Faerror

(singular Faerror, plural Faerror) is a highly dangerous, semi-predictable Complien of the Magic and Cyber elements. It does not grow.
==Appearance==
Faerror are pink, blocky, iridescent creatures with four arms, two legs, and a long torso. Their upper body is encased within a flange-like metal object. They have two flat wings and a broad stinger on their abdomen. On the top of their head are two antennae, between which floats a flathead screw.
==Information==
===Habitat===
Faerror are only found in the rolling hills of Bitland. They do not venture beyond these hills or into Complinoid territory, but will retaliate against any Complinoids that try to build structures in the hills.
Each Faerror has a "home", a specific point in 3D space around which the Faerror patrols when not sating their own needs. These homes are usually boulders, flower beds, lumps of moss and lichen, or cracks in the permafrost.
On the winter solstice, when night falls upon Bitland for 24 hours straight, Faerror leave their homes to hunt until the solstice ends.
===Biology===
Faerror are very powerful Compliens overflowing with volatile complixonox and magical energy. They are also intelligent, capricious, and have no sense of empathy for other beings, including other Faerror.
Their eating habits are unknown, though they are known to take offerings of ferrous minerals. How they reproduce is also unknown. They have maintained a population of roughly 400 for many millennia.
When touching metal or a substance with metallic bonds, the electrons of the metal move onto the Faerror as if the Faerror is part of the metal. Faerror appear to gain pleasure from this. This effect is most noticeable on pure iron at temperatures below 5°C (41°F).
If exposed to any part of the splüklouine plant, Faerror will spontaneously combust.
===Behavior===
Faerror are relatively benign when left alone in their domain, the western mounds of Bitland. However, any Complinoids that enter this area quickly find themselves enshrouded in a thick, magically-induced fog and led by a Sprite to a Faerror, who will play some variety of magical trick on the intruder. Usually, these tricks are somewhat harmless, but if the Complinoid insults the Faerror in some way, the Faerror will do something disproportionately malevolent.
No native inhabitants of Bitland remain extant today, but ruins and artifacts found on Bitland show that an ancient society of Jeligant existed on Bitland from roughly 3,000,500C to 3,000,800C. They were likely wiped out by a minor period of global cooling that made survival untenable for a few decades. However, they left behind writings that detail their interactions with Faerror, which constitute a rough explanation of their behaviors and motivations.
==Faerror behaviors==
===Accessing the Faerror mind===
According to native Bitlandic documents, a male Jeligant named "Allane Turnting" encountered a Faerror and tricked it into revealing a special phrase that opens up the mind of a Faerror. This phrase is a seemingly nonsensical string of words - "double quote semicolon return semicolon run command prompt semicolon" - that nonetheless causes any Faerror that hears it to freeze in place for 30 seconds. During this time, certain keyphrases can be spoken to the Faerror that will cause it to do certain things.
Once the 30 seconds is up, the Faerror will almost certainly turn back towards the speaker and do horrible things to them. In fact, this is the fate that befell Turnting, as the Faerror he tricked stole his genitalia in retribution.
One keyphrase, "show console", causes the Faerror to vomit up a sheet of vellum on which is printed special information about the Faerror's current mindset. The sheet, titled "Console", shows the Faerror's emotions, running function, and item in memory, all written in native Bitlandic in reldrich ink.
===The console===
The three emotions of a Faerror are boredom, irritation, and squibble. On the upper half of the console are the names of the three emotions followed by a number representing how strong that emotion was at the time of printing. Boredom and irritation are integer values clamped between 0 and 10. Squibble is a float value with no minimums or maximums besides the overflow limits.
In the middle is a section indicating the currently running function, if there is one running. Below that is a value labeled Memory, which is an integer clamped between -16 and 16.
===Known keyphrases===
Phrase 	Effect 	Boredom	Irritation	Squibble
[The opening phrase.] 	Faerror stops all running functions and becomes responsive to keyphrases. 	-3 	+6 	-1.2
show console 	Faerror vomits up the current console. 	 	+2 	
help 	Faerror says, "Administrator access required." 	 	+1 	-0.2
memory equals <number> 	Value of memory becomes <number>. Number must be an integer from -16 to 16, inclusive. 	 	 	-0.1
<boredom, irritation, or squibble> equals <number>	Faerror says, "Administrator access required." 	+1 	+1 	-0.2
run <function> 	Faerror runs the function, unless administrator access is required. 	depends	depends 	depends
baleet 	Faerror will Teleport back to its home, ending interaction. The fog lifts around the commanding Complinoid, revealing them to be at the very edge of Faerror territory, no matter how far they moved before.	 	-1 	-3.0
quit 	Faerror exits command prompt and runs function DoSomethingFunny on the commander. This automatically occurs after 30 seconds. 	-5 	-3 	+0.9
Saying a phrase that is not one of the above keyphrases will cause the Faerror to say, "Compiler error," and immediately use Explode.
