The Spoortle island is located in the Brumptle sea. Millions of years ago a radioactive meteor crashed into the swampy lake Ebegobe located at the center of Spoortle island. The resulting splash of mud, slime and swamp juice create thousands of little creatures called Spoortles! The radiation is so high, that no other earthly creatures can survive on, or close to the island. Spoortles thrive on the radioactivity, and are radioactive themselves. Groombah, the giant radioactive meteor gives the Spoortles all their power. They live on the radioactive blingling berries, found everywhere on the island. The blingling berries, also full of radiation which is like vitamin for Spoortles. Blingling berries glow like bulbs even during the day and light up the forest at night. The Groombah, sits at the bottom of the lake Ebegobe emiting a bright blue light that can be seen for thousands of miles around. If you were to survive the radiation and make it to the island, here are the Spoortles you'll meet!
Grintlebunts are very confused about which way is front from having three large eyes around their body. They lounge in puddles of rotting slime all day to keep their jelly-like skin sticky and shiny. They smell so bad that even they can't stand to be around other Grintlebunts. If each of the Grintlebunt's three eyes see three ripe berries, their tiny brain immediately makes their legs sprint in opposite directions toward the berries. This causes the Grintlebunt to rip into three mini Buntlings with a single eye, one leg each and one third the intelligence. Over time, these Buntlings will once again grow into fully formed, equally stupid, smelly Grintlebunts.
A Pingoot is 78% air. Pingoots can't fly, but a gust of wind can carry them pretty far and high up in the air. They have no control over how high they will go, or where they'll fall. Pingoots are anxious creatures because they always feel bloated from the air in their bodies. It makes them very self-conscious. Pingoots are inherently jealous of little Buntlings, as Buntlings are not bloated at all.
The Flargsnoot are in a long fight with the Teghradimps over the Smiker meadow. Flaky as they are, Teghradimps are unaware of this fight. The Shrangrins, a Spoortle butterfly abundant in the Smiker meadow, are the favourite snack of the Flargsnoot which they suck with their wide snoot. The snoots make a loud whistling sound. It almost seems like a cruel prank to give a creature a musical instrument right on their face, but withhold the musical talent that should go with it.
Teghradimps spend their day lollygagging and rolling around in the meadows filled with the yellow Smiker flowers. Thus, they always have yellow Smiker flowers stuck to their slimy skin. The Smiker meadow is also filled with Shrangrins, a Spoortle butterfly, which also get stuck to the Teghradimp slime. The Teghradimp is basically a lint roller. Teghradimps are distant relatives of the far more idiotic Squaglascgrimps.
Shrangrins are beautiful, colourful, glowing Spoortle butterflies who are destined to either stick to the Teghradimp's slimy skin or get sucked into the snoot of a Flargsnoot. They serve absolutely no other purpose. Although their wings are, beautiful, colorful and glow in the dark, Shrangrins are too fat to fly from sucking on free Smiker juice all day. So, they just hop from flower to flower
Clobmobbly are flat-headed, six-eyed Spoortles, with three eyes on the back and 3 eyes on the front. Their mouth is on the bottom. They move around with their tongues out, licking little insects off the floor. The Clobmobbly, who are very small, hitch rides by climbing on to the soft Kudelmudel, who in turn climb on to the Eglakript. The Kudelmudel aren't happy about this, but as the Colbmobbly keep licking looking for insects while on the Kudelmudel, they also give them a good cleaning. The Kudelmudel tolerate them at best.
The Grumfozzle are luminous like jellyfish like creatures that swim around the Brumptle sea. The Entilirium say that at night the Brumptle sea looks just like the night sky and the Grumfozzle like tiny twinkling stars. While common sense says this may be true, none of the Spoortles accept it. Accepting this means believing an Entilirium, and no one wants to believe a jerk.
