Cloacaboonruff

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 6
Social Ability: 10

Observation: It is essentially a three-eyed buffalo with a raccoon tail.

The only unique characteristics about the beast is that it reportedly will charge at anything that scares or threatens it. These charges can last for quite some time and are very common in open plains where the ground is flat. The slightest hill will slow the creature down.

These charges only end in one of two ways. The first and most common is when the creature has tired out. This, as mentioned above, often happens in areas with hills. Because this creature is most commonly found on large grassy plains, running in small circles seems to help slow the beast down as well since it takes the longest way possible to turn around without loosing speed. The second and rarest way to end a charge is when a fatality occurs, most commonly at the hands of the beast instead of at the hands of the creature it is chasing.

~Zeek Slider

Metot

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 11
Social Ability: 10

Observation: An alien race with three heads, each one thinking individually from the other two. This race can best be described as a living totem poll for several reasons. Besides the obvious physical characteristics resembling a totem poll carving, each head is a hierarchy of logical thinking. This leads to a major problem. Give them a situation, and none of them can agree on a solution!

The lower of the three heads tends to be very passive in its decision making. It prefers that things take their course and will not get in the way of what is meant to be. The exception goes to when a life is at stake. It prefers that living creatures die naturally and sentient beings learn their lesson from mistakes non-violently.

The middle head is very aggressive and often makes choices with a brash passion fueled by rage and emotion. It has a kill-or-be-killed view on the world. It believes that some creatures are inherently evil and must be wiped off the face of the planet. It is quick to condemning other sentient beings for their mistakes and will often seek retribution through violent means.

The top head has the ability of deciding which of these two points of view is the best action to take. Because of the importance of being the deciding factor on a situation, it tends to try to make an honorable decision. This causes several problems as neither option will ever be seen as the most honorable thing to do. Because it believes doing nothing does not help a situation, it will try to compromise the two views into something that everyone can agree with. This varies from situation to situation. For example, if their hunting of a specific creature is threatening that creature’s existence, the top head will side with the lower head on the matter of if they should continue killing it or not but will also try to satisfy the middle head by suggesting a different creature to hunt that is plentiful in numbers. On the other hand, if another tribe has offended this race in some manner, the top head will side with the middle head in seeking retribution for the offence but will first try a diplomatic route before resorting to violence in order to please the lower head.

Other tribes tend to seek this race out when in conflict for guidance, but most leave with more questions as to what to do than answers.

~Zeek Slider

Makol

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 5
Social Ability: 9

Observation: A mono-foot bird with a vicious look that is meant for show. A bird of prey, it will often chose to flee from anything that attacks it. Its single foot gives it the ability to spring-board itself into the air with little effort.

The file has a notation that explains the lack of information. This creature is apparently so easily frighten by new things that anything sent out by the observer freaked it out. He was lucky enough to get a picture of the thing to send back, but failed to observe it properly with most of the equipment supplied.

~Zeek Slider

Stalkklaw

Diet: Carnivore
Danger Level: 13
Social Ability: 11

Observation: It has one eye, eight nostrils, four razor-sharp claws, and a killing style you have to admire. What this creature does is best described as slow and very painful torture. It will not kill its prey, but rather inflict great damage on it to the point where it will bleed uncontrollably. From that point, it will back off and stalk its prey until it has bled itself to death. If it should lose sight of its meal, it can track it by smelling the blood it is loosing. The entire process can take anywhere from as long as 24 hours to as short as 10 minutes depending on how big a gash it makes on the creature.

A monster of a creature if there ever was one!

Mating is just as bloody. During the summer months, males will collect and stock pile parts of their kills in the hope of attracting a mate from the scent of the blood. The larger the pile, the more impressed the female will be. This is often a combative process due to the fact that some males will try to steal from other males.

The females raise the young, mostly due to the males just leaving after they’ve fertilized the female. After three years of learning how to kill and stalk, the offspring will inherently leave its home to find another hunting ground. When this happens, mothers immediately forget that the creature is their offspring even if they encounter them again during mating season.

~Zeek Slider

Soniphon

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 8
Social Ability: 12

Observation: A small elephant-like creature with a thinner built and longer legs. What is unique about this creature is the voice. There are three very different voice boxes hidden within the creature. Each voice is a different pitch and a different sound, but their combined volume is deafening to everything but this creature. Howls, barks, even a peep from this creature causes any near it to scatter out of fear that over exposure to the sound could damage their hearing.

From a safe distance, which is approximately a quarter of a mile, the sound is rather pleasant to the ears. During mating season, the air is filled with their songs, which register as screams to creatures unfortunate to be caught in the radius of their damaging bellowing.

Their voice is not the only defense it has. The slim built and solid muscle structure of the creature has turned it into a very effective battering ram. During moments of silence, which are rare by themselves, it can charge at a potential threat at bone-breaking speed. If the predator is taller than itself, this creature will aim for the legs. It specifically goes for what it can identify as the knees. If successful in taking away the threat’s mobility, it will then perform a death yell that renders the foe unconscious. It was reported that, upon closer examination of the battle, the death yell may have shattered the opponent’s ear drums and actually killed it.

Apparently, the person observing this creature never got close enough to their nests to observe their social habits. If he or she did, it’s not indicated or they may have forgot to report it.

~Zeek Slider

Twitterpater

Diet: Carnivore
Danger Level: 3
Social Ability: 8

Observation: This insect has a chemical compound that causes a creature to be sexually attracted to the first thing it sees. The level of attraction is based on how many times one has been bitten by this bug.

A single bite will cause infatuation on a juvenile level, otherwise known as a crush. This phase is temporary and will normally last approximately a week. If you are not bit again before the week is up, you revert back and the chemical compound will have been excreted from your body.

If you are bit a second time before the week is up, the level of the crush is brought to socially obnoxious levels. This includes behavior such as serenading, stalking, and generally annoying the assumed love interest. The idea of reject is perceived as playing hard to get. This behavior will last between two weeks at the least to a month at the most.

If you are bit a third time before this second phase has passed, the chemical compound will reach neurotoxin levels and cause a state of unbridled lust that results in the act of suicide.

It is believed that this creature has a mosquito-like diet and drinks the blood of the creatures it bites. It mimics a butterfly-like creature to avoid being swatted to death when it lands on a sentient creature. The effects of the chemicals happen the moment its needle-shaped mouth breaks the skin surface.

