Unfortunately, I have to remove Wide-Eyed Payment and her brother Tuatara into the Norn Meso to keep them separated. After I’d finished yesterday’s entry, I spent the night working with Wide-Eyed Payment, doing various maths and experiments to see if she could naturally lay eggs on her own. Turns out no, she can’t.

The good news is that her daughter, Trisha, doesn’t have this negative gene. I’ve exported her daughter to include in the game when I’m ready for the 3rd generation of Grendels. Bye Trish! See you soon!

After removing anybody with this bad gene from the population (just our two purebred Boneys) it was time to move on. Flawless Color had already laid all four of her eggs and it seemed like a good time to introduce a new Grendel to the population.

I asked for a female Dustdevil Grendel egg and got a Tiger Grendel instead. Little did I know, these two occupy the same slot. I uninstalled the Tiger Grendel agent and kept getting Tiger sprites anyway so I moved on and decided to use one of Grendel Man’s genetic breeds instead.

Meet Claire (you’ve probably noticed that I’ve abandoned the Protective Tub agent already. It was hilarious while it lasted!). She’s an Amarok Grendel. You can find their agent at The Realm (link to post). This means a few things.

First, cold doesn’t bother her. She can eat critters and seeds but can “also hit norns for nourishment”(readme). She also won’t hit creatures to alleviate her anger, she’ll hit critters instead, though I’d rather she drink potions. She’s got a lot to live up to being the only female who can lay any more eggs. I also can’t compare her genome in GeneCompare. I wish I could figure out what was wrong with this program. :C

I scanned around to check on all of my creatures and everyone seemed to be fine.

The Grendels were all wandering around, talking to each other and napping. Claire was exploring the upper levels, scooping up seeds and yelling about how angry she was. I instructed her (nagged, really) to drink some potions and she took to watching the awkwood seeds fall from their vine. It’d be a little while before she reached adulthood. At only 9 minutes old, she was still a child.

The Norns were doing well, too. The norns had all paired off into groups. Sour Drink and Loving Wren had taken to going up to the top right door together and kiss-popping while Five Cheese and Uptight Kettle rode the elevator and Scandalous Laborer and Lowly Adjustment wandered towards the hill.

Even the gnarlers were doing well!

That is, until I got my second death notification. Obese Bomb was my second first generation Grendel to die and it stung quite a bit to see her go. I have to admit, she and Thin Desire were two of my favorite creatures and I knew that Des might be the next to go. Rest in peace, Bomb. I’ll miss you.

I took my time here to check on the other elders. They were all in their Ancient life stage now and each of them fathered or mothered 4 eggs. Giants and Tuatara spent their time on the top deck of the  meso talking about seeds, probably oblivious to the death of Bomb.

Meanwhile, Des picked another spot to stand in and hadn’t moved. Just as I handed her a toy to play with, Earthly Giants died. Unlike Obese Bomb, who had a complaining Des to keep her company, Earthly Giants got to spend his last moments with his son Tuatara.

I had a moment of silence for the couple and spent time with Thin Desire and Macabre Desire. They both were sleepy so I encouraged them to rest. Next thing I knew, Wide-Eyed Payment was pregnant with two of Tuatara’s children. Normally, I would be excited except that Wide-Eyed Payment might never get to lay her eggs. This whole endeavor has been very heart breaking.

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I’ve added an egg-tracker page to the blog! You can keep up with the eggs at the link above.

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Goodness I’ve got my hands full with this bunch. Good thing I’m playing whilst I stay up tonight.

It’s currently New Years Eve and I’ve made time to get some DS/C3 time after spending the entire afternoon with the hubby and some of my friends.

Anyway.

I loaded the game and the grendels set of hitting each other. What made me sure that I’d be so busy was a pregnancy notification right off the bat!

This time, it’s a lonely egg from Wide-eyed Payment. I’m not sure, but I suspect the father is Elite Cap. I’d separated her from the other Grendels to make it simple to snatch up her egg but she just wouldn’t lay it. I followed her for a while and then there were two more pregnancy indications!

Flawless Color was the lucky lady this time but since both boys were nearby, it could’ve been Elite Cap OR Clear Glass this time. I moved both ladies up to the second level of the terrarium hoping they’d lay their eggs. Almost immediately, Color laid both of her eggs and carried one of them off in her hands. It almost seemed like she was trying to keep me away!

It wasn’t long til I decided to check on the norns. I found Uptight Kettle sleeping in the grass, Five Cheese sleeping on the second level and Lowly Adjustment by the elevator. Scandalous Laborer was watching one of the bees’ nests for a while but in general, things were very quiet. I was worried that Scandal wasn’t moving but when I pulled her away, she only walked up to Kettle to stand by him.

I wondered if she wanted more eggs, but I’m not about to change the rules at only Generation 1. ;D Thankfully, the love was at least mutual and Kettle kept saying that he loves Scandal. Good for them!

Loving Wren, on the other hand, was busy gobbling up all of the seeds next to the fish pond. He seemed happy eating by himself, though I was worried he might be getting a bit chubby.

I was starting to get a little worried about Five Cheese, though. She wasn’t ill and in fact spent a lot of time taking naps on her little spot next to the beans. She hadn’t moved in a little while, though so I took her hand and moved her away. She ate an apple and went right back to napping.

Her name wasn’t on the emergency medical list, though, so I moved on to my still pregnant grendel. I was a little desperate to get her to lay the darn thing, so I downloaded Norngirl’s Preggy Candies and had her eat one. A few seconds later, there was another grendel egg!

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I was starting to have problems sorting out the eggs, so I changed the top level of Random’s Room to water using Amaikokonut’s MW – Room Edits (link). It’s a great help and either of the water room types keeps the eggs from hatching.

