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I had just opened the game when I got two pregnancy indications. Yup. Another pregnant grendel, and this time, I know who the father is!

Yup, Des is the mother this time, and I caught her running from the father to be, Giants. What will hatch out of these two, we’ll find out!

I later caught her being chased after by Mac and thought there would be more babies coming, but she wasn’t having any of it. She didn’t seem to like Mac much, anyway.

I then, quickly, killed all the game’s bacteria and moved on to checking on the norns. The little ones were eating and resting, so I hatched another egg.

This is Scandal. It’d been a few days since I picked out my norn eggs so I’d forgotten what breeds I selected! Silly me.

Since I’d killed off the bacteria, I felt more relaxed about the world as a whole and set out to hatch our fourth norn egg.

Meet Lowe, our Civet male. He took to the intelligence core right away and as soon as he’d learned his words, he was allowed to join the others.

The four of them took to playing on the ground floor of the terrarium, pushing toys and eating everything.

At this point, everything had calmed down quite a bit. I took an inventory of my creatures. I know it isn’t a lot, considering they can take excellent care of themselves, but I still had 6 eggs to hatch! Two more foundation norns, and two eggs from each of my grendel girls. I was about to be very busy.

I took the lull in activity to clean up the Norn Terrarium a bit and clean up magic beans that had made it to inconvenient places, replant some Bramboo near the graveyard, check on everyone’s health and just do some maintenance around the ship, making sure all the ecologies were where I wanted them.

I also managed to snap a photo of Cheese taking advantage of the peace. It was very nice.

There was one issue with Des being eaten by bugs, so I killed the pests and gave her some Calm Balm to get her to sleep. She was angry about the pain and could’ve used the sedative anyway.

Then, as I was getting ready to introduce the next two norn eggs, I got another two pregnancy notifications. Obese Bomb was pregnant again and this time, I knew for sure that Mac was the father.

Sadly, this would be the last time she laid eggs, with my population control.

I wanted to share this picture to 1, show you the proud parents and 2, show you that Boney Grendel females don’t have  a pregnancy sprite! Go figure, right? I’m not sure I’d have a belly at all if I were mostly made of bone, but it’s still hilarious to see her as basically just a floating head and limbs.

At this point, the only Youth of the Norn group was Wren and all the others were Adolescents. It was time for me to start preparing for pregnant norns, but I still wanted to hatch the other foundation norns first. The two girls liked to spend time together but Scandal and Lowe liked to spend a lot of time together and I wanted to finish getting a diverse group started.

Before any more injuries or pregnancies could seize my attention, I rushed to hatch the last two foundation norn eggs. I got a boy Fallow norn I’ll call Kettle and a girl Bruin I’ll call Sour.

Thin Desire had a different idea, though. I’d just finished uploading pictures of these two norns when I got two more pregnancy indications.

This brought our grendel egg total to 8! Hopefully, none of them were stillborns or sliders. That concluded the breeding careers of all of the grendels, though. I felt a little bad for neglecting them so much but since they were all adults, I felt it was alright to move on to the young norns.

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Today I made a small change to the game that allows multiple births per pregnancy. The reason for this is that grendels have the unfortunate gene that causes females to grow old and die after their first pregnancy. I’m often lucky if this baby grendel is a female but most times, I have to introduce a new female to make it to later generations, which is unfortunate. To alleviate this, I decided to make litters possible, much in the same way that Jessica did in her C3/DS Social Experiment world.

Anyway, the Grendels were all settled and were all Youths and Adolescents now so I started to flip through the norn breeds in Muco to decide what I wanted.

I ended up picking a huge variety of breeds instead of just two males and two females from two different breeds. Now, I have 3 males and 3 females, all from different backgrounds.

Meet Five Cheese, or just Cheese for short. She’s a Bondi norn and the first female norn in the world. It took me a minute to realize that she wouldn’t be able to learn a full vocabulary in the Norn Terrarium, so I added a Portal Intelligence Core to the Norn Terrarium, near the Incubation area. I was alerted to Bomb contracting a bacteria, which I intercepted with the hover dock, and Cheese here feeling pain from eating chilis but I was soon ready for my next egg.

Loving Wren, this handsome Male Chichi Norn was born just as Obese Bomb got pregnant and laid two eggs. I had to neglect poor Wren for a moment to scoop up her eggs for later. Since both Mac and Giants were nearby and kiss-popping her, I can’t know for sure who the father could be. I think I have an idea who the culprit is, but I can’t know for sure just yet.

Mom looks pretty pleased with herself.

Hopefully, these two hatch and grow up without any problems!

The new eggs got me thinking, though. How would you all feel about an egg-counter?  Not one in game, but one in the blog? I might also keep a family tree, though things may just get out of hand. I’ve installed a population control agent so that creatures become infertile after fathering or mothering 4 eggs. I had originally wanted to limit this number to 2 but with so many different breeds roaming around, the chance for still borns and sliders gets pretty high, and I don’t want to limit myself.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think!

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