@AgentTine, @immortaldragon, @zenzonegaming please reply if you can.
Whoops, my bad.
Action 1: Be mindful of any anemones.
Action 2: Be mindful of hydrothermal vents.
Action 3: Continue hunting Ahyponomus.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL GOOD NIGHT
Round 277 - P.1
~92.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 2 - None
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- Penalty Point (Take a point off an opponent) = 1pt
- Bonus Point (Give a point to yourself or another player if you are feeling kind) = 2pts
- Action Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an action) = 3pts
- Saving Grace (Be saved from death and given a second chance. Must be active a round before death) = 3pts
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- High Roller (Roll a 6 for action or evolution) = 6pts
- Evo Trademark (Block other future species from evolving a chosen feature that you have) = 7pts
- Evo Unlock (Unlock for yourself a previously blocked evolutionary feature) = 7pts
- Call of the Wild (Summon a random natural disaster) = 8pts
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. Itās 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), Subadult
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 towards the scent of a Pulchellia chartus [tube 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 cut the worm into pieces with your claws and feed. A long time passes and you grow into a subadult, successfully feeding and moulting. Currently, you are exhausted from a recent moult and your skin is still soft. Below your feet you can feel the seabed except for your front pair which have reached an edge. From in front and downwards comes the scent of a Farynxoskulus bathyus [pelagic, filter-feeding worm]. There are a lot of Gorgonia magnapolypa [coral] scents reaching your antennae from along the edge. Behind you is the faint scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 8.3cm / 3 years
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 15.2/15.2 (100% - 50% 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), Juvenile Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Coastal Shallows to the North-East of Tartarus
You head into the seaweed in the middle of the lagoon where there 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]. Switching your legs into lobes, you glide towards one and burst forward with your hyponome, winding up your claws. When you get close to it, you release the pent up claws which are thrusted forward at great speed, closing around the body of your prey and cutting almost right through it - the Caulops lays dead with itās body almost in half and blood filling the water. You feed on the corpse, breaking off chunks in your claws and passing them to your mandibles. Some time passes where you grow and feed successfully, avoiding predation long enough to become a juvenile. You are exhausted from recently moulting and your skin is currently soft and unprotected. You are in an area in which you are on a sandbar, looking over the surrounding area. Above you are many cylindrical, transparent animal with cillia [Copegyrinus pelagicus] and swimming through them is an animal with a black, fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, upwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia lamnadens]. Swimming in deeper water is an animal with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail. It has a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Diplopygus ramstirpes]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 19.3cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 39.5/39.5 (100% - 20% 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 itās 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
NOT YET VOTED
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. Itās 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 itās 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 itās 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
As you lay on the sandbar in the busy, cool, quite murky water, you feel some of your energy being lost; you feel yourself becoming weaker and weaker. You feel a strange sensation in places on the exposed part of the body and then see a tiny transparent jellyfish around you [Bedella temperatus]. A few more float off and drift away. Now, you feel exhausted, weak and are starving. 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]. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 6.9cm / 3 months
Health: Exhausted, Starving, Weak
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 1.9/9.7 (20%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Organiavorius megapodis
Latest Mutations: 4 = Scales to hold melanin cause my skin canāt 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 itās 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), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Late Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
A few animals with a tubular body with lines of cilia along it and a jelly-like bell at the front end start appearing in the cool, quite murky water. 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]. You swim amongst them as you filter with your feather-like pinnules, your tube feet passing food into your mouth. Once you have fed, you rest by floating in the water and stopping most of your activities. After some time in this lifestyle you have grown into an adult, capable of reproducing. You are swimming above a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gathers above the sandbar and moving among them are several Mollibarmis. There are also 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: 100% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 4/4 (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 itās 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, itās brains are now in itās arms. Mollibarmis is a filter-feeder. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike itās 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 itās chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with itās stomach. This means it could eat food bigger than itās 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 itās 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 = 2
Myopsceras stipula (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
In the cool, quite murky water, flowing on the current above the distant sandy seafloor, you reduce your own activity and thereby rest. Nothing comes by to bother you while you are resting and so you are able to recover enough energy from this that you are no longer exhausted. However, you are now starving. 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. Lotās of detritus flows along the current, being filtered by animals with a 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 lepusensis]. There is also an animal with a round shell and pectoral fins [Pteryphysis volanus] and one with a worm-shaped body with two whorls of cirri around the mouth and a two pairs of pinhole eyes [Entaops glandus]. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.5cm / 1 day
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 0.1/0.5 (15%) / 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 itās thread-lined tentacles. With the thick calcite shell, itās practically invulnerable; one of itās 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
An illness takes over your body, making you feel weak and tired. You are not able to do anything except float there and ride out the illness. Fortunately, it soon passes and you are completely back to normal. You are swimming above a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gather above the sandbar and an animal with a worm-shaped body with two whorls of cirri around the mouth and two pairs of pinhole eyes is now swimming by [Entaops glandus] and further along, having already floated past is an animal with a translucent bell and several tentacles dangling from it in front of you [Octoplocamus sensus]. Below you is 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]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year, 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 8.3/10.4 (80%) / 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: eat the simplex
Actions 2:rest up.
