superordinary | 5th rebuttal; video

[ The feed flickers on to Naegi, who appears to be somewhere in Ice Path at the moment. The cave wall behind him is white with snow and ice and his breath is turning into mist in the chilly air. His hood has been pulled up so far over his head that it casts a shadow, making his face seem darker than it actually is. Fuck the cold, man.

The coat he's wearing is sticky with a thick layer of goo and the culprit behind it is none other than the ~~Goomy~~ Bloober he's cradling in his arms. Said Bloober has been wrapped in a towel, effectively making it look like some kind of slimeball burrito. ]

So what have you guys learned about our, um, slimy friends so far? Ishimaru-kun and I are helping this guy here through Ice Path and so far we...don't really know much about it. It doesn't seem to like the cold very much which could mean it's part Grass.

[ That's...a reasonable assumption to make, right? Flying's out of the question and he's pretty sure dragons aren't tiny slimeballs. Then again, it looks nothing like a plant... ]

Or it's just better suited for warmer places? It resembles a slug and I think gastropods are cold-blooded so maybe that's why it doesn't like this place. I don't think Johto is its natural habitat at all...

[ There's a pause as he shifts the Bloober around in his arms. There's one last thing he wants to ask. ]

Anyway...we'll be in Blackthorn in a few days, hopefully, so I was wondering what's worth seeing there? We're going there for the hot springs but I want to see the other things the city has to offer.

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So have I, but if an exception exists there can always be more. Besides, I have to admit that the Pokédex's lack of information left me uncertain that they were Pokémon.

You'll love the Dragon's Den, then. You might possibly need permission to visit it, but as long as you do not ask Clair after a Gym win that'll be no problem.

I was a little uncertain about that, too. I wonder why the Pokédex doesn't have any details on them... Maybe it's a recently discovered species?

Is Clair like Whitney? She wasn't exactly, um, happy when I got the Plain Badge.

I'd almost call it an undiscovered species, at this point. We've had others suddenly appear before, and their information was already filled in when we caught them.

Clair will be just as unhappy, I promise you, but in a different manner. She can be quite the prideful young lady, and she sees every loss as an insult.

What happened when the others suddenly appeared? I'm guessing this was before I arrived back in April last year.

[He nods.]

There were swarms of various species two years ago, including a few that no one had ever seen before. Then, on the fourteenth, we all awoke to an egg and chocolate delivery. Most of those eggs turn out to contain more previously unknown Pokémon, such as my Beheeyem.

...Huh. That's really weird. So the eggs were just there when people woke up?

They were. It was not the first time, and not the last either. We've received Christmas eggs twice already, and the second of those times all the resulting Pokémon were shiny.

All of them? I wonder what the odds of hatching that many shiny Pokémon are... Probably slim to none.

Without external intervention, at least. Considering the mystery surrounding those deliveries, I'd not be surprised if there was a way to ensure a shiny egg somehow.

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