Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

R.274 - P.2

@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
Bubbles are streaming forth from cracks in the ground and when some of them hit you, the water is so hot that it scorches your skin so you paddle away from the bubbles as quickly as possible. The tremors reach a crescendo and there is an almighty explosion. Suddenly ash bursts up from below, meaning you cannot see anything, except flashes of light from below, illuminating the lower parts of the ash cloud. Paddling through the ashcloud, the ash soon starts to become thinner and you can see open water past it. Finally, you break out into clear water and swim away from the disaster. Unfortunately, while swimming through the ashcloud you inadvertently swallowed lots of ash particles which have played havoc with your insides. It has caused so much damage that you perish. (3 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 45% / 1.1cm / 10 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

Mollibarmis noimoxekino

Latest Mutations: Ganglion on Arms = 4, Improve Chemoreception = 6, External Digestive Enzymes = 5
This crinoid-like species has evolved to have it’s ganglia at the base of each arm rather than a central ganglia, meaning that each arm has greater reflexes and ability but that coordination of the animal as a whole is slightly worse as a result. Essentially, it’s brains are now in it’s arms. Mollibarmis is a filter-feeder. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike it’s predecessors and can smell over vast distances - 100 metres, to be precise. The strangest adaptation of the animal is that has a stomach that it could evert onto it’s chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with it’s stomach. This means it could eat food bigger than it’s mouth, and with the stronger acids could even eat food that has begun to rot. However, as a filter-feeder it cannot use this.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 158 x 2.5/100 = 4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.6 = 1.7NP per round)/ 4 x 0.75 = 3NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Eversible Stomach. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 4 (detects chemicals 100m from tube feet). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 1.5. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with tube feet. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet carrying chemoreceptors, followed by the circular mouth. It has teeth in it’s mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system; the stomach, located after a short esophagus, is split into two parts and one pouch can be everted. The is a ganglia at the base of each arm, and forms a radial nerve system which is connected to a nerve cord that runs down the rest of the body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.

@fralegend015 - Points Stored = 1
Myopsceras stipula (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You swim away from the cracks that are breaking through the seabed, through which bubbles are streaming forth like a jet, just as the tremors are reaching a crescendo. The escaped boiling water erupting from the volcano from below just hits you before you go, scalding you - this causes you to flee fast from the danger, aiming to move away from the pain, as fast as you can that is. Unfortunately, you are not very fast but you have avoided the danger. Water clear of cracks lies in front of you. Suddenly, the ground opens up beneath you and a jet of boiling water bursts out and cooks you alive. You cannot escape before the heat overcomes you and kills you. (3 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 11.3cm / 6 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

Myopsceras stipula

Latest Mutations: 4 = 1: become bigger
5 = 2: make the eye stalks retractable to defend them from damage
3 = 2: make folds of thin tissue that have an high concentration of veins inside the hyponome for better respiration
The first species to be discovered by Fralegend, this Oliverian cephalopod filter-feeds across the southern temperate ocean by waving around it’s thread-lined tentacles. With the thick calcite shell, it’s practically invulnerable; one of it’s vulnerable sites (the eyes) can now be retracted and have a protective eyelid. It is a bigger animal than Atkinsonia primus.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 45cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 125 x 45/100 = 56.3NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 56.3 x 0.25 = 14.1NP per round (Needs to intake 14.1/0.7 = 20.1NP per round)/ 56.3 x 0.8 = 45NP
Abilities: Air Space. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Food Storage. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Medium UV Resistance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin.
Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 1.
Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, 70%). Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Dexterity 0.5. Evolution 1. Filtration 1.7. Immunity 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 80%). Stamina 3.7. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility -0.5. Swim Agility 0.3. Swim Speed 0.5. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Agility -0.5. Walk Speed 0.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: At the front are the four thread-bearing cirri, followed by the circular 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 tan melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on retractable stalks through holes in the shell and with eyelids. Flaps of skin line the sides. 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. A crop lays behind the mouth. 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. Males: Have black spots on flaps.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

@UndyingHazard - Points Stored = 1
Lepidoderes immortalii (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out of your egg into chaos; the ground is shaking and breaking apart, ash is being spilled out into the water and bright, flashing magma is pouring out across the seabed. The water is thick for you at this age, like swimming through jelly, and the magma catches up quick. The boiling, liquified rock swamps over you and you are instantly scorched to death. (3 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on. Sorry to introduce you to the game this way but it’s what the dice rolls dealt.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.6mm / 0 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

Lepidoderes immortalii

Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6 Scales become more flexible = 4 Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)

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Action 1: rest.
Action 2: kill and eat an organia

action: rest in ditch

Darn, oh well. I’ll go ahead and be reborn.

