Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

StealthStyle · July 11, 2021, 10:40pm

I’m back!

I just need @AgentTine, @jellyfishmon, @OoferDoofer to respond.

StealthStyle · July 12, 2021, 4:19pm

Round 249 - P.1
~83 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 81 - None

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

Organia encephalus has taken over from Organia cosmopolitanus in Olympia.

The temperature continues to gradually drop as a result of the land plants.

@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus, Male Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
It is nighttime but you can still see. The water is hot and clear. You move a little towards the direction of a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anomolcaris-like lobe that is laying on the riverbed. 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]. Then you switch to targeting an animal with a tan bivalve shell with cirri sticking out that are filtering from the riverbed [Compcylindricus sous] but you do not attack it with any conviction, caught in indecision. You therefore go without feeding but without losing too much energy. You are now starving. The water is hot and clear, the moon is out bathing it in moonlight. Whisky rain clouds are reliving a drizzle onto the surface. A gentle current runs downriver; there is not much marine snow or phytoplankton drifting in it. Floating in the current 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, floating along the water [Masticephalus recentibus]. The riverbed is made of pebbly fragments of shale. You can see the rocky banks on either side and to the front and back the river curves out of sight. 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]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 5.8cm / 3 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 90% / 0.9/9.1 (10%) / 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
In the dark, cold water you rest against the seafloor and manage to recover enough energy during your rest that you are no longer exhausted. The water is dark, cold and has quite a high salinity. The seabed that you can feel with your antennae is soft and sloping. You can smell a lot of marine snow drifting through the water with your antennae 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 antennae, coming from one direction. From down the slope comes the scent of methane. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 4.1/5.1 (80%) / 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), Subadult
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
In the gentle, quite murky, cool water, you decide to rest. You begin floating motionless, the current brushing past but not carrying you. The only movement is the waves crashing overhead and dragging you over the shingle seabed towards the shore. Above you, a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of sharp teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail turns and swims down towards you [Organia acrodon]. It swims straight for your head, opening it’s jaws. When it clamps down on your head, there is intense pain and then nothing for you have died. (2 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year and 6 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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
1 (3) = NOT YET VOTED
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
5 (6) = 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).

StealthStyle · July 12, 2021, 4:28pm

R.249 - P.2

@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 0

Haleglossus beveria (LC), Subadult Male

Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens

6 + 1 = dig a hole and wait for something to ambush

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

The scent of marine snow is all around you in the dark, cold water. You follow your antennae towards some of the marine snow, crawling through thick water, and get the sense that it is very close by. However, you are not adapted to gathering it in and can do nothing as it flows by, so instead you lose some nutrition. The water is dark, cold and has quite a high salinity. The seabed that you can feel with your antennae is soft and sloping. You can smell a lot of marine snow drifting through the water with your antennae 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 antennae, coming from one direction. From down the slope comes the scent of methane. (3 + 1)

Status

Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 0 days

Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 0.1/0.2 (45%) / 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
Stopping in the brackish, warm water, you allow yourself to rest for a while. During your rest you recover some of your energy so that you are no longer exhausted. After your rest, you examine your surroundings; there is warm, brackish water surrounding you, with light pouring in from above with a gentle current flowing past. You can smell a little marine snow and phytoplankton around. There is also the scent of some Halmembrana brunneis [benthic filter-feeder], algae and an Organia cosmopolitanus [herbivorous fish]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 3.9cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 1.9/4.8 (40%) / 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
You swim through the warm, clear, gently-flowing freshwater, just above the pebbly riverbed. You are preparing to rest when a pair of claws grab you from behind. You turn to see 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. It also has a pouch [Saccenta marsupium]. It starts to cut into you and you struggle, feeling the pain. Fortunately, you manage to slip out of it’s claws and swim away. You keep swimming until you feel safe. You are now exhausted. The water is warm, clear and gentle. The pebbly riverbed is not far below the surface. Some algae is growing on the pebbles with 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 it [Organia cosmopolitanus]. On either side, you can see the rocky banks where some bivalves with a jellyfish-like dome and cirri sticking out are filtering and the river winds out of view in front and behind you [Cilistoma caecus]. Appearing round a bend in the river is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa reponectus]. The sky above is blue, sunny and clear. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 6.6cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 20% / 6.2/8.3 (75%) / 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
The saltwater feels cool and quite murky but light does shine down into it. You are floating on your jellyfish-dome along on a gentle current that heads along the shore. Below you can see a seabed. You are periodically pushed towards shore by waves that crash overhead but there is enough time between them for you to recover your position. You can smell another Medusodera pennicoronus in the current and use your cilia to row your way over. As you do, you swim through plenty of phytoplankton which you gather in with your crown of pinnules. Soon you get to the other Medusodera and successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the current. The water is cool and quite murky. A gentle current drifts you slowly along the shore. The scent of quite a lot of phytoplankton and some marine snow is coming from around you. You can blurrily see below you a seabed not very far away, where you can 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 acrodon]. Waves rumble overhead every few seconds, moving you towards the shore as they do so but giving you time to swim back which you do. When you look down there is a large, craggy rock sticking up through the seabed and more marine snow is gathering around it. Attached to the rock by a stalk is an animal with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia [Medusodera pennicoronus]. The rock is also covered by an amorphous animal covered in pores [Tubormorphii primus]. From somewhere comes the scent of brackish water. (5 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.) (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 50% / 3.7/3.7 (100%) / 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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@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 1
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Subadult Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You dig a hole in the ground and wait there, setting out your lure into the water. After a while of waiting in the hot, clear water 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 swims close [Organia negrus]. It drifts closer until you burst out and snatch it in your claws. Your stingers impale it and kill it. You then feed on the flesh. You are full but exhausted. The water is clear and blue. The surface is just above you where waves crash overhead but you sit on the pebbly seabed. Nearby 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]. An Organia negrus and an animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is feeding on algae [Camerotheca acutastomus]. There is hardly any marine snow or phytoplankton floating in the water. A gentle current is flowing along the shore and floating on it 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]. There is a large, craggy rock sticking out of the seabed, where there is some marine snow covered on a rippling current. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 13.6cm / 10 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 27.4/27.4 (100%) / 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.

