Once Delia was taken away by the Sparkle Reaper, Fidget roamed back to the garden. Stain remained by the lemons and Mese and Aster spent time in the temple together. By now, Stain was the youngest at just under 5 hours old. We’ve come quite a ways in just over 3 months!

While Stain snoozed, Fidget moved on. Afterwards, he smashed jugs. I can only guess to alleviate stress over his friend moving on. I will miss Fidget’s pink coloring. She was a mother to many, many eggs as well and even continued to have eggs into Old age. She had quite the following when she lived in the desert but she had a peaceful send off in Old Albia, I think.

Aster and Mese both came to join Stain by the lemons. I guess the sunflower seeds didn’t provide them with the fat and protein they needed or they knew about Fidget and wanted to give her a send off. Either way, they were all together now and spent their time eating and complimenting each other.

Mese was next to depart. He had two friends at his side when he passed away and died comfortably, full of lemons and potatoes.

He didn’t quite get into the spirit of smashing jugs at the end and though he became a tomato whisperer in the stream, he didn’t really stand out here. Still, far as I could tell, there wasn’t a norn around that didn’t like him.

This left us with just two norns left. They were only 15 minutes apart in age, but I didn’t want Stain to be alone when he died. Instead, I decided to inject him with ATP Decoupler once Aster passed away. She was so well liked and even loved by so many norns, including Stain. I’m sure he’d want to move on with her. Eventually, the time came for Aster and that’s precisely what I did.

Finally, I just had to tackle the daunting task of hatching all of the eggs and running them through IQ tests before uploading them. Wish me luck!

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Soon, Stain couldn’t hang around and argue with Flame. Flame passed away, another natural death. In response to this, Stain proceeded to eat all of the sunflower seeds. Appropriate.

Finally, without the distraction, Stain was moving towards the garden where the other norns were. He met with Aster and Delia who were eating potatoes and lemons. He even started saying “me like norn” again. I guess he just didn’t like Flame.

Now down to just 5 norns, things were a bit easier to keep track of. The eggs, of course, were the exception since there were now 64 in the world. This meant we had nearly 200 total babies. I wasn’t sure and couldn’t count for myself because all of the egg bombs were removed, but that was still a tremendous number. I almost couldn’t wait for the IQ test to thin the numbers a little.

All of the existing norns were now in the Old and Ancient stages of life and I had roughly another hour and a half left in the game while I waited for the group to live out their natural lives. It seemed like everyone was much to old for babies, too. It was a relief not to have to concern myself with eggs anymore.

The norns didn’t stray from their groups for a long time. Aster, Delia and Stain all clung to each other near the lemon trellis. Fidget and Mese also stuck close to each other by the scarecrow. Fidget and Delia both had to get slapped on the bottom to get them to move. It seems EES was present even in a place with such abundant food.

Soon, the norns all gathered together by the lemons. Fidget led Mese to the others. After this reunion, Delia’s time came and she passed away. She was a loner until the very end. She hardly seemed interested in other norns at all and it was really only by chance that all of the remaining norns decided to come to her side before she died.

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