This is a Pixar short in the making.
I have a folder on my phone called RPG Memes but I also have one called RPG Ideas. This one sits at the top, favorited, and has ever since I first saw it. I read it occasionally. Despite being really cool it’s just… adorable. Especially as someone who would die for a pet that gave a fuck about my existence. No, you don’t count Bella you asshole cat. I love her but she sucks.
Because that is no mere cat, that is a queen.
You misspelled bitch.
omg this is adorable. I need more!
Good news then, because there’s a second half to the story!
https://www.tumblr.com/evilwizard/716340232593833984/thisthinginabox-writing-prompt-s-why-did-you
Thank you so much for sharing the source
I’ve got to share this with my DnD group
That was everything I wanted!
Do you know what the author means by the jagged seam at the end? For some reason it’s not clicking for me.
The jagged seam is its mouth.
Just a visual cue that the object is actually the mimic
It was to tell the reader that the mimic got out too. The same jagged seams as the first time it became a blanket
Well now I need a 15 volume light novel series based on this. That was great.
Sapient Pearwood FTW!
Oh, so you’re from the Counterweight Continent? What’s it like over there?
Also know as the Aurient, because of all the gold.
A pet mimic would be pretty handy.
Unfortunately, I imagine it would end like a pet chimpanzee; your face being ripped off and your genitals eaten.
Mimics are definitely under-utilized. I wrote a story about a hedge knight famous for his wooden and extremely sticky armor. The knight was a mild-mannered timid guy while the mimic was ravenous and hungry, so it was like a little shop of horrors dynamic.
Tired-brain reading comprehension made me think this was a prompt in the sense that an LLM answered it, and-- did anyone else read Asimov’s short story, Cal?
In my campaign the party came across a magic item seller who had two juvenile mimics in a terrarium in his shop. This is now canon for how he met his first mimic.
