#scugsona

[misfauxpas]

Slugcat(s) of the Day #300

three hundred! three hundred!!! so here's my little family for this anniversary, with the kiddos a little more grown up

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[otherworldy-insect]

this is a week old but here’s a doodle of a scugsona :33

[pinkghostdancer7]

Comic Notice

Happy to let yall know the next part of the Seb & Scug comic (yes that's what I'm calling it now) is fully drafted! I just need to line it :]

In the meantime have the scug running around

[ladyofthebookcase]

drawled up a slugsona real quick for a video but i actually think i cooked

[antipathy-arsonist]

hey. my scuggat

its name is the aurora and its purpose is to collect all the information and notable achievements of various iterators on that huge pearl she carries. kinda like a eulogy since the campain starts very shortly before saints

it also has an accended form like saint :]

[captaincaptainfisher]

(Sorry it's been so long since the last of these ^^;; I got distracted with Hollow Knight. Pure Vessel is kicking my ass rn)

Growth records, entry 16.

It hasn't been long since the previous recording. A small update on the pups- they are confident in their steps now, though the blue one struggles on solid ground with his webbed feet. In the future, I plan to conduct some kind of experiment involving the swampy regions of my structure, but... I'm skimming through this bit. There is much else to talk about.

Socks has brought me yet ANOTHER DNA sample from beyond the portal... This is the last one I'll be making a record of. He shows eagerness to go back out and find more, and I cannot continue giving in-depth descriptions for each one... Which, I will bring up at a later point.

He managed to convey that I should make this one another pup. And I did, though he received quite a scolding from the two females for doing so without their knowledge. This slugpup is far stranger than the others. He shot out of the machine like a cannonball, and took mere minutes to recover before he was not only walking but practically bouncing off the walls. I am taking this as a sign that he is... Healthy. Though I would rather like the cartoon springing noise to cease. It has been several hours.

He is red in colouration, and... Has one very large eye in the centre of his face. Along with two more on the tips of his ears. He has no discernible mouth, but has somehow managed to consume a ludicrous amount of food. He is... Ah... If Socks hears me say freak of nature, I will likely be getting the cold shoulder for the next few cycles, so let's say... A biological marvel. That sounds more pleasant.

He is very friendly, at least, and very affectionate. He will be a welcome addition, provided he has an off switch at some point...

And now... Something that is both good news and bad news. After so many cycles more than it's siblings, I induced the birth of the white pup.

It is alive, at least. But it is very small. It has not cried, nor has it ceased it's shivering. It is currently wrapped in fabric, sitting on my lap. The poor little creature fits into the palm of my hand... ahem. I risked a brief physical scan before returning to keeping it warm, and believe I have identified the reasoning for it's late arrival. I have been unable to discern a sex, so it will remain it for now. It's covered in thin white fur, and has several tentacle-like protrusions coming from it's back. Most importantly, it, too, has one eye in the centre of it's face. Unlike it's hairless red sibling, there is an incredibly complex mechanic attempting to exist within it's tiny little body.

It appears it would serve the same purpose as the creature known as a vulture grub, shooting a small pillar of light into the sky to summon a vulture as a defence mechanism. I have no idea why the machine has attemped to do this, but the mechanic is achieved... Well, mechanically. The vulture grub is, like the vulture, biomechanical. The pup is entirely biological. I have no idea how it's even possible that this was achieved on a non-mechanical organism, but... Well. The more complex an organism, the more opportunity for problems.

At this rate, I will be pleasantly surprised if the pup is still breathing by morning. Socks may be upset that I did this during the night while he's asleep, but he is so much more emotional than I... I believe he may have hindered my progress rather than helped it.

(Editor's note- It may sound as if I am choking up during this recording, but I am not. I do not do such things when my experiments fail.)

A smaller piece of news. I will stop reporting the addition of new arrivals here. If many more come, then I will begin another series of recordings entirely to document each one. Hopefully, not too many more... I love my slugcats, but I only have so many hands.

To end this recording... I have decided to employ the help of my slugcat friends to grow a tree atop my superstructure, where the rain does not reach them. I will have to plan this so it doesn't interfere with my communication arrays, but I believe with all the new arrivals lately and with Socks seemingly ever-eager to find more, a safe, communal home where food is plentiful may be-

(Editor's note- I had to cut out a few moments of very unpleasant noise here. Forgive the sudden cutoff.)

Aheh... Sorry about that. The pup decided to suck on my data pearl... This at least means it seems to be gaining strength. Perhaps you will make it after all, eh, little one? Just please don't eat my hardware.

Recording ends... Eugh... It's all slimy.

[kratzor]

Behold!

It's my original character/scugsona! The Storyweaver!

If you're asking for lore or detail, they don't have any yet :3

All you need to know, is that they like to write stories (and they do so with their convenient pen tail! ^^) which is why it makes sense for them to be my sona!

This fantastic art piece was made by @twocakesinacup <3

[lilypucks]

me if i was a little slug

this thing!! has been bouncing around in my notebooks and stuff for so long i'm happy to have finally digitalized its design and explained it in a way i'm pretty happy with

notes on abilities and stuff r under the cut since i didn't manage to fit those in the actual image

the lilypuck is predictably semiaquatic, with a breath time slightly longer than rivulet's though she isn't as fast

spear damage is around the same as survivor's, also has a maul ability that deals a consistent .85 damage (very handy) (i'm glad mauling is a thing i like being able to bite things in rw)

skittish and not combat oriented, though it'll hold its own against threats if left with no choice or if that's the easier option

especially vulnerable to explosives and avoids those

the lilypuck on her head is indeed alive as if it were still rooted in water; alongside providing a slight glow it acts almost as a partial masks and has a chance to deflect spears that hit it (though it's a small area/pretty unlikely) and immediately falls off and closes up upon death (something like an elite scavenger mask + the behavior of lilypucks when picked up)

can canonically hear all region/threat music (like the vibe/memories associated with an area cause brain signals that register as musical? or smth it doesn't rlly hear the music Out Loud more like pulsing in the back of their mind)

wawa

[powerade]

hmmmmm scugsona

[misfauxpas]

Slugcat of the Day #293

I'm back from my break!! prepare for the onslaught of slugcats to continue

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[wormheamer]

finally replaced the nib of my stylus, and its so much better im mad about it

[pinkghostdancer7]

random scug pressure headcanons: thinks trenchbleeder are baby iterator. eyefestation doesn’t attack it bc it isn’t human. has absolutely scared the fuck out of random expendables and snatched data right in front of them. HQ is desperately flipping through its files. gotten into a fistfight with the creature in the void locker before

Yes yes i love these

Ravine [the scug] probably doesn't think trench bleeders are baby iterators (I mean they are huge), but instead maybe an iterator's odd walking superstructure

But the rest of these are totally accurate LMAO, also, the HQ one is actually pretty close to what the next comic part is gonna be about..heheheh....

[iftheworldimplodesmybad]

What is a man to a god?

And what is a slugcat to an iterator?

[This is the Treasurer, Twelve Atolls of Pearl's beloved slugcat companion and messenger. They love pets eating pearls.]

[rnainframe]

scug n iterator sonas

[captaincaptainfisher]

College doodles

Ft. Socks, his new slugpups, and my three custom lizards (drop lizard, tank lizard, leviathan lizard)

[theorangeidiot]

Cats are liquid, and apparently so is Angler