Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

R.101 - P.2

@Biologicah
Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai (VU)
SOUTHERN TARTARUS (Temperate Shallows)
As winds start to whip up the surface, causing increasingly large swells, you take cover under the overhang of a rock outcrop on the sand. Hidden, you have a decent rest. The water is warm, and the murk is increased by dusk, which is still darkening. (5)
Status
Maturity: 60% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 18.6cm
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 109.9/125.6 (87.5%)
Stamina: 80%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai

Status: NT
Timespan: R.95 - Present
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Open Ocean
Distribution: Southern Uteenessa
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 31cm
Predecessor: Peregapodus zaxzirkrnk
Classification: Peragapodusae, Makouridea, Caudaria
Latest Mutations: Limbs = 2, Fins behind limbs = 5, Stronger Jaw = 4
Info: Bursting out of the gloom, this would be the last thing most prey would see. It feeds on other large predators, because only these will sustain it. is an apex predator, and caused one of the previous apex predators to go extinct by the coast; it was faster than them - specifically great acceleration-, with four paddles and it also had a stronger bite, that means it can chew through quite hard materials, like cartilage, and access extra nutrients. Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai, common name “Kroxinkarouyaisiroai” rules the southern temperate seas, and can even hunt almost as effectively at night. Also, it’s extensive hunting forced Esoteralimnus into extinction.
Description: This species has a long, blue body that tapers into a whip-like tail, armed with two toxic spikes. It’s jaw is made of cartilage and it has tough muscles and lumpy teeth here. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye, that is able to swivel slightly. Behind the retina is a layer of cells containing reflective crystals called a choroidal tapetum cellulosum. Along the side of the body, are three gill slits near the front, and line of electroreceptors. There are four paddle-like limbs of flesh, cartilage and muscle. Inside, they have a gut with a stomach containing carnivorous digestive enzymes, and connected to the gut is a swim bladder. It’s brain is not quite as small as most other contemporary species. Finally, supporting the entire body is a spine of cartilage vertebrae.

Behaviour Traits
  1. Be vigilant.
  2. Do not eat own species.
  3. Remain near to capsules after they are laid.
Previous Mutations

Extra-Efficient Muscles, Electroreceptors, Open Circulatory System, Axochord (L), Whip Tail, Three Gill Slits, Notochord (L), Cartilage Vertebrae, Digestive Carnivorous Bacteria, Two Poisonous Spikes on Tail, Dentine Teeth, Venomous Canines, Cup Eyes (L), Blue, Pinhole Eyes, Cartilage Jaw, Bigger, Swim Bladder, Stub Limbs

@svrangite
Thalakelphus narefaciemis (VU)
NORTHWESTERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 300m deep)
When you hatch out of your egg, you are suspended in cold water. You can see nothing because it is very dark, and feel no solid surfaces, but you can smell several siblings nearby, and also a small patch of falling marine snow, to which they are already gravitating towards. Most are closer to it than you. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 19.5/26 (75%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Thalakelphus narefaciemis

Status: VU
Timespan: R.98 - Present
Habitat: Temperate & Tropical Deep Ocean (Below Thermocline, Above 800m)
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 8.5cm (length)
Predecessor: Thalakelphus asperacuta
Classification: Zestoskulusidae, Kardiaskulusidea, Kardiarchia
Latest Mutations: Nostrils
Info: With a pair of nostrils on the face above the mouth, Thalakelphus narefaciem has a much greater chance of finding some food floating in the great, empty abyss. The nostrils provide olfaction and also help with locating the direction in which the smell comes from. They slowly drift through the deep ocean, filtering passing marine snow, and have no regular predators with their shell and poisonous skin.
Description: It has a smooth, straight shell made of calcium carbonate with several medium-length tentacles sticking out the front covered in poison glands. On the face is a couple areas where minuscule cilia which act as mechanoreceptors, picking up underwater noises and inputting this information into the nerve network and a pair of nostrils linked to sensory pads. On the head that just protrudes from the rest of the shell, two large pinhole eyes with lenses face upwards, while another one faces forwards above the circular, toothless mouth. The skin that is uncovered is layered with heat-proof scales. At the rear, a muscular hyponome drags in water and uses it to propel itself quickly. This tube leads into the siphuncle, which manages water content inside the shell, creating buoyancy. This also delivers water to the gills and gill frills inside the shell. A simple gut, behind the pharynx, leads through the body, which is circulated by a semi-open circulatory system; capillaries cover the muscles, which also have special vacuoles, but the rest of the organs were bathed in a chamber. The circulatory system is pumped by a tubular heart. A tiny brain and two nerve cords control the body. The body has vertebrae made of cartilage.

