Proper Care and Feeding for your Fountain

A story following the life and adventures of Jamjar and her friends and family. The setting takes place in the realm of Lazulum.

Synopsis
Full story synopsis here. Also has full chapter list. SPOILER WARNING, as it is the full story up to date.

Races

 * Fountains are creatures of living water whose organs are kept inside of a bauble floating within their bodies. There are various forms and typically require a walker to get around. They all use female pronouns despite having no sexual nature thus being effectively genderless.
 * There are three types of Fountain biology:
 * Water, which use walkers to get around
 * Cloud, which use baskets tied to their bauble to keep from floating off into the sky
 * Snow, a third type about which information has yet to be revealed.
 * There are also three classes of Fountains, which partly determines their personality and physique:
 * Collectors, which are the most common kind and will find something they love to collect/hoard
 * Scholars, which are larger and even smarter; they take care of the Collectors and study more advanced mechanics
 * Grungers, which tend to be dangerous hermits with strange abilities
 * Selkspitche Denizens are the various half-arthropod/half-humanoid creatures, referred to as Denizens. Their race is called after the paradise island they originally came from, Selkspitche.
 * Henicopi are the many various fully-arthropod creatures, which can range from looking like large ants to large bone-like creatures. The typical member is the Ant type.
 * Gibbous Urchins, humanoid bipedal creatures with two split arms.
 * Powerful Entities, such as King Slump, Death, and Selkie.
 * Yokai, also known as Lesser Spirits

Other creatures

 * Paya, mysterious creatures that hunt Fountains.
 * Polymanders
 * Onesie Weaver, a very soft creature in lands where Fountains and Denizens live together. They are made by Fountains for Denizens, they are coated in their own web and able to change its shape to act as form-fitting adjustable clothing for Denizens.

Major Characters

 * Jamjar, a Fountain with "dumb arms" who ends up traveling more than she expected.
 * Clocker, an older and very smart Fountain. She is quite strict but also very protective of those she takes care of.
 * Ponble Spitshelkie, a Denizen that finds Jamjar underground near her house and brings her home.
 * Crayon Spitshelkie, Ponble's adopted sister
 * Tetri Spitshelkie, Ponble and Crayon's mother
 * Karotrok Spitshelkie, Tetri's husband. He lives outside the city and is more in tune with nature.
 * George, a friend of Crayon. Originally appearing to be a disabled Denizen, he wears a mask, uses a wheelchair, and seems to dislike his name being said. He is later revealed to be a Gibbous Urchin.
 * King Slump, an eldritch entity that has been split into multiple shards of himself
 * Death, a being who resides in the line between life. They are made of bones and are polite.

Other Characters
See the List of Characters in PFC page to see the complete list of additional characters.





Locations
There are many places throughout Lazulum.

Fountain Regions

 * Pipeworks, a Fountain town.
 * Pipeworks Underground, a location used to teach new Fountains how to make their walker, though seems to be used for other purposes sometimes.
 * Distant Pools, a place where new Fountains tend to appear.
 * Tiderim, home of Polymanders and lots of fish. Lilypads are to be avoided. The lake is severely off limits, classified as an XK-Class Hazard.
 * Splash Mountain
 * Splash Mountain Colosseum, a Colosseum where Fountains compete
 * The Willow Witcher, a shop run by Agglatz
 * Shulayliq Cafe, a Fountain-run restaurant

Selkspitche Colonies

 * Aika, the town Ponble's family lives in.

Henicopi

 * Henicopi Market, found near Aika.

Gibbous Forest Region

 * Gibbous Forest, a forest that is the home to the Gibbous Urchins

Other Realms

 * BHD, a realm that is difficult to enter and has various superstitions about it. What "BHD" stands for is currently unknown.

Not yet specified

 * Carapaccia, which is underground

Technology & Magic
Various kinds of technology and other powers appear throughout the series.

Some common tech things that appear are televisions with a VCR player and A/V cables.

Dowsing Rods
Dowsing rods are seen in use by a number of characters, both of Selkspitche and Fountains. They can detect both normal bodies of water and nearby Fountains, whether intentionally or not.

Fountains can use them to help locate specific locations.

Magic
Despite appearances, actual magic is not common. There are two kinds of magic, proper magic and "small magics".

Proper magic is primarily wielded by beings like King Slump. In its use it is basically reality-warping.

The "small magics" of the world are technically more akin to quirks in reality and are more like secrets than actual magic. This includes things like when Karotrok communicated with worms, or communicating through heartbeats.

Fountains
Fountains are not magical creatures. Their bauble controls their aquatic body via electricity and wavelengths.

They build various machines that make use of their watery bodies, such as gear-based walkers and doors with locks that they have to physically fill to unlock.

They also have various methods of augmenting walkers for different abilities.


 * Azure Flitterback - By installing this bug into their walker, they can use the "flit" ability with their modus.

Selkspitche Denizens
In addition to other technologies, they have devices for storing and dispensing silk, useful for saving more rare kinds for when they are needed. There is special wax for waxing their shells.

Clockers Notes
Clockers Notes is a special part of the comic that gives a chance to learn more about the setting of the PFC world. They are done as notes that Clocker has taken about the world, though is not necessarily limited to what would be canonical knowledge that Clocker would have. It has also been replaced with variants, supplied from the perspectives of other characters. The linked page lists the information provided, which is also added to their appropriate regular associated pages on this wiki.

Trivia

 * The slightly unusual way of speaking in the various series made by Spiders Accident is because he just writes them that way.