Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

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R.242 - P.2

@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Hatchling Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
In the fairly murky, hot freshwater you dig a small pit at the bottom of the riverbed and sit in it. You extend your lure and wait. You and wait and wait. The tan-colours bivalves sticking tentacles out of their shells are rooted to the spot [Compcylindricus sous]. Nothing happens to come your way yet. So you are not able to feed. Now, though, you are starving. The freshwater remains quite murky and hot. A gentle current is flowing along. Downriver, there are the Compcylindricus sous. To the side of a rock in the middle of the river, upstream, laying on the riverbed beneath the fairly murky water between the bank and the rock is a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anamolcaris-like lobe. Antennae and thick mandibles protrude from the front - it has four tiny eyes, two of them on stalks. At the rear end is a fantail and a hyponome [Dorsopelta positivus, PositiveTower]. Further upriver but not visible in the murk is a Caulops vulgarus, detectable by it’s chemicals. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.6mm / 2 days
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 0.1/0.3 (15%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None

Haleglossus beveria

Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to it’s predecessor it produces more eggs than many other species on the planet; it can produce 10,000 eggs each spawning when they gather at mating sites in Early Spring. However, it seems to have lost the part of it’s brain that allows for spatial awareness. It lives alongside another Haleglossus species on Tartarus; it has more fatalities due to being smelt easier by predators but produces more young to counter this.
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, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-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 Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Ambush Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 16/100 = 32.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.2 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.2NP.
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, monocular 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 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & 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 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 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. 10,000 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 = 1
Dorsopelta positivus, Juvenile Male (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Summer
At the bottom of the river of quite murky, hot freshwater you stay quite still and simply rest. You are able to recover a lot of energy without being disturbed when you have finished resting. Now, though, you are starving. The freshwater remains quite murky and hot. A gentle current is flowing along. Downriver, you see a blurry animal laying on the riverbed which your scents show to be a Haleglossus beveria [an ambush hyperarthropod], when you look to the side of a rock in the middle of the river. There’s a rocky bank to one side of you, and you can see a small blur walking along the top of the bank [Ambulanus terrestrium, Deathwake]. There is another one of these on top of the rock, above the water level, in the middle of the river. From upriver there is another small blur and the scents emanating from it show it to be a Caulops vulgarus [herbivorous hyperarthropod]. You detect some marine snow particles drifting along the current. (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: 65% / 18cm / 7 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 10.3/34.4 (30%) / 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 it’s two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Perhaps due to it’s murky habitats, it has got much smaller eyes and lost it’s compound eyes completely, making it’s eyesight worse although it now has a pair of long antennae with touch receptors on. Another change is the increase in size.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 27cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 196 x 27/100 = 52.9NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 52.9 x 0.25 = 13NP per round (Needs to intake 13/0.7 = 18.6NP per round)/ 52.9 x 0.9 = 47.6NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. “Xenoarthropodusin” Toxin: Neurotoxin that kills nerves in minutes.
Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily at the front and sides, blue and green perception, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1.
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, need 10% less). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0.5. Swim Speed 3. Swim Stability 1. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The top half of the cylindrical body is covered by half an exoskeleton, leaving the lower half unprotected. This skin contains blue melanin pigments. A pair of long antennae have touch receptors. Around the mouth is a pair of very tough, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two tiny eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) and the same model of eyes on stalks either side of the head. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Along the body on each side are a series of many lobes combined into one. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. The mandibles host “Xenoarthropodusin” neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome

