Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

OoferDoofer · May 6, 2021, 10:23pm

Action: try to find another one of my species to mate with, then mate with them

StealthStyle · May 10, 2021, 10:18pm

Round 234 - P.1
~78 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: 13 - Volcanic Eruption

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Having been pushed out of it’s niche by the more advanced Organia acrodon ‘fish,’ the last of the Inolarynx has died and the species has gone with it. It was a a major component of the ‘proto-fish’ that came before ‘fish’ and are just managing to cling on. One of the rarest of these is Motalus primus, which already has very few individuals left.

Several new species have just began to emerge. In the tropics, a close relative of Organia praecus is feeding on the algae and a new spongin-spicules sponge, divulged from Chonifiltrus, has also made an appearance, taking on a syconoid form incorporating photosynthetic bacteria into it’s body. It joins the reef life forms. Protruding from rocks is a filtering worm that has a heart and larvae that wriggles over the seabed to get to a spot where it makes it’s permanent burrow.

In the Southern Hemisphere, in the temperate water of the Uteenessa are more new species: a proto-fish like Anazitonta anazitonta has evolved to have forward facing eyes and there is a sharp-billed worm descended from Allostoma primus that is bigger, has a heart and improved digestion. A new species evolved from the armoured worm Scutoskulus arditi has a scoop-shaped proboscis that collects food and a new species descended from Pholgnathus lancus can actually eat animals coated in the deadly Entaopsin. Virovermes is a species that uses this and it’s new descendent has a paddle-shaped end that makes it swim faster. There are a couple of new sponges too, one descended from Photus vulgarus which has a faster growth rate but a longer life span and one descended from Platyodes tristus which can reproduce by budding. More seabed life are the two corals species that have evolved here. The two new stony corals are one descended from Nyctopolypus sylvesterus which is a branching shape rather than fan-shaped and one descended from Neocroallus which has synchronised breeding and will not grow towards others of its kind this it senses with it’s new chemoreceptors.

Worms now live in the sediment of the deep, up to 1500m below the surface, in the form of a Ahyponomus kommosi descendent.

In the shallow sea off of the southern coast of Tartarus, there is an underwater volcano that is showing signs of an imminent eruption. Superhot water is starting to escape through vents and periodic tremors are striking the area. Animals in that area will be at great peril.

The gradual cooling trend caused by the emergence of land plants is continuing but no major changes have yet occurred.

@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Ktrie qualuntus, Male Juvenile (LC)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Seeing plateaus of rock in the distance, where the sun is starting to drop below the horizon painting that part of the sky a dusky orange, you crawl off across the rocks. The light vegetation and slightly crumbly layer of dirt on top of it gives way to hard rock as you move further away from the river and greenery. You travel for some time going up and down smaller dips and rises before getting to a cliff which towers above you, with a plateau on top. The sun has since completely gone and it is now dark out, with only the faint moonlight showing the way. It is also cold, about freezing, [a marked difference from the heat of the day. This is due to the lack of large plants anywhere]. The rain has stopped for the night. What you can see is endless rock, including the cliff and plateau in front. There is no life here. You have become exhausted from your journey and are slowly losing hydration. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 4.6cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 6.3/9 (70%) / 40%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
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), Hatchling
_Deep Ocean
You are drifting along on this gentle current in the warm but very dark water and the scent of the Gorgonia magnapolypa, Chonifiltrus, Siliconia and Myostila is getting stronger. As you pass over the seafloor there is an explosion out of nowhere. All you feel is searing heat and tremendous force sending you shooting upwards. When you slow to a halt, you are very badly burned, especially your rear half, but luckily alive. However, you are so badly burned that your tail and hyponome are no longer functional, nor are a couple of your most rearward legs. [To make matters worse] you are starving. The water remains thick,mwarm and very dark so you see nothing. You can sense several Masticephalus [simplistic filter-feeders with jellyfish bell and cillia] dotted around here and a Farynxoskulus [worm-like filter-feeder]. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 1 day
Health: Severely burned, Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 0.1/0.2 (25%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: Much slower with non-functioning hyponome, fan tail and a pair of legs

