It was very cool to see two populations forming themselves in the world and while it made me sad to see old norns getting ready to leave the world, I was also pretty happy about the babies that had yet to enter it. I took a peek and still had Aster, Fidget, Mese and Stain left to import.
As for Synergy, she wouldn’t live long enough to see the very last baby imported into the world. It was strange to become so quickly overwhelmed by norns that I wasn’t able to learn about or keep up with any of them, but at the same time, I’m glad that they all lead better lives than during the event.
There was a lot of bad mouthing about the other norns, but I was starting to think this was bound to happen anyway. When I tried to lessen the chatter by separating everyone for a little while, I had some success but Drake sadly passed away. I guess he must have starved. The poor guy hardly moved from his perch in the Norn Terrarium and I guess the food just wasn’t abundant enough. A small comfort, though, he at least had Andromeda by his side and many of the norns admired her, including Drake.
It came time to introduce the next baby, though. Life moves on. You might remember Fidget as the first victim of EE in the random event run. The good news is that the first thing she did in this world was start eating, so we’re off to a great start.
Kerplunk was the first norn to return to the Norn Terrarium. If nothing else, this meant he could have all of the apples to himself! None of the other norns seemed wise to his absence, though. The Norn Meso was so crowded, it would take more than a missing norn or two to really notice a difference. And believe me, everyone was so busy eating plums and breeding, I don’t think I had to mind any migrations any time soon.
As time marched forward, I watched the norns age and grow up. Soon, Synergy would be taken away to Silicon Heaven. She was making friends with Eve and Anai, at least. The girls only seemed to tickle each other. Eventually, it happened and before I could introduce the next baby.
Sadly, her death marked the beginning of a very sad time to come. Introducing a new baby every 15 minutes meant that once natural old-age deaths started happening, they would happen every 15 minutes. I tried to keep my chin up and prepared to introduce the next baby.
Speaking of babies, while I waited, the egg count creeped up to 100. Lin got to mother the 100th egg. Gracious that’s going to be a lot of eggs for me to sort through later!
Finally, our resident Tomato Whisperer Mese was to join us. This world din’t have tomatoes, but I hoped he decided to make some friends with the resident Norns, anyway.
Kerplunk was still by himself in the Norn Terrarium but at least he was safe (and being showered by chocolate roses) so I didn’t have to worry about him, though I still checked on him. I’d rather not another death like Drake’s in this world.
Just then, I decided to move everyone into the Jungle Terrarium. I wanted to see some migration again and Kerplunk was feeling very lonely. Watching the norns go on adventures was a lot of fun for me anyway, and watching the norns split into groups was interesting.
