Oof bad luck,
Thanks for the round stealth
Action: swim over to the female and mate as soon as i can before my injuries get worse.
Acton: rest again, avoiding the fropthy water
Thanks for the round! I think Iâll go try and use the cover of dirty water to kill the Pteryphysis.
stay in my ditch and try to ambush something else.
Off to a pretty good start.
Action: Continue to follow the current, looking for any distinct features or significant signs of food.
Action: Find an animal that looks weak and kill it.
Action: Move away from the macromorphi and towards the elinopterus, i will hunt one of them after they try to catch a masticephalus so they are more tired
Action:Attack the gempliori and try to eat it
Sorry for the late reply, needed to really think on this. 
Mutation 1: Male and Female sexes
Mutation 2: Remove foul taste
Mutation 3: High pressure tolerance
Round 220 - P.1
~73.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: 13 - Cyclonic Storm
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The underwater volcano off the coast of southern Tartarus erupts, boiling the nearby water and animals and causing lava to flow over the seafloor where it quickly solidifies but not before killing countless animals that couldnât escape.
Somewhere off the east coast of Tartarus, the winds are picking up and the clouds are starting to rotate above the sea. The cloud burst with rain, peppering the water.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Salcaedis corcillum, Male Subadult (LC)
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Autumn
There is much algae to be eaten that cover the rocks like a carpet along with fronds of seaweed swaying from their anchors with the tide so you continue grazing peacefully. Waves ripple the surface above. The tide starts moving out to sea and the water level starts dropping accordingly so you keep moving - while grazing - to remain underwater. A few weeks later, you are found in an area surrounded by loose rubble with algae springing from gaps beneath it. A blue, worm-like, tentacled Farynxoskulus [Springblooms] lays atop a rock. Waves continue to ripple overhead in the clear, blue saltwater. The shore is in one direction and the rubble eventually ends in the other direction, leading to a plain. There are a couple of many-legged Pultrypa [Jellyfishmon] - arthropods with lobes on the elbows of their legs and with claws - here and you sense more chemically moving in. The wind picks up suddenly, causing the waves to increase greatly in size as rain batters the surface. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 11.1cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 12.6/12.6 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Salcaedis corcillum
Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance = 5, Intelligence = 6, Heart = 5, Stronger Mandibles = 2
This species has become marine, occupying the tropics around the Uteenessa Ocean. It can only hunt soft-bodied creatures because it has rather blunt and weak pincers. It can also graze. When reproducing, they return to certain sites in estuaries based in the tropics across both Olympia and Tartarus. This is thanks to their ability to remember long-term events.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens.
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 13cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (133NP/10) x 13/10 = 14.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 8NP / 14.8NP
Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance, Pincers Penetrate Hardness 0, Moulting, Can Roll Up. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Tolerance), Circulation, Excretion. Long-Term Me. mory.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemical particles from 5m away, only vague sense of direction), Sight 1 (Clear sight to the sides), Perceives Blue and Green.
Stats: Respiration 1, Coordination 1. Digestion 1.2 (Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, Can Digest Meat, Can Digest Plants, 10% less), Immunity (Immunity Physical Barrier), Support 1.5, Intelligence 1, Desiccation Resistance 1, Hardness 3. Walk Speed 2, Swim Speed 4.1, Stamina 2, Jumping 1, Strength 0.5, Dexterity 0.5, Filtration -0.5. Evolution 1 (4 mutations).
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; roll up into a ball. When hungry; look or sense for algae or animals. In Early Spring, when ready to reproduce, move to brackish water and gather in specific breeding sites and then sense for pheromones of opposite sex and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: Iridiphore pigments give the calcified exoskeleton with many plates covering the cylindrical body a metallic, blue sheen. This covers the skin. The mouth has a pair of mandibles (chelicera) and also has nearby chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are a pair of lens eyes and behind them a pair of compound eyes. The exoskeleton sports ten pairs of legs; the first are chelipeds which end in long, serrated pincers (chela), the next four are lined with paddles and used for walking and the final five are smaller, forked (biramous) swimmerets, also with paddles. The exoskeleton ends in a fan tail, and below this is a hyponome.
