Creatures Caves

Ooh, I have a couple here:

--1--

Several years ago when Docking Station was brand-new and full of life, I got a norn through the warp with the name of Azami.

She was a girl, a baby with a grendel tail and a little green tint. And she never aged.

She lived a really long time, outliving several generations of creatures. She became like the cute little mascot of the world.

So when she just up and died one day, it was really surprising and depressing. At first I felt just a little sadder than usual when a norn died, but then several times later that day I found myself absentmindedly going to check on Azami out of habit, only to remember she had died. After a while I just stopped raising norns in that world. I didn't realize losing her would be so depressing.

--2--

Creatures 2 was the first creatures game I owned. Anyone who has played C2 might see where this is going...

So I hatched my first pair of norns in my Vanilla C2 game, no patches, no updated genome, nothing. Freshly installed from the CD. I was so excited... I did everything I could to raise them right; I tried to get them to listen to me, learn to talk, learn to eat, and so on. I kept checking their age every five minutes to see if they were ready to breed yet. I wondered what their baby would look like. The suspense was killing me.

Then, for seemingly no reason in the world, they died. I remember staring at the screen, just awestruck with terror. I was like 12 at the time... they were my first norns... I seriously walked away from the computer and cried for a few minutes. I was so confused...

Later I researched it online and learned of the faulty genome and downloaded an updated one. Things went a little better after that, thankfully, or my Creatures hobby might have died right there.

--3--

This isn't sad as much as it is kind of pathetic.
Once I was conducting a C3 feral run and had my eye on a particular mommy that was breeding a lot. I watched her as she laid an egg, walked off, and got pregnant again. Then she came back to her egg, and just as it hatched, she beat the baby to death.

Now I know this was a feral run, but I felt the need to interfere with this brutality. So when she laid her next egg, I took it from her, hatched it, exported the norn, and brought her into my non-feral world to spoil her to death.

Well this "rescued" norn was considered very special, so much so that I felt the need to keep a running story of her every move. Though as time when on I wasn't documenting her life as much as I was forcing her into awkward situations to make the story more interesting (Like.. making her "swim"...). Also a several parts of her life were selectively left out (like the part where her mate was also her son and nephew) So I decided that when she died, I wanted to be holding her hand, just to make it more dramatic. Of course, to do this, I had to know when she was about to die. So when her "life" chemical was really low, I took her into the aquatic room and held her hand and waited for her to die. And waited. And waited. And actually fell asleep waiting. When I woke up several hours later, she was long dead and decomposed. I was disappointed, but still wrote her "dramatic," "devastating," and "traumatic" death into the story.

That was about as corny as it got. I still have that story somewhere too.