Accomplishments

Hallows and Anruin coupled up to create yet another child. I was very happy to get my wish and see a little boy hatch! I named him Arvs. I am also pleased to find that he was born cute like his sister Athesie, with a norn head and a pumpkin body. Arvs hatched into a world bustling with norns on all sides of him and was immediately overwhelmed. The first thing he did upon hatching is become fearful and begin a repeated session of "retreat norn". I attempted to snap him out of it with a slap to his bum and lead him over to the hugging tree. It was a little bit of a challenge I admit getting him to turn his attention away from the other norns and to the tree, but after a short time I was able to convince him to pay attention to the tree just long enough to get a hug or two in. Then he was all set and happy again!

After Arvs learned that the tree was friendly and would help him cope with his crowded feelings he loved them. Arvs then happily walked from one tree near the treehouse to the one by the bees nest and began hugging it too. Arves is all content and happy again, yay!

I had been watching Arethan for some time now in his little garden. He was so joyful with the new plants i'd given him to plant that he would do nothing else. His hunger levels were out the roof and there was no way I could convince him to eat anything. I slapped him several times but had to stop lest I slap him to death. I tried clicking on the mushrooms to get his attention, picking one and waving it in front of him, telling him to eat fruit, checking repeatedly to make sure he knows the words "eat fruit" and still nothing! I even combined some of these tactics and tried them at the same time. Eventually I gave up and with a huff picked Arethan up and plopped him on the level below where he was, where only mushrooms grow. There he wasn't distracted by the planted plants any longer and with a slap and me showing him the mushrooms once again he finally got into his head that eating them was a good idea! As soon as he ate one and learned this, he couldn't stop! I was so happy to see this! As soon as he had stuffed his belly with mushrooms even beyond what he needed I was convinced he was ready to be returned to his original spot and did so. The plants were there but he no longer took interest in them obsessively and continued to happily eat the mushrooms! I felt like I had suddenly overcome an overwhelmingly impossible challenge and took a moment to congratulate myself!

Impowered and encouragedby my previous success with Arethan I went to Xenia to take up the challenge of her obsessive personality again! I found her spending her time banging on the drums on the ocean dock where she had been for an hour or two now (*sings* I don't wanna work...I just wanna bang on the drums all day!), without eating anything. It was a long, frustrating process but I eventually convinced her to step away from the drums and push some other toys, or eat some seeds. I could not get her to eat any fruits while she was around the drums but found she would happily eat the mushrooms in the desert if I lead her half the way to them. I would expect her to be able to smell them from her position, since a norn can smell fruit from the warp room, but apparently her senses are limited. Here is a picture of her finally being happy and content. This is one for the record books!

 I had downloaded the new agent at naturing:nurturing that allows you to teach your norns verbs and excitedly went to work teaching all of the ones that are used most often to the norns in the main area of the tribe under the tree house! I was so excited! I then went off to check on the other norns that were around in the world, but returned to find a likefest on my hands! I know from past experience it's impossible to get them to stop doing this without separating them completely from each other. What have I done?! I was about to pull my hair out! Once my norns learned how to talk they won't shut up. Now I can't stand to spend more than a few minutes watching them with the constant speech bubble pop ups before I have to leave for another part of the world. Hopefully they'll grow tired of this sometime.

As you can see from this picture, upon checking up on the cute little Arvs, I found while he was still a baby that he is having trouble with his Liver A organ. This organ stores excess energy. Correct me if i'm wrong but this can be compared to how a human body stores fat for later use, in case there is no food available. I will be watching this in Arvs to see if the organ dies completely during his lifetime, which I hope it doesn't. If it does it doesn't mean the end of this norn, it just means he will need a steady supply of food available to keep his energy up. If a famine ever hits Nyrn Arvs will be the first to starve.

Once again Hallows has become friendly with a male norn, which I'm glad to see her getting along with everyone so well. She has bared another son by Arsyn and his name is Arvyn. Arvyn hatched and immediately appalled me (i'm a little ashamed to admit..). I know it's hard to tell, but Arvyn has chichi norn arms, a predator norn body and the rest is pumpkin, meaning pumpkin vines that he walks on and two large eyeballs floating above his empty neck. This is one ugly norn. I believe this is the ugliest norn i've ever had in my tribe. Still, he intrigues me with his look and I will enjoy watching his life unfold.

Aren met his end sorrounded by family. I believe Aren died like so many other norns, self starvation. I never like to see a norn go this way, but there's not much I can do about it aside from force feed them. The norn in the picture stayed by his side the whole time until he disappeared in a puff of sparkles. When I tried to pull him away for a better picture he resisted me and immediately went right back to him... Yet he wears a smile just like his friend. Rest in peace Aren.

