Poor Fiona

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bandicam 2015-02-18 13-00-07-562 copybandicam 2015-02-18 13-01-47-482 copyNot even 30 minutes old, Fiona passed away. The best guess I had about her death was that she had either become ill and I simply lacked the knowledge or experience to find out what she was ill with. Poor girl. I hoped that the same wouldn’t happen to the others.

Unfortunately, it happened to Gary as well! He was fine one moment then the Observation kit told me that he was starving. Just seconds later, all of his organs were starting to fail. I think I found part of the problem. I checked the science kit again and it showed that there were no bacteria attacking my creatures. How bizarre!

Finally, just to make sure it wasn’t the babies that I had created, I hatched some brand new Nova Subterra eggs, striaght from the download. In about 20 minutes, I would find out whether they were like this, too. I remembered that Jenny had a similar problem in the previous run and I was worried that I might have snagged some bad genetics when I tried to get a copy of the Nova genome.

Gary meanwhile was dying and I chose to let him pass away while he was unconscious. It seemed like I wouldn’t have been able to do anything anyway. Unfortunately, this did mean that Liana and Pancho, my other two starting Novas would have to pass away soon, too.

Gary passed away and as he did, Liana collapsed to the floor. She didn’t even feel hungry and I never got a “starving” warning from the Observation Kit. Her line in the kit even said “Healthy”. Then the same happened to Pancho. It was all very distressing to watch. Once the four passed away, I had to keep an eye on the four brand new Nova Subterra babies. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone else having this issue with them, so I wasn’t sure what I’d find. Even Jenny, who was a new generation 1 Nova Subterra had this issue.

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Fantastic Ferrying Norns

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bandicam 2015-02-19 22-16-19-247 copyThree of the males were still in the island’s under water glass bubble, Peony was still playing with one of the island’s lifts and Cassy was bother Danny, who only wanted to sleep and walked away

Cassy shouldn’t be having a baby now anyway with her health the way it is. At 54%, I wasn’t optimistic she’d survive a pregnancy, nevermind the chance of getting sick afterwards. As the only fertile female, she had an important role, too! Stubborn as she was, she didn’t do much eating to help her situation. I did manage to help her get her health back up to 60% before I was content to leave her alone.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-19-54-016 copyDanny eventually escaped to the island by way of submarine and I guess he must have enjoyed the trip. He took the submarine back and forth a few times before settling on the island. The island’s inhabitants took a similar course, going back and forth between the two piers in that tiny boat.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-20-26-199 copyThey didn’t seem to enjoy their trip quite so much as Danny enjoyed his, though. Such a tiny boat couldn’t have been comfortable, seeing as 4 norns all had to share it.

Eventually, Peony seized the opportunity to take the boat back and forth by herself. Though she complained of tiredness, she didn’t seem too interested in resting.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-24-33-714 copyBy now, all of the males were on the island with Peony and Cassy was by herself near the lemons. She was eating on her own and her health had made a fantastic recovery.

She seemed to take better care of herself when I wasn’t around. I was glad to see her eating, but I only wished she’d do it when her health really needed it, too!

 

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So it Begins

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bandicam 2015-02-16 23-49-29-928 copyIt was very cool to see two populations forming themselves in the world and while it made me sad to see old norns getting ready to leave the world, I was also pretty happy about the babies that had yet to enter it. I took a peek and still had Aster, Fidget, Mese and Stain left to import.

As for Synergy, she wouldn’t live long enough to see the very last baby imported into the world. It was strange to become so quickly overwhelmed by norns that I wasn’t able to learn about or keep up with any of them, but at the same time, I’m glad that they all lead better lives than during the event.

bandicam 2015-02-16 23-53-04-595 copyThere was a lot of bad mouthing about the other norns, but I was starting to think this was bound to happen anyway. When I tried to lessen the chatter by separating everyone for a little while, I had some success but Drake sadly passed away. I guess he must have starved. The poor guy hardly moved from his perch in the Norn Terrarium and I guess the food just wasn’t abundant enough. A small comfort, though, he at least had Andromeda by his side and many of the norns admired her, including Drake.

bandicam 2015-02-16 23-57-16-485 copyIt came time to introduce the next baby, though. Life moves on. You might remember Fidget as the first victim of EE in the random event run. The good news is that the first thing she did in this world was start eating, so we’re off to a great start.

Kerplunk was the first norn to return to the Norn Terrarium. If nothing else, this meant he could have all of the apples to himself! None of the other norns seemed wise to his absence, though. The Norn Meso was so crowded, it would take more than a missing norn or two to really notice a difference. And believe me, everyone was so busy eating plums and breeding, I don’t think I had to mind any migrations any time soon.

bandicam 2015-02-17 00-11-48-007 copyAs time marched forward, I watched the norns age and grow up. Soon, Synergy would be taken away to Silicon Heaven. She was making friends with Eve and Anai, at least. The girls only seemed to tickle each other. Eventually, it happened and before I could introduce the next baby.

Sadly, her death marked the beginning of a very sad time to come. Introducing a new baby every 15 minutes meant that once natural old-age deaths started happening, they would happen every 15 minutes. I tried to keep my chin up and prepared to introduce the next baby.

Speaking of babies, while I waited, the egg count creeped up to 100. Lin got to mother the 100th egg. Gracious that’s going to be a lot of eggs for me to sort through later!

bandicam 2015-02-17 00-20-22-006 copyFinally, our resident Tomato Whisperer Mese was to join us. This world din’t have tomatoes, but I hoped he decided to make some friends with the resident Norns, anyway.

Kerplunk was still by himself in the Norn Terrarium but at least he was safe (and being showered by chocolate roses) so I didn’t have to worry about him, though I still checked on him. I’d rather not another death like Drake’s in this world.

Just then, I decided to move everyone into the Jungle Terrarium. I wanted to see some migration again and Kerplunk was feeling very lonely. Watching the norns go on adventures was a lot of fun for me anyway, and watching the norns split into groups was interesting.

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Trying This Creatures 2 Thing Again

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bandicam 2015-02-18 12-20-19-528 copyBut this time, I came with Nova Subterra eggs. All of the creatures I’m about to introduce are based on the Nova Subterra genome, but with edited Appearance genes. Let’s meet them!

bandicam 2015-02-18 12-27-47-623 copyI chose from the 4 eggs I’d made available and the first norn to join us was this little one from the leftmost egg. This is Fiona and she looks to be a Spotted Norn.

By the time she was 11 minutes old, she had mastered her vocabulary and was starting to walk around rather than crawl. Once she was well taught, I grabbed the next egg in the row.

bandicam 2015-02-18 12-45-07-484 copyNext to join us was this little boy I’ve named Gary. While I was teaching him his basic words, Fiona fainted! I hadn’t a clue what could have caused this but I did use the Game State Controller to unlock all of the power ups when I created this world.

I injected her with Defibrilant, Metabolism Transplant and a ton of Prostaglandin and any other important healing chemicals I knew of. It was very scary but soon she was on her feet. The science kit was able to tell me that her organs were in rough shape and that her health was quickly declining. I didn’t know what I could have done wrong.

She fainted again and I watched her organs closely. The only thing not decaying quickly was her biological clock. Was there something wrong with the Nova Subterra genome that I didn’t know about?

To investigate this further, I hatched the remaining Nova Subterra eggs and decided to turn this nurture style world into a study.

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