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In an effort to identify the egg, you whip out your phone. Before you even have a chance to search your phone's store you find a new app has appeared on your screen known as "Internet Eggsplorer"
Convenient!
You sign into the service, and take a picture of the egg in app. After a brief moment of loading it comes back with this information...
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SPECIES NAME: "Teratodis Mimeticus"
COMMON NAMES: Changeling, Swapling, Auf, Oaf
INCUBATION PERIOD: ?
IDEAL TEMP: ?
IDEAL HUMIDITY: ?
The Teratodis Mimeticus, or Changeling as it is commonly known, is part of the Mimeticus family who's species also include creatures like the Common Chest Mimic and the Skin-Walker. Unlike others in it's family the Changeling's body develops based on it's environment and upbringing, metamorphizing into a form to suit it's needs. Usually, this means adopting the temperament and physiology of it's foster parents.
Considered something like the cuckoo of the monster realm, Changelings would often devour and replace infant animals (including humans!) with their own. In modern day a common doctor check-up will reveal a Changeling's true nature, but before that Changelings were considered quite the menace.
Once a Changeling reaches adulthood it will instinctively depart it's family to find other Changelings to breed with. Changeling reproduction is very poorly understood, and not much is known other than that they are oviparous creatures.
Changeling eggs are quite hardy, and seem to have no set incubation period or environmental conditions to when they hatch. There are even reports of people cooking or breaking the egg open and the Changeling inside still living.
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...Changeling? Mimic? Skin-walker? Terato-what now? What is this nonsense? Why is it talking like monsters are real?
