A Tragic Grendel Death in Artemiidae
Life in my C3/DS underwater world, Artemiidae, has been bustling lately! The last video chapter started to bring out the personalities of some Norns and Grendels. Despite the excitement around a new chapter, it began with a tragic moment: The wonderful Artemia Grendel who traveled between metarooms and was nothing but friendly to the Norns passed away. Of all the ways to go, it was via excessive slapping from several male Colortrue Pearl Mermaid Norns. Their names have been noted, and I’m not at all happy with them. Artemia Sea was a very peaceful place up until this point, and this was the first violent death outside of the Banshee Hydrolisks. Farewell, Striated Berycidae.
On a more positive note, this chapter followed the lives of the ever-maturing population, which meant that there were some new appearances! In particular, I found a very vibrant mix between a Colortrue Pearl Mermaid Norn and Coral Reef ChiChi Norn in the Deep Abyss. What a handsome fellow! Although I didn’t note it in the video, he actually has two tails that don’t look all too bad. It’s been fun seeing what sorts of mixes are possible, and I’m sure we’ll have some more surprises in store as this generation continues to grow up! Hopefully this video has some redeeming qualities after the opening sadness. Enjoy watching!
Oh how so sad about Striated Berycidae… a nice grendel getting beaten to death, that’s just not fair! Those two norns and their happy faces oblivious, not even considering what they did… >:( How dare they!
Just curious… do you ever cast out / punish norns for things like that? I know in some cases, generally norns being slappy against a grendel might be a good thing for their survival… but in a peaceful society such as that it’s just mean :(
In C2 I’d be mean and would barrier off the nice society and if trouble like that happened I’d be mean and cast the instigator out into the dangerous world alone… like the volcano etc, gee, that sounds kinda terrible. But there’d be a small “rebel” faction which was interesting, roughing it!
On a better note, that violet fellow sure is a beaut! Two tailed norns sometimes can look a little off, but I think it looks amazing and exotic most of the time!
So sorry for the horribly late reply! This was still a very sad situation, and these Norns have been on my negative list for the last two months. In this world, I haven’t taken to actively interacting with my Creatures. Normally, though, this is something that I would quickly try to remedy! That is one reason why I think Creatures 1 can be a little more relaxed… Even the excessive slappers can’t do too much damage, since there’s no risk of dying from too much pain. A bit unrealistic, yet I’ll take it!
Your Creatures 2 rules actually sound familiar to something I wrote up when I was quite young… It was some sort of “law book” where Ettins and Grendels would be punished by being sent to the volcano for acting poorly towards Norns. I don’t think I ever implemented it, and I believe it was sadly lost long ago. Yet your story reminded me of it!
I was pleasantly surprised by his appearance with the two tails, too. I think we’ll see some rather strange appearances as the breeds mix some more! Yet this was a very nice way to see what can happen when mixed breeds turn out pretty nicely!