Internal Features: Spiracles at the edge of the body draw in water past gill-like structures. A closed circulatory system of blood vessels transports blue blood efficiently around the body, pumped by a two-chambered heart. Anti-freeze glycoproteins circulate in the body fluids. A nephridium funnels out chemical waste and expels it through a pore. The body is supported by a system of muscles. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the coiled intestines and finally to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which itself is connected to nerves like rungs of a ladder. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder, while below can be found testes (in a male or hermaphrodite) or an ova (in a female or hermaphrodite). Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: Male & Female until late life (Identical) (+1 Evolution)
Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 2
Placeholder name (U), Juvenile
_Deep Ocean
You hatch out into cold, dark water where you can see nothing but the smell of a Masticephalus arrives at your antennae. Following this scent by walking a short way across the seabed, you bump into the source and find it motionless. You tear into the fresh carcass with your mandibles and chela, getting a good meal. After a long time of growing and moulting in the cold, you are now a juvenile. The water has not changed from being pitch black and cold. All you can sense is the smell of several Masticephalus above you in the water and Gorgonia magnapolypa âsoft coralsâ and Myostila âsea anemoneâ along the seafloor. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 3.9cm / 1 year and 5 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 18.7/23.4* (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Placeholder name
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Placeholder name evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why itâs lost itâs foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
_Empropthalmus soundwavia (NT), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
You head towards the Anazitonta, which is swimming erratically in the disturbed water. It swims right at you so you have an easy kill, slicing into it with your fangs. But the water continues to shake and then suddenly you feel the temperature level shoot up. Light appears across the sea as lava pours from the volcano beneath you. Before you know it you are smothered by molten rock streaming over the seabed and pulverised. (5 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 2.8cm / 8 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: None
Empropthalmus soundwavia
Latest Mutations: Electric Organ = 4, Better Eyesight = 5, Smell Blood = 2
This Southern Hemisphere proto-fish has a true camera eye, which allows it to see clearer and further, and an active electroreception sense but it has a less powerful sense of smell. The eyes help it to hunt in the sunlit summers, while electroreception aids in the dark polar nights. This small predator lives in small shoals and uses its sharp, venomous fangs to subdue prey.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (183NP/10) x 8/10 = 14.6NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.6 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.9NP / 14.6 x 0.9 = 13.1NP
Abilities: Air Space. Bioluminescence. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Toxin, Fatal. Circulation, Large-Body. Penetrates Toughness 1 (jaw). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Moderate. UV Resistance, Strong.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (passive electrical field 1 body length away). Sight 2 (Binocular Vision, Front). Smell 0.5 (detects odours 1m away).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Break Down Multicellular Matter, Digest Meat, 10% off). Evolution 1 (4 votes). Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 2. Immunity 1. Intelligence 1. Memory 2 (1 month). Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 3.3. Toughness 0.5. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source. Join small shoals of other members of the species.
External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with black pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines at itâs base. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing sharp teeth and a pair of fangs in the upper jaw, olfactory receptors are on the head. They have forwards facing camera eyes with a calcite lens, that focuses by moving backwards and forwards, but have a blind spot.
Internal Features: Inside each cell has a low pressure tolerant metabolism. Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin, pumped by a simple heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw, which is linked to a cartilage skull. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. There is also a liver. A brain with a memory lobe encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body. There is an electric organ. It hosts either male or female gonads. Kidneys, connected to circulatory system, expels waste to the bladder a tract.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (Identical) (+1 Evolution).
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Gas Buoyancy. Active. (20NP)
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
_Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Ithaca Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Summer
You swim over towards the rocky outcrop looking for a target. You spot an Elinopterus already tucking into a Masticephalus corpse. While it is distracted, you zoom in and snatch the Elinopterus in your jaws, snapping it up. You slice through it easily and eat the pieces. One year later, you are still swimming about through late summer, warm water. The visibility is quite murky. You survived through the cool, dark period of the year. You are exhausted having recently failed a hunt. You are close to the shore, surrounded by rocks, with the surf passing overhead. The water is full of Masticephalus and Elinopterus. Somewhere over the rocks, you smell a Macromorphii crawling about. Away from the shore, the rocks give way to a clearing you can see. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 3.9cm / 15 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / (100% - 50% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism 1.25)
Notes: None
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Diplopygus ramstirpes (LC), Adult Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Spring
Through the wreckage of the beach and the cloudy water appears an adult female Diplopygus, heading for shore. The Diplopygus walks up to the shallows right next to you, so you barely have to move. You successfully reproduce after she produces eggs onto the seafloor. The suspended debris has been washed away so the hot water is clear again. Loose rocks from the rockfall still cover the seafloor but your eggs have drifted away into the sea. The surf passes overhead. Another female Diplopygus enters the area, followed by a male. The last female has wandered off to the side. A Pultrypa is laying motionless in the surf, except for where the lapping waves make it bob around. A Salcaedis [Agenttine] - a clawed arthropod with many legs - grazes on the algae and a blue, worm-like, tentacled Farynxoskulus [Springblooms] filters from a rock. You retain your injuries and you are also exhausted. The wind picks up suddenly, causing the waves to increase greatly in size as rain batters the surface. (6 + 1 = Congratulations, itâs a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution. Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 35cm / 1 year
Health: Severe internal trauma
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 31/77.4 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Loss of speed and manouvreability, weak, high likelihood of more injuries
Diplopygus ramstirpes
Latest Mutations: Three-Chambered Heart = 5, Speed = 6, Bigger = 5, Brain = 6
An arthropod species with legs that become lobes for swimming and dangerous chelipeds. It is a predator and hunts some of the bigger animals around. It lives in tropical seas, oceans and estuaries as the apex predator and the largest arthropod to exist so far. Diplopygus differs from its predecessors, on top of being much bigger, by having a three-chambered heart pumping a double circulatory system. It also has a faster hyponome and ends in a pair of fan tail lobes. Furthermore, it has a slightly better brain and buries its eggs with food. Cannibalism is also relatively rare.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens
Niche: Predator
Size: 35cm (length)
Nutritional Need: FEMALE: 219 x 35/100 = 76.7NP. MALE: 221 x 35/100 = 77.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: FEMALE: 76.7 x 0.25 = 19.2NP per round (Needs to intake 19.2/0.7 = 27.4NP per round)/76.7 x 0.9 = 69NP MALE: 77.4 x 0.25 = 19.4NP per round (Needs to intake 19.4/0.7 = 27.7NP per round)/77.4 x 0.9 = 69.7NP
Characteristics: Absorption. Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view that catches peripheral movement).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat). Evolution 1. Filtration 0. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity, Stomach Acid). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 4.4. Swim Stability 0.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.7. Warming -0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = roll up. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move to Tropical Shallows breeding sites. (FEMALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive blue stripes = reproduce). (MALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive no blue stripes = reproduce). Move signal in water = fold legs against body to create lobes, hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. ??? = move towards, wind up cheliped then launch it. 1) Digs a hole for eggs and then buries them. 2) Deposits food in hole for eggs. 3) Do not cannibalise unless starving.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcified, calcite exoskeleton in fourteen plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has sandy melanin pigmentation on top and white melanin pigmentation underneath. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the circular mouth is a mandible. Around the mouth are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of normal legs, one to a segment, that have a large paddle on the outer side. When swimming, these are folded in to give the effect of a continuous lobe halfway along the body. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has two fan tail lobes and below that a hyponome. Males in the mating season have a series of blue stripes on their limbs, unique to the species.
Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, and the double circuit has a three-chambered heart. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has a sex-appropriate gonad and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach and coiled intestines. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off. A cerebrum has memory neurons.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Genders.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulation, Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.
R.220 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 3
Farynxoskulus sensitivus (NT), Subadult
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Spring
You are still floating along on the current through the hot, clear saltwater. It carries all the way over a continental slope and you can finally blurrily see the seabed. You appear over a rock where there is plenty of marine snow kicking about. You gather it in with your tentacles and feed very well. Seven months later, you are still alive in the hot, clear water. You are poised on a rock, with your tentacles hanging over the edge. The motion of the surf above brings large amounts of food particles drifting by. Loose rocks cover this area. There are a couple of many-legged Pultrypa [Jellyfishmon] - arthropods with lobes on the elbows of their legs and with claws - here and you sense more chemically moving in. Blurrily, you can see a Salcaedis [Agenttine] - a clawed arthropod with many legs - clambering over the rubble grazing on algae. The wind picks up suddenly, causing the waves to increase greatly in size as rain batters the surface. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 6cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 38.3/38.3 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Farynxoskulus sensitivus
Latest Mutations: Carnivorous Digestion, Long Sensitive Antenna, Pharynx
This weird worm-like creature hunts across the tropical ocean, using its antennae to track down food. However, despite being carnivorous, it is not a predator. It simply has no way of demolishing prey. It can digest meat that it filters. A pharynx helps it digest and breathe better.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (63.5/10 X 7 =) 45NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 36NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Toxic. Buccal Pumping.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, binocular blurry vision to the front, can use chemoreception up to tens of metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation and a proboscis. It also has a thin skin layer. There is a mouth surrounded by small tentacles and chemoreceptors on the proboscis. There are two pinhole eyes on the front of the head and one also on each side, as well as a pair of antennae protruding from the head. A hyponome is at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Hydrostatic muscles surround the hemacoel. A pharynx pumps from the mouth to the throat. The gastrointestinal tract from mouth has a stomach with digestive juices and carnivorous enzymes, followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the. head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has blue blood containing hemocyanin, bitter fluid and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Locomotion Type: Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Some Buoyancy Control (Must Keep Swimming To Maintain Depth).
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Physical Stats: Speed = 2, Stamina = 1, Attack = 1, Defence = 1.5, Strength = 1, Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2
Systemic Stats: Osmoregulation = 2 (Quite high, quite low Salinity), Respiration = 2 (cutaneous respiration), Digestion = 3 (meat), Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Coordination = 1, Reflexes = 1. Immune System = 1 (physical barrier)
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Inolarynx maculatus (NT), Subadult
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Late Autumn
The water continues to shake and then suddenly you feel the temperature level shoot up. Light appears across the sea as lava pours from the volcano beneath you. Before you know it you are smothered by molten rock streaming over the seabed and pulverised. (3 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.8mm / 1 day
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. Itâs black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lives in loose shoals. Inolarynx has pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allow it to create a buccal pump that draws water past the gills. It also sucks in organisms from the water. It has a much softer memory than its predecessor.
Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm
Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP
Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. âMigmachordatix Toxinâ. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.
External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 6
Saccenta marsupius (LC), Subadult Male
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Late Spring
Hunkering down in your ditch in the gravel, you spot movement in the murky water out of the side of your compound eye. A Gempliaori is wandering across the floor, coming quite close. When it gets too close you start to move out to attack it but when you are halfway there a Tromaktikes [PositiveTower] - a blue exoskeleton-bearing animal powered by lobes - materialises out of the gloom and snatches away the prize, leaving only the cloud of gravel kicked up where the Gempliaori had been. You chase after the newcomer but lose it in the murk becoming exhuasted having pursued it for nothing. You cannot see the ditch. You remain in murky, warm freshwater that has a slight current. There is not much you can see but the gravel riverbed and the dirt bank on one side. An Organia âfishâ is poking through the riverbed while many Masticephalus drift past. Another Saccenta is also swimming along with the current. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 12cm / 18 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 15/20 (75% - 20% left over) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Saccenta marsupius
Latest Mutations: Better Brain = 4, Retractable lure = 3, Special sack = 5, Burrow into sand and ambush prey = 4
Info
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 167 x 16/100 = 3.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.4 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.9/0.7 = 1.3NP per round)/ 3.4NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Roll Up.
Perception: Sight 2. Wide Vision 1. Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Circulation 2. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5. Evolution 1 (5 votes). Filtration 0. Flexibility -1. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 0.7. Support 2.7. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour:
External Features: Medium Colouration. Exoskeleton. Skin. Mandibles. Claws. Mouth. Chemoreceptors. Camera Eye. Compound Eye. Legs with paddle linings. Stinger. Pouch. Hyponome. Fan tail.
