Action: try and eat the ctenella
Is that all you want to do?
Reminder to all: I’ve said this before but don’t forget you can have more than one action in your round if you want and the dice will decide how much actually happens.
and reproduce. (post filler)
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Another tip: the sooner you give me your actions, the more time I have to work on your round.
Action:Tear the masticephalus to pieces and then consume it
Action: Curse my ancestors as I die and my corpse is dragged off by this anemone
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Round 228 - P.1
~76 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: 5 - None
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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Ktrie qualuntus, Male Juvenile (LC)
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Winter
NOT YET VOTED
You hatch out in water and immediately climb out onto the land, crawling into rock in hot air with a steady drip of rain from the many clouds. A line of green moss is lining the water and you graze on this moss. Several months later you remain in a similar location. Everywhere you look is various levels of rock. There is a brown river with moss growing along the side but in the other direction the rocks are barren. It’s hot and raining. Dark shapes swim through the river. Some Gryohorhinus can be seen grazing on the algae. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 4.6cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 9/9 (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Ktrie qualuntus
Latest Mutations: Stronger pincers = 6, More efficient herbivorous digestive system = 4, Air-breathing = 6, Antenna to sense valuable prey more easily = 5
Ktrie qualuntus is a hyperarthropod that is one of the first to live on land, rather than water, thanks to the fact that it has a tracheal system. It is a herbivore and at the time of it’s arrival has no predators here. It lives only at tropical and subtropical very humid locations in Tartarus and close to water. It also has stronger pincers that can pierce the calcified exoskeletons of other hyperarthropods, an even more coiled digestive tract and antennae with touch receptors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens close to water
Niche: Herbivore
Diet: Any plants it can get.
Size: 13cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 198 x 13/100 = 25.7NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 25.7 x 0.25 = 6.4NP per round (Needs to intake 6.4/0.8 = 8NP per round)/ 25.7NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Roll Up. 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 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Touch 1.
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with wound-up cheliped. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
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 blue melanin pigmentation. There is a pair of antennae with touch receptors. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the 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 paddle-lined legs, one to a segment. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin. 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 highly 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: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 2
Maurcolus repus (U), Juvenile
_Deep Ocean
NOT YET VOTED
Suspended in the thick water devoid of light, you rest after your struggles. Throughout your rest, nothing attacks you or disturbs you and so your rest is long and fruitful. You regain a lot of energy and feel healthy again. There is a trail of Masticephalus odours and you follow this trail, paddling through the viscous water. The scent gets stronger until you bump into a Masticephalus. You grab it in your claws and are able to rip it in half, then promptly stuff your food into your mouth. A year or so has passed and you have grown slowly into a juvenile. You’ve successfully survived, moulting, feeding and avoiding predation. Characteristically, the environment has barely changed. It is pitch black, quite still and cold. The water was no longer thick. The seabed must not be far below because you can smell a distant Gorgonia ‘soft coral’ and a Chartitesta ‘tube anemone.’ Another distant trace, this time from the water column is from a Farynxoskulus. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 95% / (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus 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 it’s lost it’s 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.
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Hatchling
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
(As your body is tossed towards the maw, you shake your fists at the sky and scream “curse you ancestors! Curse you for not making me superior to a sea anemone!) You hatch out into warm, brightly lit, clear water. It’s salty. You can feel yourself being carried along by a current but also the water is thick and you struggle to move. Looking around you, you see nothing around you but open water and the surface with the shimmering sun beaming through. You cannot even see any other animals, so you just sit there, being carried along. After a while, you see the dark shape of a rock formation below. The trail of soft coral scents comes from here. Some other animals have now appeared in the current. Several Masticephalus lepusensis [simple animals with jelly-fish like domes, cirri around the mouth and cilia on membranes] are floating around you, whilst you spot an Elinopterus agentia [a worm-like animal with a long, sharp beak] circling around the area, often disappearing behind the Masticephalus. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.6mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 0.1/0.1 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: No scales.
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 microstomus (LC), Adult Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Late Spring
6 = NOT YET VOTED
You hatch out into a hole in the seabed, surrounded by other hatchlings breaking out of their eggs. It seems most have already hatched and a steady stream of hatchlings is already climbing out of the hole and spreading across the outside world. There is not much food left in the hole but you crawl through the viscous water anyway. You reach out to grab a piece when a Hypovenator bursts out of the ground and grabs the food in its mouth, swallowing it down. It’s appearance destabilised the side of the hole and a wall of sand breaks down upon you and the other remaining hatchlings, covering you. You have to crawl through the sand to get to the bottom of the hole again, using up quite a bit of energy. You are in the hole, beneath a clear, tropical sea with the surf rolling above. There are a few other hatchlings scrambling away and a Hypovenator submerging back beneath the sand. A relatively giant adult Diplopygus is looking down into the hole. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 5mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.5/1.1 (45%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Diplopygus ramstirpes
Latest Mutations: 2 = Harpoon tongue with net structure, 4 = Bigger, 3 = Evolve gut to be better at eating plankton, 2 = Better chemoreceptors
Diplopygus is a lobe-limbed arthropod with two fan tails, making it a proficient swimmer, as well as having a spring-loaded cheliped. It is a predator of both the open tropical seas and tropical freshwater biomes. It is comparatively huge to any other animal alive at the time of its arrival but it has a smaller, slit-shaped mouth and worse chemoreceptors compared to its predecessor.
