Ghost_Norn Trade World Generation 4, Part 3

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Lavender started to gray and John, I’m sure, would follow close behind her. After all, Lavender is 13 minutes older than dear John here. 🙂

I opted to let them live their lives without any more children and to start hatching the babies and preparing them for any future trades or uploads. All ten were then hatched and exported to be put through the classic IQ test later. All this test really does is make sure that they can walk and find food (whether by tracking down a smell or by chance) normally.

One half hour later, Lavender was still gray (and managed to get pregnant again) but John was still bright red and blonde! I opened up his genetics and found that his Life half-life was 101 where Lavender’s was 99. A very small difference but that was the only change I could find in his life-related genes.

It took a while but finally, at 4 and a half hours old, John was starting to grey a bit himself.

After that, I left them alone to live their lives together in the relative peace. Their 11th child was put through the IQ test with the others. The result of that is coming up next. 🙂

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Ghost_Norn Trade World Generation 4, Part 2

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No sooner had I started the game than John and Lavender made a new egg.

AlbertIt was cute to see them practically glued together but Albert seemed to prefer solitude and lemons to the company of his companions.

Unfortunately, Lavender cannot produce enough progesterone to lay her egg naturally so some CAOS intervention was soon in order. After going back and reading my last update about this group, I realized I should have picked up on this sooner. Oh well! Her egg count was now up to 3.

LavJonAfter the egg commotion, there was yet another lull. Such a small population has its disadvantages. I decided to grab a bite and see what happened when I returned.

Al

Life carried on this way for a time – at least 3 more eggs were laid but tragically Albert passed away alone in the C1toDS world, where he preferred to be. He didn’t live a long life but he seemed content til the end. He hadn’t even moved since his last picture and every time I set him with the others, he would travel back to this spot.

John and Lavender, meanwhile, just kept making babies, which was good. It’s always good to have a large pool of babies to choose from for the following generation and, hopefully, none of them had the natural generation-killing gene that Lavender had. The one that prevented her from laying eggs is a potential disaster.

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Ghost_Norn Trade World Gen 4, Part 1

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Welcome to generation 4!

We’re already off to a fast start with the girls. Lavender and Lilac were previously IQ tested and are 11 and 12 minutes old but the boys are brand new.

Just moments after I’d started the new world, one of the girls passed away, though!lilacOh no!

I suppose this is good news for Lavender, though. She at least will be able to take genetic dominance over the next generation, assuming all goes well. With all the bacteria in the world killed, I couldn’t imagine how it wouldn’t.

The boys, John and Albert seemed much more lively and interesting than Lavender, though. She seemed most interested in something, though no green arrow told me what. Soon, though, they were all taught their vocabulary with the Holistic Learning Machine and they were allowed to wander.

lilacBeing so young, they didn’t wander very far. They did eat and express normally and Albert actually gave sound advice to retreat norn when crowded and push machinery when bored. Soon, Lavender was an adolescent at 25 minutes old. The boys, it seemed, would have some catching up to do. For a long time, not much else happened. Albert went to the C1toDS world.

Before long, Albert complained of being lonely so I sent him to be with his friends in the Meso’s swamp. He eventually made his way back into C1toDS but John and Lavender were busy having their first child.

lilacWhat a pleasant surprise, too!

Before long, there was another long lull and I took a crochet break as I watched.

I noticed something a bit odd, though. Lavender carried the egg for a long time but never laid it. I cracked open the hover doc and decided to take a look.

(compared with Vanilla Bengal Norn)

202 Different in file 2  68   0 You F MutDupCut        128   0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Sensorimotor, Involuntary action 1, chem=Progesterone, thresh=245, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital  (0)
value was 233

It’s been a long, long time since I researched genetics in creatures but given that the threshold is a bit higher, I can just guess that Lavender couldn’t produce enough progesterone to lay her egg naturally, similar to a grendel from a previous nurturing world.

I injected her with the chemical progesterone and she laid the egg, like normal.

I continued searching the differences and found this, too.

203 Different in file 2  13   0 You F MutDupCut        128   0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Reproductive, I am pregnant, chem=Progesterone, thresh=128, samp=3, gain=4, features=Digital  (0)
values were 1, 3

Her mutation is very similar to Tuatara’s and Wide-Eyed Payment’s. Basically, the changes to this gene make it so that she can never naturally lay an egg on her own. I took a peek and so far, both of her eggs are carrying the gene.

After discovering this, I decided to force her to lay all of her eggs by chemical injection. This would at least keep the family line moving.

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NornXXL Trade World Returns! Generation 3

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Only I screwed up and accidentally deleted some norns.

Anyway!

bandicam 2013-12-19 16-23-21-139Meet Harry and Poppy. If we’re lucky, these two will have some babies. 🙂

It took them a good while (and quite a lot of coaxing) but I taught them their vocabulary (using the Portal: Intelligence Core) and waited for them to pass the IQ test. I eventually guided them towards the end but once they were safe, they were sent to C2toDS.

bandicam 2013-12-19 16-37-32-194They stayed in the incubation area for a long while. Eventually, I moved them to the green area near the water wheel and Harry immediately set off exploring.

harryhidesHe started to make sad noises like he was starving. Naturally, I took him back to Poppy where they were both fed.

bandicam 2013-12-21 21-26-34-166They didn’t seem to want to leave each other’s side though Harry seemed pretty bored. I offered them some toys and taught them to push the bee box for honey and soon…

bandicam 2013-12-21 21-43-14-628… Poppy was pregnant! (That proud father is blinking.)

bandicam 2013-12-21 22-45-05-399Once the little egg was laid, I set it in this fish bowl for safety. Then they had another. And then twins!

Norn XXL would have LOTS of little babies to choose from. 🙂

Because they both kept complaining of starving, I decided to move them to the Norn Meso. Harry especially kept complaining of being hungry for starch but abundant seeds kept him feed.

They had two more eggs together and it looked like there might be another still on the way.

This egg production continued for a while but soon, Harry was over the hill.

bandicam 2013-12-23 15-21-26-64611 children later, it was time to retire and the two lived out their lives in C2toDS. Unfortunately, Harry passed away at 4 hours, 32 minutes old, with food and toys nearby. Poor guy. :C

With Poppy exported, all their babies hatched and also exported, it was time to prepare the next generation.

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