Action: Get closer to the scents but be on guard for any predatory creatures
Silly me, going and dying like that. Iâll be a Ambulanus terrestrium because terrestrial living amiright?
And eat I suppose? 
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Round 236 - P.1
~78.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: 5 - None
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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Ktrie qualuntus, Male Juvenile (LC)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Steadily, you start climbing up, finding a path that winds up the plateau, in the hot, humid air. Itâs drizzling with rain. After a while of walking, you see water emerging from the cliff face - a spring. It slowly trickles down the face of the plateau in a little stream, setting the nearby rocks. Enticingly, you can see lines of green along the edge and crawl over there. You are starving. Looking around, the cliff continues upwards and looking out, you see endless rock. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 4.6cm / 4 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 2.7/9 (30%) /70%
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 itâs 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 = 3
Maurcolus repus (U), Juvenile
_Deep Ocean
When you hatch out, the water is very dark yet warm. You can, however, detect the scent of a Masticephalus [tubular, ciliated animal with jellyfish bell] nearby so you crawl through the thick water in the direction that the scent increases in strength. Your antennae feeling about the water soon come into contact with the Masticephalus which enables you to grab your soft-bodied prey and slice through it, killing it. You then eat your catch. A few months later you have grown into a juvenile. The saltwater remains very dark and warm. You are walking over the oozy seafloor and feel the slight current of the beginning of a downwards slope in front of you. Next to you, you feel a Neoxyskulus [toxic, tentacled, rock-dwelling, filter-feeding worm] and can detect traces of Myostila [sea anemone]. Behind you, and coming from the seabed is the scent of something youâve never smelt before, an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 3.9cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 7.2/7.2 (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why itâs lost itâs foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
_Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
Through the very dark, cool saltwater, you rely on your sense of smell to track down the Rhipiella [fan-shaped soft coral] with no visibility, and follow the traces of scent towards where they get stronger. The scent of the Myostila [sea anemone] does not get stronger. The scent is very strong in one spot so you start to bite and manage to get some flesh from one of the branches. You keep eating for a bit and get some more food in you. You take a break from eating after a bit. It is still cool and very dark; the scent of Rhipiella is very strong and a Tubomorphii is also nearby. The Myostila causes a fainter scent. The scents of an Organia acrodon [predatory fish, OoferDoofer] and a Cerceps [soft prey predatory arthropod] reaches you from above. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% / 1.8cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 3.7/4.1 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None.
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Diplopygus microstomus (LC), Juvenile Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Autumn
The Organia [fish] can be seen swimming above you in the clear, tropical and hot sea. You swim upwards, gliding on your lobes, paddling with your tail fans and boosting with your hyponome, winding up your arm. The Organia is swimming along and you cannot judge the precise trajectory you need but you come level with it, swimming behind it and soon coming into range. Then your claw is launched quickly towards it, catching the âfishâ by the tail and cutting right through until the tail has been lopped off. The Organia is now helpless as you close in to finish the job until your own rear end is grabbed in a claw and one of your tail fans becomes ruined by that attack. [The attacker is none other than the Diplopygus ramstirpes that emerged from the valley.] Feeling pain you instinctively try to swim away, leaving a wispy trail of blood behind you. You manage to find sanctuary in a copse of seaweed. Looking out of the seaweed, which is blowing in the tide, you see the clear water; it feels hot. The body of the Organia has fallen to the sandy plain, out in the open. An Organia negrus [herbivorous fish with square teeth, pectoral fins and semi-circular tail fins] is munching on the outside of the seaweed copse and several Compcyclus [snail] are creeping slowly along the floor beneath the seaweed. A Diplopygus [large hyperarthropod with two tail fins, powerful cheliped and leg-lobes] is hovering above the seaweed. Behind you, there is a wall of rock over which you cannot see. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 19.3cm / 4 months
Health: Broken tail fan
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 28/40 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Swim speed reduced
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.