Status: Unlisted
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, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 55cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 205 x 55/100 = 112.8NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 112.8 x 0.25 = 28.2NP per round (Needs to intake 28.2/0.8 = 35.3NP per round)/ 112.8NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Roll Up. 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 mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 0.5. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 2. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 4. Swim Stability 0.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with wound-up cheliped. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce, putting eggs in a hole and leaving food in the hole. 6. 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 slit-like 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: Almost identical male and females. (Changes - Male = Adulthood > Blue Stripes on Legs).
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail and legs folded into lobes and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@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)
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@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 3
Inolarynx maculatus (NT), Hatchling
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Late Spring
You see some of the Ctenella [cilia-driven invertebrates] and your hunger drives you to attack them. However, the rest of your shoal is still resting in the current and the instinct to stay by them wins out. You remain where you are, waiting in the current although you are now starving. There is still bright daylight in the warm, quite murky water. Below you is a sandy shelf, travelling off into the gloom in all directions. The surface appears to be a little way above you and you see planktonic Virovermes [worm-like filter-feeders] drifting in a current. There is a rock from which springs several sponges and the shoal gathers around that, as they can still see a few Anazitonta anazitonta hidden between the sponges. A couple Anazitonta astatheana are patrolling the area, one quite nearby the rock. Crawling across the sand is a Podobitus [hyperarthropod with legs hidden by side lobes]. (3)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 10% / 8mm / 2 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 0.4/1.5 (25% - 10% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism 1.25)
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. It’s 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. “Migmachordatix Toxin”. 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 = 2
Haleglossus falophytus (LC), Adult Male
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Late Spring
You set off upriver, following the landscapes that you can remember back to the colony where you were born. Through the murky river you swim, passing the bigger Dorsopelta which was heading in the opposite direction and luckily ignored you. The journey up through the river is a calm one with mostly different twists and turns in the river to follow and not many more difficult features. The river remains quite passive. Days pass, and you feel your hugger increasing but your instincts push you on. On one day, you recognise an opening in the side of the river and follow this offshoot into a large shallow lake. It’s warm and murky but full of countless Haleglossus falophytus. You watch them all swimming about and walking along the bottom. You search the colony for a female and manage to find one, you successfully manage to mate and reproduce. Both you and the female gather as many of the eggs into your pouches as you can. Having done this, you look around again at the many Haleglossus swimming about. The scent of a Dorsopelta [a lobed hemiarthropod] reaches from the main river that pours into this lake and you are quite close to this entrance. Between the Haleglossus, tiny Masticephalus recentibus [simple animals with jelly-fish like domes, cirri around the mouth and cilia on membranes] swim about, filtering. (6 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 24/32.3 (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Haleglossus falophytus
Latest Mutations: Lure = 6, Better Brain = 3, Longer Intestine = 5, Competitive Mating Season = 4
Fish beware! That piece of algae floating in the river might just be the lure of athe deadly arthropod, Haleglossus falophytus. It lies in pits it builds in the riverbeds of Tartarus and pulls in any prey that comes close, killing them with their stingers or mandibles. It has a slightly better ability to digest food than its predecessor, so it needs to consume slightly less. These are interestingly the first species to gather at specific mating sites at a specific time where countless Haleglossus may gather to mate. Like its relatives, it has a pouch on the underside where the young hatch.
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, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 202 x 16/100 = 32.3NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.3 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.3NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Roll Up. 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 mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5 (100% Meat, Digests 85%). Evolution 2. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & Mating Season & At Mating Site (+1 Evolution) > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. A unique lure made of mostly muscle can be retracted into the base of the mouth - it has a green lure covered in tiny hooks at the end. 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 stalks on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body with a pair of appendages bearing sharp stingers at the end. There are three pairs of paddle-lined legs. Underneath the body is a pouch where eggs are laid into and through which the young hatch. 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 and another gland secretes a harmless 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. 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 coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head, possessing memory neurons, connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. Along the nerve chord is an axochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
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Dorsopelta positivus, Adult Male (U)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Summer
You crawl your way through cold, dark water towards the scent of a Masticephalus and the smell gets stronger and stronger. Then you get get close enough to see one of them under the moonlight. It doesn’t react as you get closer then you grab it in your mandibles and tear through the soft body, killing it. You then feast on the remains. Several months later, you have survived the dark, cold winter and it is now continually day and the temperature has become warm. You look around and you are now in a shallow, calm stream with a muddy riverbed, except for behind where there is a small waterfall. Upstream, you see a Haleglossus [Zenzone, a kind of filter-feeder] and follow it but is quick too. You keep after it through the fairly murky water and then see it entering an offshoot of the stream. You are pretty exhausted from a recent journey. Inside, are countless Haleglossus forming a colony. Between the Haleglossus, tiny Masticephalus recentibus [simple animals with jelly-fish like domes, cirri around the mouth and cilia on membranes] swim about, filtering. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 9.5cm / 8 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.3/0.4 (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Dorsopelta positivus
Latest Mutations: Bigger = 4, More body segments = 3, more compound eyes = 1, a long, frontal appendage which allows me to ouch and move stuff = 6
This species is also a freshwater predator but has 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 it’s two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Perhaps due to it’s murky habitats, it has got much smaller eyes and lost it’s compound eyes completely, making it’s eyesight worse although it now has a pair of long antennae with touch receptors on. Another change is the increase in size.
