This is a sad, true story.
One day (Sunday, the 11th of June) I was playing Creatures. Usualy I'll import taught norns that are about 40 mins. old. 2 males and 2 females. I don't allow brothers and sisters to breed. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine.
Anyway a female norn called June was preagnant. I decided to conduct a little experiment. My Biology book said that mutations may occur when the mother is exposed to radiation or extreme heat. I wanted a mutation considiring I have only encounted 1 so far (more on this later).
Since there isn't any radiation in C1, you must resort to heat. I led June to the shower, which causes norns to become hot after a while. While preagnant June mainly ate honey a drunk a little from the green cups. Finaly she laid the egg. It was one of those red and yellow ones. I tended to other norns while the egg grew. I also wondered of heat causes an egg to grow faster. I'll figure it out later.
After a while I went to check on the egg. It was full grown with the black spot moving around. I tired to pick it up. I couldn't . I WAS TO LATE! A window from the observation kit poped up. "(Unamed) has an alarmingly low life force". Great, I thought. Then I looked at the Observation kit. The condition of the norn was decieced! I clicked on Norns on the toolbar. It also said the norn, a female, was dead. I was shocked.
I waited for the norn to hatch. As soon as it came out I heard that horrible groan. The norn died before it was alive! I waited for the broken egg to disapear so that I could see the body. It had PMN arms, type 2 head and body, and type 3 legs. I'll put a picture up later. I clicked on DEATH on the bottom of the sceen. Unregisted was at the top. I had no picture of her to put on a head stone. In fact, I couldn't make a head stone! The game wouldn't let me for some reason.
A waited for the body to disapear. I wanted to tickle her, but instead the shower would go on. After a while I saw a norn enter the area. It was the dead norns father, Euclid! He came a little closer. Following him was June! A tried to get them to look at thier first child to be hatched (I save the other eggs for later). June looked at her daughter- and ran away! I was surprised at that (I also have a picture of that which I'll put up later). Soon the norn disapeared.
What a heart breaker. No I have something to ask from every one. The poor dead norn has no name. I need one! I can't decied. So I want YOU to give her one. I'll accept 6 GOOD ones and have a poll put up on this page. Don't send any wimpy ones like Sweety or Cutie Pie. I won't accept anything like that.
Update- 12-1-99 This page was created a long time ago, and I have 3 names so far. I have 2 screen shots of this story, and would like to put them on this page. If you know how to convert bitmap images to .gifs or .jpegs please contact me.