stay in my hole and ambush something else.
action: hunt the organia
Round 247 - P.1
~82.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 98 - None
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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus, Male Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
NOT YET VOTED
You float around in the dark, hot, fairly murky freshwater, resting. Your rest is undisturbed and you recover some energy. [You wonder if your experience of existence is real or if you are part of the Matrix.] After you rest, you examine your surroundings; the water is dark, hot and firstly murky. You can see a Haleglossus beveria on the riverbed. In the water is floating tubular, blue animals 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]. Approaching the area 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]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 5.8cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 95% / 9.1/9.1 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Cavuops tartarus
Latest Mutations: Heart, Gills
This is a nocturnal predatory arthropod with a heavily defended head. It lives throughout Tartarus.
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: 23cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 200 x 23/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.8 = 13NP per round)/
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish Water). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Night Vision 1 (at sides). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m 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 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 3 (4 - carapace). UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Go somewhere dark and rest.
External Features: A calcified exoskeleton with a carapace and two other segments over the cephalothorax covers the skin, which contains mud-brown melanin pigments. A pair of antennae with chemoreceptors protrude forwards. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (large 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. There are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills. 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 pumped by a heart 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, one-chambered 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). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 3
Maurcolus repus (LC), Juvenile
_Equator, Deep Ocean
You hatch out of your egg; the surrounding water is cold, thick and has a quite low salinity. You can see nothing but darkness. Your antennae can feel the seabed and smell the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm] somewhere along and below. You track this smell using your antennae, crawling through the thick water, until you can smell it directly below you. Then you start clawing at it, digging through the seabed until your antennae come into contact with flesh; it’s the worm. You grab it with your claws and squeeze, cutting it in two. You then grab pieces of flesh passing them into your mandibles to be eaten. After about a year of feeding and moulting you have grown into a juvenile. The water is dark, cold and has quite low salinity. You can feel the seabed below your feet. The smell of a couple of Ahyponomus minor [worm] below the seabed and a Siliconia siliconia [glass sponge] reaches you. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 5.1 / 5.1 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
The illness continues to wrack your body although it is no longer as severe so you do not lose as much energy as before fighting it off. However, it has not allowed you to rest and recover some energy, so you are still exhausted. Having not eaten in a while you are also starving. As you fought the illness you drifted along a bit; looking around, you are just below the surface and just above the seabed, which is quite flat and sandy. The water is warm and fairly murky. You can see where the seabed becomes a beach and the waves wash over the top of the water, pushing you towards the beach every now and then. Near the surface is a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia acrodon, OoferDoofer]. There’s a gap in the beach where murky, brackish-smelling water meets the bay, which itself has a sandbank down the middle in which there is an amorphous animal covered in pores [Tubomorphii primus] and a couple with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia [Medusodera pennicoronus, Doomlightning]. You can smell marine snow around the bay, especially where the river meets the sea and there is a dark, bioluminescent, fish-shaped animal swimming around the sandbank. It has a mouthful of sharp teeth, forwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and spines next to the semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalli]. At the bottom of the bay is an animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is crawling slowly [Hydroceras crassus]. It’s grazing on algae-strewn pebbles. Nearby at the bottom of the bay is an animal with a crown of tentacles [Pulchellia vulgarus]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year and 6 months
Health: Exhausted, Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 30% / 2.6/10.4 (25%) / 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
Diplopygus pugilus (LC), Hatchling Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Summer
NOT YET VOTED
The first thing you see when you hatch out of your egg is darkness and being surrounded by a hole made of sand, filled with animals with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double 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 [Diplopygus pugilus]. The water is hot. A pile of flesh has been dropped into the middle of the hole, upon which some of the other Diplopygus have been feeding. There is not enough food for you so you head out of the hole but all you can see is darkness and a bit of sand under the moonlight. You swim across the sand but discover no food, only losing energy. Eventually, daylight arrives and you can see through the clear, blue water above the sandy seabed that stretches onwards with ridges and divots. You are now exhausted. An animal similar to Diplopygus pugilus is swimming close to the surface [Diplopygus ramstirpes]. On the seafloor of the nearest divot is an animal with a strong, blue, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with horizontal mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds and stingers in thin appendages, followed by three paddle-lined legs. Out of the mouth, protrudes a lure with an algae-like feature at the tip [Haleglossus beveria, Zenzone]. On top of the nearest ridge is a conical-shelled and thread-and-sucker-bearing tentacled cephalopod with stalked eyes on either side and a wing-like flap of skin on the exposed body [Eoceras gracilis]. Next to it on the ridge is a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia negrus] (1 + 1).