Previous Mutations

Extra-Efficient Muscles, Open Circulatory System, Tubular Heart, Web of Capillaries Over Muscles, Axochord, Notochord, Four Gill Slits, Two Gill Frills, Pharynx, Large Pinhole Eyes With Lenses (2 on top of head, one on front), Heat-Proof Scales, Cartilage Vertebrae, Calcium Carbonate Shell, Heat Resistance, Tentacles, Hyponome, Shell, Hearing, Pigmentation, Poison Glands, Lower Metabolic Rate

@jellyfishmon
Arthroskulus pelagus (NT)
SOUTHERN TARTARUS (Temperate Shallows)
The warm sea continues to carry you with the tide, and takes you closer to shore. Winds start whipping up the surface into increasingly large swells and waves but the tide takes you right towards a coastal cliff, and then inside a dark cave. As you travel along the sea cave, you soon lose the light. However, at the end of the tunnel, you discover that there is a long vertical tunnel heading straight down. (It is a remnant of a flooded sinkhole.) Heading down, you detect the chemical presence of many Arthroskulus as well as something else. Once you reach the bottom, you discover that it is a comparatively massive, dead Xirnikrozz, being fed upon by many small carnivores. The chemicals it is giving off seems to show that it is still edible. You join the scavengers, and take morsels out of the corpse. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 22.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.7cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 10.6/10.6 (100%) (17.5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 40%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Arthroskulus pelagus

Status: NT
Timespan: R.89 - Present
Habitat: Shallow Sea, Ocean Surface
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere Temperate & Polar Ocean & Seas
Niche: Predator
Nutritional Value: 30.3
Size: 7.5cm (length)
Predecessor: Arthroskulus circumcaudus
Classification: Roharasridae, Codowecoidea, Aquamusculidia
Latest Mutations: Swim Bladder
Info: With a swim bladder allowing Arthroskulus pelagus to control its buoyancy, this species can now not only remain around the surface of shallow seas, but also survive out in the open ocean. It hunts the larger jellyfish, Regemsitula.
Description: The top of the blue, cylindrical body is protected by a tough exoskeleton made out of chitin. Some of the armour has formed a fan-shape protruding from the rear, which can be moved up and down by muscle. Also, the armour behind the head contains a spiracle, allowing oxygen through it. Underneath the armour, the animal has a hydrostatic skeleton composed of strong, longitudinal muscles, which seem to be slightly more powerful than those of its predecessors. At the front, the characteristic sharp beak protrudes from a proboscis. There are four pinhole eyes, but none of them look up; two are at the front, and two are on the sides. A muscular siphon at the rear propels out water. Inside their body, they have a simple gut leading to an anus, a stomach containing digestive carnivorous bacteria, a nerve network and small bunch of ganglia, and an open circulatory system filled with blue-green hemacoel. There is also a swim bladder, unconnected to the gut. Anti-freeze proteins flow through the hemacoel.

