Beasticard Open the archive

Record what is in front of you. Strike it as a plate.

Seventy-two entries · nine elements

Beasticard is a bound archive that happens to run on a phone. Photograph a real animal, confirm what it is, and the record is struck as a plate against its numbered entry. Animals you already know are written up in more detail than animals you merely passed.

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IXSeals
VFinishes
Entry 001, Dog, struck as Kobe on the Spark seal

Plates of record

LXXII struck

One plate per record, filed against its entry. The animal you photographed — its coat, its bearing, the element it resolved to — engraved whole. A plate is never cropped and never zoomed.

Hover to hold · select a plate to open it

The sequence

Charges I – IV

Four charges from animal to plate. Nothing is invented about your specimen that you did not record yourself.

I
An archivist walking a field beside a beagle at first light

Record

Photograph a companion you keep, or log a sighting you happened on — a heron across the water, a cricket outside the door, a tiger behind glass.

II
A phone held up during specimen intake, the beagle framed on screen

Identify

The intake proposes a species and you confirm or correct it. Every animal is bound to one fixed catalogue number and is never quietly filed under another.

III
The beagle crossing a ring of gold light

Attune

An element is settled from behaviour, species affinity, and the gaps still open in your own archive. The finish is drawn once and stored with the plate.

IV
The beagle standing among elemental creatures under a night sky

Strike

The plate is struck in order — element, then finish, then the engraving itself. The reveal always states why the element landed where it did.

Seals of affinity

Eight entries each

Nine elements, one to a plate. Eight catalogue entries answer to each of them, so an archive leans toward whatever its keeper actually meets outdoors.

Finishes of record

Drawn once, kept always

The finish is settled at striking and stored with the plate. It is a material, not a rank — it changes how the plate is printed, and nothing else about it.

The next walk is a record

Open the archive, hold it up to something alive, and see what the field returns.

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