New Baby!

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Peony was nearly an hour old now and she was the youngest norn! Since nothing bad had happened in a while, I saw fit to add another baby to our group.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-29-47-165 copyMeet Mallory, the newest girl to join us. She’s the daugher of Bobby and Babs. When I looked at her actual birthday, I was a little stunned. January 3rd! Wow. I need to come here more often! I have to say, though. She is very easy to teach and very eager to learn. She’d actually pressed all the encyclopedias by herself. After some food, she started to wander out into the garden herself.

Now, everyone else was on the island and it seemed many of them only wanted to bother poor Danny! He just wanted to sleep but Bobby always wanted to say hello and Cassy kept harassing him for another egg. The poor guy spent most of his time ignoring the other norns and trying to sleep, though. Danny eventually tried to make his escape on the boat but the two girls ended up following him anyway. I guess something about being a good sleeper made him attractive to them, though Peony was still too young to breed.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-42-22-802 copyWhen I checked on her, Mallory was back in the house, complaining that she felt hot. Standing next to a lit stove can do that, but I guess little Mallory didn’t know any better.

I tried to lure her out of the house but my success was limited. The only thing that finally drew her out was the spinning top toy just outside. She then started picking and eating carrots and I thought the heat might wear off for her.

Cassy meanwhile was forgetting to eat again. What confused me a little is that she wasn’t even busy trying to breed! She was just looking at the lift and some parsnips then back at the lift again. She eventually took a nap and I decided to try feeding her when she was done.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-46-42-808 copyI decided to try feeding Danny but, just as with Cassy, I had limited success. Perhaps I would just have to try again later.

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The Final Baby Has Arrived!

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With so many creatures on hand and all of the crowding together, I decided to take a new measure. I froze them all with Ctrl+7 and moved them into the different living areas, one by one by hand. Once everyone was evenly spread out between the Meso, Norn Terrarium, Jungle Terrarium and Desert, they were free to roam again.

bandicam 2015-02-19 13-32-28-121 copyImmediately, things were quieter, and it was a nice change from everyone talking about how much they liked or disliked X norn or Y norn. My relief was cut short by a death notification, however. Olga had passed away due to old age. She at least had Peri to keep her company in her final moments and I had to add a new baby to the pool soon.

bandicam 2015-02-19 13-34-01-772 copyBut then, something heart wrenching happened. Mikaela died! I removed bacteria from the world, so my best guess is that she died of starvation. One problem with having such a huge population is the tremendous distraction that other norns can provide. A lack of food wasn’t the issue this time – I showered each group with food and added new food with Garden Box to each Terrarium. Poor dear.

bandicam 2015-02-19 13-36-50-884 copyI  changed my tactic. Instead of just adding food, I would also say “eat seed” or “eat food” to encourage them to eat. It seemed to work and there seemed to be a small crowd forming in the desert when I made my rounds to feed everyone. I was also happy to see Fidget eating (her tail is just visible above) since she had such a sad life in the event.

bandicam 2015-02-19 13-39-36-345 copyIt soon came time to add another baby and this time, Aster would join us. When I imported her, I tried telling her to eat seed and she started to eat everything that I put down in front of her. What an appetite!

Lemons, carrots and seeds all disappeared in just a matter of seconds before she went off in search of norns, toys or more food. Who knows what was going through her mind after that feast.

I brought her a toy and the quacking from the toy didn’t stop for a long time.

bandicam 2015-02-19 13-48-40-579 copyNext to pass away was Adelphos. If I remember right, he was the first male to enter this world. Lin and Logic were nearby to keep him company.

He, like most of the other norns, will be survived by many, many eggs. I only had to wait a few moments after Adelphos’ passing before I had to introduce the next and final baby for this run. Who would it be?

bandicam 2015-02-19 13-57-46-486 copyWell, if you were taking notes (and trust me, I wasn’t), you might know that it’s Stain, one of the winners of the event.

I always really liked his appearance and was happy to see he’d finally join us.

With the final baby introduced to the world, I could not only put away Norn Statistics, but I could also focus on what the norns were doing and on feeding them. Not to say that it was hard before but remember that Drake and Mikaela both passed away and not due to old age. As much as it pained me, it was ultimately up to me to make sure that didn’t happen. Still, with 117 eggs and counting, plus the vastly improved health of all the norns in the world, I was still willing to call this consolation run a success. Now to wait for this group to finish its cycle so I could hatch all those eggs!

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Poor Fiona

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bandicam 2015-02-18 13-00-07-562 copybandicam 2015-02-18 13-01-47-482 copyNot even 30 minutes old, Fiona passed away. The best guess I had about her death was that she had either become ill and I simply lacked the knowledge or experience to find out what she was ill with. Poor girl. I hoped that the same wouldn’t happen to the others.

Unfortunately, it happened to Gary as well! He was fine one moment then the Observation kit told me that he was starving. Just seconds later, all of his organs were starting to fail. I think I found part of the problem. I checked the science kit again and it showed that there were no bacteria attacking my creatures. How bizarre!

Finally, just to make sure it wasn’t the babies that I had created, I hatched some brand new Nova Subterra eggs, striaght from the download. In about 20 minutes, I would find out whether they were like this, too. I remembered that Jenny had a similar problem in the previous run and I was worried that I might have snagged some bad genetics when I tried to get a copy of the Nova genome.

Gary meanwhile was dying and I chose to let him pass away while he was unconscious. It seemed like I wouldn’t have been able to do anything anyway. Unfortunately, this did mean that Liana and Pancho, my other two starting Novas would have to pass away soon, too.

Gary passed away and as he did, Liana collapsed to the floor. She didn’t even feel hungry and I never got a “starving” warning from the Observation Kit. Her line in the kit even said “Healthy”. Then the same happened to Pancho. It was all very distressing to watch. Once the four passed away, I had to keep an eye on the four brand new Nova Subterra babies. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone else having this issue with them, so I wasn’t sure what I’d find. Even Jenny, who was a new generation 1 Nova Subterra had this issue.

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Fantastic Ferrying Norns

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bandicam 2015-02-19 22-16-19-247 copyThree of the males were still in the island’s under water glass bubble, Peony was still playing with one of the island’s lifts and Cassy was bother Danny, who only wanted to sleep and walked away

Cassy shouldn’t be having a baby now anyway with her health the way it is. At 54%, I wasn’t optimistic she’d survive a pregnancy, nevermind the chance of getting sick afterwards. As the only fertile female, she had an important role, too! Stubborn as she was, she didn’t do much eating to help her situation. I did manage to help her get her health back up to 60% before I was content to leave her alone.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-19-54-016 copyDanny eventually escaped to the island by way of submarine and I guess he must have enjoyed the trip. He took the submarine back and forth a few times before settling on the island. The island’s inhabitants took a similar course, going back and forth between the two piers in that tiny boat.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-20-26-199 copyThey didn’t seem to enjoy their trip quite so much as Danny enjoyed his, though. Such a tiny boat couldn’t have been comfortable, seeing as 4 norns all had to share it.

Eventually, Peony seized the opportunity to take the boat back and forth by herself. Though she complained of tiredness, she didn’t seem too interested in resting.

bandicam 2015-02-19 22-24-33-714 copyBy now, all of the males were on the island with Peony and Cassy was by herself near the lemons. She was eating on her own and her health had made a fantastic recovery.

She seemed to take better care of herself when I wasn’t around. I was glad to see her eating, but I only wished she’d do it when her health really needed it, too!

 

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