Action:Rest on the ground
I’m really on the verge of death if I do not find something to eat:
First I will rest and then I will look for something to eat and filter it
Sorry for not voting on time. It seems that currently there are no easy food sources so…
Action: Go towards the Marleya primus to hunt it while keeping the Organia at some distance
Whoops, sorry for the delay. 
Action: Take a rest to regain my energy, then dig up some more Ahyponomus.
Sorry, i thought i had done mine already
Action: sleep
Round 260 - P.1
~86.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 107 - Hurricane
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- Action Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an action) = 3pts
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- Call of the Wild (Summon a random natural disaster) = 8pts
It’s hurricane season. Off the north-east Coast of Tartarus, the winds and rainfall are building up into a hurricane.
The plants on land that have been so successful - riverside algae - continue filling the air with oxygen and cooling the planet down.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Juvenile
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
You stop any considerable movement to rest on the sandy seabed in the dark, hot water. Your rest is quite brief but you recover enough energy to no longer be exhausted. However, you are now starving. Recently, dark clouds have moved in to cover the sky; rain and wind are starting to make the surface choppier. You look around, just about seeing both banks and the pebbly riverbed; the water disappears into the distance at the front and back. A gentle current flows along. You detect small amounts of marine snow and very little phytoplankton. The moon shines into the water though intermittent clouds spreading a shower of rain from time to time. Swimming through the water is a blue animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail, grazing on a rock in the middle of the river. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Allonops allonops, TeaKing]. In the other direction 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 is swimming in your direction [Organia encephalus]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 3.5cm / 1 month
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 1/5.4 (20%) / 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), Hatchling
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
You stop any considerable movement to rest on the sandy seabed in the dark, cold water. Your rest is quite brief but you recover enough energy to no longer be exhausted. You smell lots of marine snow. Around your level is the scent of another Maurcolus repus [PositiveTower]. The scent of an Ahyponomus minor is coming from below as is a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone]. From above comes the scent of Masticephalus bathyus [filter-feeders with jellyfish domes]. Methane comes from one direction. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.7cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 2.8/3.1 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: LC
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 = 4
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Temperate Ocean (Late Winter - Day)
Lower Shelf to the South of Ithaca
In warm, quite murky, gentle water you see a jellyfish with four long tentacles and four oral arms [Marleya primus]. You swim towards it, swishing your tail from side to side to get there and bite straight into the bell. You eat the bite and then go back for me, while the jellyfish does not respond. You get as much as you need to eat from this. Over a year passes and you survive long enough - feeding and avoiding predators - to become a subadult. You are exhausted from a recent entanglement with a predator. Around you is a flat sandy plain that disappears into the murk in all directions with the surface visible but some distance above. Floating above are jellyfish with four long tentacles and four oral arms [Marleya primus]. Swimming over the seabed is 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 [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: 85% / 5.1cm / 1 year and 8 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 11.7/11.7 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x1)
Notes: None
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 0
Diplopygus pugilus (LC), Hatchling Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Coastal Shallows to the North-East of Tartarus
NOT YET VOTED
You hatch out into hot, clear water at the bottom of a hole filled with 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]. There is some meat on the floor of the hole but it is already being swarmed by these other Diplopygus and you struggle to find room to eat it - you swim to it using your lobes, fantail and hyponome but you keep being shoved out the way by hungry hatchlings. Furthermore, this little activity already causes you to feel weak, dizzy and low on energy - you have been born with a defect; a weak heart that pumps less blood around the body and gives you less stamina. You are exhausted. When all the food is gone you are forced out of the hole. Looking around out here, you see a swathe of sand with many holes dug into it. The water is quite gentle. Several hatchlings remain in the area and you can see there are corpses of adult Diplopyugus on a beach. One adult in the middle of the area appears to still be swimming around. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 5.5mm / 5 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.4/1.1 (45%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Weak Heart
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: LC
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 = 6
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile Male
Temperate Ocean (Late Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
NOT YET VOTED
