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-*Puddle has made a group chat adding 5+ others*-

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Mother: Wut is thes?

Puddle: a goopcat!

Spikey: *Groupchat

Puddle: WAH How u soo gud at thet?? 

Spikey: Practice.

Living: my boxx goong bfft bftt. 

Pure: min too!

Living: How mak it not. 

Pure: I dunno 

Inventory: Lol noobs don't know how to phone.

-"Lets have a look changed Inventory to Buttlicker"-

Buttlicker: Rude... 

Lets have a look: 👀

Oh lawd he comin': hey gueiys!

Puddle: Hoi Gourmand!! 

Matcha: Hello everyone. 

Puddle: WAOH! SAINT CAN TIPE!? 

Spikey: I'm helping. 

Puddle: ooaeahhhh

Mother: Wiell u guys shut up, the buszzs is thro in me off guard

Puddle: But everyone is getting introduced!

Mother:... Wut

Puddle: I been reeding bout the boxes. I can tipe betta! 

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Gatherer: ?Ploo

Spikey: ?Ploo

Pure: ?Ploo

Living: ?Ploo

Mother: will you guys stop? 

Buttlicker: ?Ploo

Matcha: ?Ploo

Oh lawd he comin': ?Ploo

Puddle: ?Ploo

Mother: Fuck y'all

Buttlicker: Really?? *Bats eyelashes*

-"Mother has muted that chat for 5 minutes "-

Gatherer: Giant lizard found in outskirts.

Pure: Ooooh Survivor and I are going there now!! 

Gatherer: ... Neither of you eat lizard.

Pure: Oh... Yeah you're right. 

Lets have a look: 👀

Gatherer: Is anyone who eats lizard online? 

Oh lawd he comin': Me

Gatherer: Finally

Buttlicker: Can I have some? 

Gatherer: If you can get here before Gourmand.

Buttlicker: Don't worry I'll make it! 

𝙴𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎. 

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Matcha: Does anyone else notice the smell. 

Mother: What smell? 

Matcha: Stale, unwashed, slimy fur. 

Mother: That's just Enot

... He doesn't wash

Matcha: At this rate my sight may not be the only thing I loose.

Mother: I'm with him right now, breathing is harder. 

Buttlicker: You guys are talking in the groupchat. You know that right. 

Mother: Yes, we are warning everyone.. 

Also, Saint, how are you typing? 

Matcha: Spears help me set up blind mode. 

Mother: Oh, that makes sense. 

Buttlicker: You guys suck

Mother: At least we don't stink. 

Buttlicker: At least I still have

Mother: Do you wish to finish that sentence? 

Buttlicker: no. 

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Gatherer: Why'd everyone go quiet?? 

Buttlicker: She's outside my den. IN THE RAIN. 

Gatherer: Oh shit. 

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Pure: A LIZARD BIT MEEEE!!! 

Gatherer: Are you dead? 

Pure: No.... 

Gatherer: Then you'll live

Pure: But it hurts!!! 

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Let's have a Look: 👀

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Pure: Someone left berries in front of my den! 

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Living: I found a dead red lizard, does anyone want it? 

Dead red... 

Red dead... 

Buttlicker: STOP. 

Living: Ok ok sorry! 

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Puddle: Apply rain to world :3

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Pure: SOMEONE HELP IT STARTED RAINING OUT OF NOWHERE

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Living: Someone is out here with their butt out. 

Pure: What do you mean? 

Living: I found someone's leaf skirt.

*Attach Image*

Pure: That looks like Rivuletss

Living: now that u mention it

It do. 

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Puddle: I may have ditched them to go swimming. 

Living: you can swim with them on? No? 

Puddle: Yeh but I'd have to make sure they don't fall off mid swim. 

 Would be real bad if they did. 

Living: .... So you swam without it?. 

Puddle: Yep! 

Living: How has natural selection not selected you yet!? 

Puddle: I'm just lucky. 

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ᴰᶦʳᵉᶜᵗ ᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉˢ,ᴹᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵗᵒ ᴳᵃᵗʰᵉʳᵉʳ

Mother: Hey... Hunter, though I'd check up on you. Last I saw your condition was getting worse.

Gatherer: alright lay it on thik, I get it. But... Yeah my condition is getting worse, I know. For me. I only have a few cycles left.

I plan to make those last few cycles last. 

Mother: You do that... 

Gatherer: Don't be so worried about me. My time has been around the corner since I hatched. 

Mother: That doesn't make me any less worried. 

Gatherer: Welp. Take care of your new tribe, they need your attention more than I do at the moment. 

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Pure: Life is beautiful!!! 

Living: Monk... Are you alright? 

Pure: I just watched a Lizard give birth. 

Living: Good for you??? 

Pure: I can't unsee it

Let's have a watch: 👀

Pure: Hii watcher!! 

Lets have a watch:///.///

Pure: do you know how to type? I could help you if you want! 