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@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 3
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
In the very dark, cool saltwater, you wriggle around in the thick water, waiting to detect the scent of food. The scent of a Lepidoderes [proto-fish] reaches you strongly and you pursue the scent in the direction for which it gets stronger. At this size, itâs a struggle to move but gradually you get closer and the scent gets stronger. You are just starting to get tired when you bump into the Lepidoderes and bite down. Instead of flesh, you simply get a mouthful of scale, which has slid off the prey. You follow multiple scents of the Lepidoderes to only get a scale each time, floating in the water, having to do a lot of chasing for no reward. You are now exhausted and starving. It is still very dark and cool. Nearby in the water column is the scent of a Cerceps [soft prey predatory arthropod]. 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] and a Lepidoderes [proto-fish, BlackInk]. (1 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1mm / 2 days
Health: Exhausted, starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 0.1/0.2 (35%) / 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. âMigmachordatixâ 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 tailsâ base.
Internal Features: In most of the bodyâs 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), Adult Male
Olympia, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Spring
You dig a pit in the lake floor and push out your lure into the water. There is a Hydroambula [ten-legged, herbivorous hyperarthropod] scraping algae from the muddy lake floor and it is gradually edging closer. However, when it gets close enough and you leap out of the pit you are blocked by another Haleglossus passing by to join the crowd. You have to swim around it, paddling with your legs and boosting with your hyponome. Then you get round it and find the Hydroambula right in front of you. You grab it in your mandibles and proceeds to tear it apart. You then eat what you can of the lifeless remains but are now exhausted. There are still many Haleglossus mephitus here. Between the crowds of Haleglossus in the hot, murky lake water, is another Hydrombula, looking around. Out of the mud pokes the heads of several Icthyopsis [eel-like]. The river head lies behind you and the chemicals of Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [ten-legged hyperarthropod with spring-action claws] drifts in. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 16.3/32.5 (50%) / 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 itâs 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 femaleâs 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)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Hatching out of your egg, you can see a great void of quite murky water and the gloom means you can see no edges to the water. Even above you is just gloom. Itâs tropical and hot. You do see an Organia [fish] swimming just above the muddy riverbed and glide on your lobes, although both of you are slowly drifting downstream on the current. The Organia starts swimming away but it is struggling through thick water whereas your size means the water is not so thick for you. Therefore, you are able to catch up to it and grab it in your mandibles. Biting down, you create a large wound and inject it with venom. The âfishâ tries to swim away again but it doesnât get far before it is dead. You are then free to move in and eat your prize. Several weeks pass and you grow to be large enough that the gentle current does not carry you along against your will. You remain in hot, quite murky water in which you can see no edges, except the muddy floor, due to the gloom. A gentle current runs from upstream to downstream. Along the floor is a mixture of Compcylindricus [bivalves that use tentacles to filter] and Gempliaori setobranchius [five-legged, lobe-legged hyperarthropod filter-feeders]. Above you, a dark shape is formed against the struggling sunlight by a Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [lobed, hyperarthropod with powerful claws]. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 4cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 8/8 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 itâs two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Perhaps due to itâs murky habitats, it has got much smaller eyes and lost itâs compound eyes completely, making itâs 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. âXenoarthropodusinâ 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 âXenoarthropodusinâ neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 2
Ambulanus terrestrium, Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Hatching out of your egg, you can see a great void of quite murky water and the gloom means you can see no edges to the water. Even above you is just gloom. Itâs tropical and hot. You crawl upwards through the thick water, flowing along slowly on the gentle current, past some Organia and a Dorsopelta chasing them, to the surface. Poking your head out, the sky is quite clear and you can see land. You crawl to land and scramble out onto the rocks which is coated in algae. The air is hot and humid. You begin scraping off the algae to eat, grazing your way along the shore for months until you have grown into a juvenile. The conditions are much the same; the air is hot and humid, the sky is pretty clear and you are on rocks coated with algae close to a fairly murky, river. On land, the rocks trail off into the horizon, following a pattern of hills and slopes. There are other Ambulanus around you. In the water, the shape of a Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [lobed, hyperarthropod with powerful claws] can be seen swimming close to the surface. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 4.1/ 4.1 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 70%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Ambulanus terrestrium
Latest Mutations: Trachea, Pump Vessel
This species is special because it is the first to become a fully terrestrial animal, able to breathe on land where it grazes on waterside algae. Because of this, it must still be near water because thatâs where food is. It also has a heart.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens close to water
Niche: Herbivore
Diet: Algae
Size: 8cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 205 x 8/100 = 16.4NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 16.4 x 0.25 = 4.1NP per round (Needs to intake 4.1/0.8 = 5.1NP per round)/ 16.4NP.