Speaking of those eggs, though, the grendel ladies still had 5 more eggs to lay before they were done laying eggs for their generation. I was a little worried that I would only have 8 grendels to work with for the next generation but after some time, I thought that was enough to work with. I’d only hoped all four of the grendel boys would get a chance to pass on their genes, especially since it seemed like no one had any really debilitating mutations.

I left my younger grendels to check on the elders and found that Des hadn’t moved since she’d reached Old age. She looked so old and tired there but rather than disturb her, I decided to let her rest and do whatever she liked for the rest of her time.

As for the other elderly grendels, Macabre Desire was in the bottom part of the meso, walking through the grass, Obese Bomb was napping and Earthly Giants was above, pushing the elevator button and eating tuba plants. In general, they were all pretty comfortable. Des eventually got up to eat some fruit so I stopped worrying and left to check on the norns again.

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No pictures this time! I’m sorry. :C

After that little peek into Grendel genetics yesterday, it was time to encourage my norns to make babies. Sour Drink only has to lay 4 eggs then I’ll be done with this generation’s breeding.

With some gentle encouragement, I got her to have eggs with both Uptight Kettle and Loving Wren. What a sweet girl! I scooped up her eggs and put them in the inventory for later. I set her in the grass to let her take a nap but she busied herself eating seeds instead.

Back to Flawless, though, she was now an hour old and still an Adult. I decided to move her mother in with her in the Norn Meso to keep her company. Since her mother was rendered infertile now (and females can’t mate) I saw no harm in it.

I skimmed through my population list and saw another female who had turned into an adult at only 18 minutes old. Wide-eyed Payment was an adult now! I started to suspect that it’s a Boney Grendel trait to age very quickly. Finally, I decided to just move them all back to the Grendel Terrarium. Flawless hadn’t aged to Elder yet and showed no signs of passing away.

Before long, it seemed like I had grendels kiss-popping again. I didn’t have to worry about the norns anymore so it was just as well.

The grendel terrarium was starting to get very crowded. I debated taking all of the first generation grendels out of the game to make available for download or injecting a new meta room for them to use.

I have to admit, it didn’t take me long to decide to do both.

I turned out to be an idiot and accidentally deleted the rest of this blog post.

So I’m going to guess what I wrote.

I have 4 male grendels to my 2 females and might have to introduce new blood as needed. I could always remove the population limit, but I want to keep things sort of limited. It’s hard to know for sure what I want my plans to be when I create these worlds and I end up having to adjust as I go.

I’m probably going to play with one group at a time from now on (and introduce bacteria) because, while I like being so busy, it isn’t especially condusive to blogging as I go and it isn’t as much fun for me. I also don’t get to spend as much one-on-one time with my creatures and don’t have a chance to get to know them better. So I’m going to divy up play time as such:

From here on, every generation will be separated entirely and I will only play with one species of creature at a time.

Creatures with Detrimental genes will still be put into the Norn Meso for study.

Once a month (after we move) I’ll release all the creatures I played with that month for download/adoption/study.

So there’s that. We’ll see how things go tomorrow.

Grendel Eggs

Obese Bomb

Thin Desire

Norn Eggs

Sour Drink

Five Cheese

Scandalous Laborer

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Moving overseas is always difficult. My husband and I are finally getting things finalized for our move. Our dogs have appointments, and they’re going to be flying for their first time. Our stuff is going to be picked up in a week and a half and we’ve got lots of packing to do. Well. I would be packing, but the hubby’s yet to bring me boxes to put our things in.

In the meantime and while I still don’t have internet, I’m going to play Creatures.

I apologize in advance for any weird structure in my post today but I’ve got the internet company on the line (I’ve been on hold for 15 minutes) and I’m still waiting to be helped. I sure miss the internet already.

Anyway.

We last left our Creatures 3 world with 8 new norn eggs in the world. The Norns did a great job of not playing favorites this time. Sour Drink hid up in the upper right corner of the Terrarium, away from the boys who were crowding around the bottom level.

Flawless Color felt lonely in the Meso by herself and I started to feel a little bad about separating her from the other grendels. She spent most of her time pushing elevator buttons, though. I decided to leave her alone for a little while longer, though.

Impartial Relation on the other hand was still a Youth. This cheered me up a little. I checked on the other four Grendels and they all seemed to be fine. I figured it was a good time to hatch two more Grendel eggs.

Meet Elite Cap and Clear Glass, both boys. This was a little upsetting. I was hoping for a girl to replace Flawless Color in the genepool.

I hatched two more eggs, hoping for the best.

One was Wide-eyed Payment, the daughter of Obese Bomb and Earthly Giants. She gave me the hope I needed for the next generation. I only hoped she didn’t have an aging disorder.

Next was Gifted Waves. I was pretty happy that these two turned out to be purebreed creatures. It’d make it easy to check them for mutations and if they were clear, I would have a more stable population as a result. A quick look at Wide-eyed’s profile says there’s no mutation, though. Lucky me! Clear Glass, on the other hand..

His poses, pigments and pigment bleeds are all slightly different from the default. That’s all there is to say about his Appearances.

Instincts

Unsure – 500 2 0 You B MutDupCut 128 0 [03: stim] [Cell 31 (Grendel home)] + [Brain Lobe 255] [Cell 0] + [Brain Lobe (254)] [Cell 0] and [Comfort] => Cell 4 (come); unknown = 0.

The difference here is in the Brain Lobe number (originally 255). Without internet, it’s difficult to look up the information I need. In the Gene kit, there’s no visible difference, though it looks like Grendels just approach the Grendel home when they need comfort and they learn to do that at the Youth stage of their lives.

Grendel Eggs

Obese Bomb

Thin Desire

Norn Eggs

Five Cheese

Scandalous Laborer

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