Let's have a watch: 👎

Buttlicker: Oooooh someone is in loveeee

Let's have a watch:🪨👉🐱🥚

Buttlicker: You wouldn't dare

Let's have a watch: 💢

Pure: Wut does any of that mean? 

Let's have a watch:🌹

Buttlicker: He's saying he wants to have pups with you. 

Let's have a watch:💣💥

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Buttlicker: SOMEONE HELP, PLEASE. 

Puddle: What you screaming about this time

Buttlicker: I went into my den, MY EGG IS GONE. 

Gatherer: Maybe a predator took it? 

Buttlicker: my baby TnT

Let's have a watch:😛🥚

Buttlicker: YOU FUCKING BITCH. 

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Gatherer: RISE AND GRIND EVERYONE!!!! THIS CYCLE IS GONNA BE A GOOD ONE 💯💯💯

Let's have a watch: 🤫🫵🐩🍑⬆️

Living: Lets....Not!

Pure: I'm still tired :(

Oh lawd he comin': I'm still in my den

Buttlicker: At least let me eat a bluefruit first,

Mother: Too early for this

Puddle: I am NOT rising OR grinding!!!!

Spikey: Alls these fucking notifications woke me up.

Matcha: Language. But yes the bussering noises woke us up

Gatherer: You all just don't understand good work ethic. 

Buttlicker: Hunter, we don't care that you have like, 7 cycles left to live. We're still tired

Mother: ... 

Gatherer: Fine... I'll go hunting by myself again. 

Oh lawd he comin': Wait I'll come wit u Hunter! 

ᴰᶦʳᵉᶜᵗ ᵐᵉˢˢᵃᵍᵉˢ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᴹᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵀᵒ ᴮᵘᵗᵗˡᶦᶜᵏᵉʳ. 

Mother: WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM!? 

Buttlicker: What? I'm just telling the truth. 

Mother: NOBODY ELSE KNEW ABOUT THAT. 

Buttlicker: Are you done gaslighting yourself? It's so blatantly obvious that the rot is consuming him. 

You can't shield your mind from every tragedy

Mother: You're an asshole.

Buttlicker: What are you gonna do? Kill me? 

See what good that does. 

Mother: You're insufferable

Buttlicker: Going to hell and back changes a scug. 

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Pure: I'm changing my user

Pure has changed their user to Student.

Student: That's better! 

Let's have a watch:❤

Student: I'm glad you like it! 

Buttlicker: Go have pups already you're dragging it. 

Let's have a watch: 🥚💣

Buttlicker: Jokes on you, I laid more eggs! 

Living: Nobody needed to know that. 

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Puddle: Aaaaaaaaaa

Mother: What? 

Puddle: HAIII ARTII

Mother: Hello Riv

Puddle: I got front row seats to a lizard fight If you wanna join me

Mother: Really? Where? 

Puddle: In the garbage wastes

Mother: Crazy, I'm actually close to there. 

Puddle: Hurry! A scavenger just fell into the fight!

Mother: Oh I HAVE to see this.

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Oh Lawd he comin': Everyone seems more talkative today.

Living: Now that you mention it everyone is talking more

Spikey: Both of youss, SHUT UP. I'm trying to hunt. 

Oh lawd he comin': Sorry Spear.

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Matcha: My fur feels much more sticky lately. 

Student: Why? 

Matcha: I have no idea. It's just feels like there's a clump of something sticky on me. 

Gatherer: That's because you have an old bluefruit stuck in your fur. 

Matcha: Oh

Thank you Hunters

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Living: Wawa

Mother: no

Student: Wawa

Matcha: Wawa

Mother: Stop it

Oh lawd he conin': Wawa

Gatherer: Wawa

Buttlicker: Wawa

Spikey: you guys are annoying

Puddle: ωαωα

Mother: ENOUGH. 

Let's have a watch: 👀

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Living: I didn't know I was pregnant.

Student: YOU'RE PREGNANT!?!?

Living: No, I found a mini slugger.

*Image attached (I'll draw it later I'm too lazy rn.)*

Student: Aweeeisss! My heart is melting!!!! 

Living: This makes you.... An uncle now! (If I can keep it alive long enough to meet you.) 

Student: I have faith in you! Keep the little guy pushing!! 

Living: Does anyone have any name suggestions. 

Buttlicker: Enot Jr. 

Let's have a watch: 💥🥚

Buttlicker: LET ME MAKE A JOKE OMFG..... DNI!!!! 

Student: does it do anything or does it sit around all day?

Living: He seems to really like hunting and eating stuff, now, He also eats lizards. 

Gatherer: You sure this ain't secretly Gourmand's pup? 

Oh lawd he comin': Oh please Hunter, as if I'd be irresponsible enough to leave a slug pup unattended for long enough for it to reach survivor. Fucking ridiculous. 

Gatherer: you could have spared me the paragraph. 

Oh lawd he comin': You could have spared me last night when you spent it in MY DEN. 

Gatherer: OK OK YOU WIN THAT'S ENOUGH

Buttlicker: oooohh~ is this a couple's quarrel? 

