Creatures seems to be struggling with just these four youngsters so I’m going to have to snatch them all up and move them to a new metaroom. Also, rather than hatch everyone at once, I’m going to handle this run in groups of 8. That said, I’m going to do my best to keep siblings from mating. So we won’t be working with two of the three siblings in the last bunch.

I moved Bianca and Pennywhistle into Terra Reborn while I introduced the next youngsters.

As I introduced Godfrey into the Norn Meso, Bianca became an adolescent. Speaking of little Godfried, he is the son of  Hannah and Cheddar. He didn’t take long to start eating and he did much better than his half-sister Charity who passed away last time.

From the get go he felt very lonely and it took some serious petting to get him to feel any better.

Once Godfrey was a child, I moved him to Terra and brought in another boy.

This is Oscar. He is the son of Mary and Timber so he might have a little bit of a violent streak when he gets older.

Oscar here was a much happier baby, though. He ate and rested on his own and even talked about how happy he felt! Good for him. It didn’t take him long to learn to push the buttons on the empathic vendor.

Bianca and Pennywhistle were both able to breed now. Bianca was already starting to feel friendly but poor Godfrey, who had trouble feeling lonely before was now feeling very crowded!

His crowdedness probably wouldn’t get any better soon since Oscar was now old enough to join the others.

Once Godfrey became old enough to breed, I spotted a weird quirk in his limp. I can only guess that he got it from his mother Hannah. Sadly, I’m going to remove him from the breeding race. I considered doing this in a few ways but ultimately, and thanks to Malkin and Ghosthande, I’ll be using an agent to keep him from breeding.

Next to join us is little Baron.

He is the son of Nami and Rave. He looks alright for having so many different types of sprites! He also seems to have his priorities straight; he eats and rests when he’s supposed to! He has a bad walk as well. As he’s trying to move in either direction, he stops for a moment to face the camera and then continues to move forward for a few steps just to repeat his stutter. It actually causes him to move very slowly. Sadly, I would remove him from the gene pool as well.

Thankfully, I was hoping to shrink the size of the next generation anyway.

With five norns in my game now, it was starting to hiccup just a little bit. I could probably get away with adding just a few more norns before we start having problems and we’ll get a chance to meet them next time.

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It’s been too long since I visited these guys so it’s about time I did this. Naturally, I’d spent time with the grendels already so it was time to visit with the new, baby norns.

Meet little Bianca!

She’s the daughter of Theo and Tiara. Technically, she is a generation 2 norn BUT she’s a member of the Generation 3 group.

She’s half CFE norn, half… not.

He’s Bianca’s full brother so he’s also half CFE, half standard bengal genome. Looks like he’s wearing PJs, doesn’t he?

Like his sister, he’s also technically a generation 2 norn. So far so good! We have two healthy baby norns.

Next to join us was Sparrow! Yes, I’ve definitely had Fable II on the mind.

Like his siblings, he’s half CFE, half standard genome so it’s hard to tell what genes are mutated and which aren’t.

Charity is their half sister! Instead of Theo, her father is Cheddar so she actually is a generation 3 norn.

Unfortunately, she didn’t live for very long. So far, I’ve had two babies die of genetic disorders so far and one of them died just seconds after she hatched (so I couldn’t grab her .creature file).

This was a bit of a hiccup. I wanted to start with 4 norns. Naturally, I had to pick another.

I had to include Pennywhistle. She was part of spykkie’s wolfing run!

She’s a Generation 1 vanilla Bengal norn. I’d like to feature the other norns from this wolfing run but probably just one or two at a time.

In just 10 minutes, everyone was a child and old enough to be in the Norn Terrarium.

Everyone was eating, playing and smacking each other in the norn terrarium now. It didn’t take long for two of them to get sick, though.

Some anti-bacterial spray had them sorted out and soon they joined the others.

We’ll get to know our little norns next time!

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Soon enough, Alfreda was pregnant with her 3rd egg!

She’s making quite a name for herself already! She likes to stay in the jungle but so far, the farthest the boys have strayed is to the garden. It seems like most of the girls would rather wander and all the boys are… lazy.

She did get pregnant a fourth time some hours later but this nearly slipped my radar. And a fifth! And a sixth! The game seemed to be dragging on for the rest of the day and the only thing bringing me back was the sound of kiss popping. Just then I had an idea.

Meet figgy, my lady grendel. I decided she could keep fig company.

I left everyone alone while I made dinner just to come back and see that everyone had died and no norns had taken their place.

Turns out Eggonicer had glitched and it was depositing the eggs into the comms room. With no food, all the creatures were dying while I was away.

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It didn’t take fig long to make his way to the babies though he didn’t seem interested in beating them up like he did the ladies. He was making me nervous being so close to the babies so I added the Portal Intelligence Core, partly to give me something else to do, partly to teach them their vocabulary, and I decided to do more knitting.

When I came back, there was a death notification but when I clicked on it, the Sparkle Reaper had already taken the body away. That meant a new egg had been introduced, however, and little Anton was now claiming his stomping ground.

Alfreda was next to replace Belinda, who’d passed away in the temple. By now, I’m thinking about throttling fig.

Alfreda was now the only female in the world and all the boys were near fig.

Finally, I made the decision to move the grendel into the unused norn meso. Maybe now my norns can make it past one generation.

Speaking of, some time later, Alfreda became pregnant!

This is good news and I desperately hope she becomes an excellent breeder.

Before long, she was pregnant again. I can only hope this is a great sign.

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