This morning I still had five piles of bones from my first six villagers (the last one has held on to the ripe old age of 64) which were being largely ignored by the three current villagers. One villager periodically kept trying to heal the dead piles, but today decided to go from pile to pile and was telling each of them a joke! (Must not have been very funny, as no one was laughing...) Later, the same villager was walking around alone and teaching - nobody! Do I have a mental case here? She seems like someone's crazy old Aunt.

That's kinda sad when you think about it. I'm not sure that the villagers are actually supposed to behave that way, but who knows - maybe she "went over the edge" after losing her castaway island mates like that!

Well, it's not a problem today because she's dead, too. I now have only two adults (M&F, Master Scientists, each) who have a 9-yr. old (born with Research credits!). A big storm washed away all the food (3,517), so they are hard-pressed to feed themselves, not wanting to leave the Research table. Someone had better wash ashore quick, or my little family is doomed. (Someone else to collect food while the Brainiacs do what they do best. ) No Food = No Babies.

Those Island Events can sure throw a monkey wrench into your villagers' lives, can't they? I've come back from the brink with a similar situation, so it's not hopeless!

I had all my villagers get sick at once and I had 65 people