Swimming above you in the cool, quite murky, gentle saltwater is a dark, fish-shaped animal with pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii. You swim upwards to attack it and get right up close; you go for a bite but misjudge the distance and only cause a slight scratch. This sends the proto-fish swimming off. You chase it down, swimming as fast as you can but you cannot catch up. You lose of a lot of energy before your target disappears into the murk and now you are deeply exhausted. With your upwards facing eyes you see a dark, fish-shaped animal with pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail and above that is an animal with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia [Lepidoderes immortalii, BlackInk] [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning]. You can smell Siphonus borealus [bivalves] below and some brackish water. From further away you can smell a Marleya primus [jellyfish]. (2)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.5cm / 6 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 4.2/5.2 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Organia acrodon
Latest Mutations: Temperate Tolerance
This early fish is descended from Organia lamnadens but has spread out to temperate ocean rather than tropical. It lives from the surface to 500m below. There, it is a small predator.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 10cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 208 x 10/100 = 20.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.8 x 0.25 = 5.2NP per round (Needs to intake 5.2/0.7 = 7.4NP per round)/ 20.8 x 0.7 = 18.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Detoxification. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Startle. Urine Storage.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m above, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Evolution 1 (5 votes). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Ventilation, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - head, spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with spines. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The body is fish-shaped with black melanin pigmentation in the skin, which is covered by cycloid scales and contains blue autogenic photophores all over. At the head is the mouth with sharp teeth, some olfactory receptors and facing upwards is a pair of eyes, in which the lens changes shape and it has no blind spot. There is a line of electroreceptors along the flank. It has pectoral fins, two semi-circle caudal fins at the back of the tail and a pair of spines at the tails’ base.
Internal Features: In most of the body’s cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Behind the tail spines are toxin glands, filling the spine with toxin. On each side of the throat are three pairs of gills, inside gill slits. The gills are connected to the blood vessels closed circulatory system, which contains hemoglobin - making it appear red. The system is made up of a single circuit pumped by a heart. There is also a network of muscles across the body. Along the dorsal side of the body is the cartilage vertebra that links the cartilage skull and jaw with the tail. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It also includes a liver and kidneys and ends with the bladder and anus. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the vertebra and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).
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@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Hatchling Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Shelf to the North-East of Tartarus
You hatch out of an egg and escape through a pouch to emerge in hot, clear, blue and gentle water with low pressure and oxygen. You see steep valley walls on either side of you and many animals 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. Some also have a pouch [Haleglossus beveria]. Above you, the surface is visible but it is quite distant. You crawl through thick, viscous water to the seabed which is soft and sandy. Then you dig out a pit in the seabed, release your lure and wait. After a while, when the valley has become more cleared out of Haleglossus and the larger ones have died 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 along [Organia negrus]. The fish starts investigating your lure and swims ever closer. Finally, it gets too close and you burst out of your pit and grab the fish. Through multiple attacks of your claws and stingers, the fish is killed and you are able to eat it. You remain here after about a month, successfully feeding, moulting and avoiding predation. Some fan-shaped, flexible corals cling to the valley walls [Rhipiella tropicae]. Algae also grows here and a few Organia negrus fish are feeding on the algae. You can also see a few cup-shaped animals with tentacles attached to the walls [Thalassoprincipia atroboceanus]. Swimming above the valley is an animal with a woodlouse-like exoskeleton, sandy above and white below, that ends in a double fantail. It is armed with mandibles and a pair of clawed chelipeds plus is equipped with two pairs of eyes - camera in front of compound -, four pairs of paddle-legs and five swimmerets [Diplopygus ramstirpes]. (4)
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 2.4cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 4.8/4.8 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Haleglossus beveria
Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to it’s predecessor it produces more eggs than many other species on the planet; it can produce 10,000 eggs each spawning when they gather at mating sites in Early Spring. However, it seems to have lost the part of it’s brain that allows for spatial awareness. It lives alongside another Haleglossus species on Tartarus; it has more fatalities due to being smelt easier by predators but produces more young to counter this.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Ocean & Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Ambush Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 16/100 = 32.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.2 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish and High Salinity). Roll Up. Solid Excretion. Strong Scent.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5 (100% Meat, Digests 85%). Evolution 2. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & Late Spring & At Mating Site (+1 Evolution) > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. A unique lure made of mostly muscle can be retracted into the base of the mouth - it has a green lure covered in tiny hooks at the end and a scent gland. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body with a pair of appendages bearing sharp stingers at the end. There are three pairs of paddle-lined legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid and another gland secretes a harmless fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head, possessing memory neurons, connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. Along the nerve chord is an axochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 10,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Males and Females. Female: Has a pouch under the body where the eggs are kept. (Changes: Pouch = +2NP. 205 x size = NP)