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, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 27cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 196 x 27/100 = 52.9NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 52.9 x 0.25 = 13NP per round (Needs to intake 13/0.7 = 18.6NP per round)/ 52.9 x 0.9 = 47.6NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. “Xenoarthropodusin” Toxin: Neurotoxin that kills nerves in minutes.
Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily at the front and sides, blue and green perception, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1.
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 Agility 0.5. Swim Speed 3. Swim Stability 1. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. 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. A pair of long antennae have touch receptors. Around the mouth is a pair of very tough, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two tiny 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. 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 “Xenoarthropodusin” 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)
Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Autumn
You hatch out into warm, bright, clear water. You can feel yourself being carried along on a current but the water is also thick so it is hard to move. You see a shoal of Inolarynx proto-fish hanging about in the current and move in. You crawl through the viscous water towards your prey and the Inolarynx remain as they are. Finally, you are upon them and bite down on the one you have selected. It’s a very effective bite and it’s blood clouds the water. You feel the pressure stop when it slips out of your jaws but it is escaping very slowly and getting slower all the time. Quickly, it stops fleeing all together and lays still in the water. You catch up and start feeding on the flesh. A few months pass and you grow into a juvenile. After a while, you see the dark shape of a rock formation below. The trail of soft coral scents comes from here. Some other animals have now appeared in the current. Several Masticephalus lepusensis [simple animals with jelly-fish like domes, cirri around the mouth and cilia on membranes] are floating around you, whilst you spot an Elinopterus agentia [a worm-like animal with a long, sharp beak] circling around the area, often disappearing behind the Masticephalus. There is also a shoal of Inolarynx swimming through the current. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 2.4cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 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 “Migmachordatix” Toxin. Freshwater Osmoregulation.
Perception: Sight 1 (Blurry Images). Electroreception 2 (Passive Electroreception). Olfaction 1 (1m from mouth).
Stats: 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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Allonops allonops, Juvenile (LC)
Olympia, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Spring
You swim towards the sight of the Organia ‘fish’ nibbling on algae through the murky, hot freshwater. But before you get very far, the other Allonops gets to it first and attacks. It grabs the animal with it’s claws and and uses them repeatedly to cut the ‘fish’ to death. A cloud of blood rises in the water. The Allonops begins feeding on the corpse in front of you and there is still plenty of it left. In the murky water, the river appears uniform in any direction and you cannot see the edges. Several Icthyotelus traludicus are passing, filtering the water. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 4.2cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 50% / 3.7/5.3 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Allonops allonops
Latest Mutations: Gills, Filter-Feeding
This species is a predator native to the waterways of Kommos. Like it’s relatives it has odour receptors inside it’s spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on it’s leg.
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, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Very Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get
Size: 12cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 194 x 8/100 = 15NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.8 = 4.8NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Freshwater). Roll Up. 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). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Plants, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, Stationary Respiration, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, 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) on either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body and there are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills followed by forked, paddle-lined swimmerets. 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. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. 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. 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 coiled 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: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs, swimmerets and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
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I voted? Did you miss it or?
hmm, you know what, ill try hunting down an icthyotelus
Sorry, I did miss that. I’ll add that tomorrow.
Also, I wrote this because there been some new species added and I haven’t written a good update in a while. This is to give you a brief overview of the ecosystems and species currently.
Olympia:
This is the second largest continent currently existing on Ezta and lies in the west, entirely within the tropical section of the planet. Consequently, it is very hot and mostly humid although it does have some deserty parts. There is no life on land here but in rivers and lakes it’s a different story.
The moss-like algae is eaten by herbivores such as Hydroambula decapodus, a blue hyperarthropod with ten paddle-lined legs, a fan tail and hyponome, about 12cm long. The other herbivore in freshwater is Organia cosmopolitanus, one of the first true fish genera. It’s about 10cm long, black and scaly with pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail. They are both prey for Hydroambula venatorus, a similar species to H. decapodus but predatory and 13cm long.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as Icthyotelus tralucidus, which simply swims along collecting food in it’s mouth. This is a 7cm long Agnathan with a mostly transparent teardrop-shaped body, with hints of blue around the organs and head. It has pinhole eyes, three gills and a pair of pectoral fins. Although easy prey, it is too small to be of much use to adult H. decapodus. Arencolus communus is a similar Agnathan, but lives poking out of sediment, has no fins and is blue not transparent. It competes in the benthic environment with Ichthyopsis fodius, which has true eyes and is 5cm long. Below the sediment, filtering through it for food as it burrows, lives the blue, 14cm long, thin worm Ahyponomus vulgarus which has no normal predators.
In the brackish estuaries that sit between Olympia’s rivers and the sea, Salcaedis corcillum is another herbivorous hyperarthropod like Hydroambula except it has a heart and long-term memory - which it uses to gather for breeding - but weaker claws. There is another fish species here, Protichthys salmacidus, which is also 10cm long, black and scaly with pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail, except it has pinhole eyes instead of true eyes and a pair of spines at the base of the tail. The 20cm long hyperarthropod Pultrypa reponectus preys on both of these. They have powerful class that can be launched quickly by a spring-like muscle. Like the other hyperarthropods mentioned so far it has ten paddle-lined legs, a fan tail and a hyponome. It’s predator is Diplopygus ramstirpes, yet another hyperarthropod. It has the same claws as P. reponectus but is 35cm long and has legs that it can fold to become lobes more suited to swimming. It also has a more advanced circulatory system, a better hyponome and ends in two fan tails side by side. They do not breed in Olympian waters. The apex predator is the 55cm long hyperarthropod Diplopygus microstomus, which is similar except for a relatively smaller mouth.
