Meet the new baby Rhonda! I have to say, I like her colors! Her upbringing so far is no different than her parents’ so far, though. She has trouble managing boredom and actually spends more of her time resting than either of her parents. Her genetics aren’t especially different, however.
An hour in, her parents finally reached adulthood and adopted a red and green color pattern. This really got me interested in Colortrue genetics since I thought this breed was a good candidate for the edits. Rhonda, despite her initially different color started to follow her parents’ colors as she grew up. I was a little sad the color change didn’t seem to stick but that’s how things are.
Rhonda got to witness the birth and soon, she had a sister named Patty.
Sadly, though, she comes from the original Chameleon ettin genome and is pretty… dumb. Like the rest of her family. While her family huddled by the HLM, I decided to check up on the Dragonfly Demon Ettins.
Malachite and Emerald were actually quite self-sufficient. They fed together, advised each other to rest and did some exploring on the upper level of the Meso. It wasn’t long til the two of them got close enough to have their first egg together. And then Lydia had another. With the population limit set to just 6 I wasn’t worried about crowding, but the eggs might get out of hand since ettins tend to be super breeders.
Soon, Malachite was pregnant again. I feel a bit guilty admitting this but I was tempted to remove the Chameleon ettins and play with my updated genome instead. Huddling in a corner of the room doesn’t make for exciting play or writing and the two Dragonfly Demon ettins weren’t likely to match the egg-laying power of dumb, ettin pushing super breeders. Seriously, their pregnancy lasts less than a minute. As if on cue, Lydia became pregnant again, then Rhonda.
Equally tempting was packing up the ettins and moving to a docked world. I opted to do that instead and hatched all of the eggs in preparation for the move.