@Deathwake - Points Stored = 3
Ambulanus terrestrium, Adult (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
In the hot, humid air, dripping with drizzle, you continue to feed on the algal-strewn rock along the banks of the gently moving, fairly murky river. You are so successful at this that you survive for long enough to become an adult, ready to reproduce. You haven’t taken in water in a while and are now dehydrated. You remain next to the fairly murky, gentle river, along which mats of algae are growing. You see a green animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail, grazing on a rock in the middle of the river. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Ambulanus terrestrium]. However, laying on the riverbed beneath the fairly murky water between the bank and the rock is a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anamolcaris-like lobe. Antennae and thick mandibles protrude from the front - it has four tiny eyes, two of them on stalks. At the rear end is a fantail and a hyponome [Dorsopelta positivus, PositiveTower]. Blurrily, you can see the other side of the river where there are green blurs moving about and a larger blue blur and these green ones are also seen if you look quite a distance in either direction on your side of the river. The land around you in all directions appears to be quite flat and rocky, though it becomes blurry after a few meters and there is a huge swathe of light blue on the horizon, although not quite as blue as the clear sky. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 8cm / 1 year
Health: Dehydrated
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 80% / 16.4/16.4 (100% - 65% left over for growth) /10%
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 that’s 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 (NT)
Kommos, Polar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Spring
You follow the scent of something through fairly murky water that has become cool recently. There is a green animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail, lifeless on the riverbed. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound), with the first pair on stalks, as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Gryphorhinus atroboceanus]. You take a bite but it is long dead and the bacteria that has taken a hold is unpalatable so you regurgitate the dead food back out. You are still exhausted. There is another Gryphorhinus feeding on some algae. There are several of a tubular, blue animal with a jellyfish dome at one end which has little tentacles sticking out the top and lines of cillia along the body, floating along the water [Masticephalus recentibus]. There is another animal like the Gryphorhinus, only this one is blue, does not have stalked eyes and has only three pairs of legs but it does wield a pair of stingers next to it’s claws and has a pouch underneath [Saccentus marsupium]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.2mm / 2 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 0.1/0.1 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 0.25)
Notes: None

Allonops allonops

Latest Mutations: Gills, Filter-Feeding
This species is a predator native to the waterways of Kommos. Like it’s relatives it has odour receptors inside it’s spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on it’s leg.
Status: NT
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.

@doomlightning - Points Stored = 0
Medusodera pennicoronus, Juvenile (NT)
The Northwestern Coastal Shallows of Kommos, Temperate Shallows, Early Summer
In the fairly murky, warm, quite highly saline water, you row all they way down through the water towards the blur attached to a rock on the seafloor because at this size the water is too thick for you to sink in. You are exhausted by this and need to rest. Just as you settle and attach your holdfast there is a tremendous crash as boulders smash into the sea at the foot of a nearby cliff. The debris clouds the water and the force whisks you away, traveling away through the water. Eventually, the debris in the water settles and it returns to it’s natural fairly murky state. It is also still warm and quite highly saline. When you look around, you are not far above a large rock in a sandy plain, drifting slowly on a current, as a blurry shape passes over head, which your chemoreception finds is an Anazitonta astatheana. There is another blur in front of you directly over the rock which you sense is a Organia acrodon [predstory fish, OoferDoofer]. On the rock is one stationary blur, sensed as a Rhipiella temperatus [soft coral], buzzed by a few mobile blurs, which have chemical like Eolamnella simplex [predatory proto-fish]. You can sense a fair amount of marine snow, particularly around the rock. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 9mm / 8 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 20% / 1/1.3 (75% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None

Medusodera pennicoronus

Latest Mutations: Holdfast, Theca, Pinnules
This species appears a bit like a crinoid. It has a crown of arms covered in feather-like pinnules which are lined with tube feet, which makes it a good filter-feeder. A hard theca protects the head and the body has an endoskeleton of ossicles. It retains the swimming adaptations like the jellyfish-bell below the theca and the lines of cilia on membranes along the body. This is despite having a root-like holdfast, which it can use to attach itself to sediment. It lives throughout the upper 500m of the northern hemisphere temperate Uteenessa ocean.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 148 x 2.5/100 = 3.7NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.7 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.7/0.6 = 1.5NP per round)/ 3.7 x 0.75 = 2.8NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 2.5. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with arms and tube feet. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has teeth in it’s mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off with a nearby notochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Paddles with cilia.

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

kill positive tower and feast on his corpse.
sorry positive, i’m desperate.

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

YAY I HAVENT DIED IN SO LONG! I’ll just take a +1 on my action. Action: go to drink at the water’s edge, keeping the other member of my species closer than me to the positivus so it don’t eat me. If I am noticed I’ll push the other member of My species into the water heartlessly and run. Once i am satiated i’ll look for a mate.