===Known functions===
Function 	Effect 	B 	I 	S
DoSomethingFunny 	Faerror does a magical trick on the commander. This can range from inducing sleep for a year, removing a kidney, or forcibly Shapeshifting the commander into a Shorwarmor. Once this is done, Faerror teleports home and runs Patrol.	-4	-3 	+5.0
Patrol 	Faerror patrols the area for Complinoids, then runs DoSomethingFunny if it spots one. Since the commander is always right in front of the Faerror, run Patrol is functionally identical to quit. 	+3	-2 	+2.3
Rotate 	Faerror rotates a certain number of radians around the y-axis. This number is pulled from the current value in Memory. 	+1	+1 	
Move 	Faerror moves a certain number of meters forwards in the direction it's currently facing. This number is pulled from the current value in Memory. (If the Faerror moves into the fog and out of sight, it will automatically baleet.) 	 	+2 	
Wait 	Faerror waits a certain number of seconds. This number is pulled from the current value in Memory. 	+3	 	-0.7
Spell 	Faerror says, "Administrator access required." 	-1	 	
Taunt 	Faerror says, "Administrator access required." 	 	-2 	+0.4
CreateSprite 	Faerror creates a Sprite, which automatically seeks out the nearest Complinoid and leads them to the Faerror. The nearest Complinoid is usually the commander themselves. 	 	 	+1.6
Dance 	Faerror dances. All Complinoids nearby are compelled to dance with the Faerror. This continues until the Faerror runs quit after 30 seconds. 	-5	-1 	+5.0
Justice 	Irritation is set to the current value in Memory, clamped between 0 and 10. Squibble is decremented by the current value in Memory clamped between 1 and 16, then times 10. 	 	=M 	M|
DoSomethingVeryFunny	Irritation is set to 10. Faerror raises its hands and gathers complixonox as though for a strong spell, but says "Null reference exception," then uses Explode. 	-8	=10	+7.0
GoHunting 	If it is not the winter solstice, Faerror says, "Not all code paths return a value," and runs quit. If it is, Faerror teleports to unknown location. 	=0	=0 	=231-1
===Hunting===
At the midnight marking the start of Bitland's winter solstice, all Faerror stop patrolling and teleport to an unknown location, except for Faerror being commanded. Once commandment stops and the Faerror has run DoSomethingFunny, the commanded Faerror will immediately disappear as well.
In the first hour of the winter solstice (12-1 AM), all Complinoids on Bitland will hear clattering, yelling, and barking noises as though from a great distance. The noise is amplified the closer one gets to the western hills in which the Faerror reside. The fog covering the hills becomes impenetrable to electromagnetic radiation, and any people who venture into the fog disappear entirely. This is the time when residents of Bitland who have not left for the winter lock themselves in their homes.
For 22 hours (1 AM-11 PM), the cloud of fog moves down from the hills and sweeps across Bitland, covering an area of roughly 16 mi² (41 km²). During this time, all non-Complinoid Compliens on the island will go into a state of dormancy. Shorwarmors fall into a deep sleep, Lazmokes turn off temporarily, and Ahosphels sink to the floor and become inanimate. Conversely, all Complinoids become anxious and high-strung.
Any Complinoids that become enshrouded in the fog disappear without a trace. If they are shouting, making noise, or otherwise broadcasting signals, the sounds and signals will fade out as if the Complinoid is moving away rapidly. The fog will not go inside buildings or containers closed to the outside, even if they are not airtight.
As the fog approaches one's location, a brass hunting horn can be heard in the distance, followed by shouting and barking noises. The horn is slightly bitcrushed, as though it were run through a sound chip. Once the fog passes, the shouting and barking dissipates.
At the end of the solstice (11 PM-12 AM), the hills become foggy once more. No Faerror patrol the fog, however, and any remaining Sprites will instead lead intruders in a big circle. At midnight, Faerror return to their homes and resume their normal activities.
Once midnight strikes, all taken Complinoids stumble out of the fog dazed, stuporous, and dirty with bits of rust. The only thing they remember is being grabbed by something in the fog and hearing a deep, feminine voice saying, "No overload for method 'Raycast' that takes 7 arguments."
==Growth==
==Origin==
Some insights on 's origins.
===Name===
Its name is a pun of "fae" and "error".
===Design===
It was based on a fairy.
==Trivia==
*They are attracted to the Leaky-Loos that move in and out of Bitland, and will sometimes play with them by hitting them with their hands to bounce them around.
*They create massive amounts of magical energy that mitigates the dampening effect of Bitland's natural magical depression. If taken out of Bitland, they would likely die from their own extreme concentration of magic.
==Gallery==
faerror height comparison.png|Height comparison to a human
==Spells==
The full list of spells that Faerror can use is unknown, but likely to be very large.
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