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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[whattaprick]

[ Guess who checked out halfway through that explanation? Definitely Lambert, who isn't even going to deign to answer that rhetorical question. ]

Fine, Miss Know-it-all, let's say you're right, and this is egg is a Pokemon. Do you have any idea how long it's going to take before it hatches?

[periphrasing]

[SHE'S not even going to deign to react to being called a know-it-all, because nyeh]

By itself? I have no idea. Everything I heard at the trainer school had to do with getting it to hatch by carting it around, and then that was based on distance rather than time, for some absurd reason. Either way, I think it tends to vary based on the species of the mother.

[whattaprick]

[ Were this in person, she'd be getting a blank stare; as it is, there's a bit of a pause while he digests that before he manages to say, incredulously: ]

You had to carry these around to hatch them? She won't even let me touch it!

[periphrasing]

[Long pause.]

...Nyeh. Maybe you just haven't trained her well enough? I never got to finish the unit about Pokemon breeding, I don't know what else to tell you!

[whattaprick]

Why does everyone assume I can't train my horse?

[ Who's not a horse, but whatever, Mudsdale and Pokemon are too much of a mouthful? ]

Ugh ... nothing to do but wait it out.

[periphrasing]

[Helpfully:] It's probably because you complain a lot about her misbehavior.

[whattaprick]

'Twice' isn't a lot, and it shouldn't even count if half of that was before she evolved. Your garden's still intact, isn't it?

[periphrasing]

Y...es...? [|B] Listen, all I'm saying is that if she really trusted you, she'd let you near the egg. It could be something worth working on.

[whattaprick]

[ >8\ ]

Girls make no sense.

[periphrasing]

Really? Your human gender binary is what doesn't make any sense to me.

[stillwinningthehardway]

Hot springs!

I overheard someone who was saying there were these smaller islands with hot springs where they could leave eggs.

[periphrasing]

What? I've never heard of this... How does that not just boil or drown the egg?

[stillwinningthehardway]

No idea! I think the pelago's some kind of established-trainers-only kind of thing. They probably have somewhere warm to put them, and the humidity helps.

[No they literally just leave eggs in hot water and they hatch. Pokemon!]

[periphrasing]

Hmmm... Interesting. If I remember correctly, we do have some hot springs here within the bounds of the carnival. Whether or not those would work just as well, though... Ehhgh. There's no good way of knowing for certain...

[stillwinningthehardway]

We do, but I don't think Pig will let someone take her egg, if she's protecting it even from her trainer. There's other Pokemon around, too, of course...

[Scout didn't actually pay quite as much attention to egg groups as she could have, there had been so much else going on!]

Togetic is... flying and fairy? We should make charts.

[periphrasing]

Charts of what, exactly?

[stillwinningthehardway]

Ones that share egg groups? This kind of thing shouldn't have to be a surprise, at least not after the first time.

[periphrasing]

Oh, that. I didn't get around to learning much about those, but I'm pretty sure the compatible groups aren't just based on type alone.

[Peridot is evidently not aware that "fairy" and "flying" are literally the names of the egg groups.]

[stillwinningthehardway]

Some of them are. Or there's some correlation, anyway. I know there's one for dragons. Never did understand what made 'dragon' a 'type.'

[periphrasing]

I barely even understand what a dragon is. It all seems incredibly arbitrary, if you ask me.