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), Juvenile
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You allow the tide to move you taking you further out into deeper water, which is less busy. As you flow, you rest and as you are undisturbed you are able to recover a lot of energy. Through the warm, quite murky seawater, you see the sandy seafloor, interspersed with rock. A small valley slices through the seafloor and in one direction is a cliff, including a wide opening. In the other direction, the seafloor and valley carry off into the gloom. Several Ithacaria [tentacled bivalves] are filtering on the seabed… At the valley’s edge, some Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] and Tubomorphii [soft, flat, encrusting sponge] are filtering on the edge where there is also a Myostila [sea anemone]. There is an Organia acrodon [fish] swimming close to the surface above you. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% / 1.8cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 3.1 /4.1 (75%) / 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
You crawl out of the gap in the rocks and look around the clear water for food. There is a Compcyclus ‘snail’ sliding along the seafloor nearby. You glide through the thick water on your lobes and boost with your hyponome to get to it. The ‘snail’ doesn’t react. You wind up your cheliped and then unleash it upon your victim but it has no effect upon the Compcyclus’ shell. Again, you attack it but again there is no effect upon the Compcyclus. The desperation of your attacks increases as your starvation does until eventually you are so weak from hunger that you cannot hunt anymore. You pass out and perish. (2 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 5.5mm / 2 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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)

StealthStyle · May 10, 2021, 10:23pm

R.234 - P.2

@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 3
Inolarynx maculatus (EX), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
As you can sense your last shoalmates next to you with your electroreception, you turn to one for reproduction. Before you can initiate anything though there is a great pain as a jaw bites into you. In the warm, quite murky sea, you see a Motalus primus [proto-fish] with a mouth full of flesh. Gravely wounded and leaking blood out into the water, you try your best to swim away but progress is slow and you are already exhausted. The shoalmates follow. You watch as the Motalus finishes it’s mouthful and turns to face you. Trying desperately to turn but unable to, there is little you can do as the Motalus heads straight for you and opens it’s jaws and brings them down upon your head. (2 + 1 = Your species is extinct, doomed to the pages of history. Please choose a new species. Remember: No Species Lasts Forever.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 8cm / 2 years
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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: EX
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 mephitus (LC), Subadult Male
Olympia, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Spring
Exhausted, while all the other Haleglossus are busy in the mating colony, you are forced to rest, right on the edge, away from all the action. It’s getting dark as you begin to rest. Your rest is long and undisturbed, so you recover a lot of energy and are no longer exhausted. When you become active again, the day is just breaking and the morning light reveals that there are still many Haleglossus mephitus here. Between the crowds of Haleglossus in the hot, murky lake water, is a Hydrombula, looking around. Out of the mud pokes the heads of Icthyopsis [eel-like]. The river head lies behind you and the chemicals of Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [ten-legged hyperarthropod with spring-action claws]. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 13/32.5 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None

Haleglossus mephitus

Latest Mutations: 6 = Salt Tolerance, 1 = Add hatchling stage, 3 = Bigger, 2 = Chemicals that leak out of our lures and attract prey, 5 = More complex brain.
This hyperarthropod that has become an excellent ambush hunter in fresh and brackish water has now spread out to the tropical ocean in addition, where it lies in wait in a pit dug into the seafloor, similar to it’s continental brethren. It has become more widespread than its cousins as it has also managed to move into Olympia, Delphi and Aeaea in addition to its ancestral home of Tartarus. It uses an algae-resembling lure to trick herbivores to come close then attacks with its stinger or claws. This species has a part of the brain devoted to spatial awareness, allowing it to judge these distances and its position in the world but a scent gland on the lure makes its scent easily detectable for quite a distance. In late spring, adults gather in mating sites to reproduce and the eggs are kept in the female’s pouch. However, this particular only produces around 100 eggs each spawning, rather than 1,000 putting it at a numbers disadvantage.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Tropical Ocean & 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: 203 x 16/100 = 32.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.5 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish and High Salinity). Roll Up. Solid Excretion. Strong Scent.
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: Spatial Awareness. 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 & Late Spring & 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 and a scent gland. 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. 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 and spatial awareness 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. 100 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Males and Females. Female: Has a pouch under the body where the eggs are kept. (Changes: Pouch = +2NP. 205 x size = NP)
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.