Iām totally not dead, yeah, Iāll be fine
After alot of death, its finally the time to do again:
1.breed, I think
2. Filter food
3. Breed again
Action 1: eat something, possibly the entaops.
Action 2: keep an eye on the Achmirocauda and swim away if it gets too close.
Action 3: search for a place to rest, if there is no cover; iāll burry myself under thin layer of sand for camoflauge.
Action: search for food
To those who arenāt on Discord, I wanted to wish you a merry Christmas! Hope you all have a great day!
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Happy new year everyone!
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Thereās a lot to look forward to in the game this year!
- Thereās bound to be lotās of exciting new species.
- Plants are almost certainly to properly colonise land which means a whole new world to explore!
- Ups and downs in the path of the wild - I have to forewarn you of a massive event heading your way.
The first round of the year will be out soon but first I want to see if we can update the game. So, I want to know if you have any ideas to improve the game?
Oh, something else I wanted. Can you all tell me on what round you last evolved (if you have that is)? I want to see if itās taking too long to evolve.
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Heres some ideas to improve the game:
1. shorter waiting list
I personally think the game is fine as it currently is. I canāt think of any ways to improve it off the top of my head. And Iām not entirely sure what round the species Iām playing as last evolved, but Iām pretty sure it was quite a while back.
Round 278 - P.1
~92.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 60 - None
Meta
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Reward Shop
Rewards are subject to change.
- Penalty Point (Take a point off an opponent) = 1pt
- Bonus Point (Give a point to yourself or another player if you are feeling kind) = 2pts
- Action Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an action) = 3pts
- Saving Grace (Be saved from death and given a second chance. Must be active a round before death) = 3pts
- Evo Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an evolution) = 4pts
- New Order (Add another order to your action) = 5pts
- High Roller (Roll a 6 for action or evolution) = 6pts
- Evo Trademark (Block other future species from evolving a chosen feature that you have) = 7pts
- Evo Unlock (Unlock for yourself a previously blocked evolutionary feature) = 7pts
- Call of the Wild (Summon a random natural disaster) = 8pts
The plants on land that have been so successful - riverside algae - continue filling the air with oxygen and cooling the planet down. The temperature has now cooled to an average of 13c overall but itās not yet enough to cause any massive changes.
@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. Itās 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), Subadult
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
NOT YET VOTED
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 towards the scent of a Pulchellia chartus [tube 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 cut the worm into pieces with your claws and feed. A long time passes and you grow into a subadult, successfully feeding and moulting. Currently, you are exhausted from a recent moult and your skin is still soft. Below your feet you can feel the seabed except for your front pair which have reached an edge. From in front and downwards comes the scent of a Farynxoskulus bathyus [pelagic, filter-feeding worm]. There are a lot of Gorgonia magnapolypa [coral] scents reaching your antennae from along the edge. Behind you is the faint scent of an Ahyponomus minor [worm]. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 8.3cm / 3 years
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 15.2/15.2 (100% - 50% 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), Juvenile Male
Tropical Ocean (Day)
Coastal Shallows to the North-East of Tartarus
The water around you is clear and hot. You swim your way to a bunch of seaweed and rest on the seafloor next to it. Some of the seaweed is moving as if being pushed apart. The skin of your exoskeleton is slowly hardening. The movement is getting closer. However, your skin getting tougher and you are feeling more energised. You swim upwards but find your movement is stopped - you thrust yourself forwards again but you cannot go anywhere and it is actually causing you pain. A large claw has grabbed you around your middle and wonāt let go. You struggle desperately to get away from the pain but it merely clamps itās claw more tightly until eventually it crushes your critical systems and you lie dead in itās arms. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 19.3cm / 4 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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 itās 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
NOT YET VOTED
As you lay on the sandbar in the busy, cool, quite murky water, you feel some of your energy being lost; you feel yourself becoming weaker and weaker. You feel a strange sensation in places on the exposed part of the body and then see a tiny transparent jellyfish around you [Bedella temperatus]. A few more float off and drift away. Now, you feel exhausted, weak and are starving. 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]. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 6.9cm / 3 months
Health: Exhausted, Starving, Weak
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 1.9/9.7 (20%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Haleglossus beveria
Latest Mutations: Fix the eggs = 6, Hatchling stage = 3, Calculations = 1, Chemicals = 3, Memory = 3