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 1
Maurcolus repus (LC), Subadult
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
You stop any considerable movement to rest on the sandy seabed in the dark, cold water. Your rest is quite brief but you recover enough energy to no longer be exhausted. You smell lots of marine snow. Around your level is the scent of another Maurcolus repus [ImmortalDragon]. The scent of an Ahyponomus minor is coming from below as is a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone]. From above comes the scent of Masticephalus bathyus [filter-feeders with jellyfish domes]. Methane comes from one direction. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 9.4cm / 3 years 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 15.7/17.4 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: LC
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 = 1
Stenoceras venator (LC), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Winter - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
With your body so exhausted, you no longer have the energy to fight a dreadful illness that comes over you. The illness saps you of your remaining strength and you die. (2 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 8.1cm / 8 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Stenoceras venator
Latest Mutations: Bigger, Carnivorous, Stronger Beak
This larger Stenoceras has become a predator, with a stronger beak for tackling defenses like scales. It only lives on the seafloor. It lives in the upper 50m of the temperate ocean around southern Tartarus.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)
Niche: Benthic Predator
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 23cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 169 x 23/100 = 38.9NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 38.9 x 0.25 = 9.7NP per round (Needs to intake 9.7/0.65 = 14.9NP per round)/ 38.9 x 0.7 = 27.3NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Meat, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 2. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 70% off). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 1
Allonops allonops (NT), Juvenile Male
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Day)
A North-East Tartarus Lake
You hatch out into hot, clear, blue and gentle water with low pressure and oxygen. Sunlight beams down brightly from the cloudless sky on the tranquil water. You cannot see the bottom or the sides of the water, just endless water. There are tubular, blue animals with a jellyfish dome at one end which has little tentacles sticking out the top and lines of cillia along the body [Masticephalus recentibus]. You crawl through the thick, viscous water towards one of them and when you get close you grab it in your claws. The claw easily slices through the Masticephalus which does as you practically split it in half. You eat one half before moving on to the next half before it floats too far away. After several months, you remain in the same location but have grown into a juvenile after successfully feeding, moulting and avoiding predation. Recently, dark clouds have moved in to cover the sky; rain and wind are starting to make the surface choppier. There is very little phytoplankton here. The area is dotted with Masticephalus. The only other animal you can see is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa jellyfishmonii]. The Pultrypa is disappearing into the blue depths. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 3cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 3.8/3.8 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Winter - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You stop any considerable movement to rest in the cool, quite murky and gentle water. Your rest is quite brief but you recover enough energy to no longer be exhausted. However, your rest is brief because you die of starvation in the middle of it. (4 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 0.9cm / 8 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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 a filter-feeder. 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 has a stomach that it could evert 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 could eat food bigger than it’s mouth, and with the stronger acids could even eat food that has begun to rot. However, as a filter-feeder it cannot use this.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any 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 > Filter with 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 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: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.
action:Eat the vulnerable and edible Pulchellia chartus
Action: Swim towards the south west away from that predator to find a place to rest
I believe i voted for this round
action: stay in my hidey hole and wait for some more prey to come into striking distance.
action: rest
(filler)
Round 261 - P.1
~87 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 19 - None
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(Apologies for anyone affected by Hurricane Ida. The hurricane event in this game spawned before I knew about the real life hurricane. If you are affected, I hope for the best outcome for you.) The winds have formed into a fully-fledged hurricane that dredges across the ocean and the sea close to the north east of Tartarus. The powerful winds of the cyclone cause large waves and disruptions close to the surface. It makes landfall in the north east of Tartarus, filling the land with rain that floods over, throwing unfortunate animals all over the place. It even manages to reach a lake a little ways inland.