Action: Proceed to be rebirthed

@agenttine, please reply if you can.

Round 275 - P.1
~91.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 93 - None

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@Agenttine - Points Stored = 9
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Juvenile
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
You swim towards the scent of freshwater, through the very warm, murky water. It’s also dark because it is night and you can only just about see. You paddle your legs and fantail, boosting with your hyponome and pass the other animals without issue. Soon, you pass from murky, brackish water into clear freshwater and head down to the riverbed where you stop doing much movement. This rest recuperates a lot of your energy. You rest through the day and then it gets dark again so you become active once again. In front of you, grazing on algae, 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 encephalus]. Floating above you through the water are a few 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]. Further down river is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa jellyfishmonii]. (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: 50% / 11.5cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 12.7/18.1 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None

Cavuops tartarus

Latest Mutations: Heart, Gills
This is a nocturnal predatory arthropod with a heavily defended head. It lives throughout Tartarus.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 23cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 200 x 23/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.8 = 13NP per round)/
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish Water). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Night Vision 1 (at sides). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 3 (4 - carapace). UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Go somewhere dark and rest.
External Features: A calcified exoskeleton with a carapace and two other segments over the cephalothorax covers the skin, which contains mud-brown melanin pigments. A pair of antennae with chemoreceptors protrude forwards. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (large camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body. There are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body pumped by a heart and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.

@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Maurcolus proximus (LC), Hatchling
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
You hatch out into water that it is cold and very dark - you can see nothing. You feel the seabed below your feet. Your antennae picks up the scent of many chemicals - the boiling, enriched water of a hydrothermal vent is nearby. There is also the scent of a few Neoxyskulus bathyus [filtering worms that lives in burrows in rocks] and a Myostila bathyus [sea anemone]. Away from this is the scent of an Ahyponomus minor, slightly below ground. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.1mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.2/0.2 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 1.5)
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 very warm, blue water in a hole with many animals with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Diplopygus pugilus]. There’s a slab of meat in the middle of the hole and all of you start gathering over the meat, tearing off chunks and feeding them to yourself. Some time later, you have moulted to allow yourself to grow. You look around you now in a shallow lagoon, surrounded by walls of sand - green seaweed grows in the middle of the seabed. On the fronds are animals with round shells above a gastropod foot, a pair of tentacles around the mouth and two eyes on stalks [Camerotheca acutastomus]. Shuffling below the seaweed are animals that have a woodlouse-like, green 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 viridus]. Next to them, poking through the seaweed is ananimal with a conical shell around the body up to the head, a beak, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads. It is red [Stenoceras edouardi]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 8cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 16.9/16.9 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (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), Subadult Male
Tropical Ocean (Early Spring - Day)
Shelf to the North-East of Tartarus
The water is very warm and clear as you reduce all your movement in the pit you dug out. As you are resting, some tentacles appear across the seabed and end up wrapped around you. They pull you towards them and drag you into a hard beak which chomps down on you, killing you. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% / 15.2cm / 11 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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.

@Deathwake - Points Stored = 0
Organiavorius megapodis (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
You sit on the seabed in the cool, quite murky water and reduce your movement as much as you can. You regain some energy and are no longer exhausted. You are in an area in which you are on a sandbar, looking over the surrounding area. Above you are many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia followed by a worm-like animal with a beak [Ctenella primus] [Ostrorhynchus strictus]. Deeper than the sandbar is a patch of algae on which is feeding 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]. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 6.9cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 5.8/9.7 (60%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Organiavorius megapodis

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.