Internal Features: Aquatic Spiracles. Closed Circulatory System. Anti-Freeze Compound. Nephridium. Axochord. Muscular System. Stomach. Coiled Intestine. Ganglion. Nerve Cord. Harmless Substance Gland. Swim Bladder. Gonads. Foul Fluid Gland.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (+1 Evolution).
Locomotion: Paddling. Hyponome Burst. Slightly Active (10NP).
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Tromaktikes garides, Subadult Male (U)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Late Summer
A Gempliaori wandering across the riverbed attracts your attention and you undulate your lobes and tail fin, while bursting with your hyponome to reach it. On the other side, a Saccenta [Zenzone] is emerging out of the murk but you grab the Gempliaori first in your mandibles, piercing its exoskeleton and carrying it off. You inject your toxin into your catch and it soon dies. You eat your prize. A year and a half later, having lived through the tough dark months, you having grown into a subadult. Recently, you shed your old exoskeleton and are in the process of growing a new one which has exhausted you. You remain in murky, very warm freshwater that has a slight current. There is not much you can see but the gravel riverbed and the dirt bank on one side. An Organia âfishâ is poking through the riverbed while many Masticephalus drift past. You see a pair of Saccenta [Zenzone] swimming along with the current. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% / 17cm / 22 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 34.4/34.4 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: Recently moulted, softer
Tromaktikes garides
Latest Mutations: More Compound Eyes = 5, More Side Flaps = 4, Stronger Mandibles = 4, Bigger = 4
Tromaktikes garides evolved from Dinocaroides hibridus. It is also a freshwater predator but it has even more powerful mandibles capable of penetrating the calcium carbonate shells of bivalves (and molluscs if there were any in freshwater). The half-exoskeleton bearing animal also has a greater number of smaller lobes comprising itâs two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Lastly, it has better eyesight because it has a new pair of forward facing eyes, and two of the side ones are now positioned on short stalks.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator
Size: 18cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 18/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.7 = 13NP per round)/ 36.2 x 0.9 = 32.6NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Xenoarthropodusin Toxin.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, need 10% less). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 3. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Trigger: Hungry > Search for food. Trigger: Food > Attack with mandibles. Trigger: Tired > Rest. Trigger: Pain > Fight or swim away. Trigger: Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The top half of the cylindrical body is covered by half an exoskeleton, leaving the lower half unprotected. This skin contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of very tough, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) and the same model of eyes on stalks either side of the head. Behind these stalks on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Along the body on each side are a series of many lobes combined into one. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. The mandibles host âXenoarthropodusinâ neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome.
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 1
Anazitonta astatheana, Hatchling (LC)
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Late Autumn
You head towards the Pteryphysis and easily catch up to them. You bite down. Your teeth just bounce off because the shell is too hard for you to penetrate. Then the water continues to shake and then suddenly you feel the temperature level shoot up. Light appears across the sea as lava pours from the volcano beneath you. Before you know it you are smothered by molten rock streaming over the seabed and pulverised. (5 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.6mm / 3 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: None
Anazitonta astatheana
Latest Mutations: Bigger
This relatively large species of Anazitonta is a hunter of smaller members of the genus; the ancestral Anazitonta anazitonta, as well as Pigocauda corallus. But luckily for these species it only inhabits the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a constantly faster metabolism, so it is faster and grows faster - at the cost of expending more energy. It also does not age as quicker, so has a longer lifespan.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 169 x 16/100 = 27NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 27 x 0.25 = 6.8NP per round (Needs to intake 6.8/0.7 = 9.7NP per round)/ 27NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Intolerant of More Than High Pressure. Fatal âMigmachordatixâ Toxin. Freshwater Osmoregulation.
Perception: Sight 1 (Blurry Images). Electroreception 2 (Passive Electroreception). Olfaction 1 (1m from mouth).
QqStats: Bite Strength 1. Buoyancy 1. Circulation 1. Coordination 2. Digestion 2. Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 1. Immunity 1 (Barrier Immunity). Liquid Excretion 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, Only Works Underwater). Sharpness 1. Solid Excretion 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 2. Toughness 0.5. UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 0.7. Warming 1.
Intelligence / Behaviour:
External Features: The body is quite streamlined, the skin of which is covered in cycloid scales and contains black pigments and blue photophores. A pair of olfactory receptors is located by the mouth at the front, which contains teeth. A pair of pinhole eyes are placed on top of the head. Three pairs of gill slits and electroreceptors line the flanks. There is a pair of pectoral fins and a round caudal fin below the tail with a pair of spines at the base.
Internal Features: The gonads are close to the body wall. Blood vessels circulate around the body. The head contains a cartilage jaw. The body is supported by a muscular system. The organs in the inner body are the swim bladder, stomach, intestines, nephridium and a toxin gland. Some ganglion are connected to a nerve cord, which is protected by the cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual. 1,000 eggs per spawning. External Fertilisation.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodites.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform Swimming.
Thanks for the round! Darn it, Iâm dead. I need to find a better way to get food while young. Action: be reborn.
dig another burrow and take a nap in it, making sure to keep an eye out for any prey.
Didnât you age a few months sense you spotted zenzone? Sorry, not my problem.
Action: With so many rocks i would like to hide among them to rest for a while
Thanks for all the effort stealth!
