#new creatures

Something something shoving all my videogame fankids into the same room smash bros style.

Pearl is the original female lead, and Etienne is a side character turned love interest (not that Antoine knows that yet lol)

Noah Baker Merrill, New England Yearly Meeting, 2012

Meet the color bugs, the color bugs are like fire flies but they can also spray colors on victims when they're frightening, they live in colorful roses and they're pretty small, they're the size of fireflies and yes they can glow in the dark, unfortunate females are quite rare since there's only males due to being poach to the human realm instead of the Kaiju city and they're quite very very expensive to humans... Usually humans say they cost about $600,000,000,000,000,000 and some are used as lamps or a toy, or anything to drain their color and light, basically making a spray paint out of them...

Hey, uh, Derek, sweetheart.... don’t you remember the Hale vault? You know, that big ass vault under the school only a Hale can enter by using their claws? You know, the one that’s suddenly highly important in s4? Ooooh, oh. Never mind. I guess it doesn’t exist because the writers haven’t thought about it yet.................. 

So No Man’s Sky had a nice new update in the form of Origins, so I had to try it out. I wanted to see if the worlds I knew got anything new. And boy, did they. Massive alien structures, new creatures and plants and stuff. Derelicts and wrecks everywhere in space (one system, I found three on my journey between two worlds). Some things stood out. Let me explain. Pic 1: Child of Helios Jellyfish. I was warping between two worlds when I got a ping on the ‘hey there’s something interesting here’ sensors. So I stopped warping and this absolutely lovely Jelly drifted past me. I carefully maneuvered close, and it opened communications with me... of a sort. The thing can’t speak, but it apparently is capable of psychic impression, so it pushed a bunch of happy thoughts and emotions on my character, as well as its love for the universe. Most delightful thing I’ve found so far. Pic 2: This thing has a really long name, but I can’t change it. Not because I didn’t discover it; it’s marked as an Extinct Animal in the logs. It’s not supposed to be alive. Guess someone needs to tell out that, as well as the 5 others I saw in the immediate area. For all their scary appearance, they’re actually remarkably peaceful and gentle...but they do eat meat, because that one was munching a deer-thing a moment before I took the pic. I think it fakes looking like a rock with mushrooms to draw in prey, judging from that nosepiece. Pic 3: Okay what the actual fuck. I needed some Ferrite, so I mined a typical rock near my base. The rock exploded (as they do), but the rock behind it bounced up into the air and rolled over. I thought it was just a new physics thing....until it sprouted SIX SPIDER LEGS and tried to scurry the hell away from me. I only got that one snapshot because it ran so fast and I could only get the camera deployed so fast. It was an unscannable creature. It didn’t even show up as a rock or an animal. It was like scanning the ground. I don’t know what it was but it scared the hell outta me. Side note: I’ve now discovered that my beloved nightmare world Boiling Hell Prime has a second world I didn’t see past all my screaming. It was a warm, wet world with a weather type called “Damp Misery”, and was populated by mushrooms and ugly trees, and really quick land-squid digger things that burrowed through the mud. So I called it “Misery”. It was fitting. I might build a base there just because it’s SLIGHTLY more tolerable than Boiling Hell Prime.

Spent New Year’s Day test driving a new creature pattern and seeing how soft ears work on something like a gryphon. Looking to expand my repertoire of creatures this year. What kinds of beasties would you like to see next? :)