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@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out into cool, quite murky water, flowing along on a current. The water is very thick for you at this size. You immediately move towards the scent of marine snow drifting on the current, waving your feathery pinnules and moving any detritus caught into your mouth with your tube feet. Some time passes, and you grow into a juvenile. You are still flowing along on a current and the sandy, empty seafloor can be seen some distance below - elsewhere, the water just fades into a gloomy mass. Lot’s of detritus flows along the current. Floating to one side of you 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 [Myopsceras stipula, Fralegend]. Further on in the current there swims a black, fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins with spines at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii, Undying]. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 0.6cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 1/1 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Mollibarmis noimoxekino

Latest Mutations: Ganglion on Arms = 4, Improve Chemoreception = 6, External Digestive Enzymes = 5
This crinoid-like species has evolved to have it’s ganglia at the base of each arm rather than a central ganglia, meaning that each arm has greater reflexes and ability but that coordination of the animal as a whole is slightly worse as a result. Essentially, it’s brains are now in it’s arms. Mollibarmis is a filter-feeder. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike it’s predecessors and can smell over vast distances - 100 metres, to be precise. The strangest adaptation of the animal is that has a stomach that it could evert onto it’s chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with it’s stomach. This means it could eat food bigger than it’s mouth, and with the stronger acids could even eat food that has begun to rot. However, as a filter-feeder it cannot use this.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 158 x 2.5/100 = 4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.6 = 1.7NP per round)/ 4 x 0.75 = 3NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Eversible Stomach. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 4 (detects chemicals 100m from tube feet). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 1.5. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with tube feet. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet carrying chemoreceptors, followed by the circular mouth. It has teeth in it’s mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system; the stomach, located after a short esophagus, is split into two parts and one pouch can be everted. The is a ganglia at the base of each arm, and forms a radial nerve system which is connected to a nerve cord that runs down the rest of the body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.

@fralegend015 - Points Stored = 1
Myopsceras stipula (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out into cool, quite murky water, flowing along on a current and the sandy, empty seafloor can be seen some distance below - elsewhere, the water just fades into a gloomy mass. Lot’s of detritus flows along the current. Floating to one side of you is an animals 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 [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning]. Further on in the current there swims a black, fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins with spines at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii, Undying]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.5cm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.3/0.5 (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Myopsceras stipula

Latest Mutations: 4 = 1: become bigger
5 = 2: make the eye stalks retractable to defend them from damage
3 = 2: make folds of thin tissue that have an high concentration of veins inside the hyponome for better respiration
The first species to be discovered by Fralegend, this Oliverian cephalopod filter-feeds across the southern temperate ocean by waving around it’s thread-lined tentacles. With the thick calcite shell, it’s practically invulnerable; one of it’s vulnerable sites (the eyes) can now be retracted and have a protective eyelid. It is a bigger animal than Atkinsonia primus.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 45cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 125 x 45/100 = 56.3NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 56.3 x 0.25 = 14.1NP per round (Needs to intake 14.1/0.7 = 20.1NP per round)/ 56.3 x 0.8 = 45NP
Abilities: Air Space. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Food Storage. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Medium UV Resistance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin.
Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 1.
Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, 70%). Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Dexterity 0.5. Evolution 1. Filtration 1.7. Immunity 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 80%). Stamina 3.7. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility -0.5. Swim Agility 0.3. Swim Speed 0.5. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Agility -0.5. Walk Speed 0.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: At the front are the four thread-bearing cirri, followed by the circular 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 tan melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on retractable stalks through holes in the shell and with eyelids. Flaps of skin line the sides. 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. A crop lays behind the mouth. 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. Males: Have black spots on flaps.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

@UndyingHazard - Points Stored = 1
Lepidoderes immortalii (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out into cool, quite murky water, flowing along on a current. The water is very thick for you at this size. You can see an animal with a translucent bell and several tentacles dangling from it in front of you [Octoplocamus sensus]. You move forward and begin eating the jellyfish. Some time later, you are still flowing along on a current and the sandy, empty seafloor can be seen some distance below - elsewhere, the water just fades into a gloomy mass. Lot’s of detritus flows along the current. Further on in the current there swims an animal with a 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 [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning]. Next to it there 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 [Myopsceras stipula, Fralegend]. (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: 35% / 9.1cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Lepidoderes immortalii

Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6 Scales become more flexible = 4 Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)

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Yeatt, new round!
Actions: kill the Organia, eat it, rest some more.

finaly a good luck!

  1. swim away from any big animles
  2. rest
  3. find a food and fillter them

Action: rest

Actions:

  1. Search for and eat whatever edible matter comes my way.
  2. Find a place to sleep, if there is no shelter try to burrow under the sand so I’m concealed.
  3. search for more food.

I’ll store the bonus point for later.

