ghostytrainer | prank #30 | video+text; GHOST EGGS

prank #30 | video+text; GHOST EGGS

[It's kind of hard to miss the three very large ghosts, a Dusknoir and both varieties of Jellicent, floating behind John when he turns on the feed today. Though they are hardly the only ghosts in the room. A Froslass floats lazily around the room, occasionally sending a stream of snow at the Dusknoir or the Spiritomb that sits on the floor. Both of the ghosts in question are doing their best to ignore this, though the Dusknoir Seems to be doing a better job of it. On John's shoulder sits a tiny Litwick.]

So if it's been over a year since an ectobiologist actually did something involving ghosts and biology, can he still call himself an ectobiologist? [There is a very slight pause.] No! Of course he can't, duh!

[John pans the camera over to the bed where there is a small pile of eggs wrapped in knitted blankets of varying colors. A Golett sits next to the eggs, eying them curiously. There are probably somewhere around twenty eggs or so, of several different varities:]

So, as you can see, I did something to fix that! [The camera pans back to John.] Now as much as I would like to, I obviously can't keep all these eggs myself. Pretty sure that would max out my PC storage. So I am sell--

[He cuts off as the rock-looking egg with the swirl on the front is shoved in front of the camera. It is followed shortly by the Golett's face. It nods excitedly, looking about as happy as is possible for an animated rock-ghost and points to the egg.]

Giant...

[The Gollet just keeps pointing, spinning the egg around so that it's visible from all angles. Oooo! Aaaaa! you are impressed and you want to buy this egg. But as impressed as you are, the same cannot be said for John who is now trying to push the Golett out of frame with little sucess.]

Giant, come on stop. You aren't helping! Just kind of inturrupting hones-- no Chandel, not you too!

[There's a happy almost squeak-like noise from the Litwick as she flies over to the bed to try and "help" too, john following after her. Though the eggs are much too big for her nubby little arms. It's a shame this part can't actually be seen on film, it's actually quite cute. Before this situation can get any more out of hand, the Dusknoir moves over to the camera, easily moves the Golett out of the way, picks up the camera, and ends the feed. A few moments later, a text is sent out.]

sorry about that.
anyway. eggs, selling them.
i am happy to answer any questions about the parents, eggs, and/or ghost types in general.
here's prices and junk:

[And then there's a list of species, quantity, and egg moves.]

((ooc: Claim post is the aforelinked link. I just didn't feel like posting that list up a second time. There is still a small chunk of unclaimed eggs, so have at 'em if you want 'em.))

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Whatever I think it's worth? Like money? You can't buy or own living things.

[He just...blinks.]

Well yeah that's what I meant. I am guessing you haven't been here for very long, have you?

[Why are you being strange, John? That's a normal question, right?]

Only for two lunar cycles. [What is months?]

Uh...lunar cycles?

[Wait...wait. Wait hold on just one second. There's a lightbulb going off here!]

You wouldn't happen to be one of the trolls would you? Nepeta's moirail? Erm...Eeeeequi...shit what did she say his name was? The guy who builds robots!

[He's met all of them save for one and this guy doesn't look familiar...but if he's talking about moons...CLEARLY he is the last troll. John has finally ~~caught~~ met them all!]

Yeah, the moon going through all its phases.

I don't know anything about those things. I'm Apollo. I've been human for my whole life.

Oh. Ahaha, my bad. Sorry. It's just that the only people I have ever heard speak of time in the sense of the moon are my friends who happen to be aliens. They're nocturnal so...yeah.

Anyway so...moon phases are moon cycles then? Like new moon to new moon?

Yeah. That's what I've always called them. It's faster to say "lunar cycle" than "the moon going through all its phases", and it's easier to keep track of how many times I've seen the moon go through its phases than how many days I've been here.

Gotcha. Well that's still relatively new...I was just asking because it kind of seemed like you hadn't heard about the fact that people regularly sell living things here.

Living things being eggs, I mean. Some people make their living off of it entirely.

That's stupid. You can't own living things. They do what they want. Does someone here sell the wind, too?

Err...no? I mean for one thing, the wind would be way harder to sell than an egg. But that's beside the point.

