When we last left off, all the grendels were finally in the shee ark. This means that everyone is able to breed with and play with each other. Revenant has taken to drinking potions and going to sleep, though! Besides that, he enjoys eating fruit and pushing the elevator button. All the other grendels have taken to smacking and kiss popping and trying to eat things they shouldn’t.
It wasn’t long before Tiffany got pregnant, though! Bart seems to be the culprit again. I haven’t heard from Garth much, sadly. He seems to enjoy the jungle and hasn’t gotten sick yet! Good for him. If it’s genetic, I hope he spreads those healthy genes around!
With all the creatures doing… whatever it was they were doing, I realized I hadn’t spent any time in the desert. The Square Roots had grown all over the place, my flowers had chosen to be green and my bramboo wasn’t growing very tall. Suddenly, another sickness notification. I headed to the Norn Terrarium to find that Lisa was standing next to the elevator button on the far top left. I sprayed it with disinfectant, grabbed Bart and dropped him by it. If he contracted a bacteria, I would know. It was then that I realized that he was very blueish. As I edited the picture of Bart here, I finally got some news from Garth and Celeste! They were sick with bacteria.
Not my idea of good news, either.
I did have the idea to start spraying the creatures where they are, though. It makes sense to me, anyway. If I spray a creature where they are, I also spray whatever they’re touching. If I’m right, that means I get to kill two birds (or bacteria) with one stone.
Let’s try it out, though. I found that the teleporter in the norn terrarium had some bacteria on it. I sprayed it with the disinfectant spray and, sadly, the bacteria persisted. Eventually, it got so bad that I released a Roamer into the world to help alleviate the bacteria problems. I released a few more and hoped they’d eventually eliminate the problem since I couldn’t remember the command to kill bacteria.
I helped cure the grendels who were still sick and watched as the Roamers sprayed down the entire Shee Ark.
Bart soon got Trisha pregnant again and I watched her as she prepared to lay her second egg. As I waited, Bart died when ATP Decoupler entered his system. Carrie got sick and I was able to help her before she got any worse off. The roamers set to work disinfecting the Jungle Terrarium and there seemed to be pink spray all over the place. If they were just here a little sooner, Bart may not have died.
Before I had much time to mourn, another pregnancy indication came up. Revenant might be a daddy after all! I think the egg was Carrie’s. Trisha was nearby at pregnancy and when the egg was laid. Another indication popped up and Tiffany and Revenant are the parents for sure this time. Lisa expressed her friendliness around Revenant but nothing came of it for a while. Instead, he ran into the pond trying to get away from her love slapping.
Now that the bacteria had stopped coming, I could tend to other things, like recycling all the gadgets and planting seeds. It wasn’t long til I didn’t have much to do and the breeding had slowed down quite a bit.
Anyone who knows me personally knows that when I get bored, I knit to pass the time. Since we’ve moved I’ve had difficulty finding the time and energy to knit so instead I decided to play around with the SERU button. Funny thing. I pack up my computer for a month and suddenly, some agents work where they didn’t before and others don’t but used to.
Anyway.
I adopted this little creature. Just as I did, someone got pregnant. This time, Trisha and Revenant are the lucky parents. I’m a little worried that Lisa and Celeste haven’t laid eggs yet. Since they’re limited to 2 each and grendels live short lives, I wonder if they’ll carry on their line. Still, it’s a little early in the game to worry about that.
Back to my little SERU creature, though. I’ve decided to name him Picket. He’s survived being a baby so far and doesn’t seem to have too many problems. Rather than see about checking his genome out in GeneCompare, though, I wanted to see what I could learn about him just observing. He seems very stable and better at figuring out problems on his own than my current lot of grendels. He actually walks more like a norn and has that little norn body to boot.
He spends most of his time eating which is nice and he hasn’t had any complaints. It’s tempting to introduce him to my other grendels though I don’t want to muck around too much with my gene pool. Just doesn’t seem right. In any case, I think I’ll export him to play with later and to upload.
I decided to check on my grendels to find three of the ladies stuck in the workshop of the Capillata. Carrie, Tiffany and Lisa were all there, smacking a puppet and starving for starch. Carrie still disliked me and was happy to let me know it.
Lisa was happy to be back home in the Norn Terrarium and celebrated by getting pregnant with Revenant’s baby. I scooped it up and set it with the others.
Eggs
Carrie 2 – Trisha 2 – Tiffany 2 – Lisa 1
