Category Archives: Creatures 3 / Docking Station

Synergy spent all of her time in the corridors of the Shee Ark now. She still ate when she was hungry and still smiled broadly when all of her needs were met.

Though she did make a few trips here and there, she always seemed to come here, to this elevator. I wasn’t able to watch her very closely, but I did wonder if there was some significance in this place for her.

Solitary norns were starting to crop up more frequently. Logic complained of loneliness but hadn’t moved away from the plums since he was a baby. I guess, despite them all having very similar genomes, some still had their preferences. Perhaps some just didn’t like the prospect of being around norns that they strongly disliked? Who knew. It’s not as though I’d be able to ask.

Still other norns, like little Anai seemed to enjoy the company of others. Come to think of it, nearly all of the norns seemed to like being around others and even made small groups with each other. Chang and Adelphos spent most of their time together, Daedalus and Kerplunk had become friends and Drake didn’t move around much, but he liked a lot of norns. I guess he figured lying in the middle of the Norn Terrarium made it easy for him to talk to everyone and every once in a while, an apple would fall down for him to eat anyway.

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After moving literally everyone into the Norn Terrarium, there were four more pregnancies and much more “X like Y” and “A dislike B” conversations. There was a way to fix these loops but I didn’t have them installed. In future, I will have them but for now, the creatures were naturally very chatty.

Drake in particular didn’t seem very fond of his fellow creature and started saying “drake hate norn”. I have no idea who he was thinking of, but many other creatures seemed to like him very much! Strange, that.

Soon enough, my counter ran out and I had to add another creature. This time, Anai joined us. Unfortunately, Anai was the first to pass away and died in the volcano as a baby during the live event. This time, she should live a much more fulfilling life.

Many of the other norns seemed most content to just rest, though. Synergy was still taken in by wanderlust and strayed away from the pack, enjoying the other rooms on the ship. Drake hardly moved from his perch in the Norn terrarium and still others huddled together and complained and admired each other.

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When I returned to the Shee Ark, it had been a few weeks since I’d actually seen the norns for myself. My life had been so hectic lately that I didn’t have time to write about this group and I wasn’t sure who I was really looking at or what I was doing. A quick glimpse at the Norn Statistics reminded me about who was getting ready to shuffle into Silicon Heaven, though.

In her old age, Synergy had developed something of a limp. Being the world’s oldest Norn seems to do that to you, though but she shuffled on like a champ.

The other females continued to get pregnant and the collection of eggs continued to grow.

Everyone else spent the better part of their time, eating, though! At least it wasn’t all eggs, all the time since breeding seemed to slow down. At least spending some time in Docking Station is a good way to get stubborn Creatures 2 norns off my mind.

Soon, it was time to introduce yet another baby. This time, it’s Suprius who’s come to join us. As time passes, I start to forget more and more about the creatures that participated in the run, but this happy little guy is welcome and I’ll be helping him lead a happy, healthy life anyway.

It’s what I wanted for this run, anyway. I wanted to make up for how tragically the original Forum Wolfling run went.

Meanwhile in the Norn Terrarium, this tiny group of norns was enjoying some peace and quiet. The Meso might have been too much noise and excitement for them, after all.

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To start off, it was time to introduce our next Norn. This time, Logic would be our new baby. He’s remembered (at least by me) for “Logic love door”. He never said it himself, but the joke’s still funny to me.

By now, we had 46 eggs and more were on the way. Thankfully, a lot of the norns were at rest when I made my rounds this time. They still tended to stay in groups around the Norn Meso, but this lack of adventurousness meant that the Norns were at least safe.

Napping so often also meant that they were more interested in resting in groups than in venturing out to the volcano, for example. Others simply wandered from group to group – if there was a Norn around that no one particularly liked, they’d simply leave. This was much more civil than slapping but I figured it was in younger norns’ better interest to just leave rather than try to out-slap a bigger, stronger norn.

I have to say, observing group behavior might have been just as fascinating as getting to know each norn and I was glad I had the opportunity to play around with such a large, diverse group.

Beside avoiding certain norns, I was starting to notice that certain norns also had favorite areas of the world. Because more norns favored the Meso over the Norn Terrarium, I speculated that many were willing to put up with norns they didn’t like in favor of abundant food while others found the solitary environment in the Norn Terrarium more desirable. Synergy is one example that jumps out at me.

As for individual behaviors, I started to think that some norns preferred to rest in one spot rather than explore because I fed each norn when I made my rounds. Granted, I did this by simply showering them with food, but it was still interesting to see norns not moving for a while despite a lack of food.

Before I could spend any more time considering all this, I had to add another baby. With the addition of BLAH here, there were 10 babies left in queue. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve tried to stick to a 2 baby per entry limit here, so that means at least 5 more entries of introducing babies. Oh boy.

At least things were progressing on the pregnancy and baby front and soon, I’d have lots more to talk about than introducing new faces.

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