Sylvia’s fertility situation got me thinking about Tiara. She’d been able to lay her first egg before and I wondered why she wasn’t getting pregnant anymore.
Turns out, she was exploring the desert.
I returned her to the Norn terrarium and encouraged her to push norn. Before I knew it, Theo was fathering two more eggs! To celebrate, he banged on his drum as I carried Tiara away to collect her eggs.
There were two more minor illnesses between Grant and Chase. I’m glad nothing serious has spread yet, to put it mildly.
Just then, and with a little encouragement, Tiara became pregnant with her fourth and final egg. I set it with the others.
I had a new idea, though. The ladies were all done laying eggs now, as long as they were able. I decided to split up the group to make things less crowded and moved half of them into Albia.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere. Sylvia became pregnant with Rave’s child! I got so excited. After this, I got rid of the archways for now and decided to move everyone to Albia. Before I could finish , Rachael became pregnant again. At first, I thought it was a false positive since Norn Statistics didn’t show her as pregnant. Out came an egg a few minutes later and soon, she had 5 eggs to her name.
I double checked my population controls and they were still set properly.
With the eggs sorted (again) I reinstalled the Archways. The Norn Terrarium would lead to the incubation area and to the water mill, the desert to the volcano, the jungle to the swamp and the beach to, well, the beach. Now, the norns could all make it to and from the various parts of Albia without too much searching.
The age of my creatures was starting to show. My older norns have always taken to getting slap happy and this group was no exception. They already enjoyed slapping but now they acted like they had an excuse to do it.
Theo and Sylvia had an egg on the way now and Hannah had a little one on the way. Hannah’s odd limp started to look more appropriate on her old, pregnant body. After the girls laid their eggs, I stepped back and let the game run for a while. Hannah ate carrots on the forest floor while Tiara watched. Rave napped above and the mob meandered towards the volcano.
It wasn’t long before someone made their way back to the Shee Ark. Geoff became ill when he returned to the jungle. Once he was healed, he returned to the Norn Terrarium on his own and became ill again. I sprayed the door then let him wander again, hoping nothing else would disturb the peace.
I returned to Sylvia and found her limping like her sister Hannah. I eventually made the decision not to let their children carry these genes into following generations and marked her eggs for download-only, along with Hannah’s.
Eggs
| Mother | Hannah | Mary | Nami | Belle | Rachael | Tiara | Sylvia |
| Eggs | 4* | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2* |
Eventually, I gave up trying to be scientific and just threw her into the Norn Meso with Cheddar and encouraged them to push norn. Every time her oestrogen was on the decline, I hoped for the best and sicked them on each other. It started to seem more and more like it just wasn’t meant to be.
Hannah was the second creature to make it to C2toDS (or just Albia). She ate lots of mushrooms and explored the incubation area on her own and for a while, I just followed her. She headed home before long but jumped back through the portal to Albia. Her problems with walking just seemed to get worse and I ultimately decided not to keep her children for the next generation. They would be made available for download right away instead.
I found a group of 5 norns by the door to the norn terrarium and sent them back home. Theo was among them and I was worried that he’d gotten sick again. He wasn’t in the group that went back and I instead found him exploring the desert terrarium.
I got three more pregnancy notifications and 3 eggs. There was a bit of a mix up so I may have swapped the babies around accidentally in sorting, but it’ll be alright once they’re hatched. Rachael seems to have laid two more eggs and Belle one! Hannah still had to lay one more egg before she was finished, Tiara 3 and Sylvia was still not a mother! I set out to find her and found her in the jungle, alone.
Belle is our next proud mother with her first egg! Rave is the father this time.
Chase made it through the portal then Hannah was pregnant again. I didn’t catch who the father was in time. With her second egg laid, she proudly joined the others.