Previous Mutations

Bitter Chemicals, Chemoreceptors, Proboscis, Sharp Beak, Digestive Carnivorous Enzymes, Bigger, Blue Pigmentation, Open Circulatory System, Anti-Freeze Proteins, Hyponome, Hydrostatic Skeleton, Pinhole Eyes, Exoskeleton Shield, Stronger Muscles, Spiracles, Fan-Tail

@PositiveTower
Ostracoderma densissima (NT) - Male
NORTHWESTERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 500m deep)
It is very dark so you cannot see, but you feel and sense many other Ostracaderma on this particular precipice. You are jostled by large adults away from the edge and the best feeding spot. You end up not being able to feed at the back of the group. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 90% (Subadult)
Current Size: 2.7cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 10.2/13.6 (75%)
Stamina: 60%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

"Ostracoderma densissima

Status: NT
Timespan: R.97 - Present
Habitat: Deep Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 3cm
Predecessor: Almoskulus caecorum
Classification: Ostracadermae, Almoskulisidea, Tunicoidea, Membrania
Latest Mutations: Shell = 5, Improve Nervous System = 1, Longer Tentacles = 3, Phragmocone = 2
Info: Proliferating through the deep seas, the thick, calcium carbonate cap-shaped shell of this species is impenetrable by any contemporary predators, making it difficult to be preyed upon. This is a good thing, because it has a very slow, inefficient nervous system composed of only one nerve cord, and the heavy, thick shell slows it down ever further. To move, it must drag itself across soft sediments using its fins, which is very ungainly and slow. The gliding membranes of its predecessors have completely disappeared. Once it finds a good spot, it filters in microbial matter with its short tentacles. It can only live below the thermocline because of the acidic surface waters and above 4,000 metres because calcium carbonate is not useable at this depth.
Description: The tubular body is hidden beneath a cap-shaped shell made of calcium carbonate, specifically calcite, with just enough of the body showing to allow the two eyestalks to stick out. The shell is quite thick and relatively heavy for its size. Beneath the shell is a mouth surrounded by chemoreceptors - two small tentacles also protrude from underneath the shell. There are three gill slits along the body. Under the body is a pair of sturdy, short fins. There is a small brain, attached to a single nerve cord, attached to webs of nerves. The gut is simple and leads straight to the anus. Hemolymph is distributed through the body to hemacoels, as the open circulatory system. It contains anti-freeze proteins.

Previous Mutations

Muscles, Fleshy Membrane (along back and underside), Chemoreceptors, Basic Instincts, Three Gill Slits, Yellow Pigmentation (L), Dentine Teeth, Open Circulatory System, Pinhole Eye With Lens (one on top of head), Notochord, Anti-freeze Proteins, Slow Reactions, Red-Transparent Colour Shifting, Small Tentacles, Eyes, Fins, Weak Skin (L), Fix Skin

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Vote: Commit kill and eat

So, how many mutations do I pick?

Also, thanks for the new round! :grin:

Hey, look, free food… or is it? Vsauce theme starts

Action: Grab that corpse and drag it to my sleeping crevice to eat

Oh, sorry I forgot to add that bit. You get 3.

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Thanks Stealth. :smiley:

Mutation 1: Eel-like tail fins.

Mutation 2: Better eyes.

Mutation 3: Filter feeding tendrils around the mouth for catching food.

Wups didn’t check that sorry. I haven’t been on the forums as often as of late so sadly I didn’t see your @ towards me oof. At the time I thought that my nutrition was low as well and didn’t actually realize that stamina meant for me to rest myself so I have myself to blame

I probably could have explained it better, especially as I keep changing my mind. I’m sorry you didn’t see it in time. At least your species is not in trouble

I gotta eat and restore my nutrition - I’ve been trapped in that cave without maturing for five rounds.
Action: Eat until I (figuratively) burst.

