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Your worldsthe instrument · set to your expeditions

Your wish list — the plush you mean to keep.

Press Add to a collection on any plush in the shop: start a collection of your own, or keep it on your wish list. Sign in and both follow you to any device.

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Plush ExplorerNatural history of plush · est. 1847
My Field Journal

The Plush Explorer Society — field season open

We mount careful expeditions to real places, and catalogue what should not be there.

The Explorer and his fellow iconkinds go under the sea, down into the docks, and (the Bureau insists) through time — to places you could visit on a Tuesday — and come home having catalogued a creature or two the record was not expecting. Every expedition brings back one true thing about the place. Most bring back a mystery as well.

Dial reading · Expedition XII
Depth 4 fathoms · the year 1851
Hands aboard: three, one reluctant
The Explorer, small, on the seabed
World I · The Reef · bright hour
The Explorer
The Explorer, F.P.E.S.

The Bestiary · lately entered

Specimens, drawn, named and numbered

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Plate VII · No. 0042

shown for scale

Wye Otter

Lutra plushia wyensis

The Wye below Hay. Floats, unhurried. Entered by the Explorer.

Plate III · No. 0038

shown for scale

Pond Frog

Rana velutina

A garden in Hackney. Seventy-one parts air, as the Atlantic. Entered by Fern.

Plate IX · No. 0031

shown for scale

Cosmos Bear

Ursus sidereus

Low orbit, allegedly. Hums in the dark. Entered by the Explorer.

Plate — · sighting

?scale unknown

An unexplained sighting

Species incerta

The Clockwork Century, eleven minutes late. Eight limbs, or six. Any explorer with a lantern is welcome to look.

The Adventure Log · five volumes, illustrated, free to every visitor

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All volumes

Proceedings of the Society · Department of Pseudo-Science

Findings, mostly true

Try the puzzles

Finding XII

A plush never sinks

Observed off Torquay in 1851 and again last Tuesday. The Society's diving bell has yet to recover one from the bottom; the otter surfaced first and regarded the company.

Puzzle · the Explorer's trail

Three questions, one route

Three questions on the Explorer's trail, open now to every visitor, and a fresh puzzle each time you call. The exercise takes about as long as a cup of tea.

Finding XIII

Time travel is mostly waiting

The Clockwork Century runs eleven minutes slow. Visitors are advised to bring a book; Volume III is a good length.

An invitation

Every collection begins with a single specimen

Any explorer may keep a collection of their own: press Add to a collection on a plush in the shop, and sign in to keep it wherever you go. Visitors here are fellow explorers, never customers. Curiosity is the only qualification; the Society supplies the rest.

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