6 December 2001 15:27.
Curie's baby photo, also capturing her first words. Now she begins
her lifelong quest for TOYS!
Welcome! This is a shrine for my Norn Creatures that I have become quite fond of. If you are unfamiliar with Norns or the Creatures Series, you can start at Creature Labs. If you have any interest in working/playing with Artificial Life, you can get Docking Station for free. I hope you enjoy the stories and pictures of my virtual 'kids'!
Gallery: I have a separate gallery for norn images I create. Pics and links for the BBN for Poser.
Avantasia: My new Creatures 3 and Docking Station project page.
As soon as she popped out of her egg, she said I'm bored (Or "me boop," which I believe is bored in Norn baby speak) -- you can see it on her automatic baby snapshot. Because I have suffered so much boredom in my childhood years, I'm very sensitive to this condition, so I took an immediate liking to her. I named her Curie, which is short for Curiosity.
6 December 2001 15:27.
Curie's baby photo, also capturing her first words. Now she begins
her lifelong quest for TOYS!
Curie as an
adult, looking high and low for new toys.
7 December
2001 13:23. Curie lays her first egg. Her daughter
is Gigi, a Civet Norn like her father, Timon.
Curie is now
an elderly Norn, but she still loves her toys. Here, she is playing
bouncy ball in the nestery. Curie also learned to play catch with the
hand. She's quite the fun-loving oldster!
Curie has a
pet! Here, she's carrying around her grumpy amphibo-fish, and deciding
if she wants to play with the spooky jack-o-lantern toy.
Curie
enjoying her twilight hours, happily resting in the
Norngarden.
When I say "bloodsong likes curie," she gives the hand a little hug.
She's a sweetie!
Curie died 11 December 2001 19:54. She was 5 hours and 39 minutes old.
Engelberga arrived through the Warp in my docking station from Gliengul. She's a beautiful colour-changing Norn. However, I soon discovered that she likes nothing better than to go around slapping tired and sleeping Norns! "engelberga no" quickly became one of my keyboard macros!
Engelberga also developed a fruit allergy, which makes her a medical interest. Studying Engelberga's fruit allergy is helping to determine if the DS seed-eating (or not eating, more like it) disorder is a program bug, or an actual Norn trait. Here is the record of her eating disorder. More information can be found on the Docking Station Forums.
i was taking her through the ds hub, where i had a norngarden egg tree plant in a pot. engelberga stopped to eat a fallen egg fruit. i don't know if it was rotten, or if she's allergic to egg tree fruit, or she developed an allergy or what, but soon as she took a bite, she got glycogen poisoning and a terrible tummy ache (pain). i took her to the meso by the dispenser and told her to rest, and tried to give her some lemons. ever try to get a fruit-poisoned norn to eat a lemon?well, she recovered, but she was put off fruit. i tried giving her lemons, i tried those norngarden berries and gecko-tomatoes, i tried yarn fruit. she does NOT want to eat them. she will scarf seeds. she doesn't seem to want to eat food, either.
now she wants to eat leaves (the rainbow leaves in norngarden are supposed to be good -- although the luger leaves are toxic). she wants to eat plants. i keep telling her no, but she'll eat a plant stem and get the glycotoxin/pain again.
when she gets hungry, she watches bop, another norn, who eats fruit quite happily. but engelberga won't touch it. not until it turns to detrius and gives her a shot of alchohol. argh!
then she goes nuts, she wants to eat detrius, she wants to eat plant, she wants to eat norn, she wants to eat me, she wants to eat toy. i tell her no, no, no. one of my macros is 'engelberga no'! i try swatting her when i say 'eat fruit' five times and she doesn't.
If you have any interest in checking out this disorder, you can download Engelberga's cryogenic files here. These are two exports of her; the first is her at a young age, before she developed the fruit allergy. The second is her, older, after developing the allergy. Note you need to change the file name (take off the last 2) and move it to the "My Creatures" directory to use it.
UPDATE:
Engelberga's genes have been studied, and apparently, she did not develop the eating disorder as I thought she had. Instead, her genetic programming for hunger was mutated. When she was hungry for protein, the gene instinct told her to "eat manky." (That's rotten fruit to you and me.) Apparently fruit never entered into her diet, although for most of her life, she managed to get along fine eating manky, or perhaps supplementing her protein diet with other food sources.
After my hard drive loss, which wiped out my first Creature
world, I decided to stat over with Narnia. My plan for Narnia is to
start with a male golden bengal egg and three females of each type (chichi,
civet, bengal). The Golden Bengal is named Aslan, of course ;)
Golden
Bengals were created by Elf, you can get them at this archive.
The world continues as normal for a DS world, with immigrants,
emmigrants, etc. When Alsan dies, I put out another golden bengal male egg
for a replacement. In this way, there is always a generation 1 golden
bengal in the gene pool. My plan (such as it is) is that this will
help keep rampant bad mutations in check.
The startup didn't go too well, as all my hatched babies were male, and I quickly ran out of females to breed! Also, none of the males retained the golden bengal colour genes. The golden bengal line was carried through the females (when I got some to hatch), instead. This sort of crimped my plan for exporting all my females once they had laid an egg or two. Oh well. The golden bengal female line went through Sarabi, Nala, and Kiara so far. (I suppose it will go through Zira and Vitani and start over with the naming, there!)
I did receive through the warp some interesting genomes. Yuya
was a nice bronze coloured bengal, and Arora had some interesting chichi
colouration. I've gotten two lovely colour-changing bengal females
from the mix: Rose and Lilac. Well, they were named after their initial
baby colours, which quickly changed!
Rose was born with a deep, dusky red colour, and then turned bronze brown. As an adult, she's currently a flaming red-orange colour. Click here to download her.
Lilac was born with a deep violet colour, then turned orangish-brown, and a tarnished green-gold colour. She's currently a light golden brown colour. Click here to download her.
Just some pictures of Aslan in his youth.
Aslan as an adult and in his older years.
Looks like
Aslan had a tasty dinner! LOL!
Two adult amphibious draconians: Bahamut and Tiamat, ready to
breed. These dracs were not hand-raised; they survived to
adulthood on their own, and are unmutated generation 1 egg-hatched
dracs.
Four baby hardman/amphibi-drac splices (generation 2). An attempt
to temper (and amphibize) the hardman species and toughen up the
draconian species by cross-breeding. These babies were produced
by hardman and draconian egg-hatched norns, spliced together in the
Shee Ark's engineering area. See the included text file for
details.
Four baby hardman/amphibi-drac splices (generation 2). Same as
above, but these all have amphibious genes.