- try to find my specie and breed
- fillter food
- rest
i think i want to leave the game, i just havenāt really felt any fun playing it for a while and i feel like im holding the others back because i keep forgetting to vote.
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Ah, Iām sorry to hear that. Itās been a blast having you. Feel free to come back at some point.
On another note, @AgentTine, I think I need your vote.
dibs on next spot hehe
(Sorry it took longer than expected but I was slightly ill over the weekend)
Round 279 - P.1
~93 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 12 - None
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- Action Guarantee (Roll a definite 4 or higher on an action) = 3pts
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- Evo Trademark (Block other future species from evolving a chosen feature that you have) = 7pts
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- 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
In the dark, very warm freshwater, you can see 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]. You burst forward with your hypnome and paddle with your legs towards it. The fish looks up from grazing on algae but it is too late; you clatter into it, grabbing it with your claws. You fish wriggles to escape but your claws are dug in now, slowly ripping the life from the fish. Blood fills the water and you continue to crush your prey until it finally gives one last squirm and then lies dead. You tear pieces off of the corpse and pass them to your mandibles to be eaten. Some time later, you are still alive, having fed, moulted and avoided predation. It is night. The murky, very warm water is quite still (like that of a lake) and you can see the relatively flat mud of the lakebed. However, there is a drop-off in which the water descends further than you can see. On the mud are animals with a tan bivalve shell with cirri protruding through the opening [Compcylindricus sous]. Out in the open water by the surface is an animal with a woodlouse-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fantail. It is armed with mandibles and a pair of clawed, bristly chelipeds plus is equipped with two pairs of eyes - camera in front of compound - and four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Gempliaori osakai]. Below, swimming through deeper water 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]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 70% / 16cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 25.3/25.3 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 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
You stop as much movement as possible because you are running low on energy, and wait on the seabed in the cold, very dark water. Your rest is long and undisturbed; it pays off because you are no longer exhausted and your exoskeleton has reached full strength. Now that you have some energy back, you use it to follow the scent of Ahyponomus minor [a worm] reaching your antennae from behind and crawl along the seabed. Soon, the scent becomes very strong but comes from below so you start digging at the seabed with your claws until your antennae touch the soft skin of the worm. When this happens, you reach out with your claws and cut through the worm, killing it. Then you tear off bits with your claws and feed them to yourself. For the next amount of time, your survive, feeding enough to guarantee your survival. In the pitch black, cold water you feel a rock below your feet with your antennae. You can smell a Leucospongus bathyus [calcium carbonate sponge] next to you. In front of you is the smell of a Gastranthus wootonsi [tube anemone] between you and the scent of an Amblyvermes caecus [worm]. Somwhere in the water above comes the faint scent of another Maurcolus proximus. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 11cm / 4 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 20.2/20.2 (100% - 60% 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 hatch out into very warm, clear water but in a hole. There are countless animals in the hole with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail. They have a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Diplopygus pugilus]. There is a chunk of flesh in the hole and you swim to it and begin feeding. The water around you is clear and hot and the shallow seabed is surrounded by a wall of rock. Some green algae is growing on a rock and there are also animals with round shells above a gastropod foot, a pair of tentacles around the mouth and two eyes on stalks on the rock [Camerotheca acutastomus]. An animal that has a woodlouse-like, green exoskeleton that ends in a fantail is grazing on the algae. 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]. Resting on the other side of the 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: 25% / 13.8cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 28.2 (100% - 25% 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.
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R.279 - P.2
@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]. The fish unknowingly moves towards you, making your task easier; you grab the fish in your tentacles and push it into your hard beak which crunches it up. Then you eat. After this, you glide slowly along the seafloor with your hyponome and find a pair of rocks on the seabed. Between these two rocks you stop and allow your body to rest. Your rest is long and undisturbed so you regain much energy. In cool, quite murky water, you see nothing but seabed way below the surface and the gloom of distant water. Across the seabed swims 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]. It swims right past an animal with a conical shell around the body up to the head, camera eyes on stalks and tentacles with suckers and threads [Connoceras setus]. Above you float some cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia [Ctenella primus]. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 45% / 20.7cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 100% / 29/29 (100% - 30% left over for growth) / 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.
