After our little bacteria scare yesterday, you’d think I’m not ready to introduce more babies just yet. Well, you’re wrong.

Here’s Celeste. She’s the last of the Flawless Color/ Elite Cap babies and she looks just like her siblings. I put Lisa in with the other teens so that I could spend time with this youngster. She pressed the HLM right away and started pacing the bottom level of the meso. She didn’t seem too chatty or interested in food. I asked what she was doing and she said “eat norn home”. Oh dear. She did start eating vegetables and when she complained about being angry, I fed her a potion. That seemed to work. With her on her way, I introduced the next grendel.

Finally was Trisha. She is the daughter of Wide Eyed Payment and Impartial Relation. She was too stubborn to push the HLM for a long time and repeatedly butted against the force field I placed.

Lisa got sick before I could spend much more time with the little one. She had a bacteria that gave her sleep toxin and Antigen 6. I gave her a vitamin potion and everything seemed to vanish. I put her with the others and continued to work with Trisha. She was already and adolescent but still hadn’t gotten her education. She did seem to be part banshee, though. She did an angry dance just like the banshees I’ve come to know. I got impatient with her and took her to the learning room, taught her push and asked her to push the HLM. Finally, it was time for the new blood to enter the gene pool.

This time, I picked the Light Grendels, another of Grendel Man’s genetic breeds. I couldn’t find the tiger grendels on this list this time and didn’t feel up to rooting through my downloads folder to find it. As there were only two males, I asked Muco to hatch me a little boy. For some reason, I saw it fit to name him Revenant. He didn’t take long at all to push the HLM and then complain about being angry. I fed him potions and already he was on his way to being well adjusted. At least moreso than the other grendels seemed to be.

Before long someone was pregnant! When I pressed the pregnancy indicator, it took me to three ladies who were all standing together at the time! I can only guess that Bart is the father. Before long, the egg was laid and it turns out Carrie is the proud mother. She’s already made her mark for the next generation.

I checked on Revenant to find that he was still a child at 8 minutes old. Hopefully he’ll be able to join the others before long.

Just then, I got another pregnancy indication. This time, it was Trisha and Bart. Bart’s certainly staking his claim!

There are 5 females to our 3 males, though. Hopefully, Revenant gets a chance to further his own lines. At 12 minutes old, he was still a child. I left for a quick food break to find that Trisha, Tiffany and Bart were all sick. It didn’t take long to cure them of their ails. Tiffany had carbon monoxide poisoning that cleared up after I killed her bacteria. Bart seemed to get better on his own and Trisha was the only one who really needed attention. Go figure, too. They were all in the jungle when they got sick.

Naturally, it wasn’t long before Carrie and Bart got sick again. It’s tempting to not treat their bacteria and see where their immune systems (artificial though they may be) take them.

In my last check up of the day, I found that Revenant was finally an adolescent and was allowed to join the others.

Eggs

Carrie 1 – Trisha 1

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And for real this time! I’ve had my computer for a couple of days now but didn’t get it online until today.

As usual, the next entries are going to be backlog from my time offline. I hope you guys enjoy!

I’ll also be doing some work trying to improve the layout of the site, the downloads pages in particular.

~Kez

I hate to admit it, but it’s been so long since I’ve been able to use a proper computer that I’d nearly forgotten how to type on a conventional keyboard or how to run the game. I did have some limited success running DS standalone on a small laptop that my husband brought with us for the move but the game was jittery and would freeze for seconds at a time only to jump up to where it should have been.

Anyway, to combat this I went ahead and created a no-obligations world that I’m calling “Learning Again”. Playing Creatures 3/DS is hard enough, but I have to re-learn how to use the Garden Box and Room Edits again. Unfortunately, I still don’t have internet access so I can’t look up how to do certain things just yet. Bear with me, though, at least I’m back for sure this time.

