Oh, by the way, it's snowing.

GAH. These always show up so much clearer on the camera.

So I looked out the window and noticed that, wait a minute, the drizzling rain was starting to drift funny.

A quick peek outside and, lo and behold, it was confirmed that the reason for this was because it was snow cascading from the skies in a gentle flurry of white fluff.

(On a side note, how come Tohru always gets sick from rain, but never from snow?)

The snow has also begun to stick. So tomorrow we're in for a funderful day of slush! :D

And now to write a lot. *typey typey typey)

Comical

 Episode 1: The Adventure

(creative, I know)

Usagi and Rei intend to explore the world, but are interrupted by a honey pot. Meanwhile, Lucille practices her ninja skills on the unwitting population! Some laws of physics get broken.

Starring Usagi the Astro Norn, Rei the Primevera Norn, and Ami the Estrella Norn

Also featuring Bambi the Fallow Norn, Simon the Siamese Norn, and Lucille the Sabertooth Norn

*Run Norn!* *Why? Why?*

 

Meanwhile, again...

~End~

Thanksgiving Time~

Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving, everyone!

GAH
I'm stuffed

Like...like a pillow. Is this how ravioli feels?

November 24

• Met someone younger than 8 who pronounced my name correctly on the first try. Actually, four people. Go cousins. 
• Ate too much. :P
• Had coconut cake. Informed by brother eldest that it contains rum. Determine that it is merely rum flavored because otherwise 50% of the guests would be talking funny. 
• Decide that they called it Mortal Kombat because "test your might! Test your might! Random Skirmish!" didn't have quite the same ring. 

November 25

• Stayed home to avoid Black Friday madnesses. ZOMG amazing

November 26

• Had Thanksgiving lunch with Grandad and his wife Judy
• Went fishing. Score: Grandad 1, Dad 1, Jake 1, Mom 0 Ben 0, Chandler: pictures of a birdhouse.
• Had pie. It was pie flavored. *cue guitar*
• The pie was too sweet. No longer liked pie. 
• Forgave the pie. Liked pie again.
• Played some Creatures. Made a world containing every breed I have that works. Except for Fimbul Norns. They be Nornian rabbits and will spread their genes of grouchy amongst the colony. 

I believe I now have acquired the nutrition required for hibernation. And that is what I will do, come December: hibernate much in the fashion of a...polar bear.

Wolfing Run Happenings

Delores, Ellis, and Bjarne have all died. D: I don't see how; Ellis was a very young Norn--he actually hatched sometime in the last update, he was the egg Delores was pregnant with in her picture--and Delores was a little over an hour old, while the average lifespan of a Norn is 5 hours and 39 minutes or longer. Perhaps she had a genetic defect she spread to Ellis? They all lived good lives, and now Bjarne may join his twin brother Bunpachirou in the...cyberspace afterlife? Where do Norns go when they die? *ponder ponder*
I exported Akifumi for 3 reasons:

1. He is my only purebred Kawari Norn, and their breed has no egg files so I cannot hatch another.
2. He is quite old--actually ancient, at 5 hours and 21 minutes old.
3. I would like to be able to observe him in a less populated world. 

Three new ones have hatched to take their places, though: welcome Fusami, who hatched a few moments ago, Ellitrud, and Flavius! Flavius is our first Generation 6 Norn. Welcome aboard!
...I'm going to have to make another collage soon. This really isn't a good organizational method for such a large and changing population.^ ^;




Meanwhile, everyone's decided that the space between the door and the food dispenser is no longer the place to be and have migrated to the bottom floor of the Meso!

Actually not a bad choice--there's plenty of food there without having to crowd in one spot and there's the Computer, too, which they'll hopefully discover sooner rather than later. They currently seem to be content to just flock like sheep...thankfully they're a docile bunch, and probably won't find it great fun to slap one another within an inch of their lives.


In the next room, I found Danyal and Eberta, who seem to be frozen in place. I don't think they're going to be too promising.
Beside them rested little Denise, who had separated herself from her tribe and seemed eternally delighted. I sent her back to her room, where she's started to pace around, still elated.

The tribe goes well. Betty noticed my presence and announced that she's feeling friendly--good grief, you just laid an egg a few minutes ago! She's already laid eighteen eggs and is pregnant with her 19th--you can see one of them behind her, it's due to hatch any minute now--is 4 hours and 6 minutes old, and still is quite fertile. I am amazed by her! Were I to have a system of one-female-only Wolfing Runs, she would be a fine queen.

I found Denise with a look of horror on her face. My first suspicion was that she was being attacked, but the HoverDoc reported that she was without pain. My other suggestions were that she was shocked by her childhood aqua coat, she was trying to sing, or that she had realized the meaning of life, but then I checked again--she was starving! She made her way to the Justanut plant and munched away, returning to a look of calm. She donned her expression of fear the next time she got hungry, and it went away after she ate--Denise has a genetic mutation that is causing her to feel fear when she's hungry! I've never seen this case before. I will swiftly locate an agent to confirm or deny my conclusion.

"LOL rivalry!"

Constantin and Denbe are in the middle of a bitter war over who owns the lemon vendor. Ewald seems to find this to be quite amusing.

Current population: 16 males, 8 females, Generation 6

A successful IQ test for Chess Medley

Since the inhabitants of Chess Medley are fairly young, I've decided to run them through an IQ test. Normally, you do this with creatures sent through the Warp, but seeing as the server has been down since apparently June 2011, possibly earlier, this is the closest I can get.

An IQ test for Creatures is, basically, putting the creature(s) in the Workroom and letting them find their way to the Meso (which is on the other side of the Capillata) without any help from you. They pass if they end up in the Meso, they fail if it takes them a considerable amount of time to do it, or if they just can't.