The original observer of this creature has nicknamed it “The Love Bug.”

~Zeek Slider

Chicken-Boo

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 3
Social Ability: 8

Observation: Reportedly the biggest chicken in the known universe. Tribes will hunt only one of these, as the meat is able to last the entire village for up to a year. It’s a simple creature both in design and in intelligence, which makes it easy to kill or domesticate.

But outside of its enormous size, it is still just a chicken and no different than the chickens found on our planet.

~Zeek Slider

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: Animaniacs tribute. Kind of.]

Aerion

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 9
Social Ability: 11

Observation: The file reports that this griffin-like creature is supposedly made out of pure gold and silver with a beak and skeleton made out of bronze. There are no drawings or documentations or even those weird chemical formulas I’ve seen in files in the past included with this statement. If it is true, only the original observer knows.

Its diet is mineral rock and small rodents. The minerals may be used to produced this claim of a gold and silver skin, but several animals on our planet often chew on rocks to help their digestion from what I remember.

The anatomy of this creature is really interesting. It has three pairs of wings which provide a large area to produce flight. If the claim that its bones are made out of bronze is true, then there is no way that it would be able to produce the amount of lift needed with those wings in order to maintain anything other than a glide. They could be for show or part of a mating ritual that hasn’t been documented.

I spent the better half of my afternoon yesterday trying to find more factual information on this creature, but ultimately couldn’t find anything.

~Zeek Slider

Couca on Earth

On my way back from lunch, I passed by a co-worker's cubicle to welcome her back from a month long vacation and saw this little toy on her computer tower.

I told her that it looks and even moves exactly as a creature I was just looking at. We both laughed at the similarities. Who would have thought that there was a creature out there in the universe that's seen as nothing but a toy by another creature!

Kind of makes you wonder if our race is really just the play things for another race out there, doesn't it?

~Zeek Slider

Couca

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 3
Social Ability: 11

Observation: A really goofing-looking creature that is described as a large ostrich-like bird with legs forming at the bottom of its neck. The rest of the body is contained in a ball protected by a thick layer of fat found on the opposite side of the legs. The design gives the creature a center of balance that is dependent on the position of its head. If it lowers its head, the rear will lift. And vise-versa.

The omnivore classification is due to its diet of freshwater fish, but it also eats fruits. While eating, it must stand completely upright in order to swallow. This creature apparently has no involuntary muscles in its esophagus and must rely on gravity to help move the mashed-up food to its stomach. This results in the creature constantly rocking back and forth in order to help move the food down its long neck. It only does this with solid foods; drinking water is done in one swinging movement.

The creature is very social and will often gather with its kind to throw parties. It’s been documented that these parties are held only on full moon nights and consist of singing and dancing. Only two of these parties double as mating rituals: the one held in the spring and the one held in the fall. At the end of those parties, couples pair off to build nests under the full moon light and produce young.

Couples mate for life and each parent has a different responsibility in raising their chick. The males are in charge of showing their offspring how to swallow food and what to eat. The females are in charge of fine tuning their offspring’s vocal abilities. Teaching chicks how to dance is done by both parents when the social gatherings happen.

Their large size also makes them slow moving, as running requires them to be more aerodynamic that they are capable of doing on their own. This puts them at great risk and makes them a common target for predators. Because of their physical design, they are also very easy to kill and are often the first kill for many young predators. Surprisingly, predators never attack the chicks. This may be due to the fact that the chicks are smaller and only slightly faster than the adults.

Unfortunately, this creature has no natural defenses against their predators. It’s beak is only strong enough to combat fish and not against claws and fangs.

~Zeek Slider

Waterhog

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 11
Social Ability: 10

Observation: A purple pig that doesn’t need to drink water because it produces it naturally! This strange head is equipped with three mouths. It eats by shoving its head into large bushes and eating the foliage that surrounds it. The central mouth is the only one out of the three that will eat from smaller bushes.

Over the course of the day as it consumes more and more plant life, the bulbs on it back will increase in size. This is where the water it produces is stored. When they reach the size of 36 inches in diameter, they break off and drop to the ground. A new bulb will then start to grow where the old one once was. A single creature can produce approximately 500 filled bulbs of water.

Once on the ground, it’s all up to chance as to what happens. In some cases, it was documented that the bulb will slowly leak the water as the flesh decomposes. When this happen, the surrounding plant life that this creature just ate are renewed with water to produce more leaves. In other cases, other creatures will try and claim the bulb and drink from it or share the water with their individual family groups. This is more common in areas where rain never falls for one environmental factor or another.

The creature lives on a planet that is 95% land, so it is a very valuable creature. Predators will only kill one or two of these creatures over the time of six months if they cannot find any other source of food in the area. Carnivorous scavengers will stalk the dying so that they can claim the last bulbs of water and meat before any other creature does.

This is another creature that is solitary most of its life and will only interact with the other gender for mating purposes. The young only stay with their mothers for a week before they are left to fend for themselves. They are never targets for predators due to their value as a future source of water. In fact, it’s been reported that a few predators will often leave gifts of food for the young if one is found along their game trail!

Only the foolish will try to attack it head on. This creature’s only defense is its three mouths. When a threat is spotted, it will use all three mouths to produce a sonic cry meant to distract or deafen their opponent. The predators that do kill this creature know of the giant blind spot on its back and will often strike there, knocking the water bulbs onto the ground in order to expose the tender back.

I think that if any creature on this planet gains social intelligence, they will automatically make the Waterhog a holy animal.

~Zeek Slider

Quackhead

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 4
Social Ability: 12

Observation: This creature apparently found the need to evolve four different heads, each specialized for a specific sense such as hearing and sight. The larger head in the rear is the head for sight despite the fact that all four heads have eyes. The pair of heads in the middle are in charge of hearing, though stereophonic hearing is clearly beyond their ability since each head only has one ear. The small, forward head is designed for the sense of smell, again, despite the fact that the rear head obviously has a pair of nostrils itself.

The senses of taste and touch are shared between all four heads. They don’t argue over the sense of touch so much as they do the sense of taste. Drawings from corpses indicate that they share the same stomach, but the pleasure of actually eating food has been observed to cause hour-long fights between the heads. If there is enough food for all four heads to enjoy, this kind of fight doesn’t happen.

