Exploring we will go

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Hannah was the second creature to make it to C2toDS (or just Albia). She ate lots of mushrooms and explored the incubation area on her own and for a while, I just followed her. She headed home before long but jumped back through the portal to Albia. Her problems with walking just seemed to get worse and I ultimately decided not to keep her children for the next generation. They would be made available for download right away instead.

I found a group of 5 norns by the door to the norn terrarium and sent them back home. Theo was among them and I was worried that he’d gotten sick again. He wasn’t in the group that went back and I instead found him exploring the desert terrarium.

I was interrupted by another pregnancy notification. This time, it was Rachael. I couldn’t tell who the father was again because she had two boys harassing her! Poor girl. Still, congratulations are in order for her first egg.

By this point, everyone has reached adulthood except for Tiara, who was just barely behind. There wasn’t much exploring going on, though.

Belle was our next pregnancy, this time with Cheddar. This marked her second egg and I was very proud.

Grant was our next sickness. He was in the jungle terrarium this time and had Histamine A as a result of bacteria.

Next, another pregnancy! Timber is the father of Mary’s latest and final baby.

I’ll admit, I got tired of waiting and eventually just went through the C2 to DS portal myself and took 5 norns with me. Then Tiara got pregnant with Theo’s child.

This left Sylvia the only female without an egg so far. I rushed back to Albia. I tried to spend some time with Chase but Theo was busy making babies, this time, with Rachael! Then another indication came before Rachael laid her egg. Geoff and Belle would be parents.

I returned to Albia, hopefully for longer than a few minutes this time,  to find these two slapping each other silly! Cheddar tried to make peace by saying he liked Geoff but Geoff only said he disliked Cheddar. Geoff also started slapping Timber who was trapped in a corner. I slapped Geoff once to make him stop then Timber joined me! I slapped him to stop and they both separated from each other, laying down and glaring.

I got three more pregnancy notifications and 3 eggs. There was a bit of a mix up so I may have swapped the babies around accidentally in sorting, but it’ll be alright once they’re hatched. Rachael seems to have laid two more eggs and Belle one! Hannah still had to lay one more egg before she was finished, Tiara 3 and Sylvia was still not a mother! I set out to find her and found her in the jungle, alone.

Nami, Tiara and Hannah all seemed to follow me, though I soon had to treat Nami for illness. Sylvia followed suit and I sent her to join the others once she was healthy. After I took an inventory, everyone was back in the Norn Terrarium but Hannah, who was staying in the jungle. She complained about loneliness so I lead her back to the Norn Terrarium with the others.

Still, I was starting to get worried about Sylvia.

Eggs

Mother Hannah Mary Nami Belle Rachael Tiara Sylvia
Eggs 3 4 4 4 4 1 0

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C2toDS? Yes, please.

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Belle is our next proud mother with her first egg! Rave is the father this time.

After all the craziness, Tiara was finally sent to join the other norns. It didn’t take me long to decide that the area was much too crowded. The norns weren’t doing much exploring and I wanted them to have more safe areas to visit.

I decided to do the obvious. Install a metaroom!

I played some creatures 2 on the side and fell in love with the world, but not so much with the controls. I also installed archways to make moving easier and was hoping some of the norns would start exploring.

Before I could get to that, Mary was pregnant again. Since Timber and Rave were both with her at the time, I couldn’t tell who the father was! I guess time would tell.

Nami became sick again. She took a nap in the jungle and came down with a bacteria that carried Histamine A with it. I gave her cough syrup and she was fine again.

By this point, I was just glad that I didn’t have to deal with any serious illnesses. I really hope I didn’t just jynx myself.

Chase made it through the portal then Hannah was pregnant again. I didn’t catch who the father was in time. With her second egg laid, she proudly joined the others.

Meanwhile, Chase explored his new surroundings. For a while, he complained of hunger and refused the food that I’d brought him. I sent him back through the portal then moved it to a more popular location.

Hannah was still limping around due to her weird gait but could still run from Geoff’s advances. I think she needed a break from being a mother. That didn’t stop those boys and soon, she was pregnant again anyway. Her third egg was laid and she was closer to becoming infertile.

Finally, I had quiet for a little while. Nami and Sylvia spent their time in the jungle terrarium together while the others enjoyed the safety of the norn terrarium. I travelled around the world and added food, removed unneeded agents and tools and added anemones to the aquarium.

It wasn’t long til Mary got sick again, though. She had sleep toxin in her body but it only encouraged her to rest while she needed it. With the bacteria eliminated, she quickly returned to normal.

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Mother Hannah Mary Nami Belle
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Theo plus 1

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Here’s Theo!

