@AgentTine, @immortaldragon, @jellyfishmon, @OoferDoofer, please reply if you can. Some you haven’t replied in a long time. If you don’t reply before the next round I may consider letting you loose so that new people can play.
Whoops, my bad, meant to get back to this the first time around.
Action 1: Rest a bit to regain energy.
Action 2: Dig up and eat some Ahyponomus.
Action 3: Failing the above, try to snack on some Masticephalus bathyus. It won’t fill me up much but it’s better than nothing.
hmmm yes >:) reply guys (or not, so that i can play)
i think there’s actually an open slot.
though it may have already been taken.
Let’s try and get back in the mood for this game with this little piece.
Ezta Explorations With Nigel Marvin: Episode Five
"Nigel Marvin; a time-travelling zoologist and a man who has had his fair share of close scrapes with dinosaurs. And now, he’s journeying to another planet. In his latest adventure, Nigel will be travelling back through the prehistory of a planet called Ezta. He will be walking, flying or swimming alongside creatures that are truly out of this world.
Nigel’s next stop is another trip to Oliverian, when giant arthropods rule the world…"
The waves of a large, murky estuary lap against the rocks that make up the banks of the estuary; and on those wave-drenched rocks are carpets of tiny, green algae. Behind it, holding binoculars, is Nigel Marven, scanning the apparently endless landscape of bare rock.
Narrator: Nigel has returned to the Oliverian, some 30 million years later, and is looking for signs of life.
Nigel: We’ve been scouting the land for a while now, just in case, but there’s not even been a peep of animal life - the fossil record indicated this but it’s still eerie. The land critters that we saw last time all disappeared around the same time in a minor extinction event so there’s nothing left but this algae. In the water behind me though is a totally different story because life has continued to evolve and there are some particular monsters that I really want to get an eye on.
Nigel (Narrator): The estuary was shallow enough for me to wade in so I put on a snorkel and hopped in.
Wading through the knee deep water, Nigel keeps his eyes trained down for any movement.
Nigel: The world is mostly ruled by animals similar to arthropods on Earth, called the Jehliapods, which come in all shapes and sizes. Some are herbivores, some are filter-feeders but the biggest and baddest of them all are predators. The Diplopygus is the largest of these and it’s this extraordinary animal that I’m on the hunt for.
Nigel (Narrator): I had no idea that I was soon about to get my wish and much more than I was bargaining for.
Nigel: I think there’s something down here, crouching on the seabed. Let me just get a closer look.
Nigel plunges his head into the water, breathing through the snorkel and looking through the murky water to the gravelly, grey seabed through his mask. There on the seabed an animal that looks a bit like a green woodlouse with a fantail except it has sharp mandibles as well as two frightening claws protruding in front - it has stalked eyes and compound eyes embedded in the head. Nigel puts out his hand and grabs the creature before standing up again. In the fresh air, it flails it’s legs, claws and tails helplessly - underneath it has four pairs of legs lined with paddles.
Nigel: It’s definitely a Caulops, a member of the infamous Jehliapods, only this is one of the herbivores. Even so, I don’t think I’m going to let it run free on my hand like I have many creatures back on Earth because I still don’t want a nip from those powerful weapons.
Nigel (Narrator): It was just a tiddler compared to what I was looking for, so if I was worried about getting a bite from a Jehliapod that almost fit in the palm of my hand you can imagine what it would be like to face one over half a meter long.
Nigel: I’m going to let him go in the water now before it runs out of oxygen and hope he doesn’t give me a goodbye nip.
Gently, Nigel lowers the Caulops back into the water and releases it. As he does so, a larger shape starts moving towards him.
Nigel: There! That can only be a Diplopygus, surely, and I think it must have caught my scent.
The shape is building speed and heading directly for Nigel.
Nigel: I’ve got to see this properly.
He readies himself to grab the Diplopygus as it surges forward and just at the right moment and lunges and pulls out what looks like a giant version of the Caulops - except it is sandy coloured above and white below, has a double fantail, five swimmerets in addition to the four legs and has thicker claws. He holds it up in the air with both hands.
Nigel: This is heavier than I anticipated so I can’t hold it for long. This is most certainly a Diplopygus and is the biggest animal that Ezta has seen so far. This predator rules these tropical seas and you can see why with these powerful claws. Another interesting thing to note is that these legs here can be folded into one long, swimming lobe on each side, making it an excellent swimmer. It must be a male because of these blue stripes. These are truly the swiss army knives of the Oliverian. It’s starting to make my arms ache so I’m going to have to through it as far away as possible. Oomph! There we go.
The Oliverian apex predator spins through the air as Nigel swings it away, and splashes back into the water. But when Nigel looks up, he is now surrounded by Diplopygus.
Nigel: Uh oh! This could be bad.
Crewman: Nigel, do you need some help?
Nigel: Yes please, I think I’m in a spot of trouble here. Can you get me the prod?
Crewman: Someone get Nigel the prod. Quickly now.
The prod is passed up to the Crewman who then chucks it towards Nigel, as the Diplopygus move closer. Unfortunately, the prod falls just short.
Nigel: Damn!
He wades over to where the prod went in and begins frantically searching for the prod but it is hidden by the murky water.
Meanwhile, a Diplopygus is almost right on top of him. Nigel tries to dodge at the last moment and the Diplopygus carries on straight past him. It doesn’t even turn but continues going as if Nigel weren’t even there.
