Treehugger Trade

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Whoo it’s been getting hotter and hotter and I’m really suffering from all this warmth. While playing Creatures doesn’t keep my cool (the computer warms the room ever so minutely) it does help me keep distracted but lately I’ve just been unable to drum up the energy to get up and go to the PC, especially after cleaning and starting my new workout regiment.

bandicam 2013-09-03 14-44-11-390That said, I do miss playing Creatures and Norn XXL offered to start trading creatures with me! How nice! I sent him two norns after he sent me my two and out of the .zip I got two educated Generation 1 Treehugger Norns. At this point, they were both about 29 or 30 minutes old.

They seemed to be doing well in the Meso but I decided to add Terra: Reborn and even set up a rose bush to grow in the Spring. Things were going great and the norns ate happily. There was doom lurking around the corner, though.

bandicam 2013-09-04 10-15-19-765Before long, there was a pair of banshee grendels in the Workshop. I activated Creature Crossbreeding so maybe, if the Grendels are feeling favorable, they’ll end up making friends with the Treehuggers or making interesting offspring.

The two grendels didn’t seem to know that they could leave via the door up top so I headed back to Terra.

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I found the two Treehuggers huddled around the heater I placed after they complained about the cold. They had toys all around them and the rose bush was in bloom. There was a lull in activity from the norns so I opted to check on the Grendels. I found that soon our little lull might be interrupted.

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Mime Norns – A Quick Look

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It’s been an absolute nightmare dealing with realty BUT I still have Creatures to look forward to at the end of the day. That said, Haven asked me to take a look at her breed to make sure it works and to share my findings. I’ve already asked her if I could post them to my blog so here goes!

I’m using the latest version that was sent to me (Titled New) and I get an error when I click on the Mime Norns in Advanced Muco.

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I clicked Continue and got myself a male and female egg. Out popped these two. Immediately, I took them to the Holistic Learning Machine to teach them words and so far, they don’t seem very different from other norns. They express when they need things, eat and play when they feel the need to and even seem to rest on their own. So far, the only real difference is that they look scared or surprised when they’re happy.

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Once they seemed tended to, I put the two together in the bottom level of the Meso. They seemed easily crowded and unless they were approaching the same thing, they seemed to want to avoid each other. Then, I asked them to express and they were off chattering, like all norns would be. With a Haunter toy and lots of food they were very easy to care for.

Other than the issue with the missing Glyph file, the file seems to work.

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New Blood in Albia

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bandicam 2013-08-06 22-39-14-512Tanner and Valerie looked so tired in their old age and their white hair was definitely showing. Even Valerie’s eye lashes were silver now!

Valerie stuck to the island and Tanner to the temple but this was typical of them. Grentilda still kept them company. Time seemed to be running out for them and, though they were in good health, they slowed down and didn’t seem so interested in exploration anymore. Tanner stayed in the temple, likely reflecting on his younger days and Valerie enjoyed a vacation touring the island’s caves.

With these two on their own, enjoying old age, it was time to introduce the offspring I opted to keep.

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Meet Neo. He has his Mother’s face and arms and his Father’s everything else. I chose to give him this name due to his strange self-given name. eoeo sounded enough like Neo.

You probably don’t remember, but this little boy has the ‘languish when sleepy’ gene. He’s had a chance to sleep already and was showered with praise so I can only hope that this has helped prevent him from feeling miserable when he gets bags under the eyes.

So far, he’s a good eater but he spends most of his time laying down, probably due to his mutation. He also can’t seem to hold his attention on any one thing, which is very disheartening. He’s still learned the names of some things and it took him a long time to learn verbs but he’s still doing well so far, taking his mutations into consideration.

bandicam 2013-08-06 23-47-30-465I opted to teach this little girl all of her verbs before giving her a name and then, just as we covered the last verb, Grentilda and Neo appeared through the teleporter. It took a little while to separate the group but I did it and the little lady polished off a honey pot all by herself. Apparently, Grentilda taught her my name (mommy) and she quickly learned the name for toys and food. So far, so good.

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Self-sufficient Baby Discus

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Our seven babies have graduated to the point now where they swim up to the food and eat it themselves! It means feeding them a lot more but this is still a huge step up from before. They’re still under the watchful eyes of their parents but that’s just mom and dad doing their job.

bandicam 2013-07-27 23-34-48-902Here’s hoping that someday soon, we’ll get a glean into discus genetics again.

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