COINOCK - TIMELINE #98623440
Added 2025-06-17 18:00:06 +0000 UTC(Timeline Tuesday #203)
Coinocks are small, flat creatures no more than two inches across, appearing similar to the coins produced on our timeline. They vary in color from a brilliant gold to a dull silver or copper, although gold is the most common. The ridges of a coinock are rough, and their shape is perfectly round. Their similarities to real currency are so strong, in fact, that when this creature closes its singular eye it is almost indistinguishable.
It is through this method that coinocks do most of their traveling, the creature’s life spent carried from place to place in someone’s wallet or tossed into the belly of a vending machine. Once out of human sightline they will extend a rough tongue from an opening on the opposite side of their body, feeding off of various materials used in currency production. Typically, this will leave the coin or bill that a coinock has fed off looking as good as new, although it will subsequently fail most counterfeit testing due to a change in the materials.
Coinocks are considered incredibly rare and valuable so finding one will often result in a large financial boon. They are also, unfortunately, very dangerous. Coinocks are tapped into timeline vibrations in a specific way, a power that is activated if the creature is flipped at an incredible speed. While a coinock is capable of flipping itself, and they sometimes do this to escape predators, often the timeline disruption occurs when someone flips a coinock without knowing their true nature. This can send the flipper and the coinock to a random distant timeline.
