Action: search for a mate to reproduce
Action 1: check out the other Organiavorius,
Action 2:
-if itās alive: mate.
-If not: move into deeper water
Action 3:
-If the Organiavorius was dead or otherwise indisposed: rest in deeper water,
-if else, do not have a third action.
Act 1: move to deeper water to the most marine snow Concentration that out of sight, if they have muny
Act 2: fillter any food u find (the marin snow or any small stuff)
Act 3: rest
Action: Try to find a place to sleep again and hopefully get a decent rest.
iāll join
Cool @Nigel. Why donāt you choose a species and you can get started?
@doomlightning, what is ācontestartā supposed to be?
Is there perhaps a kind of blank slate organism? Or an organism close too it in the forum game?
i mean Concentration
I will choose Myopsceras stipula.
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@AgentTine, @immortaldragon, @jellyfishmon please reply if you can.
Whoops, Iām so sorry. 
I would like to evolve, please.
Mutation 1: Hydrofoil-like protrusions on exoskeleton for passive lift.
Mutation 2: Larger size for greater metabolic efficiency (deep sea gigantism)
Mutation 3: A pair of siphon intakes on the sides of the body connected directly to the hyponome for continuous propulsion via cascading muscle contractions.
Mutation 4: Immunity to anemone stings
Ooh, this seems cool. Been looking for a community spec evo game like this for a while. New to the forum. Have a couple questions:
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I read the first few hundred messages, and originally only 3 mutations were allowed. Has that changed?
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How many actions does each player get per round?
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Obviously, with Nigel just joining there is a wait list, how does one get onto that list and is there a way to view it?
Thanks for any response!
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Hi there. Welcome to the forum and to my game. Iād be happy to answer your questions.
At the moment (the rules change every now and then), 3 mutations is the base number but you can get more if you evolve better ways to reproduce.
The actions are pretty much up to the player; you can write what you like, as long as your species can do it, but there more you add to your action the more that can go wrong so be aware.
Yes, there is a waiting list and you can get on it just by asking and Iāll add you to the back. I donāt have easy access to the list right now and Iām going to sleep soon but thereās maybe about a dozen people on it, although most of them no longer reply which means you probably wouldnāt have to wait for all those people.
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Round 282 - P.1
~94 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Samadaran Stage
Event: 25 - 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 Subadult
Tropical Very Humid Barrens (Night)
A North-East Tartarus River
DID NOT VOTE
You sit still and observe the world around you. 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. You watch 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]. It swims along, filtering the water with its bristly arms until suddenly a claw is around it in a flash. The claw is attached to 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]. The Gempliaori struggles in the grasp of the big predator which slowly crushes itās prey until the Gempliari is dead. You survive for some time afterwards. The freshwater is dark, as itās night, but very warm and clear. A rocky riverbank can be seen on either side. Munching on some 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]. It is close to some animals with a tan bivalve shell with cirri protruding through the opening [Compcylindricus sous]. Downriver 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)
Status
Size/Age: 16cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 2 /3 = Hungry
Stamina: 1 /3 = Exhausted
Hydration: 3 /3 = Hydrated
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
Unnamed (LC), Adult
Deep Ocean (Day, 500-1500m deep)
Continental Slope to the North-East of Tartarus
YOUR NEW SPECIES NEEDS A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES NAME
Dark, cold water surrounds you when you hatch out of your egg. The water is thick like jelly. You sense hot, chemically-dense water nearby, near which is a few [Rhomopelta albus]. Away from this, chemicals from a [Pulchellia magnus] and then an [Amblyvermes caecus].
Status
Size/Age: 0.4cm / 2 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 6|6 = Full
Stamina: 6|6 = Rested
Hydration: 6|6 = Hydrated
Notes: None
Unnamed
Latest Mutations: 2 = Mutation 1: Hydrofoil-like protrusions on exoskeleton for passive lift.
2 = Mutation 2: Larger size for greater metabolic efficiency (deep sea gigantism)
1 = Mutation 3: A pair of siphon intakes on the sides of the body connected directly to the hyponome for continuous propulsion via cascading muscle contractions.
