C12DS Oceanic Grendels.zip

::----- Oceanic Grendels Story.txt -----::
C12DS OCEANIC GRENDELS (Story)

Features and care are in the other 2 text documents.
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Since their accidental creation by the shee, grendels have been feared and despised because of their vicious natures. And yet, it hasn't always been that way.

In fact, after most of the shee left Albia, the norns found out the remaining grendels were actually quite friendly. And so, the norns became friends with the grendels. Before long, the vicious evil grendel disappeared from the face of Albia, surviving only as stowaways on the shee starship.

Several years after the shee's exodus, a small group of grendels headed for the desert island to dine on some coconuts. However, that day would mean a change in the lives of every single grendel in that group.

One youngster discovered a ball and was playing with it while the rest of his family ate and rested. 

Suddenly, the ball flew over the edge and landed in the waters of the Eastern ocean, over the glass sphere that gave creatures below a good look at the world beneath the waves. The young grendel didn't know that, and thinking nothing of it, chased after the ball, splashing through the water.

Unfortunatly, the glass dome he had stepped on was slippery-and instead of getting the ball, the grendel lost his footing, slid over the dome, and disappeared beneath the waves.

The fate of the youngster didn't go un-noticed by the rest of the group. 2 of the adults went after him, only to find themselves sinking into the sea.

One by one, the group attempted to retrieve their members from beneath the sea-and found themselves in a new world. 

Sadly, up to this point, grendels were not meant for the life aquatic-a few grendels drowned, while the rest attempted to swim back to shore, but only managed to get a breath of air before sliding back over the dome.

Finally, the grendels gave up trying to get back home above water. From that point forwards, this group of grendels helped each other get a breath by 'throwing' each other to the surface. They changed their diet from typical, Albian food to eating the fish and seahorses, and the occansional coconut piece that fell into the water from above.

Their biggest problem was boredom-the ball floating above them would be no fun to play with underwater, seeing as it floated. And no norn who came to the island dropped any heavy toy down for them to play with. So the grendels started playing with whatever they could find.

Over the years, they became accustomed to eating fish and coconut, and because of the limited feeding opportunities, they started to need less and less food.

Eventually, one grendel was hatched who did not need to surface for air. His slightly blueish tint also helped him get more fish than his comrades. Both of these features were passed on, morphing the grendels who fell into the sea so long ago into creatures of the ocean.

As they explored the bottoms of both seas, they passed down tales of the world above and the creatures who lived there-both of which had become nothing more than myths to them.

Until one day, many years later...

A pair of the aquatic grendels were wandering the bottom of the western ocean, searching for coconut pieces to eat. Their otherwise normal lives were interrupted by a change-in the form of the submarine, which swept them up and took them ashore.

Now, the grendels who were once introduced to the new world of the sea came onto their ancestreal home of the land. It was much diffrent from what they were used to.

Movement was much easier than it was below the surface of the sea. During their first couple minutes on land, they kept tripping because they made the big steps nessecary to get anywhere underwater. Then there was the new food-they found that not only were coconut slivers easier to get, the other foods were downright delicious, and more nutritious than the fish-and-coconut diet they had become used to.
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::----- Oceanic Grendels Readme.txt -----::
C12DS OCEANIC GRENDELS of Grendel Man (General Info)

As their name suggests, the Oceanic Grendels are meant to live within the oceans of Creatures 1 to Docking Station. There, they live on a diet of fish and coconut slivers. Because of the limited feeding opportunities, they need less food than regular grendels.

They cannot get cold easily, and are social and friendly towards norns, ettins, and other grendels.

They need the sprites of the C12DS Grendel (Grendel Slot H).

Contents:
*The Oceanic Grendel .gen and .gno files
*Two starters, Atlantic and Pacific
*The "General Info" readme (What you're reading right now)
*The "Care Guide" readme
*The Oceanic Grendel Story

Installion: Put the .gen and .gno files into your "Genetics" folder, and use a genetics injector to create eggs.
Put the .creature files into your "My Creatures" folder, and you should be able to import the starters into your game with the Import option in the ingame Creature Selection menu.

