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Platyplush & Glass Phoenix (Artificers Shop critters)

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Platyplush (#834)

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This egg is just like a regular Lakiran platypus egg until you pick it up and realize it’s made of leather and filled with beans.
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Your baby platyplush isn't as helpless as a real platypus, but it is roughly the same size and looks quite similar. It has a soft cloth skin, softer than the fabric used to make its egg. Like many other artificial creatures, the egg was incorporated into the creature's body when it hatched so as not to waste perfectly usable materials. It grows slowly, never eating anything but gradually expanding in size through the magic it was imbued with. Eventually, tiny synthetic hairs made from treated thread emerge from between the cloth weave, making it just as soft and furry as a real platypus.
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Fully grown, your platyplush is no larger than an adult Lakiran platypus. It is content to sit on your bed and wait for you to come home to snuggle with it, but it loves to be let outside the Keep and run around with the other platypodes. Even though it doesn't breathe, it still only makes brief dives to the lake bed before coming up for air, often getting its fur muddy while rummaging in the sediment, though a brief swim at the surface and some grooming keeps it clean. Like the Lakiran platypodes, your platyplush will occasionally bring up treasures from the bottom of the lake. Sometimes these treasures are just fragments of hatched eggs or small rocks, but your platyplush also seems to be very good at retrieving valuable gemstones you suspect it "borrowed" from the hoards of the pearl wyrms that nest on the beach. The platyplush doesn't seem to mind your efforts to return its gifts to their proper owners. After a long day of play, the platyplush might decide to waddle off to take a nap with its Lakiran platypus friends, but eventually it will wander inside, dry off near the sitting room fireplace, find its way to your room, and curl up on the foot of your bed.
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The platyplush is a master of disguise, provided it is surrounded by Lakiran platypodes. Platyplushes are artificial creatures made of cloth and leather and stuffed with small beans or seeds, but despite their soft makeup, they can withstand quite a beating. Their artificial fur is waterproof so they can swim, and if their fabric tears, it can sew itself back up within seconds. They have no need to eat or sleep, but otherwise behave much like real platypodes, swimming in Lake Lakira and the Stream, rummaging in the mud with their leather beaks and sunning themselves on lakeside rocks. Regular platypodes don't seem to mind them and will readily adopt platyplushes into their family groups, especially around the Keep. Their insistence on acting like Lakiran platypodes was the inspiration for a popular tale about a platyplush that turns real, often retold as a bedtime story for children.
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Glass Phoenix (#835)

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This egg appears to be made entirely of colored glass, yet it is incredibly strong.
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A young glass phoenix is said to be born when an artificer enchants a bucket of water and drops a blob of molten glass into it. The glass hardens into an egg so tough that even a hammer blow cannot break it, and the water evaporates as a small orange flame develops within. The egg will eventually grow wings and feathers, a beaked head and talons, not truly hatching, but becoming animate all the same. The hatchling can then search out pieces of glass and silica to melt and consume, allowing itself to grow larger. A glass phoenix hatchling behaves much like an adult, and tends to be an aloof creature that rarely ever shows interest in living things. With patience, and plenty of colored glass beads for treats, an artificer can imprint onto a glass phoenix and request favors from it.
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Glass phoenixes are beautiful creatures popular with bird keepers in the Keep and Synara City alike. They are warm to the touch and can willingly heat any of their body so hot that it melts, a useful trick for fending off potential threats. One difficulty in keeping glass phoenixes is that they seem to have few social instincts, and see each other as nothing but new sources of glass. These phoenixes will fight to the death and consume one another if kept together, so most households will only have one glass phoenix at a time. Unlike some other manufactured creatures, which lose their lives as the enchantments which bring them to life wear off, glass phoenixes remain alive as long as the flame burning within their strengthened chest remains alight. Legend claims that the breast plate is harder that the strongest steel, and even dragon scales, but that all glass phoenixes have a single feather hidden somewhere on their bodies which, if broken, will shatter them into a million pieces. Of course, if all of these pieces are recovered and melted, a new phoenix can be forged.
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Glass phoenixes are artificial creatures made in the fires of men, but they possess powers akin to their flesh-and-blood counterparts. If a glass phoenix should lose a piece of its body, be it a feather, limb, or even its head, the broken region will begin to glow red hot and the glass around it will melt and reform itself into the correct shape. Even if the phoenix's entire body is shattered, as long as the flame in its breastplate remains lit, the bird can repair itself. One might reasonably expect that each time a glass phoenix mends its broken pieces, the reshaped glass will be fragile, and this is indeed true for the first few minutes after the glass hardens. However, the bird will eat sand and bits of silica, including the broken piece of its own body, to recoup the loss in body mass, and strengthen its repairs. If it ingests colored glass, the phoenix can replicate that color in feathers on its body.
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I'm super curious to see what the phoenix looks like :roll:
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I bet the platy is adorable, and I bet the phoenix is gorgeous
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.............As soon as the Black Market goes away I'll go see about getting some of these new babies
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PLATYPLUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The glass phoenix sounds amazing!
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Re: Platyplush & Glass Phoenix (Artificers Shop critters)

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blockEdragon wrote:The glass phoenix sounds amazing!
It is pretty awesome. Borealum did an amazing job on them in my opinion. :haha:
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I like the design but I am confused, do we have to join the artificers to get these creatures?
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Renna_kai wrote:I like the design but I am confused, do we have to join the artificers to get these creatures?
Yup! They're being sold in the artificers' shop!
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Renna_kai wrote:I like the design but I am confused, do we have to join the artificers to get these creatures?
Or you could buy em from someone, lots of shops in Mercado take orders (On average it's around 500G in addition to shop price for shop critters)
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