Action: find food elsewhere

find food 20 characters

Round 102 - P.1

Chat: https://discord.gg/weGdxFB

~25.5 million years into the game~
Untrustolithic Period, Novaglacian Stage
Season: Early Spring (North), Early Autumn (South)
Time of Day: Midnight (West), Midday (East)
Event: None

Species: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ramXIxwYwggWj1bVH3zmZT-tlZSbQvW4PUZAEiVWYB8
Biomes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1079__KZqoqQ5PQkA5gr4rMSIGIHx1UN1RwMa__ZNPV8

Detailed Species Stats

Ezta’s Natural History: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JOwzI4ZHorn8nrqEr62v2_uXXlbs7qSCudHc476qLMY

State of the World: The global temperature is at about 21c, and there is a fair amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Due to the minimal plant life, the oxygen levels are low. There are two supercontinents, Olympia in the north and Tartarus in the south. The continents are surrounded by the superocean Uteenessa, and in-between lies a comparatively small ocean called the Gaia Ocean. The sea levels are quite high, about 100m above standard. Very small moss-like plants exist on land, specifically wetlands, and create soil where they grow.


@RoboTrannic
Glistroskulus sensei (NT)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 5000m deep)
Early Autumn, Midnight
A gentle deep ocean current moves you gradually along as you are suspended in the cold, black water. After a short journey, you softly bump into something - it is an outcrop of rock, sticking out of the abyssal plain. You sense that there are already a few Glistroskulus making the rock their home, but as you land on it and begin to use it to filter, you still manage to catch quite a lot of food. Here, you grow into a juvenile. (5)
Status
Maturity: 30% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 0.7cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 2.4/2.4 (100%) (+25% left over for growth)
Stamina: 90%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Glistroskulus sensei

Status: NT
Timespan: R.66 - Present
Habitat: Mid Ocean, Deep Ocean
Distribution: All Deep Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 2.3cm (length)
Predecessor: Glistroskulus louixi
Classification: Squickidae, Squickidea, Membrania
Latest Mutations: Improved chemoreceptors
Info: This species have become the most common at the bottom of the ocean. It’s chemoreceptors can detect the chemicals from potential food over tens of meters away. This makes them more successful.
Description: The yellow, tubular body has a fleshy membrane running along the top and underside. It has a single pinhole eye with a lens, facing forwards. Chemoreceptors sit by the mouth with three gill slits at the back of the head and it has tiny teeth in its round mouth. Its mouth has a primitive gut leading straight to the anus. At the front of its nervous system, is a tiny brain. An open circulatory system bathes organs and muscles in hemacoel; this contains anti-freeze proteins to stop bodily fluids from freezing. It’s back is supported by a notochord.

Previous Mutations

Muscles, Membrane, Chemoreceptors, Gills (3), Yellow Pigmentation, Teeth, Open Circulatory System, Pinhole Eye, Anti-freeze Proteins, Notochord, Lens

@agenttine
Archaiapasaria circulus (LC) - Male
OLIVER RIVER, (Chapparal River)
Early Spring, Midnight
You sense via electroreception, several Archaiapasaria fleeing past you, as you poise on rock facing upstream in the warm river. It is dark, so you cannot see anything, but you soon sense the electrical presence of something that is not an Archaiapasaria - it must be a Thanostoma victurus. They typically can’t catch Archaiapasaria but it is still not safe to wait around for it. Therefore, you give up the rock and swim further upstream, away from the meandering predator. You filter some food whilst you move. You head round a small meander in the river to get away, where there are several Archaiapasaria and few river features. The river seems to be getting slightly smaller. Dawn approaches. (4)
Status
Maturity: 57.5% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 7.2cm (length)
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 45/45 (100%) (2.5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 40%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Archaiapasaria circulus