Nigel: That’s a relief. They’re not even going for me.
All of the Diplopygus are swimming onwards in roughly the same direction. Nigel makes his way to the edge of the estuary and hopped back onto the bank, next to the Crewman.
Nigel: Sorry about that, sorry, but I just got anxious when I saw so many of those things coming towards me. It was like both my dreams and my nightmare to see so many, you know.
Nigel (Narrator): But the question of where they were going still plagued me. We walked along the land after the Diplopygus until they had gone too far out into the estuary, so we followed them in the boat instead. Out in the sea, where the water was clear and the animals were easier to sea, to our astonishment, the group formed up with an even larger group, all heading in the same direction along the coast. We followed them to a coral reef but the boat could not follow them over the reef.
Leaning on the boat, Nigel looks to between the reef and the shore, where there are many Diplopygus.
Nigel: The Diplopygus are gathering in huge numbers over there, presumably because it’s a mating colony like the similar Salcaedis had in my last visit. I have got to witness this but I’m going to have to dive in with them again. This time I’m going in prepared because I’m going to be wearing this. It’s a chainmail dive suit so it should keep me safe.
Nigel dives into the sea and is immediately greeted by a picturesque reef in clear, blue, sunstreaked water. The colourful reef is composed of red, fan-shaped branches, yellow, funnel-shaped sponges and a blue encrusting of the rocks. He kicks on and glides over the reef. Tiny blue, fish-shaped animals, no bigger than a fingernail, gather round corals. Every now and then another Diplopygus swims across the reef to the breeding ground.
Nigel: (Through a radio) These tiny blue dots are actually proto-fish called Pseudoicthys.
Behind the reef is a sandy area, between the reef and the shore, filled to the brim with Diplopygus, including tiny hatchlings.
Nigel: This is the end of one generation and the beginning of a new one all in one place. The adults here are reproducing so they will have reached the end of their life cycle and will soon all be dead. The Diplopygus in the eggs have only just begun their journeys. I didn’t know what to expect and I am intrigued to see that the adults are actually digging out burrows in the sand to deposit their eggs in and even placing some meat inside. That one there has caught another, small Jehliapod look. Some of the crew don’t believe that these hatchlings will one day be able to find their way back to this very spot because they’re just not sure they have the mental capacity for memory but I reckon they can. As a test, we decided to capture some of the hatchlings and put a tracker on them.
Nigel (Narrator): I went back for the net and returned to a spot in the reef where animals were bound to wander through, including the hatchlings.
Whenever hatchlings passed Nigel swings the net and captures them. After catching a large number, he stops.
Nigel: (Through a radio) I think that’s enough samples. Let’s return to the boat and get them tagged. Wait, what’s this?
There’s a piece of algae attached to the outside of the net but when Nigel goes to release it, the algae is revealed to be a hook attached to a lure. At the other end of the lure is another woodlouse-shaped animal, 16cm long and blue with a fantail. This one has two stingers on thin appendages in addition to two claws. It has two pairs of eyes. There are three pairs of paddle-lined legs and underneath the body is a pouch.
Nigel: (Through a radio) Now this is a nifty little specimen. It’s called a Haleglossus beveria and it’s another Jehliapod but on quite a different branch - the stingers and the pouch are very distinct. They sit in pits on the seabed and use their lure to draw in prey. But I’ve got to get back to land and set up those trackers.
Nigel (Narrator): With the Diplpoygus tagged, we decided to spend some time exploring other areas of the planet and I had it in mind to see the giant glaciers that were, at this time, expanding across southern Tartarus.
The boat travels onwards through the ocean as the sun sets on their tropical day.
The next day, they are travelling along, Nigel, looking over the bow of the boat when he decides to talk to the captain, steering the ship. The air is cooler and the sky is filled with more clouds.
Nigel: Do you think we could stop here, please?
Captain: Stop?
Nigel: Yeah, I feel seeing what’s out here now that we’ve entered colder water.
Captain: Whatever you say Nige.
The boat is stopped and Nigel gets into his gear and falls back into the fairly murky, cool water.
Nigel: (Through a radio) It’s not packed with life like the tropical reef was but there is a bed of seaweed on the seabed there which would be a good place to start looking.
He descended towards it and out of the fronds came a black fish-shaped animal with upwards facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of their tail.
Nigel: (Through a radio) There’s an Organia fish here. They have already existed for a while now but are much more low key than the Jehliapods. I’m going to have a poke around this seaweed bed. There’s yet another Jehliapod here, a Podobitus, but this is a herbivore. The predatory Jehliapods, they seem to be restricted to tropical waters.
Another fish comes swimming towards the seaweed when tentacles lined with threads emerge from the algae and grasp the fish. Then a beak moves out followed by stalked eyes and a long, conical shell.
Nigel: (Through the radio) The Organia has been been caught by an Organiavorius which is what I’d really been hoping to find on this dive. It’s a cephalopd around half a meter long and it’s the top predator around here. That beak, as you can see be monstrously demonstrated, can easily cut through flesh.
The fish is dragged into the beak where it is crunched up.
Nigel: That sound of crunching flesh and bones is really sending shivers up my spine. I think it’s about time I headed back up.
The boat sails through the ocean as the air gets progressively colder and the wooly hats and gloves start coming out. They sail adjacent to the rocky land and later a great white wall appears on the horizon and the surface of the water is covered in ice. Nigel is leaning on the rails of the boat and looking up at the glaciers.