@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Dorsopelta positivus, Juvenile Male (U)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Your exoskeleton is growing back over your body, making it a hard armour once again. The scent of some Gempliaori setobranchius reaches you from below and you use your antennae to locate one in the dark, cold river. You descend towards it, gliding on your lobes and propelled by your hyponome and capture it in your mandibles, squeezing them into it, cutting through the animal until it has gone lifeless. Then you feed on the corpse. [Miraculously with your legacy wound from your troubled youth] you survive several more months, prospering in the sunny, warm summer to become an adult, ready to reproduce. However, the sun has once again gone to be replaced by endless night and cold water. You are also exhausted, having recently moulted and now have a soft body. Your antennae pick up the scent of several Gempliaori setobranchius [hyperarthropods with filtering arms] mixed with Compcylindricus [bivalves filter-feeding with tentacles] below you. Another Dorsopelta is just upriver too. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 27cm / 2 years
Health: Deep puncture wound, exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 52.9/52.9 (100% - 60% 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

@Deathwake - Points Stored = 2
Motalus primus, Hatchling (CR)
Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
You swim over towards the soft corals but when you get there, instead of resting you find yourself ensnared in the tentacles of a sea anemone. It pulls you towards it’s mouth and you are dragged ever closer. You struggle against the grip of the tentacles, using up a lot of energy to try and get free. Just as you are about to be pulled into the maw you manage to escape and swim out of the grasp of the sea anemone. You are now exhausted. Through the warm, quite murky seawater, you see the sandy seafloor, interspersed with rock. A small valley slices through the seafloor and in one direction is a cliff, including a wide opening. In the other direction, the seafloor and valley carry off into the gloom. Several tiny Ctenella [planktonic, simplistic ciliated filter-feeders] are filtering through the water and above you is a small shoal of Inolarynx [OoferDoofer, proto-fish]. At the valley’s edge, some Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] are filtering on the edge where there is also a Myostila [sea anemone]. There is an Anazitonta anazitonta [proto-fish] hovering around these soft corals. Periodic tremors are shaking the area and you see bubbles escaping through gaps in the cliff. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 2.4cm / 1 month
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 0.3/0.4 (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None

Motalus primus

Latest Mutations: More Efficient Swimming = 1, Growth Rate = 4, Bigger = 3, Serrated Teeth = 2
This is a predatory pronto-fish that is relatively large for it’s time, certainly one of the larger proto-fish. It hunts mostly smaller proto-fish. However, it has no caudal fins and has returned to anguilliforme locomotion, which makes it quite a bit slower than Anazitonta astatheana, it’s main competitor, and it has blunter teeth. One advantage is that it reaches maturity quicker, after one year rather than one year and half. It is not particularly common because of it’s disadvantages.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 171 x 16/100 = 27.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 27.4 x 0.25 = 6.9NP per round (Needs to intake 6.9/0.6 = 11.5NP per round)/ 27.4 x 0.9 = 24.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 1 (blurry vision, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 1.3. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Bite. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with black melanin pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins and spines at the base of the finless tail. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank dot the body as well as a covering of photophores. A mouth containing simple teeth, olfactory receptors and upwards facing camera eyes make up the face.
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. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. A brain 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. It hosts either male or female gonads. The nephridium, connected to circulatory system, expels waste.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves whole body side to side in anguilliform motion (+1 Stamina).

@TeaKing - Points Stored = 0
Allonops allonops, Juvenile (LC)
_Kommos, Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Autumn
You hatch out into a crevice between pebbles and above you is a fast-flowing, clear stream. It feels warm. Above the water is a sky full of grey clouds and it’s drizzling with rain. A Gempliaori setobranchius [filtering hyperarthropod] is feeding from between another couple of pebbles. You creep towards it’s crevice and then when you get close enough you grab it in your mandibles. It tries to escape but you crush it’s vitals before it can and it dies. You then eat your prey. Several months have passed and the sunlit days have passed and there is constant darkness. The steam has become cold but you have continued to grow and are now a juvenile. You are big enough not to be carried away by the stream. From the scents reaching you from upstream, you can perceive Gempliaori setobranchius, Cilistoma caecus and a Saccenta. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 3cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 3.8/3.8 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
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.

Deathwake · May 10, 2021, 10:28pm

Thanks for the round! action: eat a few Ctenella then find a resting place in the valley.

OoferDoofer · May 10, 2021, 10:40pm

Can i be the Organia?

PositiveTower · May 10, 2021, 11:50pm

Action:Frick the potential female

BlackInk · May 11, 2021, 1:45am

Action: Go to the valley’s edge to feed on the coral and sponges, lets take advantage of this beautiful bounty

immortaldragon · May 11, 2021, 5:51am

Well, that wasn’t good, that wasn’t good at all.