Round 221 - P.1
~73.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: 8 - None
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The cyclone reaches full strength and ravages the tropical seas._
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Salcaedis corcillum, Male Subadult (LC)
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Autumn
NOT YET VOTED
There is much algae to be eaten that cover the rocks like a carpet along with fronds of seaweed swaying from their anchors with the tide so you continue grazing peacefully. Waves ripple the surface above. The tide starts moving out to sea and the water level starts dropping accordingly so you keep moving - while grazing - to remain underwater. A few weeks later, you are found in an area surrounded by loose rubble with algae springing from gaps beneath it. A blue, worm-like, tentacled Farynxoskulus [Springblooms] lays atop a rock. Waves continue to ripple overhead in the clear, blue saltwater. The shore is in one direction and the rubble eventually ends in the other direction, leading to a plain. There are a couple of many-legged Pultrypa [Jellyfishmon] - arthropods with lobes on the elbows of their legs and with claws - here and you sense more chemically moving in. The wind picks up suddenly, causing the waves to increase greatly in size as rain batters the surface. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 11.1cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 12.6/12.6 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Salcaedis corcillum
Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance = 5, Intelligence = 6, Heart = 5, Stronger Mandibles = 2
This species has become marine, occupying the tropics around the Uteenessa Ocean. It can only hunt soft-bodied creatures because it has rather blunt and weak pincers. It can also graze. When reproducing, they return to certain sites in estuaries based in the tropics across both Olympia and Tartarus. This is thanks to their ability to remember long-term events.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens.
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 13cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (133NP/10) x 13/10 = 14.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 8NP / 14.8NP
Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance, Pincers Penetrate Hardness 0, Moulting, Can Roll Up. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Tolerance), Circulation, Excretion. Long-Term Me. mory.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemical particles from 5m away, only vague sense of direction), Sight 1 (Clear sight to the sides), Perceives Blue and Green.
Stats: Respiration 1, Coordination 1. Digestion 1.2 (Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, Can Digest Meat, Can Digest Plants, 10% less), Immunity (Immunity Physical Barrier), Support 1.5, Intelligence 1, Desiccation Resistance 1, Hardness 3. Walk Speed 2, Swim Speed 4.1, Stamina 2, Jumping 1, Strength 0.5, Dexterity 0.5, Filtration -0.5. Evolution 1 (4 mutations).
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; roll up into a ball. When hungry; look or sense for algae or animals. In Early Spring, when ready to reproduce, move to brackish water and gather in specific breeding sites and then sense for pheromones of opposite sex and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: Iridiphore pigments give the calcified exoskeleton with many plates covering the cylindrical body a metallic, blue sheen. This covers the skin. The mouth has a pair of mandibles (chelicera) and also has nearby chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are a pair of lens eyes and behind them a pair of compound eyes. The exoskeleton sports ten pairs of legs; the first are chelipeds which end in long, serrated pincers (chela), the next four are lined with paddles and used for walking and the final five are smaller, forked (biramous) swimmerets, also with paddles. The exoskeleton ends in a fan tail, and below this is a hyponome.
Internal Features: Spiracles at the edge of the body draw in water past gill-like structures. A closed circulatory system of blood vessels transports blue blood efficiently around the body, pumped by a two-chambered heart. Anti-freeze glycoproteins circulate in the body fluids. A nephridium funnels out chemical waste and expels it through a pore. The body is supported by a system of muscles. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the coiled intestines and finally to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which itself is connected to nerves like rungs of a ladder. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder, while below can be found testes (in a male or hermaphrodite) or an ova (in a female or hermaphrodite). Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: Male & Female until late life (Identical) (+1 Evolution)
Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 2
Placeholder name (U), Juvenile
_Deep Ocean
NOT YET VOTED
You hatch out into cold, dark water where you can see nothing but the smell of a Masticephalus arrives at your antennae. Following this scent by walking a short way across the seabed, you bump into the source and find it motionless. You tear into the fresh carcass with your mandibles and chela, getting a good meal. After a long time of growing and moulting in the cold, you are now a juvenile. The water has not changed from being pitch black and cold. All you can sense is the smell of several Masticephalus above you in the water and Gorgonia magnapolypa âsoft coralsâ and Myostila âsea anemoneâ along the seafloor. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 3.9cm / 1 year and 5 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 18.7/23.4* (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Placeholder name
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Placeholder name evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why itâs lost itâs foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
Empropthalmus soundwavia (NT), Hatchling
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
You hatch out into warm saltwater but you can see nothing at all. You have been born blind. A couple other Empropthalmus join you, forming a shoal. The signals of an Allostoma and an Anazitonta anazitonta are detected in your electroreception field nearby. The smells of an Inolarynx shoal [OoferDoofer] and an Anazitonta astatheana [Deathwake] also reach you. You feel yourself drifting along a current and waves crashing above. (1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.8mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.1/0.2 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: Blind
Empropthalmus soundwavia
Latest Mutations: Electric Organ = 4, Better Eyesight = 5, Smell Blood = 2
This Southern Hemisphere proto-fish has a true camera eye, which allows it to see clearer and further, and an active electroreception sense but it has a less powerful sense of smell. The eyes help it to hunt in the sunlit summers, while electroreception aids in the dark polar nights. This small predator lives in small shoals and uses its sharp, venomous fangs to subdue prey.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (183NP/10) x 8/10 = 14.6NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.6 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.9NP / 14.6 x 0.9 = 13.1NP
Abilities: Air Space. Bioluminescence. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Toxin, Fatal. Circulation, Large-Body. Penetrates Toughness 1 (jaw). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Moderate. UV Resistance, Strong.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (passive electrical field 1 body length away). Sight 2 (Binocular Vision, Front). Smell 0.5 (detects odours 1m away).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Break Down Multicellular Matter, Digest Meat, 10% off). Evolution 1 (4 votes). Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 2. Immunity 1. Intelligence 1. Memory 2 (1 month). Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 3.3. Toughness 0.5. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source. Join small shoals of other members of the species.
