CREATUREFEST JULY 2025

[skinstealer]

alright, i allowed myself the whoooole day to get my ducks in a row. let's talk shop. 

my main focuses for this fest are virtual pets irl, virtu.pet (neopets clone), and getting back into petz. i have additional goals of wobbledogs breeding nightmares, beastieball raremorph hunting, and potentially a spore stream. 

i am joint running some vpets irl with como already, but i hatched a new guy today just to get into the spirit of the Group Hatch. our pre-extant roster is:

on my end

Poppyseed, a cho hakkaimon who i really need to digivolve already please get the anime pig out of here. she/her, running on a Digimon X. she is quiet and studious, and doesn't like fighting much. 
Modem, a batabatachi who NEEDS TO EVOLVE ALREADY I DONT KNOW THE EVOLUTION TIMING ON THESE ONES. a bastard who pitches a lot of fits, which is my fault entirely bc i didn't realize the connection remakes have different animations for discipline needed care calls. fuck my gay ass life. he/him. 
Confetti, a lovelitchi/maskutchi on my Anniversary M!x. i enjoy her deeply even if i think she hates me for not feeding her lollipops every fucking moment of ever fucking day. they/she, works as a marine biologist (wow how convenient for this challenge!!!) in my mind. 

on como's end

an unnamed Greymon on a DM20. we keep using he/him for him and he's swole as hell with a 95% winrate bc como is built different. we're considering swapping the devices once both of our guys pass on so  that we can give the diff gameplay styles a try.  technically, we already Mostly raised a digimon jointly on my DMX, and como does say he misses how active that one is. meanwhile i am sweating bullets at Poppyseed.
Wire, a batabatachi hatched with Modem. i consider them gayboys playing. he/him, also a bastard bc i unfortunately instructed como wrongly on his raising too. connection rerelease. 

and then...the new baby. this one will have Lore. 



it started out as a teletchi, as you do on the v3, and had an issue-free baby stage + evolved straight into mohitamatchi. this is technically a generation 2 tamagotchi, as this is my old childhood v3 from the 2000s and as it turns out i had a mametchi up in there from 2021 named Bingo holding a baby already. she is now an OC in my slowly developing virtual pet canon and i like her very much. i don't usually make or talk about fanart stuff, but i think i'd like to try. either way, our tamagotchis arent related in lore and are only really considered CHARACTERS once they're fully evolved irl and locked the fuck in. 



so, what will be the story here? for the tidepool theming i wanted to focus on my experiences on the Connecticut shore, and go for a different beach theme than you usually see going around. i find the atlantic ocean to be deeply neglected in conversations and beach visuals, and i have never really felt at home around the pacific nearly as much since. as such, Confetti will act as a marine researcher at a similarly themed beach area, and is in the middle of researching a mysterious, deep sea tamagotchi who has been sighted for years but never fully recorded- or established contact with as a sapient individual- this will be Abyssal, our new baby. 

i wanted to give Abyssal a fairly generic "deep sea" design for now, that will develop further as it evolves. the end goal of it all is to have a notable, themed individual for our overarching vpet quest- making plushes of every single virtual pet we raise. there are already 3 weirdos inhabiting our home and Confetti is well on their way. plushes are locked in once the vpet is fully raised/dies, and are thus immortalized forever in our home. yes, we are planning to do this with digimon too. i'll die. as such, the resulting OC designs will take their colors/patterns from socks i have in my home to use as main materials, so any sketches you see here will be uncolored for a hot minute. this has been a lot of fun so far! 

3D models are also planned once the anthro designs for everything will be finalized. we go all in here. i need more for-fun stuff. 

next up: the neopets.

i haven't played virtu.pet in a hot minute, but i'm glad to be getting back to it. i picked out four neopets from my hoard and am going to focus on them for however long i keep up with this. here they are:







felicity, a maraquan aisha inspired by maine lobsters. i really want to focus on atlantic ocean animals/beach theming still, so this was kind of an obvious pick. she/they for pronouns.  

tidepool, an island kougra (that pulls from the virtu.pet redesign), based around the kinds of palettes i saw around the connecticut shores. dark rocks with light sand and a different sea color than i see represented often, i'm quite pleased with him.

spot, a spotted tuskaninny who i legit kept mostly the same as the OG design bc i really don't see much reason to change her design at all aside from the hair color. it's just a stellar neopet. not an atlantic sea creature but. im allowed a little cheat. it/its pronouns.

special_chu, otherwise known as chu, a maraquan korbat inspired by cownose rays. i miss ray touch tanks so much, and i think that cownoses are so fucking cute. i have no idea if their flaps will rig. please pray for me.

i'm going to do my due diligence and research animal stuff for these guys, bc i've been enjoying that for morbit species reworks and i think it'd be a great chance to reconnect with those areas of my past. all of their models will be SL avatars soon enough, and i have a little environment made up to take pictures/renders in. we are gonna party. 



lastly, we have...my return to petz. i am still trying to heal my relationship with the game, but i have a lot of plans in mind for this fest. for now, i have two petz from my Mercatz file- Mariana the weird sharkwhale and Rotor the weird manateeseal. i should figure out fun species lore for these! it's what i like best. they seem to get along very well, and are good friends already. 

the overall gameplan is to overhaul [BAD_DEATH] to be more fun for me to run and maintain, as well as give some files a fresh coat of paint. i want this game to be mine to enjoy again, and done My Way. i will elaborate on this further in time. 

as you can see, i haven't really recorded a lot of gameplay here yet, but i'm planning on doing that with my weekend. i just wanted to get these all out the door. 

planning on reading and responding to as many entries as i can in a bit! seeing yall be so enthusiastic is the best shit, thank you so much for indulging with me.