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). Smell 1 (odours 1m from spiracles).
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 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food (algae) > Graze with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk 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 stalks either side of the head. Behind these stalks on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body and there are four 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. Spiracles and air-filled tubes form the tracheal system. Just inside them are found odour receptors. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels pumped by a heart 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). Walks.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 0
Allonops allonops, Juvenile (LC)
Kommos, Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Early Spring
You follow the scents through the cold, dark stream towards a Gempliaori setobranchius. When you get closer, you lash out with your claws and grab it, before slicing into it until it is dead. You eat some of your catch. You survive for several more months, through more of the dark, cold, winter months and it remains like that. You are large enough to swim against the gentle current. There are scents of Gryphorhinus [herbivorous hyperarthropod], Masticephalus [ciliated, jellyfish-dome] and a Saccenta [ambush predator hyperarthropod]. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 7.8cm / 1 year 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 9.8/9.8 (100% - 40% 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 itâs relatives it has odour receptors inside itâs spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on itâs leg.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Very Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get
Size: 12cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 194 x 8/100 = 15NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.8 = 4.8NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Freshwater). Roll Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Plants, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, Stationary Respiration, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) on either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body and there are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills followed by forked, paddle-lined swimmerets. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs, swimmerets and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
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Action: chill then eat some algae
Action: Keep going down if possible to keep away from the organia and the cerceps, maybe grab a bite from the tubomorphii if its on the same direction iâm going
@Deathwake, which action do you want to prioritise in case the dice roll only allows one?
Can we try to prioritise multiple actions in the future?
Also, sadly Iâve had to let Springblooms go. Itâs been a long time since I got a response so itâs only fair to give someone else a go.
This is the list. Of the ones to respond over the next few days, the highest on the list gets priority.
i will happy to be
Of course, by priority
Action: try to sneak up behind the verveâs and take a huge bite out of it.
action: try to finally mate.
Rest is first priority followed by eating, as I am already full.
Thanks for the new round Stealth! 
Action: React to the something new (the Ahyponomus) in the only way I know how. Try to eat it.
What did you mean by the verve? Iâm assuming you donât mean the English rock band.
@AgentTine, @jellyfishmon and @TeaKing, please respond if you can.
action: try to hunt some Gryphorhinus
Sorry, autocorrect, I think I meant cerceps
Round 237 - P.1
~79 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Atrobocean Stage
Event: None
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The gradual cooling trend caused by the emergence of land plants continues but no major changes have yet occurred.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 6
Ktrie qualuntus, Male Juvenile (LC)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
You graze upon the algae that is growing along the little spring that is trickling from the rocks of the plateau. You manage to recover some of the energy lost from not eating for a while. The air remains hot and humid, with a constant light drizzling of rain. Looking around, the cliff continues upwards and looking out, you see endless rock and distant seas carving the land into islands. A volcano smokes [peacefully] in the distance. The only sign of life is the spring and the algae which grows along itâs side, as well as the stream that drips from the spring down the cliff face. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 4.6cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 6.3/9 (70%) / 40%
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 itâs 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 = 3