[OoferDoofer (Certified, Authorized, Qualified, Recognized, Ratified, Formalized)]

Action: Attack doomlightning, whichever way ensures the highest chance of success

[PositiveTower (Eating beans I see!)]

Bro, you are 1.6mm while i’m 18cm and i have an exoskeleton.Do you understand the metric system?
Action:Ignore zezone and instead hunt for deathwake

[StealthStyle (Stealth)]

Zenzone v Positive v Deathwake = who will come out on top?

[fralegend015 (OwO)]

surelly not zenzone…

[PositiveTower (Eating beans I see!)]

I just can’t understand zenzone,he’s desperate but there are far smaller prey near him which isn’t a predator a 10 times his size.Also use my +1 on myself
@StealthStyle

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo God, The Immortal and Remmortal gardium of Nervilla and Pandora Horizon)]

I think i will move away from them, trying filtering along the way, and then, rest

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

-2 on @PositiveTower.

[BlackInk]

Action: let part of my remains fall on to the seabed, for one day be found by space archeologists

[StealthStyle (Stealth)]

@AgentTine, @TeaKing, please respond

[TeaKing (The modTEArator)]

action try eating a masticephalus

[StealthStyle (Stealth)]

Round 243 - P.1
~81 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 150 - Gamma Ray Burst

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• Guaranteed Evolution: Use this during evolution to definitely roll a 4 or higher. You can save them up and use multiple at once = 3pts
• High Roller: Get a guaranteed 6 for either action or evolution = 4pts
• Call of the Wild: Summon an event that focuses on any specific area of the world you choose. However, the event is random and may be larger than you anticipate = 5pts

The temperature continues to cool very gradually as a result of the growth of plants on land.

Meanwhile, Diplopygus pugilus has driven Diplopygus microstomus extinct and Unnamed was a very short-lived species that has also gone extinct because it had too many disadvantageous qualities.

Across the galaxy there is a massive explosion and a huge amount of energy crackles through space and Ezta is caught in the blast. One side of the planet, the Northern Hemisphere takes most of the force of it. It is visible to species here as a bright light that lasts about ten seconds and then it fades as if the disaster has vanished…

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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Ktrie qualuntus, Male Adult (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
In the hot, humid air with a constant pattering of light rain, you follow along the stream’s edge, grazing for algae. Once again, you do this peacefully with no threat from anything being about. After another month of this, you become an adult, ready to reproduce. Now, you are at the bottom of the cliff where the stream becomes a little pool, again surrounded by algae. The land around you in all directions appears to be quite flat, except for the plateau, and rocky, though it becomes blurry after a few meters. There is a huge swathe of light blue on the horizon, although not quite as blue as the clear sky. A line of darker water cuts through the land in the distance. The rain has stopped for a while and it has become a dry day. You are dehydrated. Out on the rocks, the ground is shimmering with the heat but you spy something different on the landscape. It’s a blue blur moving towards you. Eventually, it gets close enough that you can make out the detail; an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with antennae, mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs and then five swimmerets dragging along the ground [Ktrie qualuntus]. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 12.4cm / 11 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 80% / 25.7/25.7 (100% - 30% left over for growth) /10%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None

Ktrie qualuntus

Latest Mutations: Stronger pincers = 6, More efficient herbivorous digestive system = 4, Air-breathing = 6, Antenna to sense valuable prey more easily = 5
Ktrie qualuntus is a hyperarthropod that is one of the first to live on land, rather than water, thanks to the fact that it has a tracheal system. It is a herbivore and at the time of it’s arrival has no predators here. It lives only at tropical and subtropical very humid locations in Tartarus and close to water. It also has stronger pincers that can pierce the calcified exoskeletons of other hyperarthropods, an even more coiled digestive tract and antennae with touch receptors.
Status: NT
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 (LC), Juvenile
_Deep Ocean
You hatch out into dark, warm, quite low salinity water. You can see nothing but you can feel the seabed beneath you with your antennae. Also, reaching your antennae is the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. You track the scent along the seabed with your antennae and when it becomes strong, you start to dig with your claws. Soon, you touch flesh and grab it with your claws, pulling the worm out of the ground. Once it’s up, you attack it, cutting easily through it’s soft body and killing it. You then feed, passing pieces to your mandibles. After several months of feeding like this and moulting, you have become a juvenile. The quite low salinity water is still warm and dark, preventing you from seeing. You can still feel the seabed below you and the scent of an Ahyponomus minor reaches you, as does a Chartitesta bathyus (tube anemone). The scent of multiple Masticephalus bathyus [ciliated filter-feeders with little tentacles and a jellyfish dome]. (5 + 1)
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 it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.

