Odd Egg Quest Idea(s)?

[Pixel]

www.serebii.net/crystal/odd_egg.shtml
In pokemon Crystal, there was an odd egg that the daycare couple would give you. I know we have the togepi quest (which you would usually get in violet in the games) but I don't see why we couldn't have more daycare couple related quests. Or Mr. Pokemon could make a return as a part two of the Mr. Pokemon Quest.

Considering the Tiers of the pokemon, unless the event is limited to say, being how one obtains Tyrogue onsite, I would say that the elemental trio of Elekid, Smoochum and Magby fit in great great here. Either getting to choose or randomly given one of the three. Another option is to treat it like the Mr. Pokemon Quest and have a random pokemon from T2/T3 chosen.

The odd egg also had increased shiny odds and an exclusive egg move.

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Possible quest line idea/prompt—
Mr. Pokemon was going to visit his good friends, the daycare couple, when some dastardly thief attacked him when he was leaving. They were going to identify the egg for him! With the egg missing, it is up to some daring trainer to track down this thief and get the egg back. The trainer must follow clues and navigate the big city to find the thief, who they ultimately discover is attempting to sell the egg on the black market to some shady figures! Both the thief and the shady people end up battling the trainer over the egg. Eventually the trainer gets it back and takes it to Mr. Pokemon and the Daycare couple where the egg is identified. The daycare couple mentions that the egg has the 'shiny gene', and while it isn't a 100%, there was a greater likelihood that the pokemon inside would hatch as a shiny. Mr. Pokemon would ask the trainer to take care of this egg for him.

Req.: Reach Goldenrod, have the Plain/Fog? Badge, (completed Mr. Pokemon/or the Togepi Quest?)

Still just mulling this one over if folks wanna pitch thoughts my way.

[Caramell 🍬]

I would honestly say keep it to Baby Pokemon as that was the theme behind this in-game, at least.

From there, why not open the pool to a wider variety of Baby Pokemon? We could have a staggered chance effect for higher Tier Babies. We can remove all T1 Baby mons from the list to avoid duplicates, and Togepi because of the Goldenrod quest. So still T2-T3 (maybe not Toxel, Riolu, etc, since that's T4+?)

I love the egg as the whole point of this wasn't just to intro breeding. They could have given us an odd egg that was legitimately other Pokemon beyond just babies. It also intro'd baby Pokemon as well, which was a whole new grouping starting in Gen 2. And keeping that charm is just something special to me when it comes to this event. I'd care significantly less about it lorewise if it was just another excuse to have any T2 / T3 rolled for me, if I'm being honest. I'd still do it - hey, free mon, essentially - but wouldn't have the same connection.

But I also don't mind opening it up to more baby Pokemon. So T2/T3 babies OR a staggered effect with the highest % being T2, then T3, and rare shot for T4+ BABY only Pokemon - either of these options I'd be interested in story-wise.

[Tiki]

My only input is there's also an Elekid Quest
so take that one out too

This is going to sound similar to the other egg quest, so my question is what would the thieves or storyline be different?
Maybe you'll double battle with one of the couple against the thieves? (I think it's called tag battle)

[Tiki]

Double posting sorry

Instead of straight up thief maybe like a scam? The criminal offered to “watch” the egg if the intern/ young pokemon breeder (?) or old couple (?) (either someone young or old, and vulnerable to scams) gives them some cash.
Then the person got purposefully distracted by the criminal’s partner.

Then you gotta use clues to find them.

Just a little twist from your typical cartoonish thieves but not too hard.

Unless people actually want cartoon thief?
And do we want to switch it up to young people getting robbed this time? Lol

[Avalon]

Alternative idea if we want to avoid the "thief" route, we steal an idea the anime did a couple of times to introduce Eggs to characters.

Day Care Couple found an Odd Egg and want to give it to a proper Trainer to raise, so they're putting on a sort of event where the winner comes away from it with ownership of the Egg. Have the player battle three Trainers (maybe more, maybe less, idk specifics yet), at the end they win the Egg.