External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with black pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines at itâs base. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing sharp teeth and a pair of fangs in the upper jaw, olfactory receptors are on the head. They have forwards facing camera eyes with a calcite lens, that focuses by moving backwards and forwards, but have a blind spot.
Internal Features: Inside each cell has a low pressure tolerant metabolism. Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin, pumped by a simple heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw, which is linked to a cartilage skull. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. There is also a liver. A brain with a memory lobe encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body. There is an electric organ. It hosts either male or female gonads. Kidneys, connected to circulatory system, expels waste to the bladder a tract.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (Identical) (+1 Evolution).
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Gas Buoyancy. Active. (20NP)
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
_Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Ithaca Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Summer
Swimming between some of the rocks, you try to rest. However, a rogue wave sweeps you up and carries you away almost onto land but you are saved from landing on the beach by the wave losing power. You swim back below the surf to where you were before, not able to rest this time. You are still swimming about through late summer, warm water. The visibility is quite murky. You are exhausted. You are close to the shore, surrounded by rocks, with the surf passing overhead. The water is full of Masticephalus and Elinopterus. Somewhere over the rocks, you smell a Macromorphii crawling about. Away from the shore, the rocks give way to a clearing you can see. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 3.9cm / 15 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism 1.25)
Notes: None
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Diplopygus ramstirpes (LC), Adult Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Spring
NOT YET VOTED
Through the wreckage of the beach and the cloudy water appears an adult female Diplopygus, heading for shore. The Diplopygus walks up to the shallows right next to you, so you barely have to move. You successfully reproduce after she produces eggs onto the seafloor. The suspended debris has been washed away so the hot water is clear again. Loose rocks from the rockfall still cover the seafloor but your eggs have drifted away into the sea. The surf passes overhead. Another female Diplopygus enters the area, followed by a male. The last female has wandered off to the side. A Pultrypa is laying motionless in the surf, except for where the lapping waves make it bob around. A Salcaedis [Agenttine] - a clawed arthropod with many legs - grazes on the algae and a blue, worm-like, tentacled Farynxoskulus [Springblooms] filters from a rock. You retain your injuries and you are also exhausted. The wind picks up suddenly, causing the waves to increase greatly in size as rain batters the surface. (6 + 1 = Congratulations, itâs a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution. Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 35cm / 1 year
Health: Severe internal trauma
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 31/77.4 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Loss of speed and manouvreability, weak, high likelihood of more injuries
Diplopygus ramstirpes
Latest Mutations: Three-Chambered Heart = 5, Speed = 6, Bigger = 5, Brain = 6
An arthropod species with legs that become lobes for swimming and dangerous chelipeds. It is a predator and hunts some of the bigger animals around. It lives in tropical seas, oceans and estuaries as the apex predator and the largest arthropod to exist so far. Diplopygus differs from its predecessors, on top of being much bigger, by having a three-chambered heart pumping a double circulatory system. It also has a faster hyponome and ends in a pair of fan tail lobes. Furthermore, it has a slightly better brain and buries its eggs with food. Cannibalism is also relatively rare.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens
Niche: Predator
Size: 35cm (length)
Nutritional Need: FEMALE: 219 x 35/100 = 76.7NP. MALE: 221 x 35/100 = 77.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: FEMALE: 76.7 x 0.25 = 19.2NP per round (Needs to intake 19.2/0.7 = 27.4NP per round)/76.7 x 0.9 = 69NP MALE: 77.4 x 0.25 = 19.4NP per round (Needs to intake 19.4/0.7 = 27.7NP per round)/77.4 x 0.9 = 69.7NP
Characteristics: Absorption. Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view that catches peripheral movement).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat). Evolution 1. Filtration 0. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity, Stomach Acid). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 4.4. Swim Stability 0.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.7. Warming -0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = roll up. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move to Tropical Shallows breeding sites. (FEMALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive blue stripes = reproduce). (MALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive no blue stripes = reproduce). Move signal in water = fold legs against body to create lobes, hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. ??? = move towards, wind up cheliped then launch it. 1) Digs a hole for eggs and then buries them. 2) Deposits food in hole for eggs. 3) Do not cannibalise unless starving.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcified, calcite exoskeleton in fourteen plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has sandy melanin pigmentation on top and white melanin pigmentation underneath. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the circular mouth is a mandible. Around the mouth are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of normal legs, one to a segment, that have a large paddle on the outer side. When swimming, these are folded in to give the effect of a continuous lobe halfway along the body. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has two fan tail lobes and below that a hyponome. Males in the mating season have a series of blue stripes on their limbs, unique to the species.
Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, and the double circuit has a three-chambered heart. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has a sex-appropriate gonad and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach and coiled intestines. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off. A cerebrum has memory neurons.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Genders.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulation, Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.