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 5.5mm / 5 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.5/1.1 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Diplopygus pugilus
Latest Mutations: Round Mouth, Improve 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 estuary biomes. It is comparatively huge to any other animal alive at the time of its arrival. It has a larger mouth and better chemoreceptors than it’s predecessor, making it more successful.
Status: VU
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 (High Salinity, Brackish). 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).
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. In front of the round 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.
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 5
Organia acrodon (LC), Hatchling
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
In the cool, fairly murky water with plenty of light and a quite high salinity. You struggle upwards through the thick water as the current drifts you along, having to crawl your way up to the dark, bioluminescent, fish-shaped animal swimming above. 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]. On the way, you pass a similar animal but with forward-facing eyes [Lepidoderes immortalli, BlackInk]. You finally reach the Anazitonta and make a bite; the proto-fish is bigger than you, so biting is difficult but you manage to make a critical bite on it’s head - killing it instantly. You then feed on the carcass floating in the water. Over the next few days you drift on the current and end up in an area where the currents weakens to almost nothing. You are living in warm, thick water with a quite high salinity. You are exhausted from recently hunting down some food. With your eyes pointing up, you can see you are just below the surface and feel you are on the seabed. The waves that periodically push you towards the shore wash over the surface. The smell of marine snow and some phytoplankton surrounds you. From the direction of the shore comes the smell of Tubomorphii primus [soft sponge], Medusodera pennicoronus [pseudo-crinoid, Doomlightning], Lepidoderes immortalii [predatory proto-fish, BlackInk] and brackish-smelling water - as well as a greater concentration of marine snow. In the other direction is the scent of algae, Hydroceras crassus [herbivorous gastropod] and a Pulchellia vulgarus [tube anemone]. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1mm / 1 week
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 40% / 0.2/0.2 (95%) / 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: 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).
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@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 0
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Subadult Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
Sitting in your ditch at the bottom of the divot, you look up through the clear, sunny and blue water. It feels hot and is highly saline. You have put out your lure, which dangles in the water and are waiting for prey to come by. A dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail starts coming closer to the lure but then decides to move away [Organia negrus]. Instead, an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail heads your way. 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 ramstirpes]. It swim right up to you and grabs one of your legs in a sudden motion. It cuts your leg right off; in pain and bleeding, you swim away but luckily the predator is not following. You made it to a new area, exhausted. Looking around, you are just below the surface and just above the seabed, which is quite flat and sandy. The water is hot, blue and clear. You can see where the seabed becomes a beach and the waves wash over the top of the water. There’s a gap in the beach where murky water with brackish chemicals meets the bay. You can smell marine snow around the bay, especially where the river meets the sea. There is a clump of seaweed growing out of the seabed. An animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is feeding here [Camerotheca acutastomus]. There is also a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail feeding here [Organia negrus]. At the top of the bay 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 reponectus]. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 13.6cm / 10 months
Health: Wounded, bleeding, exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 19.2/27.4 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Missing leg
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: EN
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
Maurcolus repus (LC), Hatchling
_Equator, Deep Ocean
The water is dark, cold and has quite low salinity. You start to rest but then feel pain in and around your eyes [bacterial eye infection]. The pain causes you to instinctively move but the pain does not lessen however far you move. The oak does not subside but you cannot stop trying to move away from it, even as you are becoming exhausted. Eventually, it becomes too much and you fall unconscious from exhaustion and soon after die. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 0 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 3
Neoicthyotelus ithaca, Juvenile (NT)
Ithaca Estuary, Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Spring