In the case of Chess Medley, this is more of a little challenge for the Norn, rather than a course they must complete or I'll export them for the sake of the gene pool. If they're still stuck after 10 minutes, I'll cancel the test.

So, we begin the test...River's a bit tired and fell asleep soon after this picture was taken.

After only a minute or two, Keith started hitting the Norn dummy, with River following suit. A slap and some advice later, and they learned that's a bad thing to do. At least they've learned something!

After a quick nap, Keith announced he was tired, and hopped right into the elevator, heading for the Meso. What a fast learner!

River noticed her companion was missing, and quickly called the elevator back for herself, while Keith waited at the top. Once they met again, River led the way, Keith following behind. 

...okay, so much for that grand adventure. Justified, as she is only 11 minutes old, but River fell asleep as soon as she crossed through the doorway. Keith still walked on, leaving his friend to her nap. 

Keith quickly found himself in the Meso again, where he immediately called the elevator so he could get to the bottom floor of the room, to feast upon a buffet of nutritious plants which had grown there in his absence. We applaud your speedy navigation, Keith!

Back to River, who has...um...decided to stare listlessly at the door.

When I went to check on her with the HoverDoc, she uttered, "eat door." River, dear, the door is part of the Capillata and cannot be consumed.

It probably counts as cheating, but I had to carry her to the Meso, where I served her an array of foods. She snapped out of it, and started running about, snacking away happily. We celebrate your efforts, River.

While River settled down for another nap, Keith ran around like a crazed jackrabbit, eating every single carrot he could find. Carrots can be eaten in one bite, and what remains quickly turns into another carrot. It's like watching a lawnmower, the way he eats!

River, a bit lonely, all on her own, found the elevator and came to join Keith, who was beginning to tire after his latest carrot run. He soon settled down for a nap, with River, happy with finding another of her kind, joining him.

Checking on the Norns...

River the Deep Norn (facing the camera) and Keith the Fallow Norn.

In Chess Medley, things are going well. River's currently living in a separate room, until I flood the bottom half of the Meso so she can swim about once she's old enough to do so. Poor River is a very bored Norn.

Keith, however, seems perfectly content to just stick around, playing with the Portal stuff. 
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In Room-And-Agent-Tests (originally made for just this purpose, until I got a couple of Norns to test things out!), things also go well. The population, consisting of Guppy the Deep Norn and Chip the ChiChi Norn, are currently living in Devil's Reef. (side note: Devil's Reef, made by Ghosthande, is best meta room.) Guppy is a quiet, solitary Norn, who listens to the Hand. Chip is your ordinary Norn, with a taste for muffins. 

Being a child, Guppy also sleeps often.

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And now it's time to leave the calm of the two-Norn-population worlds and dive into the frenzy that is...Wolfing Run!
(actually now just a Feral run because I interfere too much. Wolfing Run=no human interaction whatsoever, Feral run=add whatever agents and so on you like, teach the Norns a few words, help them to distinguish good plants from bad plants, and so on, then leave them by themselves and interfere whenever)

Currently up to generation 5 with a population of 25, 7 females and 18 males, with over 40 Norns having inhabited this corner of the Capillata, Wolfing Run is truly chaotic! 


I suspect that there's a sort of illness going around; it's taken 8 of them already. D: I'm keeping 9 Norns in their own room, and so far, they are all doing wonderfully. Maybe it has something to do with the temperature? Or the amount of Norns one keeps in one area? From another blog, I have learned that I am not the only one to have this problem...The population size or some really weird genes may be to blame.

Several of them have become fascinated with one of the doors and have been running between the two rooms for in-game hours on end, as is being demonstrated by Dwight and Eberta below.


Here, let me see if I can cram the population into one picture...you can tell what generation each Norn is in by the first letter of their name. (And yes, those are My Little Ponies they're playing with.) 

From left to right: Denise and Erena; Denbe and Constantin; Dwight and Eberta; Engeline; Akifumi and Delfine; Eibo; Danyal; Delores; Dowaito; Bairei; Chisaburou; Darian and Enrico; Ellis; Eziaburou, Eichi, and Erland; Eginbert; Betty, Ewald, and Bjarne.
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Back to a much calmer world, and my first DS world, Zoidberg (need a world name? Why not Zoidberg?).

Starling reminds me that I need to raise the population cap so more eggs can hatch...

Everyone in this world has an astronomy-related name. There's
Andromeda, Deoxys, Adhara, Altair, Constellation, Stardust, Little Star, Starling, Galaxy, and Sunbeam. 
Yeah, I'm starting to run out of names. ^ ^; Adhara and Altair are twins.

Poor Constellation has Chronic Homesickness Disorder.

The Norns in this world are always quick to spout advice to others. This makes them different from the Norns of the other worlds because the Zoidberg Norns all know the same language, so they understand what the other speaks of.



I'll update occasionally if something of interest happens in one of the worlds. 

A question

Is a pen without ink still mightier than the sword?

A strange observation...

Changing the blog's layout seems to motivate me to blog more, even if it was the layout for the writing blog and not the blogging blog. (why so many blogs, come to think of it?)

NaNoWriMo goes well, at least the book isn't spiraling downhill like it did last year. On the negative side, we're 18 days in with a plot that moves at roughly the speed of molasses. It's probably just me, as I'm the one writing the thing, but I refuse to read it over because I'm bound to find something that messes up the continuity of the story and that's just going to end in a confetti of confusion.

Also, curse you, Two Breaths Walking, for being stuck inside of my noggin. An excellent song, though.

Oh, By The By

I imported my other blog, "Little Colored Fairy Lights", so here it is and I'll probably change its name later.