Oprierd Asp is an O2-name (Gen40) Grendeltail. As I was working through the run's most recent flood of new Norns, naming them but not yet taking time to observe, I happened to pause while trying to come up with a name. While I was idly watching the metaroom, one Norn expressed being extremely hungry for starch. Typically, most of the other Grendeltails told it to either eat manky or seeds, depending on whether or not the responding Grendeltail was a manky-gene carrier. But one of the other ones I hadn't gotten to naming yet said, "Maybe hit norn, (name)". I did a double-take and zeroed in on that Norn. He was duly named Oprierd after a sadistic character in a story, with the metagen surname Asp (the venomous snake). 

I've been watching him for a few minutes now, and other than that, he hasn't done or said anything particularly weird, other than a few cycles of first retreating from and then approaching food, which is a bit odd but not as dramatic as I was expecting. He does seem to be a bit of a loner - he's hanging out the equivalent of a few meters away from where the other Grendeltails are clustering. Most of what he thinks about seems to be seeds. Yet the fact that he suggested 'hit norn' in response to a hunger for starch expression suggests there might be some weird mutation in his genes. 

At one point, there was a strange altercation, but it was hard for me to tell what happened exactly. There's another 'longer' hanging out on the other end of the metaroom, as far from the main cluster as he can get, but closer to Oprierd Asp than to the rest, by necessity since Oprierd is hanging out in the middle. Sometimes these two wander closer to each other and seem to hang out for a bit before separating again and returning to their habitual zones. The other one is probably wandering because he's ancient and senile, but Oprierd is much too young for that, which is why I suspect genetic reasons. 

Eventually, Oprierd and this other Grendeltail, a much older male called Linseed Ail (I know, silly name), began to stand very near each other for a while. At that moment Oprierd happened to be holding a seed-class object, one of the bagel things the bread basket spews out. Regretfully I happened to glance away at the wrong moment, so I don't know which one hit the other, but there was a hard punch sound. When I looked back, the older one was backing up a little, so I -think- Oprierd may have been the one to hit, but the older one ended up with the food and ate it, so I'm not 100% sure what exactly happened there. What I noticed was that during the altercation Oprierd kept thinking stuff like 'drop norn'. Maybe that's the closest the engine can get to expressing 'That Norn took my food! Drop it, thief!' Who knows.  

Oh man he just did it again - some Norn talked about being hungry and he told her to 'hit norn' while thinking about hitting food himself. That is so weird. 

OK, I'm going to export and upload now. At the time of export, Oprierd Asp is an hour and 46 minutes old, and still an adult. He should have enough time left to get some breeding done, especially if you use Cupid's Lyre, but his quirks may interfere with breeding - I haven't tried to specifically breed him yet, nor have I yet taken a close look at his genes at the time I type this, but if you've downloaded him and you're reading this, I encourage you to do so!