Action:Approach the source of methane menacingly
I’m afraid you only have 3 evolutions so you’ll have to give up one of your ideas.
Fixed it.
(Post Filler)
Hi everyone. Yesterday was the anniversary of this game. That means that Path of the Wild is now four years old! Also, did you notice that we passed 250 rounds recently - quite the milestone by my standards. I will write something soon to celebrate but as I took a week off earlier it will probably be a week late. Thank you all for playing!
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Looking at your evos, do you still want to remain a sessile filter-feeder? You can swap some of your behaviours around if you want to be an active filter-feeder or an active predator.
@AgentTine, @BlackInk, @jellyfishmon, @TeaKing, please reply if you can.
Action: Go towards and munch on the animal with pores [tubomorphii], with care to not attract the dark shape circling the place
I would love to switch the behavior to a more active filter-feeder and Opportunistic Scavenger (I think it’s called Active Detritivore).
For something like this:
Intelligence / Behavior: 1. when Hungry- Search for a food. 2. when find Food - Release enzymes and Filter them with arms and tube feet. 3. When Tired > Rest. 4. when fil Pain (or seance a Close predator) - Release enzymes and Swim away. 5. When Maturity -Find and Reproduce.
I go in a relatively special direction if that is acceptable
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action: rest in the same place as before
Round 252 - P.1
~84 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 15 - None
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The continents have almost moved enough now to redraw the map. One movement of note is that Tartarus and Kommos appear to be on a collision course, which would make rather a large landmass covering the South Pole.
In other news, a new species has mutated from a Medusodera pennicoronus in the temperate ocean of the Northern Hemisphere. It’s called Mollibarmis noimoxekino and it has ganglia in it’s arms rather than central, chemoreceptors on it’s tube feet that can sense chemicals from 100m away and a strong stomach that can be everted outside the body to digest food which can now digest rotting food. It has been discovered by Doomlightning.
The plants of land that have been so successful - riverside algae - continue to fill the air with oxygen and cooling the planet down.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus, Male Juvenile (NT)
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
The water is hot and clear and you can still see though it is nighttime. In front of you are animals with a tan bivalve shell with cirri sticking out that are filtering from the riverbed [Compcylindricus sous]. You swim towards one, paddling with your legs and fantail and using your hyponome. You attack it with your claws but it clams shut and your claws cannot get through the hard shell, no matter how much effort you put in. So, you are not able to feed and, already starving, this finishes you off. (5 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on. Hint: Be careful about what you attack. Not everything is viable prey.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 5.8cm / 3 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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
Within all the scents of Gorgonia magnapolypa [soft coral] and Myostila bathyus [sea anemone] reaching your antennae, you focus in on the scent of a Neoxyskulus bathyus [filtering worm that lives in a rock burrow]. You swim through the cold dark water, paddling with your legs and fantail plus boosting with your hyponome. Then you feel rock with your antennae but the scent seems to be coming from within the rock. You try to find the Neoxyskulus and find the soft organism squeezed into a hole, which your antennae can fit in but you can’t fit your claws. You cannot attack it. Instead, you go without food. Around this ledge of rock, 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]. There is also lots of marine snow around. Away from the rock is the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 7.2cm / 2 years 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 50% / 11/13.3 (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), Hatchling
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
Overhead the waves start to increase in size but below the surface the cool, quite murky saltwater is quite safe. You see an amorphous animal covered in pores on a rock and wriggle your way towards it through thick, viscous water. You manage to reach the sea sponge and begin munching on it, easily getting plenty of food to almost fill you up. Around is a shingle seabed and the surface is not far above you - the waves have now calmed down. You can smell plenty of phytoplankton and a little marine snow. On a craggy rock bursting through the seabed is the Tubomorphii primus. An animal with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cilia is floating above you [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning]. Through the quite 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]. (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: 1% / 0.6mm / 3 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.1/0.1 (95%) / 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), Juvenile
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
You start to swim through the cool, fairly murky saltwater to find somewhere to rest but there is nothing but flat, shingle seabed below you. The waves are picking up and become much bigger in size. The water is jostling around a bit and though you are not pushed around that much, the disturbance prevents you from resting. Unfortunately, the lack of rest means you have used up the last of your energy and pass out, never to awaken again. (2 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 5.5cm / 1 year 1 month
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Organia acrodon
Latest Mutations: Temperate Tolerance
This early fish is descended from Organia lamnadens but has spread out to temperate ocean rather than tropical. It lives from the surface to 500m below. There, it is a small predator.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 10cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 208 x 10/100 = 20.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.8 x 0.25 = 5.2NP per round (Needs to intake 5.2/0.7 = 7.4NP per round)/ 20.8 x 0.7 = 18.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Detoxification. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Startle. Urine Storage.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m above, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Evolution 1 (5 votes). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Ventilation, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - head, spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with spines. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The body is fish-shaped with black melanin pigmentation in the skin, which is covered by cycloid scales and contains blue autogenic photophores all over. At the head is the mouth with sharp teeth, some olfactory receptors and facing upwards is a pair of eyes, in which the lens changes shape and it has no blind spot. There is a line of electroreceptors along the flank. It has pectoral fins, two semi-circle caudal fins at the back of the tail and a pair of spines at the tails’ base.