This creature also has a very impractical way of reproducing. It will lay an egg in the open and then walk away from it. The idea is that a member of the opposite gender will come along an fertilize the egg and care for it until it hatches. This very rarely happens. Once it leaves the egg, scavengers come and claim it almost immediately. It tries to counter this by laying several dozen eggs over the course of a season in random locations, but at least 80% of them end up as a free meal for other creatures.

A lame duck if there ever was a picture-perfect example of one, as far as I’m concern.

~Zeek Slider

Wallace

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 14
Social Ability: 12

Observation: A cute, wide-eyed creature with a habit of being curious. It will often go up to objects it has never seen before and investigate them thoroughly. With creatures it has never encountered, it will attempt to socialize with them first. This puts it at great risk, especially when confronting predators.

Fortunately, it has a few defenses it can use. The first is its natural armor, with areas containing vital organs being thicker than areas that contain mostly fat and/or muscle. The second is its pincers which are capable of crushing shellfish and puncturing flesh. The last line of defense is a gland located between its eyes that fires an acid-like mixture of bodily fluids that can cause third-degree burns.

These combative encounters are rare, however. It tends to be a solitary creature, seeking a mate only once every eight months. Courting a mate is all about finding commonality. Individuals will indicate they are ready to mate by carrying around an object it has found and considered its favorite, be it a bone from a dead animal or the shell from a seed pod. They will then look for another creature that has a similar interest based on the object it is carrying. Once they find a match, they produce an egg. The egg is buried and left to hatch on its own, similar in some degree to how sea turtles reproduce.

It is believed by the observer that their curious nature may have root in these reproductive acts. Once the egg hatches, the young are unable to find their parents, who have been long since left the area in which they were born. Their curious nature and constant attempts to socialize with other creatures may actually be a life long quest to find their parents. It isn’t clear how young adults of this creature learn the mating ritual, but the observer assumes it is built into their DNA somewhere to collect objects and then pick one out to use as a divining rod.

It hardly make any noise. When it does, it is mostly chirps and clicks not unlike those made by Earth frogs. The more elaborate vocal displays are done when it tries to communicate with other creatures.

It has a scavenger diet and will eat almost anything that has been left to rot. The exception to this rule is with the plants it consumes. This creature prefers freshly bloomed or budding flora. If possible, it will ram trees in order to encourage virgin fruit to fall quicker.

~Zeek Slider

PS-

The file had no name for the creature. I asked my supervisor if I could name it, and he said "Sure, why not?" So I named it Wallace because it looks like an organic version of Pixar's WALL-E.

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: I was throwing around the idea of an organic version of WALL-E for a while but didn't bother until just recently when a fellow animation nerd showed me a detailed features blueprint that Pixar apparently published. Wish I could remember the magazine.]

Makayada

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 13
Social Ability: 15

Observation: The only words in this file outside of the rating and diet information are "Do not offend this race or they will kill you!"

I asked my supervisor about this oddity. Apparently, the observer sent to report this creature never wrote anything down. The file was produced during the audio recording boom where everyone and anyone with enough money to get a tape recorder was recording everything from ambient noise to their own voices.

The tape of the report is kept in a vault that has since been emptied and the contents shipped to secret salt mines that only the government knows about. Apparently, this is one of those classified aliens that they would like to stay classified.

This is all I am allowed to report on the matter.

~Zeek Slider

Narf

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 7
Social Ability: 9

Observation: The file reports that this creature is a very intelligent rodent despite its idiotic look. It has mastered the use of primitive tools in order to knock down fruit from trees as well as scare off scavengers who would threaten their nest or stockpile of food.

Its anatomy is rather unusual. While it walks in an upright hunch, it has an elongated neck and arms longer than its legs. It is unclear how this creature evolved these features, but it uses them in a manner that gives it a great advantage over other herbivores. For starters, the longer neck means it can reach food that most creatures it size cannot, similar to an Earth giraffe. Its long arms give it the ability to attack another creature without putting its small torso at risk.

Socially, these creatures are similar to our plant’s own rats. They form colonies in dark areas and can number in the thousands within a single family grouping. They also have a moderately high reproduction rate.

There’s just one thing that bothers me. They look a bit too much like some of the lab rats I’ve seen here at work.

~Zeek Slider

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: I didn't intend on making this creature look like it came from the Pinky & The Brain cartoons. It just kind of happened.]

Dangle-Grabber

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 6
Social Ability: 8

Observation: This creature dominates heavily forested areas and will often disguise itself as if it is a tree when sleeping or hunting. Should something walk underneath its matrix of legs, it will attack by lowering its head and biting the prey from above. Very few creatures see this coming, but those who are able to avoid the initial attack are quick to get away. If it goes too long without food, it will use specialized mouths on its feet to eat the grass it is standing on top of.

Because of how the legs are configured, this creature is very slow moving. It often has to walk around itself just to move anywhere with a great deal of conscious thought going into where the next foot will be placed and in what direction it wants to move in.

Family groups are not uncommon, but they are very rarely sighted due to the ability to blend with the surrounding flora. A giant creature like this being hard to spot is nothing short of amazing!

~Zeek Slider

PS-

This was the file I took home last night.

SPORE Tracker

I loaded up the blog today and found something new above the posts. I called the webmaster over to ask what it was that was added to the blog.

It is a live tracker that connects to the blog's database. Every post that I label with the keyword "profile" gets added to the tracker. I was told that visitors to the website can use the feature to look at the images in the tracker, click on one that strikes their fancy, and then the website will pull up the post I've publish.

I tested it out. It doesn't work. They're debugging it as I type this.

~Zeek Slider

PS-

The tracker's name is SPORE. I'm not quite sure what that stands for, however.

Homework

The big boss was leaving and saw that the lights were still on in my office (if you can call it that). He said that I should go ahead and go home for the night. He even suggested that I go ahead and take a file home to study before going to bed.

I gladly accepted his offer, as it is getting very late here. I'll be reporting on the creature I was looking at in the morning when I get back. And it looks to be a creepy one at that!

~Zeek Slider

Tribaptor

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 10
Social Ability: 11

Observation: I, too, fell for the trick that this large bird has evolved when I first looked at this file. I guess that shows just how good of a trick it is!

