[video / action for Route 37]

[meteorman]

[As is usual whenever Ford makes a post, the feed clicks on and he immediately starts talking.]

Take a look at this!

[He lifts up his hands -- both of them, because as usual, Roswell is holding the 'gear. Cradled in his palms and looking just a tad bit overwhelmed to be on video is--]

Fungus!

[Yep. It's a Morelull, and he is just over the moon about it.]

I had thought that Foongus and Amoongus were the only mushroom-imitating Pokemon (not counting, of course, the parasitic variety that preys on the Paras line). I have read through the Pokedex quite a few times since my arrival and there was never mention of this species, but lo and behold, an entry has appeared for Morelull sometime within the last few days. Is this a common occurrence? Is there always potential for completely new Pokemon to simply materialize out of the ether? Fantastic.

And sensible. There are over fourteen thousand species of mushroom native to my own dimension, to say nothing of molds and yeasts. That only a select few Pokemon have ever adapted a similar biology is surprising when fungus is one of the more successful organisms as a general rule; my assumption now is that there are many, many more and we simply haven't stumbled upon them yet. Not only that but Morelull is Grass and Fairy type! I wonder if they naturall congregate in rings in their resting day state--

[Oh my god. This is so cool. This is so cool you guys. Does this mean he's going to be spending the rest of his time in Johto aggressively checking rotten logs for new Pokemon species? Probably.]

Comments

[callbacks]

Hm. Yeah.

[Dave thinks about it.]

Yeah, you know, what's what I'm always saying? I mean, on the one hand, potential for infinite suckage, I get that's not comforting to everybody. On the other hand, there's always another rainbow. Right?

[meteorman]

[He nods.]

Often with colors as-yet unknowable to the human race, even.

[callbacks]

Wouldn't those just be light wavelengths off our visible spectrum?

[See? Dave can do a science, too.]

[meteorman]

In universes that work on the same basic fundamental principles as the ones you and I are from, yes, but there exist worlds where the very basics of physics are different. It has at times made research monumentally more difficult, but often that much more rewarding.

[callbacks]

Huh.

[He nods slowly. That makes sense. He thinks.]

...So what happens when people who come from a world where physics does one thing go to a world where physics do something completely different? Do their eyes explode. Do their eyes explode first.

[meteorman]

That -- that depends. Often I have found that a universe will have its own inherent law of normalization as a self-defense measure. Haven't you wondered how all of those of us who are visitors here somehow speak the native language? This universe has an incredibly high rate of adaptability when it comes to non-native beings.

But I suppose theoretically if a universe was different enough it might cause eye explosion. I wouldn't rule it out.

[callbacks]

Oh, y'know, I stopped wondering about that ages ago. I mean, the language thing. I should've considered the question though because really, the trolls didn't make all these universes so it doesn't make sense to assume massive similarities came down 'cause of heritable cosmogenetic descent.

[meteorman]

Unfortunately no, though that would be a neat and tidy explanation. I personally have visited very few artificially-created universes, as far as I'm aware. Unfortunately it's difficult to tell if you don't know going in.

[callbacks]

[Dave pauses, then tilts his head.]

There's more? Artificially-created universes.

[meteorman]

Theoretically? There are infinity of them. In practice as I said I have only seen a few. One was in use as a car battery.

[callbacks]

Uhh.

Actually, mine turned out to be a frog, so I guess that's not too weird.

[meteorman]

[He doesn't even bat an eyelash at the implication of a universe contained entirely within a frog, so no, it's probably not too weird.]

Certainly not. What sort of frog?

[callbacks]

The kind selectively bred through time paradoxes by frantic middle school aliens racing the clock for survival and the promise of godhood.

It's a pain in the ass.