Internal Features: In most of the body’s cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Behind the tail spines are toxin glands, filling the spine with toxin. On each side of the throat are three pairs of gills, inside gill slits. The gills are connected to the blood vessels closed circulatory system, which contains hemoglobin - making it appear red. The system is made up of a single circuit pumped by a heart. There is also a network of muscles across the body. Along the dorsal side of the body is the cartilage vertebra that links the cartilage skull and jaw with the tail. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It also includes a liver and kidneys and ends with the bladder and anus. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the vertebra and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).
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R.252 - P.2
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 1
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Adult Male
Tartarus, Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You dig a pit in the seabed and unfurl your lure, waiting for something to come along. The water is hot, clear and blue. After a while of waiting 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 swims around the lure. You race out of your pit towards it and grab it in your claws before it can escape. You cut into it with your claws until the struggling fish suddenly lies still and then you begin to eat, tearing off chunks with your claws and passing them into your mandibles. A couple months pass and you grow into an adult, ready to reproduce. An instinct calls you to make a journey back to the site in which you were born. You travel across the seabed, swimming by paddling your legs and tail and boosting with your hyponome. Familiar landmarks, like rocks, help you navigate. You travel for a long time, passing many animals. You come across a colony of animals 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]. Luckily, you manage to slip past. Finally, when you see a grey craggy rock protruding through a seabed your instinct tells you this is the place. Your long journey has exhausted you. A gentle current flows by, not affecting you. The seabed is just below the surface here and is made of shingle. It slopes upwards and out of the water in one direction. Inconsequential waves wash overhead every few seconds. There are many animals here 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. Fan-shaped, flexible coral grows on the rock [Rhipiella tropicae]. Some have pouches, some do not [Haleglossus beveria]. Out of the corner of your compound eye, you detect the movement of an Organia negrus in slightly deeper water. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 32.2/32.2 (100% - 50% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Missing leg
Haleglossus beveria
Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to it’s predecessor it produces more eggs than many other species on the planet; it can produce 10,000 eggs each spawning when they gather at mating sites in Early Spring. However, it seems to have lost the part of it’s brain that allows for spatial awareness. It lives alongside another Haleglossus species on Tartarus; it has more fatalities due to being smelt easier by predators but produces more young to counter this.
Status: EN
Habitat: Tropical Ocean & Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Ambush Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 16/100 = 32.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.2 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish and High Salinity). Roll Up. Solid Excretion. Strong Scent.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5 (100% Meat, Digests 85%). Evolution 2. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & Late Spring & At Mating Site (+1 Evolution) > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. A unique lure made of mostly muscle can be retracted into the base of the mouth - it has a green lure covered in tiny hooks at the end and a scent gland. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body with a pair of appendages bearing sharp stingers at the end. There are three pairs of paddle-lined legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid and another gland secretes a harmless fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head, possessing memory neurons, connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. Along the nerve chord is an axochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 10,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Males and Females. Female: Has a pouch under the body where the eggs are kept. (Changes: Pouch = +2NP. 205 x size = NP)
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Maurcolus repus (LC), Hatchling
_Equator, Deep Ocean
You head towards the scent of methane that reaches your antennae, crawling through thick water over the seabed and through dark, cold water. You can see nothing. The scent of methane gets stronger and the scent of other animals like a Farynxoskulus bathyus [filter-feeding pelagic worm], Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] and Ahyponomus minor [worm] become fainter. Immersed in the methane filled water, you start to struggle to breathe and turn around and swim the way you came from as quick as you can, eventually escaping the deadly water. The effort exhausts you though. You can feel the seabed under you. From above drifts the scent of some marine snow and a Farynxoskulus bathyus [filter-feeding pelagic worm]. From a direction closer to the seabed comes the smell of a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] and near that, an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. There is also the faint scent of methane coming from the other direction (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 2 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.2/0.2 (75%) / 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 = 4
Neoicthyotelus ithaca, Adult (NT)
Ithaca Estuary, Moderate Oceanic Humid Barrens, Late Spring
In warm, brackish water, your electroreception detects an Neoichthyotelus ithaca coming up close to you. You successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. The water is teeming with phytoplankton and marine snow - judging by your sense of smell. You also smell other Neoichthyotelus ithaca and sometimes detect them close up with your electroreception. The smell of freshwater reaches you from one direction. You detect some light coming mostly from above. The water starts becoming warmer which is speeding up your metabolism but causing no harm. (3 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution. You’ve already made your choice.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 7cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 6.6/8.8 (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