I. tralucidus, A. communus, I. fodius and A. vulgarus live here also, but are not common prey due to their small size. In one in a tropical, very humid climate, Arencolus tanoii, very similar to A. communus, joins them.
Delphi:
This is the third largest continent currently on Ezta and is located almost in the middle of the world, right in the tropical belt. It is hot and humid but there is no life on land here, only rocks. However, there is much life in the rivers and streams.
The ecosystem is very similar to that of Olympia, from which it broke off millions of years ago. The differences are that there is an 18cm long version of Hydroambula decapodus called Hydroambula major. An adult of these has no predators. There is also no Ichthyopsis fodius and no Arencolus tanoii.
Ithaca:
This is one of Ezta’s subcontinents and exists in the far north, two-thirds lying within the polar circle. It is quite temperate with mild weather, except that for half the year is almost complete darkness and freezing temperatures. The other half sees more normal temperatures but the days stretch on for all those months. Due to it’s isolation, many of the younger species have not spread here and it still has no predators.
The fish Organia cosmopolitanus eats the algae that grows in the rivers and lakes. Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as Nothokossyphus elegans, which simply swims along collecting food in it’s mouth. These only live in freshwater. This is a 7cm long Agnathan with a blue teardrop-shaped body. It has pinhole eyes, three gills and a pair of pectoral fins. Inside it has a heart. It is also found often on any large, fresh corpse because it can absorb nutrients directly through it’s skin. In brackish water, Neoicthyotelus ithaca is similar but has a closed circulatory system. Sticking out of the sediment is Halmembrana, a member of the Lophricha class. It has a small (only 2cm long), brown, cylindrical body with cirri around the mouth. Four, fleshy membranes along the side have cilia. Ahyponomus vulgarus also lives here.
Tartarus:
This is the largest continent currently existing on Ezta and takes up much of the eastern hemisphere. Most of it is covered by the tropical belt but some in the south extends in the temperate zone. It has a lot of hot, humid land but there is a massive desert in the south, and below that a relatively small temperate area. There is some algae that grows on land but along freshwater and one terrestrial species: Ambulanus terrestrium, which is like Gryphorhinus terrestrium only it has air-filled trachea. These only live in very humid, tropical areas.
The moss-like algae in rivers and lakes is eaten by herbivores such as Gryphorhinus terrestrium, a blue hyperarthropod with stalked eyes, five paddle-lined legs, a fan tail and hyponome, about 8cm long. The other herbivore in freshwater is Organia encephalus, one of the first true fish genera. It’s about 10cm long, black, scaly and slimy with pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail.
They are both prey for Tromaktikes garides, Haleglossus falophytus and Sclerocephalus obscurus. T. garides is a blue hemiarthropod 18cm long, which means it only has an upper half covered by an exoskeleton and the underside is naked. It has no legs but a series of lobes along the side and a pair of mandibles. It ends in a fan-tail and a hyponome. H. falophytus is a unique, blue, 16cm long hyperarthropod, which means it has a complete exoskeleton. As well as claws, it has long, thin appendages ending in what can only be called stingers, as well as mandibles. Other than this it has three legs, a fan-tail and a hyponome. Beneath it’s body is a pouch where eggs are stored. It does not actively prey like T. garides, but digs a ditch and lies in wait, utilising a hooked, algae-like lure from it’s mouth. S. obscurus is the final of these predators and is nocturnal. Fittingly, it is black. This 15cm long hyperarthropod has a carapace over the head and five paddle-lined legs. At the rear of the is a fan-tail and a hyponome.
These are preyed upon by the bigger predators Dorsopelta positivus and Cavuops tartarus. D. positivus is a hemiarthropod, similar to T. garides except they are 27cm long and have antennae and less eyes; the two eyes that remain are small. C. tartarus is a nocturnal hyperarthropod with a carapace over the head, five paddle-lined legs, a fan-tail and a hyponome. It is muddy-brown and 23cm long. It also has antennae.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as Gempliaori setobranchius, which sits in the water and uses bristles on it’s claws to filter food. It is another hyperarthropod with five paddle-lined legs, a fan-tail and a hyponome, 6cm long. Flowing along through the water is Masticephalus recentibus, a member of the Lophricha class. It has a small (only 2cm long), yellow, cylindrical body with a jellyfish-like bell around the head and cirri around the mouth. Four, fleshy membranes along the side have cilia. This is the prey of Scleronotus sensus, a hemiarthropod only 4cm long. It has not got a full exoskeleton, only a chitin shield on the upper half and naked skin below. It is blue. It has long, sharp mandibles, two claws on a pair of legs and five legs overall, a fan-tail and a hyponome. Compcylindricus sous is a bivalve so in it’s adult phase sits on the riverbed in it’s tan-coloured two-valved shell and only opens it to filter with it’s ciliated cirri. Ahyponomus vulgarus also lives here.
