NornXXL Trade World Returns! Generation 3

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Only I screwed up and accidentally deleted some norns.

Anyway!

bandicam 2013-12-19 16-23-21-139Meet Harry and Poppy. If we’re lucky, these two will have some babies. 🙂

It took them a good while (and quite a lot of coaxing) but I taught them their vocabulary (using the Portal: Intelligence Core) and waited for them to pass the IQ test. I eventually guided them towards the end but once they were safe, they were sent to C2toDS.

bandicam 2013-12-19 16-37-32-194They stayed in the incubation area for a long while. Eventually, I moved them to the green area near the water wheel and Harry immediately set off exploring.

harryhidesHe started to make sad noises like he was starving. Naturally, I took him back to Poppy where they were both fed.

bandicam 2013-12-21 21-26-34-166They didn’t seem to want to leave each other’s side though Harry seemed pretty bored. I offered them some toys and taught them to push the bee box for honey and soon…

bandicam 2013-12-21 21-43-14-628… Poppy was pregnant! (That proud father is blinking.)

bandicam 2013-12-21 22-45-05-399Once the little egg was laid, I set it in this fish bowl for safety. Then they had another. And then twins!

Norn XXL would have LOTS of little babies to choose from. 🙂

Because they both kept complaining of starving, I decided to move them to the Norn Meso. Harry especially kept complaining of being hungry for starch but abundant seeds kept him feed.

They had two more eggs together and it looked like there might be another still on the way.

This egg production continued for a while but soon, Harry was over the hill.

bandicam 2013-12-23 15-21-26-64611 children later, it was time to retire and the two lived out their lives in C2toDS. Unfortunately, Harry passed away at 4 hours, 32 minutes old, with food and toys nearby. Poor guy. :C

With Poppy exported, all their babies hatched and also exported, it was time to prepare the next generation.

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Fast Agers Galore!

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Ignoring for a moment the Generation 1 Hardman who’s clearly failing the IQ test, take a look at the plant norn mixes in the stream’s migratory run.

I turned off the ovicidal machine and let loose some grendels, ettins and geats and the grendels easily wiped out about 40 plant norns, particularly the ones crowding around the different entry points. It didn’t take long for the world to kill most of the grendels, ettins and geats (as of writing, there are only one of each) and I had an adult population of plant norns. Many of them were crowding around the entry point that I set up for the norns and on checking on the IQ test, I found that many of the norns in there were already of breeding age! By 30 minutes old, most of the plant norns were becoming adults. It wasn’t long til I caught some adults in the IQ test and one of them turned out pregnant.

I think it might be time to add some more creatures to the mix.

Anyway, here’s a pack of two creatures from the stream – one is female, the other is male. These were both identified as fast-agers by the Norn Statistics tool. Enjoy!

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Guys, I’ve been feeling pretty upside down.

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And topsy turvy and just kind of… All over the place. Moving has really taking the wind out of my sails.

So what better thing can I do for it than abandon all of my past projects and start over. Again. The only project I’m keeping is the Trade run with NornXXL. I don’t think he’d be pleased if I up and deleted all of the norns.

bandicam 2013-10-04 09-30-27-667bandicam 2013-10-04 09-38-59-039Anyway. Here indecisive me goes again trying to find a shred of passion for the Creatures Series, where it all began.

Soon a little girl would hatch out of this egg. In the meantime I checked out her genetics and found that she was totally mutation free. What a relief!

As she used the computer, I brought her some cheese and honey and hoped she would soon eat. At two minutes old it was great to see her so interested in learning.

She had some cheese and we were off to explore Albia together.

bandicam 2013-10-04 09-42-32-496The first thing she opted to tackle was the carrot patch. She ate a carrot and headed straight for the bridge where we learned all about herbs and weeds. I had to slap her on the butt once after she ate a weed but no real harm was done and she was munching on the herbs before long. I gave her a toy to play with and figured that was enough for one day.

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Generation 2 – Trade World

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Hello! Since Andrea and Jim had their little ones, I retired them to the Biodome and played with the new babies.

babyWith these two growing up and settling into the Norn Terrarium, I opted to investigate their genetics.

desertTrent, besides being non-CFE had no significant differences from the original Treehugger genome.

Hermione, like Treant, had no particularly interesting mutations either, at least not when I skimmed over Gene Compare.

That said, she is a Magma mix and was drawn to the heat of the ettin desert. Trent was more inclined to stay in the Norn Terrarium and eat seeds.

Jim and Andrea spent more time together in the Biodome but it still took some coaxing to get them to start playing nice.

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Thankfully, I was having better luck with Trent and Hermione.

Soon they had two babies of their own and they seemed to take strongly after their father.

babiesHere are the babies! Soon one of them would be sent to Norn XXL for the next round but I wanted to spend more time with Hermione, Trent, Jim and Andrea. As I updated the blog, there was a tragedy.

deadHermione, unfortunately, passed away due to bacterial infection. To help him cope with his grief, I sent him to live with his parents in the Biodome.

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