This creature is an herbivore that has no natural predators due to the fact that it looks like a creature of higher intelligence. This provokes a fear in nearly every creature that could kill it, including several small tribes on its planet. It maintains this trick with the stripes on its body and the constant grooming of its feathers on its neck. A flock of these will often practice social grooming similar to Earth’s primate population. They even evolved a fleshy feature on their beaks that looks like a Witch Doctor’s nose bone and what appears to be human ears on either side of their head! Yet this creature has not reach a state of social sentience.

During mating season, this creature will use a flower-like growth on its joints and tail to spread pheromones in the air to attract a mate. When a member of the opposite sex is met, the two will perform a dance. If their dances are in synchronous rhythm with each other, they are considered mates. If one of them is not in sync with the other, it is considered a bad match and the two go their separate ways. This mating behavior is possibly used to maintain the trick of looking like a sentient creature.

It only eats a coconut-like fruit. The surface is so thick that it uses its claws to break it open. Fledglings often use meal time as a way to train their striking attacks by propping the fruit on a small rock or jumping at it from a short distance.

It wouldn’t surprise me if this file received an update soon claiming that this creature has become sentient of its existence. It’s very close to that point as it is right now.

~Zeek Slider

Yetini

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 10
Social Ability: 12

Observation: While evidence and proof of a yeti on our own planet is still a part of urban legend, this creature proves that there is the possibility of one on our planet. One of the classified files that will now be declassified with this publication.

Much like all the art work we’ve seen on this planet, this creature looks like the fabled yeti. Only smaller and extremely cute. It is reported to be playful, but also can put up a decent fight if needed. They grow to be no taller than two feet from head to toe. Their claws are their primary weapon, but their knotted horns are also threatening if they are able to puncture a creature’s flesh.

Their anatomy is supposable very elastic. It’s been documented that their arms can extend themselves slightly when they attack by expanding their torso. They can also increase their walking gait by truncating their torso and, somehow, dislocating their knee.

They are common in the wild, but some tribes have adopted these creatures as pets due to their loyalty and playfulness. Children in these tribes are often seen carrying this creature around in their arms (and in one case, their mouth) rather tightly with no affect on its level of comfort. Their body just pops back into shape once let go to run around.

Their diet is mostly citrus fruit, but the few that eat meat are the ones that are adopted as pets. It is believed that those of the species that ends up becoming domesticated will eat meat simply because it is a free meal. It is believed that this creature does not hunt in the wild.

The report ends with a hand-written notation claiming that a UFO was sighted abducting large numbers of this creature. Curious, and also kind of frightening.

~Zeek Slider

Fungrlim

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 1
Social Ability: 4

Observation: A scavenger that will often not be found in an area unless something has been rotting for a few dates. It is attracted to the smell of rotting fruit or meat.

They have no natural predators due to the fact that they look like living mushrooms when they move. Even herbivores are afraid to come near one that is sleeping, probably due to the rotting smell that l attaches itself to this creature.

They travel in large groups and will often live in these colonies until they catch the scent of something else rotting nearby. They only divide into smaller groups if there are several things rotting in an area. This happens most commonly around game trails that are shared by several different predators.

They appear to produce no waste other than the bones they leave behind from the rotting corpse they were feasting on.

~Zeek Slider

Luxo

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 6
Social Ability: 4

Observation: This creature is another mono-foot creature that is relatively small and rather simple minded. The observation reports indicates that it has a nasty bite, but is otherwise rather harmless. It likes to keep to its own species and doesn’t travel far from the next. They are easily fascinated by round objects.

Their anatomy is rather unusual. Their physical attributes make this creature resemble a desk lamp. Its skin is also reflective despite being soft and fleshy. The bones of its major joints are exposed, as the skin and muscle tissue never fully form over them. Its single leg doubles as its digestive system. Its anus is under its suction-cup foot. This only leaves a really funny and disgusting image in my mind as to how it goes to the bathroom.

It normally bares one child at a time, though twins are not uncommon. The young are inherently curious and often get themselves in situations that require the aid of the parents. They are also fast learners and never make the same mistake twice.

They are classified as omnivores because of their unique diet of consuming anything with bioluminescence. On their home world, this means anything from fire flies to glowing leaves is in their diet. If it doesn’t glow or give off some kind of light, they don’t eat it. It’s believed that the chemicals that cause bioluminescence in these creatures may be a chemical it lacks in its body.

I think I’ve seen this creature before, but I’m not quite sure where. Probably in a cartoon.

~Zeek Slider

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yes, this is a tribute to Pixar. One of many I hope to make.]

Methite

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 11
Social Ability: 11

Observation: According to the file, this creature has more to it than what is seen at first glance. The observer admits several times to making false assumptions and then correcting his original reports.

This creature is, essentially, a wild boar with crystals growing on its back. The crystals are reported to be how this creature processes excess sugar from the plants it consumes. The crystals are so highly concentrated with sugar, that several carnivores and omnivores, possible ones with a taste for sweets, target this creature constantly just to enjoy them.

Evolution has given this creature some defenses to combat this. First is a series of poisonous glands that line the creature’s back. If it feels threaten, it will fire a noxious venom in an explosive manner. Predators that are unfortunate enough to have even a drop land in their eyes are blinded for several hours. A direct hit from the glands results in a slow and painful poisoning that ends with the creature’s death after three days.

It has no forward-facing eyes of it own, but rather one compound eye on the back disguised as a crystal. This is designed to help it spot any predator that would stalk it from behind. Any predator that decides to attack from the front is spotted rather quickly. The large horn-shaped bulb on its chin acts in a similar fashion as the forehead of Earth dolphins by emitting sonar waves. Its ears are trained to pick up the ultra-sonic sound waves as they bounce off of objects. It also have a series of very sensitive feathered feelers which can pick up scents carried by the wind. This makes it almost impossible to stalk the creature, so cunning predators will resort to the element of surprise.

It moves forward by using its sonar and sense of smell when looking for food or while traveling. In heavily forested areas, this can lead to some very erratic walking patterns as it narrowly escapes from bumping into trees. In open fields, it moves at a casual pace, possibly to wait for its sonar to come back to help it map the area. If needed, it will risk identifying itself by squealing to help map the area quicker.

No information on its diet or even its social behavior was record.