The plants on land that have been so successful - riverside algae - continue filling the air with oxygen and cooling the planet down. It has called down another degree to 16c now but this has made little change overall in the climate.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 7
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Juvenile
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
NOT YET VOTED
You stop any considerable movement to rest on the sandy seabed in the dark, hot water. Your rest is quite brief but you recover enough energy to no longer be exhausted. However, you are now starving. Recently, dark clouds have moved in to cover the sky; rain and wind are starting to make the surface choppier. You look around, just about seeing both banks and the pebbly riverbed; the water disappears into the distance at the front and back. A gentle current flows along. You detect small amounts of marine snow and very little phytoplankton. The moon shines into the water though intermittent clouds spreading a shower of rain from time to time. Swimming through the water is a blue animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail, grazing on a rock in the middle of the river. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Allonops allonops, TeaKing]. In the other direction 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 is swimming in your direction [Organia encephalus]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 3.5cm / 1 month
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 1/5.4 (20%) / 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), Hatchling
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
NOT YET VOTED
You stop any considerable movement to rest on the sandy seabed in the dark, cold water. Your rest is quite brief but you recover enough energy to no longer be exhausted. You smell lots of marine snow. Around your level is the scent of another Maurcolus repus [PositiveTower]. The scent of an Ahyponomus minor is coming from below as is a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone]. From above comes the scent of Masticephalus bathyus [filter-feeders with jellyfish domes]. Methane comes from one direction. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.7cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 2.8/3.1 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: LC
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 = 4
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Temperate Ocean (Late Winter - Day)
Lower Shelf to the South of Ithaca
You start swimming away into the empty water - it’s warm, quite murky, gentle water. You are getting more tired so stop for a rest, floating through the water. Suddenly, a pair of jaws emerge and latch on to your side causing a massive wound and a lot of blood loss. The attacker turns out to be an animal with a black, fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia acrodon]. The blood loss is so great that you die soon after. (1 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 5.1cm / 1 year and 8 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
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Coastal Shallows to the North-East of Tartarus
NOT YET VOTED
You hatch out into hot, clear water at the bottom of a hole filled with 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]. There is some meat on the floor of the hole but it is already being swarmed by these other Diplopygus and you struggle to find room to eat it - you swim to it using your lobes, fantail and hyponome but you keep being shoved out the way by hungry hatchlings. Furthermore, this little activity already causes you to feel weak, dizzy and low on energy - you have been born with a defect; a weak heart that pumps less blood around the body and gives you less stamina. You are exhausted. When all the food is gone you are forced out of the hole. Looking around out here, you see a swathe of sand with many holes dug into it. The water is quite gentle. Several hatchlings remain in the area and you can see there are corpses of adult Diplopyugus on a beach. One adult in the middle of the area appears to still be swimming around. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 5.5mm / 5 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.4/1.1 (45%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Weak Heart
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.q
Status: LC
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 = 6
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile Male
Temperate Ocean (Late Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You have a long rest in the cool saltwater and recover a lot of energy so that you are no longer exhausted. With your upwards facing eyes you see a dark, fish-shaped animal with pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail and above that is an animal with tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules in front of a jellyfish-like dome and a body lined with cillia [Lepidoderes immortalii]. You can smell Siphonus borealus [bivalves] below and some brackish water. (5 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.5cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 3.1/5.2 (60%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Organia acrodon
Latest Mutations: Temperate Tolerance
This early fish is descended from Organia lamnadens but has spread out to temperate ocean rather than tropical. It lives from the surface to 500m below. There, it is a small predator.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 10cm (head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 208 x 10/100 = 20.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.8 x 0.25 = 5.2NP per round (Needs to intake 5.2/0.7 = 7.4NP per round)/ 20.8 x 0.7 = 18.7NP
Abilities: Bioluminescence. Detoxification. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. “Migmachordatix” Toxin - Quickly Fatal Neurotoxin. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Startle. Urine Storage.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m above, Binocular Vision). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (Detects odours 1m from front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Evolution 1 (5 votes). Immunity 2. Filtration 0.5 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2 (Stationary Ventilation, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 2. Stamina 4. Strength 2. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Support 1. Toughness 0.5 (1.5 - head, spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with spines. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The body is fish-shaped with black melanin pigmentation in the skin, which is covered by cycloid scales and contains blue autogenic photophores all over. At the head is the mouth with sharp teeth, some olfactory receptors and facing upwards is a pair of eyes, in which the lens changes shape and it has no blind spot. There is a line of electroreceptors along the flank. It has pectoral fins, two semi-circle caudal fins at the back of the tail and a pair of spines at the tails’ base.