I loaded the game up and headed to the agents room. I installed the Garden Box and the Room Edits agents right away, and looked for a while for a room to try them out with. Unfortunately, I found that Magic Words wasn’t working on my computer anymore! Go figure. After spending a little more time trying to get it to work, I gave up and decided to play with a world that didn’t have Magic Words. These eggs have been waiting long enough to hatch, after all. Room Edits still seemed to work, though. At least I had that.

I had a lot of eggs on my hands, that was certain. Once all the babies were checked and exported (one of them didn’t survive. She died shortly after birth) I set out for the new world.

It was the Grendels’ turn to be played with so I set up a world just for them. Their numbers were considerably smaller than the norns’ so I planned for a smaller group. There were only 7 of them and that left me room for one first generation grendel to help keep the genes relatively stable. With the new grendel, it would also give me a nice even number to work with.

I limited the ladies to two eggs and prevented them from breeding before adulthood and set up the world with fast growing plants. Hopefully, I wouldn’t be swamped with eggs like I was with the norns.

The Norn Meso is where I chose to start my little ones off.

First came Garth. He comes from Flawless Color and Elite Cap. His head seems a little detatched but it’s purely cosmetic. About 6 minutes into his life, he was already an adolescent. Those boney genes really seem to have made an impact. He didn’t take very long to push the HLM. Like my other grendels, his first instinct was to smack a norn but he still considered ‘left something’ a good solution to curing anger. It was a little off. I did look for my giant calm balm but couldn’t find it in the agent list.

Carrie was next. She’s Garth’s full sister, which means that Flawless Color and Elite Cap are also her parents. Get used to this. Flawless Color and Elite Cap had 4 eggs together! After using the HLM, she seemed to get stuck in a loop with the force field I set up next to it. Since she couldn’t reach the thing, she just kept butting against it! I wonder if the force field actually creates “bump into wall”… stimulus? It’s been a long time.

Since they were both adolescents before long, I stuck both of them in the norn terrarium to explore. There would be no norns for them to hunt down, but at least they’d be safe.

Bart was next. His parents are Bethany and Gifted Waves. It’s good to see some relatively new genes in the pool. He didn’t seem to want to push the HLM at all but when he did, he wouldn’t stop complaining about boredom and anger. He ate fruit in the bottom of the meso and did an angry dance like the banshees before him. I checked the agents I’d downloaded and injected the giant calm balm. Maybe I could teach this generation to drink potions when they’re angry, too. It didn’t take long for me to pass potions along to everyone.

Lisa soon followed. She’s Bart’s full sister and looks like a full Amarok Grendel. She seemed a little shy and complained that she was crowded when she was standing next to her brother. It wasn’t long before they were slapping and pushing each other. Babies are so cute. Before she could say Bart’s name properly, she called him brat. It was really cute.

These two wouldn’t grow as quickly as the boney mixes, so I decided to go ahead and import the next baby.

Another of Flawless Color and Elite Cap’s children popped into the incubation chamber. This time, it was Tiffany. I took her to the HLM and watched her bounce between it and a force field. She met Bart before long and started to complain about homesickness. I wasn’t sure how to fix it besides putting her in the grendel home but I didn’t want to do that to her just yet, especially since she was just a baby. Before long, she and Bart spent their time together eating bramboo berries.

She was sent to the Norn Terrarium before the other two since she reached adolescence so quickly. She complained about being homesick and I heard a tiny sneeze. I injected the medical monitor and found that Tiffany, Carrie and Garth were all sick! Off to the medical bay. Carrie was first. I put her into the vat and sprayed her down with disinfectant. She still had Histamine B and alcohol in her system so kept coughing. I couldn’t remember the chemical numbers and had to rely on the medicine dispenser. She was given some cough syrup and temporarily put in confinement to protect her from the other sick grendels.

Tiffany was next to go into the tank. She was also given some cough syrup to clear up her system. She didn’t have any alcohol in her system so I wasn’t especially worried.

Garth was put into the medical bay last but I couldn’t get him to go into the vat. I sprayed him down as best I could and waited for him to finish sleeping off the sleep toxin. The two girls were free to go. When he woke up, I would feed him cough syrup.