Xenia's success with trying other foods carries over to the bramboo growing in the desert. A little while back I dropped one bramboo fruit on the sands in the hope of feeding it to her and needless to say, back then, it was entirely ignored. I never expected it to take root and grow, and begin to multiply. I am very happy to see that the desert now has more food for any norns that happen to get lost in it, but am a little confused because I thought that the desert would be way too hot with far too little moisture to ever grow something that's meant to grow in a swampy environment. Yeesh.

Aldobrando, one of the banana brothers, managed to discover the very top of the scaffoldings. I was happy when I first found him up there, but as I watched I discovered he no longer wanted to be there, and wasn't very happy. Aldobrando was lost and had forgotten how to go down. He tried many things, walking one way, then the other only to reach a dead end. He tried pushing the button, eating the button, eating the lift, eating the toy, pushing the toy and even watching all three! I attempted to show him that he is meant to push the lift but every time I tried to tell him, he applied "push" to everything but the lift. It seems he has an aversion to pushing the lift. Perhaps i'm partly to blame for that. It was only minutes before, perhaps twenty or fifteen.. that I slapped him a few times for repeatedly riding the lift up and down the first level of the scaffolding. Because of my guilt with this, I picked him up and gently placed him down on the second level where there were many interesting toys for him to play with, so that he no longer would be unhappily stuck at the very top. Here he happily played with the toys around him and wore a smile once again!

Spring turned into summer in Nyrn and it was being a very cold, cold summer. The temperature hovered in the teens nearly all the time and snow occasionally falls from the sky. In spite of this all of the flowers have bloomed and the butterflies and bees are about. This means an abundance of honey! When the hive began producing copious amounts all of the norns gathered around to feast! You can't see it very well in this picture because they're all standing in the one spot but there are at least five norns there!

I returned to check on Xenia again and was mildly alarmed to find her sitting in a small pile of purple fruit (bad, poisonous fruit). She wasn't moving and appeared to be lethargic, laying down a lot, and so I quickly checked her over and found out (as you can see in the bottom left of this picture) that she had contracted a mild amount of sleep toxin from the fruits. I felt too bad that she was feeling sick to punish her for getting into the fruits, so I watched to see how her body was coping with it. To my surprise and amazement the 34 sleep toxin was completely gone from her system within seconds after having eaten a single berry without her even falling asleep once! This must be due to some sort of superior genetics! 

I don't remember seeing anything that stood out in her genetics when I first looked at them, but that doesn't mean I missed something. I'm so happy for you Xenia! Now if only you could rejoin the rest of the norns and pass those genes on some more.

Current population: 16

Hallow's Children

It wasn't until I moved the spring toy from the bridge to an unreachable location that Xenia decided to move on. The reason I moved the toy was so that she would not starve to death. While I prefer to leave my norns alone and let them fend for themselves most of the time, I tend to have a weakness on occasion for helping them out. Xenia continued forward to the fruits growing on the bush on the other side of the bridge. She ate some and then moved on.

I was sad to find another premature death in the tribe. Arrinis, who had been so tender to the butterflies and gentle with the plants had passed away with a peaceful smile on his face. 

As usual with a norn death that isn't obvious, I checked him with the hoverdoc and found his death is most probably brought on by starvation. As you can see all three food needs are extremely high. Arrinis apparently had become not only a vegetarian, but a foodatarian. It is as if he grew a fondness for all life that he could not bear to eat any of it. I can't help but be a little grumpy at this, as saintly as it sounds.

Surprise surprise! Benkei has passed the IQ test much faster than I expected him to! He looks to be an intelligent norn indeed. Benkei's first interest when plopped into the middle of Nyrn was the many fruits and plants around him. He quickly went to stuff his belly with the abundance of foods! I guess the IQ test was hard on his tummy.

As some clouds roll by creating a fog affect Xenia determinedly crossed the bridge back toward the desert. As she did, I remembered that's where the honey jar was waiting and I hoped she wouldn't again find it and become addicted. I didn't want her to live life glued to that thing in one spot. She didn't look happy last time. I could only hope as I watched her that she would not do it again.

It proves challenging to keep Adalhard's attention away from the seeds nestled up against the volcano door. The seeds themselves aren't harmful, but every time he attempts to get them he ends up banging his head on the door severely. This, if left untreated and undeterred, could lead to his death. Luckily I distracted him with a jar of honey and continually to point him toward the mushrooms growing. He still threatens to turn back toward the seeds with thoughtful looks every now and then.

