Flowers, Critters, and Stumpy Love

The Spring semester is finally over, which is giving me enough time to finish working on some COBs. I have a couple new releases on my C1 COB site, which include two new flowers and a new pet for your norns, (or grendels, or ettins) called Muggy.

As mentioned in my previous post, Muggy will attempt to dig up food for your norns that can be difficult to find without installing a lot of vendors into your world. (Not that there's anything wrong with vendors.) What he finds is random, and he won't always succeed either.




I've also added two new flowers, which have been arbitrarily named "Rodirea" and "Bliumea". These little viney-looking things will grow upside down in the cave areas beneath the island and under the lift by the hootch tank. In addition to being somewhat nutritious, the red flowers (Rodirea) are very spicy, and will decrease a creature's coldness. The blue flowers (Bliumea) are rather refreshing, and will decrease hotness.

Muggy will also change colors if he eats these flowers, or the Happy Pink Flowers I've already released. There's really no practical reason for this, honestly, I just thought it would be fun.

For my next project, I am planning to create something to assist in the care of special-needs norns, (or grendels, or ettins). This is inspired by my norn Eliza, who was born with very little mobility. She can move her head, turn around, and speak, but she cannot walk or pick up/interact with items.

Unfortunately she cannot eat, which means regular injections if she is to survive. My idea at the moment is a companion that can provide nourishment and entertainment without the norn having to interact with the object. While Eliza's family members do tend to keep her company, she spends a good deal of her time standing in the same spot she was born and watching fish swim by. I'd like to improve the quality of her norn life.

In other news, Stumpy has found love, despite his horrible disability of being constantly terrified of other grendels.

 

While he is in constant terror during his interactions with Winter, one of Grendel_Man's Erzan grendels, Stumpy seems to have gotten better at managing his fears. He only runs away in terror sometimes now, and has even hung around long enough to kiss-pop a couple of times. Unfortunately, an overpopulated world at the moment means no baby Stumpys for now. I'm thinking of making a new world for him, so that he can experience the terrifying joys of raising a family.