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
Here’s Celeste. She’s the last of the Flawless Color/ Elite Cap babies and she looks just like her siblings. I put Lisa in with the other teens so that I could spend time with this youngster. She pressed the HLM right away and started pacing the bottom level of the meso. She didn’t seem too chatty or interested in food. I asked what she was doing and she said “eat norn home”. Oh dear. She did start eating vegetables and when she complained about being angry, I fed her a potion. That seemed to work. With her on her way, I introduced the next grendel.
Lisa got sick before I could spend much more time with the little one. She had a bacteria that gave her sleep toxin and Antigen 6. I gave her a vitamin potion and everything seemed to vanish. I put her with the others and continued to work with Trisha. She was already and adolescent but still hadn’t gotten her education. She did seem to be part banshee, though. She did an angry dance just like the banshees I’ve come to know. I got impatient with her and took her to the learning room, taught her push and asked her to push the HLM. Finally, it was time for the new blood to enter the gene pool.
This time, I picked the Light Grendels, another of Grendel Man’s genetic breeds. I couldn’t find the tiger grendels on this list this time and didn’t feel up to rooting through my downloads folder to find it. As there were only two males, I asked Muco to hatch me a little boy. For some reason, I saw it fit to name him Revenant. He didn’t take long at all to push the HLM and then complain about being angry. I fed him potions and already he was on his way to being well adjusted. At least moreso than the other grendels seemed to be.
Before long someone was pregnant! When I pressed the pregnancy indicator, it took me to three ladies who were all standing together at the time! I can only guess that Bart is the father. Before long, the egg was laid and it turns out Carrie is the proud mother. She’s already made her mark for the next generation.
First came Garth. He comes from Flawless Color and Elite Cap. His head seems a little detatched but it’s purely cosmetic. About 6 minutes into his life, he was already an adolescent. Those boney genes really seem to have made an impact. He didn’t take very long to push the HLM. Like my other grendels, his first instinct was to smack a norn but he still considered ‘left something’ a good solution to curing anger. It was a little off. I did look for my giant calm balm but couldn’t find it in the agent list.
Carrie was next. She’s Garth’s full sister, which means that Flawless Color and Elite Cap are also her parents. Get used to this. Flawless Color and Elite Cap had 4 eggs together! After using the HLM, she seemed to get stuck in a loop with the force field I set up next to it. Since she couldn’t reach the thing, she just kept butting against it! I wonder if the force field actually creates “bump into wall”… stimulus? It’s been a long time.
Bart was next. His parents are Bethany and Gifted Waves. It’s good to see some relatively new genes in the pool. He didn’t seem to want to push the HLM at all but when he did, he wouldn’t stop complaining about boredom and anger. He ate fruit in the bottom of the meso and did an angry dance like the banshees before him. I checked the agents I’d downloaded and injected the giant calm balm. Maybe I could teach this generation to drink potions when they’re angry, too. It didn’t take long for me to pass potions along to everyone.
Lisa soon followed. She’s Bart’s full sister and looks like a full Amarok Grendel. She seemed a little shy and complained that she was crowded when she was standing next to her brother. It wasn’t long before they were slapping and pushing each other. Babies are so cute. Before she could say Bart’s name properly, she called him brat. It was really cute.
Another of Flawless Color and Elite Cap’s children popped into the incubation chamber. This time, it was Tiffany. I took her to the HLM and watched her bounce between it and a force field. She met Bart before long and started to complain about homesickness. I wasn’t sure how to fix it besides putting her in the grendel home but I didn’t want to do that to her just yet, especially since she was just a baby. Before long, she and Bart spent their time together eating bramboo berries.