I was sad to see Benkei had died not long after he entered this world. It puzzled me, he had arrived so happy and was eating well when I dropped him off! Now he is crouched down in the norn's tree house. I have no idea exactly what happened to him. Poor Benkei. Oh well, I guess not all norns can live long in this world.

Near the swamp bridge a group of males hang out. All of the santa norn heads caught my attention and I decided it's picture worthy to have them all in one place! I never noticed as much how each norn looks so similar until they were all together like this. This is Fiken's doing for sure, but the future generations with Xenia and Hallows promise to pepper the tribe with more diversity soon enough!

Arver, one of the many males with a santa norn head, pauses to shiver in the cool spring air while his friend rests next to a carrot. This years spring is turning out to be a pretty cool one. I've often caught many norns shivering now and then, and when checking the temperature they're in the low 20's. 

And here we have Hallows first pregnancy! The father of her unborn child is Arius and I couldn't wait to see what the baby would look like! Despite being a halloween norn with spooky floating eyes, Hallows is actually very cute and not scary at all! All of the tribe accepts her as a full fledged member and everybody has been nice to her. Hallows has almost an innocent air to her.

I watched closely as she walked around, her little pumpkin belly wouldn't grow I knew, but when the time to lay came near she settled down next to the bee hive and layed a speckled egg. Here the baby will most certainly hatch with a good source of food on all sides, surrounded by the promise of being well fed! Oh, and also a friendly hugging tree so it also feels loved!

Soon enough the egg began to shift and crackle as the baby stirred inside, ready to come out. After a few seconds from the egg came a little girl I named Athesie! I gasped at her adorableness! She didn't look deformed at all, which is what I was a little worried about. In fact, she looks positively cute! She has a little santa norn head from her father, chichi arms, apple norn legs and a pumpkin for a body!

Not long after, Athesie's sister was born. Unlike Athesie, Aumsi isn't quite as cute. Aumsi has her mothers everything except for what appears to be an apple norn tail or something. It's a little hard to tell. Aumsi hatched on her feet and immediately began moving around, I found it extremely difficult to get a good look at her. I was also surprised how soon Hallows had decided Arius would make a good father for the second time.  I'm still hoping for some boys from Hallows.

Current population: 14

New Lands

Today started with an unusual death. I followed a gravestone icon atop my screen to Arrille who was laying, dead, ontop of the tube that lead from the tree house to the shee computer room. The first thing that puzzled me was how he got there. I had no idea he had wandered anywhere far enough where he could fall from a height onto the tube, yet that's the only explanation my mind could come up with! Still, I have no proof that a fall was what he died of at all! He didn't seem to be starved though. The idea of him dieing from a great fall leaves me feeling slightly disturbed and a little horrible. Such a death is sure to cause pain, but maybe it was instant with no pain. I can only hope. Unable to solve this mystery I left him alone to rest in peace.

Arethan was also following the fruit seeds that pop out and fly all over the place. How he got out of the little tube thing I have no idea! This is some sneaky norn! The spikey shells of the seeds fascinated Arethan but the seeds always seemed to disappear before he could satisfy his curiosity! Arethan's disjointed legs didn't slow him down, fueled  by his passion to figure out those seeds! It seems like Arethan is another norn who has somewhat of a scientific (or just curious) mind.

Angaredhel passed away, failing the IQ test with flying colors. He was the last norn left in the warp room (save for Wanic in the chamber) and died alone. But I can only imagine he was met with all of his fellow norns on the other side to greet him!

I found Xenia still in the desert doing nothin but sipping on that honey and looking a little bit miserable (look at that ear and mouth, honey overdose?). Desperate to get her to do something else I slapped her a few times to get her mind off of honey, which only works for a few seconds. I took advantage of those few seconds to lead her over to the drums and show them to her. I was very pleased to see her take an interest in them and begin playing with them. Little did I know that this too would become an obsession. She developed an obsession with toys! Try as I might I could not get her to stop playing the drums long enough to eat anything, and she was hungry! As I watched her as time went by, I developed the idea (nothing more than an educated guess) that maybe she is confused and attempting to satiate her hunger with pushing toys now that I deterred her from the honey.

I left Xenia to play with the drums a little bit, maybe she would get bored with it eventually, and decided to check on the next norn. I found Adalhard riding the lift with his banana norn friend. I watched them and discovered they were lift happy like so many norns can become. They rode up and down, up and down, all the while with Adalhard clutching his honey jar. I guess there's nothing wrong with a snack along the way.. The lift happy button pushing mostly belonged to the banana norn and I decided to stop him before he "lifted" himself to starvation with a couple of slaps!

