flattening it out.
Shroub & Revelm
Designation: the POP-IN FOLIAGE cillimorphs
Group: GROWER
Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & CYBERSPACE
Size: SMALL & LARGE
Interesting Facts: These guys like to hang out inside your video games in their crypsis forms, where they’re barely visible. When you get too close they pop into their full being to startle you. They’ll do it even if you see it coming, and you can’t convince them they didn’t get you good.
Kelklop & Lequine
Designation: the SEA HORSE cillimorphs
Group: FISHY
Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Kelklop plucks red algae leaves and waves them to make up for its shrimpy tail. This continues in its sexually dimorphic mature form, with female Lequine preferring dead branches. The male uses it for courtship and nesting material, as it is the one who gets egged up when breeding, typically the female’s role in most other species.
Bubcap & Brackray
Designation: the PSATHYRELLA AQUATICA cillimorphs
Group: GROWER
Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY & PLANET WOODZY
Size: SMALL
Interesting Facts: Bubcap uses the bubble under its gills and its snorkel tail to hang in the middle of the water so it never has to surface and say the morph equivalent of ‘Polo’ in games of Marco Polo. This activity is estimated to take up 73% of all amphibious wild cillimorphs’ free time. Brackray picks up food off the bottom as it cruises with its stalk-mouth, which makes an alright pogo stick on land.
Porpinky & Phrammal
Designation: the LISA FRANK DOLPHIN cillimorphs
Group: FISHY
Native Biomes: PLANET SPLISHY
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Both stages eat the most colorful things they can find, stealing the shades so they can then expel them as rainbows to impress their friends and enemies at parties.
Troof & Falsaur
Designation: the SPECULATIVE EVO DINO cillimorphs
Group: REPTOPHIBIAN
Native Biomes: PLANET URBANIAK & PLANET WOODZY
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: They’re crafty, and they’ve got fingers, always a dangerous combination. Troof form mischievous gangs and engage in thievery, but they become independent when they mature, bodies consumed by gray matter that lead them to plot endlessly but never actually do much.
Trilt & Truggle
Designation: the TRILOBITE BEETLE cillimorphs
Group: SEGMENTED
Native Biomes: PLANET WOODZY & PLANET BOLDERO
Size: SMALL & MEDIUM
Interesting Facts: Trilt is a timid noodle of a thing, wriggling out of most situations and vanishing. As Truggle it is much larger and armored, wandering lazily without a care in the world. It can be ridden, its long floppy antennae used as reins.
This story takes place in our cillimorphs universe, the team of monster buddies and the broad strokes customized by Hadnto 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!
Jimothee Jenkins Jukes Jungle Justice
by
Blaine Arcade
The planet Woodzy was not known for mysterious jungle islands that knocked you out of the sky and trapped you inside some kind of invisible force field, so one Jimothee Jenkins could be forgiven for not having his wits about him when it happened.
He was a cillikeeper, a coach of those profoundly silly creatures called cillimorphs, but some who knew him called him a drifter instead, while those who knew him best called him a bum. As far as he was concerned, a bum was the imago form of a cillikeeper, someone who had embraced the silly lifestyle so passionately that traditional employment looked like willingly taking on a chronic autoimmune disease. Continue reading
Oh man, these guys again? That’s the Brass Tacks Building Company. The cillikeeper life is really not about money, and that cheeses them off. Most people who are still obsessed with the stuff wind up working for this interplanetary mega-corporation.
It’s hard to exploit cillimorphs thanks to their extreme goofery, but Brass Tacks found a way. They make all their money with low bids on construction projects, then build everything out of super flimsy and hollow cells and crates. To stabilize them, they capture and trick cillimorphs into stuffing themselves inside, size and mass being more of a suggestion to them. That makes the buildings way more stable, with cillimorph flesh being great at shock absorption.
Of course, when they fail to fill their units or the morphs escape, things come tumbling down and the Tacks blame everyone else. They claim they don’t shove morphs in their goods at all, and leave them to dark claustrophobic misery for years at a time, but everybody knows their pants are on fire. They also have the nerve to claim cillimorphs just put themselves in there on their own, which only happens a tiny portion of the time with the dumbest ones.
Steer clear of these corn nuts, if you know what’s good for you and your morphs. You’ll know them by their colors, brown and brass, with the higher ranks adding red and extra dumb tiers to their tack-hats. Their clownfaces and noses are usually pretty drab, with it all just being a facade to lure in earnest cillimorphs who just want to play.
Blaine Arcade 