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Late Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You can see many animals 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 is a group around where a cloud of detritus is. 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 one away from the group. 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]. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 2.4/4 (60%) / 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. However, no food flows past so you go hungry. 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]. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.5cm / 2 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 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 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
You continue to swim through the cool, quite murky water, feeling more and more exhausted until finally your body shuts down. You go into a deep sleep from which you never reawaken. (1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 75% / 4.5cm / 1 year, 6 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6 Scales become more flexible = 4 Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: 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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Iāve been looking at ways to spice things up a bit and here is a summary of the changes Iāve thought of.
Please let me know if you would want to change to these or rather stick to the currebt formula. Are there some you like more than others?
Any other suggestions?
Where?
Noiceee I prolly will get to evolve in a round or two.
Action 1: kill the Organia (Belgium, they are murderable, the whole genus, like snacks for my squid thing)
Action 2: rest I guess
- filter food
- rest
- find a mate, if fond, breed.
Action: search for more food
Well, at least i wasnāt killed by the poison, not directly anyways. Action: Be reborn
Whoops, canāt believe I did that. 
- Broader Scope for Actions: The player can choose to do as much as they want but the more the player asks for, the more that can go wrong.
- New Level System For Stats: Nutrition, Vitality (the new word for Energy) and Hydration, possibly health too, all have four different levels of bar they can be at. Completely full, level 2, level 1, then death. Using percentages was ok and perhaps more accurate but more complicated. This is quite simple.
- New Dice Rolls:
6 - The affected stats go up 2 levels.
5 - The affected stats go up 1 level.
4 - Everything ends up where it was at the start of the round.
3 - The affected stats go down 1 levels.
2 - The affected stats go down 2 levels.
(1 - Instant death.)
4. Your Choices Affect Your Chances: If in the choice the player decides to attack a neutral or hazardous species, or enters a hazardous area, (i.e. the wrong decision) they can only roll as high as a 4 and itās also the only time itās possible to roll a 1.
5. New Progression System: Every round the player survives, they will progress to the next stage of life: Infant > Juvenile > Subadult > Adult. Easier and quicker than the currebt method.
6. Number of Changes in Evolution: The amount of changes the player can make depends on how good their Evolution stat is and how strong the population of the species is. The base number of changes a player can make is two. Might add some more to this list, not sure.
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Whoops, so sorry. Got distracted. >.<
Action 1: Continue feeding on worms.
Action 2: Be mindful of anemones.
Action 3: Be mindful of predators.
(Iāve made a couple of those changes in different designs. Let me know what you like and donāt like.)
Round 280 - P.1
~93.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 46 - 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
- 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.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 9
Cavuops tartarus (NT), Male Juvenile
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
NOT YET VOTED
In the dark, very warm freshwater, you can see 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]. You burst forward with your hypnome and paddle with your legs towards it. The fish looks up from grazing on algae but it is too late; you clatter into it, grabbing it with your claws. You fish wriggles to escape but your claws are dug in now, slowly ripping the life from the fish. Blood fills the water and you continue to crush your prey until it finally gives one last squirm and then lies dead. You tear pieces off of the corpse and pass them to your mandibles to be eaten. Some time later, you are still alive, having fed, moulted and avoided predation. It is night. The murky, very warm water is quite still (like that of a lake) and you can see the relatively flat mud of the lakebed. However, there is a drop-off in which the water descends further than you can see. On the mud are animals with a tan bivalve shell with cirri protruding through the opening [Compcylindricus sous]. Out in the open water by the surface is an animal with a woodlouse-like, blue exoskeleton that ends in a fantail. It is armed with mandibles and a pair of clawed, bristly chelipeds plus is equipped with two pairs of eyes - camera in front of compound - and four pairs of paddle-lined legs [Gempliaori osakai]. Below, swimming through deeper water 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]. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 70% / 16cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 70% / 25.3/25.3 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 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), Adult
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
The scent of the Amblyvermes caecus [worm] fades away before you can start to hunt it down so, for now, you go without food. Now, you are an adult but the world still consists of darkness and cold water. The scent of a Maurcolus proximus reaches your antennae from behind while in front of you is the smell of a Gastranthus wootonsi [tube anemone] between you and the scent of an Amblyvermes caecus [worm]. You can smell a Leucospongus bathyus [calcium carbonate sponge] next to you. (4)
Status
Size/Age: 11cm / 4 years
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: Dead - Starving - Hungry - [Full]
Vitality: Dead - Exhausted - [Tired] - Rested
Hydration: Dead - Parched - Thirsty - [Hydrated]
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
NOT YET VOTED
You hatch out into very warm, clear water but in a hole. There are countless animals in the hole with a strong, pill bug-like exoskeleton shaded sandy above and white below that ends in a double fan tail. They have a head with mandibles and two pairs of eyes (camera in front of compound) as well as a pair of clawed chelipeds followed by four pairs of legs with large paddles and then five swimmerets [Diplopygus pugilus]. There is a chunk of flesh in the hole and you swim to it and begin feeding. The water around you is clear and hot and the shallow seabed is surrounded by a wall of rock. Some green algae is growing on a rock and there are also animals with round shells above a gastropod foot, a pair of tentacles around the mouth and two eyes on stalks on the rock [Camerotheca acutastomus]. An animal that has a woodlouse-like, green exoskeleton that ends in a fantail is grazing on the algae. 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]. Resting on the other side of the 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: 25% / 13.8cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 28.2 (100% - 25% 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.
