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[rinki-balt]

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Private, selective 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐭 from 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬, a Sci-fi adjacent racing game set in a space opera setting of various planets filled with intelligent life. Balt is a member of the Rinki people, a tribe native to planet Ri. At time of writing the game will soon be available on Steam if you wish to Wishlist it. Not sponsored, just pointing you in the right direction if you're curious.

There's also literally a free demo you can play right now. —which is half the reason this blog exists. This game has serious potential to be absolutely fantastic in my opinion.

Mun is 18+ and female. Please be respectful.

Spoilers are here, naturally, and won't be Tagged, game's pretty niche, I doubt anyone would really care about spoilers.

 .carrd. .rules. .about.

[rinki-balt]

waves from afar

 

 *waves back*  ❝ Hey?? ❞

Oh serpent, do all humans think the inhabitants on planet Ri can't speak or understand people???

 Caspian can talk, Balt will understand him.

[fluffydestructor]

Oh, he didn't seem to like that. At the head petting, the blue creature's ears pinned back against his skull-- a mimic to Balt's own ears it seemed.

The experiment's lips curled back into a snarl, a growl that was utterly feral starting in the back of his throat. Who was this stranger? Why was he touching him?

"Meega nala kweesta!"

[rinki-balt]

 ⸻What?

Despite technically classifying as an extraterrestrial himself, Balt didn't have a Tantalog-speaking bone in his body.

Despite this, it was clear the little blue creature was getting frustrated with him.

❝ Ok Balt⸻ different approach. ❞ The fox said talking to himself. ───────────────  

Balt attempted to sit down next to the experiment while not touching it, crossing his legs together.

❝ Here, I'm not gonna force you to do anything you don't want. Just get all your frustrations out. ❞ Even if Stitch wanted to continue making those snorting sounds from earlier — Balt felt he could tolerate it this time around.

[fluffydestructor]

LOUD SNORTING SOUNDS.

[rinki-balt]

 ❝ ..... ❞

What is he looking at? —Balt's ears pinned back. Those sounds the small blue creature was making were gross.

Balt's not entirely sure why he's doing this, but he silently reaches down to pet the animalistic alien on the top of it's head to calm it down. He's good with Giyom, Balt knows how to calm down animals.

 ❝ Easy boy, ⸻easy.... ❞

[rinki-balt]

@peppy-pilot answered.  ──────────  

❝ Mercenaries for hire? ❞ Why has he never heard of StarFox? A space traveling group of independent heroes seems like something that would be right up Balt's ally.

The likely culprit was just Balt not getting off-planet much. The Rinki Tribe being so reclusive made it immensely difficult for Balt to hear any "Galactic news".

He'd been bound to planet Ri all his life with no potential of ever leaving until Lirk showed up.

Space was vast, the fact the hare and the white fox are meeting here at all was a needle in a haystack opportunity Balt felt pressured not to squander.

❝ I've always dreamed of doing something like that one day. Not really the mercenary part, but just... traveling space. ❞ Everything in the Rinki village was suffocating conformity. Getting exiled at times felt like a blessing in disguise.

 He may be wild, but at least he's free. —Him and Giyom.

[rinki-balt]

 space foxes do be cool.

[digidweebs]

Rascal felt the words "what the hell is a Rinki" nearly come bursting out of his mouth, but, then again, this guy just said he was a Rinki, so there really isn't much more of an answer he could get than that. Neither human nor Digimon, got it.

"Huh."

The Rinki still didn't offer Rascal a name, but it was clear enough to him that neither creature was a threat to the other.

"You kinda suck at spyin'." Damn, dude, he may have the whitest fur in existence but you should still play nice. Casual insult aside, Rascal finally climbed off of Balt, kindly offering a hand to help him up.

He was patient throughout the explanation but the look on the impmon's face was leaning more towards perturbed from the answer given to him, mouth forming a straight line for a brief moment.

"Yeesh, if ya wanted me to stay away from somewhere, askin' would go a longer way than stalkin' me. I ain't tryin' to infiltrate anyone's house or nuthin'." This time. He has done it before, and he's very liable to do it again.

"Hey dude, ya mind explainin' exactly where I am, then?"

[rinki-balt]

 ❝ .... ❞ —He knows he sucks at spying.

Why don't you just tell him he sucks at being a member of his own kind and get it over with huh Rascal? Balt stared at the Digimon as if the imp had just flicked him in the arm randomly.

In any case, Balt had listened to the rest of Rascal's explanation thoroughly, it was all very true what he said, that it would of just been easier to ask him to not invade the Rinki village and all. Balt was successfully convinced he'd went about this the wrong way, accepting Rascal's extended hand to help him off the ground.

❝ I'll tell you where you are. ❞ Suddenly, Balt tackled the around his size-ish imp to the ground, just as the impmon had done before to him, only this time, the white fox got to be the one pinning the impmon to the ground.

❝ On the ground! HA! Nobody pins Balt and gets away with it! ❞ Balt hadn't felt this kind of adrenaline in years. Rascal had no way of knowing this but young Rinkis like to roughhouse. The children of the tribe had more energy than coordination.