A predatory ambush hunter that lures prey in with a lure that resembles algae, Haleglossus name lives throughout the tropical ocean, Olympia, Delphi, Aeaea and Tartarus. In the opposite vein to itās 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 itās 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
Slowly, you move yourself across the sandy bottom of the cool, quite murky sea towards 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]. Your prey is moving around in circles but staying in relatively the same place as you move agonisingly slowly towards it. You are getting close and reach out your tentacles to grab it when the fish suddenly darts away. It moves downwards where it begins to tear at a corpse; again, you move slowly towards it but this time you successfully wrap your tentacles around it and drag it into your waiting beak, which crushes itās body. You eat itās remains and, once done, you stop moving so much and regain some energy. You now feel much stronger in many aspects. After your rest, you are still close to the sandbar in the busy, cool, quite murky water. Above the sandbar 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]. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 6.9cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 7.8/9.7 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Organiavorius megapodis
Latest Mutations: 4 = Scales to hold melanin cause my skin canāt 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 itās 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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Thanks for the new round stealth!
Action 1: eat another simplex
Action 3: find a hiding place
Action 3: sleep more.
R.278 - P.2
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Late Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You can see an animal with a tubular body with lines of cilia along it and a jelly-like bell at the front end floating through the cool, quite murky water. 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]. Driven by the urge to reproduce, you row towards it. Eventually you get there but the other Mollibarmis is not receptive to your advances. You have wasted your energy and whatās more is you have swum away from the food. You are swimming near a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gathers above the sandbar and moving among them are several Mollibarmis. There are also 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]. (2)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 3.2/4 (80%) / 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 itās 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, itās brains are now in itās arms. Mollibarmis is a filter-feeder. The chemoreceptors of Mollibarmis are located on the tube feet, unlike itās 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 itās chosen target and start to turn digest it externally and form it into a soup, which is then pulled back into the body with itās stomach. This means it could eat food bigger than itās 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 itās 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 = 2
Myopsceras stipula (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
In the cool, quite murky water, flowing on the current above the distant sandy seafloor, you wave your arms - apart from your missing arm, of course - in the water and catch food on your bristles, sweeping it into your mouth. This ends your starvation. 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. Lotās of detritus flows along the current, being filtered by animals with a 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 lepusensis]. There is also an animal with a round shell and pectoral fins [Pteryphysis volanus] and one with a worm-shaped body with two whorls of cirri around the mouth and a two pairs of pinhole eyes [Entaops glandus]. (4)
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: 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 itās thread-lined tentacles. With the thick calcite shell, itās practically invulnerable; one of itās 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 above the sandbar, you swim towards an animal with a worm-shaped body with two whorls of cirri around the mouth and two pairs of pinhole eyes [Entaops glandus]. It is easy to get to and does not swim away, leaving you to bite down easily on the animal, clouding the water with blood. You swallow some of the flesh but very quickly start feeling horribly ill with lotās of pain from your stomach region. You do not swallow the rest of the food in your mouth, spitting it back out and swim away in a panic. You are swimming above a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gather above the sandbar and animals with a blue, tubular body with lines of cilia along it and a jelly-like bell at the front end filter through it. There are tentacles around the mouth which exist on the centre of the upper face of the bell [Masticephalus lepusensis]. Further along, having already floated past is an animal with a translucent bell and several tentacles dangling from it in front of you [Octoplocamus sensus]. Below you is 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]. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year, 6 months
Health: Exhaustion
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 5% / 6.2/10.4 (60%) / 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: search for more food
Action 1: Search for a place to rest, if none are available; burrow down into the sand for cover.
Action 2: search for food, avoiding the Entaops if possible
Action 3: Swim away from anything that wants to eat me.
Whoops, my bad.
Action 1: Rest to regain my energy and let my shell harden after the moult.
Action 2: Go searching for more Ahyponomus to eat.
Action 3: Stay away from anemones.