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 rest in the water and regain quite a lot of energy. The pebbly riverbed is not far below the surface. Some algae on the pebbles is being grazed on by an Organia cosmopolitanus fish. 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. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 6.6cm / 1 year and 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 80% / 5.4/8.3 (65%) / 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 = 1
Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Hatchling (U)
Coastal Shallows off Ithaca, Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
In your egg, you are buffeted about by strong waves that toss you out onto a beach. Here, you hatch out; it’s warm but rain is pouring down. You cannot breathe and find yourself on shingle. You must crawl your way towards water, using your arms to pull yourself along the beach. After a while of moving towards crashing waves, one of the waves sweeps overhead and scoops you up into the saltwater, pulling you out to sea. You are exhausted. Soon, the water calms again and you float close to the surface. The water is cool and fairly murky. You see blurrily amorphous animals covered in pores on a rock where there is also a dark, bioluminescent, fish-shaped animal [Lepidoderes immortalii]. You sense from the chemoreceptors on your many tube feet that there is a lot of phytoplankton in the water. You can see a wall of even murkier water with a brackish scent. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.3mm / 0 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.1/0.1 (50%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Mollibarmis noimoxekino
Latest Mutations: Ganglion on Arms = 4, Improve Chemoreception = 6, External Digestive Enzymes = 5
This crinoid-like species has evolved to have it’s ganglia at the base of each arm rather than a central ganglia, meaning that each arm has greater reflexes and ability but that coordination of the animal as a whole is slightly worse as a result. Essentially, it’s brains are now in it’s arms. Mollibarmis is now a predator and a scavenger, replacing it’s filter-feeding behaviour. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike it’s predecessors and can smell over vast distances - 100 metres, to be precise. The strangest adaptation of the animal is that it can evert it’s stomach onto it’s chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with it’s stomach. This means it can eat food bigger than it’s mouth, and with the stronger acids can even eat food that has begun to rot.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh or rotting meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 158 x 2.5/100 = 4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.6 = 1.7NP per round)/ 4 x 0.75 = 3NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Eversible Stomach. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 4 (detects chemicals 100m from tube feet). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 1.5. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. 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 > Search for food. 2. Food > Evert stomach over food. 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 carrying chemoreceptors, followed by the circular mouth. 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; the stomach, located after a short esophagus, is split into two parts and one pouch can be everted. The is a ganglia at the base of each arm, and forms a radial nerve system which is connected to a nerve cord that runs down the rest of the body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Paddles with cilia.
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Whoh this is great!
I’ll go through with the evos I wanted last time.
It seems to have created me good overall, multi-armed to power!
It seems that my first actions are:
- Rest
- Filter the phytoplankton
- Move towards the 'wall, where I can hide
I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t want to bother you again before that round so I’ll just check now. To be both a filter-feeder and a scavenger would require another evolution because it requires an extra baheviour, which you didn’t have; you can change your existing behaviour fo feeding, which says something like ‘filter in food’ to ‘evert stomach over food’ but you can’t have both unless you use another evolution.
Tldr: Can you choose between a filter-feeder or a scavenger please? Thanks.
Also, what do you mean by farm?
i tink for now, i will stick with the filter-feeder.
translate error, i mean wall
edit: how to get a extra baheviour?
Adding a new behvaiour would take up an evolution slot (you can change behaviour without using evo slots but not add them).
@BlackInk, @jellyfishmon, @zenzonegaming, @immortaldragon, @TeaKing please reply if you can
@Deathwake. I’ve been looking at writing your new species. For your last evolution, adults already filter larger food than youngsters; naturally as they grow they can fit more through their mouths because they are bigger. Right now adults can filter particles of up to 0.7mm in size, which is about 10% of their size. If you want this species to eat bigger particles, you can increase their size in general or increase the size of the mouth relative to the rest of the body (which I do not recommend because you have no jaw so you’d just have this gaping opening).
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Whoops, sorry for the delay. 
Action: Seeing as that’s a no go, I’ll go after the Myostila, using my armor to defend myself against any stings so I can take bites out of the bodies, not the tentacles.
Hmm, that makes sense, so I’ll make the whole species larger. For your convenience I’ve rewritten my evos.
1: strong, large fins (so I can more easily move about and survive storms, and get into shallower water via walking)
2: muscular and flexible neck. )(I’ll use the guarantee on this one.)
3: IM BE LARGE. (Size.
Any name that you have in mind?
Action: Swim away from the dark shape, let this strange jellyfish stand between me and it so it looks more appetizing, i will stop at a cravice to rest
Neoicthyotelus Mesognathis