Status: LC
Timespan: R.89 - Present
Habitat: Lake, River
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere Temperate Rivers & Lakes
Niche: Herbivore
Nutritional Value: 78.1
Size: 12.5cm (length)
Predecessor: Archaiapasaria westenrai
Classification: Archaiapasaridae, Makouridea, Caudaria
Latest Mutations: Closed Circulatory System
Info: This species is a step ahead of its brethren, as it has a closed circulatory system. This is much more efficient and means that it has better stamina - and has a better chance of escaping predators. It feeds on aquatic moss in freshwater of the northern hemisphere.
Description: It has a stout, orange and red, stream-lined body, like the shape of a fish and a short tail with a tail fin above and below the tail. These are shaped like horizontal semi-circles and together make a circle; they are supported by rays of cartilage. Two poisonous spikes protrude to the side of the tail. The front of the body has a cartilage jaw, and within in it several square teeth. It retains two venomous fangs in the roof of the mouth. On each side of the head is a lens-covered pinhole eye, with muscle that allows them to swivel. Three gills mark the body, which is also lined with unseeable electroreceptors. The mouth leads to a primitive gut and stomach, with weak herbivorous bacteria. The food is ground up in a gizzard first. Centrally located is a sac of gas called a swim bladder, and supporting the body are vertebrae made of bone. Also supporting the body are muscles with special vacuoles and a closed circulatory system.

[details=“Previous Mutations”] Extra-Efficient Muscles, Electroreceptors, Open Circulatory System, Three Gill Slits, Two Poisonous Spikes on Tail, Dentine Teeth, Venomous Canines, Cartilage Jaw, Two Swiveling Pinhole Eyes (1 on each side of head), Weak Digestive Herbivorous Enzymes, Square Teeth, Bone Vertebrae, Gizzard, Genders, Freshwater Tolerance, Tail Fins, Fish Shape, Swim Bladder

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@immortaldragon
Quatioculeus olympeii (NT)
UNNAMED OLYMPIAN RIVER (Temperate Forest River)
Early Spring, Midnight
Unfortunately, before you have a chance to hatch, your egg is accidentally swallowed by an adult, and you die. (1 = Sadly, the end of your life has resulted in your death. Luckily, your species still goes on. It is a time for rebirth.)
Status
Maturity: 1% (Egg)
Current Size: 0.07cm
Health: Dead
Nutrition: N/A
Stamina: N/A
Hydration: N/A
Effects: N/A

Quatioculeus olympeii

Status: NT
Timespan: R.102 - Present
Habitat: Estuaries
Distribution: One Estuary in Olympia
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7.5cm
Predecessor: Icthyotelus sinspica
Classification: Orthuscidae, Chordatacaudoformes, Caudomorpha
Latest Mutations: Eel-like fins = 3, Better Eyes = 6, Filter-Feeding Tendrils = 4

Details

Info: This species has developed further in its filter-feeding habits by evolving a pair of small tentacles at the side of the mouth to help shove in passing particles of food - this is a case of convergent evolution, with the tentacles being very similar to those found in the unrelated extinct Almoskulus and extant Ostracaderma. It is also better aware of its surroundings and has actual, but still dim and blurry, sight. It can see to the front, as well as to the left and right. They live only in the brackish water of a single estuary, being unable to spread out because there is no way to get to other estuaries. As such, the population is very small but thrives in a competionless home.
Description: It has a tapering body, lined with electroreceptors and three gills on each side. It has two pectoral ray-fins and a pair of forward-facing pinhole eyes, as well as one on each side of the head. Around the circular mouth is a pair of small tentacles. An oily liver helps to maintain buoyancy. An open circulatory system bathes the organs in hemacoel, and the body is controlled by ganglia. Down the back are cartilage vertebrae and the muscles have vacuoles to store extra energy.

