39th treasure [audio]

[captainash]

Everyone, my team has a question and demands an answer. Think about it carefully.

[The team in question can be heard, yipping and meowing and squawking animatedly. But that all stops the moment Ash takes a deep breath and speaks again.]

...Which are better: dogs, cats, or birds?

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[video]

[captainash]

You only have the one bird, then? From my experience, the infighting can start very quickly.

[Sadistic laughter from somewhere behind him. Hey, at least they're not fighting right now.]

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

I got a bird and some kind of...goat in an egg. [Because that's how goats work here, he guesses.] You really oughta nip that kinda thing in the bud. That can't be fun to put up with all day.

[video]

[captainash]

You already got your first mammal in an egg? Congratulations.

[That's like a rite of passage, around here.]

They're not too bad about it, most of the time. But we haven't travelled much in a while, and all that extra energy has to go somewhere.

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

Why do they all lay eggs?

[It just doesn't make sense!]

[video]

[captainash]

Hell if I know. I mean, even genderless ghostly clay statues come from eggs around here. How does that even work?

[He suspects the answer is 'Ditto', but that's a thought best left unexplored.]

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

God, that's weird. Where does the clay come from?

...I mean, I'm sure that ain't really somethin' anyone WANTS answered.

[video]

[captainash]

Probably from the... ungendered proud parent? Then again, no one has ever mentioned that their Golurk lost weight after breeding. Maybe the truth is best left unknown.

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

Just like how clay statues breed.

[That makes even less sense, but if there's an answer he doesn't really want to be involved in it.]

[video]

[captainash]

It's not even the strangest part of breeding. Certain species of sentient rocks have genders, and so do the plants. Somehow. Evolution had a very sick sense of humor, in this world.

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

How do you even know they have genders?

[video]

[captainash]

The Pokédex.

[A beat.]

Some species have slight visible differences. But for this, the Pokédex is your best friend.

[video]

[milliondollarpipes]

How does -

[Nevermind. He doesn't want to know. Somebody had to tell IT how to tell statue genders at one point, but...forget it.]

I am so glad I ain't a Breeder.

[video]

[captainash]

So am I buying? Buying the strange unexplainable eggs is confusing enough as it is, if I also had to encourage them...

[He shudders.]

[milliondollarpipes]

Is that a good business?

[Still not something he wants to do - working in retail is already starting to chafe, but he can figure something else out eventually.]

[captainash]

There's a center dedicated to it, so it has be a decent earner. Then again, it did close down for a while, but that could be because the previous owner disappeared.