~Zeek Slider

Armon

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 8
Social Ability: 10

Observation: It’s a bipedal in the technical sense, but the location of the two legs are very interesting. One leg is located in the front and the other leg is located in the back. Its walking is described as having a see-saw rhythm. When the front leg is on the ground, the back leg lifts to move forward. When the back leg is on the ground, the front leg extends in the direction the creature wants to go. This makes the creature somewhat slow, as coordinating a sprint in order to get away from predators is probably very taxing on a creature with such an abnormal anatomy. It has no trouble turning at sharp angles, however.

In order to compensate for its slow movement, it has evolved a shell to protect all but its head and underside. The file reports that it tries to defend itself by immediately lowering itself onto the ground to protect its legs and exposed underside. This leaves its head and neck exposed.

Most predators will try to attack its back, only to find that that they cannot break through the thick bone structure. Slightly smarter predators will notice the head is exposed and will try to attack that only to find that it has its own defenses. The nostril on its snout is a spitting gland that fires a sticky mucus that emits an odor when it is mixed with the oxygen and nitrogen in the air. This mucus doesn’t necessarily have to land on the predator in order for it to become a victim of its effects. The blast radius of the gland is able to cover the area surrounding this creature’s head. In order to not become a victim of its own defenses, it has evolved essentially a filtration system into its side nostrils. The mechanics of this system must be very specialized, as it takes the shape of soft flesh tubes located on either side of its snout.

The main kill-point for this creature, however, is its neck. It is only thick enough to house the backbone and the esophagus, which means a strike to that region will kill the creature instantly. Extremely intelligent predators will aim at the part of the neck just above the shell due to the fact that the mucus it fires cannot travel that far.

The actual diet of this creature is made up of leaves and flora that low to the ground. After successfully defending itself using its special mucus, it will consume large amounts of mushrooms found growing on tree bark.

It is a solitary creature. The only time that more than one was ever observed was after a female gave birth to a fawn. For three weeks, she would show the youngling what to eat and how to fire their special mucus. Once the young are able to walk and their shells have harden, they are left to fend for themselves. The mothers show no emotional attachment to their young any more than the males show any kind of attachment or obligation to be around to help raise their offspring.

~Zeek Slider

Brumbah

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 6
Social Ability: 9

Observation: The only other information in the file about this creature is that it is used by an alien race as both a source of food and entertainment. What alien race that is and what kind of entertainment is not known.

Other than that, the observer says that the creature is nothing more than a giant three-eyed pig with horns and natural bone armor. This is probably the thinnest file I'll ever come across.

~Zeek Slider

Psoge

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 12
Social Ability: 9

Observation: This creature has two heads, one facing towards the front and the other facing towards the rear. Both heads are very distinct in features, and yet the observer classifies it as a bird.

The two heads apparently work independently of each other while maintaining a symbiotic relationship. The forward head will eat and fend off what creatures it can, while the rear head will inform the other if any predator is trying to stalk it from behind. At the same time, the few feathers that the forward head has on its body are actually the rear head’s sensory organs which it uses in order to wake up the rear head. During the day, the rear head sleeps. At night, the forward head sleeps.

This means that the creature is never truly asleep in any sense of the word. With one head always awake, it has the ability to defend itself from any threat that it may encounter. This may be the reason behind this creature’s unusually high Danger Level rating.

Depending on which head is awake, it will walk normally (forwards) or backwards through an area. If both heads are awake, it is normally for combat or for scouting reasons. It is a mystery how the two heads actually communicate with each other.

Drawings of corpses of this creature show that both heads have their own brains as well, though the rear head is smaller than the forward head’s brain. It has a forked esophagus with an anus in the middle of its body between its legs. The rest of its internal organs seem to be relatively normal.

It should be noted that this creature lives on a planet that can be best described as a giant desert with very few places for water or plant life. Because of this harsh environment, the creature has evolved into a nearly featherless bird. I’m still kind of having a hard time believing that, personally.

~Zeek Slider

Horjgo

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 6
Social Ability: 10

Observation: According to the file, this creature is nomadic by nature. It rarely stays in the same place for very long even if it ends up returning to an area after a month. It travels in large packs numbering in the hundreds created by dozens of individual family groups. If threatened by a predator, they have the ability to run away at speeds close to 80mph for as long as 30 minutes!

Probably the most amazing thing is the fact that this creature will only eat once a year! The first time they consume anything is when they are born, and from that day forward, they will not eat anything until their next birthday. A single creature can consume its weight in fruit and vegetables, but this often leaves the area bare afterwards. It is because of this reason that they travel the planet’s surface every day.

Because every day one of these creatures is celebrating their birthday by having an All-You-Can-Eat salad buffet.

~Zeek Slider

Nguink

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 9
Social Ability: 12

Observation: The name is almost unpronounceable, but there is a lot of information on this creature that is really interesting.

For starters, this creature is easily related to the Earth gorilla in physical features. There are some major differences, however. The first one is that it lacks a fur coat. In its place is a leathery skin which forms protective scales on the shoulders, front torso, and along the spine. It has three horns, two of which are growing out of the scales on its shoulders while the third is growing out of skull. Flanking the horn on its head is a pair of feeler antennas commonly found on insects that are used as a second pair of nostrils.

The most fascinating piece of information I have to share is how it walks. Our planet’s gorillas walk on their hind legs and use their arms as supports and even as graspers. This creature is able to walk upright on, what we would call, its hands while using its feet as graspers! Because of how much weight it needs to carry, the body is held rather low to the ground. This has caused the arms to truncate over time, and yet they are still able to reach the creature’s mouth!

Another fascinating feature of this creature is a visible stink gland on its rear end. According to the file, this gland is similar to the one used by Earth skunks in that it used as a defensive weapon and emits a horrible smell. The actual liquid that is fired has acidic compounds that kill most organic matter almost immediately!

While I’m on the subject of combat and defense, the rating for this creature appears to contradict the information in the file. It has a mid-level threat level, but the observer notes that the creature is very aggressive and prefers a social network that is very close to their nest. Any creature that approaches it is automatically considered a threat, no matter how big or small. If there are young ones in the area, the females end up taking this behavior to the most extreme level imaginable. It’s a wonder how they ever find a mate without resorting to incest! Any other creature found in their comfort zone will be watched carefully. If they stay too long, they will be attacked. If they don’t run away, they will be killed and consumed.

Clearly this creature would rather be left alone than make friends.