The Hullaballoo hide in dead tree trunks. They pop out as soon as they sense another Spoortle coming and wave their slimy tentacles vigourously. Scaring other Spoortles is on top of the Hullaballoo's to-do list. They collect the glowing blingling berries which they store in the tree trunk. They then sit on top the berries in the trunk and the light from the berries gives their slimy bodies bodies a bright glow. This makes scaring Spoortles at night even more fun.
Skrift! Rift! Skrift! Rift! That's just a Skriftarift walking with thier scratchy legs trampling dried leaves and squishing Blingling berries. When they stand still, they look like dead, colourful tree stumps with fungi growing on them. That's why Skriftarift are constantly on the move. They hate being mistaken for a tree stump. That in turn makes them very tired, which makes them stop and rest. Which makes them look like a tree stump. It's a vicious cycle. Coming across a walking tree stump is really scary for all Spoortles, big and small. Older Spoortles often scare baby Spoortles by threatening to call a Skriftarift if they are out of order
Eglakripts are large Spoortles that wander aimlessly chomping on Spoortle foliage from one edge of the island to the other. The interesting thing is that they go back and forth on the same path their entire life. Lazy Spoortles, namely the Kudelmudel, have identified this pattern and use them as an unofficial mode of public transport. One Eglakript can easily carry up 10 small, or 6 medium-sized Kudelmudel.
The Kerfluffle are 67% undigested Blingling berries, and thus very heavy. Kerfluffles love to swim but sink right to the bottom. Holding a fluffy Pingoot by the tail serves as a good flotation device for the Kerfluffle. Kerfluffle's love swimming in lake Ebegobe, but radiation from the Groombah makes the Pingoots bloat and explode. An exploding Pingoot, like a nasty fart, is loud, smells terrible and very uncomfortable for all that happen to be around
These shifty-eyed jerks can move pretty fast, yet the always plant themselves on the sides of busy paths with the sole purpose of making passing Spoortles uncomfortable. They stare at passersby with their judgmental, multiple, wide eyes. They make a 'kirrr' sound to indicate their judgment and disapproval, the volume of which matches the level of disdain they feel for a passerby whom they've never met before. A Kirrr, unsurprisingly, has no friends.
A Glibbb is a gentle Spoortle that lives in the lagoon in the Brumptle sea. It still hopes to sprout legs and go for a walk on land. Its wish is also to have wings and fly like an Entilirium. All other Spoortles wish this were the case, too, as Entiliriums are real jerks and the Glibbb is not. The Glibbb is actually very sweet and will often fetch treats from the bottom of the sea for anyone who comes to the shore to pay the Glibbb a visit. Spoortles would much rather have a flying Glibbb than an Entilirium as they are jerks.
Grimps are handsome creatures that alway appear to be posing for an invisible camera. Of course, none on Spoortle island understand cameras, or the concept of modeling. Everyone just writes it off as a mental-health issue. Spoortles also don't know much about mental health, but instinctually understand that something is very, very wrong with the Grimp. The kind souls that Spoortles are, they never bring it up. Except the Entiliriums, because they're jerks.
The Flepergibit has the most opinions of all the Spoortles. This is really silly, because on Spoortle island, no one's opinions count. Flepergibits have the same attitude as someone who knows slightly more than a few others in a group. Flepergibits never seem run out of things to say, which is strange because no one ever listens to them. In spite of the Flepergibit's pajama like skin and a head that resembles a clown cap, they exhibit high levels of confidence especially when not even a little bit is needed.
The Robeluss is a loafer—the perfect job for anyone living on Spoortle island. Yet, none except the Robelli have embraced this idle and vagabond lifestyle with such passion. The Robelii roam the island each new day with the same curiosity and joy as a toddler tasting an ice pop for the first time. Even though they did the exact same the day before. Robelli can walk on vertical surfaces like a spider. Sometimes, Robelli climb down into the radioactive lake after one too many fermented blinglings and insist on having a word with the Groombah. They emerge dazed, drunk and with an extra bright glow a few days later.