In the brackish water - with light coming in from above - you filter peacefully back and forth, allowing you to take in plenty of nutrition. A long time later, you remain in warm, brackish water with light pouring in from above with a gentle current flowing past. You can smell lots of marine snow around and some phytoplankton. There is also the scent of some Halmembrana brunneis [benthic filter-feeder] and algae and an Organia cosmopolitanus [herbivorous fish]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 3.9cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 4.8/4.8 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Neoicthyotelus ithaca
Latest Mutations: Closed Circulatory System, Odour Receptors
Unlike all it’s living relatives and some of its ancestors, the long tail has no spikes. It probably lost them as there was a lack of predators in their range; they live only in temperate estuaries, where the brackish water is just the right balance to suit their rather limited salt intake abilities. Overall, this is a relatively small area to live, but it is the only animal that lives here. The pectoral fins have become smaller, and more streamlined like a ray-finned fish; they are held against the body and composed of a cartilage limb branching off the vertebrae and three supports covered in skin. Muscles in the limb make it move, so this animal is faster than its ancestors.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (125NP/10) x 7/10 = 8.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (8.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 4.8NP /8.8 x 0.9 = 7.9NP
Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Fr eshwater Tolerance), Circulation, Excretion.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (Senses electrical signals up to 1 body length away), Smell 2 (Senses odours from 5m away), Directional Light Sensing in front.
Stats: Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration), Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, 10% less), Immunity (Immunity Physical Barrier), Support 1.5, Intelligence 1. Walk Speed 0.7, Swim Speed 0.3, Stamina 3.5, Strength 1.5. Filtration 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; swim away. When hungry; filter the water. When ready to reproduce, sense for electrical signals of other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The tapering body is covered in iridiphore pigments which give it a metallic blue sheen over the soft, permeable skin. It has a mouth, odour receptors, and a pair of forward-facing cup eyes on the face. Along the length of the body are electroreceptors and there are also two pectoral ray-fins.
Internal Features: Three gill slits line just behind the head. A circuit of closed blood vessels transports red blood around the body. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain 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 an oily liver and below this are the testes and ova.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Anguilliforme (+1 Stamina). Crawling. Buoyancy Control.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 1
Allonops allonops, Hatchling (NT)
Kommos, Subpolar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Early Summer
Drifting on the current through murky, warm freshwater, you see a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia cosmopolitanus]. The fish is floating along towards you. You swim towards it, paddling with your legs and fantail as well as boosting with your hyponome. The fish keeps swimming along. You grab it with your claws and manage to cling on to it as it tries to swim away. You crush it with your claws until it is floating limp in the water - dead. You then feed on your catch, tearing off flesh and putting it into your mandibles. You remain in warm, murky water flowing in a gentle current, no longer starving. On either side you can see the muddy banks and below you is the muddy riverbed. Floating on the current with you are tubular, blue animals with a jellyfish dome at one end which has little tentacles sticking out the top and lines of cillia along the body [Masticephalus recentibus]. The river in front of you bends out of view and here there is a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail grazing on some algae [Organia cosmopolitanus]. The chemicals of a Saccenta marsupium drift from upstream. (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: 10% / 1.2cm / 2 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 80% / 1.3/1.5 (85%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
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, Adult (LC)
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
You start to rest but see on one side a blur moving towards you. You remain gripped to the cliff edge as it moves closer and you feel it bite off one of your arms and carry it off in it’s mouth. You are now wounded and bleeding, nor have you been able to rest. Over the next few days you drift on the current and end up in an area where the currents weakens to almost nothing. You are living in warm, water with a quite high salinity. You are still exhausted, floating above the area. With your eye pointing up, you can see you are just below the surface and feel you are on the seabed. The waves that periodically push you towards the shore wash over the surface. The chemicals of marine snow and some phytoplankton surrounds you. From the direction of the shore comes the smell of Tubomorphii primus [soft sponge], Medusodera pennicoronus [pseudo-crinoid], Lepidoderes immortalii [predatory proto-fish, BlackInk] and brackish-smelling water - as well as a greater concentration of marine snow. In the other direction are the chemicals of algae, Hydroceras crassus [herbivorous gastropod] and a Pulchellia vulgarus [tube anemone]. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 40% / 3.7/3.7 (100% - 40% 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: LC
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.