StealthStyle · July 12, 2021, 5:03pm

@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 1
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Subadult Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You dig a hole in the ground and wait there, setting out your lure into the water. After a while of waiting in the hot, clear water 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 swims close [Organia negrus]. It drifts closer until you burst out and snatch it in your claws. Your stingers impale it and kill it. You then feed on the flesh. You are full but exhausted. The water is clear and blue. The surface is just above you where waves crash overhead but you sit on the pebbly seabed. Nearby 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]. An Organia negrus and an animal with a round shell, gastropod foot, a pair of small tentacles around it’s mouth and two eyes on stalks is feeding on algae [Camerotheca acutastomus]. There is hardly any marine snow or phytoplankton floating in the water. A gentle current is flowing along the shore and floating on it 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]. There is a large, craggy rock sticking out of the seabed, where there is some marine snow covered on a rippling current. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 13.6cm / 10 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 27.4/27.4 (100%) / 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.

Deathwake · July 12, 2021, 6:22pm

Ooh a new round! I’ll filter out a meal before resting some more.

immortaldragon · July 13, 2021, 2:12am

Thanks for the new round Stealth!

Action: Venture my way up the slope in search of more highly populated areas. If I come across anything non-poisonous and not huge compared to me try to eat it.

StealthStyle · July 13, 2021, 2:54pm

@Deathwake, what would you like to eat?

@immortaldragon, you must decide what species you want to eat.

doomlightning · July 13, 2021, 3:01pm

I think I converted the mutations to a bonus, and will try to get closer to Medusodera pennicoronus again (to reproduce), and filter while swimming to it.

Deathwake · July 13, 2021, 4:53pm

Whatever is the most cost-effective

TeaKing · July 13, 2021, 7:38pm

action: rest somewhere safe

StealthStyle · July 13, 2021, 9:58pm

@Deathwake, I’m trying to get you to be more specific so you get more involved than just saying eat. Try tonchoose what you think is the best option to eat for your species. You can use the info on your species to help.

@TeaKing, where do you think a safe place to rest is?

Deathwake · July 13, 2021, 11:26pm

Marine snow and photoplankton I guess?

PositiveTower · July 14, 2021, 1:10am

Action:kill Masticephalus bathyus and eat it

BlackInk · July 14, 2021, 6:10am

Death action: Let the remains of my nervous system give a last shake to my headless body, a dance dedicated to this death and being reborn again

immortaldragon · July 14, 2021, 7:42am

I’ll try to eat some Ahyponomus if I find any up the slope.

TeaKing · July 14, 2021, 9:18pm

somewhere near those rocky banks I guess?

StealthStyle · July 15, 2021, 11:17pm

@AgentTine, @jellyfishmon, @OoferDoofer, @zenzonegaming please reply if you can.

StealthStyle · July 16, 2021, 10:27pm

Round 250 - P.1
~83.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 55 - None

Meta

Reward Shop

Rewards are subject to change.

Penalty Point (Take a point off an opponent) = 1pt
Bonus Point (Give a point to yourself or another player if you are feeling kind) = 2pts
Action Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an action) = 3pts
Saving Grace (Be saved from death and given a second chance. Must be active a round before death) = 3pts
Evo Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an evolution) = 4pts
New Order (Add another order to your action) = 5pts
High Roller (Roll a 6 for action or evolution) = 6pts
Evo Trademark (Block other future species from evolving a chosen feature that you have) = 7pts
Evo Unlock (Unlock for yourself a previously blocked evutionary feature) = 7pts
Call of the Wild (Summon a random natural disaster) = 8pts

I have added and changed some of the rewards in the shop above. Take a look!