~Zeek Slider

Biflyer

Diet: Herbivore
Danger Level: 5
Social Ability: 11

Observation: Having multiple heads as a result of a mutation is very common, particularly in reptiles and amphibians, but to have multiple heads naturally for any creature is still an oddity of myth and legend. To have multiple heads and be able to still be aerodynamic is a feat in it of itself.

The report indicates that this creature’s diet is mostly liquidized fruit. To do this, it chews its meal in its mouth and filters the liquid out into the large lower jaw. It spits out the pulp and then swallows the liquid.

Each head only has one nostril, which the creature’s observer believes may be more of an advantage due to the fact that it has two heads. His hypothesis was proved true when he observed one head looking up wind and another head looking down wind to spot potential predators.

Its blue coloring is meant to protect the creature from ultra-violet rays due to a thin atmosphere. Thin enough, apparently, to cause first degree sunburns on the observer to the point where he sent out a prototype observation drone.

The underside of the creature is exposed flesh lined with white pits. It was observed that the white pits are actually unfertilized eggs that both genders carry with them at all times. Its hypothesized that this is to ensure a successful fertilization in a very inhabitable world. When the eggs are fertilized, they bud outward and resemble warts. At this point, the creature then finds a safe place to nest and hatch the eggs. They will use their large wings to shade the nest until their first feathers come in two weeks later. This behavior was probably adopted after several generations of trial and error.

Its legs have an unusual configuration. It has four joints that form the letter S. On Earth, it is not uncommon to have animals with three joins in their legs, and they are able to walk just fine. It isn’t reported how this creature walks, but its unusual leg structure does give it a unique advantage in evading predators. The design gives it the ability to springboard into the air with amazing distance and speed. However, if not timed properly or of the predator is equally as good a jumper, the legs actually give the predator something to grab.

The only sound it makes is in when the sun is rising or setting. It is a song that is described in the report as "a haunting combination of the most beautiful lullabies you can remember in a low alto range." I’m not sure what that means, since I can’t even read music let alone know what an alto’s range is.

The file ends with a drawing of the two heads. The observer apparently was lucky enough to find a corpse of this creature. The findings are quite interesting. Each head seems to have only half a brain, but the half it has is the opposite of its position on the body. The right head has a brain only on the left side of its cranial cavity; the left head has a brain on the right side. The drawings do not indicate that these brains are under developed. It looks like someone split a brain in half down the hemispheric dividing line and put the separate halves in each of the two heads. How this creature was able to think with this kind of internal organ configuration is beyond me! In fact, just reading that is making my head hurt.

~Zeek Slider

I get a freezer?

In the last file I published, I noticed that the observer had a freezer with her. I talked to my supervisor after my lunch about this.

It was explained to me that, due to the nature of the mission I'll be sent on, they will give me a cache of food that will last me long enough to figure out what of the natural vegetation is safe for human consumption. Once I figured that out, I am suppose to live off of that until I am to return home.

The way he said "until you return home" didn't sit well with me. He said it rather softly. Almost as to hide the potential reality that I may end up not returning. Hopefully, I'm just reading too much into it.

~Zeek Slider

Brainsucker

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 11
Social Ability: 8

Observation: Documented as a scavenger, this small creature travels from area to area looking for corpses to eat for its meat needs. The file makes no mention of what kind of plants it eats, but classifies this creature as an omnivore. This makes it very confusing in determining just why this creature is a scavenger.

When eating meat, it will use its large horns to latch itself on to the corpse. It will then proceed to eat the area bare to the bones, detach itself, and then move to a new spot. This often leaves the corpse looking like it has had its flesh drilled through.

It apparently likes fresh kills or meat that has been rotting out in the sun for a while. The observer reports finding this out when it threw a piece of meat that suffered from freezer burn and was inedible. She reports that the creature touched the slab with one of its antennas and then made a shrieking sound before running away. A few days later, she found the creature back at the same slab of meat eating it happily after the sun had thawed it out.

They travel in packs of at least 3 but no more than 10. They are apparently very high in numbers area game trails, especially where predators will kill for sport rather than for a meal. If something threatens them, they tend to run the other way rather than fight.

They also practice cannibalism. If one of their own kind dies, the immediately family will eat the corpse and all the internal organs before leaving the area. Thanks to this, our observer was able to report that there is an internal skeletal structure to this creature. She does point out that there is a very disturbing feature in that it has no skull. She, much like myself, is left wondering just how its mouth and eyes are held into place. And because all the internal organs were consumed, she was never able to figure out. Apparently, she never got close enough to a just-fallen corpse of this creature.

Either way, this is one ugly little bugger that I hope I never see in real life.

~Zeek Slider

Powerpuff

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 14
Social Ability: 14

Observation: Wow, two alien races declassified in one day! Though this one, I have to admit right now, is really strange.

Discovered by another research who signs their notes using a single letter, this time the letter Z, this delightful creature is very cute but can be very vicious if it needs to defend itself. It prefers a peaceful social existence, often involving singing and putting together costumes from flowers and leaves. A few have adopted a more aggressive lifestyle and often practice punching and defending themselves in hand-to-hand combat, though it is reported that they are equally as cute as their more social counterparts.

Their anatomy is easily flexible, and it is believed that they may have no real skeletal structure. The race does have a fixed cranial bone structure, or skull, but that appears to be it.

And with that, this Z fellow didn’t report much of anything after that. Nothing on their culture, their language, or anything like the last file I read. Kind of a disappointment, as I would have liked to have known why their eyes are so huge.

~Zeek Slider

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yes, this is a fan tribute to The Powerpuff Girls.]

Artizen

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 9
Social Ability: 20

Observation: This is the first file I’ve come across that indicates an intelligent alien race. It was apparently deemed classified 70 years ago, and with my publication of this file will be the first public admission that there is life outside of our own!

According to this very thick file, this creature stands at an average height of 6 feet from head to toe. If you include the large feature protruding from the top, its height is close to 8 or 9 feet! The large, naturally formed head wear is composed of organic plants from which they draw solar energy from. This probably explains their rather slim figure, as their planet has two suns that light the surface. The second sun is a planet that is very close to the larger sun and is in the process of melting.

