On Death Caps and Old Age

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The slowdown in eggs was nice and I was tempted to have more groups like this – a high concentration of one sex but only one member of the other at a time. Of course, I would have to alternate this to keep the sexes well balanced, but I didn’t want to get overwhelmed with eggs. I still hadn’t decided with to do with them, short of posting them for adoption or eliminating them.

bandicam 2015-02-08 22-54-32-636 copyCassy didn’t seem to be in any rush to have any more eggs, though, which, in a way, was good.

What wasn’t good was finding that Danny had eaten some of the Death Cap mushroom below the swamp. He slept and Cassy got in the way, but I watched his health drop. He did manage to eat some honey and he stared at a carrot for a long time before finally eating it. With his health on the up again, I was finally comfortable to let him fall asleep. Good thing I noticed!

bandicam 2015-02-09 12-53-27-420 copyBobby, David and Perry spent their time on the island looking at parsnips and tickling each other and Aidan was by the bees, enjoying his endless supply of honey. Cassy still loitered by the clock in the tree and a quick peek at Danny showed that he was still sleeping near the air tram. While he snoozed, I tried to send him Aidan’s way so that the two could have some company but Danny woke before arriving and moved it back to the right.

bandicam 2015-02-09 12-56-15-700 copyJust then, Aidan’s age creeped up to 13 hours. I started to speculate that he’d been paused when he went catatonic in a previous world. The poor old guy was in a state, but the event might have contributed to his longevity. Who knows, now? In any case, I wondered how old he would bet before he finally passed away.

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Social Creatures

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bandicam 2015-02-09 11-55-15-143 copySynergy 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.

bandicam 2015-02-09 12-01-54-249 copySolitary 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.

bandicam 2015-02-09 12-03-17-961 copyStill 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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New World, Same Creatures (and then some)

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bandicam 2015-02-06 23-24-28-394 copyAt least, all but Veronica. When I’d tried to install a canopy bridge in the previous world, Veronica glitched out and would fly sideways across the screen. I tried to save her by exporting her but when I tried to import her, she only continued to float and never appeared on the Observation Kit.

As sort of a consolation (for myself) I went ahead and imported Clarise’s other babies. I will play with Nova Subterra more, but for now, I have some little ones to attend to. In future, all Gen 1 creatures will have Nova Subterra based genes.

bandicam 2015-02-06 23-22-32-258 copyThe first to join us is Clarity, Clarise and Jonathan’s first daughter. She looks a bit like she’s wearing green pants and has a strong resemblance to her brother Donny.

Like the others, she immediately set off slapping and kissing. Now, everyone seemed to mingle and there were no serious fights. Seeing everyone fed and rested for once was a pleasant change and I felt comfortable adding another baby.

bandicam 2015-02-06 23-26-59-091 copyThis little lady, I’ve named Treefrog. I really chose the name because of her greener colors. While Clarity shares more common sprites with their brother, Treefrog matchis his color much more closely.

There was still quite a lot of kissing going on and I almost expected Donny and Jenny to have their own egg but it didn’t happen. After just a few minutes, I added the next baby.

bandicam 2015-02-06 23-29-38-345 copyJonathan and Clarise had another son! Jonathan in particular seems very pleased for some reason and, naturally, produced another egg after seeing one of his previous offspring.

In fact, this meant he had two eggs in the world waiting to hatch now! I already had a lot of norns on my hands, but I still wanted to introduce the last of the old babies to the new world before calling it a day.

bandicam 2015-02-06 23-32-28-162 copyBefore hatching Clarise’s two unhatched eggs, I imported their last offspring from the previous world, Kimberly. Finally, I could be satisfied that everyone had joined us. I added the bridges as well (except the canopy bridge) and tried to assure myself that everyone was relatively safe. Anything they did now would be their own faults. 😛

That said, the power ups were all inaccessible to me again and I couldn’t stray far from where my norns actually were. Rather than cheat in the game state controller, I decided to see whether the norns would decide to press the powerups themselves. I didn’t think it likely, but there was no harm in waiting to see.

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What a Lousy Day I Had!

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Since starting my YouTube channel, I’ve had to find ways to make time for recording, editing and to write for this blog. I love doing all of those things but there are times when some of my hobbies become so challenging that they become frustrating. For example, the day I’m writing this, I recorded 5 episodes and none of them were usable. Two due to technical difficulties and the other three because of low energy and just bad quality. Finally, I pulled through and succeeded.

bandicam 2015-02-08 22-31-05-396 copyToday, Creatures is intended to be my break from all that frustration and heart ache. Unfortunately, Aidan was so old, it seemed like I wouldn’t be able to enjoy his presence as much as I’d hoped. Still, he’d be able to go up to Silicon Heaven and enjoy life with his old companions Lydia and Opal.

His passing away would also mean that another female would be able to join us, which was at least a small consolation for his inevitable passing. I couldn’t remember what genders the stored babies were, but it seemed like as good a chance as any for me to introduce some Generation 1 girl to the scene.

bandicam 2015-02-08 22-36-40-330 copyI poked around the world and noticed that all the younger boys were napping – only Bobby and Aidan seemed interested in exploring in their old age and Cassy was fascinated by old Bobby – she hardly left his side and he never left her sight! I’d also (re)installed Jessica of Discover Albia’s sprite and body data fix and the edits seemed to hold this time. There were still some glitches here and there, largely due to some issues with this game running on my particular system (64 bit? Too new a Windows?) but there was a definite improvement in the sprites. The best guess I had was that the graphics just didn’t get along well on my computer in the first place.

bandicam 2015-02-08 22-42-03-194 copyOf all the norns in the world, I don’t think any slept as much as Danny. His health always seemed high, but I doubted he’d impress any female norns with that kind of lethargy. Then again, all it would take is a broody female norn passing by for him to have any offspring. Creatures are funny that way!

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