@blackink - Points Stored = 3
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Coastal Midwater of Northern Tartarus, Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
[Although most of your body is destroyed in the jellyfish’s stomach some of your hard parts; your jaw, your spines and your vertebrae one day sink into the seabed and are covered beneath this layer. The sediment around them is compressed into hard rock and these remains become fossilised. Who knows if they’ll one day be found once again?]

You hatch out into fairly murky, warm, quite highly saline water. In front of you, you can see a mostly flat, sandy expanse except for a round rock that is encrusted by a amorphous animal covered in pores [Tubomorphii primus]. Their scent is strong and you swim the rest of the way towards it. It is hard to swim at such a size as the water is thick but fortunately it doesn’t take too long to get there. You bite off a chunk of the Tubomorphii and then another and keep eating until you have had your fill. After several months, you are still alive. You have grown into a juvenile, large enough that the water is no longer thick, although you are still pulled about a bit by the tidal current when it is active. Scales have grown across your back and to the end of your tail. You remain by the rock with Tubomorphii primus encrusting it but the fairly murky, quite highly saline water is cool now. You can see the surface when you look up but it’s quite far away. A few animals with jellyfish domes, lots of small, barbed tentacles and a pair of oral arms are floating about the different levels of the water. You also see several animals with rigid, exoskeletons with sharp rostrums, a pair of antennas and four compound eyes at the front of the head, followed by clawed chelipeds, oar-like paddles and then three pairs of legs. At the end they have a fantail and hyponome [Cerceps cerceps]. Out of nowhere there is a sudden bright light that encompasses your entire vision and just as suddenly it fades. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 1.5cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None

Lepidoderes immortalii

Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: LC
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 = 0
Unnamed (EX), Hatchling Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Summer
(2 = Your species is extinct, doomed to the pages of history. Please choose a new species. Remember: No Species Lasts Forever.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 55cm / 1 year
Health: Broken tail fan, exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 30% / 45.1/112.8 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Swim speed reduced

Unnamed

Latest Mutations: 2 = Bigger, 4 = Feather Tongue, 1 = Round mouth, 5 = Cold Tolerance
This species came from a very successful lineage that dominated the Atrobocean stage of the Oliverian as apex predators and continues to to this day. They are lobe-limbed arthropods with two fan tails, making them proficient swimmers, as well as having a spring-loaded cheliped. The same success cannot be said to be had for this experimental filter-feeder. The mouth became even smaller so as to become little more than a pore - a unique net-like appendage extended from the mouth to filter food. Though the appendage itself was quite efficient, the repositioning of the mouth on the underside was not ideal and the mandibles often got in the way, ripping the net. This species simply could not survive long because it’s filter-feeding abilities are not enough to feed an animal of it’s size. They have also evolved lysozymes to protect them from the cold but it is not enough to save them. It did not seem to last long before going extinct.
Status: Extinct
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: Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 40cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 209 x 40/100 = 83.6NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 83.6 x 0.25 = 20.9NP per round (Needs to intake 20.9/0.8 = 26.1NP per round)/ 83.6NP.
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 1. 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. The pore-like mouth is on the underside of the head, fronted by a pair of mandibles. A soft, flexible net that has the structure of a tree with many branches, getting smaller each offshoot, extends from the mouth also and can be curled up. 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. Each cell has piezolytes and lysozymes. 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.

