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[smithandwesson]

""................This is Sanzo.

Leave a message I guess."

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[smithandwesson]

You could keep in touch with the facility to make sure they are treating the thing well. Sounds to me like you're just making up excuses for the fact that you just genuinely like having him around.

[poolhall_killer]

And if I do like having him around? He's a very sweet monkey. I don't think I could give him up to a facility if it was a choice.

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[Have another photo, Sanzo]

[smithandwesson]

No judgment. The company you decide to keep is always entirely up to you. Just hope you're prepared for the trouble one of those little critters give ya.

They've got quite the appetite for such little things.

[Ah man. It's so small and round. Looks like a little toasted bun. Why does it give him a strangely nostalgic feeling?

He hates it.]

[poolhall_killer]

He hasn't done anything major except sitting in the fruit bowl. When I tell him to get out he does, but he won't listen to anyone else.

And appetite-wise, he loves fruit and sometimes tree sap when I take him outdoors for a few minutes.

[smithandwesson]

Yeah I'd watch that sort of behavior a little more closely if I were you. He could be trying to mark that fruit as his.

The last thing you want to do is take a bite out of an apple only to realize your dear pet was rubbing his ass all over it.

[poolhall_killer]

[...Ew. That's gross, man.]

I'll be sure to wash my fruit properly before eating it, then. He'll have his fruit and we'll have ours.

[smithandwesson]

[Hey.

Literal shit like that is what monkeys are infamous for.

He's just passing the warning along.]

Just make sure you have a properly secured diaper on the thing at all times. Little rascals like him were a common sight where I was from and they were infamous mischief makers.

[poolhall_killer]

I don't even know if diapers are available in his size. He's so small.

[Is he expected to make some diapers so Pepper can freely rub his butt on the fruit?]

[smithandwesson]

If you can't find any you can always make them. Would be a much better solution than it shitting all over your house at least.

You know how to make 'em?

[Yes.

Yes you do Venom.

Be a responsible pet owner.]

[poolhall_killer]

But he hasn't done such a thing. I tell him to use the plants and he's never strayed from using them. I doubt a diaper would be comfortable for him.

[In other words, he doesn't know how to make monkey diapers, much less marmoset-sized diapers.]

[smithandwesson]

Wait... So he just understands you when you talk to him? No training needed?

[How weird! Is he some sort of super monkey?]

[poolhall_killer]

Apparently so. I told him it was okay to play with my roommate and he went right up to him. He even sat in my friend's palm.

[smithandwesson]

.... That's weird.

[Yeah that... that's not common for monkeys at all.]

Did he have previous human owners that pre-trained him already?

[poolhall_killer]

No. He hatched out of an egg. That sounds odd since I know monkeys don't hatch, but he acts like he's been pre-trained.

[smithandwesson]

[.......... You would think he would be more used to hearing about monkeys hatching from eggs at this point of his life


... Of course he did. Why wouldn't I already expect that from this strange alien world? Really that's on me more than anything.

Any other strange magical things your space-monkey is capable of that normal monkeys can't do?

[poolhall_killer]

Nothing out of the ordinary. He eats what he's supposed to, likes to play, and does what any other monkey does.

[smithandwesson]

... But he came from an egg.

[Yeah. He's still wrapping his mind around this. Please give him a second.]

[poolhall_killer]

Yes. He came from an egg.

[Venom had trouble believing it, too. But the evidence of Pepper's sudden appearance and broken eggshell is all that he needed.]

[smithandwesson]

... I wonder if that's just normal here. Perhaps a bunch of mammals lay eggs.

And maybe there are just some animals that are capable of understanding the native tongue.

[It still felt surreal to just accept though.]

[poolhall_killer]

It's possible, seeing as they're still alien creatures. Pepper looks like a monkey from earth, though.

[Sanzo can't see it, but Pepper has decided to curl into the crook of Venom's arm.]

[smithandwesson]

Yeah. It always got to me how so many of the creatures here are both so similar and yet so very different to the creatures of our own worlds.

But then again I suppose it makes sense, considering the mythology behind El Nysa...

[poolhall_killer]

And to think and egg could hatch into such an adorable companion. I was never one for animals before I got here.

[Have another photo, Sanzo]

[smithandwesson]

[You're just going to keep picture spamming him as long as you possibly can, aren't you?]

Is that so?

Maybe the little twerp has some sort of magical enchanting abilities or something. Claimed you as his and now you're stuck with him forever.

Or maybe monkeys are just the one exception in regards to animals you'd tolerate.

[The former is much more fun to consider though.]

[poolhall_killer]

[Yes, because Pepper is adorable.]

Then I'm stuck with him forever. It's not like he's ill-behaved. He's quite the charmer, I think.

And if I could, I'd take a photo of him right now. He's asleep in my arm, but I don't want to wake him.

[smithandwesson]

[Yep. Definitely cursed to be stuck with him forever. RIP you.]

You're absolutely determined to spam me with these images aren't you?

[Why is this making him feel weird? It's definitely stirring up some sort of emotion that he refuses to admit that he's feeling that's for sure. Jealousy. It's jealousy and homesickness.]