@AgentTine, @immortaldragon and @jellyfishmon, please reply if you can.

Whoops, my bad.

Action 1: Stay away from boiling water.

Action 2: Stay wary of the anemone.

Action 3: Hunt for Ahyponomus under the ground.

Round 276 - P.1
~92 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 82 - None

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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 = 9
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Juvenile
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
NOT YET VOTED
You swim towards the scent of freshwater, through the very warm, murky water. It’s also dark because it is night and you can only just about see. You paddle your legs and fantail, boosting with your hyponome and pass the other animals without issue. Soon, you pass from murky, brackish water into clear freshwater and head down to the riverbed where you stop doing much movement. This rest recuperates a lot of your energy. You rest through the day and then it gets dark again so you become active once again. In front of you, grazing on algae, 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 encephalus]. Floating above you through the water are a few 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]. Further down river is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Pultrypa jellyfishmonii]. (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: 50% / 11.5cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 12.7/18.1 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None

Cavuops tartarus

Latest Mutations: Heart, Gills
This is a nocturnal predatory arthropod with a heavily defended head. It lives throughout Tartarus.
Status: NT
Habitat: Freshwater & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 23cm (length - head to tail)
Nutritional Need: 200 x 23/100 = 36.2NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 36.2 x 0.25 = 9.1NP per round (Needs to intake 9.1/0.8 = 13NP per round)/
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoregulation (Freshwater, Brackish Water). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Night Vision 1 (at sides). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3 (100% Meat, Digests 80%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 3 (4 - carapace). UV Resistance 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with mandibles and chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce. 6. Light > Go somewhere dark and rest.
External Features: A calcified exoskeleton with a carapace and two other segments over the cephalothorax covers the skin, which contains mud-brown melanin pigments. A pair of antennae with chemoreceptors protrude forwards. Around the mouth is a pair of strong, horizontal mandibles. It has two eyes (large camera eyes with calcite lenses that change shape and that have no blind spot) either side of the head. Behind these on each side is a (typical apposition) compound eye. Blue and green come cells can be found in all these eyes. Two chelipeds with strong claws are held at the front of the body. There are four pairs of paddle-lined legs with gills. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains a relatively small number of piezolytes. Aquatic spiracles, one on each side behind the head lead from the outside to the inside. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Blood vessels run all throughout the body pumped by a heart and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the large protonephridium and near the upper wall is the enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and coiled intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Almost identical male and females.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Usually moves by undulating fan tail while paddling with legs and propels itself with the hyponome. Can walk over surfaces.

@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 1
Maurcolus proximus (LC), Juvenile
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
The scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm] reaches you through the cold, very dark water and you walk off towards it, getting further from the hydrothermal vent and the scent of a Myostila bathyus [sea anemone]. Soon, the scent becomes very strong and emanates from below you, so you dig down until your antennae come into contact with the soft-skinned worm. You feel the seabed below your feet and can sense another Ahyponomus in the distance towards a Pulchellia chartus [tube anemone]. Above you are some Masticephalus bathyus [tiny, ciliated filter-feeders] and an Allostoma ripleyii [tiny, sharp-beaked, egg-eating worm]. The scents of the hydrothermal vent are faint but reach you from behind. (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: 25% / 2.8cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 5.1 / 5.1 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 1.5)
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
In the very warm, clear blue water, you swim towards an animal, enshrined in seaweed, with a conical shell around the body up to the head, a beak, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads. It is red [Stenoceras edouardi]. Whilst you are gliding on your folded up legs and boosting with your hyponome, you wind up your claws, ready to attack. You get to the animal and launch your claws which cause a scratch in the big animal. However, the predator lashes out with it’s tentacles and bats you away, sending you spinning through the water. The Stenoceras slowly moves away across the seabed, a couple of cuts on it’s side. You look around you now in a shallow lagoon, surrounded by walls of sand - green seaweed grows in the middle of the seabed. As well as the Stenoceras, on the fronds are animals with round shells above a gastropod foot, a pair of tentacles around the mouth and two eyes on stalks [Camerotheca acutastomus]. Shuffling below the seaweed are animals that have a woodlouse-like, green 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 viridus]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 8cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 11.8/16.9 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Very Warm (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), Subadult Male
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Day)
A North-East Tartarus River
You hatch out into very warm, clear water, out of the pouch of an adult Haleglossus and start to float along on the current. You float into a pool in the side of the river but the water here is absolutely boiling. It’s too hot for you and you have to make a quick escape. You scramble through the thick, hot water towards where the water is feeling cooler. The heat is starting to become too much until you reach tolerable water; the temperature now suits you and you are comfortable. This adventure exhausted you. You can see the river banks either side through the clear water over the pebbly riverbed on which are several animals with a bivalve shell with cirri protruding through the opening [Compcylindricus sous]. Swimming downriver is an animal with a fish-shaped body. It has square teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia encephalus]. Ensconced under a rock is an animal with a woodlouse-like, mud-brown exoskeleton with a head carapace and ending 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 - and four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Cavuops tartarus] (2)
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.6mm / 1 day
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.1/0.3 (45%) / 100%
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A