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I’m still not dead! Action: Rest then eat more.
Thanks for the new round Stealth! 
Action: Hunt down and eat an Ahyponomus, and see about taking a bit of the Siliconia if I can. If not, just gnaw on it a bit and then leave it to see if it attracts something more edible.
Action: Slowly swim towards the Tubomorphii primus, the source of food i have been accustomed, trying to get the calories to fight this disease.
thx for the round!
I think i will try to rest again, and then try to filter to go to the Medusodera pennicoronus slowly, filleting along the way if haves
action: hunt another organia
action: rest for a while.
NOTE: I am going on holiday for a week so there will probably not be another round until I am back.
Round 248 - P.1
~82.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 146 - Sweepstakes Colonization
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The plants on land continue to pump lots of oxygen into the atmosphere, which is cooling the atmosphere. The temperature has just dropped another degree to 18c although no significant changes have occurred.
Also, somehow some species of Organia encephalus have appeared in Olympia in a case of sweepstakes colonization. Since this is across the sea it is unknown how they got there. Perhaps it was a deluge of freshwater from some source that allowed them to travel all that way. They are harder to catch for predators than Organia cosmopolitanus, which they seem to be replacing. However, it’s only a small number as of yet.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus, Male Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
In the hot, fairly murky freshwater, you sit still and do nothing as the world passes you by. You fill up the little bit of energy left. The light is quite low - the sun hangs very low in the sky - but you can still see through the fairly murky, hot freshwater. Around you, you can see a muddy bank on either side and the rain-rippled surface is just above you and the flat, muddy riverbed just below. The river winds out of view in front and disappears into the murk behind. In front of you several of an animal with a tan bivalve shell with cirri sticking out that are filtering from the riverbed [Compcylindricus sous]. In the water, quite still, is a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anomolcaris-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]. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 5.8cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 3.6/9.1 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Cavuops tartarus
Latest Mutations: Heart, Gills
This is a nocturnal predatory arthropod with a heavily defended head. It lives throughout Tartarus.
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: 23cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 200 x 23/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.8 = 13NP per round)/
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish Water). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Night Vision 1 (at sides). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m 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 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 3 (4 - carapace). UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Go somewhere dark and rest.
External Features: A calcified exoskeleton with a carapace and two other segments over the cephalothorax covers the skin, which contains mud-brown melanin pigments. A pair of antennae with chemoreceptors protrude forwards. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (large 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. There are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills. 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 pumped by a heart 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, one-chambered 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). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 3
Maurcolus repus (LC), Juvenile
_Equator, Deep Ocean
The surrounding water is cold and has a quite low salinity. You can see nothing but darkness. Your antennae can feel the sloping seabed and smell the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm] somewhere along and below. You track this smell using your antennae, swimming over the seabed by paddling your legs and fantail and boosting with your hyponome until you can smell it directly below you. Then you start clawing at it, digging through the seabed until your antennae come into contact with flesh; it’s the worm. You grab it with your claws but it slips out of your grasp so you have to try again but you feel the worm sliding away into the sediment; it’s gone before you can grab it. Instead, you swim over to the Siliconia and try to prize some food of it but the outer skeleton is too hard for you to penetrate. You go without food and are also now exhausted. The water is dark, cold and has quite a high salinity. The seabed that you can feel with your tentacles is soft and sloping. You can smell a lot of marine snow drifting through the water with your tentacles along with Masticephalus bathyus [cylidrical filter-feeders with tentacles and jellyfish-domes]. Almost next to you is another Maurcolus repus [arthropod, PositiveTower]. The scent of Ahyponomus minor [worm] and Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] reaches your tentacles, coming from one direction. From down the slope comes the scent of methane. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.8cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 5/5.1 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@blackink - Points Stored = 3