In the brackish estuaries that sit between Tartarus’s rivers and the sea, is a similar ecosystem except there are no O. encephalus ‘fish,’ M. recentibus or C. sous. There is another fish species here, Protichthys salmacidus, but only in tropical estuaries. Pultrypa reponectus is also added to the mid-level predators in tropical estuaries. Diplopygus ramstirpes is another predator that feeds on these predators but only in tropical estuaries. In tropical estuaries, Diplopygus microstomus becomes the apex predator.
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Confirmed, this creature is me on a spiritual level
Action: Get away from the elinopterus by hiding near the coral, with my small size i will bite the wall to feed me and hide on the cravices i make
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Kommos:
This is the fourth largest continent that currently exists on Ezta and far to the south but almost aligned with the centre of the planet, slightly to the west. Some of it even lies within the polar circle. It is quite temperate with mild weather, except that for half the year is almost complete darkness and freezing temperatures. The other half sees more normal temperatures but the days stretch on for all those months. There is no life on land here but in rivers and lakes it’s a different story.
The moss-like algae in rivers and lakes is eaten by herbivores such as Gryphorhinus terrestrium, a blue hyperarthropod with stalked eyes, five paddle-lined legs, a fan tail and hyponome, about 8cm long. It’s prey for Sclerocephalus branchius. This 10cm long hyperarthropod has a carapace over the head and five paddle-lined legs with gills. At the rear of the is a fan-tail and a hyponome. The other herbivore in freshwater is Organia cosmopolitanus. This is prey for predators such as Sclerocephalus lutus, Dinocaroides hibridus and Saccenta marsupium. S. lutus is like S. branchius only it has no gills and is 13cm long. D. hibridus is like Tromaktikes garides but has less eyes and is 12cm long. S. marsupium is similar to Haleglossus falophytus, except it has no lure.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as Gempliaori setobranchius, which sits in the water and uses bristles on it’s claws to filter food. It is also prey for S. branchius. Flowing along through the water is Masticephalus recentibus. This is the prey of Scleronotus rudigastrus, a hemiarthropod only 4cm long. It has not got a full exoskeleton, only a chitin shield on the upper half and naked skin below. It is blue. It has long, sharp mandibles, two claws on a pair of legs and five legs overall, a fan-tail and a hyponome. Cilistoma caecus is a yellow bivalve so it sits on the riverbed in it’s two-valved shell and only opens it to filter with it’s ciliated cirri. When opened, it’s jellyfish-like dome and membranes can be seen inside. Ahyponomus vulgarus also lives here, as well as the similar but 7cm long Ahyponomus kommosia.
In the brackish estuaries that sit between Kommos’ rivers and the sea, is a similar ecosystem except there are no O. cosmopolitanus ‘fish,’ M. recentibus or C. caecus.
Aeaea:
This is a small, tropical subcontinent, just north of Tartarus. It is very hot and dry. There is no life on land here but in rivers and lakes it’s a different story.
The moss-like algae in rivers and lakes is eaten by herbivores such as Mandibulidon viridus, a green hemiarthropod with five legs, a fan tail and hyponome, about 8cm long. The other herbivore in freshwater is Organia cosmopolitanus. Mandibulidon bowseri preys on these two and it is like M. viridus, only 18cm. It lies in wait on patches of algae.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as Icthyotelus branchomaximus, which simply swims along collecting food in it’s mouth. This is a 7cm long Agnathan with a blue teardrop-shaped body. It has pinhole eyes, three large gills and a pair of pectoral fins. Flowing along through the water is Masticephalus recentibus. Cilistoma primus is a yellow bivalve so it sits on the riverbed in it’s two-valved shell and only opens it to filter with it’s ciliated cirri. When opened, it’s jellyfish-like dome and membranes can be seen inside. Ahyponomus vulgarus also lives here.
In the brackish estuaries that sit between Aeaea’s rivers and the sea, is a similar ecosystem except there are no O. cosmopolitanus ‘fish,’ M. recentibus or C. primus. There is another fish species here, Protichthys salmacidus. Masticephalus aeaeaensis is a brackish water version of M. recentibus and Cilistoma ecvolius is a brackish water version of C. primus. Pultrypa reponectus is also added to the mid-level predators. Diplopygus ramstirpes is another predator that feeds on these predators. Diplopygus microstomus is the apex predator.
Tropical Ocean:
This is a single belt of ocean across much of the middle of Ezta.
Photus delboyi and Photus atroboceanus are blue, soft, amorphous sponges that encrust on rocks and uses bacteria for photosynthesis as well as filtering with their pores. Halidiscus virosus is similar but pancake-shaped. All are toxic. Nyctopolypus sylvestrus is a red, fan-shaped stony coral that also photosynthesises. Each colony is 16cm tall. The polyps only come out at night and have nematocysts. It forms much of the basis for coral reefs. They release eggs on one night in early spring.
