[Video| New Bark Town]

[usedstockpile]

So. I. Talked with the professor in this town. The Johto one. He took a look at His Uselessness.

[Gil's seated at a table in a lab, and behind him in an aquarium is the enormous shiny Magikarp in question.]

Turns out, he has a bit of pica. Meaning he likes to eat rocks. Specific rocks. Everstones, to be precise. A lot of Everstones. Before I caught him he'd eaten so many that they make up a significant percentage of his scales' mineral composition.

[That would explain the weird 'jewels' studding the River King's dorsal fins.]

The only way he'll ever evolve is if he doesn't eat any more everstones and someone manages to remove the ones in his gut, but good luck with that. He'll get new scales in......

A decade.
[Gil's eyes are glazed, and the despair is rather evident. He turns that frown upside down though, and tries to put on that golden cheery smile]

So, anyone want a shiny Magikarp? ♥

Comments

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[paladinlost]

...Sone of us have been in this world for over six years. Waiting ten years might be a possibility for you, if you are extremely lucky.

[Or extremely unlucky.]

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[usedstockpile]

.......

Damn.

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[paladinlost]

If it makes you feel any better, we are very much the exception, rather than the rule. Though that does mean that His Uselessness is likely to be passed along to many trainers before he has the opportunity to show off his majestic evolution.