#okali

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Don't think I've ever posted the stuff from the aquarium game on its own... here's the sprites i had exported as gifs, although im missing a couple from whats in the full game. If I remember, i'll post their lore pages later as well!

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go play the visual novel i made

i just finished a SUPER COOL illustration for it which im gonna hold off posting on too many social media for now but i think it's super pretty so in the meantime. i think i deserve to advertise myself a little once in a while since i literally dedicate most of my thinking power to this

Wandering Okali by Connil Games

A kinetic novel focusing heavily on lore, stories, relationships and exploration.

and here a little bit of the art i made for it. i think it deserves to be looked at. but seriously play the game me and my friend spent hours upon hours on it i made an ANIMATED INTRO all by myself!!

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(click to enlarge the image, she's a big girl)

Omikti, the goddess of the valley!

She is known for her insatiable curiosity, her long antennae reaching over to plants and creatures within her habitat to form brief connections. The valley she travels back and forth through is aptly named the "Goddess' Passage", and although that's where she's been known to reside for all of recorded history, she says that she used to roam other lands, and will move again one day.

Miisumn, the tiny village which is built on her back, is about 300 years old, having been constructed a few decades after the people living in the area started communicating with her more often. Indeed, one can only hear her voice when touching her directly, and it used to be considered taboo to bother the goddess. As it turns out, she's just as happy when people do come up to her! Since then, she has greatly enjoyed getting to try out people things, and apparently appreciates trying out many different foods.

Bonus : The various plants that grow on her. Many are local to the mountains, a couple are imported crops. The mushrooms are endemic; they feed on her magic energy. She doesn't care, she has enough to go around.

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The false jelly reksirg is a small jawless eel. It hangs out in small groups (5 to 8 individuals), scraping parasites off of larger sea creatures. They've also been known to clean off crustaceans that stick to boats, making them a welcome sight around harbords. The front part of their body is translucent, while the back is brightly colored; when they hang out as a group, they move their fins in a way that mimics the movement of a venomous jellyfish.

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Found only in Omikti's Breath, the family of the "skirt beetles" is named for the decorations at the end of their elytras. These serve as receptacles for fungal spores, as these beetles nearly all have symbiotic relationships with mushrooms; adults lay eggs in the developing fruiting body, and the larvae eats it while developing safely inside. Once it emerges as an adult, the mushroom is ready to spread its spores, and the beetle helps it do just that when it flies away. They have large antennae to seek out their host species from far away!

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The barred mudbank nudel

It's a pretty small animal that lives in rivers, hiding in sand or mud. They dig around a lot, building small burrows in the ground where they live in small groups. They seek out insects on the surface of the water, when they're hanging on pollen rafts from aquatic flowers. They often get a bunch of the pollen on their whiskers at the same time, and end up being incidental pollinators of the plants they swim through.

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The xylophagous mangrove snail lives in the sea-side swamps in Miabir's tear. They crawl along the forest floor at low tide, collecting bits of rotting wood to eat. They filter out the extra minerals into their shell and scales, and are known to be more resistant to salt than other land gastropods. Due to their diet, their radula is quite tough, so it's not recommended to hold them, lest they start thinking of checking out if your hands are food.

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A species of blep from cold steppes. Like most species of furred tetrapods, it keeps its young in a pouch for months until they are hardy enough to run about and eat solid food. It eats lichens, roots and mosses primarily, but is an opportunistic scavenger if those prove scarce. It lives in groups of variable sizes, with complex familial dynamics, but these groups can be spread out over great distances; they communicate by loud bellows that cover long distances despite great winds.