[Pixel]

Jul 1, 2024 13:24:57 GMT 11 Caramell 🍬 said:

I would honestly say keep it to Baby Pokemon as that was the theme behind this in-game, at least.

From there, why not open the pool to a wider variety of Baby Pokemon? We could have a staggered chance effect for higher Tier Babies. We can remove all T1 Baby mons from the list to avoid duplicates, and Togepi because of the Goldenrod quest. So still T2-T3 (maybe not Toxel, Riolu, etc, since that's T4+?)

I love the egg as the whole point of this wasn't just to intro breeding. They could have given us an odd egg that was legitimately other Pokemon beyond just babies. It also intro'd baby Pokemon as well, which was a whole new grouping starting in Gen 2. And keeping that charm is just something special to me when it comes to this event. I'd care significantly less about it lorewise if it was just another excuse to have any T2 / T3 rolled for me, if I'm being honest. I'd still do it - hey, free mon, essentially - but wouldn't have the same connection.

But I also don't mind opening it up to more baby Pokemon. So T2/T3 babies OR a staggered effect with the highest % being T2, then T3, and rare shot for T4+ BABY only Pokemon - either of these options I'd be interested in story-wise.

I do like this Tiering idea. Where it has a T2 (high) / T3 (Moderate) / T4 BABY ONLY (low) chance. 

Alternative idea if we want to avoid the "thief" route, we steal an idea the anime did a couple of times to introduce Eggs to characters.

Day Care Couple found an Odd Egg and want to give it to a proper Trainer to raise, so they're putting on a sort of event where the winner comes away from it with ownership of the Egg. Have the player battle three Trainers (maybe more, maybe less, idk specifics yet), at the end they win the Egg.

This could also work. We could also randomize the order of the trainers...and restrict the player to like 3 pokemon.

[Tiki]

Aug 13, 2024 1:19:00 GMT 11 Pixel said:

Jul 1, 2024 13:24:57 GMT 11 Caramell 🍬 said:

I would honestly say keep it to Baby Pokemon as that was the theme behind this in-game, at least.

From there, why not open the pool to a wider variety of Baby Pokemon? We could have a staggered chance effect for higher Tier Babies. We can remove all T1 Baby mons from the list to avoid duplicates, and Togepi because of the Goldenrod quest. So still T2-T3 (maybe not Toxel, Riolu, etc, since that's T4+?)

I love the egg as the whole point of this wasn't just to intro breeding. They could have given us an odd egg that was legitimately other Pokemon beyond just babies. It also intro'd baby Pokemon as well, which was a whole new grouping starting in Gen 2. And keeping that charm is just something special to me when it comes to this event. I'd care significantly less about it lorewise if it was just another excuse to have any T2 / T3 rolled for me, if I'm being honest. I'd still do it - hey, free mon, essentially - but wouldn't have the same connection.

But I also don't mind opening it up to more baby Pokemon. So T2/T3 babies OR a staggered effect with the highest % being T2, then T3, and rare shot for T4+ BABY only Pokemon - either of these options I'd be interested in story-wise.

I do like this Tiering idea. Where it has a T2 (high) / T3 (Moderate) / T4 BABY ONLY (low) chance. 

Alternative idea if we want to avoid the "thief" route, we steal an idea the anime did a couple of times to introduce Eggs to characters.

Day Care Couple found an Odd Egg and want to give it to a proper Trainer to raise, so they're putting on a sort of event where the winner comes away from it with ownership of the Egg. Have the player battle three Trainers (maybe more, maybe less, idk specifics yet), at the end they win the Egg.

This could also work. We could also randomize the order of the trainers...and restrict the player to like 3 pokemon.

wanna do like 60-30-10?
60% T2 30% T3 10% T4
or maybe 50-30-20?

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Im hoping this quest to be like super easy to roll so my idea is to just grab trainer class that looks young
(lass, camper, toddler, tuber, etc.)
and maybe first trainer you roll 1-2 T2 pokemon
second trainer 1-2 T3 Pokemon
third trainer T4 pokemon

which order they come in literally don't matter if it's all rolled lol

if a trainer has some TM/EM pokemon mod can substitute 1 move each mon