See those charts? All but two of my creatures are Adults now and Clear Glass just died at only three and a half hours old.
It’s hard for me to say yet whether he is survived by any eggs but for now, we’ll just have to wait to find out. He spent his last moments in my ‘grendel incubation’ area.
Life is slowing down more and more as the creatures move on to their digital afterlives and it’s giving me time to plan my next moves. I was thinking about moving on to Grendel Generation 3 but I’d rather not show favoritism towards my Grendels. It looked like Norn Generation 2 would be next and I’d already prepared the ship to allow them to explore.
There on the right is a picture of the tools I’ve been using to restrict exploration. The left tool is a selective forcefield and the one on the right is a door hider. Once the next generation is lined up, I’ll be opening up all four of the Shee Ark terrariums to them. The capillata is still reserved for experimentation and holding creatures with detrimental genes.
I’ll probably also introduce bacteria again, although it’ll likely be limited to the top right part of the jungle terrarium. I’m not sure how I want to handle it yet, but we’ll see.
Next to die was Impartial Relation. He passed away at 4 hours, 25 minutes old and was easily the most long lived of the Generation 2 norns. Hopefully, his daughter (spoilers?) will carry on his genes.
He died next to the stone of knowledge where I first started learning about him. He died doing what he loved best, yelling and stomping. I’ll miss you, Imp.
I was worried that Wide-eyed Payment would be next. Not only was she already 3 hours and 44 minutes old, but her pregnancy seemed to accelerate her aging a bit. I could have been hallucinating but I still feared for the worst. She busied herself by eating tubas. I gave her a toy and left to answer another death notification.
Elite Cap was next and while I was away, editing his photo, Wide-Eyed Payment passed away. They were so close in age, I was expecting them to pass away at around the same time, but in the same minute?
I’m sad to see Wide-eyed Payment go and take two unborn babies with her, but she is survived by a single egg who had the fortune to not carry the progesterone mutation that she did. Elite Cap is survived by at least two eggs through Flawless Color.
The first Norn to go was Loving Wren, the oldest of them all. He is survived by four eggs. He got a little slap happy and started to seclude himself by the door in his old age but I’ll always remember him as one of my happy-go lucky first gen norns. Five Cheese was nearby when he passed away and I heard her cry shortly after he passed away.
The other norns were up to their shenanigans, at least, as though they hadn’t aged since they were little. There were many whines and cries amongst the elderly norns and I feared one of them would be next. I opened the chart again and braced myself.
