Peace and Quiet

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When I checked on the old Norn, Aidan was being bullied by Grub, who kept saying “Grub angry”. I don’t even know why! Still, a few slaps from an angry Grendel seemed to get Aidan awfully interested in food for some reason so he ate a carrot and managed to flee just in time.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-48-55-359 copySpeaking of eating carrots, I caught half-brothers Danny and David eating Darkling Cave carrots on their own in the low level of the temple. My mostly hands-off method of raising seemed to be paying off. I certainly wasn’t used to norns who learned how to fend for themselves.

Granted, Opal was a fantastic example of an independent norn and Danny was one of her sons. Perhaps good genetics lent a hand.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-54-19-938 copyCassy decided it was time to have another baby and started hassling Danny in his sleep. When he awoke, she chased after him, flashing me the biggest smile!

Perhaps to her dismay, Danny didn’t give in and she wasn’t pregnant again. Good news for me, I had enough eggs and babies to deal with already! I need the break.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-56-54-403 copyI do joke, of course. Age was starting to catch up to not only Aidan, but to his son Bobby, too. Having the same face meant they had the same tired expression on their faces. My heart ached knowing that I would have to say good bye to each of them pretty soon.

Danny caused my heart to skip a beat when he ate a weed and “Sick” appeared on the Observation Kit. Thankfully, it was just a relatively harmless BaoBab and only a nibble.

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Easy, Easy, Easy

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bandicam 2015-02-02 12-52-06-199 copyWhen I returned to the Shee Ark, it had been a few weeks since I’d actually seen the norns for myself. My life had been so hectic lately that I didn’t have time to write about this group and I wasn’t sure who I was really looking at or what I was doing. A quick glimpse at the Norn Statistics reminded me about who was getting ready to shuffle into Silicon Heaven, though.

In her old age, Synergy had developed something of a limp. Being the world’s oldest Norn seems to do that to you, though but she shuffled on like a champ.

The other females continued to get pregnant and the collection of eggs continued to grow.

Everyone else spent the better part of their time, eating, though! At least it wasn’t all eggs, all the time since breeding seemed to slow down. At least spending some time in Docking Station is a good way to get stubborn Creatures 2 norns off my mind.

bandicam 2015-02-02 13-01-21-392 copySoon, it was time to introduce yet another baby. This time, it’s Suprius who’s come to join us. As time passes, I start to forget more and more about the creatures that participated in the run, but this happy little guy is welcome and I’ll be helping him lead a happy, healthy life anyway.

It’s what I wanted for this run, anyway. I wanted to make up for how tragically the original Forum Wolfling run went.

bandicam 2015-02-02 13-07-35-990 copyMeanwhile in the Norn Terrarium, this tiny group of norns was enjoying some peace and quiet. The Meso might have been too much noise and excitement for them, after all.

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Frustrating, Frustrating, Frustrating

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bandicam 2015-02-02 10-20-24-506 copyOh, Creatures 2. I’m oft reminded why I don’t visit this game too often.

After pushing themselves up against the door for a while, Clarise managed to fall through the floor again and I had to rescue her with Pick Me Up.

Jonathan continued to dance against the door and I eventually had to push him away myself. When Jonathan, Clarise and Jenny all returned to the door, I decided to go back to Donny to check on him. With any luck, he wouldn’t be wall bonking quite so badly as the others.

bandicam 2015-02-02 10-25-49-140 copyWhen I found him, he was having a snooze by the carrots near the water wheel and seemed very happy when he finally woke up. Clarise meanwhile managed to get pregnant again. I quickly scooped up her egg and placed it near the incubator, where WolfCtrl ensured it would stay paused.

bandicam 2015-02-02 10-38-27-893 copySoon, Jonathan was starving, and I had to teach him to eat roots, like carrots. We argued for a while about what to do with the root. He kept insisting on running from it and pushing the carrot, but an unfortunate string of slaps soon had him putting the carrot in his mouth and chewing.

When Clarise fell through the floor a third time, I decided to just put her by the water wheel with Jonathan and Jenny. She was starving now, too and needed to learn a lesson about edible roots. Unfortunately, the message never seemed to get across. And, honestly, the whole experience was so frustrating, I had to keep myself from just slapping her to death. She seemed to want to starve anyway.

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Happy February!

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When I haven’t played a Creatures game in a while, I like to pop in the first in the series. I don’t know why. Creatures 1 isn’t the game I started with, and it’s the one I’m the least familiar with, but I do enjoy it quite a bit.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-15-32-537 copyIt could be that the warm, colors and 90s atmosphere feels more familiar than it actually is. Whatever the case, this is a great game to come back to.

Cassy’s pregnancy was still underway when I opened the game but otherwise, there were no real pressing matters.

Aidan and Cassy were the only ones with their health below 70 and I think poor Aidan was just too tired to eat. It didn’t help things when David and Cassy went to investigate the old man.

bandicam 2015-01-22 22-28-53-398 copyWith Lydia gone, Aidan was now the oldest Norn in the world and it looked like his time was coming soon. At an impressive 11 hours, 50 minutes, he certainly seemed like he would be old enough for Silicon Heaven. The second oldest, Bobby, seemed much further away at only 8 hours, 50 minutes old. The age groups were pretty spread apart, with a 12 hour old norn, a 9 hour old norn, two 3 hour old norns, one 1 hour old norn and a baby!

This spelled good news for Cassy, though. Being the only female and one of the 3 hour old norns meant she had the potential to have eggs with every one of the males. Good for her, but I will be introducing another female once Aidan passes away.

Considering this, I remembered that I had some previously hatched eggs that I would have to deal with. I’d also stopped checking creatures’ genetics because I found it was starting to get tedious and was robbing me a little of my enjoyment of the game.

So, what to do? I could release spare creatures as downloads or I could try to hatch and raise every single one. Until I decide, though, I’m also saving the genetics files for all these creatures just in case I need them for anything. Who knows, I might come up with something interesting.

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