Both males and females have jewels embedded in their chest. While anatomically these jewels function as their heart, it also helps when they emote. It tend to change colors depending on their mood. It also helps identify gender. Males have a slightly blue hue, while females have a pink hue. To find a broken or shattered jewel on a creature means that it has experienced extreme heartbreak or stress, and creatures with a broken jewel die within the week in a very painful fashion. Or, at least, it is assumed that it is very painful, as those with broken jewels are seen crying uncontrollably until their deaths.

The race is very ritualistic in these matters of death. They will often come together as a community and make the dying as comfortable as possible. If they are able to achieve a smile from the dying member, the ritual is considered a success. They believe to die happy is a good death and you’ll be immediately ushered into paradise because of it. Again, this is implied, as there is a large red post-it note saying that the reporter made a false assumption based on their own religious creed.

Outside of the death rites, the race is also very social. They love to sing and dance. The most elaborate of these are reserved for the spring courtship season where they give into their primitive urges to mate and reproduce. Similar to peacocks on Earth, the males must put on an elaborate show in order to attract a mate. What’s interesting is that mating pairs are not strictly male-female pairings. Male-male couplings have been documented during the three-week-long season on more than one occasion. The race celebrates these pairings more than the traditional ones, mostly for their artistic displays if nothing else. When a male-female coupling does occur, the two are mates for life and not only produce the next generation, but pass on their skills in the arts as well.

They’ve developed their own hierarchy of art skill. While all are equally celebrated, many strive and often attempt to find a mate that is a member of the most desired art skill within the race: dance. Their native dance is similar to classical ballet at the most revered level, but it is clear that other genres of dance have been introduced into their culture. When throwing parties, which they do quite often, their dances resemble that found in contemporary rap music videos. The file calls describes them as "primitive gyration of the hip and buttock." Kind of hard to believe that an alien race essentially founded hip-hop before us Earthlings. Other dance genres this race has mastered include jazz, tap, swing, and ballroom dancing which is exclusively performed by male-female couples before conceiving their young.

Their native language consists of clicks, tweets, and croaks in a Mores Code like structure. Their singing ability, however, gives them the unique ability to mimic other languages that they believe is actually music instead of spoken words. However, learning a new language for them is a long process due to the fact that they treat it as if it is a new music genre.

It seems unfortunate that the person who discovered this creature has had their named blacked out by magic marker in the file. And being that it is dated from so long ago, I doubt anyone working here would know who originally reported this. A real shame, as this is one fascinating race of aliens to report about.

~Zeek Slider

Rating Scale

One of my supervisors came in to check on how I was doing. Given the fact that we are two month out from the actual start of the project, I gave him the obligatory "fine." He asked if I had any questions about what I was going over, so I pointed to the Shinigami file I just finished reviewing and asked about the rating system.

Basically, what he told me was this: The rating system is a 20 point system that determines how approachable or dangerous the creature is. The higher the number in either category, the more difficult it may be to observe them.

In L's case, because the Danger Level rating was 17, anyone observing a Shinigami should do so with extreme caution. Which he didn't, as I found out. My supervisor pulled out a page from L's notebook and pointed out how dangerously close L got to the Shinigami's young, which he believes contributed to L's ultimate death. It's a strong assumption to make, as he admitted, but the evidence was right there in the file.

On the other end of the spectrum, if someone came across a creature with a high Social Ability rating, they would have difficulty observing that creature due to its natural curiosity and potential interest in humans as a new creature to their environment. This would lead some observers to adopt a Jane Goodall approach to the situation, often interacting with the creature in ways that don't necessarily result in an "accurate observation of natural habits." His words, not mine.

When I asked how these ratings are determined, he simply told me that I'll be informed on that process when I discover a new creature.

~Zeek Slider

Shinigami

Diet: Carnivore
Danger Level: 17
Social Ability: 9

Observation: One of our more recent findings, apparently. It was discovered and observed on 20071005 by someone who only signs their reports with the letter L. I asked around the office as to who this person may be, but all I was told was that the person was a complete nerd. Only one person hinted towards a gender, claiming she was being hit on by this person. It doesn’t sound like this L guy was very popular.

The creature L reported back is a very vicious and dangerous creature. Several of his journal entries report that every kill this creature makes is both brutal and extremely difficult to witness. It reportedly eats its prey while it is still alive. L gave this creature its name due to fact that it is last thing it sees when it dies.

The name itself is Japanese in origin. It literally translates into the phrase "God of Death." The idea of death personified didn’t reach Japan until the Meiji era. I’m not big on world history, but what little I remember of it wants me to say that this was around the time when Europe was influencing the rest of the world. Knowing this much, I would guess that L had an interest in Japanese culture as I do.

An interesting anatomical feature of the Shinigami is naturally forming gauntlet on its hands. L reports that this gauntlet is formed from birth and only hardens as it grows. Newborn Shinigamis tend to break their wrists at least once, but juveniles are able to take blows to the forearms with no problem. Given how fragile their limbs appear to be, it makes sense that this creature would evolve some kind of protective element on one of its most powerful attack weapons. Its second powerful weapon is clearly the large claws on its feet. Combined with the wings on its back, this creature probably adopted an attack similar to the birds of prey we are familiar with. Because L reported that this creature doesn’t outright kill its prey, I have to hypothesize that the claws are the initial start of the attack, possibly to blind the prey, if it is a decent size or could potentially be a combative equal. Once on the ground, it then slashes with the claws on its natural gauntlet until its prey is disabled.

It has another part designed for attack: a flexible horn with a razor-sharp edge on the front. L’s report indicates only one observation in its use, and it’s a rather disturbing one. As a final act of mercy, L observed a juvenile Shinigami using the horn to behead its prey after eating the majority of the body. The young shinigami then proceeded to play with the head like a cat with a ball of yarn. Just reading that again makes me want to vomit. L hypothesizes that the adults probably do this as well, but none of his reports back indicate an opportunity to witness this.

His reports stop there. There is no other information on the creature beyond that. Given how inherently evil this monster is, I wouldn’t be surprised if he fell victim to it.

~Zeek Slider

[AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yes, this creature is my tribute to Death Note.]

Pyrat

Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 8
Social Ability: 9

Observation: The first thing that struck me as funny about this creature was its name. It’s a pun on several different levels. The first and most obvious is the rat part due to the rodent-like appearance of this creature. The second is the full name alluding to the mineral pyrite, more commonly known as Fool’s Gold. The third is its behavior habits being similar to a pirate in that the file reports seeing it stealing other creatures’ food supply.

