Crestfall || Hmm...

 

Hmm.

Crestfall || Moving Worlds... Again?!

 

Well, I can't say I saw this one coming!

I know, I know, we're in the middle of the CCSF here, and I'm in the middle of a Creatures 1 blog series... but I wanted to interrupt things very briefly to highlight that Docking Station is now officially available for free on Steam, with the Mall breeds and Science Kit available as free DLC, plus Creatures 3 as paid DLC!

You can check out the game's release announcement and a list of updates and bugfixes that were included with the release by clicking here!

Needless to say, as soon as the Steam release was available, I once again began the process of moving Crestfall. While it's not ideal to have to move worlds this many times, I'm really ecstatic about the Steam release and want to use it from now on! I'll be taking some time over the next day or two to move all of my favorite agents and breeds over, as well as getting all of the breed sprites back in order so that most of Crestfall's creatures should come out of the move unchanged.

Since C2toDS is probably also not an ideal location (unfortunately... as much as I love it...) for a large population like this right now, I'll go back to using the Ark, alongside maybe a smattering of small and interesting metarooms for my creatures to explore!

Real short update here, but that's all for now - I just wanted to help get the word about the Steam release out, in case anyone hadn't heard about it yet!!

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Crestfall || Moving Worlds

 

Sometimes, you just gotta pick up and go somewhere else. Y'know?

Crestfall || Business as Usual

As we visit Crestfall for the first time in a while, another new Norn has warped in!

This elderly Norn, Fumio, seems like she's had a rough time... perhaps the gap in time and space was a bit too much for her. After all, we don't know how Norns feel when they're going through the Warp, now, do we?

(In the real world, there are still moving boxes in my apartment, but at least it's finally starting to feel like home.)

Crestfall || Broader Beginnings

Back at home, the first event to happen is that Mighty Kumquat, the male Kunterbunt Norn, decided he would skip all rites of passage in growing up and go straight from being a child to the Warp, a Norn's final frontier.

Crestfall Side Story || Stranded

Ah,

what's a Norn to do?

Crestfall || Plague and Plenty

In an effort to spice things up a bit, I made the decision to inject cave flies into C12DS. After all, the majority of the population was centered in that one specific corner of the map, I suppose because the sunflower is there?

It seems all I succeeded in doing was making them extra miserable. But at least it's gotten them moving, in one direction or the other... so hopefully given a bit of time, they'll start to spread out.

Crestfall || Downward Slopes

I want to open this post by discussing this Favorite Place icon for the Learning Room for a second, because I just now, at this very moment, realized that it was supposed to be a medal, not a sideways fish.

Had a second to think about that? OK.

On with the actual post!

Crestfall || Plodding Along

After spending quite some time waiting in limbo (I've finished college and moved to a new city to start an internship - hello, everyone!), Crestfall is awake and alive again, and things seem to be a little more hectic than I remember them being...

Crestfall || A Day Away

The first creature from Crestfall to move on to more places is Slimy Continent, the male generation 1 Alien Norn in the Norn Terrarium! Here's to hoping he has good adventures wherever he goes, and maybe one day we'll see him return.

Crestfall || Birth and Death

Things in the Norn Meso seem to quickly beginning to wind down. As more of the first-generation Norns that started this world begin to die of old age, it seems the population of the Norn Meso itself is struggling; unlike other parts of the world where there are many eggs waiting to hatch, the Norn Meso has no eggs waiting and most of the Norns living here are already elderly. What was once a booming part of the world has turned into a retirement home...

Crestfall || The First Five

Not long after I made the first post, the time came for me to go somewhere! After making sure everything seemed settled in and ready to go, I put fast ticks on and away I went...

When I returned to see the world, five hours of in-game time had passed. Let's see where everything went!

Crestfall || And So We Begin

Please, allow me to welcome you to the world of Crestfall! With several starting groups of Norns spread across several areas of the world, I'm looking forward to watching it grow and sharing it here. Let's get started with the introductions:

Starting out in the ancient Albia of the past are Thirsty Usher and Acute Physicist, a pair of Gargoyle Norns! Though this may not be their native habitat, Gargoyle Norns' sweet scales and adorable little wings make them hard to resist, and I wanted to include them somewhere in this world. Albia may just be the place for them!

Crestfall || Much Ado About Graduation

Hello, everyone! It's been three months, how has everyone been?

I'm going to get straight to the heart of things here - over the past few years, I have been a college student doing the usual college-student thing. This current semester is my final semester of college, and in two months, I will be graduating!

Yay for graduation, but also, I've been having a lot of trouble getting any big projects for the Pappus Café off the ground. Between school and other things I'm involved in, it seems like big, comprehensive posts detailing a full year of ingame time on-the-clock are a no-go. I am very happy to have an internship lined up for after I graduate, but I imagine that my transition into the "real world" will also mean less time playing Creatures!

Never fret, this not an announcement of the Café shutting its doors! Quite the opposite, actually - I really do want to start making posts here on the regular. However, it seems the big, lengthy story-based posts are not gonna work for me, so instead...

Allow me to introduce Crestfall, a new world I'll be starting with the intent of playing casually. This will be a docked world + C12DS, with maybe some smaller metarooms sprinkled in. I will be doing things pretty much as I like, setting up the world how I like it and turning some Norns loose. I want to start a personal world and see where it takes me!

Of course, I'm still going to do my best to narrate and faithfully tell the story of this world as it unfolds, but I will not be monitoring it so closely and precisely as previous worlds. I think this will be a world I leave on for a long time while doing other things - maybe even while I'm away at classes for the day, it'll be fun to see what I come back to and share it with everyone!

Please look forward to it!

Take care,
Pixis

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