@soundwave
Soundwavia vorei (LC)
NORTHWESTERN SHELF SEA (Temperate Shallows)
Early Spring, Midnight
You hatch out of your egg onto a dark, sandy plain of shallow, cool water. Close by is a number of shelled Ostracoderma and spiny Pneumachasminia, filtering languidly on the seafloor. Further away are some Hemithateus, feeding on seaweed on filtering phytoplankton from the surface. There is currently no tide, although you feel it start to turn. Dawn approaches. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity: 5% (hatchling)
Current Size: 1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 4.6/6.1 (75%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

Soundwavia vorei

Status: LC
Timespan: R.76 - Present
Habitat: Shallow Sea, Ocean Surface
Distribution: Temperate Northern Hemisphere
Niche: Apex Predator
Nutritional Value: 132
Size: 19cm
Predecessor: Thanostoma aquaprinceps
Classification: Makouridae, Makouridea, Caudaria
Latest Mutations: Swim Bladder = 4, Increase Size = 3, Flippers = 5
Info: Although it tends to live around shallow seas where prey is larger, this relatively efficient swimmer can also hunt at the surface of the open ocean. It is quicker, more agile and can control its buoyancy, being able to hunt down the most fleeting of prey. It has become the dominant predator in the entire northern hemisphere, driving Thanostoma aquaprinceps into extinction. It requires air at the surface to inflate its swim bladder.
Description: It has a blue, tapering body, lined with electroreceptors and three gills on each side, ending in a long whip-tail complete with venomous spikes. Two large pinhole eyes, that the animal is able to swivel slightly for increased range of sight, sit on the side of the head and it’s mouth is full of small teeth, with a pair of venomous fangs embedded in its cartilage jaw. Supported by rays of cartilage, it has a pair of pectoral flippers, as well as a dorsal fin on the back. An open circulatory system bathes the organs in hemacoel, and the body is controlled by ganglia. Down the back are cartilage vertebrae. In the gut, was a primitive stomach with the ability to digest multicellular matter. It has a swim bladder connected to the gut.

Previous Mutations

Extra-Efficient Muscles, Electroreceptors, Open Circulatory System, Axochord, Whip Tail, Three Gill Slits, Notochord, Cartilage Vertebrae, Digestive Carnivorous Bacteria, Two Poisonous Spikes on Tail, Dentine Teeth, Venomous Canines, Cup Eyes, Blue, Pinhole Eyes, Jaw

@blackink
Lampsichelus paladarus (NT) - Male
EAST UTEENESSA OCEAN (Tropical Deep Ocean, About 600m deep)
Early Spring, Midday
You follow the smell to the corpse through hot, pitch black water, which you must focus hard on to find. Thankfully, you find it, and prepare to bite into it. But your attention has been distracted, as you are suddenly bitten by a larger animal - an adult Lampsichelus. The teeth and its lower jaw clamp your side until it lets go and you limp away with a badly wounded side. Even your insides in that area feel damaged. You creep painfully back to the crevice and hide. The adult did not follow you. (1)
Status
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 4.6cm
Health: Bad wound on side, internal damage
Nutrition: 10.7/27.8 (38.5%)
Stamina: 85%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.5

Lampsichelus paladurus

Status: LC
Timespan: R.91 - Present
Habitat: Mid Ocean, Deep Ocean
Distribution: Non-polar Ocean, Below the thermocline
Niche: Carnivorous Filter-Feeder
Nutritional Value: 73
Size: 11.5cm (length)
Predecessor: Asteridermus mutatiogenus
Classification: Achmachelusidae, Tyrannidea, Caudaria
Latest Mutations: Intestine = 1, Serrated Teeth = 2, Hanging Lure = 5, Oily Liver = 4
Info: In the darkness of the abyss, Lampsichelus is the most well-lit of all animals, able to put on quite a light show; as well as the numerous bioluminescent spots on its body that act as one, there is a bulb on the end of a barbel protruding from the jaw that also produces light - this is controlled independently of the others, and can be flicked up and down to be more enticing. However, rather than use it to catch prey, the lights for this species are more useful in terms of finding another individual for mating. This is because there is stiff competition for prey, such as Thanostoma altium, and so it is largely restricted to filtering flesh from marine snow. The most significant obstacle to being a predator is that it has lost the teeth in the upper jaw, probably as a result of continual filter-feeding. (The species name means Gummy Joe.) Unlike its predecessors, it can control its own buoyancy now with an oil-filled liver, although it has a shrunken digestive system, making digestion less efficient.
Description: All over the black body tapering to a short, spiked tail are light blue bioluminescent spots, as well as a line of electroreceptors and three gills on each side. The two spikes are venomous. At the front, above the cartilage jawed mouth are olfactory receptors and facing forwards are a pair of cup eyes. The jaw contains very simple, shapeless teeth but only on the lower jaw. A cartilage barbel protrudes out and down from the lower jaw, and has a light blue bioluminescent bulb and a hinging muscle at its base. A pair of oval fins, supported by rays of cartilage are attached vertically just behind the gills and there is a fatty hump on the back. Inside, the organs are bathed in hemacoel by an open circulatory system. All the muscles contin a vacuoles. It’s digestive system is proportionately very small and narrow, which consists of the stomach and gut. There is also a liver, which is filled with oils. The body has cartilage vertebrae running down the back and is controlled by two nerve cords and a rung of nerves. The tiny brain in the head controls this.