Rascal had brought this on himself, he made this a tackle contest, he made his bed, now he's going to lie in it.

Balt swished his green-tipped tail. It felt like a million dollars to get his prey drive out of his system. ~He caught Rascal ❤️!

There wasn't exactly anything to do now that he's caught him and got his revenge though. Balt stared down into Rascal's eyes like an eager puppy, breathing heavily as if his heart was racing from excitement and the thrill of success.

[rinki-balt]

"Well..." Karson pats the side of his shuttle, eyes squinting behind his skull mask. "Our engines run a little differently than most. I don't think that's my problem, and I can't figure out what is. I don't suppose you've got a second to look at my hydraulics with me, see if I can get off of this planet before too long?"

 

 ❝ Let's take a look under the hood. ❞

Balt knew his way around a spacecraft more than any other Rinki in his entire tribe. His knowledge of tech among other things made him an outsider, as a result, any opportunity to "talk nerdy" with someone on his level that arises brought the inner grease monkey deep inside him out to play.

Considering Balt's age and... background, he was nothing short of a prodigy. Driving vehicles at 14 better than some adults.

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Balt opened up the hatch at the front of Karson's shuttle. It didn't take long for Balt to find the problem here, carbon scoring, atmospheric bleed, which was just a big fancy way to say the hydraulic fluids that were supposed to be flowing at an even pace were blackened and smelled of horribly burnt chemicals (one of the few times he regrets being born with a fox's nose).

 ❝ How hard have you been pushing this thing? ❞

The bypass valve was cycling too fast, it's sucking in air in places where it should be sucking in synth-fluid.

❝ I mean, you wanna explain why your polymer tubing looks like it has internal bleeding? ❞

[digidweebs]

With his hunting instinct satiated, Rascal, in all honesty, wasn't expecting to actually have caught something, let alone someone.

"...Heya." Yeah sure sure did get got, punk!

Both "combatants" were so small they were basically nose to nose. It's not every day that Rascal gets to meet another being around his size-ish.

By all means this is an entirely new situation for Rascal to be in. So...

This is only slightly awkward.

...Now what.

The very obvious option of "get off the fox-creature" didn't begin to ever occur to the impmon, it wasn't even an option in his list of actions, and so there he stayed. "Uh. Who're you? Da fuck were ya doin' creepin' 'round in the grass like that?"

[rinki-balt]

Rinkis don't reveal their secrets when probed, they sneak, they surveil, —they slip out the back so nobody knows they were there. Never detected, never found.

Then again, when has Balt ever acted like a real Rinki? Or even valued such a thing outside of the constant headache it was to not be socially accepted within his own tribe?

He'd already failed the "Not being found" part of being a sneaky Rinki.

if he can't be the best Rinki, he sure as hell can be the worst Rinki.

❝ I was... spying on you, it's what we Rinki do, we hide, spy, surveil, so nobody finds us or our village. ❞ The kid's heart wasn't in this speech, it sounded a bit like he was at gunpoint giving a eulogy.

❝ I was trying to steer you away from the village, —I mean, I'm not allowed there either at the moment, but I still got family there that would appreciate if you turn the other way. ❞ Balt was still trying to protect his family, even after his exile from the Rinki tribe.

The ridiculousness of baring his entire soul like this to a small imp that was still standing with 4 limbs on his chest like a feral cat wasn't lost on him. Balt felt like if he really tried he could probably push Rascal off him with ease, but hadn't attempted it yet.

[rinki-balt]

"That's not what I mean-- maybe I could clarify more?"

 

The fox was only about half-listening to Rock now, as he was in the middle of fixing up a spacecraft. ❝ I thought you came here for a tune up? ❞

Balt's garage was a humble little place, secret, subdued, hidden from the sight of the critical Rinki village, carved out of the side of a grassy mountain range with lamp lights that hung overhead. He mostly worked on vehicles and spacecrafts in here. Not robots.

However, if Rock was ok with a lot of physical contact, Balt could easily modify Dr. Light's design, giving Rock some needed upgrades.

They'd mostly be hardware based, —we don't wanna go around modifying Rock's personality or erasing data banks (memory). It was unnecessary and unneeded.

❝ By all means, specify the upgrades you're looking for, —I'm all ears. ❞

[heardvoicesarch-deactivated2026]

RANDALL RATTLED his tail. He circled around him like an apex predator would. He had large fangs with deadly venom. HE MADE SMALL GROWL. ❝ No it’s just anyone who goes here to me, usually doesn’t last very long.. they run off before I even speak.❞ He hissed.

He was a large snake, he looked like he can eat this other creature, but he won’t. HE JUST GLARED FEROCIOUSLY. Maybe that’s the reason why he’s like this. Just.. very lonely. Randy made a hiss. ❝ I suggest you leave before I get hungry.❞ Randy wasn’t really.. meaning that but he didn’t know what else to say.

[rinki-balt]

❝ ... ❞ He can't be serious. Balt's bottom lip quivered, his ears reacted accordingly.

Weirdly the thought had never crossed Balt's mind since he'd graciously assumed he was too big to eat.

