Choanozoa

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, sanity over realism, right? Anyways, what’s your species? You’ve replied a lot to this, why don’t you sign up?

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Alright
My organism will be named “Trichobala Sedecima”
It’ll be mostly the same as T. Progenita, but with one large change: The amount of cells has doubled, with now there being 16-32 instead of 8-16 cells.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Alright!

I think your organism looks something like this. If not, let me know!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Yeah, that should be about it.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Alright, good! Now we need just one more player and we can start!

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

How do you make those species images by the way?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Using Paint.net. I have a base image, and for the microscopic mutations, I just edit it until it matches the description enough.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What will we look like when we reach macroscopic?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

At first, I will just draw a ball (that has slight inspiration from your creature before macroscopic-ness) in Paint.net. But then you can mutate into a slightly bigger ball, then a more complex ball, generations and generations later, you have an aware-stage type, albeit pretty simple, organism. It will probably be like Haikouicthys in our timeline.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Nevertheless we need the fabled third player before coming to that point…

[Cha (Waluigi)]

Trichobala Zoedidomi will just evolve a small group of cells on the outside which have chitin? idk if this is too radical or too much.

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Here’s what you organism looks like:

I changed the color to match your membrane change. And now, we can start! Finally.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Doesn’t a chitinous membrane come with some certain consequences for the functionality of a cell?

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Yeah, less movement speed, no engulf, so no predator-building for Cha.

[AnthropocenianAge (AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)]

Trichobala Zoefastidious, splitting from Zoedidomi, will have one out of every four cells lose their flagellum and instead have cilia for greater turning speed. This also splits the organism in potentially two different halves for later development.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Flagella won’t stay the primary source of movement for long…

[Cha (Waluigi)]

To be fair its not like I plan on using engulfment for the time unless one cell becomes non chitin to be the “mouth”

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Over time there’d be demand for more “mouth” cells…

[JustaDumbThriver (Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)]

Actually, I’ll let the public decide if that shoulkd be allowed. Because that has never gone wrong! (looks at Boaty mcBoatFace)

Should controlling multiple species be allowed?

• Yes, more chaos!
• No, there would be no risk.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I guess that could lift some work off what you’ll need to do in the rounds to come…