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
Through the shallow, clear water, you swim - swinging your tail end from side to side - towards the amorphous animal covered in pores on the sandbank in the middle of the river opening [Tubomorphii primus]. You manage to get there, though you are now even more exhausted, and start biting the sponge. You manage to recover some nutrition by eating these sponges. While you are eating, an animal with a cylidrical body that tapers to a short tail and a pair of pectoral fins swims out from the river but soon darts back in and disappears [Neoichthyotelus ithaca, Deathwake]. You are just below the surface and just above the seabed, which is quite flat and sandy. Close to you is an opening in the shore where murky water is coming from and a sandbank in the middle with Tubomorphii primus growing on it. You can see where the seabed becomes a beach and the waves wash over the top of the water. Up above is a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail and a couple with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia [Organia acrodon, OoferDoofer] [Medusodera pennicoronus, Doomlightning]. The smell of marine snow comes from around the bay, especially at the river mouth. Nearby at the bottom of the bay is an animal with a crown of tentacles [Pulchellia vulgarus]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year and 6 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 10% / 6.8/10.4 (65%) / 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
Diplopygus pugilus (LC), Hatchling Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean
You are drifting on a gentle current through hot, clear water and you can see to your side the movement of a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia negrus]. You swim to that side, folding your legs into a lobe and paddling with that plus your fantail while boosting with your hyponome. Your claws are wound up and when you get close enough you strike, hitting the head. Serious wounds are caused but the fish tries to swim off, leaving a trail of blood. You pursue it as fast as you can and manage to grab it’s tail, stopping it from leaving. Then you strike with your free claw, cutting deep into it’s midriff and killing it. Then you feast on what you can of your catch before it sinks. On this, you manage to get your fill. Exhausted, you float along on the current over the seabed until you get to a new area, where there is little current. Looking around, you are just below the surface and just above the seabed, which is quite flat and sandy. The water is hot, blue and clear. Next to you at the entrance is an animal with a strong, blue, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with horizontal mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds and stingers in thin appendages, followed by three paddle-lined legs. Out of the mouth, protrudes a lure with an algae-like feature at the tip. It also has a pouch [Haleglossus beveria, Zenzone]. You can see where the seabed becomes a beach and the waves wash over the top of the water. There’s a gap in the beach where murky water with brackish chemicals meets the bay. You can smell marine snow around the bay, especially where the river meets the sea. There is a clump of seaweed growing out of the seabed. An animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is feeding here [Camerotheca acutastomus]. There is also a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail feeding here [Organia negrus]. At the top of the bay 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 reponectus].(4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 5.5mm / 5 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 1.1/1.1 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Diplopygus pugilus
Latest Mutations: Round Mouth, Improve 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 estuary biomes. It is comparatively huge to any other animal alive at the time of its arrival. It has a larger mouth and better chemoreceptors than it’s predecessor, making it more successful.
Status: VU
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 (High Salinity, Brackish). 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).
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. In front of the round 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.