Worried about Xenia I returned to her to find her still pushing the drums. I gave her a few slaps and showed her the seeds when she began complaining about hunger again. I had to wave some in front of her face a couple of times, and point to them before she finally decided they were worth paying attention to. But when she finally ate one, there was no stopping her! Xenia goes for all or nothing apparently!

Well now that Xenia was eating and mostly fufilled I went to check on the main part of the tribe. Nyrn was filled with many young faces and the sounds of happy norns! There was the occasional slap but that never lasted more than once or twice and all of the norns were smiling all the time! I watched as Arsyn busied himself with playing with the hugging tree and had to chuckle at the sight of the little girl norn using the didgeridoo as a telescope! I know she was actually playing it, but it looks hilarious how she was holding it! What did she think she was looking at?

I'm happy to announce that the lift happy banana norn has stopped being lift happy! My disciplining worked. I now found them what appeared to be trying to get into the volcano. After watching them for a minute though I discovered they were merely interested in the small seeds against the volcano door. What is it with norns and these particular seeds?  The banana norn kept trying so hard to get at them that he kept bonking himself into the door. I gave him a few slaps and tried to lead him away, to convince him that running into the door wasn't a good idea no matter how much you want those seeds.. but he wouldn't listen to me. Even his friend Adalhard couldn't convince him.

Arethan had found the little grove of mushrooms to the left of the waterfall and was happily plucking up, eating and playing with them. There is nothing here in this specific little area except mushrooms and I kind of felt bad that Arethan had nothing else to pay attention to. 

So, to fix this I plopped a few of those purple fruits on the ground for him to eat and plant. This he did happily! He was very excited to see something new to put his attention to and thanks to me took up gardening! I don't know how long this will keep him happy, but I won't be upset if he decides this is his new passion or obsession. It certainly is better than a lift obsession.

Arrinis was not far away from Arethan, and yet the two norns never knew the other was there. Arrinis is still among the roots of the seasons tree walled in by bricks of the old ruins holding the tunnels up. His attention had been on the fruits all this time but now as he rests on the rich, dark earth, he couldn't help but admire the beauty of the delicate butterflies fluttering about his head and admire the pretty colors. I was very happy to see that, unlike the norns of the past, he was not attempting to harm these little creatures. Last summer I had failed in keeping the norns away from the insects and before I knew it all of the caterpillars and butterflies had gone extinct due to being eaten! Thank you for being gentle Arrinis.

Xenia didn't become obsessed with the food like she had the honey, which is good I guess, but I found her wandering the desert in search of more toys. All she could think about now were toys. When I got back to her and found her wandering toward the toy car, she was also complaining of hunger yet again. Again the idea that she was confusing pushing toys with eating crossed my mind. This time, as much as I tried to convince her that eating fruit and seeds would get rid of her hunger pangs she wouldn't buy it.

I watched with mild annoyance as she walked to the toy car, and then my annoyance changed to curiosity and surprise when she passed it and continued walking. My mind reading agent said she was approaching toy, yet there was no toy in sight! Still, she seemed very intent on where she was going and very determined. 

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Just then I got a visitor through the warp and was tickled at how cute he looked. Course, most norns look cute at this stage of life! This is little Benkei. Benkei is special because he is a generation 2 (usually I get gen 1's through the warp) and curiously, the world he came from was named "ccsf-cp". I know what the CCSF is, but what does the CP stand for? Is this a norn who came from a world specifically for breeding that has to do with the ccsf? If anyone can tell me please let me know. For now, Benkei is left to try his hand at the IQ test. He appears to be a very competent norn though, and so I have high hopes that he'll pass.

Back at the roots of the seasons tree Arrinis holds in his hands a single one of those fruits he'd been spending so much time studying. He did nothing but gaze at that fruit for such a long time. My mind reader agent just said "watch fruit" so i'm sure that he was studying it as hard as he could, perhaps trying to find some miraculous discovery from the fruit, or like he was trying to communicate with it!

Xenia was still walking and had never even taken a rest when I returned to her. When she reached the bridge though, a toy finally came into view and her sights immediately set on it. My hopes that she had stopped being obsessed with toys were dashed as her one track mind brought her to the little spring that rests on the bridge. Because she wasn't in danger of starving to death, even though she was a little hungry, I let her indulge herself in the spring toy while I watched with mild amusement.

POP goes the weasel!

Silly Xenia...





Current norn population: 16
The population is lowering! How low can it go?

Teehee!

So i'm a huge fan of LNA and watch it all the time when it's up. I just now sent Arius over to live in that world and try out the new metaroom there! I can't wait to see how he does and if he has any offspring!

http://www.twitch.tv/amaikokonut

Surprise!