There are several things odd about this creature as well. The most immediate being the yellow crystals growing out of its back buried among its quills. The file reports that they are nothing more than growths produced from dead protein cells similar to the rest of the hair covering its furry body. But can hair really form crystals? I’ve heard of humans growing horns with doctors claiming that it was the result of a mutation in what originally was a mole or the fusing of several hair follicles, so it’s not entirely improbable.

Another interesting oddity is a third eye that is strategically positioned on the back of its head. It also appears to be disguised as an antenna. According to the report, the eye stays closed unless the creature hears something that startles it. It will then open the third eye and scan the area. While scanning, the third eye ensures that no predator will advance on this creature while it is facing away. It also says in the report that should the creature feel unsafe, it will keep this third eye open as it walks! It must take amazing coordination to be able to walk forward while still being able to see what’s behind you. It would be like driving to work while still being able to look out the rear view mirror at the same time for the entire length of the trip!

This is one of the few files that includes anatomical drawings of the creature, and it appears to have no knees. The limbs are a single bone that connect from its pelvis and shoulder directly to its ankles. This must lead to some very strange implications on how it moves around. The notes written along side the drawings report that this creature scuttles similar to a crab, only with the speed of a squirrel. This should come at no surprise to anyone due to the behavioral habit of stealing food. One would expect this creature to be able to get away and fast before the rightful owners showed up.

Much like the rats we know, it’s reported that they live in large social nests in dark secluded places. Due to the crystals growing out of its back, they prefer caves rather than tree holes. And the scary part is that their family groups are reported to be five times as large as any rat colony you would normally find!

~Zeek Slider

Kaihang

Diet: Carnivore
Danger Level: 10
Social Ability: 11

Observation: There are only a few notations in the file as to the true nature of this creature, but the first thing I read is that it is extremely tall. Unfortunately, the person reporting this creature was Dr. Inglis. It appears that the stories I’ve heard about him using flowery language in his observations are true. He describes the creature as a towering dragon-like beast "who is as tall as this planet is vast and mystical." He also keeps using the word "epic" over and over when describing how it moves and how it sings.

If we were to remove the poetic language of Inglis, it is clear that this creature is very tall and, possibly, very large. Its scale helps it generate a very deep vocal range which it uses for courting a mate and possibly for its own entertainment. It also has only one foot and a leg configuration that allows it to spring board in any direction. It can turn in one spot as graceful as a dancer, to paraphrase Inglis.

What is interesting to me is the fact that it has seven shield-like discs on its body at various points. Inglis was one of the few fortunate enough to see a corpse of this creature while on his field study and has indicated in his diagrams that the two on the back are the most important to this creature. The lower of the two protects and houses the heart, while the upper is an exposed skull cap with direct access to the brain cavity.

What limited knowledge I know about the evolutionary process, I would imagine that these two points on this creature’s body were constantly being attacked by predators. Possibly avian in nature since I seriously doubt anything on its planet that is a ground creature could reach it. When a generation evolved the other five false targets, the longevity of this creature increased. And because this was the design that gave it an advantage, Mother Nature let it keep it.

Oh, goodness! I think Inglis’s flowery language is starting to affect how I’m writing this entry. I best take a break before I end up using metaphors and synonyms that would make my old English teacher hang her head in shame and laughter.

~Zeek Slider

Bizzare Happenings

I came back from lunch to find my work station a mess. The stack of files I was going to tackle for the day has been scattered all over the floor! Several of the filing cabinets have had their drawers pulled and emptied out. It looked like a tornado blew through here, which is completely bizarre.

The reason? My work station is in the corner of room lined with filing cabinets with no windows. The room is also locked at all time, with access restricted to anyone with a Level 3 or higher clearance.

I just got back from Security, and there wasn’t any footage of anyone entering the room after I left for lunch. From the time I left to the time I rushed to Security is not enough time to delete the video, especially when one of our security personnel is on the clock watching the monitors.

Maybe the Glitch creature I was looking into is real after all and they are making themselves known. No, that can’t be it. This isn’t a social error or computer bug. This is a prank, and something else is behind it. I’m almost certain of it.

~Zeek Slider

Glitch

Diet: Carnivore
Danger Level: 8
Social Ability: 9

Observation: This is the first creature that is on top of this completely unorganized pile of folders and binders on my desk?! I’m not sure if I should take this as a good or bad sign.

The person who reported and observed this creature said that this creature is apparently responsible for all the computer errors and social faux pas in the entire known universe. Hard to believe that such a cute thing could cause so much chaos.

The notes on this creature suggest that it has this ability thanks to a psychic brain located on the bulb on top of its head. The other two bulbs at the end of its antennas are used for triangulation. Or maybe what this person meant was allocation. It’s difficult to read the hand writing, which may be the power of this creature at work right now if this information is proven factual.

That’s right, the claim that it has a psychic brain is all theory. Nobody was able to capture a living specimen due to the design of the traps constantly failing! According to the documents, no matter how fool-proof the plan was, this creature was able to figure a way to make it fall apart. I consider this just dumb luck on the creature’s part.

Another interesting observation is a strange bone formation on the back. It has eight dull boney humps circling a larger one in the center of its back. This person’s notes hypothesize that it may have something to do with the positioning of the sun or moon given how this creature sleeps at night. The configuration may be symmetrical, but points towards the position of either of these two celestial bodies. Because one was never captured, it was also hypothesized that this may be a way to determine gender. Using mythology and religion as a foundation, those that face the sun are thought to be male while those that face the moon are thought to be female.

What has me curious are the feathers and the strange protrusions from this creature’s snout. There is nothing in the file that indicates what they are for, so it is my best guess that they were designed for a mating ritual or a some kind of social identifier. Many birds do this on Earth, mostly in small color differences too subtle for the human eye to notice. Given how monochromatic its color is, it wouldn’t surprise me if this turns out to be factual.

The last page of the file has a post-it note stuck to it saying that they lost contact with the observation team. Apparently, this happened while they were sending documentation of this creature becoming aware of the team’s presence in the area. The message itself appears to have been cut off, as half of the page is blank. Maybe this was the Glitches’ way of protecting itself? I guess nobody will know at this point.

~Zeek Slider