Ask first before hosting this pack on your own site, please.

Questions? Comments? E-mail *****@copper.net (mom's).

::----- Oceanic Grendels Care Guide.txt -----::
C12DS OCEANIC GRENDELS (Care Guide)

If you want more info on the C12DS oceanic grendels, read the "General Info" readme.
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WHERE TO KEEP OCEANIC GRENDELS:

The Oceanic Grendels are meant for the C12DS metaroom, which you should have if you downloaded these. ;)

The best place to keep the oceanic grendels is the ocean to the right of the desert island. This is because the coconuts on the right side of the island are more likely to bounce off, fly into the right ocean, and break, therefore giving any creature living in that ocean seeds to eat. There is also no risk of being taken out of the water by a passing vehicle.

Of course, living in the other ocean isn't completly out of the picture, but coconuts are less likely to fall into this ocean, and the submarine will take inside it any creature it touches.

If you don't have C12DS and got the nessecary sprites for the C1 grendels by other means, or just plain don't want to keep them in C12Ds, you can keep them in Norngarden 4, Aquanornia, or the C3 Aquatic Terrarium. If using the latter, make sure they have a dispenser.
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GENERAL CARE:

The oceanic grendels aren't that hungry when they come out of the egg, and are prefectly heathly unless they have a genetic disease.Therefore, caring for the babies is simply getting them to water and making sure they eat. You don't have to race your oceanic grendels to water, as they are amphibious, so if you want to keep them on land to educate them or something similar to that, you can.
The oceanic grendels are social creatures-if you hatch one and keep him/her by his/herself, he/she is likely to get lonely. Hatching and keeping oceanic grendels in pairs is what works best.
They are generally friendly creatures, who lack instincts to hit, although you may have one who seems to enjoy beating his fellows up. In that case, seperate the slap-happy one from the rest and keep him by himself for a little while. An alternative idea is to slap the grendel when he hits another, along with saying "No hit grendel".

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GENERAL FEEDING:

In all lifestages, the typical diet of an oceanic grendel consists of fish (critter) and seeds. While they need less food than regular grendels, you still need to make sure they eat, because they may decide to stop later on in their lives.
In C12DS, the oceanic grendels should be able to get all the nutrition they need from the fish and the occansional coconut piece that falls into their domain. However, if falling coconuts aren't landing in the ocean frequently enough the keep your oceanic grendels healthy, it may benefit to let them wander around the desert island to eat the coconut pieces that are usually lying around there.
Also, it won't hurt to give your oceanic grendels some variation in their diet-unlike some other creatures, the oceanic grendels do not get sick when they eat foods other than critters and seeds. However, they get very little nutrition from anything else, although food and fruit are both good if you want to give your grendels a treat.

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BREEDING:

The oceanic grendels are able to breed from Youth onward-a grendel who has reached breeding age can be recognized by his/her color, which is a brighter shade of blue from younger grendels.
They aren't the most frequent breeders around, but they aren't infrequent, either. They require no special needs for mating and/or laying eggs.
However, unless you have a .cos file that allows it, eggs will not hatch underwater. Therefore, the best thing to do is once a female has laid her egg, pick it up and take it ashore. From there, you can either just drop the egg on the island and let it hatch on its own, or take it to the incubator and hatch it.

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SICKNESS AND CURE:

Because of their watery enviroment, a sick oceanic grendel is very infrequent-aquatic creatures rarely come across scenarios where they can become ill.
But in case you do find one of your oceanic grendels has contracted a disease, cure him/her like you would any other normal creature.
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Name: Atlantic
Genus: Grendel
Gender: Male

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Name: Pacific
Genus: Grendel
Gender: Female