What a way to start. Grant became ill with Sleep toxin. There were no bacteria so my best guess is that he got bitten or stung by something. He was cured before long and sent on his way.
Meanwhile, a bored Theo was given a toy to play with and an absent Cheddar had every norn in the mob talking about how much they disliked him.
Every time I passed, it seemed like all of the norns joined in telling me how much they loved me. As much as I appreciated the sentiment, my ears certainly didn’t.
Then, for the first time, I had an illness on my hand that scared me. Chase became ill with Glycotoxin. When I found him, he was eating weeds in Albia. I wasn’t sure if this is what caused it, but there was no bacteria. Geoff had no side effect to his bacteria and once he was disinfected, he was sent back into the halls.
I returned to Sylvia to see how she was doing and saw that she was starved for protein on the bridge. I carried her to some mushrooms and she gorged on the fruit without my advice. I felt like I’d bonded with her while she was young and I thought it was silly for me to worry about her fertility now. It turns out she’s just picky about her mates, at least as far as I can tell. It’s unfortunate that I might not get to use her’s or Hannah’s eggs in the next group of Norns, but if their babies carry this bad gait, I don’t have much choice. They’ll all be allowed to live on their lives in other games. I still like the idea of using the Norn Meso for this type of creature, but it’s hard for me to catch problems without Gene Compare.
She and Theo still seemed to enjoy each other’s company. I wasn’t expecting any more eggs from these two, especially in Sylvia’s advanced age, but I wasn’t exactly against the idea, either.
Minor infections became an after-thought and I became very effecient at treating colds in my norns. Nobody got sick for very long and I was starting to get bored again. Time for some planning.
I hit Ctrl R, opened up Garden Box to save before I broke the game and headed for the agent injector.
Veridia looked like a good candidate for creatures with bad genes and I could feel free to add them to this world whenever I wanted, so long as they got along with each other. It’d be something of a waste to send Sylvia and Hannah here at this point in their lives, though. They weren’t having any more children so there was no harm in letting them stay.
Their children would have their gaits tested before being welcomed into the next group and if they couldn’t walk, they would be sent to Veridia to stay. There are definitely worse places to end up.
Eggs
| Mother | Hannah | Mary | Nami | Belle | Rachael | Tiara | Sylvia |
| Eggs | 4* | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2* |
Sylvia’s fertility situation got me thinking about Tiara. She’d been able to lay her first egg before and I wondered why she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore.
Eventually, I gave up trying to be scientific and just threw her into the Norn Meso with Cheddar and encouraged them to push norn. Every time her oestrogen was on the decline, I hoped for the best and sicked them on each other. It started to seem more and more like it just wasn’t meant to be.
Hannah was the second creature to make it to C2toDS (or just Albia). She ate lots of mushrooms and explored the incubation area on her own and for a while, I just followed her. She headed home before long but jumped back through the portal to Albia. Her problems with walking just seemed to get worse and I ultimately decided not to keep her children for the next generation. They would be made available for download right away instead.
I found a group of 5 norns by the door to the norn terrarium and sent them back home. Theo was among them and I was worried that he’d gotten sick again. He wasn’t in the group that went back and I instead found him exploring the desert terrarium.
I got three more pregnancy notifications and 3 eggs. There was a bit of a mix up so I may have swapped the babies around accidentally in sorting, but it’ll be alright once they’re hatched. Rachael seems to have laid two more eggs and Belle one! Hannah still had to lay one more egg before she was finished, Tiara 3 and Sylvia was still not a mother! I set out to find her and found her in the jungle, alone.