@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 5
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile
The Northwestern Coastal Shallows of Kommos, Temperate Shallows, Early Summer
In the fairly murky, warm, quite highly saline water there is an animal drifting on the current with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia [Medusodera pennicoronus, Doomlightning]. You prepare to swim towards this animal but start feeling sick. You feel so terrible that you barely have the energy to chase down your prey, so it drifts peacefully by as you float in the water, trying to recover. Fortunately, it’s not a long-lasting or deadly illness and in a short while you have fully recovered. It is still warm, fairly murky and quite highly saline. When you look around, you are not far above a large rock in a sandy plain, where an animal similar to the Anazitonta but with forward facing eyes is biting bits of a fan-shaped, flexible coral that is waving gently with the tide [Eolamnella simplex] [Rhipiella temperatus]. A dark, bioluminescent, fish-shaped animal is swimming into the area. It has a mouthful of sharp teeth, upwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and spines next to the semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Anazitonta astatheana]. You can smell particles of marine snow drifting around in the water. (3)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 3.5cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 3.7/7.3 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
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: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 10cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 208 x 10/100 = 20.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.8 x 0.25 = 5.2NP per round (Needs to intake 5.2/0.7 = 7.4NP per round)/ 20.8 x 0.7 = 18.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Detoxification. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Startle. Urine Storage.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m above, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Evolution 1 (5 votes). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Ventilation, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - head, spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with spines. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The body is fish-shaped with black melanin pigmentation in the skin, which is covered by cycloid scales and contains blue autogenic photophores all over. At the head is the mouth with sharp teeth, some olfactory receptors and facing upwards is a pair of eyes, in which the lens changes shape and it has no blind spot. There is a line of electroreceptors along the flank. It has pectoral fins, two semi-circle caudal fins at the back of the tail and a pair of spines at the tails’ base.
Internal Features: In most of the body’s cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Behind the tail spines are toxin glands, filling the spine with toxin. On each side of the throat are three pairs of gills, inside gill slits. The gills are connected to the blood vessels closed circulatory system, which contains hemoglobin - making it appear red. The system is made up of a single circuit pumped by a heart. There is also a network of muscles across the body. Along the dorsal side of the body is the cartilage vertebra that links the cartilage skull and jaw with the tail. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It also includes a liver and kidneys and ends with the bladder and anus. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the vertebra and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).

[OoferDoofer (Certified, Authorized, Qualified, Recognized, Ratified, Formalized)]

Action: rest, watching around for predators and prey

[StealthStyle (Stealth)]

R.243 - P.2

@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 0
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Hatchling Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You swim towards a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anomalocaris-like lobe that is laying on the riverbed between a rock and the bank. Antennae and thick mandibles protrude from the front - it has four tiny eyes, two of them on stalks. At the rear end is a fantail and a hyponome [Dorsopelta positivus, PositiveTower]. The fairly murky, hot freshwater has a gentle current and is thick. Crawling through it is tough. Finally you get to the Dorsopelta and find that it is comparatively huge. You try attacking it but you do nothing against the shield on it’s back. The Dorsopelta starts moving towards the surface, while you hover around, starving. Suddenly, there is a splash and the Dorsopelta falls back into the water - the force sends you spinning away. Away from any discernible food source, you continue to starve until it claims your life. (2 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.6mm / 2 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

Haleglossus beveria

Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to it’s predecessor it produces more eggs than many other species on the planet; it can produce 10,000 eggs each spawning when they gather at mating sites in Early Spring. However, it seems to have lost the part of it’s brain that allows for spatial awareness. It lives alongside another Haleglossus species on Tartarus; it has more fatalities due to being smelt easier by predators but produces more young to counter this.
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, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-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 Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Ambush Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 16/100 = 32.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.2 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.2NP.
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, monocular 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 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & 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 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 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. 10,000 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 (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Summer
From the bottom of the fairly murky, hot freshwater with a gentle current, you peer up at a small blur close to the water [Ambulanus terrestrium, Deathwake]. You smell a Haleglossus beveria [an ambush hyperarthropod, Zenzone] from very close around you but it does not cause any harm. The surface of the water is broken as part of the blurry Ambulanus enters the water and you can now sense it’s chemicals. You swim up towards it and go to bite it with your mandibles but are just too late; the Ambulanus has left the water and you close on nothing but water. You stay watching the blur as it walks up the bank. The last of your nutrition is fading away and after that failed attack you are on the edge of starvation. There is the other blur on the rock in the middle of the water but suddenly the first blur seems to fall back towards the water level. You rush at it at and even burst through the water to grab your prey except once again you are just too late; this time half of your body ends up on the rocks and you struggle to remove yourself with no limbs. With your wide vision, you can see the other blur on the rock making a break for it, splashing into the water and paddling across. Still you try to wriggle back into the water and thankfully slip back in and head for the swimming Ambulanus. It just managed to escape before you can get it. You are now on the edge of starvation and without finding anything else to eat aft the failed attacks, you starve. (5 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 18cm / 7 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

