skinstealer journal- a misc collection of postings

[skinstealer]

percy mortis

good morning, i'm here to document yesterday's gameplay session because i got Very Sick for some reason last night and couldn't post it then!



[image description: a petz collage of REZIDENT, an abstract quadruped made of distinct green orbs and black tubes connecting them in a wireframe-like effect. its head is triangular and long, its body has a pyramid shape, its tail looks like a constellation and its feet are flat. in this collage, it is simply posing and running around, showing off the shapes in its body. the background is black and swirly.]

yesterday's randomly selected friend to play with...REZIDENT, or REZ for short. it was designed by shivers in a little call we had a looong while back, where it directed the design. it said that we could include it in this crew, so it will get spoiled now! it's a very shy creature (confidence stat of 2...) and while it has a siamese personality, it doesn't seem all that snobby in how it acts, at least not towards us.

[image description: another collage of REZ, featuring it jumping around, laying down, and staring scrutinizingly at a can of cat food.]

playing with REZ was really fun, watching it move is a real treat...but we realized something problematic pretty fast. it can't actually eat from food bowls, because every time it settles down, it knocks the bowl around with its huge snout. we ended up getting a fix from @gyiyg for this, but decided not to implement it- talking with shivers prior about it lead to us kind of preferring the narrative of it having accessibility issues with certain kinds of food. this thing needs to be bottle fed and that is a okay. liquid diet!

[image description: another collage of REZ, all featuring it interacting with the milk bottle, whether that's running from it, drinking it, being bottle fed, or running around with it. some of the pictures also feature a beach ball, which REZ is very skeptical of.]

speaking of being bottle fed...it was VERY skeptical of the milk bottle at first due to its low confidence stat! eventually it got familiar with it, and not only took the bottle with ease, but started carrying it around as a toy/comfort object. it loves its bottle!

this of course lead us to go "oh, we should get it a custom drink", and shivers suggested we make it some monster energy in a milk bottle. as tempting as this is, we remembered queenie made a soda can off of the milk bottle...

[image description: another REZ collage, this one featuring REZ sipping a can of soda, becoming much a beast with much chunkier orbs, and proudly carrying the soda can around.]

the soda can toy is SO cute and we can't believe we hadn't downloaded it yet. it works great, but we underestimated how true queenie's warning of "it has the "fatty" adjective so it's similar to treats" would be. REZ turned into a Large Orb Beast as a result of its fatness slider going up to fucking 98, which made us cackle laughing and completely lose it- most of our petz are...distressingly skinny due to us having the game open and not having food bowls out, but it doesn't really affect "petz health" or happiness in the end. REZ doesn't seem to mind at all, and loves its favorite soda can. the beast can have funny soda. we Will make it monster energy.



[image description: a REZ collage with the creature still in Big Orb mode, sitting in a basket, looking very scared of a hoop, and sitting proudly.]

we played a little more with REZ after that, familiarizing it with objects and making it feel more at home. it's such a sweetheart, especially for a siamese personality! we really hope it can make friends next time we take it out...

the current wishlist
leather jacket- jack angler
some kind of halloween candy treat- jack angler
custom bed- mackerel (work in progress!)
veggie bag from ACNH as a holdable- mackerel (planning on getting from dew as well)
monster energy soda, based off queenie's model- REZIDENT

need something else for REZIDENT...we'll ask shivers what it thinks, but suggestions are also welcome!