The temperature continues to gradually drop as a result of the land plants.

@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus, Male Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
NOT YET VOTED

It is nighttime but you can still see. The water is hot and clear. You move a little towards the direction of a blue animal with a chitin shield on it’s back and surrounded by an Anomolcaris-like lobe that is laying on the riverbed. 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]. Then you switch to targeting an animal with a tan bivalve shell with cirri sticking out that are filtering from the riverbed [Compcylindricus sous] but you do not attack it with any conviction, caught in indecision. You therefore go without feeding but without losing too much energy. You are now starving. The water is hot and clear, the moon is out bathing it in moonlight. Whisky rain clouds are reliving a drizzle onto the surface. A gentle current runs downriver; there is not much marine snow or phytoplankton drifting in it. Floating in the current 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, floating along the water [Masticephalus recentibus]. The riverbed is made of pebbly fragments of shale. You can see the rocky banks on either side and to the front and back the river curves out of sight. 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]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 5.8cm / 3 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 90% / 0.9/9.1 (10%) / 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 salty water is very dark and cold. You see nothing. Up the slope you walk searching for food. On your journey, you come across the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm] in front of you, reaching your antennae. You keep marching until the scent gets stronger and then it is coming from right below you. You dig at the seabed until your antennae brush the worm. You grab it in your claws and slice straight through it. The worm stops moving and you pull of chunks of flesh, passing them to your mandibles to be eaten. Then you continue marching across the seafloor in your lifelong pursuit of food. A year and a half has passed; you have continue to grow slowly, moulting, avoiding predation and feeding successfully. You are exhausted from a recent moult and you smell your discarded exoskeleton nearby. Your new exoskeleton feels softer. It remains dark and cold. From your antennae you can sense the smell of many Gorgonia magnapolypa [soft coral], some Neoxyskulus bathyus [filtering worm that lives in a rock burrow] and a few Myostila bathyus [sea anemone]. In the other direction is the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. There is also lots of marine snow around. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 7.2cm / 2 years 7 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 13.3/13.3 (100% - 40% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: New, soft exoskeleton

Maurcolus repus

Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500 - 1500m below sea level)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - rostrum to tail)
Nutritional Need: 186 x 11/100 = 20.5NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.5 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.7 = 7.3NP per round)/ 20.5NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. High Pressure Tolerance. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, side monocular vision, front binocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from antennae). Smell 2 (odours 2m from spiracles).
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Agility 1. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Walk away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton of ten segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. A keratin rostrum sticks forwards with two antennae on either side, which house odour receptors and chemoreceptors. Around the mouth is a pair of weak, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with weak claws are held at the front of the body, and behind these paddle-like steering arms, and there are four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. In the middle of the body is a hemacoel with blood through which an anti-freeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide) flows and this is connected to a dorsal vessel.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 500 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Walking. Can swim by paddling legs and fan tail as well as using hyponome.

@blackink - Points Stored = 3
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Hatchling
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
(Your nervous system sends a signal to the rest of your decapitated body, some mystics might say in a way to signal the passing of this life. Your headless body’s last action is shake automatically and then fall completely lifeless.) You hatch out into cool, quite murky saltwater, floating alongnon a current and almost immediately a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of sharp teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail turns and swims down towards you [Organia acrodon]. It opens it’s jaws and clamps down on a dark, bioluminescent, fish-shaped animal next to you. It has a mouthful of sharp teeth, forwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and spines next to the semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail. It’s skin is naked and has no scales [Lepidoderes immortalii]. The water fills with blood as the fish chomps on it’s proto-fish prey. As the Organia then swims past with it’s mouth full of Lepidoderes, it’s tail spike catches you, scratching your fragile skin. The pain drives an instinct to flee and you swim away, struggling through the thick, viscous water until the pain ebbs away. You are exhausted but have only a light scratch. Looking around in similar water conditions, still being dragged slowly along a water current, you can see a shingle seabed not too far below but the surface closer above. You can smell plenty of phytoplankton and a little marine snow. On a craggy rock bursting through the seabed is a amorphous animal covered in pores [Tubomorphii primus]. A pair of animals with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cilliaare attached to the nearby shingle [Medusodera pennicoronus, Doomlightning]. Through the murky water, there appears to be a wall of even murkier water. In the other direction swims a dark, fish-shaped animal with a mouthful of sharp teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail swimming in your general direction [Organia acrodon]. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.6mm / 1 day
Health: Exhausted, small scratch
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.1/0.1 (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: No scales

Lepidoderes immortalii

Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: 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
NOT YET VOTED

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).