Previous Mutations

Extra-Efficient Muscles, Electroreceptors, Open Circulatory System, Tail, Three Gill Slits, Cartilage Vertebrae, Digestive Carnivorous Bacteria, Two Poisonous Spikes on Tail, Dentine Teeth, Cup Eyes, Jaw, Fins (two vertical near head), Hump, Bioluminescent Lights, Olfaction, Temperate and Tropical Tolerance, Bioluminescence Control, Genders, Oily Liver

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R.102 - P.2

@Biologicah
Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai (VU)
SOUTHERN TARTARUS (Temperate Shallows)
Early Autumn, Midnight
The water around you, especially the surface, is churning around, as a storm batters the sea. Under your rock, you find shelter from the elements, but you can sense other animals, being pulled around by the storm. Many of these are part of a group of Esoteralimnus, and they are dispersed by the event. One of them ends up near your rock, and is too distracted with weathering the storm that it does not notice you. You whip out from under the rock and deal a crushing blow with your jaws upon its head, killing it almost instantly. When the storm subsides, you eat what you can of the corpse. You are now quite experienced and are almost ready to become an adult. The warm water is becoming poor, and you notice many tiny, filter-feeding Pictolexipotus, Ostracoderma and Schedocavoura start to appear in the water after the storm. Dawn approaches. (5)
Status
Maturity: 98.5% (Subadult)
Current Size: 30.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 205.2/205.2 (100%) (38.5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 60%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai

Status: NT
Timespan: R.95 - Present
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Open Ocean
Distribution: Southern Uteenessa
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 31cm
Predecessor: Peregapodus zaxzirkrnk
Classification: Peragapodusae, Makouridea, Caudaria
Latest Mutations: Limbs = 2, Fins behind limbs = 5, Stronger Jaw = 4
Info: Bursting out of the gloom, this would be the last thing most prey would see. It feeds on other large predators, because only these will sustain it. is an apex predator, and caused one of the previous apex predators to go extinct by the coast; it was faster than them - specifically great acceleration-, with four paddles and it also had a stronger bite, that means it can chew through quite hard materials, like cartilage, and access extra nutrients. Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai, common name “Kroxinkarouyaisiroai” rules the southern temperate seas, and can even hunt almost as effectively at night. Also, it’s extensive hunting forced Esoteralimnus into extinction.
Description: This species has a long, blue body that tapers into a whip-like tail, armed with two toxic spikes. It’s jaw is made of cartilage and it has tough muscles and lumpy teeth here. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye, that is able to swivel slightly. Behind the retina is a layer of cells containing reflective crystals called a choroidal tapetum cellulosum. Along the side of the body, are three gill slits near the front, and line of electroreceptors. There are four paddle-like limbs of flesh, cartilage and muscle. Inside, they have a gut with a stomach containing carnivorous digestive enzymes, and connected to the gut is a swim bladder. It’s brain is not quite as small as most other contemporary species. Finally, supporting the entire body is a spine of cartilage vertebrae.

