"Hello. If you are reading this journal entry, then you are one of the Blargbells. I am the great-great grandson of the main scientist/servant of the ones who created you. For years, we have been monitoring your presence on this planet off and on. We finally decided to give you a mind yesterday. Yes, a mind. The kind that will allow you to read this, understand it, and have emotions. The kind that will let you seek the remnants of a lost civilization. The kind that will allow you to
feel."
"But I digress. I will not reveal any information that would harm you, but I will show you a phtograph of a pair of your kind, right before we bestowed on them a soul. This picture is some thousands of years after some of your kind's spores had made it to the surface."
"In case your ways and animals have changed since the time this phtograph was taken, what you are "sitting" on is a Zombeh. These are omniverous, practically brainless animals whose only motive in life is to eat. They don't even mate, just bud off from one another. The pair of Blargbells in the picture are mates, and are able to actually control the body of the Zombehs by sticking their manipulatory "rope mouth" into their spinal cord. While parasitically controlling them, they extract precious blood from their bodies, which is obviously how you eat, and how they ate back then."
"The yellow creature is an herbivorous slug-type organism, who eats the grass on the ground with a mouth on its underside. The Blargbell in the front of the phtograph has seen it, and is in the process of controlling its host to capture and eat it, so that it will have more nutrients in its bloodstream."
"As you can see, both Blargbells look a bit odd. The front one has club-like tentacles, while the one in the back has an enormous eyeball. These are mutations, which are (or were) common in the Blargbells, because they never knew if their mate was a brother or sister. And-"
Bbrrtr stopped reading, it was just too much to take in.
Bbrrtr (bub-urr-turr), the Blargbell child, was astounded by this. He had to go inform the elders at once. Unfortunately for him, at that moment, he was attacked and killed by a wandering Carniwurm. The information was lost forever in the abyss of the cave he had found the scroll in, and nobody ever knew what happened ti young Bbrrtr. Not that they were unhappy. They knew that if he died, that new life would begin anew, and more of their kind would come to be...
((In case you're wondering, this means that the Blargbells are now sapient. We will probably stop this game now, and move on to the next one, which will be about the Blargbells being found by Sapient, space-faring life. If you would like to be one of the ones who finds the Blargbells and introduces them to space, say so in this thread. After everyone who wants to find the Blargbells has posted, we will set up a new poll, and everyone will vote for who will find my little cowbells. Anyway, thanks for bothering to vote, now I won't have to bother with thinking up a race on my own, you guys have done it for me!
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