It's not like they still can't do what they want though. Pokemon aren't slaves or anything.

Some people think they can treat them however they want, like they're tools or something.

So how much money should I give you if there are any left over?

[He'll also feed and water whatever Pokémon brings the egg, and ask them how you treat your Pokémon.]

[He sighs.] Yeah...some people do. But not everyone! In fact, I would say that the vast majority of people don't.

[That's probably part truth and part Egbert-brand optimism.]

But however much you want to send is fine with me. I know it's hard to afford stuff in the beginning so even if you just want to send one hundred, that's fine.

I wish I didn't have to deal with all of the humans who are mean to animals then. I never met any who weren't before I came here.

One hundred's okay. [He has no idea how to price things, but sleeping outside instead of paying for a room leaves extra money. And boy did he get a discount.]

Wait seriously? You mean animal abuse is the norm where you come from, or am I misunderstanding?

[What kind of world do you even come from, man...]

Edited 2012-06-29 02:28 (UTC)

Every human that's ever come into the forest hurts my friends. They shoot and wound them and don't finish them off, or they just take the antlers or pelts and leave the rest. The ones that take the body leave the organs behind. All they do is hurt everyone and waste the lives they take. Just because they don't know how much pain they're causing doesn't make it okay.

[The far future world of 2023! If I worked out the date right. There's a calendar change in there somewhere. A world where mankind battles the giant robots sent by a scorned gay angel to kidnap all of humanity, though I took Apollo from before he's seen any of that.

...Actually, John might like Aquarion.]

That's awful. Though...to be honest, that kind of sounds like where I come from. At least in the past. It was the sort of thing we learned about in history lessons. People are still kind of wasteful in the time I come from but not as much when it comes to animals. I'm sorry that you had to deal with that sort of thing. But you will be glad to know that the forests here aren't like that at all!

I mean, people capture pokemon in the forests but that's not the same as killing them...

I know. Humans would probably act the same way here if Pokémon could be killed and eaten though.

Humans should leave Pokémon where they are unless they want to be with humans.

[Shhh no eating Pokemon is a sad thought!]

But...how can the pokemon know that they want to be with the person if they, you know...don't actually know the person? Granted, I guess capturing in order to make friends is a little bizarre when you really stop and think about it. But it's not like you can just sit there and have a conversation with them.

[Apollo tried. It was a very sad experience.]

You're another one of the humans here who can't talk to animals I guess. Even if you can't understand them though, they can understand human words, so you can ask if they want to follow you around and see if they like you. Or they could ask the other Pokémon with you if you're nice to them.

I think you'll find that most people here can't. I have only met a handful who can understand Pokemon in all my time here. [And he is insanely jealous of them, let's just leave it at that]

I guess I could try that though. As obvious as it is, it never really occurred to me to try it. I don't really capture a lot of my Pokemon though. Most of mine I hatch from eggs or I wind up adopting them after their trainers leave.

I've only talked to one other person here who could.

[Apollo thinks that John never thinking of asking says something, but it was what he was expecting.]

Sentret's the only one who I captured, but that was by accident. I let her go, but she decided that she wanted to come with me instead. Deerling just decided that he wanted to travel with a human when we met and caught himself, and Spearow was with me when I woke up here.

[He spent a while playing the video game, okay? It's just deeply ingrained at this point. That and 'stopping and thinking' is not exactly John's strong suit...]

Ah, yeah. There's always one with you when you wake up. Mine was a Dunsparce. Do you not name them either?

[XD This is true.]

They already have names. They aren't like human names though. Each of them has their own scent that other Pokémon can smell. I don't know how to say them with human words, so if I need to talk about them out loud I call them by what kind of Pokémon they are.

[I'm just gonna assume that it works kind of like with real-world animals.]

Woah really?!

[He did not know this! Hell, he didn't even know that's how it works with real animals.]

Didn't you know that?

[He's forgetting again that most people don't have the same knowledge base as him.]

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[Video] john's mind works in mysterious ways.

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[Video] So what would they say? (Apollo's psychic, btw, that's how he can ask)

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