The Bröbmouche are horse like creatures, minus the elegance or grace. They hop around with the use of their barely formed claws leaving behind a trail of squished berries and trampled mud. Bröbmouche are fairly large. Seeing large a horse-bird stumbling one's way is very scary as they are very clumsy, uncoordinated and tend to fall over all the time. They have limbs in place of a nose and use them to feel things with their faces, just like a normal creature would to smell things. They are always falling over, crushing most other Spoortles that happen to be in the way of their fall, except for Pingoots, whose air-filled bodies pop right back.
Skrakittle, the fox like creature can be found on the beach with their head in the water, bobbing for Grumfozzles. They are terrible at it. So terrible in fact, that not one Skrakittle has ever caught a Grumfozzle. Also, not being able to swim doesn't help matters. Embarrassed after a whole day of fishing unsuccessfully, they just eat Blingling berries at night instead of going hungry. As the sun rises, excited, they go right back into the sea, as if today will be the day. It's never is the day. Never!
Entilirium are majestic creatures blessed with wide, colourful wings and the gift of flight. They are gorgeous, graceful, and the biggest jerks. One of the Entilirium's main goal in life is to fly high, locate a Pingoot and pick it up by the tail. They then fly away, drop the Pingoot from a high altitude and watch the chubby, air-filled Pingoot bounce around helplessly. They often perch on top of a Vehrumrum and make them drive around like a taxi. Entiliriums can move around much faster by using their own wings. Jerks!
The Kudelmudel were the first to figure out that the Eglakript can be used for transport. Of course, they did! Just look at 'em—so lazy! The Kudelmudel slide on their slimy underbellies just like a slug. They climb trees and sit on branches so they can plop onto an unsuspecting Eglakript as they pass. A Kudelmudel closely resembles a mound of mud with a colony of smally creatures poking through it. While this is a single creature it is still as disgusting, and smelly, as many creatures living in a pile of mud. No one can understand why, or where the Kudelmudel travel, as their life has no purpose.
Schlubbs are, slimy, shlubby Spoortles. Their only aim from birth is to drag their shlubby bodies to the Brumptle sea. Once a Schlubb reaches the Brumptle sea it instantly sinks to the bottom, fizzling and bubbling as its slimy body dissolves. Then it emerges from the sea as an Entilirium, the only Spoortle that can fly.
Robreotreo are the tallest of all Spoortles and bob their tentacle eyes like a confused owl. They think they are also the wisest, but it's only they who think that. One of the Robreotreo's favourite pastime is using a Pingoot to play a sport that is similar to Volleyball. They use their tentacle eyes to toss the Pingoot back and forth. This game is sometimes interrupted when an Entilirium swoops down and flies away with the Pingoot. Entiliriums are jerks. If another Pingoot can't be found, the game is abandoned, and it can be very wasteful of everyone's day.
Scaglascrimps are ugly, slimy morons. You might think that what they lack in beauty, they make up in intelligence, or personality — but you couldn't be more wrong. In addition to being ugly, they are also stupid and filled with rage. They get into fights with other Scaglascrimps. They bolt toward each other, trying to knock the other out but because of their slimy, soft bodies, they just stick and absorb each other to form a larger, even angrier Scrimpadrimp. A collision of three angry Scaglascrimps results in a very, very angry Tetrascrimp. One could be forgiven for thinking that when four collide they form a Quadrascrimp. However, the collision of four Scaglascrimps is so powerful that they explode into twelve little Scrimplings. Almost immediately, the four fattest ones get eaten by the other eight who then themselves grow up into fat, mean Scaglascrimps.
Vehrumrums are the fastest of all the Spoortles, with a body that somehow came with wheels and an engine that runs on gas caused by rotting Blingling berries in their stomachs. While the Vehrumrums are very fast, their speed is pointless because they really have nowhere to be; they don't have jobs.