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 5
Organia acrodon (LC), Hatchling
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
NOT YET VOTED
In the cool, fairly murky water with plenty of light and a quite high salinity. You struggle upwards through the thick water as the current drifts you along, having to crawl your way up to the dark, bioluminescent, fish-shaped animal swimming above. 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]. On the way, you pass a similar animal but with forward-facing eyes [Lepidoderes immortalli, BlackInk]. You finally reach the Anazitonta and make a bite; the proto-fish is bigger than you, so biting is difficult but you manage to make a critical bite on it’s head - killing it instantly. You then feed on the carcass floating in the water. Over the next few days you drift on the current and end up in an area where the currents weakens to almost nothing. You are living in warm, thick water with a quite high salinity. You are exhausted from recently hunting down some food. With your eyes pointing up, you can see you are just below the surface and feel you are on the seabed. The waves that periodically push you towards the shore wash over the surface. The smell of marine snow and some phytoplankton surrounds you. From the direction of the shore comes the smell of Tubomorphii primus [soft sponge], Medusodera pennicoronus [pseudo-crinoid, Doomlightning], Lepidoderes immortalii [predatory proto-fish, BlackInk] and brackish-smelling water - as well as a greater concentration of marine snow. In the other direction is the scent of algae, Hydroceras crassus [herbivorous gastropod] and a Pulchellia vulgarus [tube anemone]. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1mm / 1 week
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 40% / 0.2/0.2 (95%) / 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: 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).
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Haleglossus beveria (LC), Subadult Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
In the clear, blue and hot water, you rest by the entrance to the bay as gentle waves lap around the surface. Your rest does not last long but you recover some energy so that you are no longer exhausted. Looking around, you are just below the surface and just above the seabed, which is quite flat and sandy. The water is hot, blue and clear. Floating in behind you is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail start arriving at the lagoon. 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.[Diplopygus pugilus, Jellyfishmon]. You can see where the seabed becomes a beach and the waves wash over the top of the water. There’s a gap in the beach where murky water with brackish chemicals meets the bay. You can smell marine snow around the bay, especially where the river meets the sea. There is a clump of seaweed growing out of the seabed. An animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is feeding here [Camerotheca acutastomus]. There is also a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail feeding here [Organia negrus]. At the top of the bay 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 reponectus]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 13.6cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 11/27.4 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Missing leg
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: EN
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
Maurcolus repus (LC), Hatchling
_Equator, Deep Ocean
You hatch out into cold water with quite a low salinity that feels very thick and viscous. It is dark all around you so you can see nothing. The seabed that you can feel with your tentacles is soft and sloping. You can smell a lot of marine snow drifting through the water with your tentacles along with Masticephalus bathyus [cylidrical filter-feeders with tentacles and jellyfish-domes]. Almost next to you is another Maurcolus repus [arthropod, Immortal]. The scent of Ahyponomus minor [worm] and Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] reaches your tentacles, coming from one direction. From down the slope comes the scent of methane. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.1/0.2 (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 3
Neoicthyotelus ithaca, Juvenile (NT)
Ithaca Estuary, Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Spring
You are swimming along through brackish water, filtering along. There is light coming in from above and the water is warm, with a gentle current flowing past. There is suddenly even more light coming from above. However, the water is becoming too saline and you are losing water rapidly. You smell a Tubomorphii primus [sponge], a Lepidoderes immortalii [proto-fish, BlackInk], an Organia acrodon [predatory fish, OoferDoofer] and Medusodera pennicoronus [pseudo-crinoid, Doomlightning]. You have to rush quickly back into the brackish water, where the salinity is just right for you and there is less light coming from above. The lost water is recovered. You have become exhausted because of this scramble. There is warm, brackish water surrounding you, with light pouring in from above with a gentle current flowing past. You can smell lots of marine snow around and some phytoplankton. There is also the scent of some Halmembrana brunneis [benthic filter-feeder] and algae and an Organia cosmopolitanus [herbivorous fish]. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 3.9cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 34/4.8 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Neoicthyotelus ithaca
Latest Mutations: Closed Circulatory System, Odour Receptors
Unlike all it’s living relatives and some of its ancestors, the long tail has no spikes. It probably lost them as there was a lack of predators in their range; they live only in temperate estuaries, where the brackish water is just the right balance to suit their rather limited salt intake abilities. Overall, this is a relatively small area to live, but it is the only animal that lives here. The pectoral fins have become smaller, and more streamlined like a ray-finned fish; they are held against the body and composed of a cartilage limb branching off the vertebrae and three supports covered in skin. Muscles in the limb make it move, so this animal is faster than its ancestors.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (125NP/10) x 7/10 = 8.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (8.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 4.8NP /8.8 x 0.9 = 7.9NP
Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance. Osmoregulation (Brackish and Fr eshwater Tolerance), Circulation, Excretion.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (Senses electrical signals up to 1 body length away), Smell 2 (Senses odours from 5m away), Directional Light Sensing in front.