Oh lawd he comin': It's about to be a couple's beat down if you don't shut the fuck up.

Gatherer: It's about to be a couple's beat down if you don't shut the fuck up. 

Oh lawd he comin': ... 

Gatherer: .... 

Buttlicker: aww their so in love. 

Gatherer: Watch yourself tonight Inverted. 

Buttlicker: Wow.... Dead naming me in front of the entire group chat.... Smh.... 

Living: what-.... Names.... Cant.... Die? 

Gatherer: Anyway's back into the little slugger.

Living: he's adorable, and fluffy.. And... Violent... 

Student: You ok Surv.

Living: He's... Fighting a vulture.... And winning.

Gatherer: HELL YEAH!!!!! 

Student: Did you teach him this???? 

Living: NO!! I mean... I've killed lizards before... And vultures... BUT NOT TO HIS DEGREE, ALSO HE IS TEARING THEM UP, LIKE... MAULING THEM. 

Gatherer: As much as I hate the whole Jr naming idea. He does sound like a Hunter. 

Student: OH, I KNOW THE PERFECT NAME. 

Living: go on?. 

Student: Brawler. 

Living: You know... That's not a bad name! Welcome to the world, Brawler! 

Student: Yay!!!! 

Living: Also, ps... Don't come to Outskirts, he lineaged the FUCK out of it... 

Gatherer:... Just got to outskirts how fucked am I? 

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Gatherer: I may have lost my dignity but... I'm still alive!... Mostly. 

Student: What happened. 

Gatherer: Lizards.... Lots and LOTS of lizards. 

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Oh lawd he comin': Did you know I just love food. Like, I could go on all day about food. 

Spikey: Can you tell me what leviathan's taste like? 

Oh lawd he comin': Uh.... Lemmie try. 

Spikey: You're not actually going to do it... RIGHT!? 

Buttlicker: He's gonna do it. 

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Oh lawd he comin': Alright back! 

Spikey: ... How'd it go? 

Oh lawd he comin': They taste like really salty trash. 

Spikey: Oh. My. Lord. 

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Mother: Does anyone here know how to calm someone down!? 

Puddle: Sing them a lullaby!!!! 

Mother: Ok but like, I don't have the... Best voice for that. 

Puddle: Have you ever sang a lullaby? 

Mother:... No.. 

Puddle: NOT EVEN TO YOUR CHILDREN!? 

Mother: ...no.... 

Puddle: Come on..... Really Arti? 

Mother: OK OK, I GET IT. BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS?!! 

Oh lawd he comin': what's the situation? 

Mother:... I kidnapped a scav, didn't kill her because she's a child but I can't let her free, like what if something kills her... Or worse, she finds other scavs and they storm my den. 

Puddle: Honestly never thought I'd see the day where you care about a scav. 

Mother: Well... She's still clearly a child, probably no older then how my own pups would have been.. 

Puddle: oh

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Mother: I fed her a few things and she's seemed to lighten up, she isn't screaming anymore, just staring at me with her big ol' eyes. . 

Puddle: That's... Good? 

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"You aren't going to kill me are you?" The small scavenger quivered behind the spear that blocked her in. Artificer looked between the spear in her paw and the fear that was obvious on the child's face. "...No... You don't deserve to die, not like this." Artificer dislodged the spear that kept the child in place. She nodded for her to leave but the child stayed still, eyes wide, watching her movements. Becoming increasingly annoyed with every second, she snaps. "YOU CAN FUCKING GO NOW." She growls, causing the young scav to flinch. Tears started to water the child's eye's once again. For a few moments Artificer thought she would feel nothing but the deeper she looked into the child's eye the more all she could see was her reflection, her anger inflicted onto an innocent, undeserving of her wrath.

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Gatherer: I saw echo. 

Living: Which one? 

Gatherer: uhhh the one in poopy land. 

Living: ... Great

Gatherer: He told me to murder everyone I know. 

Living: ... Like the femtanyl song? 

Gatherer: Fuck I was hoping no one got the reference. 

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Student: Hanging out with moon is sooo fun! Like, if it weren't for the rain, I could fall asleep while she reads.

Puddle: Ooo OOOOOH! Say hi to moon for me!!!!! 

Student: Will do! 

The small slug cat, still sprawled out on the Iterators lap, purred, placing their communication box down, and stretching. "What is it, Cheese?" She called out to the yellow scug. Monk turned around, pawing at the robots feet. "What's got you so excited?" She giggles, watching as the scug does elaborate charades. Monk points to the water, drinking a bit, then meowing with a mouth full of water. "You're staring to sound a bit like Ruffles." Monk puts his paws back on the ground and nods frantically. Moon looks at him, confused. "Ruffles?" Monk nods even faster. "What about Ruffles?" She asked, now endeared in what he means. Monk then begins waving his paw. Piecing the motions together, Moon questioned, "Ruffles said hello?" Monk jumps up, clapping his paws together. Moon begins to giggle to herself.