Internal Features: In most of the body’s cells is a small amount of piezolytes. Behind the tail spines are toxin glands, filling the spine with toxin. On each side of the throat are three pairs of gills, inside gill slits. The gills are connected to the blood vessels closed circulatory system, which contains hemoglobin - making it appear red. The system is made up of a single circuit pumped by a heart. There is also a network of muscles across the body. Along the dorsal side of the body is the cartilage vertebra that links the cartilage skull and jaw with the tail. Another line of features is the gastrointestinal tract, starting from the throat and leading to a stomach chamber, followed by intestines. It also includes a liver and kidneys and ends with the bladder and anus. It is connected to a one-chambered swim bladder. It has a pair of gonads. Two nerve cords, starting from the brain, run down the vertebra and branch out into a network of nerves across the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Moves tail end of body side to side in a carangiforme motion (+1 Swim Speed).
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@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Juvenile Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Shelf to the North-East of Tartarus
In a pit in the seabed, surrounded by hot, clear water, you release your lure and wait for something to come by. You see the surface far above become chaotic. 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 along [Organia negrus]. The fish starts investigating your lure and swims ever closer. Finally, it gets too close and you burst out of your pit and grab the fish. Through multiple attacks of your claws and stingers, the fish is killed and you are able to eat it. You remain here after several more months, successfully feeding, moulting and avoiding predation. You become a juvenile but you are exhausted from a recent moult. Some fan-shaped, flexible corals cling to the valley walls [Rhipiella tropicae]. Algae also grows here and a few Organia negrus fish are feeding on the algae. You can also see a few cup-shaped animals with tentacles attached to the walls [Thalassoprincipia atroboceanus]. Swimming above the valley is an animal with a woodlouse-like exoskeleton, sandy above and white below, that ends in a double fantail. It is armed with mandibles and a pair of clawed chelipeds plus is equipped with two pairs of eyes - camera in front of compound -, four pairs of paddle-legs and five swimmerets [Diplopygus ramstirpes]. The chaotic surface has calmed. (3 + 1)
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 8.8cm / 6 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 17.7/17.7 (100% - 40% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Haleglossus beveria
Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to it’s predecessor it produces more eggs than many other species on the planet; it can produce 10,000 eggs each spawning when they gather at mating sites in Early Spring. However, it seems to have lost the part of it’s brain that allows for spatial awareness. It lives alongside another Haleglossus species on Tartarus; it has more fatalities due to being smelt easier by predators but produces more young to counter this.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Ocean & Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Subpolar Oceanic Warm Temperate Summer Semi-Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Oceanic Cool Temperate Humid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Ambush Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 16cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 201 x 16/100 = 32.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 32.2 x 0.25 = 8.1NP per round (Needs to intake 8.1/0.85 = 9.5NP per round)/ 32.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish and High Salinity). Roll Up. Solid Excretion. Strong Scent.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5 (100% Meat, Digests 85%). Evolution 2. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.2. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Memory 1. 1. Hungry > Dig a hole and wait in it for food with lure exposed. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity & Late Spring & At Mating Site (+1 Evolution) > Reproduce.
External Features: A highly jointed, calcified exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue melanin pigments. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles and a circle of chemoreceptors. A unique lure made of mostly muscle can be retracted into the base of the mouth - it has a green lure covered in tiny hooks at the end and a scent gland. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body with a pair of appendages bearing sharp stingers at the end. There are three pairs of paddle-lined legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid and another gland secretes a harmless fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head, possessing memory neurons, connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body. Along the nerve chord is an axochord.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 10,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Males and Females. Female: Has a pouch under the body where the eggs are kept. (Changes: Pouch = +2NP. 205 x size = NP)
Locomotion: Slightly Active (10NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 1
Maurcolus repus (LC), Adult
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
The scent of a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] reaches your antennae through the dark, cold water. You crawl across the seabed towards it and soon your antennae bump into it but the Pulchellia disappears downwards. You dig down after it and find it again, ensconced in a burrow. Once you’ve dug in your claws make short work of the tube anemone, killing it and allowing you to eat it. Several months later, you have become an adult, ready to reproduce. You smell lots of marine snow. Around your level is the scent of another Maurcolus repus [ImmortalDragon]. The scent of an Ahyponomus minor is coming from below as is a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone]. From above comes the scent of Masticephalus bathyus [filter-feeders with jellyfish domes]. Methane comes from one direction. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 11cm / 4 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 20.5/20.5 (100% - 30% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus repus
Latest Mutations: 1 = Male and Female sexes, 4 = Remove foul taste, 6 = High pressure tolerance
Maurcolus repus evolved from Pholgnathus lancus and is another arthropod with six pairs of appendages, including steering arms and claws. It has the distinctive keratin rostrum, stuck between two antennae. This particular species inhabits the depths where, at the time of its evolution, it is the most complex species about. It feeds on the soft, sessile animals there, like sponges and sea anemones, crawling across the cold, dark ocean floor following smells with its antennae. To live in this environment, it has had to lose its swim bladder - as well as make some chemical changes - so it spends most of its time walking unlike its relatives which spent an equal time walking and swimming. It has no predators here which might be why it’s lost it’s foul fluid glands. However, food is harder to find and finding a mate is particularly troublesome, especially as this species only produces half the amount of eggs as its predecessors.