On one of my usual rounds to check on all of the norns one at a time I found more norns misplaced away from their home forest than ever before! Wanderlust has apparently swept through the tribe and infected many norns, inspiring them to wander to other places! I found Arrinis here among the roots of the big seasons tree. He is sorrounded by many fruits and seeds so I wasn't very worried about him. I'm pleased to see so many norns exploring away from the forest! Arrinis wasn't doing much but admiring all of the different mushrooms, fruits and seeds while looking for some toys.

However, his brother Arethan was not so lucky. Arethan was distracted with a fruit seed and chased it all the way into the little tube near the place where Arrinis is. I'm guessing Arethan had followed him there, or traveled with him but was unlucky enough to get stuck in the underground tube. I am left wondering why this tube is here, what purpose does it have other than to trap unsuspecting norns? I showed Arethan the spring near by so he can use it and get himself out. He did use it, with a small bit of encouraging from me, but try as he might it just didn't get him out of the tube. I "tsk'd" and lifted him out, only to have him walk right back in after that seed again. Two more tries of this and I decided if he's happy down there he can stay down there because no amount of coaxing him away from that seed will work!

A little girl was born in the forest and I named her Ashamanu. She is the second to last child of Fiken.

In the forest tree house sits the last egg that rests above the ground. The spotted black and white egg began to stir and rustle on the wooden beams of the tree house floor.. It began to hatch! I watched with anticipation as the cracking of the shell was heard and slowly a tiny norn began to step out.

From the squished confines of the shell came Ashamanu's sister, Ashumanu! She is the last daughter of the famed super fertile Fiken. Fiken now boasts of 22 daughters! A nice number to stop on.

Ashumanu walked accross the wooden boards and over to the shee doll. This isn't unusual, many babies that were born up there did play withe with toys there and explore their immediate sorroundings, but Ashumanu looks especially cute when she picked it up and carried it around with her! She just looks so pleased with herself and "a matter of fact" about carrying the shee doll!

On the other side of the swamp bridge play the banana brothers and two native norns. It almost seemed like they'd formed a little exclusive club for themselves because of how they played so closely together all the time. Areas examined the grave stone closely in amusement while his brother behind him carried around a honeypot, revealing his temporary addiction to honey. One banana brother hides behind the lift button as if camera shy! You're not that skinny, little norn!

Another IQ test failure. Anes failed to pass the test and in fact I don't think he ever left the warp room at all. He passed away on the bottom level where the containment chamber is. I always feel sorry for norns that pass away from things like this, but I'm also happy that I weed out the poor survivors. Still, rest in piece.

Near the swamp that little grey mysterious egg continues to rest among spring flowers and near the ominous looking gravestone. That little egg seemed to have a dark aura around it itself and made the gravestone look more like a companion. I was pleasantly surprised when I learned it was this eggs turn to hatch, when I heard the familiar shell cracking sounds comming from it! Arius doesn't suspect a thing going on behind him!

Arius is still distracted by the ettin norn when out pops a little unsual creature from the egg! Can you see her? It is a little female norn that looks like a walking jack-o-lantern and a pair of floating eyes! This is the norn that was introduced for halloween, however due to the other eggs that were already in the world, this little guy has a late start! I'm sorry that he didn't make it in time FOR halloween, but I wasn't willing to sacrifice eggs to do it. I named her hallows.

Ashumanu stayed in the tree house with her shee doll gripping it proudly when I went back to check on her. She just looked so cute that I had to snap another picture! She hadn't strayed far from where the shee originally sat, but continued to hold it and play with it the whole time! Worried that she hadn't gone down to the ground to eat anything I picked some fruits and fed them to her along with some seeds. She ate them happily, and was obviously hungry. Even so, she never lost that smile on her face!

Xenia remains in the desert with her pot of honey. She has been there doing nothing but eating the honey over and over with the occasional touching of a toy. I can't decide whether to feel sorry for her and try to help, or leave her be because she does seem happy. I gave her a couple light slaps and she stopped eating long enough to walk a few steps and play with a near by toy, but she never once put the jar down. It wasn't long before she was right back to eating honey. Xenia has developed a strong honey addiction!

Arsyn decided it was time to move on to another new place, even if it wasn't that far away, and rode the lift up into the scaffolding above the swamp. He was accompanied by two of his buddies who also thought it fun. In the scaffolding one of them found a jack-o-lantern and thought it was so interesting he just had to hold it and carry it around with him everywhere! It looked like he was trying to show it to the other norns "look what I found!". When you explore new places you're certain to find new and interesting things!

Current norn population: 18 plus girls