Action: Try to get after the Masticephalus and eat it. From there aim for the Farynxoskulus even if the Masticephalus fails to be eaten. Gotta get something in me so I can rest on a full stomach and try to heal.

StealthStyle · May 11, 2021, 11:20am

Sure, Organia acrodon, the one that made you extinct?

zenzonegaming · May 11, 2021, 3:23pm

action: mate.
(post filler)

OoferDoofer · May 11, 2021, 9:02pm

yes please. (it is also a predator right?)

StealthStyle · May 12, 2021, 3:43pm

Yup, that is correct.

StealthStyle · May 13, 2021, 9:04am

@agenttine and @TeaKing, please vote.

TeaKing · May 13, 2021, 11:52am

sorry about the late vote
action: go upstream

StealthStyle · May 13, 2021, 12:24pm

Is that all you wish to do?

StealthStyle · May 13, 2021, 8:43pm

Round 235 - P.1
~78.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: 2 - None

Meta

Reward Shop

Rewards are subject to change.

Bonus Point: Get a + or -1 to use on the action roll of any player, yourself included = 1pt
Hint: The GM will explain the issue with your vote if it has been marked as problematic = 1pt
Guaranteed Action: Use this on an action to definitely roll a 4 or higher = 2pts
Guaranteed Evolution: Use this during evolution to definitely roll a 4 or higher. You can save them up and use multiple at once = 3pts
High Roller: Get a guaranteed 6 for either action or evolution = 4pts
Call of the Wild: Summon an event that focuses on any specific area of the world you choose. However, the event is random and may be larger than you anticipate = 5pts

In the shallow sea off of the southern coast of Tartarus, the underwater volcano erupted, spewing hot ash and boiling water into the sea and sky. Many animals were killed by this violent explosion and the heat.

Anazitonta anazitonta, Neoxyskulus enlavis, Platyodes tristus, Protichthys obscurus, Scutoskulus arditi and Virovermes australis have all gone extinct as a result of competition from new species.

The gradual cooling trend caused by the emergence of land plants is continuing but no major changes have yet occurred. It is close to another degree cooler.

@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Ktrie qualuntus, Male Juvenile (LC)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Overnight you rest on the rocks at the base of the cliff. When the morning comes, you are well-rested and the morning light brings with it not only warmth but also rain which you can now see. The sun gradually warms you up so you can move faster again. It has been raining for a while and puddles are forming, one of which you dive into to refresh yourself and drink in water but get out soon after. The air is now hot and humid. The puddles are drying as quick as they are forming. What you can see is endless rock, including the cliff and plateau in front. There is no life here. (6 + 1 = You have earned a bonus point.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 4.6cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 95% / 5.4/9 (60%) / 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), Hatchling
_Deep Ocean
In the pitch black, warm water, you move towards the scent of a Masticephalus, practically crawling through the thick water and propelling yourself with your hyponome. Movement is slow, given your severely burned rear. The Masticephalus is not far and you find it with your antennae, coming to contact with it. It does not move before you grab it in your claws and cut straight through it. This kills it quickly and you consume the remains. Then you head for the scent of the Farynxoskulus and follow that until you also bump into it. Again, you grab another soft animal in your claws and cut through it, killing it. You put a chunk of Farynxoskulus flesh into your mouth and swallow it. However, you feel a great pain at this and you start to lose control of your body. It spasms out of control and then you are suddenly dead. [You have fallen victim to the toxins of this species.] (4 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 1 day
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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), Juvenile
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You start swimming over to the scent of soft corals and sponges and move through the cool, dark water, although you also detect several Organia acrodon [OoferDoofer, fish]. However, as you go, you feel the water becoming quite choppy and then even choppier so that before you can reach your food it is a full-blown storm. You are dragged around in the waves and can do nothing but allow it, so it tosses you about in the dark for a while. This means you do not get to feed. Eventually, it subsides and you can swim again. It is very dark plus cool and you can see nothing. The scents of some Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] and Tubomorphii [soft, flat, encrusting sponge] reach you from below where there is also a Myostila [sea anemone]. Also from here is the scent of several Ithacaria [tentacled bivalves]. Also somewhere below you is the scent of Organia acrodon [OoferDoofer]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% / 1.8cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 90% / 2.1/4.1 (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), Juvenile Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Autumn
You hatch out and find yourself in a hole with numerous other Diplopygus microstomus. The water is tropically hot and clear. There are some slabs of meat in the hole and you swim through the water, gliding on your lobes and propelling yourself with your hyponome, to the food. Once you get there, you start tearing off pieces with your mandibles and feeding well. Several months pass by and you grow quickly, moulting, eating and avoiding death, to become a juvenile. Through the hot, clear seawater, you see the sandy seafloor, interspersed with rock. A small valley slices through the seafloor and in one direction is a cliff, including a wide opening. In the other direction, the seafloor and valley carry off into the gloom. A Farynxoskulus [filter-feeding, toxic worm] and an Organia lamnadens [fish] are swimming above. At the valley’s edge, some Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] are filtering on the edge where there is also a Pulchellia [sea anemone]. Another Diplopygus is emerging from the valley. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 19.3cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 40/40 (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 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
6 = 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)