Status: LC
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 = 1
Stenoceras venator (LC), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
You hatch out into cool, quite murky water which is thick and carrying you along in the current. You notice a animal with a blue, worm-like body topped with a sharp beak and grasping spines. It has a two pairs of pinhole eyes and ends in a fan tail [Allostoma primus]. You struggle through the thick water towards it and grab it in your beak. You slice effortlessly through it and then eat it. Several months later and you still survive. The water is much the same except it is no longer thick and you are not being carried by a current. You can see a sandy seabed just below and the surface with waves just above. In front of you is an a black, fish-shaped body. It has square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia negrus]. Behind it is a craggy cliff. You can sense some phytoplankton and some marine snow. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 5.8cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 9.7/9.7 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Stenoceras venator
Latest Mutations: Bigger, Carnivorous, Stronger Beak
This larger Stenoceras has become a predator, with a stronger beak for tackling defenses like scales. It only lives on the seafloor. It lives in the upper 50m of the temperate ocean around southern Tartarus.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)
Niche: Benthic Predator
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 23cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 169 x 23/100 = 38.9NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 38.9 x 0.25 = 9.7NP per round (Needs to intake 9.7/0.65 = 14.9NP per round)/ 38.9 x 0.7 = 27.3NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Meat, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 2. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 70% off). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.
Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.
@TeaKing - Points Stored = 1
Allonops allonops (NT), Juvenile Male
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Day)
A North-East Tartarus Lake
You try to rest in the increasingly choppy water but strong winds battering the surface of the water actually pick you up and whisk you away from the lake’s surface within the bit of water in which you were living. The winds blow you across the lake but luckily drop you back into it, relatively unharmed. You sink below the level in which the hurricane can reach and weather out the cyclone as it rampages on. You were not able to rest as a result and are now exhausted. Eventually, the hurricane subsides. The water is hot, clear, blue and gentle with low pressure and oxygen. Sunlight beams down brightly from the cloudless sky on the tranquil water. You cannot see the bottom or the sides of the water, just endless water. There are tubular, blue animals with a jellyfish dome at one end which has little tentacles sticking out the top and lines of cillia along the body [Masticephalus recentibus]. There is very little phytoplankton here. The only other animal you can see is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa jellyfishmonii]. The Pultrypa is disappearing into the blue depths. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 3cm / 3 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 2.7/3.8 (70% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Winter - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out into cool, quite murky, gentle water. The water feels thick and you can also feel yourself being moved every few seconds by the force of waves. With your eye looking down, you can see the seabed. You can sense the chemicals of some phytoplankton all around and there is also a little marine snow. You also detect some other Mollibarmis noimoxekino. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.3mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.1/0.1 (55%) / 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 a filter-feeder. 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 has a stomach that it could evert 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 could eat food bigger than it’s mouth, and with the stronger acids could even eat food that has begun to rot. However, as a filter-feeder it cannot use this.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any 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 > Filter with 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 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: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.
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I think i try to filler the phytoplankton and marine snow at must as possible , and then rest
I’m going to eat the organia that this thrice my size because what would I be if not crazy?
@StealthStyle I will be taking a temporal leave of the game, with me dying over and over i may as well give another person in the waitlist the chance at the game. I would like to be put at the end of the waitlist if its not much trouble.
Last action: Let my remains float away and disperse, a small piece falling over a hatchling of another species to be its first food.
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Action: try and kill the Lepidoderes immortalii and if i cant, tear its cilia from its body so it is easy prey.