3 = Mutation 4: Immunity to anemone stings
Down in the deep ocean, this is an offshoot of a Maurcolus repus that is unlikely to succeed. It is smaller in size and has no steering arms or hyponome (making it a terrible swimmer)
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Deep Ocean (500-1500m deep)
Niche: Predator, Opportunistic Scavenger
Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.
Size: 8cm (length - head to end)
Nutritional Need: 147.5 x 8/100 = 11.8NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 11.8 x 0.25 = 3NP per round (Needs to intake 3/0.65 = 4.6NP per round)/ 11.8NP.
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Circulation, Small-Body. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Exothermic. Foul Taste. Pressure Tolerance, High. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Resistant to Faryxoskulus toxin. Subzero Metabolism. UV Resistance, Medium.
Perception: Chemoreception 0.5. Peripheral Vision 0.5. Pierce Strength 0.5. Sight 1. Smell 0.5. Touch 0.5.
Stats: Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 0.25. Digestion 0.5 (100% Meat, 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1. Immunity 1. Jumping 0.5. Reach 0.25. Respiration 1 (Ram Ventilation). Sharpness 1. Stamina 2.5. Strength 0.5. Support 1. Toughness 2. Swim Speed 2. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with chela. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim Away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce next to glass sponge.
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 four pairs of legs. The rear of the body has an exoskeleton fantail.
Internal Features: Each cell in the body contains lysozyme a and a relatively small number of piezolytes. Spiracles lead into water-filled tubes. Glands near the skin secrete a foul fluid. Throughout the centre of the body is the hemacoel, which have blood containing anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide and hemocyanin - meaning it is blue-green. A system of muscles stretches across the body. Near the lower wall can be found the gonads as well as the protonephridium. Through the mostly lower half runs the monogastric digestive system, from the mouth through the tubes to the stomach and intestines. Ganglia in the head connect to a dual nerve cord along the dorsal half, which has many nerves branching off it to encompass the whole body.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female.
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.
@Deathwake - Points Stored = 0
Organiavorius megapodis (U), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Early Spring - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the West of Tartarus
Looking out across the wide, open seafloor, sitting in cool, fairly murky seawater you can see another Organiavorius lying between a pair of rocks and some fan-shaped, flexible corals, swaying in the tide [Rhipiella sheperdi]. You glide across the sand with your hyponome, prodded on by your need to reproduce, and the other Organiavorius starts to move closer as well. Itās scent is getting stronger when a large wall of ice - an iceberg - flows in between you, scraping along the bottom, stirring up the silt and causing a huge gash in the seafloor. The cold freshwater emanating off it forces you to turn and swim away but only far enough to get out of this danger. When the iceberg has scraped past, there is nothing left of the other Organiavorius except some remnants of crushed shell in the seafloorās gash. (3)
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In the aftermath, you are left starving and exhausted. As far as you can see there is cool, quite murky, sea stretching out over sandy seabed, although a massive gash lies along it leading to an iceberg that has travelled past you, with the occasional mound or outcrop of rock emerging. On the rocks are some fan-shaped, flexible corals [Rhipiella sheperdi]. Swimming above you - through animals with a round shell, cirri, eyes on stalks and four pectoral fins [Haliquada dronus] - is an animal with a fish-shaped body. It has pectoral fins and semi-circular caudal fins at the base of the tail [Organia praecus]. Approaching from the shallows is the scent of another Organiavorius and when you turn you can see it gliding along the bottom of the sea.
Status
Size/Age: 46cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1|6 = Starving
Stamina: 1|6 = Exhausted
Hydration: 6|6 = Hydrated
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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R.282 - P.2
@doomlightning - Points Stored = 2
Mollibarmis noimoxekino (U), Juvenile
Temperate Shallows (Late Winter - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
The cool, quite murky seawater is quite blurry for you, producing a scene of sand and the occasional rock. However, you follow your strong sense of chemoreception through the water rowing your cilia to move your body along, although the current pushes you to one side and the water is thick and jelly-like so movement is slow. You move out towards slightly deeper water where you find a source of marine snow chemicals alongside a rock. Inputting your holdfast into the nearby sand, you then wave your arms around the water, using your tube feet to pass the particles caught into your mouth. After a while of feeding, you stop almost all of your activity during the night, entering a resting phase; nothing disturbs you and you recover some energy. (5)
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By feeding enough and avoiding danger, you survive long enough to become a juvenile and the water is no longer jelly-like for you. You are attached to some sand at the bottom of a small pool of cool, clear seawater, surrounded by rock - the water is very calm here. There are small bits of detritus flowing around the pool and a couple animals with an almost transparent, 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]. A worm-like animal with a beak [Ovodeinus cordus] swims after one of the Masticephalus.