StealthStyle · May 13, 2021, 8:48pm

R.235 - P.2

@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 3
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
You hatch out into dark, cool saltwater - you see nothing but darkness. You can smell a few other Organia acrodon and also a Lepidoderes. You start to wriggle your way through the thick water towards the Lepidoderes, hunting it down. However, as you go, you feel the water becoming quite choppy and then even choppier so that before you can reach your food it is a full-blown storm. You are dragged around in the waves and can do nothing but allow it, so it tosses you about in the dark for a while. This means you do not get to feed. Eventually, it subsides and you can swim again. It is very dark plus cool and you can see nothing. The scents of some Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] and Tubomorphii [soft, flat, encrusting sponge] reach you from below where there is also a Myostila [sea anemone]. Also from here is the scent of several Ithacaria [tentacled bivalves] and closer to the surface is the scent of a Lepidoderes [Proto-fish, BlackInk]. (3)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Organia acrodon

Latest Mutations: Temperate Tolerance
This early fish is descended from Organia lamnadens but has spread out to temperate ocean rather than tropical. It lives from the surface to 500m below. There, it is a small predator.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 10cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 208 x 10/100 = 20.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.8 x 0.25 = 5.2NP per round (Needs to intake 5.2/0.7 = 7.4NP per round)/ 20.8 x 0.7 = 18.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Detoxification. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Startle. Urine Storage.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m above, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Evolution 1 (5 votes). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Ventilation, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - head, spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with spines. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The body is fish-shaped with black melanin pigmentation in the skin, which is covered by cycloid scales and contains blue autogenic photophores all over. At the head is the mouth with sharp teeth, some olfactory receptors and facing upwards is a pair of eyes, in which the lens changes shape and it has no blind spot. There is a line of electroreceptors along the flank. It has pectoral fins, two semi-circle caudal fins at the back of the tail and a pair of spines at the tails’ base.
Internal Features: In most of the body’s cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Behind the tail spines are toxin glands, filling the spine with toxin. On each side of the throat are three pairs of gills, inside gill slits. The gills are connected to the blood vessels closed circulatory system, which contains hemoglobin - making it appear red. The system is made up of a single circuit pumped by a heart. There is also a network of muscles across the body. Along the dorsal side of the body is the cartilage vertebra that links the cartilage skull and jaw with the tail. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It also includes a liver and kidneys and ends with the bladder and anus. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the vertebra and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).

@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Haleglossus mephitus (LC), Subadult Male
Olympia, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Spring
Though the crowd of other Haleglossus beckons through the hot, murky lake you cannot join them once again as you have developed an illness that prevents you from moving to find a mate. Eventually, you recover and you feel able to move again. [To make matters worse, you have not eaten in a while so] you are now starving. There are still many Haleglossus mephitus here. Between the crowds of Haleglossus in the hot, murky lake water, is a Hydrombula, looking around. Out of the mud pokes the heads of Icthyopsis [eel-like]. The river head lies behind you and the chemicals of Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [ten-legged hyperarthropod with spring-action claws]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 3.3/32.5 (10%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None

