Majestic Mermaid Norns

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Before I could try out my Pearlmaid World Concept, I needed to set up the world.

As much as I would love to incorporate the IQ test into this concept world, I’d still rather look at each creature one at a time. I would like to investigate the genes of every creature that comes out of my little venture. Anyway.

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I set up a small egg area on the rightmost underwater platform in Aquanornia. Norns can’t reach this spot so I thought it would be perfect. It would also prevent norns form hatching without my influence so I could keep the generations separated.

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I made the ‘beach’ where our matriarchs would lay their eggs more cozy as well. The addition of grass, a shack and some food would hopefully make them more comfortable. They would need it given they would be laying so many eggs at a time.

Now that everything was set up (and all of our bacteria were killed) it was time to introduce our first creatures.

bandicam 2013-06-06 23-58-45-405I got Muco to lay two males and one female. As they hatched, I put the boys away for import later and decided to have some one on one time with Persephone. As a generation 1 norn, I didn’t expect her to have any mutations. I gave her a white tiara and taught her all of her lessons.

Resting when she was tired was first and she learned quickly. It was difficult to tell with the graphics, but she definitely got the idea. At just 6 minutes old, she was able to eat on her own and rest when she was tired.

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Not only was she quick to learn, she was also pretty sweet. I was starting to remember why I kept these guys as pets and companions. I taught her not to hit, push or pull her food and soon, she was a sleep. As it was after midnight, I took it as a sign and it was time for bed.

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Matriarch Mermaids

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I’ve been toying around with World Concepts for the blog since I started playing Creatures 1 and I’ve decided to start a new world with the Pearl Maids.

Matriarchal Society
Similar to Jessica of Discover Albia’s C3/DS world, I’d like to have a dominant sex. This time, I’d like the dominant sex to be female. Instead of having many females producing babies, I would like the dominant female to produce litters. I will also limit the population to just 6 which leaves her with 5 males. These five males will be chosen based on their genes. Why allow big litters? Because I want to have lots of norns to choose from.

Amphibian Species
There is an added challenge to this group where the female can only beach herself to lay her eggs. Eggs that aren’t laid on the surface will not be allowed into the next round and are assumed to be drowned. Eggs will, however, be placed on a special part of the map to separate them from unsuccessful eggs and to prevent them from hatching. This will help keep the population I have to choose from getting too big.

Two Worlds
Though Pearl Maid norns are fully amphibian their entire lives (can live on land or water) I will leave adults in the water and children on land. I’ll keep babies and children in the Norn Meso and once they reach breeding age, they’ll be allowed into Aquanornia. Once they make it into aquanornia, they are no longer allowed back into the Meso. This just seems more fitting to me. Since they look like land animals until they become adults, they’ll live like them.

I haven’t started this yet but the world and agents are in place. Here’s what I’m using.

Pearl Maid Agents
* Coral Emitter
* Shelly
Magic Words
* Core
* Marks (maybe)
* Room Edits
Creatures Nametags
Aquanornia
Garden Box
Growing Bramboo Vendor

Note that I’m not using any Swimming Agents for this world. Swimming agents prevent the norns from reaching different levels of the Aquanornia metaroom.

Here’s something to look forward to, then!

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The snoring continues.

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With just two exceptions, Dynasty and Charles, all the norns were resting. The older norns were definitely starting to show their age and they hardly moved anymore.

Soon, I would usher in the next few members of the next generation.

First to come would be the only surviving offspring of Sylvia, Faust. Her sister Katrina died.

Being the daughter of Theo, I was expecting some Bengal stripes but not quite so many! Look at all that orange!

She’s separated from the others while she learns some survival skills and manners. :3

Once I’d run her through the IQ test, she was allowed to join the others. Alone in the Norn Meso, I hoped she would make it to Terra or company would come to her.

We played with the beach ball a little and she had to rest.

I feared for Bianca, Godfrey and Pennywhistle. They had all become Ancient and stopped eating. They only cried when I pleaded with them to eat some seeds.

Oscar was next to become ancient and he stopped moving as well.

I gathered all the ancient norns together around the heater. If they were going to pass away soon, I at least wanted them to be comfortable.

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Homebound by BEES

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If you’ve read my bibble on CCaves, you might know that my neighbor has a nest of bees living in his house. They hover around the front door and we think they might be in his air conditioner. Seeing as we have an orange tree and lemon tree in our yards, I’m honestly afraid to go outside, especially out to the front yard where they gather nectar from our orange blossoms.

That said, there’s nothing for me to do today but finish indoor chores and play video games. My computer is still kaput so… Creatures.

When last we left off in our C3/DS world, Penny had just become an oldster and Dynasty a pre-teen.

Since there was still some time left before little Dynasty would have babies of her own, I added some color to the game.

The boys have leaves and the ladies have tiaras. The next thing I knew, though, I had three old norns on my hands!

With age comes character and wisdom, you know.

They slowed their pace quite a bit, naturally. Resting and eating were their only activities but Charles, who was still full of life, managed to impregnate Dynasty. We had our fifth egg and now it looks like Godfrey won’t be fathering every egg for this generation. He almost did, having sired 4 of our 5 eggs so far!

Now that Dynasty was the mother of one of his children, Charles didn’t leave her side. That said, he was the natural choice to be the father of her next and final baby.

Dynasty finally became an adult at just over an hour old. PennyWhistle had become ancient at 4 hours, 41 mintues and I knew her time would run out soon. Was she a Gizmo norn? I don’t know for sure but I’m glad she got to enjoy her life here.

With activity slowing down again, I decided to export the new babies.

Rather than continue with the next generation, I would finish this one out and start a new group of norns.

Slowly, but surely, this group would be closing the last chapters of their lives soon, though Dynasty would be in the rear.

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