Nigel (Narrator): We had reached the end point of our journey. There was no way for us to cross the icy ocean in our boat but looking up at the glaciers I was reminded of the awesome power of nature. Scientists were saying that the glaciers were still growing and the another was still getting colder - though the climate here had been relatively stable in recent times there will be changes afoot should this continue. Already, I had noticed that the continents were covered in much less sea and that inland seas had developed, isolated from the ocean and creating their own unique, endemic species. At this point, we decided to head back and check on the tracked Diplopygus hatchlings.
It is a moonlit night back in the tropics. Nigel is standing on the bow of the boat, holding up a sensor array. He’s guiding the captain.
Nigel: East a bit. Now try north east. We should be close enough now. Into this estuary here.
Nigel (Narrator): Below our boat was one of the hatchlings we had tracked, although now they were old enough to be juveniles.
Nigel: One of our hatchlings is below and I just don’t think I can wait until morning to see how it’s getting on. I want to get in there right now.
Nigel donned his dive gear and jumped into the water once again. Only his headlight allowed him to see around but he soon found the Diplopygus illuminated in the spotlight against the seabed.
Nigel: (Through the radio) And there it is. It’s grown very quickly and it is already a dangerous predator.
He watched the Diplopygus as it swam around in the estuary for a while.
Nigel (Narrator): But it was still not immune to attacks itself.
A splashing sound alerted Nigel, and he scanned the water frantically, hoping to catch the source with his light. When he looked back at the Diplopygus it was dead and another Jehliapod was tucking in to it. It looked like a mix of a crab and a woodlouse, with a carapace over the head and the rest of the body jointed. It was the colour of mud and had mandibles and a pair of claws, two pairs of eyes and was kicking itself along with four paddle-lined legs. The moment the light was on it, the creature swam off into the dark.
Nigel: (Breathing heavily and crackling through the mouthpiece) That must have been a Cavuops, a nocturnal predator and yet another Jehliapod. That poor, young Diplopygus has just ended up as it’s midnight snack.
Nigel (Narrator): For those few Diplopygus that did manage to survive the tracked batch it was time to reproduce so we returned to the reef.
Nigel: (Through a radio) We wondered whether these creatures were able to return to the same breeding spot each year and there’s your answer.
Nigel turns the camera around so that it captures the sand behind the reef, populated by many Diplopygus, digging holes.
Nigel: The sad thing is, I think the water levels must have decreased over the year because the breeding space behind the coral seems a lot smaller and some of the Diplopygus have been forced onto the coral which they are not going to be able to reproduce on as they can’t dig there.
Nigel (Narrator): I had had an extraordinary trip and had seen many fascinating animals. There must be lots more to come.
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Round 271 - P.1
~90.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 122 - Tsunami
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Lot’s of new species have started to appear. These include a Hydroceras crassus with a stickier foot, an Erythrocochlus temperatus without freezing water adaptations, bigger Podobitus podobitus, Stenoceras australis without threads and with stalks that can be retracted, Ctenella primus that live in the depths during the day, bigger Atkinsonia punctatus with no notochord or anti-freeze proteins, Asposomus cirrus that are stickier and have no antifreeze, Ammoskulus fodius with no eyes and more cirri, Tunisoma tunisoma with no eyes or swim bladder, transparent Allostoma primus with eyes but no swim bladder, Ostrorhynchus strictus with a more worm-like body, bigger, blue Organia acrodon without photophores and finally a deep living Anazitonta astatheana.
Somewhere off the coast of western Tartarus the seafloor shakes and deforms. The displaced ground sends a wave through the surrounding water, while water by the coast is dragged back out to sea. The wave has reached massive size and power and is bearing down upon the coast.
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 = 8
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Hatchling
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
A storm gathers other head during the night, black clouds just about visible in front of the full moon. Rain starts lashing down against the surface and the stirring is added to by a strong wind. You try to rest but the shaken up waters push you around a bit until there is a flash in the sky and a shock of electricity zaps around the river, virtually frying you. You are dead. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 3.5cm / 1 month
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Cavuops tartarus
Latest Mutations: Heart, Gills
This is a nocturnal predatory arthropod with a heavily defended head. It lives throughout Tartarus.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 23cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 200 x 23/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.8 = 13NP per round)/
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish Water). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Night Vision 1 (at sides). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 3 (4 - carapace). UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Go somewhere dark and rest.
External Features: A calcified exoskeleton with a carapace and two other segments over the cephalothorax covers the skin, which contains mud-brown melanin pigments. A pair of antennae with chemoreceptors protrude forwards. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (large camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body. There are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body pumped by a heart and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Maurcolus proximus (LC), Hatchling
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
It is pitch black and cold in this water. You are exhausted so you stop moving so much and have a rest. You manage to build up some energy and are no longer exhausted. Next to you, you can sense a Maurcolus whealetus [Positive]. There is a soft, sloping seabed below your feet; somewhere a little bit across and below is the source of the Ahyponomus minor [worm] scent. However, the scent of a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] is coming from a similar direction. In front of you, your antennae feel a big rock face. From up in the water column comes the scent of a Faryxnoskulus bathyus [filter-feeding pelagic worm] and another Maurcolus whealetus. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.7cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 2.4/3 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus proximus
Latest Mutations: Nesting behavior by laying eggs inside glass sponges . Offspring can then leave the protection of the sponges once they hatch. = 5, Hydrofoil-like protrusions on sides of the exoskeleton segments to generate passive lift in the deep sea pressures. = 3, Male and Female sexes = 4
A deep sea arthropod that feeds mainly on worms in the seabed of the deep ocean. Unlike Maurcolus repus, it has a number of strategies to improve breeding, a difficult feat in the dark depths; it has sexes, more eggs and releases them near glass sponges in the hope they flow inside the sponge for protection.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500-1500m deep)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 184 x 11/100 = 20.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.2 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.6 = 8.5NP per round)/ 20.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. High Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, side monocular vision). Smell 1 (detects odours 1m from mouth). Chemoreception 1 (detects chemicals 1m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Touch 1.