Dorsopelta positivus

Latest Mutations: Bigger = 4, More body segments = 3, more compound eyes = 1, a long, frontal appendage which allows me to ouch and move stuff = 6
This species is also a freshwater predator but has powerful mandibles capable of penetrating the calcium carbonate shells of bivalves (and molluscs if there were any in freshwater). The half-exoskeleton bearing animal also has a greater number of smaller lobes comprising it’s two big ones, meaning extra manoeuvrability. Perhaps due to it’s murky habitats, it has got much smaller eyes and lost it’s compound eyes completely, making it’s eyesight worse although it now has a pair of long antennae with touch receptors on. Another change is the increase in size.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 27cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 196 x 27/100 = 52.9NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 52.9 x 0.25 = 13NP per round (Needs to intake 13/0.7 = 18.6NP per round)/ 52.9 x 0.9 = 47.6NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoregulation (Freshwater). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. “Xenoarthropodusin” Toxin: Neurotoxin that kills nerves in minutes.
Perception: Sight 1 (sees blurrily at the front and sides, blue and green perception, front binocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1.
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 4. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, need 10% less). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0.5. Swim Speed 3. Swim Stability 1. Toughness 1. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The top half of the cylindrical body is covered by half an exoskeleton, leaving the lower half unprotected. This skin contains blue melanin pigments. A pair of long antennae have touch receptors. Around the mouth is a pair of very tough, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. It has two tiny eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) and the same model of eyes on stalks either side of the head. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Along the body on each side are a series of many lobes combined into one. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. The mandibles host “Xenoarthropodusin” neurotoxin glands. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulates its lobes and fan tail and propels itself with the hyponome

@Deathwake - Points Stored = 3
Ambulanus terrestrium, Adult (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
The fairly murky water, gently flowing past the green-tinged rocks beckons you for a drink. The air is hot and humid - it is raining gently. You crawl closer and plunge your head into it, taking a drink to replenish yourself. Out of the side of your vision, you see a green animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail, grazing on a rock in the middle of the river. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Ambulanus terrestrium]. Below you at the bottom of the shallow water, there is a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anamolcaris-like lobe. Antennae and thick mandibles protrude from the front - it has four tiny eyes, two of them on stalks. At the rear end is a fantail and a hyponome [Dorsopelta positivus, PositiveTower]. You keep drinking, as you are very thirsty. The Dorsopelta starts moving towards you. You are finished drinking but the Dorsopelta bites out with it’s mandibles just missing you as you leave the water fully hydrated and turn to walk further onto the bank. As you walk away, you lose your footing on the wet, slippy rocks covered in algae and slide backwards - you just manage to recover and move away before you see the Dorsopelta emerge from the water and become stranded on the bank. You can also see the other Ambulanus on the rock leap into the water and start swimming towards you even as the Dorsopelta is working to release itself back in the water. It manages to do so but not in time to stop the other Ambulanus escaping the river. The Dorsopelta disappears and is not seen again. You are both adults and successfully reproduce, your eggs dispersing into the river. You are now exhausted. The other Ambulanus jumps into the water and disappears. At the surface of the river is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa jellyfishmonii]. Blurrily, you can see the other side of the river where there are green blurs moving about and there are also some on either direction in quite a distance on your side of the river. The land around you in all directions appears to be quite flat and rocky, though it becomes blurry after a few metres and there is a huge swathe of light blue on the horizon, although not quite as blue as the clear sky. (5 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 8cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 40% / 11.6/16.4 (70%) / 70%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism 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 that’s 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, Hatchling (NT)
Kommos, Subpolar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Early Summer
In the fairly murky, cool freshwater, there are several of a tubular, blue animal with a jellyfish dome at one end which has little tentacles sticking out the top and lines of cillia along the body, floating along the water beside you [Masticephalus recentibus]. You crawl through the viscous water towards one and when you get to it, you grab it in your claws - it’s body is soft and you easily cut right through it, killing the Masticephalus. You then feed on your prey, passing pieces to your mandibles. A couple of months later, you have grown and the water is no longer viscous for you. Having recently moulted, you are currently on the edge of exhaustion. The fairly murky freshwater is now warm. There is a green animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail wandering over the riverbed. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound), with the first pair on stalks, as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Gryphorhinus atroboceanus]. It is walking past some bivalves with tentacles sticking out of the shell [Cilistoma caecus]. In the other direction is a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anomalocaris-like lobe. Thick mandibles protrude from the front - it has four eyes. At the rear end is a fantail and a hyponome [Dinocaroides hibridus]. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 10% / 1.2cm / 2 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 1.5/1.5 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 0.25)
Notes: None

