JustaDumbThriver
(Thrive is the only environment where I am not too lazy to capitalize)
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I will note that, if you are not a moderator, replying to this thread AUTOMATICALLY makes you a player.
Lore
On the planet Cryonis, the surface is all ice. Life can’t emerge on the surface, so the sights must be turned to under. The ice down here melts into water, which heats up, enough for abiogenesis to occur. Empty sacs of cytosol became metabolism machines, then cytoplasm hexes, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, and finally, multicellular life.
Starting organism
Geomedusa protea, or the rock jelly, is a microscopic predator around 5 cells in size during it’s medusa stage. There are 3 stages in it’s life cycle, planula, polyp, and medusa. Here’s an image of all the 3 stages:
The jellyfish thing is the medusa, the background thing attached to a rock is a polyp, and that free-floating thing in the background is the planula. Medusas releases planulocysts, which, under the right circumstances, become planulas. Planulas attach to rock and become polyps, which split into a medusa and another polyp, where a protomeduse forms to eventually become another medusa. In the medusa stage, the front cell, with a chemoreceptor and cilia, essentially serves as the mouth. The 3 cells in the middle act as storage, and the back cell has tentacles that are really flagella covered in poison. Since the flagella have lost locomotive capability, a slime jet has evolved for propulsion.
How to play
Each round, you will submit a mutation. Just like in my older FG Choanozoa, don’t go too crazy, or I will deny it. An example of a too crazy mutation: Become Gamera (previous organism was the starting organism)
An example of an acceptable mutation: Add more storage cells