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Plants, Digests 60%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce near Siliconia siliconia.
External Features: An exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue carotenoid pigments. There are two antennae protruding forwards in front of the mouth and it has chemoreceptors, odour receptors and touch receptors on it. A sharp rostrum also protrudes forwards. 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 claws are held at the front of the bod, followed by 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 lysozyme a and a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which have blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 10,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Sexes (+1 Evolution). Almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 0
Diplopygus pugilus (LC), Hatchling Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Coastal Shallows to the North-East of Tartarus
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 and you move towards it and tuck in, along with your brethren. A month later, you are swimming through hot, clear water above a coral reef of red, fan-shaped branches and yellow, funnel-shaped sponges as well as a blue encrusting of the rocks [Nyctopolypus genusia] [Xanthospongus aureus] [Halidiscus hodgsonsis]. Swimming over the reef is animal with a black, fish-shaped body. It has teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia lamnadens]. In slightly deeper water, you can make out the shape of a creature similar to a Diplopygus pugilus [Diplopygus ramstirpes]. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 8cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 16.9/16.9 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Diplopygus pugilus
Latest Mutations: Round Mouth, Improve Chemoreceptors
Diplopygus is a lobe-limbed arthropod with two fan tails, making it a proficient swimmer, as well as having a spring-loaded cheliped. It is a predator of both the open tropical seas and tropical estuary biomes. It is comparatively huge to any other animal alive at the time of its arrival. It has a larger mouth and better chemoreceptors than it’s predecessor, making it more successful.
Status: 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 = 7
Organia acrodon (LC), Juvenile Male
Temperate Ocean (Late Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
NOT YET VOTED
Looking up at a cove, surrounded above by dark, craggy cliffs and tall seaweed, you swim through the warm, clear water towards the scent of a Procrinus primus [ossicle-covered filter-feeder with stalk and pinnules]. When the scent gets strong and you can sense the electrical signals coming from the Procrinus you bite down; however, your teeth do not sink into the hard skin and so you cannot bite it. Passing through seaweed above is an animal with 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 praecus]. You can smell more out of sight and can also smell Procrinus primus [ossicle-covered filter-feeder with stalk and pinnules]. You can sense no phytoplankton and a bit of marine snow. (4)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.5cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 2.1/5.2 (40%) / 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).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 2
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Juvenile Male
Tropical Ocean (Early Spring - Day)
Shelf to the North-East of Tartarus
The water around you is hot and clear. The sandy seabed stretches out for as far as you can see, gently sloping - it has almost no features, except for a rising sandbar approaching the surface in deeper water. You dig into the seabed and sit in the hole, unfurling your lure which dangles in the water. As of yet though, nothing has come along to bite. Above you swims an animal with a blue, woodlouse-like exoskeleton that ends in a 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 that join to form one continuous lobe and five swimmerets [Pultrypa jellyfishmonii]. In slightly deeper water there is an animal with 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]. Over the sandbank are many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia [Ctenella primus].
(2 + 1).
Maturity/Size/Age: 65% / 10.4cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 14.6/20.9 (70%) / 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.
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@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 1
Maurcolus whealetus (CR), Adult
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
It is pitch black and cold in this water. The scent of another Maurcolus whealetus emanates towards your antennae; the scent gets stronger and stronger - even though you are just sitting there - until it makes contact with your antennae. It is another adult and you successfully reproduce, scattering your eggs into the water. The eggs slowly float off and the other Maurcolus whealetus fades away, out of your range. There is a soft, sloping seabed below your feet; somewhere a little bit across and below is the source of the Ahyponomus minor [worm] scent. However, the scent of a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone] is coming from a similar direction. In front of you, your antennae feel a big rock face. From up in the water column comes the scent of a Faryxnoskulus bathyus [filter-feeding pelagic worm] and another Maurcolus whealetus. (6 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 11cm / 4 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 50% / 18.2/20.2 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: Reproductive Points 1
Maurcolus whealetus
Latest Mutations: Mutation 1: Larger and more efficient eggs = 2, Mutation 2: Female and male sexes = 3, Mutation 3: Frontal Claws = 4
This deep sea arthropod is not likely to be very succesful because the smallest number of eggs it usually spawns are not only rarer than their cousins but more fragile. Maurcolus whealetus is struggling to compete with Maurcolus repus.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500-1500m deep)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 184 x 11/100 = 20.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.2 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.6 = 8.5NP per round)/ 20.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. High Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, side monocular vision). Smell 1 (detects odours 1m from mouth). Chemoreception 1 (detects chemicals 1m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Touch 1.