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.

@Deathwake - Points Stored = 0
Organiavorius megapodis (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
In the cool, quite murky water you crawl along the seafloor towards 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]. However, before you get to move much an animal with a fish-shaped body comes zooming overhead. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Uteenessichthys grandus]. This predatory fish makes it to the other fish quickly and snaps it up in it’s jaws leaving nothing behind for you but a cloud of blood. You are in an area in which you are on a sandbar, looking over the surrounding area. Above you are many cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia followed by a worm-like animal with a beak [Ctenella primus] [Ostrorhynchus strictus]. Amongst them is an animal with a fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Eolamnella simplex]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 6.9cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 3.9/9.7 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Organiavorius megapodis

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.

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@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Subadult
Temperate Shallows (Late Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
By rowing your cillia through the endless void of water around you, you chug along ahead of the animal with a conical shell around the body up to the head, a beak, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads [Myopsceras stipula, Fralegend]. You are heading towards the scent of lots of marine detritus. The animal with a fish-shaped body swims past you. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins with spines at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii, Undying]. After swimming a reasonable distance and getting to the detritus cloud, you rest because you are getting tired and allow yourself to float along on the current. A lot of energy is recuperated. Once you are done resting you wave your feathery pinnules in the current and catch lots of detritus, moving it to your mouth with your many tube feet. A long time passes - you are now a subadult -, in which you survive through summer, autumn, winter and spring again, feeding successfully. You are swimming above a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gathers above the sandbar and moving among them 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]. Following them is a worm-like animal with a beak [Ovodeinus cordus]. There is also an animal with a round shell with pectoral fins [Pteryphysis volanus]. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 2.1cm / 1 year, 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 3.4/3.4 (100% - 60% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Mollibarmis noimoxekino

Latest Mutations: Ganglion on Arms = 4, Improve Chemoreception = 6, External Digestive Enzymes = 5
This crinoid-like species has evolved to have it’s ganglia at the base of each arm rather than a central ganglia, meaning that each arm has greater reflexes and ability but that coordination of the animal as a whole is slightly worse as a result. Essentially, it’s brains are now in it’s arms. Mollibarmis is a filter-feeder. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike it’s predecessors and can smell over vast distances - 100 metres, to be precise. The strangest adaptation of the animal is that has a stomach that it could evert onto it’s chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with it’s stomach. This means it could eat food bigger than it’s mouth, and with the stronger acids could even eat food that has begun to rot. However, as a filter-feeder it cannot use this.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any meat it can get.
Size: 2.5cm (from cirri to end)
Nutritional Need: 158 x 2.5/100 = 4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 4 x 0.25 = 1NP per round (Needs to intake 1/0.6 = 1.7NP per round)/ 4 x 0.75 = 3NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Eversible Stomach. Exothermic. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Small-Body Circulation. Solid Digestion. Subzero Metabolism.
Perception: Chemoreception 4 (detects chemicals 100m from tube feet). Sight 1 (see blurrily on ventral side, monocular vision). Light Sensing (dorsal side).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 1.5. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 60%). Filtration 3. Immunity 2. Respiration 3.5 (Stationary Respiration, Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 25% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Swim Stability 2. Toughness 3. Viscosity 1. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with tube feet. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: The cylindrical body with a jelly-filled dome has yellow skin. There is an endoskeleton of ossicles and they are arranged in plates in a up around the front called a theca. At the front are arms lined with feather-like pinnules lined with tube feet carrying chemoreceptors, followed by the circular mouth. It has teeth in it’s mouth. There are six pairs of gill slits. Along the body are four membranes with lines of cilia on them. On the ventral side of the body is a pinhole eye. At the bottom is a root-like holdfast.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. A water vascular system carries water from the tube feet to the main canals that radiate from the central canal around the mouth, and also from the madroporite. The body has a hemacoel and a few small blood vessels from the gills. The blood is violet because it contains hemerythrin. Anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol flows around the body. It has a gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system; the stomach, located after a short esophagus, is split into two parts and one pouch can be everted. The is a ganglia at the base of each arm, and forms a radial nerve system which is connected to a nerve cord that runs down the rest of the body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddles with cilia.