There is also a variation of moss-like and seaweed algae which uses photosynthesis. This is eaten by a red, circular-shelled Compcyclus repus, which has a couple of cirri, eyes on stalks and a mollusc foot with mucus. It moves slowly across the ground. Faster and swimming is the hyperarthropod Caulops primus, which is like Gryphorhinus only with a heart. There is also Caulops genia which is the same only it has sexes. Protichthys salamacidus also lives here and is food for Pultrypa reponectus, which is itself food for Diplopygus ramstirpes and that for Diplopygus microstomus. P. salamacidus is also food for Mossa transparentus, a 21cm wide jellyfish with barbed tentacles. Mossa major, like M. transparentus but blue and 28cm wide preys on P. reponectus.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as the minute Copegyrinus pelagicus, a member of the zooplankton. This 2mm long member of the Lophricha is so small the water is thick and viscous. It is a transparent, cylindrical animal with cirri around the mouth and cilia along four membranes running down the body. Elephazous elephazous is also a member of the Lophricha but has a foldable jellyfish-like dome and uses a siphon with cirri to filter food from the water. It also has the four membranes with cilia. It is transparent and larger at 1.5cm long, meaning water is not thick but it is still zooplankton because it cannot swim against the currents, which it drifts on. Xenodisoma xenodisoma is a colonial version of E. elephazous, with each body attached by a stolon. Octoplocamus liquetus is a 4cm wide jellyfish with barbed, stinging tentacles and two oral arms that preys on these last two filter-feeders, as does Pseudoicthys, a 4cm long proto-fish. Dolophonaskulus patetus is a sandy-brown 8cm long ambush predator with a cylindrical body with membranes along it, wide jaws and a bioluminescent lure. Malopus glabus also preys on them. It has an elongated, thin body with oncopods and a wide jaw and bioluminescent lure. The predators for these two is Organia lamnadens, which is like Organia cosmopolitanus except it has spines at the base of it’s tail, is bioluminescent and has sharp teeth and Brachiopherus pugilus, a 12cm long xenaspid, with lobes instead of legs and a pair of claws on chelipeds. Their predators are P. reponectus and M. transparentus. Entaops regularus and Farynxoskulus asterobrachus are toxic, tubular animals that float through the ocean, filtering food with cirri. Both are blue and 7cm long. Farynxoskulus uses a muscular pharynx.
Along the seabed crawl benthic cephalopods with conical shells. Atkinsonia primus exists around all tropical continental shelves above 50m below sea level. It is 15cm long as is Eoceras gracilis, which only lives around Delphi. Atkinsonia major is 30cm and lives along the tropical coasts of Tartarus. Pantheca primus is a 2.5cm long gastropod almost entirely surrounded by shell. It has pectoral fins.
There are many sessile species that lie on the seafloor and filter. Bitascyphus flavus is like a Cilistoma bivalve only the lobe is inverted and is used when filtering for food, creating a pull of water towards it’s mouth. It’s 2.3cm long. Actinella actinella is a 4cm tall fan-shaped coral. It’s a soft coral because it is supported only by gorgonin. Coelotheca borealis is a blue, 7cm tall, toxic tunicate which sucks in water through one opening, catching food in a mucus net and dispelling the water through an exit. It has cirri around the opening. Neoxyskulus enlavis is a 10cm long up tube that burrows into rock with acid and sticks to the end, using cirri to filter. It’s toxic. Nyctopolypus tropicae is like N. sylvestrus but does not have bacteria for photosynthesising. Inospongus williamsi is a 18cm tall sponge with a calcium carbonate skeleton. Arenvermes angustus is 14cm long and thin. It lives in burrows in the ground, as uses cirri to filter. Rhipiella tropicae is like Actinella actinella only it is spiked with sclerites.
Ahyponomus ahyponomus, that is very much like Ahyponomus vulgarus, also lives here and Scutoskulus tropicae is another underground worm but with scutes along it’s body to protect it. Here, Hypovenator tropicae, another worm-like animal but with wide jaws, preys on them. It’s sandy-brown and 14cm long.
Allostoma tropicae is a blue 2mm long worm-like animal. It preys specifically on eggs using it’s grasping spines to get hold of one, it’s sharp beak to penetrate it and a sucking tube to slurp up the contents. It has a fantail at one end and a hyponome. Bedella transparentus is a 3mm wide parasitic jellyfish that glues itself to larger animals. Finally, Thalassoprincipia atroboceanus and Pulchellia magnus are sessile predators that snag any passing prey and pull them into their mouths. T. atroboceanus is a sea anemone with long, stinging tentacles on the end of a column. It’s 10cm tall. P. magnus is also 10cm tall but lives in a parchment-like tube in the ground, into which it retreats. It has two whorls of long, stinging tentacles.
Northern Temperate Ocean:
Photus borealus is a blue, soft, amorphous sponges that encrusts on rocks and uses bacteria for photosynthesis as well as filtering with it’s pores. It’s toxic.
There is also a variation of moss-like and seaweed algae which uses photosynthesis. This is eaten by the red gastropods Hydroceras crassus and Erythrocochlus temperatus, which have a couple of cirri, eyes on stalks and a mollusc foot with mucus. They differ in that H. crassus has a conical shell like a limpet whereas E. temperatus has has a circular shell. They move slowly across the ground. Podobitus podobitus is a hyperarthropod a lot like Caulops primus except it has lobes that cover it’s legs. Organia praecus also lives here, which is like Organia cosmopolitanus except it has spines at the base of it’s tail and is bioluminescent.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as the minute Masticephalus lepusensis, a member of the zooplankton. This 2mm long member of the Lophricha is so small the water is thick and viscous. It is a yellow, cylindrical animal with a jellyfish-like bell, cirri around the mouth and cilia along four membranes running down the body. Ossiculodermis carterii is similar but with thicker tentacles and a chain mail of ossicles under the skin. It is 2cm long.