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Plants, Digests 60%). Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue carotenoid pigments. There are two antennae protruding forwards in front of the mouth and it has chemoreceptors, odour receptors and touch receptors on it. A sharp rostrum also protrudes forwards. 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 claws are held at the front of the bod, followed by 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 lysozyme a and a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which have blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 100 very fragile eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 0
Organiavorius megapodis (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
The cool, clear water around you shows a face of rock circling around you as far as you can see and a sandy seabed along which you are situated. Tall seaweed takes centre place in the area and there is lot’s of movement around from other animals; some of them have 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]. Your eyes lock onto one of them and you start crawling forwards along the seabed. That is until you start to feel yourself being dragged away - the water is flowing back out from an opening in the rock face and you are taken with it, along with other animals. Once you’ve been dragged along the now open seabed for a bit, the water calms. The sandy seabed stretches out for as far as you can see, gently sloping - it has almost no features, except for a rising sandbar approaching the surface in deeper water. The water remains a cool temperature but is now quite murky. Not far above you is a black, fish-shaped body. It has square teeth, upwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Anazitonta astatheana]. Over by the sandbar are many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia is floating along [Ctenella primus]. However, the calmness of the water ends just as suddenly as it did before and a massive wall of water is flowing through the area and heading towards the rocks. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 23cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 12.9/16.1 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Unnamed
Latest Mutations: 4 = Scales to hold melanin cause my skin can’t anymore. 6 = Size. Heart Efficiency = 3. Child Protection instincts = 3.
As well as a shell, this species is extra protected by a layer of scales, which also serves to hold the pigmentation of the animal. In addition to this, this predator is double the size of it’s predecessor.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)
Niche: Benthic Predator
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 46cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 140 x 46/100 = 64.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 64.4 x 0.25 = 16.1NP per round (Needs to intake 16.1/0.65 = 24.8NP per round)/ 64.4 x 0.75 = 48.3NP
Abilities: Air Spaces. Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Low. Subzero Metabolism. UV Resistance, Medium.
Perception: Chemoreception 0.5, Sight 1
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Dexterity 0.5, Digestion, Meat 0.5 (100%). Digestion, Plants 0.5. Evolution 1. Immunity 1, Filtration 1.7, Pierce Strength 1, Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, Stationary Respiration), Stamina 4.8, Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Speed 0.8, Swim Agility 0.3, Toughness 4. Tunnelling 0.5. 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 in scales. 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
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out of your egg. You are in a current of cool, clear water - it feels thick and hard to move through. The chemicals of detritus reach you from all around. You can also see a round shell with pectoral fins floating through the water and a worm-like animal with a beak further away [Pteryphysis volanus] [Ovodeinus cordus]. Other than that it is all water. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.3mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 0.1/0.1 (55%) / 100%
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.
@fralegend015 - Points Stored = 0
Atkinsonia primus (U), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
The water around you is hot, calm and clear but small bits of detritus produce scents that reach your chemoreceptors. You crawl over the seabed, waving your thread-lined tentacles as you go, and moving caught particles to your mouth. Living like this, you gather in lot’s of food to keep you well-fed but you are now exhausted. However, you are still feeling the instinct to reproduce. The sandy seabed stretches out for as far as you can see, gently sloping - it has almost no features, except for a rising sandbar approaching the surface in deeper water. Much more detritus chemicals come from here than from any other direction. Also over by the sandbar are many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia [Copegyrinus pelagicus] not to mention another Atkinsonia primus. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 15cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 20/20 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Atkinsonia primus
Latest Mutations: Tougher Eggs, Sexes, Crop
While it wanders the open ocean in search of microbes to filter, Atkinsonia can store food from plentiful places in its crop. It also searches for the opposite sex, a new development for this species. When it does reproduce, the eggs are tougher to withstand the wear and tear of the ocean better.
Status: U
Habitat: Tropical Upper Ocean, Tropical Shallows
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 15cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (137/10) x (15/10) = 20NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (20 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 10.8NP / 18NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immune System. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Food Storage. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance. Permeable Skin.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemicals 5m away). Sight 1 (Clear vision all around)
Stats: Agility 0.5. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (can break down multicellular matter, 10% off). Inflexibility 3. Intelligence 1. Filtration 2.5. Respiration 2 (10% off). Stamina 2.5. Strength 1. Support 1. Toughness 3. Evolution 1 (4 votes).
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed. The female responds to the stimuli of producing eggs by embedding them in her tentacles and tucking the tentacles under her body.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body almost completely covered by a torpedo-shaped, thick calcite shell, with red pigmentation in the thin skin layer. A mouth is surrounded by chemoreceptors and four tentacles covered in threads. There is also a pair of stalks with an eye on each side of the head. A hyponome is also found on the head and can be swivelled in multiple directions independently.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. An open circulatory system carries fluid across the body, and anti-freeze glycoproteins travel in the fluid. There is also a nephridium and muscles lay longitudinally along the body. A tube from the mouth meets the crop, then intestines, which leads to the anus. A brain in the head is connected to the nerve cord with branches of nerves, with a notochord running along side it. A testes and an ova can be found in females and males respectively. The shell is split into chambers with a siphuncle running through it, forming a phragmocone.
Locomotion Type: Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy. Active (20NP)
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 tougher eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female. (+1 Evolution)
2 Likes
Whelp heck I’m dead, I’ll hide under the rocks, or, if I can, swim over to the far side of the sandbar and hide under rocks there.