1 Like
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 3
Farynxoskulus sensitivus (NT), Subadult
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Spring
NOT YET VOTED
You are still floating along on the current through the hot, clear saltwater. It carries all the way over a continental slope and you can finally blurrily see the seabed. You appear over a rock where there is plenty of marine snow kicking about. You gather it in with your tentacles and feed very well. Seven months later, you are still alive in the hot, clear water. You are poised on a rock, with your tentacles hanging over the edge. The motion of the surf above brings large amounts of food particles drifting by. Loose rocks cover this area. There are a couple of many-legged Pultrypa [Jellyfishmon] - arthropods with lobes on the elbows of their legs and with claws - here and you sense more chemically moving in. Blurrily, you can see a Salcaedis [Agenttine] - a clawed arthropod with many legs - clambering over the rubble grazing on algae. The wind picks up suddenly, causing the waves to increase greatly in size as rain batters the surface. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 6cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 38.3/38.3 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Farynxoskulus sensitivus
Latest Mutations: Carnivorous Digestion, Long Sensitive Antenna, Pharynx
This weird worm-like creature hunts across the tropical ocean, using its antennae to track down food. However, despite being carnivorous, it is not a predator. It simply has no way of demolishing prey. It can digest meat that it filters. A pharynx helps it digest and breathe better.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (63.5/10 X 7 =) 45NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 36NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Toxic. Buccal Pumping.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, binocular blurry vision to the front, can use chemoreception up to tens of metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation and a proboscis. It also has a thin skin layer. There is a mouth surrounded by small tentacles and chemoreceptors on the proboscis. There are two pinhole eyes on the front of the head and one also on each side, as well as a pair of antennae protruding from the head. A hyponome is at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Hydrostatic muscles surround the hemacoel. A pharynx pumps from the mouth to the throat. The gastrointestinal tract from mouth has a stomach with digestive juices and carnivorous enzymes, followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the. head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has blue blood containing hemocyanin, bitter fluid and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Locomotion Type: Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Some Buoyancy Control (Must Keep Swimming To Maintain Depth).
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Physical Stats: Speed = 2, Stamina = 1, Attack = 1, Defence = 1.5, Strength = 1, Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2
Systemic Stats: Osmoregulation = 2 (Quite high, quite low Salinity), Respiration = 2 (cutaneous respiration), Digestion = 3 (meat), Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Coordination = 1, Reflexes = 1. Immune System = 1 (physical barrier)
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Inolarynx maculatus (NT), Subadult
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Late Autumn
You hatch out into warm, quite murky saltwater. You are drifting along on a current, looking down at a rocky seabed strewn with seaweed as you pass over. Then you find yourself ensnared in the tentacles of a Myostila âsea anemone,â along with an Anazitonta astatheana [Deathwake]. You are dragged closer and closer to its waiting mouth and struggle to free yourself. Then a relatively huge Pholgnathus âarthropodâ appears, walking across the seabed. Itâs tapered rostrum comes first along with its exploring antennae. It attacks the Myostila with the thin mandibles in front of its steering arms. This enables you to get free and escape its clutches, free but exhausted. You are still drifting over rocky seabed, with waves crashing overhead. You find a shoal of Inolarynx and join them. An Allostoma, a proto-worm with a sharp beak, wriggles through the current, followed by an Anazitonta. There is also an Empropthalmus shoal [Soundwave] drifting along and the escaped Anazitonta astatheana [Deathwake] is searching around. You can see a cave in the rocks in one direction while in the other direction the seabed descends into a gully but you are slowly moving past thanks to the current. (2)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.8mm / 1 day
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.1/0.2 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. Itâs black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lives in loose shoals. Inolarynx has pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allow it to create a buccal pump that draws water past the gills. It also sucks in organisms from the water. It has a much softer memory than its predecessor.
Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm
Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP
Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. âMigmachordatix Toxinâ. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.
External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 6
Saccenta marsupius (LC), Adult Male
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Late Autumn
You dig another hole in the gravel under the murky water and crawl into it to rest. Your rest is long and undisturbed, so you recover a decent amount of energy. The Organia âfishâ has been moving steadily closer as it pokes through the seabed for algae. It comes close to the edge of your whole. You swim out, claws ready and grab it. The âfishâ tries to escape but you inflict too deep a wound and it bleeds out on your grasp. You feed as much as you can on the corpse. Time passes and it becomes dark and cold. You have become an adult, ready to reproduce. You can barely see. Ice has formed over the surface. There is not much you can see but the gravel riverbed and the dirt bank on one side. Gempliaori setobrachius is filtering from the riverbed while many Masticephalus drift past. Another Saccenta is also swimming along with the current. The chemicals of a Tromaktikes flow towards you. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 15/20 (100% - 25% left over) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Saccenta marsupius
Latest Mutations: Better Brain = 4, Retractable lure = 3, Special sack = 5, Burrow into sand and ambush prey = 4
Info
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 167 x 16/100 = 3.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.4 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.9/0.7 = 1.3NP per round)/ 3.4NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Roll Up.
Perception: Sight 2. Wide Vision 1. Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Circulation 2. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5. Evolution 1 (5 votes). Filtration 0. Flexibility -1. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 0.7. Support 2.7. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour:
External Features: Medium Colouration. Exoskeleton. Skin. Mandibles. Claws. Mouth. Chemoreceptors. Camera Eye. Compound Eye. Legs with paddle linings. Stinger. Pouch. Hyponome. Fan tail.
Internal Features: Aquatic Spiracles. Closed Circulatory System. Anti-Freeze Compound. Nephridium. Axochord. Muscular System. Stomach. Coiled Intestine. Ganglion. Nerve Cord. Harmless Substance Gland. Swim Bladder. Gonads. Foul Fluid Gland.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (+1 Evolution).