Along the seabed, filtering, crawl Coliteuthis carnivorous, a benthic cephalopod that’s 26cm long and lives around all temperate continental shelves in the Northern Hemisphere, above 50m below sea level. Pteryphysis volanus is a 2.5cm long gastropod with a conical shell on the back and pectoral fins sticking through.
There are many sessile species that lie on the seafloor and filter. Ostrapodia mollusca has a bivalve shell and tentacles that it uses when it opens up to feed. It’s 4cm long.
Echinosomus hutzii is a 4cm tall fan-shaped coral. It’s a soft coral because it is supported only by gorgonin and spiky sclerites. The polyps have stinging tentacles. It covers itself with diterpenes. Tunisoma tunisoma is a blue, 7cm tall, toxic tunicate which sucks in water through one opening, catching food in a mucus net and dispelling the water through an exit. It has cirri around the opening. Tubomorphii primus and Tubomorphii tubomorphii are like P. borealus except they are not toxic and cannot use photosynthesis. Neoxyskulus grammeri is a 15cm long up tube that burrows into rock with acid and sticks to the end, using cirri to filter. It’s toxic and has longer tentacles than Neoxyskulus enlavis. Nyctopolypus corallus is a red, fan-shaped stony coral. Each colony is 16cm tall. The polyps only come out at night. They release eggs on one night in early spring. Nyctopolypus temperatus is similar but the tentacles have nematocysts. Inospongus temperatus is similar to Inospongus williamsi. Attenbora parapodius is 14cm long and thin. It lives in burrows in the ground, using chaetae, and uses parapodia to filter. Loboblastus setocrestus lives attached to the seafloor. It is 2.5cm tall, yellow and has a tubular body with a jellyfish-like bell at the top. Thick tentacles around the mouth have tube feet protrusions and it has an endoskeleton of ossicles. The body has membranes with cilia on them. Inside it uses a water vascular system. Ahyponomus ahyponomus, that is very much like Ahyponomus vulgarus, also lives here.
Lepidoderes immortalii is a proto-fish that feeds on soft corals and sponges. It is black and has deciduous scales. It has pectoral fins, semi-circle caudal fin under the tail and spines at the tail’s base. It is in turn prey for Marleya primus. M. primus is a 8cm wide, blue jellyfish with barbed tentacles and oral arms. Polyphemusia troglodytes and Macromoprhii parvapedes ambush L. immortalii. P. troglodytes is a sandy-brown 9cm long ambush predator with a cylindrical body with membranes along it, wide jaws and a bioluminescent lure. M. parvapedes, 10cm long, also preys on them. It has an elongated, thin body with oncopods , membranes and a wide jaw and bioluminescent lure. Cerceps Cerceps also feeds on soft coral and sponges but is not bothered by these predators. It is a blue, 11cm long arthropod with a rostrum and antennae at the front and a fantail and hyponome at the back. In between it has two steering arms and four legs, one pair with chela.
Allostoma primus is a blue 2mm long worm-like animal. It preys specifically on eggs using it’s grasping spines to get hold of one, it’s sharp beak to penetrate it and a sucking tube to slurp up the contents. It has a fantail at one end and a hyponome. Bedella temperatus is a 3mm wide parasitic jellyfish that glues itself to larger animals. Finally, Myostila floydi and Chartitesta primus are sessile predators that snag any passing prey and pull them into their mouths. M. floydi is a sea anemone with long, stinging tentacles on the end of a column. It’s 10cm tall. C. primus is also 10cm tall but lives in a parchment-like tube in the ground, into which it retreats. It has long, stinging tentacles.
Southern Temperate Ocean:
Photus vulgarus is a blue, soft, amorphous sponges that encrusts on rocks and uses bacteria for photosynthesis as well as filtering with it’s pores. It’s toxic.
There is also a variation of moss-like and seaweed algae which uses photosynthesis. This is eaten by the red gastropods Hydroceras crassus and Erythrocochlus temperatus, which have a couple of cirri, eyes on stalks and a mollusc foot with mucus. They differ in that H. crassus has a conical shell like a limpet whereas E. temperatus has has a circular shell. They move slowly across the ground. Podobitus podobitus is a hyperarthropod a lot like Caulops primus except it has lobes that cover it’s legs. Organia praecus also lives here, which is like Organia cosmopolitanus except it has spines at the base of it’s tail and is bioluminescent. There is also a 5cm long beaked cephalopod that crawls across the seafloor, grazing. It is known as Stenoceras ostrasomus.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as the minute Ctenella primus, a member of the zooplankton. This 2mm long member of the Lophricha is so small the water is thick and viscous. It is a transparent, cylindrical animal with cirri around the mouth and cilia along four membranes running down the body. Nectopetra tardus is a 2.5cm long gastropod almost entirely surrounded by shell. It has pectoral fins and floats around the water. Virovermes australis is a toxic, tubular animals that float through the ocean, filtering food with cirri. It is blue and 1.5cm long, which makes it planktonic.
Along the seabed, filtering, crawl Leptotheca indens, a benthic cephalopod that’s 5cm long and lives around all temperate continental shelves in the Southern Hemisphere, above 50m below sea level. Around the temperate zone of southern Tartarus is also the 30cm cephalopod Atkinsonia punctatus.
