Oodle

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bandicam 2014-11-28 15-46-02-534 copyIf asked to go on a vacation with Jane, I would wholeheartedly decline. The Jungle isn’t my idea of an ideal vacay spot, but Jane certainly seems to enjoy it. I will admit that the magic beans make this place more interesting but still. Not my thing.

I had other sights to see with the rest of the norns, though. Once they decided that pushing portals was fun, they were all over the ship. Geoffrey and Percy made their way to the desert, Susan went to the jungle, William to the Norn Meso they were still traveling for a while. Henrietta and Paulie both stuck to the Norn Terrarium and napped near the heater.

bandicam 2014-11-29 14-27-21-562 copyBefore long, everyone was out and about doing their own thing. I even tried to get Susan pregnant when she was alone with Percy but, no such luck, I’m not currently expecting any new eggs from this group. Jane was still near the two of them so I encouraged her to use the elevator to visit them. Despite a kisspop, no pregnancy notifications.

After a while, I decided to visit everyone and offer a shower of hand food. I installed a few more heaters and, when I wasn’t looking, Jane and Percy made another egg together. I was feeling very pessimistic that Susan would ever try for one. At least she got along alright with Henrietta.

bandicam 2014-11-29 14-49-57-650 copySpeaking of, Henrietta became pregnant and had an egg when my attention was diverted. Good for you! Everyone, meet Oodle. He’s the newest of our grendels.

I wasn’t planning on a second population in this game, but it was welcome nonetheless. I fed everyone and made a note to pay closer attention next time.

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Mother Jane

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bandicam 2014-11-28 15-30-26-585 copyI hate to admit it, but things were starting to slow down and I wanted to see more than just Norns in this world. I didn’t have any intent to breed grendels or ettins but the diversity is nice. That said, I went ahead and hatched a male ettin named “Ett”. I led him into the Norn Terrarium with the other creatures and he seemed to fit right in already.

Not moments after his introduction, Jane was pregnant again. William would be the father of this egg. Then, just before Jane laid her egg, Ett was killed. It seemed Percy and William didn’t like Ett much and I hardly had time to rescue the poor guy because I was preoccupied with Jane.

Jane was happy to restore the population a bit, though since she became pregnant again! It seemed like she would be the most important norn of the run since Susan didn’t seem to have any interest at all in breeding.

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This didn’t do much to cheer me up so instead, I introduced a pair of Friendly Banshee Grendels to the bunch. I named the male Paulie and the female Henrietta. Susan didn’t seem too keen on either of them but they were better able to care for themselves, at least. I watched them more closely than Ett and punished Percy and Susan when they started terrorizing poor Paulie. Henrietta at least seemed to be faring much better. She only had William and Geoffrey to bother her and they weren’t especially active. Oh, but where was Jane?

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Anna, Poor Anna

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bandicam 2014-11-28 14-10-38-311 copySusan was much too far from the other norns to breed. She had an issue with feeling so crowded all the time so I guess it was just as well. Anna was too busy walking in front of the pulse timer in the tree house. I eventually brought her down with an elevator. Once I said “push norn” there was some brief kissing and a single, fruitless kisspop. Oh well. Try try again, I suppose. Before my eyes, though, Anna, and Geoffrey both became adults. I knew the others would soon follow suit.

I hadn’t seen Jane since she gave birth so I popped by and saw that she was still resting where she laid her egg. I gave her some food and encouraged her to play and she was starting to act like herself again. She made her way to the large group in the Norn Terrarium and I said push norn again. This time, Anna was our lucky mother and William the lucky father! I dragged Susan back to the main group and encouraged still more breeding.bandicam 2014-11-28 14-21-40-769 copyUnfortunately, it seemed Anna wasn’t meant to be a mother. She passed away near the Egg Layer in the Norn Terrarium and passed away. When I checked her with the HoverDoc, her drives were all normal but she had a bacteria that ultimately took her life. Luckily, none of the other norns had this bacteria.

With the Treehugger mixes herding this was a comfort, but I had an idea to “vaccinate” the norns by filling them with antibodies. At the very least, it couldn’t hurt. Jane, Susan and Percy were the first to get vaccinated against Antigens 0 through 7. I monitored each of them closely and noticed that the injector didn’t give any of them pain or woundedness like I was lead to believe by the norny “ouch” sound. Well, better get the other two their shots.

As I gave William his shots, however, I got another pregnancy notification! Jane was pregnant again, with Percy’s egg. Geoffrey was the last to get vaccinated.

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Not Much Difference

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So far, things were playing out as they had before. Percy still had trouble eating and insisted on trying to eat my hand and certain doors, even with an apple in hand. Everyone else was pretty quiet. Besides some regular maintenance, there wasn’t much going on as I did my rounds.

bandicam 2014-11-21 22-30-41-742 copyI did have the idea to use a heater in the Norn Terrarium, though! The boys seemed a lot happier since they stopped complaining of being cold. Instead, they started saying they felt quite cozy! How lovely.

Nothing was going on with Percy, unfortunately. For a while, he just held a gadget in his hand and repeated “Get Gadget”. I was starting to wonder how the poor guy passed the IQ test. I moved on to check on the others and there was some friendly kissing. The small dears were too young to breed, after all.

bandicam 2014-11-28 12-57-14-514 copyI installed Grendel Man’s Offline Warp Portals and before long the little ones were starting to explore the rest of the world. Percy and Jane meanwhile were becoming close friends. I wondered if they would become mates when they got older but I hoped their little ones wouldn’t need a heater like Geoffrey and William. All three of the boys share the coldness gene.

Speaking of William, when I was doing my rounds, I caught him wandering the halls of the Shee Ark. He passed some of the doors but seemed most interested in pacing in front of the Ettin Desert door. He eventually took a nap.

Finally, at 47 minutes old, Jane became pregnant with Geoffrey’s baby.bandicam 2014-11-28 13-02-29-430 copyShe laid this tiny egg and it was automatically submerged to prevent it from hatching. Curious, I wondered if I could encourage the other girls to become mothers.

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