Locomotion: Paddling. Hyponome Burst. Slightly Active (10NP).
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 1
Tromaktikes garides, Adult Male (U)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Autumn
Through the murky water, you see a pair of Saccenta and head towards them. As you swim over, one disappears into the murk. You approach the one left behind [itâs not Zenzone] and get up close before biting down. Your tough mandibles go right through the exoskeleton, causing a deep wound clouding the water with blood. At the same time the mandibles inject your toxin into the Saccentaâs body. The Saccenta tries to escape but canât get far at all before it succumbs to exhaustion, blood loss and toxin. All that is left is for you to casually swim up to it and begin feasting. You remain in murky, very warm freshwater that has a slight current. You are now an adult, ready to reproduce, but still exhausted. There is not much you can see but the gravel riverbed and the dirt bank on one side. Gempliaori setobrachius is filtering from the riverbed while many Masticephalus drift past. Another Tromaktikes is also swimming along with the current. The chemicals of a couple of Saccenta flow towards you. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 18cm / 2 years
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 36.2/36.2 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: Recently moulted, softer
Tromaktikes garides
Latest Mutations: More Compound Eyes = 5, More Side Flaps = 4, Stronger Mandibles = 4, Bigger = 4
Tromaktikes garides evolved from Dinocaroides hibridus. It is also a freshwater predator but it has even more powerful mandibles capable of penetrating the calcium carbonate shells of bivalves (and molluscs if there were any in freshwater). The half-exoskeleton bearing animal also has a greater number of smaller lobes comprising itâs two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Lastly, it has better eyesight because it has a new pair of forward facing eyes, and two of the side ones are now positioned on short stalks.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator
Size: 18cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 18/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.7 = 13NP per round)/ 36.2 x 0.9 = 32.6NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Xenoarthropodusin Toxin.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, need 10% less). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 3. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Trigger: Hungry > Search for food. Trigger: Food > Attack with mandibles. Trigger: Tired > Rest. Trigger: Pain > Fight or swim away. Trigger: Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The top half of the cylindrical body is covered by half an exoskeleton, leaving the lower half unprotected. This skin contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of very tough, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) and the same model of eyes on stalks either side of the head. Behind these stalks on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Along the body on each side are a series of many lobes combined into one. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. The mandibles host âXenoarthropodusinâ neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome.
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Anazitonta astatheana, Hatchling (LC)
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Late Autumn
You hatch out into warm, quite murky saltwater. You are drifting along on a current, looking down at a rocky seabed strewn with seaweed as you pass over. Then you find yourself ensnared in the tentacles of a Myostila âsea anemone,â along with an Inolarynx [OoferDoofer]. You are dragged closer and closer to its waiting mouth and struggle to free yourself. Then a relatively huge Pholgnathus âarthropodâ appears, walking across the seabed. Itâs tapered rostrum comes first along with its exploring antennae. It attacks the Myostila with the thin mandibles in front of its steering arms. This enables you to get free and escape its clutches, free but exhausted. You are still drifting over rocky seabed, with waves crashing overhead. An Allostoma, a proto-worm with a sharp beak, wriggles through the current, followed by an Anazitonta. There is an Empropthalmus shoal [Soundwave] drifting along and the escaped Inolarynx has joined an Inolarynx shoal [OoferDoofer]. You can see a cave in the rocks in one direction while in the other direction the seabed descends into a gully but you are slowly moving past thanks to the current. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.6mm / 0 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.2/0.3 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism 1.25)
Notes: None
Anazitonta astatheana
Latest Mutations: Bigger
This relatively large species of Anazitonta is a hunter of smaller members of the genus; the ancestral Anazitonta anazitonta, as well as Pigocauda corallus. But luckily for these species it only inhabits the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere. It has a constantly faster metabolism, so it is faster and grows faster - at the cost of expending more energy. It also does not age as quicker, so has a longer lifespan.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 169 x 16/100 = 27NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 27 x 0.25 = 6.8NP per round (Needs to intake 6.8/0.7 = 9.7NP per round)/ 27NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Intolerant of More Than High Pressure. Fatal âMigmachordatixâ Toxin. Freshwater Osmoregulation.
Perception: Sight 1 (Blurry Images). Electroreception 2 (Passive Electroreception). Olfaction 1 (1m from mouth).
QqStats: Bite Strength 1. Buoyancy 1. Circulation 1. Coordination 2. Digestion 2. Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 1. Immunity 1 (Barrier Immunity). Liquid Excretion 1. Respiration 1 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, Only Works Underwater). Sharpness 1. Solid Excretion 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 2. Toughness 0.5. UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 0.7. Warming 1.
Intelligence / Behaviour:
External Features: The body is quite streamlined, the skin of which is covered in cycloid scales and contains black pigments and blue photophores. A pair of olfactory receptors is located by the mouth at the front, which contains teeth. A pair of pinhole eyes are placed on top of the head. Three pairs of gill slits and electroreceptors line the flanks. There is a pair of pectoral fins and a round caudal fin below the tail with a pair of spines at the base.
Internal Features: The gonads are close to the body wall. Blood vessels circulate around the body. The head contains a cartilage jaw. The body is supported by a muscular system. The organs in the inner body are the swim bladder, stomach, intestines, nephridium and a toxin gland. Some ganglion are connected to a nerve cord, which is protected by the cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual. 1,000 eggs per spawning. External Fertilisation.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodites.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform Swimming.
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Thanks for the round! Iâll look for an easy kill in the cave.