There are many sessile species that lie on the seafloor and filter. Asposomus cirrus has a bivalve shell and tentacles that it uses when it opens up to feed. It’s 3cm long.
Echinosomus hutzii is a 4cm tall fan-shaped coral. It’s a soft coral because it is supported only by gorgonin and spiky sclerites. The polyps have stinging tentacles. It covers itself with diterpenes. Tunisoma tunisoma is a blue, 7cm tall, toxic tunicate which sucks in water through one opening, catching food in a mucus net and dispelling the water through an exit. It has cirri around the opening. Platyodes tristus is a flat, toxic, soft sponge. Petrovermes versifilius is a 15cm long elongated tube that burrows into rock with acid and sticks to the end, using cirri to filter. It’s toxic. Nyctopolypus temperatus is a red, fan-shaped stony coral. Each colony is 16cm tall. The polyps only come out at night and have nematocysts. They release eggs on one night in early spring. Neocrallus primus is similar. Inospongus temperatus is similar to Inospongus williamsi. Chonifiltrus chonifiltrus is a yellow, 18cm tall, funnel shaped sponge supported by spongin. Ammoskulius fodius is 7cm long and thin. It lives in burrows in the ground and uses tentacles to filter.
Ahyponomus ahyponomus, that is very much like Ahyponomus vulgarus, also lives here and Scutoskulus arditi is another underground worm but with scutes along it’s body to protect it. Here, Hypovenator elegans, another worm-like animal but with wide jaws, preys on them. It’s sandy-brown and 14cm long.
Anazitonta anazitonta is a 5cm long proto-fish that feeds on soft corals and sponges. It is black and has deciduous scales. It has pectoral fins, semi-circle caudal fin under the tail and spines at the tail’s base. It is prey for Empropthalmus soundwavia and Inolarynx maculatus. They are both 8cm proto-fish that lives in shoals and have sharp teeth. E. soundwavia is a bit like A. anazitonta but has sharp teeth and fangs, as does I. maculatus, although it has a pharynx to draw prey towards it. The apex predator is Anazitonta astatheana, which is like A. anazitonta only 16cm long. Pholgnathus lancus also feeds on soft coral and sponges but is not bothered by these predators. It is a blue, 11cm long arthropod with a rostrum and antennae at the front and a fantail and hyponome at the back. In between it has two steering arms and four legs, one pair with chela.
Allostoma primus is a blue 2mm long worm-like animal. It preys specifically on eggs using it’s grasping spines to get hold of one, it’s sharp beak to penetrate it and a sucking tube to slurp up the contents. It has a fantail at one end and a hyponome. Bedella temperatus is a 3mm wide parasitic jellyfish that glues itself to larger animals. Finally, Myostila floydi and Chartitesta primus are sessile predators that snag any passing prey and pull them into their mouths. M. floydi is a sea anemone with long, stinging tentacles on the end of a column. It’s 10cm tall. C. primus is also 10cm tall but lives in a parchment-like tube in the ground, into which it retreats. It has long, stinging tentacles.
Deep Ocean
This is any water in the ocean below 500m and right now stretches from pole to pole unbroken. Currently, every known species is between 500-1500m below sea level, and there are no known species from deeper although it goes deeper than 10,000m.
Detritus and plankton float through the water and is filtered by filter-feeders such as the minute Masticephalus bathyus, a member of the zooplankton. It is much like Masticephalus lepusensis except without teeth. Floating around is also Farynxoskulus bathyus, which is like Farynxoskulus asterobrachus.
Gorgonia magnapolypa is a soft coral supported only by gorgonin. It is a red, fan-shaped colony that is 25cm tall. Siliconia siliconia is an 18cm glass sponge, supported by a frame of silica. Chonifiltrus bathyus is like Chonifiltrus chonifiltrus and Neoxyskulus bathyus is like Neoxyskulus enlavis.
Maurcolus repus is a lot like Pholgnathus lancus. Chartitesta bathyus and Myostila bathyus are like Chartitesta chartitesta and Myostila floydi respectively.
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shouldn’t i have 5 mutations?
also only the females have pouches.
and what is a hyperarthropod?
Action: try and kill the virovermes then rest with my shoal
You are right about those 5 mutations. A hyperarthropod is a member of the order (or class?) Hyperarthropoda.
mutations.
1: salt tolerance (so i can spread around).
2: add hatchling stage, the young now hatch out as worm-like creatures that swim around and have a weak exoskeleton, they eat algae and other plant matter before entering a metamorphoses and becoming an adult, they can also recognize the lures of adults and avoid them.
they also have weak mandibles and small eyes, their tail has a small fin-like protrusion.
3: bigger.
4: chemicals that leak out of our lures and attract prey (unless i already have that).
4 1/2: (if i already have the previous one) a different coloration to blend in better with the sand and dirt.
5: more complex brain.
A couple of queries @zenzonegaming.
- What salinity do you want to adapt to? Tropical seas are high salinity and temperatr are quite high. There’s also quite low in the deep but you wouldn’t survive there anyway.
- What area of the brain do you wish to improve?
- Put a separate brain near another body part to allow quicker reactions from it.
- Able to categorise things into groups, e.g. know what things are round.
- Spatial awareness.
- Calculations.
- Memory.
- Emotions.
i would prefer to be able to adapt to any salinity (if i get a very high roll) while keeping my freshwater tolerance.
spatial awareness.