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R.280 - P.2
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 0
Organiavorius megapodis (U), Subadult
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]. You grab it with your tentacles and pull it to your beak. The fish starts trying to swim away and you just manage to catch a bit of fin with your beak. It panics harder now and slips out of your grasp, swimming quickly away. It fits through a gap between two rocks and you cannot follow. You have not eaten and have lost energy from the chase. After more time spent feeding and resting to survive, you have lived long enough to grow into a subadult. Now you live in shallow, cool, quite murky water, where the surf laps gently overhead and brushes the seaweed that grows around here. You are nestled between a pair of rocks and a animal with a cone-shaped shell above a gastropod foot, a pair of tentacles around the mouth and two eyes on stalks glides overall rock [Hydroceras glutinus]. Swimming over the rocks of the shallows, poking into corners is an animal with a brown, fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, forwards-facing eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Uteenichthys grandus]. Around the water float some cylindrical, transparent animals with cillia [Ctenella primus]. (3)
Status
Size/Age: 34.5cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: Hungry (Lvl. 2)
Vitality: Tired (Lvl. 2)
Hydration: Hydrated (Lvl. 3)
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.
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Late Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
A cloud of detritus floats through the cool, quite murky water and you swim towards it. On your way, the water starts to increase in choppiness until you are being rolled around the water by waves and pouring rain on the surface - you cannot filter your food being tossed around like this and you are also getting tired. Finally, the storm subsides and the water calms down. You are swimming near a sandbar in cool, quite murky water. Clouds of marine detritus gather above the sandbar and moving among them are several animals 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]. 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]. (3)
Status
Size/Age: 2.5cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: Starving (Lvl. 1)
Vitality: Exhausted (Lvl. 1)
Hydration: Hydrated (Lvl. 3)
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), Juvenile
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. Lotās of detritus get caught up in your thread-bearing arms and swept into your mouth. After more time spent feeding and resting to survive, you have lived long enough to grow into a juvenile. Now you live in shallow, cool, quite murky water, where the surf laps gently overhead and brushes the seaweed that grows around here. Detritus and a jellyfish with barbed tentacles plus oral arms [Octoplocamus simpus] drifting behind it roll with the waves. You are nestled between a pair of rocks. Swimming over the rocks of the shallows, poking into corners is an animal with a fish-shaped body; It has sharp teeth, forward facing pinhole eyes, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins with spines at the base of the tail [Lepidoderes immortalii, Undying]. Further out is an animal with a fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, eyes on the side of its head, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Achmirocauda lateraloculus]. (6)
Status
Size/Age: 11.3cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: Full (Lvl. 3)
Vitality: Exhausted (Lvl. 1)
Hydration: Hydrated (Lvl. 3)
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), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Late Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You hatch out into shallow, cool, quite murky water, where the surf laps gently overhead and brushes the seaweed that grows around here. Detritus and a jellyfish with barbed tentacles plus oral arms [Octoplocamus simpus] drifting behind it roll with the waves. Nestled between a pair of rocks 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, Doomlightning]. Further out is an animal with a fish-shaped body. It has sharp teeth, eyes on the side of its head, pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Achmirocauda lateraloculus]. (3)
Status
Size/Age: 0.3cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: Full (Lvl. 3)
Vitality: Rested (Lvl. 3)
Hydration: Hydrated (Lvl. 3)
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: swim back to the warmer waters
Action: rest in the crevasse.
action 2: find prey
Act 1: rest
Act 2: Find and eat food
Act 3: try to find any one who waht to breed