You might be wondering why I decided to include him in my game. My reasons are actually two-fold. 1, I like Bengals and I love the way they look. 2, he’s a first generation creature and I like genetic stability.

Before I could get to know him better, Sylvia became sick with Antigen 5 and Histamine B! I was starting to get tired of seeing that horrible Antigen. After she was tended to, Mary got pregnant again with Geoff’s second child! I scooped up her egg and placed it with the other.

I thought I was ready for Theo now but then Nami became pregnant with Geoff’s egg! This guy’s certainly making a claim for himself! She laid her egg in the jungle (of all places) and seemed to bring me to a sick Hannah. She’d popped up onto the medical monitor just as I’d arrived. I returned Hannah to the Norn Terrarium and stored Nami’s egg.

I returned to a tired Theo, playing with his robot toy and scrolled through the breed list. I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to include a ‘cannon’ breed or not. I hadn’t included any Treehuggers or Magma norns yet, for example, but I also wanted to try an Apple Norn.

Before I could make a decision, Theo was allowed to join the others as a Child.

Given the title, I still had to choose a breed.

Eventually, I settled on a female FairyFloss norn. Their genetics are nothing special, so I really looked forward to some stabilization without making all the babies look the same. I pet her egg hoping it would hatch more quickly.

Just as she hatched, Nami got sick. Then Geoff. Then Mary. I treated them all then went back to name the little girl I’d just hatched.

I named her and had to rush away because Nami had become pregnant with her second egg. I was happy to have 7 females to lay eggs for me, but with each expected to lay four, that still put me at 28 eggs. Chances are, I’ll only be keeping 6 of them, genders allowing.

Tiara still hadn’t learned her words so I focused on that next. She played for a bit but it wasn’t long before she pushed the HLM. She ate seeds and pushed the robot toy. I was met with another health notice and Rave had contracted a bacteria in the jungle. I cured him and sent him to the others.

Meanwhile, Belle was still in the hallway! She had Grant to keep her company at least. They cried in the hallway together and I picked sent them both through the door. After some seeds, they were both moving again.

Just then, Nami, of course, became preganant with two more eggs! I thought I’d disabled litters but I definitely got two pregnancy notifications. If she were pregnant with two, these would be her last eggs.

I set them both with the others.

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Mother Hannah Mary Nami
Eggs 1 2 4

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Last of the babies, plus Theo and another.

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This is Belle, the daughter of Scandalous Laborer and Lowly Adjustment.

She took to eating tubas and seeds right away and I just watched her pull carrots out of the ground without eating them for a little while. She didn’t seem at all interested in the HLM. Even with all my coaxing, she just didn’t want to press it.

Finally, when she was 5 minutes old, she pressed it.

Next up was Cheddar. Son of Five Cheese and Lowly Adjustment. Like his half sister Belle, he wasn’t interested in the HLM at all. It still didn’t take as long as his sister to push the button, but I was feeling impatient.

Last, but certainly not least, was Grant. The son of Sour Drink and Loving Wren.

He and Cheddar got on pretty well, right from the get go. Since they spent all of their time eating and resting, I checked on the others while they grew.

Belle, surprisingly, was the first norn to leave the terrarium as a child. She butted uselessly against the force field so I left her to her thing and checked on the others. Good for her for exploring, though!

I found Hanna in the jungle terrarium, sleeping near a kobold. She wasn’t sick so I let her eat the seeds and explore. Just then, Timber came in to eat chili peppers and they both started telling me how much they loved me. It soon stopped when they rested for a nap.

Except for these three, all of the other norns were in the safety of the Norn Terrarium or in the Norn Meso.

It wasn’t long til Timber became sick and I fed him cough syrup and disinfected him. He was returned to the Norn Terrarium after he decided that pushing the medicine dispenser was fun.

Belle was still butting against the force field so I asked what she was doing. “eat machinery” I slapped her on the rump and hoped she would return to the norn terrarium. Instead, she started butting against the force field on the other side.

Soon, Grant and Cheddar were old enough to join the others but before I could celebrate, Rave became sick with Antigen 5. He was at injury level 3 because of his reaction to the antigen, but I knew he would be fine soon. Next, Mary became ill. There were no antigens in her body. I returned Mary and Rave to the Norn Terrarium to find Rachael slapping poor Cheddar furiously. I slapped her on the rump and dragged her away.

Like the others, I took her away for some retraining.

Meanwhlie, Mary became pregnant with Timber’s child. I led her away to lay her egg away from the others. I scooped it up and got ready to introduce our last two norns.

Mother Hannah Mary
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