Platypus

The Platypus is a summoning pet available at level 10 Summoning. It is caught via Hunter at level 48 using a box trap. You have to lure the creature towards the trap using smouldering lavender. BE WARNED! This will cause the wimpy birds to attack you constantly dealing 2 damage every time. Burning tanysum will cause all nearby platypodes to flee from you. Burning fever grass will cause them to attack you with poison. However due to the proximity to the Spa pools this isn't fatal. Once caught your platypus eats raw fish and seems to have a rather large intellect for its species.

At level 20 summoning you can understand this pet, in its baby form it says:


 * Platypus: What are we doing today? Huh? Huh?


 * Player: Well, what do you want to do?


 * Platypus: Oo, can we do some trigonometry together? Or maybe we could discuss the philosophical implications of postmodernism?


 * Player: Um, you're a platypus. A *baby* platypus. Don't you want to burrow in soft earth and splash about in big, muddy puddles?


 * Platypus: That sounds good too! What a perfect environment in which to discuss the viscosity and other physical principles that describe the world around us! Where's the mud?


 * Player: Uh...right over here. Mud galore. Just follow me...

In its adult form it says either:


 * Player: So what would you like to do today?


 * Platypus: Snoofle-snort sniff. (Not knowing, and having no adequate means of ascertaining for a certainty...)


 * Player: Yeah?


 * Platypus: Chirrup-chirrup-chee... (...and for fear of prevaricating, or in some form deviating from the paths of rectitude, which have always characterized the generalities of my remarks...)


 * Player: Uh-huh...


 * Platypus: Woof. (...I'd hestitate to say.)


 * Player: You mean, you don't know?


 * Platypus: *Cough*. (Correct.)


 * Player: You know, you could've just said so in the first place!

or:


 * Platypus: Sniffle snuffle churrup-sneeze? (So, it occurred to me... Might I suggest that we hunt for a nice, hollow log inside which we could take a little snooze?)


 * Player: Um...that doesn't sound like the most comfy spot for a rest to me.


 * Platypus: Chirrup-snuff? Sniff? (Well, how about a nice, irriguous burrow? Or a large aggregation of frowsty vegetation?)


 * Player: You want to nap in a pile of rotting leaves?


 * Platypus: Brrrrip-chirrup! Chirrup! ('Frowsty'! I said 'frowsty'!)


 * Player: Sorry, you're still not selling it to me.

or:


 * Platypus: Chirrup-chirrup snuffle BARK! (Nice day for a stroll, isn't it?)


 * Player: Um, excuse me, did you just...bark?


 * Platypus: Chim chim chiree. (I may have done. Is it really necessary to make personal comments?)


 * Player: Oh, no, it's not necessary; it's just fun.


 * Platypus: Chirp! (Maybe I'd get more respect around here if I wore my monocle more often!)


 * Player: Oh, I'm sure you'd get more of *something*!


 * Platypus: Grr.. (Hmph. Philistine.)

or:


 * Platypus: Chirrup sniffle-snuff? (So, have you read anything interesting lately? A good novel? A historical tome? Winsome love letters?)


 * Player: Oh, and what business is that of yours, nosy?


 * Platypus: Chirrup-chirrup sniff! (I think you'll find that I have a beak, not a nose, sir!)


 * Player: Oo, looks like somebody has their pedantic hat on today!


 * Platypus: Brrip-squee? (Do you mean 'pedantic' in the perjorative sense or 'pedantic' in the Shakespearean sense?)


 * Player: Whichever makes you most happy, beaky.


 * Platypus: Brup. (Well, it makes a difference. And don't call me 'beaky'.)

During the As a First Resort... quest, the player must catch four platypodes - Patrick, Penelope, Peter and Peanut.