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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[atouts]

[ Okay, he's been listening to this nonsense and hang on one God-damned moment here. ]

They aren't anything alike. You can't possibly tell me they could have an egg together.

[ They aren't even the same types? Is that a thing? Is that part of it? ]

[periphrasing]

Um, yes. They could. And before either of you ask: If you're expecting me to have some sort of explanation of the biology behind that, don't get your hopes up. Even the natives of that universe didn't seem to have the slightest clue, beyond the vague assertion that Pokemon don't copulate to reproduce the same way that you humans do.

[There's a bit of a shudder in her voice at that last bit. Bbbbuh. Pregnancy. Blech.]

[atouts]

[ To be honest, that's actually kind of a relief, can you imagine it otherwise? Because Childermass certainly doesn't want to. It's one of the most awkward thoughts that's crossed his mind lately and that's saying a lot right now. ]

So what you're telling me is even the people of Alola don't know how they get the very creatures their entire society revolves around? That doesn't make a lick of sense.

[periphrasing]

I don't know if you missed the memo somehow, but pretty much that entire world didn't make any sense. There are things that some of those Pokemon are capable of that defy the very laws of physics themselves.

[The memory of it still haunts her.]

[atouts]

[ He a magician from the early 19th century, Peridot. Your laws of physics are silly things. ]

But that not a single soul in all of that world can figure out how the animals there exist in the first place is by far a step beyond even that. I know there was no magic there, so it can't be that, either.

[ Like just... poof, suddenly Pokemon. That's not a thing. He can tell Baker isn't magical on his own! ]

[periphrasing]

I don't think it's so much that they don't know how the Pokemon exist as it is that no one has ever seen where the eggs come from. They just kind of show up at the daycare centers, allegedly.