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April on the warpath
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The shower is available to her. It's kind of shitty because it is a portable shower - the pressure's bad and the temperature's only good if you like your showers kinda tepid - but it's a shower. It helps that the lizard blood is kind of soapy.

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With the amount of lizard juice on April right now she would be grateful for a garden hose if it was what they had.

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Sean... calls Phoebe first, actually, in case she has advice. This seems like something that's kind of in between the PA thing and the agent thing as she defined them.

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"Phoebe Gallagher speaking."

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"Hey, it's Sean, I'm with April at her dungeon and she wants to catch one of the giant lizards. Needs a big box to wrestle it out the door in, they're that big apparently." Such were the lizard specs. "Is that the kind of thing you'd have a line on? If not, do you think you could get me in touch with monster park guy so I can ask him?"

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"Give me one sec to poke my head into his agent's office, he's a Maple too."

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"Sure thing."

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Since Sean does not have esper hearing he is not privy to the following exchange but Phoebe then pops back on the phone properly: "Paula says the Ontario Monster Park website has most of what you need and if you need anything else I can give you Traceless's work number as he is expected to be backlashed right now and likes taking phone calls then."

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"Cool, thanks, can I have his number just in case and then I'll check out the website?"

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"Sure thing." She rattles that off a moment later.

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"Thanks a bunch, bye!" Now to see what their website has to say about packaging giant lizards in a hurry...

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The website section about performing captures assumes that he specifically wants to sell a monster to the Park, but this includes things about their requirements for the cage it's transported in complete with links to manufacturers. They're willing to repackage monsters if an appropriate esper is available, but this comes out of the purchase price. If he is worried about the ultimate fate of the laundry lizard should it come to reside at the park, they have an explanation of how they try to learn the needs of each monster and make them comfortable, with a whole sidebar about how monsters are not animals and if the zoo enclosures are smaller than zoo ones, this doesn't bother most monsters, which typically aren't scared of humans and are native to incredibly bizarre conditions that tend not to leave them a ton of room per individual because dungeons are limited in size and usually have high monster density.

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Accommodation quality is not by any means his top priority here, but it's kind of nice to hear about it. All right, how far can he get wading into this list of monster cage manufacturers on his lonesome? He'll call Traceless and ask for help if he needs to, but he wants to at least go into that call with a question more specific than 'can you please tell me what the fuck I am doing, because I don't know'.

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It's not a long list especially if he narrows it down by rush orders.

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Then he will be calling up one of these places and inquiring after a rush order on a lizard coffin, faithfully reproducing April's description of the lizard specs and also making it clear that it should be Monster Park compatible. (Where else are they going to put it, after all?)

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The official position of Ontario Monster Park is that it would love to encourage a thriving monster zoo ecosystem for more research and educational opportunities but for the time being, yeah, where else are they going to put it. NonceMakers Ltd. can get him a lizard cage built and tested in four hours and delivered in another two.

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That's probably about the best they're going to get. He'll take it.

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By this point April has successfully showered. "Lizard coffin update?"

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"Six hours to lizard coffin."

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"That's a while, but so it goes. I'll see what Rhombus thinks." Where's Rhombus?

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Rhombus is making out with her husband in a tent but pops her head out when she hears her name.

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"Hey, so, six hours to lizard coffin. If I'm gonna come back to wrestle a lizard into it anyway, and I'm trying to leave at least one lizard alive in there to stick in a coffin in six hours anyway, does it go back to being more reasonable to look for the core myself?"

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"Yeah, it does, but I can only maybe afford to stay that long, they might send me to Banff or someplace suddenly any time. Can you wrestle a lizard nondestructively?"

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"Well, I can wrestle an egg with a smiley face on it nondestructively, but eggs don't fight back. I can go find out. And I've got an idea of who to call about it if I can't."

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