Maurcolus repus (U), Subadult
_Deep Ocean
In the very dark, warm water, the scent of an Ahyponomus [worm] reaches your antennae and you use them to sniff across the seafloor and discover the location of the Ahyponomus. You use your claws to dig up the floor until your antennae can touch the worm. Then you grab it and pull it out, the Ahyponomus still wriggling along. It is very soft-skinned as you cut your way through it with your claws, multiple times. The Ahyponomus has stopped moving and you eat it. Many months pass and you have survived long enough to become a subadult, preying and moulting. It remains very dark and warm. You are walks along the oozy seafloor from which you sense an Ahyponomus [worm] and there is also the scent of a Chartitesta [sea anemone] along the seafloor. Up above, there seems to be many Masticephalus [cilliated organisms with jellyfish bells]. In one direction you can detect a massive amount of salt. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% / 10.5cm / 1 year and 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 19.4/19.4 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why itâs lost itâs foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
_Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You try to swim downwards but find yourself being carried against your will the other way by the tide. As it carries you through the very dark, cool saltwater, the scents of other food reach you but you cannot stop to eat them. You go right to the edge of the shore, where the tide loses energy, but are caught up in the waves. You have no choice but to wait or lose energy. Eventually, the tide becomes slack and you seem to be free to move. It remains very dark and cool in the water. You cannot sense anything with your electroreception very close by, except for the scent of seaweed, but the scents of a Tubomorphii [soft, encrusting sponge], an Octoplocamus [jellyfish] and a Medusodera [crinoid-like] reaches you from further out at sea. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 30% / 1.8cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 2.9/4.1 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None.
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 1
Diplopygus microstomus (LC), Juvenile Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Autumn
NOT YET VOTED
The Organia [fish] can be seen swimming above you in the clear, tropical and hot sea. You swim upwards, gliding on your lobes, paddling with your tail fans and boosting with your hyponome, winding up your arm. The Organia is swimming along and you cannot judge the precise trajectory you need but you come level with it, swimming behind it and soon coming into range. Then your claw is launched quickly towards it, catching the âfishâ by the tail and cutting right through until the tail has been lopped off. The Organia is now helpless as you close in to finish the job until your own rear end is grabbed in a claw and one of your tail fans becomes ruined by that attack. [The attacker is none other than the Diplopygus ramstirpes that emerged from the valley.] Feeling pain you instinctively try to swim away, leaving a wispy trail of blood behind you. You manage to find sanctuary in a copse of seaweed. Looking out of the seaweed, which is blowing in the tide, you see the clear water; it feels hot. The body of the Organia has fallen to the sandy plain, out in the open. An Organia negrus [herbivorous fish with square teeth, pectoral fins and semi-circular tail fins] is munching on the outside of the seaweed copse and several Compcyclus [snail] are creeping slowly along the floor beneath the seaweed. A Diplopygus [large hyperarthropod with two tail fins, powerful cheliped and leg-lobes] is hovering above the seaweed. Behind you, there is a wall of rock over which you cannot see. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 19.3cm / 4 months
Health: Broken tail fan
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 28/40 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Swim speed reduced
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.
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@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 3
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Summer
You wriggle your way exhaustedly through the thick, very dark saltwater towards the Cerceps scent. It becomes stronger and stronger until you can sense the electrical signals from itâs body. You are now very tired but manage to bite down on the Cerceps. Unfortunately, your teeth cannot penetrate itâs exoskeleton and the Cerceps shoots off so that you can no longer detect it. Thoroughly exhausted and starving, you perish. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1mm / 2 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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. âMigmachordatixâ 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 tailsâ base.