Allonops allonops

Latest Mutations: Gills, Filter-Feeding
This species is a predator native to the waterways of Kommos. Like it’s relatives it has odour receptors inside it’s spiracles. It has a calcified exoskeleton and can curl up into a ball. This species has gills on it’s leg.
Status: NT
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.

@doomlightning - Points Stored = 0
Medusodera pennicoronus, Juvenile (NT)
The Northwestern Coastal Shallows of Kommos, Temperate Shallows, Early Summer
Floating slowly along a current in the fairly murky, warm, quite highly saline water, you try to keep away from the blurs of animals around you, which your chemoreception reveals is an Organia acrodon [predatory fish, OoferDoofer], a Rhipiellae temperatus [soft coral] and an Eolamnella simplex [predatory proto-fish]. However, being this small makes it difficult to move away from anything, as you are at the mercy of the current, drifts straight towards the Organia blur. In the current, you start filtering with your crown of pinnules but do not happen to run into much in the way of marine snow particles. Fortunately, the Organia does not make a move for you as you pass. You remain exhausted in the fairly murky, warm, quite highly saline water. You have drifted to an area where there is a flat sandy expanse leading up to an edge, where a cliff descends out of view and the water in front appears open with no surfaces. There are several blurry shapes lined up along this edge; the chemicals coming from them indicate that they are Rhipiella temperatus and Echinosomus hutzii [soft corals]. There are also moving blurs with the scent of Eolamnella simplex [predatory proto-fish]. Your chemoreception also sense particles of marine snow spread around the place, especially at the cliff’s edge. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 9mm / 8 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 10% / 6.5/1.3 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None

Medusodera pennicoronus

Latest Mutations: Holdfast, Theca, Pinnules
This species appears a bit like a crinoid. It has a crown of arms covered in feather-like pinnules which are lined with tube feet, which makes it a good filter-feeder. A hard theca protects the head and the body has an endoskeleton of ossicles. It retains the swimming adaptations like the jellyfish-bell below the theca and the lines of cilia on membranes along the body. This is despite having a root-like holdfast, which it can use to attach itself to sediment. It lives throughout the upper 500m of the northern hemisphere temperate Uteenessa ocean.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 148 x 2.5/100 = 3.7NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.7 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.7/0.6 = 1.5NP per round)/ 3.7 x 0.75 = 2.8NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (detects chemicals 5m from mouth). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 2.5. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Wait for food. 2. Food > Filter with arms and tube feet. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet, followed by the circular mouth and chemoreceptors. It has teeth in it’s mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off with a nearby notochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Paddles with cilia.

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

FINNALY!
1: ability to eat tough land plants
2: ability to reproduce on land (+1 to this one)
3: long-term water retention (lower water requirements, no desiccation)
4: legs built solely for walking on land (better land stamina worse water speed)
as you can see I am moving away from the water and farther onto land.
species name: whateverpodus maximus

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

well @PositiveTower , looks like it was a draw.

[PositiveTower (Eating beans I see!)]

That would imply i challenged you in the first place

[zenzonegaming (Steve Buscemi Fish Clown Detective Cult Leader)]

no i don’t think so, just that we both died or lived, the former being true in this case.
man can’t believe i killed you ha ha.