Haleglossus mephitus

Latest Mutations: 6 = Salt Tolerance, 1 = Add hatchling stage, 3 = Bigger, 2 = Chemicals that leak out of our lures and attract prey, 5 = More complex brain.
This hyperarthropod that has become an excellent ambush hunter in fresh and brackish water has now spread out to the tropical ocean in addition, where it lies in wait in a pit dug into the seafloor, similar to it’s continental brethren. It has become more widespread than its cousins as it has also managed to move into Olympia, Delphi and Aeaea in addition to its ancestral home of Tartarus. It uses an algae-resembling lure to trick herbivores to come close then attacks with its stinger or claws. This species has a part of the brain devoted to spatial awareness, allowing it to judge these distances and its position in the world but a scent gland on the lure makes its scent easily detectable for quite a distance. In late spring, adults gather in mating sites to reproduce and the eggs are kept in the female’s pouch. However, this particular only produces around 100 eggs each spawning, rather than 1,000 putting it at a numbers disadvantage.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Tropical Ocean & 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: 203 x 16/100 = 32.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.5 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish and High Salinity). Roll Up. Solid Excretion. Strong Scent.
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: Spatial Awareness. 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 & Late Spring & 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 and a scent gland. 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. 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 and spatial awareness 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. 100 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Males and Females. Female: Has a pouch under the body where the eggs are kept. (Changes: Pouch = +2NP. 205 x size = NP)
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.

@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Dorsopelta positivus, Adult Male (U)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
With the last of your energy, you make your way upriver towards the scent of the other Dorsopelta, pushing through the wounds and the starvation only to find that the other Dorsopelta is also a male so you cannot reproduce. All of your energy is now gone and you pass out before perishing. [After everything your poor animal went through, it fell at the last hurdle.] (1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 27cm / 2 years
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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

@Deathwake - Points Stored = 2
Motalus primus, Hatchling (EX)
Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
With the tremors and escaping bubbles in the background, you continue to hunt for food. You swim upwards through the quite murky, warm water to where you see Ctenella. It’s easy prey and you almost swallow it whole, it’s so small and you don’t get much nutrition out of it. You have to follow the chain to another Ctenella and then another, despite the fact you are running almost on empty in terms of energy. You end up needing a long rest. Just as you are resting, there is suddenly a tremendous tremor that shakes the whole area and an all-encompassing explosion from below. You are caught up in rushing, boiling water that rapidly cooks you to death. [You were killed by the volcano.] (6 = Your species is extinct, doomed to the pages of history. Please choose a new species. Remember: No Species Lasts Forever.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 2.4cm / 1 month
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

Motalus primus

Latest Mutations: More Efficient Swimming = 1, Growth Rate = 4, Bigger = 3, Serrated Teeth = 2
This is a predatory pronto-fish that is relatively large for it’s time, certainly one of the larger proto-fish. It hunts mostly smaller proto-fish. However, it has no caudal fins and has returned to anguilliforme locomotion, which makes it quite a bit slower than Anazitonta astatheana, it’s main competitor, and it has blunter teeth. One advantage is that it reaches maturity quicker, after one year rather than one year and half. It is not particularly common because of it’s disadvantages.
Status: EX
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 171 x 16/100 = 27.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 27.4 x 0.25 = 6.9NP per round (Needs to intake 6.9/0.6 = 11.5NP per round)/ 27.4 x 0.9 = 24.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 1 (blurry vision, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 1.3. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Bite. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with black melanin pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins and spines at the base of the finless tail. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank dot the body as well as a covering of photophores. A mouth containing simple teeth, olfactory receptors and upwards facing camera eyes make up the face.
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. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. A brain 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. It hosts either male or female gonads. The nephridium, connected to circulatory system, expels waste.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves whole body side to side in anguilliform motion (+1 Stamina).

@TeaKing - Points Stored = 0
Allonops allonops, Juvenile (LC)
_Kommos, Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Autumn
The cold, dark stream continues to move towards you but you swim against it, heading upstream. You swim by paddling your legs and propelling yourself with your hyponome. Soon, you are closer to the scents of Gempliaori setobranchius [filtering hyperarthropod], Cilistoma caecus [bivalve] and a Saccenta [ambush predator hyperarthropod]. It remains very dark and cold. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 3cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 3.8/3.8 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
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.

BlackInk · May 13, 2021, 10:11pm

Action: Guide myself towards the Rhipiella to start eating, careful of keeping the distance from the smell of anemones as i descend

OoferDoofer · May 13, 2021, 10:22pm

Action: swim around, searching for any fresh meat that I can find

zenzonegaming · May 14, 2021, 2:06pm

kill and eat something weaker than me.