Mutation 1:Better eyes
Mutation 2:Gender
Mutation 3: Hard eggs
continue to wait for prey
(god being an ambush predators so boring… i think i’ll either abandon this species soon or do something interesting with the next evolution)
Action: approch it to see if I can mate with it
I think:
- scout the area to find some food
- rest
- move to better place to be, with food
Whoops, my bad. I’ll get right on it. 
Action 1: Climb the rock face to see if there’s any small things hiding in it that I can eat.
Action 2: If the above fails, attempt to attack one of the whealetus for meat.
Action 3: If that too fails, search the sea bed some more for Ahyponomus.
Round 272 - P.1
~90.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 11 - None
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The tsunami that was gathering off the western coast of Tartarus has hit the land, taking countless helpless small animals with it, many of which die with the impacts of the water before others are left to die by being stranded out of water.
The plants on land that have been so successful - riverside algae - continue filling the air with oxygen and cooling the planet down. The average global temperature has now dropped to 14c, which is roughly the same as current day Earth but there have not yet been any major changes as a result.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 8
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Hatchling
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
You hatch out into very warm, clear water under daylight. You find a rock on the riverbed to hide under until it becomes dark when you poke out again. On either side of you is a rocky bank - to the front and back is the river. You are on the muddy riverbed. Floating along the river are animals with a blue, tubular body with lines of cilia along it and a jelly-like bell at the front end. There are tentacles around the mouth which exist on the centre of the upper face of the bell [Masticephalus recentibus]. Down below are animals with a tan bivalve shell with cirri protruding through the opening [Compcylindricus sous]. You can see downriver an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Diplopygus pugilus]. It is moving weakly but it is huge in comparison to you [this animal has been dropped into territory it is not able to survive long in but in which it is an unknown by the tsunami]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.2cm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 0.4/0.4 (100%) / 100%
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Cavuops tartarus
Latest Mutations: Heart, Gills
This is a nocturnal predatory arthropod with a heavily defended head. It lives throughout Tartarus.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 23cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 200 x 23/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.8 = 13NP per round)/
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish Water). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Night Vision 1 (at sides). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 3 (4 - carapace). UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Go somewhere dark and rest.
External Features: A calcified exoskeleton with a carapace and two other segments over the cephalothorax covers the skin, which contains mud-brown melanin pigments. A pair of antennae with chemoreceptors protrude forwards. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (large camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body. There are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body pumped by a heart and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Maurcolus proximus (LC), Hatchling
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
It is pitch black and cold in this water. Your antennae detect a rock face and the scent of an Allostoma ripleyii [egg-killing worm]. You start climbing up the rock face, half walking and half swimming, until the scent of the Allostoma becomes very strong. You reach out with your claws and find a crevice in the rock. You can feel the Allostoma with your antennae and grab it with your claws, cutting it in half before moving it to your mouth to eat. It’s a small morsel really and doesn’t give you much energy. You swim off from the rock face in pursuit of the Maurcolus whealetus [positive] you can sense below you. When you get to it, you attack with your claws but you cannot get through the exoskeleton. Finally, you turn your attention to the scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm] and walk across the seabed towards the source of the scent. It comes from below so you claw at the seabed - eventually your antennae touch the worm and you attack with your claws, easily slicing it in half. You then tear off chunks with your claws and eat. Some time later, there is a soft, sloping seabed below your feet and you can sense brine from a cold seep. The scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm], a Myostila bathyus [sea anemone] and an Inospongus rigidus [sea sponge] reaches you from the direction of the brine. You can feel a unnamed species [Positive] next to you with your antennae. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% / 6.3cm / 2 years 2 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 11.1/11.1 (100% - 40% left over growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Maurcolus proximus
Latest Mutations: Nesting behavior by laying eggs inside glass sponges . Offspring can then leave the protection of the sponges once they hatch. = 5, Hydrofoil-like protrusions on sides of the exoskeleton segments to generate passive lift in the deep sea pressures. = 3, Male and Female sexes = 4
A deep sea arthropod that feeds mainly on worms in the seabed of the deep ocean. Unlike Maurcolus repus, it has a number of strategies to improve breeding, a difficult feat in the dark depths; it has sexes, more eggs and releases them near glass sponges in the hope they flow inside the sponge for protection.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500-1500m deep)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 184 x 11/100 = 20.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.2 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.6 = 8.5NP per round)/ 20.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Small-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. High Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the front and sides, side monocular vision). Smell 1 (detects odours 1m from mouth). Chemoreception 1 (detects chemicals 1m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Touch 1.
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Plants, Digests 60%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce near Siliconia siliconia.
External Features: An exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue carotenoid pigments. There are two antennae protruding forwards in front of the mouth and it has chemoreceptors, odour receptors and touch receptors on it. A sharp rostrum also protrudes forwards. 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 claws are held at the front of the bod, followed by 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 lysozyme a and a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which have blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 10,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Sexes (+1 Evolution). Almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs and fan tail, boosts with hyponome.
