Wherein I Wait Til Something Happens

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bandicam 2014-11-20 16-50-32-718As Gerald’s health began to dip to the upper 30%s, I debated hatching another boy to fill his place. Lydia wasn’t getting any younger, after all. I didn’t think on it too long and soon, I had a light blue egg waiting to hatch.

bandicam 2014-11-20 16-52-06-678Unlike Gerald, this little one, who I’ve named Aidan, didn’t take long to boogie up to the computer at all! In fact, he practically made a dash for the lift and I’d only just caught him in time to take him up to the computer.

As I taught Aidan his words, Gerald managed to shimmy over to where the lift could pick him up. Gracious! Maybe I could teach him left and right. Suddenly, I was very busy and very excited.

Gerald was taught all the words the computer could teach him but he was still very much immobile. At 33% health and hesitant to eat, I wasn’t optimistic. Aidan on the other hand, was doing famously. He made his way to the garden on his own and even learned about weeds and plants. Before long, he and Lydia were spending time together in the kitchen, talking about comfort items and drinking coffee.

I couldn’t stop trying to get Gerald to eat, though. Even with Lydia’s help, he wasn’t moving or doing anything. Poor guy. As he looked around, he spun and slowly pushed himself left towards the incubator. Permanently exporting him became more and more attractive. I held out hope that Gerald might be a father someday so I ultimately decided to keep him in the game.

Now an hour old, Lydia seemed interested in starting a family. Unfortunately, poor Aidan wasn’t yet old enough to help her with that desire. The poor baby had only just aged to the next stage of life! Gerald was the closest in age and his problem didn’t seem genetic, however. Perhaps he could have an egg that didn’t have his problem?

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Enter Gerald

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bandicam 2014-11-20 14-26-33-776Lydia seemed very anxious to meet her new friend. In fact, she was so curious, I was able to teach her the word “egg”. I hoped she wouldn’t linger for too long so that I could teach him his vocabulary, just as I had with her, but I didn’t make too much of an effort to encourage her to leave the house. From this little green egg came our newest member of the Creatures 1 world, Gerald.

bandicam 2014-11-20 16-16-44-070What a handsome little guy! His meeting with Lydia hasn’t gone smoothly, however. As I tried to lure her away with a ball, she decided to walk right up to Gerald and smack him. Poor little thing. He hadn’t even done anything yet! Literally! He hadn’t moved from the incubator for a while and I was starting to get worried. Normally, a baby norn is up and wandering around before you get the chance to say “stop”.

This was very strange to me. After looking through his genetics, he seemed no different from his father genetics.

Since norns learn language from each other, however, I tried using Lydia to teach Gerald some words. Asking “what” repeatedly got her to teach him some language. How cute! Once Lydia got bored and left, though, Gerald remained by the incubator. I brought him a carrot, which he only stared at. It seemed like there was nothing I could do but wait and see what he would do. Even with his focus on it, the bouncing ball couldn’t make him budge. It was more than a little frustrating. I decided instead to focus on Lydia.

bandicam 2014-11-20 16-35-07-738 copyShe kept frowning at me, unfortunately. She seems to be perpetually tired and resting causes her tiredness to go down in steps rather than gradually. I wondered if this affected sleeping behaviors in creatures. I got tired of waiting on her and moved on to Gerald again. This time, I exported and reimported him. It moved him closer to the lift and the fridge, but it didn’t seem to encourage him to move much. In fact, even with Lydia right there, he didn’t seem to be in any hurry to move from one spot. Even with it in reach, he wouldn’t even push it! Poor thing might not be alive for very long. His life force hovered at 43%.

bandicam 2014-11-20 16-42-02-986Meanwhile, on the island, there was a grendel playing with a cart. It would scoop him up automatically and he would press it to go left instead. It reminded me of some battled I had with traveling norns in the past and I thought it might be worth it to allow the stubborn things travel as they pleased, except during catastrophes like a plague.

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The Show Must Go On!

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I might be sick with the flu and my Creatures Exodus experience might be on hold until I get some technical difficulties worked out, but as they say in showbiz, the show must go on!

bandicam 2014-11-20 13-46-07-635 copySo here goes. I’m opening up Creatures 1 for the first time in… well, in ages! I felt inspired after spending the last few days reading up on old Discover Albia entries. If you haven’t yet, try reading Jessica’s blog from the beginning, her site’s a real gem.

Since it had been so long, I decided to start the world anew. Why not, right? I picked a purple spotted egg and then this little girl popped out. I’ve named her Lydia.

bandicam 2014-11-20 13-48-30-464 copyI have to admit, I find Ron norns very… ugly. But this is what the random number god picked out for me, so I’ll stick to it. She’s a very obedient girl so far and, even though I glimpsed a few sad faces, they were quickly sorted when I encouraged her to push food. She learned a lot of the words she needed to start life and that made early communication very easy. So far, she seems to want to stay in the garden, so while she relaxes, let’s take a peek at her genetics.

Rather than go into full detail (cold medicine is getting the better of me), I’ll some up the most interesting changes for you.

Compared with her father genome (dad4 from my updated C1 genetics.) she starts with two more Antibody 1, which means she should be slightly better prepared for an attack from Antigen 1.

When she is patted by another creature, instead of Crowdedness increasing, SexDrive increases. This could make her a very active mother.

Finally, instead of “I am approaching” causing Loneliness to decrease and crowdedness to increase, “I am retreating” causes those changes.

There is another stimuli that I haven’t yet addressed because I’m not sure what to make of it. In the meantime, here’s the list of differences from dad4.

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bandicam 2014-11-20 14-18-12-185Anyway, back to learning about our new little one. It took her a long time to finally do it the first time, but I eventually got her to sleep by telling her to look at herself and saying “sleep”. It’s something I hadn’t tried before but once she finally had fallen asleep, I was able to pat her. Poor thing was so tired, she was frowning. In fact, she frowned a lot. Her life force was at a comforting 76% and she was nearly 20 minutes old so I decided it was time to introduce a male. We’ll get to meet him next time.

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Geoffrey’s Genes

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Geoffrey

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Let’s get back to work, shall we? This is Geoffrey, William’s brother. He has a lot of genes in common so this analysis should go pretty smoothly!

Receptors

For starters, he doesn’t have the progesterone receptor gene that William has but he does have some of the other genes. For example, stress isn’t an issue for him so far as certain drives are concerned. And on top of that, Loneliness isn’t treated the way it usually is in his brain, so he shouldn’t feel lonely.

Reactions

Like his brother William, Geoffrey will come out of a painful experience feeling hungry for protein. Quite a peculiar mutation, but I’d rather they feel hungry and nourish themselves after being harmed. If nothing else, this might encourage a better recovery.

Stimuli

Again, like his brother, his daughters could be in luck and experience painless, effortless egg laying. They still wouldn’t get the same hit to homesickness, but they’d be otherwise comfortable.

Instincts

Beside that, many of his instincts are also dormant. For example, he has the instinct to hit pests when angry, but because it’s dormant, he wouldn’t seek out to do this. He has a dormant instinct to run from grendels when scared, a dormant instinct to dispensers when hungry for fat and a handful of other genes like this.

Beside that, he’s a pretty standard norn and nothing really jumps out at me.

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