Quick C1 Update

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bandicam 2015-03-29 13-24-28-351 copyGrub was settling in with the horde now but David didn’t seem to be a fan of his complaining. It was still nice to see our Grendel getting along with the rest of the group, and I was glad he was there.

bandicam 2015-03-29 13-33-53-833 copyWhen it came to our oldest lady, Cassy, food was still an issue. She was so distracted by Danny that she didn’t even look at the food that I was offering her. I didn’t have all day and she wasn’t in danger of starving just yet, so I decided to leave her alone. Danny was busy trying to sleep and enjoy a drink, so I wasn’t worried about them breeding, anyway.

bandicam 2015-03-29 13-37-11-154 copySpeaking of breeding, Mallory got pregnant! Look at that big, happy smile! To celebrate, she found a ball and started playing with it. How cute! I hope her baby is as clever when it comes to managing boredom. I wanted to try something out with my next baby anyway. A tooltip suggested that boredom management might be important for a norn’s brain’s health, so one of the first things I’ll be teaching, after “push food” will be “push toy”. It’s an idea, and we’ll see how it works.

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Not a Bad Scene

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bandicam 2015-03-22 20-20-51-452 copyIn due time, Peony laid her egg, and thankfully, she wasn’t hard to feed so long as other Norns weren’t around. Before long, she was crowded and I couldn’t get her to eat another bite. At least her health danced around 75%. Basically, I had nothing to worry about. She even smiled, and often! With her new egg, that put our egg counter at 6. With no babies in the import queue, this made things very easy to

I still had to worry about Cassy and Danny’s deteriorating health, however. With the pair secluded from the other norns, it wasn’t too hard to feed Cassy, but Danny was still a challenge. Thankfully, a quick slap on the rump was all it eventually took. Peony, still recovering from her pregnancy was the only challenge I had now. Of course, as surrounded by norns as she was now, it seemed like I had no hope feeding her!

bandicam 2015-03-22 20-32-17-996 copyI had to isolate her on the western dock before she would finally eat. It meant separating her from all the other norns, but for the sake of her health, I would argue that the hassle was worth it.

Finally, once everyone was healthy and happy, I could look forward to the next egg without any worry or stress. David was our oldest now and didn’t even have grey hair yet, so not only was there no cause to introduce a new norn right away, but I didn’t have to worry about anyone dying of old age for a while. Not a bad scene to come back to, I think.

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Getting Familiarized.. Again

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bandicam 2015-03-22 20-58-17-849 copyI’m still getting used to blogging for Creatures 2 in particular, and I’m a little ashamed to admit that I didn’t even know the names of the norns in this group.

The bright side to this initial confusion was that the norns stuck together in the incubation area. Of course, I was able to forgive myself for not knowing them better once I looked at their ages. Isabelle, our oldest, was just short of an hour old! Of course I didn’t know them! I hardly had any time to get to know them. For now, though, it seemed like they were content to pace around the second learning computer and the collection of dispensers I placed around them.

bandicam 2015-03-22 21-17-48-320 copySome of them pressed dispensors, but most of the time, they were happier pushing the fire, hitting each other and complaining. Good old norns. It seems like they hardly changed over the first three games, at least at a surface level. I knew the changes were much deeper than that, in their programming and genetics, but it’s still fun to consider what they all have in common.

bandicam 2015-03-22 21-22-39-544 copyOf course, it wasn’t long til one of our norns was old enough to breed. Isabelle was now an hour and 10 minutes old, finally starting her first reproductive cycle. It was interesting to take the time to watch her experience a cycle, especially with the aid of a graph. It’s something I never took a long look at before. Katie was just behind her and then the boys, so I at least had another 20 minutes before I had to worry about babies. Basically, I didn’t have to be worried about getting swarmed, even though I considered making this into a wolfling style world.

Of course, 20 minutes eventually came and went and I had to start worrying about the eggs that would come soon. I figured Ernest would be the first father because of his 5 minute lead on Dodger, but it was really anybody’s guess.

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Wow! It’s been a while!

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Whoops! This was supposed to go out on the 23rd! Instead of putting it away til tomorrow, consider this a “sneak preview” at my return to Creatures. The next blog post will be on Tuesday, assuming things go according to plan. :mrgreen:

Thanks for your understanding!

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It’s been over two weeks since I posted anything Creatures related, but with some issues with my computer resolved, I could finally make some time for blogging. So here I am! I’m back!

Because they couldn’t make things easy for me, Danny and Cassy’s health levels were both in the lower 60s, but they were at least sticking around that level rather than, say, plummeting.

bandicam 2015-03-22 19-27-17-041 copyI couldn’t spend my time waiting on them to eat and instead checked on the others. David, Danny and Perry all crowded in the lighthouse while Peony loitered at the bottom, playing “back and forth” with the cart.

I urged Cassy to wander towards the bees where she could drink precious honey. Her health still hung around the low 60s and some honey would be beneficial for her. Meanwhile, Mallory and Tabby played chase games on the beach. It wasn’t really dissimilar to watching children playing chase with a dog or another child.

bandicam 2015-03-22 19-29-06-767 copyOf course, by now, being as tired of seeing Purple Mountain Norn and Ron mixes all over the world as I was, I was ready to introduce another horse norn or pixie norn to the group, just to mix things up. I hate to put it this way, but it was starting to get difficult to tell them all apart.

Still, with so many babies pending hatching, it seemed unfair to introduce a new one now, especially with Tabby just over 30 minutes old. Naturally, to keep me busy, Peony decided to get pregnant. With two males crowding her, it was hard to tell who the father was. David? Danny? I couldn’t tell! All I really knew is that I needed to start force feeding Peony some carrots to support her new baby.

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