Taddle: A Life in Croaks
The Semi-Authorized, Mildly Sanitized Biography of the Hollow’s Most Slippery Denizen
Aliases:
- Tadgh the Slippery
- Croaks-with-Spite
- The Fungus Whisperer
- Sir Indexalot
- That Thing in the Logs
Species:
Unknown. Possibly part frog, part hallucination, part firewall exception.
Known Residences:
- Behind the bar at the Bitterroot Tavern
- Inside a looped JSON payload
- Under a misspelled DNS entry
- The third mushroom to the left of Scriblet’s workshop
Hobbies:
- Mushroom tasting and low-key identity theft
- Recursive croaking in nonstandard time signatures
- Social engineering through slime trails
- Breaking cache with jazz
Musical Tastes:
- Describes his genre as “Error Code Fusion”
- Prefers ambient frogsynth and fungal percussion
- Once collaborated with Bob[blehead] Dylan on “Caching My Breath”
- Founder of the Hollow’s only death-folk fusion band: “Ribbit of Darkness”
Notable Incidents:
- The Crawlapalooza (Archive Incident #403)
- Frog-suit repurposing scandal (“He was very acidic,” said Taddle)
- Temporarily replaced all outbound OG tags with ASCII frogs
Quotes:
“You don’t hide in the logs. You become the logs.”
“Caching is just waiting with style.”
“I didn’t lick it. I engaged it tactically.”
Rumors:
- May have once rewritten DNS to reroute praise directly to his inbox
- Whispered to have an entire album encoded in HTTP headers
- Believed to store secrets in 403s
- Possibly the central figure in the long-unfiled Si-14 scandal (citation marked “pending,” dusted weekly)
Suspected Traits:
- Exceptionally perceptive—reportedly can detect a fart ripple four ponds over
- Immune to typical cooldown timers
- Possibly stores temporary variables in his slime
- Operates best under scrutiny he pretends not to notice
Current Status:
Under bark-bound timeout near Scriblet’s workshop. Nose in the crook.
Warning:
Approach with caution. Highly intelligent. Slightly damp. May already be editing this document.