Maturiy/Size/Age: 25% / 0.6cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 6|6 = Full
Stamina: 5|6 = Rested
Hydration: 6|6 = Hydrated
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), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
Driven by the need to reproduce, you glide your way over the seabed towards another Myopsceras stipulus that you can see lying between some rocks on the vastness of the open, sandy plain. The water is cool and quite murky. When you get to the Myopsceras it is receptive to your advances and you successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. However, is the last thing you do, as this exertion uses up the remains of your energy and you die. (5 = Congratulations, itās a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve. You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Size/Age: 45cm / 2 years
Health: Dead
Nutrition: 0|6
Stamina: 0|6
Hydration: 0|6
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), Adult
Temperate Shallows (Late Autumn - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
You shut down most of your bodyās activities to rest, right where you are in the middle of the cool, quite murky water above the vast, sandy plain. However, after you have rested for a bit a strange current of water meets you, causing your awakening, and you look up to see a vast wall of ice heading towards you, scraping along the bottom, stirring up the silt and causing a huge gash in the seafloor. Cold water emanates from the iceberg and you try to swim away but it is huge. You push yourself as hard as you can and just manage to get yourself clear before the iceberg comes steaming along. (3)
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By feeding enough and avoiding danger, you survive long enough to become an adult, ready to reproduce. However, you are starving and exhausted from a recent failed hunt. You are in a small pool of cool, clear seawater, surrounded by rock - the water is very calm here. There are small bits of detritus flowing around the pool and a couple animals with an almost transparent, 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]. A worm-like animal with a beak [Ovodeinus cordus] swims after one of the Masticephalus, one of which swims into the tentacles of a jellyfish with 8 barbed tentacles and a pair of oral arms, becoming itās prey [Octoplocamus simpus]. On the other side of this pool is another Lepidoderes immortalii.
Status
Size/Age: 6cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 2|6 = Starving
Stamina: 2|6 = Exhausted
Hydration: 6|6 = Exhausted
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)
@Nigel - Points Stored = 0
Myopsceras stipula (U), Hatchling
Temperate Shallows (Early Summer - Day)
Coastal Shallows to the South of Ithaca
Driven by the need to reproduce, you glide your way over the seabed towards another Myopsceras stipulus that you can see lying between some rocks on the vastness of the open, sandy plain. The water is cool and quite murky. When you get to the Myopsceras it is receptive to your advances and you successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. (5)
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You are on some sand at the bottom of a small pool of cool, clear seawater, surrounded by rock - the water is very calm here. There are small bits of detritus flowing around the pool and a couple animals with an almost transparent, 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]. A worm-like animal with a beak [Ovodeinus cordus] swims after one of the Masticephalus.
Status
Size/Age: 2.3cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 6|6 = Full
Stamina: 6|6 = Rested
Hydration: 6|6 = Hydrated
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.
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Action 1: Sneak up on the Ovodeinus cordus from below and eat it along with some of the masticephalus.
Action 2: Sleep in one of the many rock crevices in this tidepool.
My mutations will be:
1: The hairs on the tentacles become thicker and sparse, allowing for the grasping of larger food items.
2: The digestive track adapts to a carnivory diet consisting of macroscopic species.
3: A more complex brain.
Iām so ded.
Action 1: kill the Organia
Action 2: pass out and sleep.
Does the act of reproducing mean i can mutate, or is it explicitly said when i can?
I believe that it is when you reproduce your offspring, (you next round) have a chance of getting those mutations or some negative ones.