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.
By now, all the norns but Five Cheese were Old and Impartial Relation and Flawless Color were as well. All the other Grendels were adults and Bethany was on her way to adulthood herself and she’s shaping up to be a very happy grendel. At 32 minutes she’s a youth. While I’m excited about any eggs she has, I’m also nervous about the imminent deaths of my norns and the remaining Generation 2 Grendels.
I felt sad for Wide-Eyed Payment since she wouldn’t be able to lay her eggs. Her pregnancy didn’t seem to cause her any discomfort, however. The problems didn’t stop, though. Lowly Adjustment, my old Civet norn, was caught slapping Five Cheese. They’ve all taken to slapping each other but they don’t seem to be slapping back to defend themselves. Naturally, this meant I had to take Lowly Adjustment to the rehab area that I set aside. I set him in the room and was almost instantly met with two pregnancy notifications. It looked like Gifted Waves was going to be a daddy! Bethany laid both of her eggs very quickly and I scooped them up for storage.
I dreaded another slew of deaths was coming soon and I was right. As of writing, Flawless Color has just died. She felt a lot of pain from the slaps of other grendels in her last hour alive. She was one of the more interesting looking Grendels of the bunch and she very quickly became a mother of four when she reached adulthood. I’ll miss you, Color. At least you had Bethany nearby to keep you company.
These two old norns were still kiss-popping by the elevators. I’m lucky to have such happy and loving norns. Everyone loves each other! There were a few long-lasting friendships, as well. The closest was probably Sour Drink and Five Cheese. Just after this photo was taken, Sour Drink suggested Five Cheese eat a seed and they headed down the elevator together to push toys and eat seeds.
I can’t say I was expecting the change to happen while she was on screen but I was expecting this to happen soon all the same. I didn’t mean to get into the shot this time but I think it fits anyway. I love you, too, Cheese.
Bacteria that I’d hoped wouldn’t attack so quickly. I was worried about Claire because of the Fever Toxin. It very quickly took hold in her body and in an instant, she was gone. She picked up Histamine B at the very end but I managed to put her in a safe corner of the terrarium before any other grendels could get sick. Viggo, I wasn’t especially worried about because Grendels have a natural immunity to certain Antigens and I think Antigen 5 is one of them. Not shown here is the Carbon Monoxide that was building up in his system as well. I removed his bacteria with a quick spray and those dangerous numbers started to lower again.
After all the excitement (and the unfortunate death of Claire) Viggo started to make a slow but full recovery from the Antigen. Macabre Desire, however, ended up dying not of disease, but of old age.
I was starting to feel a little depressed about this world by now. I deleted all the bacteria again and installed Macrobacteria instead, as was recommended to me by Grendel Man and ylukyun. Then I hatched another Amarok Grendel. Meet Bethany. She’ll be our new female.
Sadly, I found Viggo dead in the grass.
Unfortunately, I have to remove Wide-Eyed Payment and her brother Tuatara into the Norn Meso to keep them separated. After I’d finished yesterday’s entry, I spent the night working with Wide-Eyed Payment, doing various maths and experiments to see if she could naturally lay eggs on her own. Turns out no, she can’t.
Meet Claire (you’ve probably noticed that I’ve abandoned the Protective Tub agent already. It was hilarious while it lasted!). She’s an Amarok Grendel. You can find their agent at 
The Grendels were all wandering around, talking to each other and napping. Claire was exploring the upper levels, scooping up seeds and yelling about how angry she was. I instructed her (nagged, really) to drink some potions and she took to watching the awkwood seeds fall from their vine. It’d be a little while before she reached adulthood. At only 9 minutes old, she was still a child.
That is, until I got my second death notification. Obese Bomb was my second first generation Grendel to die and it stung quite a bit to see her go. I have to admit, she and Thin Desire were two of my favorite creatures and I knew that Des might be the next to go. Rest in peace, Bomb. I’ll miss you.
Meanwhile, Des picked another spot to stand in and hadn’t moved. Just as I handed her a toy to play with, Earthly Giants died. Unlike Obese Bomb, who had a complaining Des to keep her company, Earthly Giants got to spend his last moments with his son Tuatara.