Kia ora, creature. You're at reception.
The Temp Cryptid Agency is a pop-up space brought to you by Haus of Haututuu and Cunty Cryptids Club, two takataapui run toi initiatives based here in Te Whanganui-ā-Tara. Part studio, part installation and full portal. Pick a department below — they're both ours, they just have separate filing systems.
Cryptid gigs, workshops, lairs, the free Normie Drobe, craft buddies and missed connections. Grey tables, blue links. Every posting vetted by someone wearing a human guise, badly.
Browse listings >> Dept. 02 · Regional Creature Dept The Online Office cryptids.nz/geocities/The agency's homemade homepage: meet the staff, read the tikanga, sign the guestbook, ride the webring. The whetu gifs were never signed off by the Regional Creature Dept. They multiply after dark.
Step in >>Public Programme · October 2026
| When | What | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct | World Building Workshop Build your cryptid from the inside out. Ideal for writers, illustrators, DnD enthusiasts & nerdy weirdos. Free. |
12–4pm |
| Sun 4 Oct | Clothing Alteration Workshop A crafternoon to steeze up your skinsuits. BYO kaakahu or pick from the Normie Drobe. Free. |
12–4pm |
| Sat 10 Oct | High Tea (4–6pm) + Open Mic Night (6–10pm)26 COURTENAY PL, TE ARO, WELLINGTON | 4–10pm |
Workshops are free but spaces are limited, so please register. You'll definitely want to.
Sign up here >>Staff Rec Room · Games
For kaimahi on their break. Four games mirrored here from cyborg.garden.
Te Moutere Huna
He taonga te moemoeaa
A dreamed island with exact coordinates no map will admit to, and two friends who have to decide whether to believe. A waka unua voyage, a base that should not exist, and Waitii of Matariki waiting to be given back her song.
Play Te Moutere Huna >Lil Bitz
A tiny beach of giving.
Wander a small shore, pick things up and decide what's worth giving away. A trinket maker trades back rarer finds and stranger friends. Normie Drobe regulars will feel right at home.
Play Lil Bitz >LightEater
A slime mold that eats the light.
Point the camera at urself and the mold finds you, or switch to Dither and get printed live in a few inks. Camera stays off until u say so and nothing leaves the tab.
Play LightEater >Te Reo Manu
Learn the language of the birds.
Five levels of listening: tell a tuui from a korimako by ear, name the syllables, guess what the tuui sings next and build a phrase it would actually say. Required training for anyone placed in the forest dept.
Play Te Reo Manu >On the break room telly: ▶ Staff induction video (VHS, 1 tape, do not copy). Required viewing for all new placements. Management says this was buried. We dug it up.
From the Archive · Fine Dining For Freaks
Fine Dining For Freaks
One of the crew's past pop-ups: a safe territory for different inter-galactic species to meet and get good food. Moss runners, candlelit The flash boil up A bunch of whreaks in their best freak faces.
Locked eyes with someone over the candles and never got their name? Half the room was in freak faces (Seraphina and Skankenstein included), so try the missed connections.
Gift Closet
Things turn up round the office. Found something? It lives here now. Unclaimed items are held indefinitely. (The training tape was in here too, until somebody dug it up.)