Stats: Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration), Coordination 1. Digestion 1 (Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, 10% less), Immunity (Immunity Physical Barrier), Support 1.5, Intelligence 1. Walk Speed 0.7, Swim Speed 0.3, Stamina 3.5, Strength 1.5. Filtration 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; swim away. When hungry; filter the water. When ready to reproduce, sense for electrical signals of other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The tapering body is covered in iridiphore pigments which give it a metallic blue sheen over the soft, permeable skin. It has a mouth, odour receptors, and a pair of forward-facing cup eyes on the face. Along the length of the body are electroreceptors and there are also two pectoral ray-fins.
Internal Features: Three gill slits line just behind the head. A circuit of closed blood vessels transports red blood around the body. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain 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 an oily liver and below this are the testes and ova.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Anguilliforme (+1 Stamina). Crawling. Buoyancy Control.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 1
Allonops allonops, Juvenile (NT)
Kommos, Subpolar Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Early Summer
Drifting on the current through murky, warm freshwater, you see a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia cosmopolitanus]. The fish is floating along towards you. You swim towards it, paddling with your legs and fantail as well as boosting with your hyponome. You find that the fish is already dead and begin to slice some meat off and put it in your mandibles. A long time passes after this, in which you manage to feed, moult and avoid predation. The water becomes cool and the river expands in size as the rains arrive overhead. After that, it gets cold, constantly dark and the river freezes over. Eventually, the sun returns, the water becomes cool and the river thaws. Finally, it has become warm again but the river has shrunken up and the rain has stopped. You are in warm, quite murky water with a gentle current flowing past. You have become a juvenile, no longer small enough to be carried by that current. On either side you can see the muddy banks and below you is the muddy riverbed where a green animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail, is grazing on algae 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 [Grpyhorhinus atroboceanus]. The river in front of you bends out of view and some bivalves with a jellyfish-like dome and cirri sticking out are filtering [Cilistoma caecus]. The chemicals of a Saccenta marsupium drift from upstream. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 6.6cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 8.3 / 8.3 (100% - 45% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
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, Adult (LC)
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
You rest in the water. Your rest is undisturbed and you recover some nutrition so that you are no longer exhausted. The wounds you sustained earlier have healed. You are living in warm, water with a quite high salinity, floating above the area. With your eye pointing up, you can see you are just below the surface. Waves wash over the surface. The chemicals of marine snow and some phytoplankton surrounds you, and there is a Medusodera pennicoronus [psuedo-crinoid] nearby in the water, plus an Organia acrodon [predatory fish, OoferDoofer]. From the direction of the shore comes the smell of Tubomorphii primus [soft sponge], Lepidoderes immortalii [predatory proto-fish, BlackInk] and brackish-smelling water - as well as a greater concentration of marine snow. Briefly, you even sense a Neoichthyotelus ithaca [Agnathan, Deathwake] but it vanishes again. In the other direction are the chemicals of a Pulchellia vulgarus [tube anemone]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 80% / 2.8/3.7 (75%) / 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: LC
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.
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action: find a safe, brackish place to rest.
dig a hole and wait for something to ambush
Try to approach to the Medusodera pennicoronus and filtering along the way the small ones (slowly)
Action: Decide to just sleep right where i am, the current can screw itself and take me wherever i end, too tired to move anywhere
action: find a place to rest
why are rolls so suck
action:Smell the marine snow even harder until I can find and eat them
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Thanks for the new round Stealth! Have fun on your holiday.
Action: Take a short rest, I should have the nutrition to wait a little while. After that, try filtering some Masticephalus out of the water as a small snack before going after more Ahyponomus.