White Hair!

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bandicam 2015-03-02 11-30-10-706 copyCassy was sporting more than just a shock of white hair when I checked on her. Her whole head was topped with silvery strands.

She lounged on the beach with her friend Grub and was taking better care of herself by eating nearby Parsnips. Meanwhile, all of the males were at the lowest level of the island having some kind of nornish mosh pit! How strange!

bandicam 2015-03-02 11-36-03-129 copyPeony made her way to the bee hives and started playing with them, only to find that she felt painful stings instead of delicious honey. Bored with that, she started playing with the bees themselves. Oh my.

Meanwhile, everyone else crowded at the island. It was always frustrating to watch the norns huddle around, especially when there was no food at the lower levels. More frustrating was when there was and no one ate it! The grendel, Grub, actually did a much better job caring for himself.

Head still pounding, I used the lift to carry all but Danny to the ground level of the island. I tried to separate them all, but even Mallory made her way here, via the sub.

bandicam 2015-03-02 11-49-25-986 copyThis meant, thankfully, that Bobby was surrounded by friends when he passed away at 12 hours, 21 minutes old. Quite old for a norn!

He also seems to have passed away in comfort, listening to the sounds of the ocean under the shade of an umbrella, probably enjoying the ocean breeze, too.

With his passing, I saw fit to add another norn. With no babies left to import, I could finally hatch an egg.

bandicam 2015-03-02 11-56-18-179 copyThis new little girl is named Tabby. She bears a strong resemblance to her mother Lydia. David is her father. I stayed with her for a while and enjoyed the relative quiet. One baby norn crawling after me is much more peaceful than a cacophony of adult norns slapping and kissing and talking. Speaking of the mob…

bandicam 2015-03-02 12-06-45-624 copyMallory is pregnant! It was starting to seem like the ladies got pregnant as soon as they could! I managed to pull her away from the crowd long enough to get a picture and even still, some chatty norn had to butt in. Oh well.

She soon laid her egg and it was stored with the others, below the garden. This put our egg count back up to 5. Tabby joined the other norns at the island at the ripe old age of 17 minutes old. I already knew I’d lost her to the mob and settled in for another day of squeaking norns, slaps, kisses and complaints.

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Still Difficult Eaters

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“Keep your norn active and amused. A bored norn can develop serious mental problems.”

As ‘helpful’ as this Tip of the Day seemed to want to be, I doubted the validity of it. In any case, my norns always seemed to keep each other preoccupied, so I wasn’t too concerned.

bandicam 2015-03-01 23-15-56-778 copyCassy’s pregnancy proceeded normally, as expected, but the distraction of the other norns kept her from eating. Typical, really. Her health hovered in the upper 50s%. It was finally in the 40s, when I was finally able to draw her attention to carrots, but Danny kept her distracted, even though he spent his time sleeping!

Finally, a little blue egg appeared and Cassy’s health slowed its descent. I lured her to the pier, away from the other norns, and gave her some parsnips. As I encouraged her to eat, Peony became pregnant! It was hard to tell who the father would be, but I was excited nonetheless.

bandicam 2015-03-02 11-09-38-725 copyPeony, Cassy, David(not shown), Perry(also not shown) Bobby and even Grub were on the island now. It seemed like the only norn missing now was Mallory, the new baby! Of course, at 40 minutes old, she was hardly a baby anymore.

Still, she acted like one.bandicam 2015-03-02 11-12-39-116 copy She didn’t like to stray from the house and play with toys still. I fed her some food and checked on the others.

Cassy still hadn’t eaten since she got pregnant, and her health was at a dangerous 20%. I had to trap her in the cave where the sub landed on the island, before I could get her to eat two parsnips. Finally, I was able to put away Peony’s new, green egg.

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Hatching Eggs!? Oops!

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bandicam 2015-02-19 14-07-55-085 copyChang was the next to go, of old age, thankfully. He died alone in the hallway of the Shee Ark, but I think he preferred it this way. He didn’t seem to care for large groups and tended to interact with just a handful of norns.

Soon, everyone became lethargic again and didn’t seem interested in traveling to find toys or food. Instead a handful of them just stuck to their new groups and hardly even looked at the doors that lead out of the terrariums.

I did have good news, though. With my new feeding routine, no one was hungry and there were some first pregnancies happening. Fidget had just become a mother and I hoped Aster and Stain would soon become parents as well. The older norns in particular didn’t seem driven to move, but they still ate when I brought them goodies.

bandicam 2015-02-19 14-24-46-172 copySpike was the next to pass away. Once he did pass away, two eggs hatched. Oops! The Egg Finder crashed. I exported the two babies and set them aside for later. Technically, this put the baby count up to 124 since this issue happened before.

I’ll not reveal the parents now, so you’ll just have to wait to find out later. 🙂

Naturally, I had to find a way to store the other eggs to prevent any more accidents like these. Of course, a few eggs hatched anyway, but I wa able to export those babies and then store the rest of the eggs in Ultimate Life Norns for laying and hatching later.

With all that settled, I decided it was time for a break.

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Kannova Plus Food Instincts

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I always thought it was strange that I couldn’t get my creatures to eat carrots and potatoes. I knew that the items were classified as “root” so I opened up the genetics kit and found that all of my creatures lacked genes that encouraged them to eat other types of foods like leaves, seeds and roots. They only really knew to eat food and fruit and had a third, vague instinct to “eat” when they were hungry, which might explain why creatures were always putting things in their mouths. I also found that they lacked an instinct to drink water when thirst and instincts to push dispensers when hungry, so I added those to their genes as well and out came these guys.

I haven’t gotten any feedback from more experienced Creatures 2 players so I decided to give them another go myself and document my experience. Later, if I like this genome, I might expand on it or introduce more creatures with different sprites using this same genome. We’ll see. I’m not exactly a talented or experienced gengineer.

bandicam 2015-02-26 10-50-01-350 copyAnyway, first to join us is Isabelle. She learned all of her verbs very quickly and started to learn about things like food and toys very quickly.

She also kept trying to eat the doozers, but she didn’t have much luck. I eventually lured her to the lower level where the emotions and intensity computer was. I dropped some dispensers near her.

bandicam 2015-02-26 11-04-41-819 copyNext to join us is Katie. She is just as inquisitive as her clone Isabelle and set out to do many of the same things. Eat my hand, eat critters, etc. She didn’t take long to learn her verbs either and I hoped I’d get to introduce the ladies to each other soon.

As Katie stomped around the nursery, generally ignoring the computers, I checked on Isabelle, who complained that she was tired. I eventually used the doozers until I thought that the creatures had learned all the nouns that they could and then introduced our first boy.

bandicam 2015-02-26 11-28-16-292 copyThis is Ernest. He dashed past the computer, dispensers and the girls before getting stuck in the corner of the cave. Between the two girls, computers and the doozers, Ernest was starting to get the hang of language.

I could hardly get him to hold still, though and had a hard time answering his questions with the two slap and tickle happy girls around.

bandicam 2015-02-26 11-34-15-007 copyFinally, as if things weren’t complicated enough, I decided to introduce the last baby, Dodger. He actually stayed close to the computer and learned a handful of words.

With the computers looping automatically, the other norns constantly chatting and the doozers being pushed all the time, I wasn’t worried about his education. I added another dispenser and sat back and watched.

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