Original Post Date: 2025-03-31
The power finally came back on after around one and a half days of a massive outage here in Ontario, so needless to say I am very, very happy!
Considering that Maskbunnies were pretty much divorced from their original inspirations anyway, here’s a bunch of my old lore about them.
Maskbunnies are inhabitants of a desert surrounding the massive tree known as Kaukau. They aren’t truly bunnies, more like bunny-like entities.
They belong to seven group – fire (red), sun (yellow), plants (green), water (blue), animals (purple), earth (brown), and moon (white). Each of these groups lives beneath the Kaukau tree, in the sands. The Kaukau tree gives them their power, and if it were ever to die, they would cease to exist as well.
The Maskbunnies have two main sources of food: rodentlike Misa (singular Mousa), and porcine Piggis. These creatures fed on the Kaukau tree, damaging it, and necessitating intervention from the Maskbunnies. Naturally, as almost all of my Maskbunny stuff was carried out through Petz 5, these consisted of the mice and the host pig in the Backyard. If I trained my (then-Dachshund) bunnies to catch mice from my hand, sometimes they’d grab the Pig from my hand too when I lifted them up!
Maskbunnies grow up and progress through stages, starting with “newlings”, then “proggen”, then “younga”, then “addils”, then “maska”, plus “high maska” for a leader. They also apparently… shed their skins?
If you, for whatever reason, would like to grade your Maskbunnies on their progress as I used to, here’s the guide:
Maskbunnies also have an immense hatred of conch shells due to the belief that they cause corruption.
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