I checked on the babies to find that Bart was now an adolescent. He joined the others in the Norn Terrarium. Carrie came down with another bacteria that I quickly eliminated and after I fed Carrie some anti-oxidant, trying to figure out how to get her alcohol down, she told me that she disliked me. I was a little disheartened.

Bart came down with a bacteria next. I sprayed him, fed him cough syrup to stop the coughing and looked for a vitamin potion to help him work through Antigen 5. Before I could manage that, he fought off the infection on his own. Good for him!

This is running a little long, though. I’ll get you guys updated again soon!

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At 7 hours 37 minutes old, Five Cheese passed away, surrounded by everything she needed. I’d petted her and encouraged her to eat food and seeds, but she only laid there. She took a nap, woke up to say “me love mom” and then promptly passed away.

She and all the other Generation 1 Norns are available for download. Please feel free to download them to meet them and raise them yourself.

I retired the wolfling vendor and gave the beach ball and pepper plant to Bethany to enjoy.

While she played and ate in the Norn Meso, I set about hatching all the eggs for export. We’ll get to meet everyone once the next world is started, so please don’t get mad at me for not sharing pictures just yet! ;D

In the time it took me to get everyone ready, Bethany became Ancient. She was just as angry as ever and continued to drink her Calm Balm, just as before. It almost seemed like the world was slowing down along with Bethany, though. I was starting to get errors every few minutes and Bethany was taking more and more naps. At 3 hours, 54 minutes, though, she was already starting to live longer than most of the other grendels.

I watched her eat tubas and shuffle around the lift for a while and even started crocheting. It reminded me of the times that I used to have a single creature to play with while I learned how to play the game. My creatures typically didn’t live for very long before they were beaten to death by grendels, but I was pretty relaxed by now anyway. Soon, Bethany hit 4 hours flat, still not quite reaching Impartial Relation’s record of around 4 hours, 20 minutes.

She watched the popping pappus seeds drift down and stared at the flowers as they grew. She was still fascinated by the Awkwood Creeper and watched as the seeds fell.

Eventually, she passed away, amongst the seeds she admired so much. She survived to 4 hours, 24 minutes of age and is survived by 2 eggs.

She will always be remembered for her dedication to both her lover, Gifted Waves, and to her fascination with the Awkwood plant.

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When we last visited my world, there were still two grendels and Five Cheese left.

Five Cheese and Tuatara are now Ancient and Bethany is still quite spry as an adult. So far, Five Cheese has survived a whopping 7 hours flat and will soon set my record for the creature I’ve kept the longest.

Before I could celebrate Five Cheese’s longevity, Tuatara, sadly, passed away. He was 3 hours, 49 minutes old. He is not survived by any eggs because of a genetic disorder that he shared with his sister, Wide-Eyed Payment. Bethany was nearby when he passed away so I know he didn’t die alone.

Bethany has returned to her favorite activity, watching seeds fall and sipping on Calm Balm. She spends a lot of time sleeping as a result of the potions, but she doesn’t seem as wracked with grief as when Gifted Waves passed away. At 3 hours, 5 minutes old, she was now Old but didn’t seem to be slowing down. I scooped her up and moved her to the Norn Meso. Here, she at least wouldn’t have to deal with mosquitoes. Not to mention a giant bottle of “Happy Juice” to keep her calm.

Now I had to plan. I wanted to create a new world for the Generation 3 Grendels and Generation 2 norns to live in but didn’t know how to handle the eggs that had been laid already. I could hatch the eggs to export the babies and then import them into the new world, or I could save check their monikers and inject them using the Genetics Kit, though I doubted that would keep their life history.

Whatever I did, I really wanted them to start fresh.

No matter what, though, I wanted to introduce Theo, a bengal norn from LibbyNorn’s wolfing run into this new generation to, hopefully, lead a better life. I do know that I’m going to be playing with Norns this time, though. Maybe I’ll start with one egg from each norn girl? Maybe I’ll throw 6 eggs in at once, two from each girl? Maybe I’ll introduce them all one at a time! Who knows? We’ll see!

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