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 0
Diplopygus pugilus (LC), Hatchling Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Coastal Shallows to the North-East of Tartarus
Swimming in front of you is an animal with a black, fish-shaped body. It has teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia lamnadens]. Folding your legs into a lobe, you glide towards it, boosting with your hyponome. You wind up your claws beneath you when you get close to the fish and then unleash them in powerful burst; your claws are slightly off target and graze the Organia, startling it. The startled fish makes a break for it across the reef and you follow. You catching it up again and attack with your claws again but the fish agilely dodges out the way and changes direction. You are slow to turn and the fish has slipped between a gap in the reef through which you try to follow but your inflexible body cannot. The Organia escapes and you are exhausted as well as prizeless. You are now at the edge of a reef of red, fan-shaped branches and yellow, funnel-shaped sponges as well as a blue encrusting of the rocks [Nyctopolypus genusia] [Xanthospongus aureus] [Halidiscus hodgsonsis]. Off the reef is a plain of sand in which an animal with a woodlouse-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fantail has dug a pit. It is armed with mandibles, two stingers on thin appendages and a pair of clawed chelipeds plus is equipped with two pairs of eyes - camera in front of compound - and three pairs of paddle-lined legs. A lure with an algae-like feature extends from the mouth and some have pouches on their underside [Haleglossus beveria, Zenzone]. Perched at the edge of the reef between some corals is an animal with a conical shell around the body up to the head, a beak, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads [Stenoceras eduoardi]. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 8cm / 1 month
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 11.8/16.9 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Diplopygus pugilus
Latest Mutations: Round Mouth, Improve Chemoreceptors
Diplopygus is a lobe-limbed arthropod with two fan tails, making it a proficient swimmer, as well as having a spring-loaded cheliped. It is a predator of both the open tropical seas and tropical estuary biomes. It is comparatively huge to any other animal alive at the time of its arrival. It has a larger mouth and better chemoreceptors than it’s predecessor, making it more successful.
Status: 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.
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 3
Haleglossus beveria (LC), Juvenile Male
Tropical Ocean (Early Spring - Day)
Shelf to the North-East of Tartarus
Your lure drifts out in front of you as you lie in a pit on the seabed, looking out over the clear, very warm water. Along comes an an animal that has a woodlouse-like exoskeleton that ends in a fantail. It is armed with mandibles and a pair of clawed chelipeds plus is equipped with two pairs of eyes - stalked camera in front of compound - and four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Caulops vulgarus]. It takes a bite of your lure disguised as an algae and the hooks gets caught in it’s mouth; all that’s left is for you to reel it in, which you do, dragging your victim helplessly across the seabed. When you have dragged it close enough, you emerge from your pit and slice off your victims head, killing it instantly. Then you eat. After several months, you have a dug a pit next to a reef, looking up at the reef wall. You are now at the edge of a reef of red, fan-shaped branches and yellow, funnel-shaped sponges as well as a blue encrusting of the rocks [Nyctopolypus genusia] [Xanthospongus aureus] [Halidiscus hodgsonsis]. Floating above the reef is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Diplopygus pugilus, Jellyfishmon]. Perched at the edge of the reef between some corals is an animal with a conical shell around the body up to the head, a beak, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads [Stenoceras eduoardi]. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% / 15.2cm / 11 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 30.6/30.6 (100% - 30% left 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.
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R.272 - P.2
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 1
-Unnamed (U), Hatchling_
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
You hatch out into pitch black, cold water that is thick and viscous. Nearby is a Masticephalus bathyus as it’s scent reaches your antennae. Paddling through the jelly-like water, you bump into it’s soft body and grab and impale it on your rostrum. This seems to kill it and you eat the corpse, pulling off flesh with your claws. Some time later, there is a soft, sloping seabed below your feet and you can sense brine from a cold seep - the water is no longer viscous. The scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm], a Myostila bathyus [sea anemone] and an Inospongus rigidus [sea sponge] reaches you from the direction of the brine. You can feel a Maurcolus proximus [Immortal] with your antennae. (3 + 1. Any idea for a name?)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.7cm / 7 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 3/3 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
Notes: None
Unnamed
Latest Mutations: 6 = Mutation 1:Better eyes, 5 = Mutation 2:Gender, 5 = Mutation 3: Hard eggs
The eyes which can see improved distances and which are placed forward on the head are useless in this deep ocean, so it is unclear why this deep sea arthropod evolved them. It also has genders, which means it has to work double as hard to find mates in the sparse deep. On the other hand, it’s reproduction is better than it’s predecessors because it produces more eggs and they are covered in leathery layer to protect them. It is a predator of the deep.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500-1500m deep)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 11cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 157.5 x 11/100 = 20.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 20.2 x 0.25 = 5.1NP per round (Needs to intake 5.1/0.6 = 8.5NP per round)/ 20.2NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Foul Taste. Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Low. Small-Body Metabolism. Subzero Metabolism. UV Resistance, Medium.
Perception: Chemoreception 0.5. Peripheral Vision 0.5. Sight 2. Smell 0.5. Touch 0.5.
