PUBLIC CHANNEL - DAY 148

[whattaprick]

[ After all that super serious fae speculation, surely the Nightrider would have something important to say, right? Of course he doesn't. ]

All right, so which of you jokers put an egg in Pig's pen?

[ If he sounds faintly annoyed, it's because he is. ]

Now I can't get her out of there -- and before you ask, yes, I tried putting her back in the ball, and then she tried stepping on my head. Obviously, I'm just a little concerned why my horse has decided to try and hatch whatever this is-- [ He breaks off midway, yelling away from the radio. ]

Hey! Baker! I told you to leave that alone!

[ And on that inconclusive note, the radio post ends. ]

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[wild_magic]

But... Is she a pig, or a horse? [Susan, always asking the important questions.]

[whattaprick]

She's a horse named Pig.

[ Clearly, Susan hasn't been exposed to the Witcher School of Naming Shit. ]

[wild_magic]

That's a weird name for a horse.

[periphrasing]

[You can practically hear the shit-eating grin on Peridot's face over the radio.]

Did you seriously not bother to learn how Pokemon reproduce before deciding to take one home?

[whattaprick]

What?

[periphrasing]

[SNRK.] Oh my stars... [Someone thinks this is ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS.] It's the eggs, Lambert! They all come from eggs!

[hippocarnival]

[Eggs have now been strongly established as "ways that people come back to life" for Yuya, so for a minute he tries to wrack his brain for anyone else that might have died.]

What's it look like? [He's assuming not a chicken egg, or else why would Lambert care.]

[whattaprick]

It looks like a merlin's egg, only it's big enough to be a griffin's. [ Wait, does Yuya even know how big those are...? ] About as big as a human head, light brown and speckled.

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya doesn't know what either of those are so good thing Lambert had the foresight to describe it more thoroughly.]

Do any of the animals in the carnival lay eggs like that? Maybe it got misplaced.

[kingsroads]

If it's a boy, name it Jonathan.

[ why yes this is 100% Strange just being a shit for the sake of being a shit, why do you ask. ]

[whattaprick]

Why would I do that to an innocent ... whatever's in there?

[kingsroads]

Might as well give that whatever it is a head start in life. A proper name would do the trick!

[atouts]

What's he up to now?

[ The dog, not Lambert. He expects that much to be obvious. ]

[whattaprick]

[ The scowl is practically audible. ]

From what I can tell? Making a mess. He's been dragging things into Pig's pen -- looks like someone's just lost a ...

[ He trails off. ]

[atouts]

[ Childermass waits a moment, expecting Lambert to finish his sentence eventually, but when he doesn't— ]

A what?

[puddingemote]

Congrats, Massichi! You're gonna be a grandpa too.

[atouts]

I don't believe that's my name, Mr. Yotsuba.

[stillwinningthehardway]

The supervisor's right. All Pokemon lay eggs and they don't really have normal speciation.

[yeah she's not thinking of Lambert as a supervisor.]

Be glad no one took home one of the ones that are crossfertile with humans.

[whattaprick]

[ Okay, he'll get at her for the supervisor dig later, but for right now: ]

Now you're just making stuff up. [ His voice is so, so flat. ]

[stillwinningthehardway]

You don't dig as deep as I do, Lambert. Did you even go into the library in Malie? There are some that can look just like humans, they just can't speak out loud and maybe can't write about philosophical treatises or do high-level math, but then, that fits a lot of humans too. And Pokemon and humans in that world are related.

[She's not completely making this up, but she did read about Zoroark and those Sinnoh tales about were-Pokemon and the times when Pokemon and humans intermarried and couldn't be told one from the other.]

I didn't get to check if those humans come from eggs too, though. It'd be weird if they were the one thing that didn't.

[insidescoop]

Wh-wh-whaaaaaa?!

[DAMMIT LAMBERT]

Lambert, I gave you an entire report on all of this!!!

[whattaprick]

[ Maybe it was because he wasn't officially Nightrider until halfway through their stay, maybe it's because most of what came up didn't seem relevant to nightrunner duties at the time, or maybe, most simply, Alola feels like a lifetime ago, but Lambert's simply drawing a blank, here. ]

Which part? I'm pretty sure your report never included the words 'by the way, this is how to make sure your horse doesn't end up laying an egg, because that's definitely a possibility.'

[insidescoop]

Peridot already explained it all again for you!

Egg groups! Most four legged animals on land are compatible with each other!!

sometime after it's been revealed to be a pokemon egg

[puddingemote]

You're gonna be a grandpa, Lam-san. Congrats.

[whattaprick]

I don't think it works that way, Tamaki.