Phoenix (pet)
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| Race | Phoenix |
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| Source | Phoenix Lair |
| Skill requirement? | Summoning 72 |
| Quest requirement? | • In Pyre Need • Wolf Whistle |
| Food | Ashes |
| Colours | Cute and Mean |
| Examine | Cute: A baby phoenix and it's as cute as buttons! Mean: A baby phoenix and it's bad to the bone! |
| Notable features | Mean Eggling: A scar on its eye. |
| Feed this pet before it's 100% hungry, or else it will run away. |
The Cute Phoenix Eggling and Mean Phoenix Eggling are pets introduced with the In Pyre Need quest. To obtain either of them you must have completed the quest In Pyre Need and done the Phoenix Lair Distractions and Diversions. When a player chooses the option to exit the cave, there is a slight possibility of getting lost. A cutscene will ensue, leading the player to a room full of phoenix eggs. The player will see that one of the eggs is shaking, and will be given the option to clap at the egg or kick it. To hatch a Cute Phoenix Eggling you must choose the clap option. To hatch a Mean Phoenix Eggling you must choose the kick option. You can have one of each type of pet phoenix.
The phoenix pets do not have an adult form, and they eat ashes.
[edit] Dialogue with Phoenix after finding eggling
The Phoenix will talk to you about egglings after you have found and hatched one.
The chances of stumbling upon an egg while escaping the cave are unknown, although Jagex has confirmed it is significantly more than 1/1000 in a FAQ sticky on the official forums:
The phoenix said the chance of an egg becoming fertile was 1 in 1000. Is this the chance I have of getting the event?
No. The phoenix was referring to the chance of an egg becoming magically fertile, not your chance of finding one such egg within her lair. This phoenix has been around for a long time, and there are quite a few potentially fertile eggs. Your chance of getting the event is not 1 in 1000; it is significantly higher. To prevent further confusion, this line has been altered in the phoenix's chat. (However much higher than one in one thousand, it may well take months of doing this event every day before you get it.)
[edit] Interaction
(Mean) Phoenix eggling:
- Player : How do you drop an egg six feet without breaking it?
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwark buwk bwark bwak, bwik bwuk. Bwark? (You are an expert on smashing eggs, so if anyone knows, it's you. How?)
- Player : Drop it SEVEN feet. It won't break for the first six!
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwark bark bwuk bwik bwurk. Bwuk bwark bwik bwarkwa. (You're an egg-icidal maniac, and that's not funny.)
- Player : Wait a minute, where did you get a scar?
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwark bwik bwak bwark bwark? (You mean you don't remember?)
- Player : Remember what?
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwak bwik bwark, bwakwak bwarkark bwik bwak! (You did it, when you kicked my flipping egg in!)
- Player : Oh, yeah. I'm sorry about that.
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwark bwuk bwak... (You will be...)
- Player : ...
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwark bwik bwak! (Gimme some ash!)
- Player : What's the magic word?
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwakwabwikbwakra! Bwak, bwark bwik bwak. (Abracadabra! Now, gimme some ash.)
- Player : Not with THAT attitude!
- Player : Knock knock.
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwuku, bwark bwak bwik. Bwuk bwak? (Okay, I'll play along. Who's there?)
- Player : The yolk's on.
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwark bwuk bwak bwook? (The yolk's on who?)
- Player : The yolk's on YOU!
- Phoenix : (Will you please stop telling me eggling terrible jokes?)
- Player : Sorry!
- Phoenix Eggling : Bwuk bwark bwak bwik bwarkark! (Looks like the yolk's on you after all!)
[edit] Trivia
- The method used to hatch Egglings is similar to that featured in the game Sonic Adventure 2 Battle when you hatch a "Chao" egg.
- As of 13 January 2009, even players without 72 Summoning can receive the event in which the phoenix eggling is obtained. However, they will be unable to hatch it until they get the required level.
- The mean hatchling's examine text is from the 1982 song, "Bad to the Bone."
- The Cute and Mean Egglings are the only pets in game to have audio when they walk. This can also be heard by other players.
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