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation 1. Dexterity 0.25. Digestion 0.5. Evolution 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 0.5. Filtration 1. Pierce Strength 0.5. Reach 0.25. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2.7. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 1.3. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: An exoskeleton with nine segments covers the the skin, which contains blue carotenoid pigments. There are two antennae protruding forwards in front of the mouth and it has chemoreceptors, odour receptors and touch receptors on it. A sharp rostrum also protrudes forwards. It has two eyes (camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) at the front of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Two chelipeds with claws are held at the front of the bod, followed by 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 lysozyme a and a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which have blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 tough eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Sexes - almost identical.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with legs and fan tail, boosts with hyponome
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 0
Organiavorius megapodis (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
The wall of water sweeps you up in it’s path and you tumble around the chaotic water uncontrollably, at the mercy of the water. The wave surges up the coast and you are carried far inland, still tumbling. After a long time of this, the wave starts to slow and then it comes to a complete stop before retreating back out the way it came. You get trapped in a pool of left behind water that slowly trickles away through a gap that you are too large and too inflexible to get through until you are suffocating in dry air. You cannot move yourself across land and so simply wait to run out of oxygen and perish. (1 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 23cm / 6 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Unnamed
Latest Mutations: 4 = Scales to hold melanin cause my skin can’t anymore. 6 = Size. Heart Efficiency = 3. Child Protection instincts = 3.
As well as a shell, this species is extra protected by a layer of scales, which also serves to hold the pigmentation of the animal. In addition to this, this predator is double the size of it’s predecessor.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)
Niche: Benthic Predator
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 46cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 140 x 46/100 = 64.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 64.4 x 0.25 = 16.1NP per round (Needs to intake 16.1/0.65 = 24.8NP per round)/ 64.4 x 0.75 = 48.3NP
Abilities: Air Spaces. Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Low. Subzero Metabolism. UV Resistance, Medium.
Perception: Chemoreception 0.5, Sight 1
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Dexterity 0.5, Digestion, Meat 0.5 (100%). Digestion, Plants 0.5. Evolution 1. Immunity 1, Filtration 1.7, Pierce Strength 1, Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, Stationary Respiration), Stamina 4.8, Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Speed 0.8, Swim Agility 0.3, Toughness 4. Tunnelling 0.5. 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 in scales. 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.
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You crawl through thick, cool, quite murky water towards the scent of chemicals from detritus and when you get to the patch you wave your cillia around and capture as much food as you can. This almost fills you up. The seabed moves as you are dragged along on a current and a sandbar, sticking up like a hill on the seabed comes into view. Along the current with you is a worm-like creature with a sharp beak [Ovodeinus cordus]. By the sandbar, you detect a greater amount of detritus and can see many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia [Copegyrinus pelagicus]. There is also an animal scouring across the sandbar. It has a conical shell around the body up to the head, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads. It is red [Atkinsonia primus, Fralegend]. From the other direction, where the flat sandy plain disappears into the gloom of water, comes the scent of another Atkinsonia primus. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.3mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 50% / 0.1/0.1 (95%) / 100%
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.
@fralegend015 - Points Stored = 1
Atkinsonia primus (U), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
The sight of another Atkinsonia primus beckons you over towards the sandbar which you crawl towards over the sandy seabed in the clear, blue sea. When you are part way towards it the other Atkinsonia starts moving towards you. You meet and successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. However, you are now even more exhausted. By the sandbar, sticking up out of the seabed, you detect a greater amount of detritus and can see many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia [Copegyrinus pelagicus]. There is also an animal with tubular body with lines of cilia along it and a jelly-like bell at the front end. There are tentacles lined with feather-like pinnules around the mouth which exist on the centre of the upper face of the bell near a worm-like creature with a beak [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning] [Ovodeinus cordus]. From the other direction, where the flat sandy plain disappears into the gloom of water, comes the scent of another Atkinsonia primus. (3 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 15cm / 1 year
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 14/20 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Atkinsonia primus
Latest Mutations: Tougher Eggs, Sexes, Crop
While it wanders the open ocean in search of microbes to filter, Atkinsonia can store food from plentiful places in its crop. It also searches for the opposite sex, a new development for this species. When it does reproduce, the eggs are tougher to withstand the wear and tear of the ocean better.
Status: U
Habitat: Tropical Upper Ocean, Tropical Shallows
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 15cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (137/10) x (15/10) = 20NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (20 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 10.8NP / 18NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immune System. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Food Storage. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance. Permeable Skin.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemicals 5m away). Sight 1 (Clear vision all around)
Stats: Agility 0.5. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (can break down multicellular matter, 10% off). Inflexibility 3. Intelligence 1. Filtration 2.5. Respiration 2 (10% off). Stamina 2.5. Strength 1. Support 1. Toughness 3. Evolution 1 (4 votes).
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed. The female responds to the stimuli of producing eggs by embedding them in her tentacles and tucking the tentacles under her body.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body almost completely covered by a torpedo-shaped, thick calcite shell, with red pigmentation in the thin skin layer. A mouth is surrounded by chemoreceptors and four tentacles covered in threads. There is also a pair of stalks with an eye on each side of the head. A hyponome is also found on the head and can be swivelled in multiple directions independently.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. An open circulatory system carries fluid across the body, and anti-freeze glycoproteins travel in the fluid. There is also a nephridium and muscles lay longitudinally along the body. A tube from the mouth meets the crop, then intestines, which leads to the anus. A brain in the head is connected to the nerve cord with branches of nerves, with a notochord running along side it. A testes and an ova can be found in females and males respectively. The shell is split into chambers with a siphuncle running through it, forming a phragmocone.
Locomotion Type: Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy. Active (20NP)
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 tougher eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female. (+1 Evolution)
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soon ill finally be able to evolve again
I almost forgot about this. Here is the waiting list. There is now room for two of you to join the game. I’ll give you a couple days to respond and then the highest in the list who replied gets to join:
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