[video | un: TeaOnRice] wakey wakey eggs and -... nevermind it's just an egg

[gekkajuu]

[Atsushi likes his life on the planet, but now that he's on Thesa to help the people waking up, he doesn't mind spending the night. Or, rather: between all the simulations and the free food, he got so tired, he didn't even think to go home.

He wasn't expecting to wake up to a surprise next to his bed.]

I need help! No - some advice would do...

[At first, the video just shows a very panicky Atsushi, but the view shakily shifts to the bed, where an egg lies, the blankets carefully wrapped around its base so it won't roll off. It's not just any egg, either: it's huge, the size of Atsushi's arm.]

S-Sorry, I'm aware that this is a busy time for everyone, but... [The camera remains shaky, as does his voice.] I don't know what to do? This egg was next to me when I woke up, and... it's not very loud, but there's definitely a heartbeat inside of it.

If it was a chicken egg, I'd know what to do! And I'm sure that this egg just needs warmth and safety too, but... I have a job, now! I can't stay here. For that matter: even if I went home, I couldn't spend all day and all night keeping an egg warm... and I can't carry around something so big and expect to keep it safe...

... but I can't let it die.

[That comes before everything else, even his job that he's desperate to keep. It doesn't matter that he basically works on commission; he'd feel terrible if he didn't regularly check in to see if there's anything he can do. But now he's suddenly an egg mom dad on top of everything... This is too much responsibility all at once!]

I wonder if... maybe someone could babysit sometimes??

((OOC: omake thanks to Rune.))

Comments

[reek]

You don't take to a jape very well, do you?

[gekkajuu]

I'm sorry, I can't see any humor at all in this situation.

[HE'S NOT READY TO BE A PARENT!!]

[reek]

Perhaps you should find some, before your hair greys.

[gekkajuu]

[...

........

Yeah he's just going to ignore that.]

Should you know anything about egg hatching - or about birds, I suppose - I would appreciate any tips you can give me.

[reek]

I've none to offer.

[ I mean, clearly. He's sitting here talking shit. ]

But it looks far too large to be a bird's egg.

[gekkajuu]

Someone suggested it might be a dragon.
The only dragons still around on the planet are very small, though...

[reek]

Perhaps they've given you a basilisk.

[ Not that he's seen one here, but hey--if there's dragons, why not?]

[gekkajuu]

That's similar to a snake, isn't it? It really could be one!
Do you have basilisks where you're from?

[Somehow they seems less freaky than a miniature dragon??]

[reek]

Aye, they existed in my world. They were said to have grow to the size of dogs.

[gekkajuu]

For something that will grow into a big dog size, this egg might work...
What does a basilisk eat? Can you tell me anything else about how they live?

[reek]

I've never seen one. They did not dwell as far north as I lived.

[ Busted. But they did actually exist in his world! ]

[gekkajuu]

I see. Well, I don't suppose there's any guarantee that basilisks here are the same, anyway.
The spiders at home were certainly not anything like the ones I've seen here.

[reek]

[ Oh god, don't remind him of those spiders. ]

I would certainly know if one of those spiders were spinning a web in the corner of my room.

[gekkajuu]

They were hard to miss, weren't they?
And yet this egg might be a spider too, for all we know.

[reek]

Better off dead if it is.

[gekkajuu]

I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.