@fralegend015 - Points Stored = 1
Myopsceras stipula (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
As you float around aimlessly on the current of cool, quite murky water, you limit your movement to try and recuperate some energy. The animal with a fish-shaped body swims closer. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins with spines at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii, Undying]. The Lepidoderes floats next to you for a bit then suddenly bites out and takes off one of your tentacles, leaving only a bloody stump. In pain, you swim away as best as you can, gliding forwards with your hyponome, which loses you a lot of energy and leaves you exhausted. When you come to a stop, you are still flowing along on a current and the sandy, empty seafloor can be seen some distance below - elsewhere, the water just fades into a gloomy mass. Lot’s of detritus flows along the current. In front of you is 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 [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning]. Behind you in the current there swims a fish-shaped body eating your detached tentacle. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins with spines at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii, Undying]. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.5cm / 1 day
Health: Exhausted, Bleeding
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 0.2/0.5 (35%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: Missing tentacle

Myopsceras stipula

Latest Mutations: 4 = 1: become bigger
5 = 2: make the eye stalks retractable to defend them from damage
3 = 2: make folds of thin tissue that have an high concentration of veins inside the hyponome for better respiration
The first species to be discovered by Fralegend, this Oliverian cephalopod filter-feeds across the southern temperate ocean by waving around it’s thread-lined tentacles. With the thick calcite shell, it’s practically invulnerable; one of it’s vulnerable sites (the eyes) can now be retracted and have a protective eyelid. It is a bigger animal than Atkinsonia primus.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 45cm (length - front to back)
Nutritional Need: 125 x 45/100 = 56.3NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 56.3 x 0.25 = 14.1NP per round (Needs to intake 14.1/0.7 = 20.1NP per round)/ 56.3 x 0.8 = 45NP
Abilities: Air Space. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Food Storage. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Medium UV Resistance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin.
Perception: Chemoreception 1. Sight 1.
Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, 70%). Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Dexterity 0.5. Evolution 1. Filtration 1.7. Immunity 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 80%). Stamina 3.7. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility -0.5. Swim Agility 0.3. Swim Speed 0.5. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Agility -0.5. Walk Speed 0.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.
External Features: At the front are the four thread-bearing cirri, followed by the circular 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 tan melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on retractable stalks through holes in the shell and with eyelids. Flaps of skin line the sides. 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. A crop lays behind the mouth. 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. Males: Have black spots on flaps.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

@UndyingHazard - Points Stored = 1
Lepidoderes immortalii (U), Subadult
Temperate Shallows (Late Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
In the cool, quite murky water, you swim through a current towards 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 [Myopsceras stipula, Fralegend]. You pass an animal with a 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 [Mollibarmis noimoxekino, Doomlightning]. When you get to the Myopsceras, you hang around it for a moment before you suddenly dart forward and bite off a tentacle. You carry it off, leaving the wounded Myopsceras behind and chow down on the tentacle. A long time passes - you are now a subadult -, in which you survive through summer, autumn, winter and spring again, feeding and avoiding predators successfully. You are swimming above a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gather above the sandbar and moving among them 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]. You can see an animal with a translucent bell and several tentacles dangling from it in front of you [Octoplocamus sensus]. In the distance you can see an animal with a fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, eyes on the side, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Achmirocauda lateraloculus]. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year, 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (100% - 40% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None

Lepidoderes immortalii

Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6 Scales become more flexible = 4 Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)

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Action 1: find a tasty snack
Action II: rest
Action three: eat more food.

Action: Oh boy, rest again

Action 1: keep an eye on the Achmirocauda, and swim away if it gets too close for comfort.
Action 2: search for food again.
Action 3: find a secure place to sleep.

yes!

  1. try to find any Mollibarmis
  2. filler more
    3.rest