Frustrating, Frustrating, Frustrating

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bandicam 2015-02-02 10-20-24-506 copyOh, Creatures 2. I’m oft reminded why I don’t visit this game too often.

After pushing themselves up against the door for a while, Clarise managed to fall through the floor again and I had to rescue her with Pick Me Up.

Jonathan continued to dance against the door and I eventually had to push him away myself. When Jonathan, Clarise and Jenny all returned to the door, I decided to go back to Donny to check on him. With any luck, he wouldn’t be wall bonking quite so badly as the others.

bandicam 2015-02-02 10-25-49-140 copyWhen I found him, he was having a snooze by the carrots near the water wheel and seemed very happy when he finally woke up. Clarise meanwhile managed to get pregnant again. I quickly scooped up her egg and placed it near the incubator, where WolfCtrl ensured it would stay paused.

bandicam 2015-02-02 10-38-27-893 copySoon, Jonathan was starving, and I had to teach him to eat roots, like carrots. We argued for a while about what to do with the root. He kept insisting on running from it and pushing the carrot, but an unfortunate string of slaps soon had him putting the carrot in his mouth and chewing.

When Clarise fell through the floor a third time, I decided to just put her by the water wheel with Jonathan and Jenny. She was starving now, too and needed to learn a lesson about edible roots. Unfortunately, the message never seemed to get across. And, honestly, the whole experience was so frustrating, I had to keep myself from just slapping her to death. She seemed to want to starve anyway.

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Happy February!

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When I haven’t played a Creatures game in a while, I like to pop in the first in the series. I don’t know why. Creatures 1 isn’t the game I started with, and it’s the one I’m the least familiar with, but I do enjoy it quite a bit.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-15-32-537 copyIt could be that the warm, colors and 90s atmosphere feels more familiar than it actually is. Whatever the case, this is a great game to come back to.

Cassy’s pregnancy was still underway when I opened the game but otherwise, there were no real pressing matters.

Aidan and Cassy were the only ones with their health below 70 and I think poor Aidan was just too tired to eat. It didn’t help things when David and Cassy went to investigate the old man.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-28-53-398 copyWith Lydia gone, Aidan was now the oldest Norn in the world and it looked like his time was coming soon. At an impressive 11 hours, 50 minutes, he certainly seemed like he would be old enough for Silicon Heaven. The second oldest, Bobby, seemed much further away at only 8 hours, 50 minutes old. The age groups were pretty spread apart, with a 12 hour old norn, a 9 hour old norn, two 3 hour old norns, one 1 hour old norn and a baby!

This spelled good news for Cassy, though. Being the only female and one of the 3 hour old norns meant she had the potential to have eggs with every one of the males. Good for her, but I will be introducing another female once Aidan passes away.

Considering this, I remembered that I had some previously hatched eggs that I would have to deal with. I’d also stopped checking creatures’ genetics because I found it was starting to get tedious and was robbing me a little of my enjoyment of the game.

So, what to do? I could release spare creatures as downloads or I could try to hatch and raise every single one. Until I decide, though, I’m also saving the genetics files for all these creatures just in case I need them for anything. Who knows, I might come up with something interesting.

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Norn Behavior

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bandicam 2015-01-10 21-50-52-021 copyTo 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.

bandicam 2015-01-10 21-54-13-707 copyNapping 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.

bandicam 2015-01-10 22-08-58-149 copyBefore 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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And Back To The Norns

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I couldn’t have been more happy to see that the Norns couldn’t get back into the volcano. Of course, none of the Norns looked happy, especially Clarise who’d just become pregnant again! It turns out I had to teach everyone to eat roots, which the carrots were classified as. Once that was settled, the Norns all seemed a lot happier, if still a bit tired.

bandicam 2015-01-08 23-57-01-164 copyAfter Clarise laid her egg something very unusual happened. She got slapped through the floor!

Mind, this wasn’t a terrible experience for her, but watching her fall through the floor was more than a little surprising for me! I rescued her with PickMeUp and set her among her friends again.

I did my rounds and everyone seemed to be in good health. A few of the norns started using “foo” in place of another word, so I used the Instant Vocabulary Infuser to touch up their vocabularies. Maybe the new Ettin was teaching them words?

In any case, I was starting to think they all had OHSS. No body was eating, nobody was resting – they all just sort of stopped taking care of themselves. Then again, this wasn’t really any different from Creatures 1.

bandicam 2015-01-09 00-16-10-199 copyClarise became pregnant again and continued to refuse to eat. She seemed very happy, though!

Considering the way these two looked at each other and the way they seemed to only breed with each other, it seemed like they would be a pretty monogamous couple! At least, as far as Creatures go.

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