Muppet Boy's Geatville

After many years of (non-continuous) work the new world for Creatures is finally ready.

Zeruko is named for the Basque word for "celestial" or "of heaven"
It was designed to be an arboreal paradise rich in food and sparse in technology.

It is based on one of Slink's worlds and as such all willing adult creatures can mate with each other regardless of sex or species.
Therefore ettins, grendels & shee can breed in this world, female initiated courtship and same sex mating is allowed.

The population gap is set at 48, although the game engine struggles past thirty so be warned!
Using Creatures Community Edition I have managed to keep 110 creatures in the world without any problems!

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Rich in food and life, this image shows Atono, my primary Beta Tester,
the primary burrow is found just under this place

Mainly tree houses above a wooded valley, and an old stone fortress,
here is where most of Zeruko's technology can be found.

Click above for a guide to the rooms, transport and food sources in Zeruko.
Note that a few of the features on the map are not added yet.
Remember that the teleporter links can be altered, I depicted the default setting.

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Extracts from Cheribidee's Journal:

Year 746 Albian date, Zune 17th
The Terra Nornia Project was a great success, we had fantastically buttery crumpets at the celebration. The problem is that our norns are still breeding, and still need more space to grow tea and suchlike. I plan to create a duplicator to solve our problem once and for all.

Year 746 Albian date, Junomber 3rd
I have managed to build my Duplicator, and have copied cups of tea, biscuits, my microscope and even my wardrobe, complete with its contents.

Tomorrow I shall try it on organic life.

Year 746 Albian date, Junomber 4th
There is less of a grendel overpopulation problem now, as my machine is incapable of resonating with biomorphic fields without turning the subject somewhat "mushy".

Back to the drawing board.

Year 746 Albian date, Junomber 12th
After the mess of last time, I tried my tweaked device on teabags, with more success. Later I'll try it on ettins.

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Year 747 Albian date, Grendich 1st
That was a mistake!

The first copied ettin stole the shut-down switch as I was congratulating myself on success.

Then there were dozens of the blasted things swiping things left right and centre. It took a few weeks to calm them down from their klepto-mobbing - my good friend Shillianoun wrote an interesting treatise on the phenomena - and I claimed back my equipment and journal.

Tomorrow I shall move to Phase 2.

Year 747 Albian date, Grendich 2nd
Well the new world is there.

Greenly blue and pleasantly disc-shaped like our own, but with important differences. I realised too late that one of those blasted ettins had stowed away onboard my ship, Simulacrum, this time they stole the Random Variable Remover Device.

Thusly a few chance factors have given us a different, though happily habitable world.

Year 747 Albian date, Grendich 3rd
We landed, and I set copies of the stowaway ettin to work building a giant fort and I intend to solve the tea shortage back home, and I've started experimenting with edible plants and suchlike.

I'll get them to send some norns, microscopes and other useful knick knacks in return.

That reminds me of Shillianoun's paper on "Basic Interplanetary Economics" its an interesting idea, but it'll never catch on, it's much easier if each of us invents what we need.

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Year 748 Albian date, Vinduary 25th
Things have gone well the past few months, though I've spotted some tiny grendels running around, they must have stowed aboard one of the delivery ships.

Ah well.

The crops have been doing nicely, and I've bred some interesting norns.

I call them YinYangs as the females are very pale and the males dark.

Year 748 Albian date, Aprich 22nd
My friend Shillianoun, using his Far Seeing Device has discovered something unusual and very upsetting...

the other worlds out there are spherical not flat!

Our world is not the epicentre we believed it to be.

There is work going on to build an Ark to take us to a likely looking one that some have named Sphericus.
I intend to join the project, I'm sure we can take samples of our life and technology with us when we go

Looks like we still have much to learn.

I must abandon my paradise to the ravishes of time, and leave my creations to do as they will.

(Last entry)

To install Zeruko, download & unzip the files to the directories to the right Be aware that some versions of Creatures have second set of these directories in "My Documents"	File Extension	Destination Directory
	SFC	/Creatures/
	SPR	/Creatures/Images
	WAV	/Creatures/Sounds
	ATT	/Creatures/Body Data
	GEN	/Creatures/Genetics