Wow! I’m surprised I’m doing a blog world again. For a while there, I was just super caught up in other things, but I’m around now.

Ghost_Norn and I haven’t given up on our Trade world concept and now, I’m honoring my half of the trade. Let’s meet the babies I’ll be playing with this round.

1janeFirst, the Gen 1 creature that Ghost_Norn sent me. I had no idea what breed she would be, but I’m glad she turned out to be a pretty little Astro girl. Truth be told, I’d probably be happy with anything, but I was just really happy to see that pretty purple color.

She didn’t take long at all to use the HLM but she wanted more. Sad thing had to learn her lesson about the HLM patch early and before long, she talked about how lonely she felt. Not for long, though!

2william

Next, I brought in Billowy Scarecrow, who I renamed to William. He was from my side and was probably starving from his IQ test. He was showered with food and I tried my best to teach him to use the HLM. He took some convincing, but once he was educated, he was happy to tell me how bored he was.

3annaAnna was another from Ghost_Norn’s side. She already knew her words and was happy to express herself. She even took to bossing William around right away! It wasn’t long til the 3 babies were marching around the lower level of the Meso together. I decided to let them walk around together and learn before importing the next babies.

Perhaps the most important lesson, I taught them to rest when tired but they’d already figured out eating.

4geoffrey

Next, was Uneven Weather, who I renamed to Geoffrey, who came from my previous world. He was identical to his brother in appearance and I wondered if he had the same gene that made William feel cold.

5percyPricey Tomatoes was another of my boys and, though he was similar in appearance to his brothers, his arms were different. I renamed him Percy. Like the others, it didn’t take a lot of coaxing to get him to press the HLM.

6susanLast, though certainly not least, came Susan, another girl from Ghost_Norn. She immediately pressed the HLM, as though she hatched and set her mind to learning Handish.

Now that the babies were all hatched and fed, it      was time to move them to the Norn Terrarium (after unleashing some cleansing Roamers, of course). I baby-proofed the pond with a Lavaball (teleporting kind) and watched and waited.

Some were already starting to age and get older, like the boys I’d put through the IQ test. Susan, Anna and Jane were all lagging behind but would soon catch up. Jane was the first of them.

Percy did have a little bit of a disaster but as soon as I’d heard the whining, I forced him to eat fruit and play with toys. After that, there didn’t seem to be any trouble for a while. Until Percy neglected to eat his greens again. I started to suspect I would have to teach him to eat them more than once in his life but everyone else seemed to know to play when bored and eat when hungry. I’d have an adventure ahead of me, that was certain.

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Lavender started to gray and John, I’m sure, would follow close behind her. After all, Lavender is 13 minutes older than dear John here. 🙂

I opted to let them live their lives without any more children and to start hatching the babies and preparing them for any future trades or uploads. All ten were then hatched and exported to be put through the classic IQ test later. All this test really does is make sure that they can walk and find food (whether by tracking down a smell or by chance) normally.

One half hour later, Lavender was still gray (and managed to get pregnant again) but John was still bright red and blonde! I opened up his genetics and found that his Life half-life was 101 where Lavender’s was 99. A very small difference but that was the only change I could find in his life-related genes.

It took a while but finally, at 4 and a half hours old, John was starting to grey a bit himself.

After that, I left them alone to live their lives together in the relative peace. Their 11th child was put through the IQ test with the others. The result of that is coming up next. 🙂

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No sooner had I started the game than John and Lavender made a new egg.

AlbertIt was cute to see them practically glued together but Albert seemed to prefer solitude and lemons to the company of his companions.

Unfortunately, Lavender cannot produce enough progesterone to lay her egg naturally so some CAOS intervention was soon in order. After going back and reading my last update about this group, I realized I should have picked up on this sooner. Oh well! Her egg count was now up to 3.

LavJonAfter the egg commotion, there was yet another lull. Such a small population has its disadvantages. I decided to grab a bite and see what happened when I returned.

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Life carried on this way for a time – at least 3 more eggs were laid but tragically Albert passed away alone in the C1toDS world, where he preferred to be. He didn’t live a long life but he seemed content til the end. He hadn’t even moved since his last picture and every time I set him with the others, he would travel back to this spot.

John and Lavender, meanwhile, just kept making babies, which was good. It’s always good to have a large pool of babies to choose from for the following generation and, hopefully, none of them had the natural generation-killing gene that Lavender had. The one that prevented her from laying eggs is a potential disaster.

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Welcome to generation 4!

We’re already off to a fast start with the girls. Lavender and Lilac were previously IQ tested and are 11 and 12 minutes old but the boys are brand new.

Just moments after I’d started the new world, one of the girls passed away, though!lilacOh no!

I suppose this is good news for Lavender, though. She at least will be able to take genetic dominance over the next generation, assuming all goes well. With all the bacteria in the world killed, I couldn’t imagine how it wouldn’t.

The boys, John and Albert seemed much more lively and interesting than Lavender, though. She seemed most interested in something, though no green arrow told me what. Soon, though, they were all taught their vocabulary with the Holistic Learning Machine and they were allowed to wander.

lilacBeing so young, they didn’t wander very far. They did eat and express normally and Albert actually gave sound advice to retreat norn when crowded and push machinery when bored. Soon, Lavender was an adolescent at 25 minutes old. The boys, it seemed, would have some catching up to do. For a long time, not much else happened. Albert went to the C1toDS world.

Before long, Albert complained of being lonely so I sent him to be with his friends in the Meso’s swamp. He eventually made his way back into C1toDS but John and Lavender were busy having their first child.

lilacWhat a pleasant surprise, too!

Before long, there was another long lull and I took a crochet break as I watched.

I noticed something a bit odd, though. Lavender carried the egg for a long time but never laid it. I cracked open the hover doc and decided to take a look.

(compared with Vanilla Bengal Norn)

202 Different in file 2  68   0 You F MutDupCut        128   0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Sensorimotor, Involuntary action 1, chem=Progesterone, thresh=245, nom=0, gain=255, features=Digital  (0)
value was 233

It’s been a long, long time since I researched genetics in creatures but given that the threshold is a bit higher, I can just guess that Lavender couldn’t produce enough progesterone to lay her egg naturally, similar to a grendel from a previous nurturing world.

I injected her with the chemical progesterone and she laid the egg, like normal.

I continued searching the differences and found this, too.

203 Different in file 2  13   0 You F MutDupCut        128   0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Reproductive, I am pregnant, chem=Progesterone, thresh=128, samp=3, gain=4, features=Digital  (0)
values were 1, 3

Her mutation is very similar to Tuatara’s and Wide-Eyed Payment’s. Basically, the changes to this gene make it so that she can never naturally lay an egg on her own. I took a peek and so far, both of her eggs are carrying the gene.

After discovering this, I decided to force her to lay all of her eggs by chemical injection. This would at least keep the family line moving.

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