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The Siamese Norns

The Siamese Norn Breed is now ready and waiting for you at the Creature Labs Mall.

New Norn Breeds are a great way to get more diversity into Docking Station or Creatures 3. Continuing with our new Norn Breeds we are now offering the cute and cuddly Siamese Norns. Most of these new breeds are a result of genetic experimentation by the Lone Shee - star of the Docking Station Story.

Out looking for more information on the vicious Grendels that he'd encounted while rescuing the Fallow Norns, the Lone Shee has stumbled on yet another Norn breed which is in severe need of love and attention. Can you help the Lone Shee rehabilitate these fluffy cuties?

You can buy the Siamese Norns
at the Creature Labs Mall.

Extra Siamese Norn Eggs

Available from this page only are two Extra Egg Packs for the Siamese Norns. These Extra Egg packs allow you to breed Norns that look like Siamese Norns but they've got altered genetics which allow for a greater range of personality and colour in your Siamese Norns. And as an added bonus, these two Extra Egg Packs are completely FREE! (But you'll only be able to see them as Siamese Norns if you've bought them from the Mall.)

Click on the links below to download Extra Eggs for the Siamese Norns. Just save the file into your My Agents folder and restart your game - the eggs will appear as new breeds to choose from in the Egg-layer.

Extra Siamese Egg Pack 1

The first pack allows you to hatch Norns with the Siamese appearance, but with the genome of other Norn breeds. So you can create Toxic-Siamese, Treehugger-Siamese, Hardman-Siamese and Bondi-Siamese! You don't need to own those Norn breeds already.

- Download Extra Siamese Eggs Pack 1.

Extra Siamese Egg Pack 2

The second pack was exclusively made for the Siamese Norns - with these eggs you can hatch rich red, cool blue and lime green Siamese Norns. You can then breed them with each other to make new colour combinations! Can you breed the yellow, cyan and violet Norns the Lone Shee would love to see?

There are two types of coloured Siamese Norns in this pack due to differences in the way the DS and C3 engines deal with pigmentation. Type 1 Norns have their pigment genes expressed at each life stage - meaning they'll retain the same shade throughout their lives whether they're in Creatures 3 or Docking Station.

But type 2 Norns only have pigment genes defined at birth - in Docking Station this means they will stay the same colour throughout their lives. However, in Creatures 3 type 2 Norns will revert to the standard colour of Siamese Norns when they age from baby to child. So because of this, type 2 Norns are only recommended for Docking Station only.

Both types of coloured Siamese Norns have had their pigmentation systems set so that colour changes and blends are much more common. So if you like coloured Norns, the second Extra Siamese Eggs Pack is for you.

Remember, pigmentation in Creatures uses the three primary colours of light: red, green and blue. So to get a yellow Norn for example, you'd need to try breeding the red and green ones together. More information on pigmentation in Creatures, including a Tutorial for the Genetics Kit can be found here. Detailed information on the pigmentation of both types of coloured Siamese Norns will be posted to the CDN shortly.

- Download Extra Siamese Eggs Pack 2.

Please note, the Norns hatched from these extra egg packs will only look like Siamese Norns if you have already purchased and installed the Siamese Norn Breed from the Creature Labs Mall.

Siamese Norn Wallpaper

You can find free Siamese Norn Wallpaper for your desktop by clicking on the link below.

- Get Siamese Norn Wallpaper.

The Siamese Norn Story
From the Docking Station Story

It wasn't adventurous spirit this time, and he hadn't been compelled by boredom. The Lone Shee was hungry for more information on the nasty Grendels he'd encountered when he found the Fallow Norns. Something about them really scared him, and he didn't like that one bit. It was the power of the unknown, and so he felt he needed to seek the counter power of knowledge.

Following his nose - almost literally once he'd smelt that familiar musky stench - he found himself in a world of shadows. No blazing suns or moons in the sky, which only made the stars so much brighter. There were Grendels here, just like those he had met before. But strangely they did not seem to be at all interested in him; it was like they couldn't even see him! He made sure to take note of a few details that distinquished them from normal Grendels - things like what seemed like gilded plating on their backs. But it was hard to see too much with such poor lighting!

He found this world of shadows unnerving; but it meant that it wouldn't take very much effort to search around and see what was about. And what he found brought more than just a single tear to his eyes. A dozen cute but filthy siamese-patterned Norns trapped in a big cage like a frightened group of forgotten Christmas present kittens.

Not like pets, more like prisoners - trapped forever in a cage. The fluffiest, cutest things - but bedraggled, unkempt... unloved... What kind of monster would do this? A Grendel? Could a Grendel really go this far? He wasn't certain he was so sure anymore. Visions of Fallow Norn Trophies blazed in his mind. Grendels weren't known for making such things. Grendels didn't typically display such ability!

These timid Siamese Norns appeared to come in a variety of different colours. From those lightly blue and mildly green through to some that were a pleasantly warm red. The Lone Shee rather liked this, and he wondered if this quality was genetic - perhaps he could breed yellow, violet and cyan Siamese Norns by mixing the primary colours up?!

Now, just how predictable was his next move? He let them out of the cage. He couldn't bear to see them couped up in that nasty enclosure anymore, and their shrieking Nornish complaints of crowdedness were doing his head in. What kind of cruel being had locked these Norns up like this?! He just couldn't bring himself around to the idea that nasty Grendels were all that was behind this. Grendels could be cunning, and were well known for brutality. But they didn't have enough brain lobes and neurons to get so twisted in their heads that they'd treat Norns this way. Or did they?

It felt like the fur on the back of his neck had been permanently standing up on end since he'd rescued the Fallow Norn Trophies. The Grendels had worried him, and the thought of them had lingered on his mind. Just what were these Grendels up to, and why? And how exactly did they appear to be so intelligent - despite the Lone Shee knowing that they were just as likely to think beyond carrots and kiss-popping as their Norn cousins were. And the Grendels he'd encountered here seemed to care very little that he was there, which only made the plot thicken.

He shepherded the frightened Siamese Norns around him, and activated his portal device. None of the Grendels had tried to stop him. And it made him wonder if maybe the Grendels that had arrived when he'd found the Fallow Norns hadn't intended to stop him either. He wondered why they all seemed to be so used to having a Shee around. Grendels weren't typically subdued at the sight of a Shee, and as far as he knew he was the only Shee to have travelled through the Warp.

Once back on the Capillata the Lone Shee spent quite a while cleaning up his newly-found pets. He spent extra time gathering juicy lemons for them to eat. They seemed to respond well to his attention - and once they'd been washed and brushed, they looked a whole load more presentable. So for now they were safe and content, as were all of the Lone Shee's Norns. But for how long could he keep his Capillata free from this new Grendel menace?