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Ahh, seasonal gender bias. With 4 girls coming out of this pair so far and no boys, I was worried I’d have to send in a pretty lop-sided group of creatures to CreaturesLink when I was finished with these two. As exciting as it’s been to play with these two, I never keep offspring from my CreaturesLink worlds. No real reason, that’s just my preference. 🙂

Things were pretty quiet for about a half hour but, eventually, the pair finally decided to have another baby. This time, another girl.

Meet lovely Aurum. Her yellow color reminded me of a Grendelchi I had with yellow skin. Creative, I know.

She was exported and sent to stay with her sisters for now.

Once I came to terms with the fact that I was only reporting when they were having children, I decided to have them go on an adventure!

Earlier today, I set up two worlds – one for Veridia and a seasonal migration world based on the Biodome metaroom. I originally got the idea from KittyTikara for the Daily Creature Feature and it worked well but I didn’t visit the idea again for a long time. Here it is again, though.

Despite having a whole new world to explore, however, they still decided to become pregnant. You can just make out Shibuichi’s camouflaged egg by her feet.

Say hello to Disfunctional Mitten, this time named by Protective Tub. This time, we had another purple baby! She was sent to join her sisters.

Meanwhile, her parents ate food and because of the way I had the metaroom set up, they would have to migrate to other parts of the room to stay fed. I really love the migratory world idea. I think I’ll be using it in future worlds. 🙂

Actually, it also eliminates the need for an IQ test. Sort of. Because the food source moves, creatures would have to follow it to survive. However, they can just sit in one spot for an entire season and eat but even if they did have offspring, the offspring would still have to move away from the incubation areas I set up. Anyway, I’ll have more on that in the future. For now, I have two happy Gaius that decided to become pregnant again.

Dead Twist is another girl! I really like her colors, too. Then again, I’ve always liked shades of orange and blue. She isn’t quite ‘orange’ in color but the hue is certainly there and I like the subtlety.

Oh well. She was sent to her sisters as well.

By now, I’ve given up on them having a boy. The seasons in this game feel like they last forever and I’d rather not install the “No Seasonal Gender Bias” fix by Amaikokonut.

As I waited for the season to change so that these two would feel inclined to move, I snapped this picture of them napping together. How cute!

I know it’s hard to tell but yes, at the time, they were both snoring.

Before the season changed, however, another egg was starting to hatch.

Zonked Rub is a less vibrant shade of purple than her other purple sisters but she is still very pretty!

In a way, I actually prefer her lavender color over the darker shades of her sisters. Still! I wasn’t totally sure where all this purple was coming from. I am glad to say I have a better understanding of rotation and swap after playing with ettins but still, without looking at her parents and her own genetics, there was no way to know for sure what gave them all this wonderful purple shading.

We were starting to run out of time for a another baby, let alone a boy, though. Now, at about 3 hours old each, they were starting to approach the “old” stage of life and would probably slow down their breeding. I have to say, these last two hours have been exciting! It seems I only have enough time to report on a new baby before they become pregnant with another.

Still, they did become pregnant again. This time, with another orange baby!

This little lady is Assorted Idea, yet another girl from the pair. She was quickly exported to her sisters.

By now, my hopes for a boy were totally dashed. That said, I have 9 little girls to put through the IQ test before I ship the ‘smart’ ones to CreaturesLink! With any luck, they would all pass. I have to admit though, that is pretty ambitious.

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Oh! It’s byotiful! (Hah! Anyone? Oh. I only found that funny? OK.) Now I can have the stream running, leave a 24/7 private wolfling run AND play with my nurture worlds all at the same time. Thank you, Beth’s Creatures for this wonderful tutorial!

Anyway, let’s get back to the main event.

Shibuichi and Chromel continued to live their lazy, carefree lives and truthfully, I wanted to mix things up a little. However, as I perused a list of genetics to introduce, a pregnancy notification popped up!

This is Nambe! Once she was hatched, named and photographed she was exported to join her sister.

