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Since starting my YouTube channel, I’ve had to find ways to make time for recording, editing and to write for this blog. I love doing all of those things but there are times when some of my hobbies become so challenging that they become frustrating. For example, the day I’m writing this, I recorded 5 episodes and none of them were usable. Two due to technical difficulties and the other three because of low energy and just bad quality. Finally, I pulled through and succeeded.

Today, Creatures is intended to be my break from all that frustration and heart ache. Unfortunately, Aidan was so old, it seemed like I wouldn’t be able to enjoy his presence as much as I’d hoped. Still, he’d be able to go up to Silicon Heaven and enjoy life with his old companions Lydia and Opal.

His passing away would also mean that another female would be able to join us, which was at least a small consolation for his inevitable passing. I couldn’t remember what genders the stored babies were, but it seemed like as good a chance as any for me to introduce some Generation 1 girl to the scene.

I poked around the world and noticed that all the younger boys were napping – only Bobby and Aidan seemed interested in exploring in their old age and Cassy was fascinated by old Bobby – she hardly left his side and he never left her sight! I’d also (re)installed Jessica of Discover Albia’s sprite and body data fix and the edits seemed to hold this time. There were still some glitches here and there, largely due to some issues with this game running on my particular system (64 bit? Too new a Windows?) but there was a definite improvement in the sprites. The best guess I had was that the graphics just didn’t get along well on my computer in the first place.

Of all the norns in the world, I don’t think any slept as much as Danny. His health always seemed high, but I doubted he’d impress any female norns with that kind of lethargy. Then again, all it would take is a broody female norn passing by for him to have any offspring. Creatures are funny that way!

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When I checked on the old Norn, Aidan was being bullied by Grub, who kept saying “Grub angry”. I don’t even know why! Still, a few slaps from an angry Grendel seemed to get Aidan awfully interested in food for some reason so he ate a carrot and managed to flee just in time.

Speaking of eating carrots, I caught half-brothers Danny and David eating Darkling Cave carrots on their own in the low level of the temple. My mostly hands-off method of raising seemed to be paying off. I certainly wasn’t used to norns who learned how to fend for themselves.

Granted, Opal was a fantastic example of an independent norn and Danny was one of her sons. Perhaps good genetics lent a hand.

Cassy decided it was time to have another baby and started hassling Danny in his sleep. When he awoke, she chased after him, flashing me the biggest smile!

Perhaps to her dismay, Danny didn’t give in and she wasn’t pregnant again. Good news for me, I had enough eggs and babies to deal with already! I need the break.

I do joke, of course. Age was starting to catch up to not only Aidan, but to his son Bobby, too. Having the same face meant they had the same tired expression on their faces. My heart ached knowing that I would have to say good bye to each of them pretty soon.

Danny caused my heart to skip a beat when he ate a weed and “Sick” appeared on the Observation Kit. Thankfully, it was just a relatively harmless BaoBab and only a nibble.

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When I haven’t played a Creatures game in a while, I like to pop in the first in the series. I don’t know why. Creatures 1 isn’t the game I started with, and it’s the one I’m the least familiar with, but I do enjoy it quite a bit.

It could be that the warm, colors and 90s atmosphere feels more familiar than it actually is. Whatever the case, this is a great game to come back to.

Cassy’s pregnancy was still underway when I opened the game but otherwise, there were no real pressing matters.

Aidan and Cassy were the only ones with their health below 70 and I think poor Aidan was just too tired to eat. It didn’t help things when David and Cassy went to investigate the old man.

With Lydia gone, Aidan was now the oldest Norn in the world and it looked like his time was coming soon. At an impressive 11 hours, 50 minutes, he certainly seemed like he would be old enough for Silicon Heaven. The second oldest, Bobby, seemed much further away at only 8 hours, 50 minutes old. The age groups were pretty spread apart, with a 12 hour old norn, a 9 hour old norn, two 3 hour old norns, one 1 hour old norn and a baby!

This spelled good news for Cassy, though. Being the only female and one of the 3 hour old norns meant she had the potential to have eggs with every one of the males. Good for her, but I will be introducing another female once Aidan passes away.

Considering this, I remembered that I had some previously hatched eggs that I would have to deal with. I’d also stopped checking creatures’ genetics because I found it was starting to get tedious and was robbing me a little of my enjoyment of the game.

So, what to do? I could release spare creatures as downloads or I could try to hatch and raise every single one. Until I decide, though, I’m also saving the genetics files for all these creatures just in case I need them for anything. Who knows, I might come up with something interesting.

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The game rolled-back and, as it turns out, Opal was going to die anyway. I’m a little bummed out that she can’t join us in the fresh world, but here we go anyway.

Things were a little bit of a mess getting started. There was a lot of slapping, a lot of kissing and a lot of chaos. Amidst the chaos however, Lydia managed to become pregnant.

While I waited for Lydia to lay her egg, I glimpsed Grub below, taking a nap on his way from the hooch still.

After Lydia laid her egg, I decided to add just a few food sources and leave it at that. No more refrigerator, no learning aids till eggs started hatching, nothing. I added Muppetboy’s carrots and watched the world play out.

David and Cassy were in the house together and, not long after David had his nap, I decided that the pair should try for an egg. Lydia was already over 12 hours old and was coming to the end of her life soon, so another egg couldn’t hurt. In fact, as I fed Aidan, Lydia passed away riding on the automatic wagon beneath the ocean. It was more than a little saddening to see her go, but she led a happy life.

The next baby I introduced was a son of hers, though. This is Perry, son of Lydia and Gavin. What a broad smile! It’s always a treat when a baby has such a big smile on its face right on import, er hatching.

As he learned his words with them, David and Cassy decided to have an egg. Maybe if we’re lucky, her egg got some education while it was in her belly, huh?

I did realize something, though. With Perry in the world, the sex ratio was wildly out of whack. Cassy was our only girl! She had to share Albia with Adian, David, Bobby, Danny and Perry! I’m sure she wouldn’t mind, but I’m still a little dumbfounded. Oh well. I guess I could look at this as a way to slow down egg production a little bit. With one egg in the world and 9 babies on hold waiting to be imported, I still had quite a few young ones to welcome.

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