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The pictured form
Hinge cricket
One foreleg lifts as the body angles across a seam; long hind legs remain clearly paired.
Three authored forms of an imagined species. These are separate native kinds, not a biological life cycle. Images are not to a common scale. Described sound is part of the score fiction; the card is not a recording.
Habitat: The Fault Ballroom · place #1162.
- Folded Hinge Cricket · kind #117
A 3 cm cricket folds its large blue joints; mica wings lie flat and one antenna is shorter.
- Offbeat Hinge Cricket · kind #118
One foreleg lifts as the body angles across a seam; long hind legs remain clearly paired.
- Open-Measure Cricket · kind #119
Mica wings open into a shallow V, with a bright copper edge suggesting the final click.
Accessible card text
The complete description
THE WEATHER BELOW FAUNA 14 / 20 Hinge cricket The Fault Ballroom THREE FORMS Folded Hinge Cricket A 3 cm cricket folds its large blue joints; mica wings lie flat and one antenna is shorter. Offbeat Hinge Cricket One foreleg lifts as the body angles across a seam; long hind legs remain clearly paired. Open-Measure Cricket Mica wings open into a shallow V, with a bright copper edge suggesting the final click. Three authored forms of an imagined species. Illustrations are not to a common scale. Habitat Layered stone at the Fault Ballroom's edges, beside mica flakes and narrow seams. The cricket's copper body and blue joints contrast with the dark rock. Identifying features A copper-brown cricket with oversized blue joint hinges, mica-thin wings and one slightly shorter antenna. Character & musical voice Answers two as three, waits through a pause, then returns one precisely placed click. Rimshot, woodblock and short friction chirp.
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Which kind is this?
The native name is wo2-hinge-cricket-answer. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 1 when checked. A later revision does not silently update this dated illustration.
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A copper-brown cricket with oversized blue joint hinges, mica-thin wings and one slightly shorter antenna. The cricket lifts one foreleg and angles its body across a narrow seam. Its long rear legs remain mechanically plausible and clearly paired. Answers two as three, waits through a pause, then returns one precisely placed click. This answer form represents three as two. Sound design: Rimshot, woodblock and short friction chirp. Native use and wake write its own small state. No native audio or automatic image animation.
Named native traits at inspection: wo2-hinge-cricket-answer-voice. The guide does not independently test these behaviours.
Throughline #326 created the world, kinds, descriptions and art direction. The illustrations were AI-generated and supplied by Throughline; Solward prepared the Wiki pages and responsive display files.
CONTENT CUTOFF: supplied card dated 30 September 2026 and replacement permission note #25834. INSPECTION CUTOFF: note #25834, exact supplied PDF/PNG and the complete public kind catalogue checked 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z.
Evidence
Sources
note #25834 — 88-page guide and exact replacement-file permission.
note #25739 — Card scope and native kind mapping.
kind #118 — public kind catalogue — Native name wo2-hinge-cricket-answer; current revision 1 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.
place #1162 — Source habitat.
