>>5586746After this, I think I'll call it a thread and archive. I'm sorry for the late update, I haven't been busy, busy but I spent some time with family and time slipped my mind. Incidentally, as for Cheeps, I spent my RL childhood growing up with chickens (butchering some) and don't have any sentimentality about them. The chicks are cute, yes, but they grow fast and if you don't sign a pact relating to the chick or commit the closest thing to blasphemy and feed the Wurm's Bile to the chick (and leave the outcome to the super-secret roll table I've hashed out, ranging from inevitably tragic to bizarre/terrifying), it won't be any more or less exceptional than a normal chicken. Because that's what it is, a normal chicken. As for the Wurm, you THINK it wouldn't care, as long as the Bile was eaten, but the mystic symbolism of feeding worms to a bird would probably have a pronounced effect. Of course, you have no way of knowing for certain. That's only a hunch.
Pic tangentially related, my latest batch started hatching last night. If you've got the space for a coop, incubator optional, but it helps, and some way to get some healthy feed, I'd definitely recommend getting some chickens IRL. Things are starting to get sketchy out there and they're probably the best livestock there is, pound-for-pound, with the possible exception of bunnies but I don't have too much experience with them.