Internal Features: In most of the bodyâs 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), Adult Male
Olympia, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Spring
You head into the crowd of Haleglossus, already exhausted. You approach another adult which turns out to be a female and it is receptive to your advances. You successfully reproduce. The small number of eggs are kept in the femaleâs pouch. However, you on the other hand have used up the last of your energy and move away only to perish from exhaustion. (4 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on. Congratulations, itâs a baby! Choose 5 mutations to evolve.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 16.3/32.5 (50%) / 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 itâs 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 femaleâs 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)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Summer
The Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [lobed, hyperarthropod with powerful claws] glides through the hot, fairly murky water towards a Gempliaori setobranchius [five-legged, lobe-legged hyperarthropod filter-feeders] which it grasps suddenly in itâs powerful claws, cutting into it. The herbivore is practically cut in half and the Pultrypa swims off with one half in itâs jaws. You swim towards the other half which is laying on the mud, releasing a cloud of blood, and eat as much as you can. Several months later, you have survived long enough - eating, moulting and avoiding predation - to become a juvenile. You remain in hot, fairly murky water with a gentle current covered in a muddy riverbed. The scent of brackish water reaches you. A couple Organia encephalus [fish] are swimming through the water. You can see a Scleronotus [little hyperarthropod] heading towards several Masticephalus. Resting on the riverbed below is a Diplopygus [predatory hyperarthropod with powerful claws and double fan tail]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 18cm / 7 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 34.4/34.4 (100% - 50% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 itâs two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Perhaps due to itâs murky habitats, it has got much smaller eyes and lost itâs compound eyes completely, making itâs 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. âXenoarthropodusinâ 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 âXenoarthropodusinâ neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 2
Ambulanus terrestrium, Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Winter
You rest on the rocky land, which is undisturbed and allows you to regain some energy. When you finish resting, you move to find some food but the algae that was there before has been eaten by a plethora of herbivores; only scraps remain and these are already occupied by other herbivores. These are other Ambulanus and Ktrie [herbivorous hyperarthropod]. The conditions are much the same; the air is hot and humid, the sky is pretty clear but is is lightly raining and you are on rocks coated with algae close to a fairly murky, river. But not so far away is the sea, almost surrounding this peninsula of rock and carving up the land into shallow seas and islands. On land, the rocks trail off into the horizon, following a pattern of hills and slopes. There are other Ambulanus around you. In the water, the shape of a Pultrypa jellyfishmonii [lobed, hyperarthropod with powerful claws] can be seen swimming close to the surface.(3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 2.9/ 4.1 (70%) / 40%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Ambulanus terrestrium
Latest Mutations: Trachea, Pump Vessel
This species is special because it is the first to become a fully terrestrial animal, able to breathe on land where it grazes on waterside algae. Because of this, it must still be near water because thatâs where food is. It also has a heart.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens close to water
Niche: Herbivore
Diet: Algae
Size: 8cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 205 x 8/100 = 16.4NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 16.4 x 0.25 = 4.1NP per round (Needs to intake 4.1/0.8 = 5.1NP per round)/ 16.4NP.
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). Smell 1 (odours 1m from spiracles).
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 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food (algae) > Graze with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk 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 stalks either side of the head. Behind these stalks on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body and there are four 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. Spiracles and air-filled tubes form the tracheal system. Just inside them are found odour receptors. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels pumped by a heart 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). Walks.
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Allonops allonops, Juvenile (LC)
Kommos, Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Early Spring
The scent of a Gryphorhinus is close by, just above you, and you move a little towards it.when you try to get even closer, you bump into ice. You try to find a way around it in the cold, very dark water but it is a solid sheet of ice [and the Gryphorhinus is frozen within it.] You remain in a cold, dark stream with a gentle current flowing past. You can still sense the Gryphorhinus [herbivorous hyperarthropod] but there is now the scent of a Gempliaori setobranchius [filter-feeding hyperarthropod] below you and the faint scent of a Dinocaroides drifts from upstream. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 7.8cm / 1 year 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 8/9.8 (90%) / 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 itâs relatives it has odour receptors inside itâs spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on itâs leg.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Arid Barrens, Subpolar Continental Warm Temperate Very Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get
Size: 12cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 194 x 8/100 = 15NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.8 = 4.8NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Freshwater). Roll Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Plants, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Ram Ventilation, Stationary Respiration, 10% off). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) on either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body and there are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills followed by forked, paddle-lined swimmerets. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs, swimmerets and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
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Thank you! I am happy to participate. 
After a long selection (you have fuller than the last time I checked) I wanted one thing, but it seems to be extinct, so after searching, I think I found something interesting to me:
I will play as Medusodera pennicoronus
I have interesting plans for him.
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action: try hunting the gempliaori