❝ I— ❞ Balt shook his head, swallowing down his fear, pushing it deep down in his gullet.

❝ I actually can't leave, not right now, Giyom passed through here, he's my Yom-Yom. ❞ Balt could feel himself getting weak in the knees, it was a paralyzing fear having to explain what a Yom-Yom was to a serpent that was proving to have little patience.

❝ WE GOT SEPERATED! He's probably lost and scared. ❞ Randall had to find it somewhere in his cold heart to help Balt find Giyom.

[rinki-balt]

“ you’re brave coming here..” | snake randy!!

 

 ❝ ... ❞ ⸻Is that a threat or???

❝ Uh, thanks? What makes you say that? ❞ —Again, Balt wasn't sure if he should feel threatened.

On the one hand, this guy didn't command awe and reverence the same way The Great Serpent did. On the other hand, every planet in the galaxy knows snakes can hold great and terrifying power.

After the encounter Balt had with the snake god, it was hard not to see every "danger noodle" as just a fraction of The Great Serpent's power. Like a drop of water compared to the ocean.

[starlighttrain]

@rinki-balt

     This world wasn't on the Astral Express' original plan but the scan proved interesting enough that Dan Heng had requested the chance to take a pod down for scouting. Although the senior Crew were worried everyone was able to assure this is not like Amphoreus, and no-one is going to get stuck or lose communication. And so with their agreement he'd chosen a landing site.      This area is some distance from civilization but as with Jarilo-VI that is the best course of action. Make your way there without sight of the landing pod.      However Dan Heng isn't expecting to run across any of the locals while he takes a small detour for some notes on native flora. Plain black notebook and pen in hand, half-finished sketch and several written comments on the plant he's drawing, and teal eyes quickly catch on the being in the grass.      Small, bipedal, canine, white and green fur. He doesn't recognize this species but this particular one is wearing clothing which implies some degree of sapience. Part of the local civilization then?

     ❝Ah, hello. Apologies if I disturbed you. I'm just a curious visitor.❞ he assures, closing his notebook and stowing the pen to avoid any misconstrued ideas. One never knows. ❝My name is Dan Heng. May I ask yours?❞

[rinki-balt]

The first things to make themselves known were a pair of gigantic sensitive ears, green at the tips, and hanging on Dan Heng's every word.

The small fox poked his head out of the grass, beaming with confidence and barely-masked excitement. Being exiled from the Rinki village had been nothing if not a blessing in disguise, —as he's been encountering more and more aliens to planet Ri ever since cutting his ties to the rest of his tribe.

❝ Hey! I'm Balt! Did you just land here? ... from the sky? ❞ Balt had never been off-world but knew about aliens.

❝ Oh man! This is so awesome! ❞ Balt hadn't prepared himself for this day to be this exciting, his heart was racing,

He wondered what was the first thing people were supposed to say to extraterrestrial life. ❝ Do you have any idea what planet you're on? ❞ Balt asked in earnest.

[rinki-balt]

  I just noticed Lirk is better than Balt in every stat. lol

[rinki-balt]

@digidweebs — cont.

 

 ❝ Waah! ❞

In retrospective, out of context, Balt could understand how his behavior could of been seen as a hostile threat, —provoking a defensive reaction from the Impmon.

The kind of desperation that says: "He can't get me if I get him first" in bold text

Rascal had ended up making that first move, tackling Balt to the ground, the fox and the Impmon tumbling headlong through the solid ground, kicking up grass and dirt in their wake.

All of this culminated in Balt being pinned down by the Impmon, immediately seeming less like the hunter and more like the hunted.

 ❝ ... ❞

For what it's worth, Balt hadn't been attempting to sneak up on the Impmon for any ulterior motive other than spying on him, gathering intel whilst keeping his existence unknown (the secretive and reclusive way of the Rinki people towards aliens).

 ❝ Ok, ⸻you got me. ❞

—it would serve the fox well to get better at hiding before he ever attempts "recon" again.

[rinki-balt]

"Would you -- NO! Put that down! Just -- don't touch anything!" Unprompted

 

❝ !!! ❞ The fox quickly took off and put down an eye patch with a little dog on it he'd been wearing out of curiosity.

He quickly ran behind the nearest rustic-looking table and hid, pinning his ears back like a cornered animal.

❝ I'm sorry! I didn't know anyone still lived here. ❞ This house was little, and quaint, and quiet, and apparently not abandoned.

❝ ... ❞ He noticed the taller woman was missing an eye, doubling his embarrassment, —as it wasn't like the eyepatch could belong to anyone else now.

As far as humans go, the woman looked like she could be in her late twenties.

[docnefarious]

"I don't know what this whole 'Valentine's Day' thing is about, but I don't trust it."

[rinki-balt]

❝ Lirk told me it was a ceremony on his planet about finding a soul mate. ❞ —Lirk's words, not his. unbeknownst to Balt, his human friend had not put a lot of thought into his explanation of the holiday and had just placated the young fox's curiosity offhandedly.

 ❝ Y'know, like dates. ❞

❝ With cute girls. ❞ Balt wiggled his eye brows in case he was somehow being too subtle.