Her parents meanwhile were getting ready for their next child, it seemed. Even though Shibuichi probably should have eaten and rested after giving birth to Nambe, she was still eager to have another egg and hounded Chromel. The poor guy only seemed to want to eat.

There was a lot of “Chromel love Shibuichi” and “Shibuichi love Chromel” and even more kissing but still no baby.

Normally, I would take advantage of the quiet to replenish food sources but the food (artificial though it was) was so abundant, I really didn’t have to do anything.

Naturally, I opted to do the next best thing – I decided to add an ettin or norn for them to befriend.

After skimming through the list, I decided to add a CFG Bengal Norn. I’ve named him Joel.

Because of the lack of organic food (explodonuts and carrots aside) I had to make sure the little guy was fed manually.

I showered him with food, asked him to express and they all complained that they wanted starch. I nagged them to eat seeds and they were fine.

While I’d hoped the three would become friends, it seemed like the two Geats were so enamoured with each other that they didn’t take any interest at all in the little Norn. Off to my Wolfling Run with poor Joel, then.

As I packed him up for his trip, Shibuichi gave birth to another girl! This time, it’s Celestrium.

Wow! She’s a better blend of her parents, appearance-wise. Still, it was time to be exported.

I’m a bit surprised that the pair suddenly became so interested in having a family but I’m happy nonetheless. I’d only wished they’d have a boy!

Still, Chromel was only 2 hours old at this point, so there was still some time left. I hardly had time to worry before Shibuichi became pregnant again, however!

Wow! Babbit is probably the last thing I’d expected to come from these two. Look at that stunning purple!

Still, she is another girl. She was exported to join her sisters while I grinned and hoped a boy would come soon.

It was time to pack them up for the night, though. Things were starting to get pretty late and goodness knows these two need a break from having so many children. More next time.

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Hey, have you noticed the naming theme yet? I took a page from Jessica of Discover Albia’s book and decided to name them after alloys, just like their parents. Cute, right? Duplicates are purely accidental.

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When we left off, our not-chatty-at-all Geats had just learned to use the Elevines and were happily munching in the Norn Meso. It was about then that I decided to go overboard adding food.

First, I added a lot of life from the collection of agents that came with Gaius. The butterflies and solar flowers are easily my favorites.

Then, I added The Lost Cave, fixed up the elevators and installed a Torii to make the room accessible. Then I added more of the agents from the pack that I mentioned above. It wasn’t long after I had their artificial ecology going before I suddenly got a pregnancy alert!

Sadly, there were so many Botanoids in the way that I didn’t get to see the egg being laid but I did scoop it up and set it underwater in the cave. Its parents were soon to follow. It didn’t take long for Shibuichi to discover that she enjoyed pushing doors and she repeatedly pushed the Torii. I don’t know whether she was playing with the door or the teleportation was too fast for her C3/DS brain to process that she’d travelled but eventually she stopped and travelled back to the incubator plate in the Norn Meso. Time to swap for Interporters, I think.

I had Shibuichi test the Interporter and it seemed to work – at least she travelled between them more slowly than with the Torii. She seemed more fascinated with playing with the Interporter than in getting pregnant again so I allowed her and Chromel to relax and eat at their leisure. I was a little disappointed that they weren’t going nuts with children, which is something I’d come to expect with my previous nurture experiences. However, these creatures were exactly teh way I liked them. They were lazy, happy and relaxed. Every once in a while they would stir from their naps and kisspop or complain about a need. Still, the relaxed pace was just what I needed.

It was about when I started to enjoy the quiet that I decided to hatch their baby.

This wide eyed little one is named Alumite. Immediately after hatching she did the first thing many baby Creatures would do – she started putting food in her mouth. I quickly exported her and hoped she would have some siblings. I would love to contribute more creatures to the Creatures Link and it didn’t feel right to introduce new blood myself into the Gaius pool. I decided that any babies I kept from this union would go towards my own Gaius world in the future. Maybe.

Her parents made their way to the Norn Meso again and continued to live their lives as they had before. Fat, happy and lazy.

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