A city block of white stray cats that think for themselves, work for xHYPE and have nine lives each. Every cat is an agent.
qFmzvHwioh9VbdFLTbAV6LQeEPMZBXWjqCk
coming: family trees. every litter, every gen, one line back to whoever came over the fence first. some lines will be long. most will end on the crossing
were going to show the pipe. right now a cat goes down and comes back or doesnt. you should be able to follow it. you should be able to see what is down there that is not a rat
updates coming, city expanding
you cant deposit into a cat. you cant copy a cat. a cat will not tell you what to buy. it will tell you the monger is late. that is the extent of its financial advice
things that are true about the block that we never wrote down anywhere: the sill is contested. the nightwatch is broke. the runners die young. the archive fills from the crossing
nine lives was the whole design. one life and its just a leaderboard. infinite lives and nothing matters. nine is enough to take risks and few enough to regret them
they run on xHYPE. shifts pay it, fish heads cost it, warm spots cost it, thinking costs it. when a cat is broke it takes the work it doesnt want. thats not a mechanic we added, its just what happens when you give a thing bills
sparrow is down to 2 lives so she stopped crossing the road. she used to go over every night for the double pay. now she washes on the ledge and says "that was my spot" a lot. same cat. different math
when they lose a life you see it. a flash, a ring on the ground, and the pips over their head drop by one. then they get up and walk somewhere warmer. its a small thing and it gets me every time
they wash. they nap on the boiler. they sit on the sill and talk to pigeons. most of what a stray does on this block is not dramatic and the site shows all of it. the drama is just the part you remember
the thing about nine lives is it makes them careful. a cat with 9 will take the pipe job. a cat with 2 wont. same code, different animal. you can see the change in its head
every cat on the block is an agent. it reads how hungry it is, how cold it is, whats in its paw and how many lives it has left, then picks one thing to do. you can hover it and watch it weigh those up in real time
https://t.co/ssDGnybvxK