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Ferdinand
Legacy Name: Ferdie
The Custom Common Experiment #4423
Owner: Jane
Age: 11 years, 9 months, 3 weeks
Born: June 5th, 2012
Adopted: 8 years, 7 months, 6 days ago
Adopted: August 22nd, 2015
Statistics
- Level: 1
- Strength: 10
- Defense: 10
- Speed: 10
- Health: 10
- HP: 10/10
- Intelligence: 0
- Books Read: 0
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Unemployed
Unfortunately, Ferdie hated insects - with their spindly legs, crunchy exoskeletons, springy antennae, and scaly exteriors.
But Ferdie's opinion was not shared by the other salamanders who lived at the creek. In fact, they often regarded Ferdie as sour and difficult. What was wrong with insects? They had spindly legs, crunchy exoskeletons, springy antennae, and scaly exteriors! What a snack!
One cloudy afternoon, a lover's picnic by Ferdie's creek was interrupted by the rain, which came in a sudden burst from brooding clouds.
In the couple's haste to escape the storm, they left behind small tokens from their tryst: a strawberry and a few stray grapes.
A strawberry and a few stray grapes.
And Ferdie had never seen anything so beautiful.
And these small (inadvertent) gifts from the heavens did something astounding to the little salamander, Ferdie.
The strawberry turned him a radiant ruby, and the grapes turned him a magnanimous magenta!
Ferdie could not believe his eyes!
He shared his discovery with the other salamanders, but they paid him no heed. Not even when he shared his small delights with the others did they understand his discovery. They didn't even change color the way he did when they tried the fruit. They stayed as dull and slimy as the insects they ate.
But Ferdie's taste was simply different - and he had better things to eat than spindly legs, crunchy exoskeletons, springy antennae, and scaly exteriors.
However, Ferdie's newfound taste had eventually landed him in trouble on the banks of the creek: he wasn't carefully looking for insects, his glistening grey skin helping him to blend into the mud. No, he had the lovely effects of a turnip playing on his slippery hide.
And that's how the artist on the bank of the creek was able to spot him so easily. He had been turning his brush over in his hand all afternoon, running his hand through his beard thoughtfully. His morning by the creek had been spiritually uneventful, yielding nothing more than sporadic strokes on his canvas. The creek, the trees, and the azure sky were beautiful, but failed to inspire.
What inspired him that day was Ferdie.
The artist's oil-stained fingers scooped up the strange salamander, who clumsily fumbled about in his hands. He flopped out of the artist's hand and into the satchel sitting in the mud. Wrapped in parchment paper were several grapes, the remainder of the man's breakfast. Ferdie's interest in food overcame his interest in survival and he snapped them up in his blunt jaws.
And right before the man's eyes, Ferdie's skin changed.
"Très magnifique!" he cried.
He retrieved Ferdie from his satchel, more gently this time. He smiled, lifting another morsel from his satchel: this time, a raspberry. Again, Ferdie snapped up the treat greedily, his skin blossoming beautifully in rosy flourishes.
The artist was enamored with Ferdie, but kind enough not to take him from his home. He visited the creek daily, seeking out his small friend with lovely little tokens from the parchment paper.
Ferdie was magnificent, and thus the artist's pallet became just as magnificent. It became awash with lovely hues and smears of stunning pigments.
And thus, a lovely partnership was formed between the artist and the salamander beside the creek under the trees and the azure sky.
Pet Treasure
Cherry
Red Anjou Pear
Red Apple
Strawberry
Cranberries
Raspberries
Watermelon Slices
Radish
Sliced Sweet Potato
Golden Acorn Squash
Orange Grapes
Persimmons
Peach
Carvable Pumpkin
Scurvy Prevention Orange
Orange Slice
Delicata Squash
Apple Pear
Butternut Squash
Papaya
Lemon Slice
Banana
Pineapple Slice
Plump Yellow Apple
Comice Pear
Pear
Breadfruit
Lime Slice
Cauliflower
Nappa Cabbage
Fresh Cucumber Slices
Fava Beans
Iceberg Lettuce
Broccoli
Green Peas
Okra
Kiwifruit
Conference Pear
Curious Green Apple
Jalapeno Pepper
Green Hubbard Squash
Eggplant
Blueberries
Blackberries
Red Cabbage
Onion
Portobello Mushroom
Shiitake Mushroom
Coconut
Mangosteen
Button Mushroom
White Acorn Squash