#creature log

[purpleplague2]

Gravity falls sketches

[animalcrossingnewhorizons]

it's 8 am so it's time for a creatures 3 docking station wolfling run rant

i've only recently started doing wolfling runs in c3ds, if you arent familiar with those it's where you dont intefere with a population of norns and see if they manage to survive on their own.

the highest generation ive managed to go up so far is i think 16? but something horrible happened last night.

i had a plague causing antigen 2 pretty much wipe out my entire population, im not too familiar with bacteria so i wasn't aware that even if you cull/mercy kill the infected creatures that there's still bacteria in the room that can continue to infect and spread + mutate

i kept an eye on my population after they recovered from the first wave and added some fresh gen 1s, i watched them for a few hours before going to bed, nothing showed up on the medical monitor

but this morning, my population of 50 was down to just three norns

if youve ever had a wolfling run you know how sad this is to wake up to LOL

something crazy i noticed is that these two babies have been alive for almost 16 hours and yet they still havent grown a life stage at all. theyre eternally babies LMAo

i didn't even know peter pan syndrome was a thing in creatures, i dont know what antigen 2 does but im guessing it stunted his growth?

i was wondering how they were still alive, then i took a look at the medical monitor

theyve been living with bacteria that caused them so much pain for almost 8 hours, and were still alive. before bed coconut lemon was healthy, despite me trying to drown him out of mercy when i first discovered he was sick, he survived that and could now breathe underwater. now i come back, he's sick again, but he's still kicking.

i was determined to finally step in and help him get better, and he's finally doing so much better! i was so impressed by his will to live and the suffering he went through, i had to make sure he'd be able to thrive after his hardships

unfortunately carrot wing had to be culled immediately... due to 11 bacteria living in his system. ive never seen so many lol. i shot him out the airlock

i tried to stabilize coconut's butterfly mutant sibling, copywriter, but for some reason he died almost immediately after setting him up in an non bacteria infested room. rip copywriter

[team-baby-bear]

Before Steph adds new species into his journal, there’s a… sketch phase. Don’t worry, we’ll post the legible version later!

-Alex

[team-baby-bear]

A delightful and mesmerizing new species.

-Steph

[team-baby-bear]

Turns out some of the Anchoring flowers aren’t flowers

-Steph

[team-baby-bear]

Alright, as a botanist, I’ve got a love-hate relationship with insects. I do have to admit, however, that these worms are very resourceful. (They also don’t eat plants so there’s a point for them in my book). These little buggers were very difficult to capture. They can disappear back into the sand in less than the blink of an eye. We had quite the brainstorming session to figure out how to trap one, let alone get close enough to one without it disappearing. Eventually, Divya had the idea to basically fish them out with a strong lure that it would close around, and we managed to yank one up and in a terrarium.

-Alex

[team-baby-bear]

We had a long day traveling to the desert, and we’re temporarily posted here so that Matt can do some weather readings, and Steph and I can make some more discoveries! Let me tell you, this desert is bright. Blindingly so. We need to wear special eye protection while we’re here because so far, two of the species we’ve discovered reflect or refract the suns light. Here’s one of the critters Seph logged so far, and he’s working on the other one about dew worms now. We’ve seen mass- migrations in this area via satellite that happens twice a year, but we weren’t sure what it was until today!

-Steph

[team-baby-bear]

I haven’t seen one of these myself but those who have were given quite the fright. Night Walkers have never paid us any mind, but Seph is up at 3am every other night trying to learn more. He’s never found one during the day, and we’ve got no clue where something that big can hide… kinda hope I never see one of these.

-Steph