Behaviour Traits
  1. Be vigilant.
  2. Do not eat own species.
  3. Remain near to capsules after they are laid.
Previous Mutations

Extra-Efficient Muscles, Electroreceptors, Open Circulatory System, Axochord (L), Whip Tail, Three Gill Slits, Notochord (L), Cartilage Vertebrae, Digestive Carnivorous Bacteria, Two Poisonous Spikes on Tail, Dentine Teeth, Venomous Canines, Cup Eyes (L), Blue, Pinhole Eyes, Cartilage Jaw, Bigger, Swim Bladder, Stub Limbs

@svrangite
Thalakelphus narefaciemis (VU)
NORTHWESTERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 300m deep)
Early Spring, Midnight
Through the cold, black water you float, helped along by gentle deep ocean currents. You travel the opposite direction from your siblings and soon lose them altogether. Not long after, the current gently delivers you to an underwater plateau, which has lots of food deliver by currents from the depths. It also seems strangely deserted, except by a few sponges and corals, which is good news for you because it means more food. However, the water is starting to become warmer. (6)
Status
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 3.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 22.1/22.1 (100%) (35% left over for growth)
Stamina: 80%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Thalakelphus narefaciemis

Status: VU
Timespan: R.98 - Present
Habitat: Temperate & Tropical Deep Ocean (Below Thermocline, Above 800m)
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 8.5cm (length)
Predecessor: Thalakelphus asperacuta
Classification: Zestoskulusidae, Kardiaskulusidea, Kardiarchia
Latest Mutations: Nostrils
Info: With a pair of nostrils on the face above the mouth, Thalakelphus narefaciem has a much greater chance of finding some food floating in the great, empty abyss. The nostrils provide olfaction and also help with locating the direction in which the smell comes from. They slowly drift through the deep ocean, filtering passing marine snow, and have no regular predators with their shell and poisonous skin.
Description: It has a smooth, straight shell made of calcium carbonate with several medium-length tentacles sticking out the front covered in poison glands. On the face is a couple areas where minuscule cilia which act as mechanoreceptors, picking up underwater noises and inputting this information into the nerve network and a pair of nostrils linked to sensory pads. On the head that just protrudes from the rest of the shell, two large pinhole eyes with lenses face upwards, while another one faces forwards above the circular, toothless mouth. The skin that is uncovered is layered with heat-proof scales. At the rear, a muscular hyponome drags in water and uses it to propel itself quickly. This tube leads into the siphuncle, which manages water content inside the shell, creating buoyancy. This also delivers water to the gills and gill frills inside the shell. A simple gut, behind the pharynx, leads through the body, which is circulated by a semi-open circulatory system; capillaries cover the muscles, which also have special vacuoles, but the rest of the organs were bathed in a chamber. The circulatory system is pumped by a tubular heart. A tiny brain and two nerve cords control the body. The body has vertebrae made of cartilage.

Previous Mutations

Extra-Efficient Muscles, Open Circulatory System, Tubular Heart, Web of Capillaries Over Muscles, Axochord, Notochord, Four Gill Slits, Two Gill Frills, Pharynx, Large Pinhole Eyes With Lenses (2 on top of head, one on front), Heat-Proof Scales, Cartilage Vertebrae, Calcium Carbonate Shell, Heat Resistance, Tentacles, Hyponome, Shell, Hearing, Pigmentation, Poison Glands, Lower Metabolic Rate

@jellyfishmon
Arthroskulus pelagus (NT)
SOUTHERN TARTARUS (Temperate Shallows)
Early Autumn, Midnight
There are several scavengers on the large corpse that you can sense in the dark, warm water. You decide to turn on one, a slightly smaller Arthroskulus. It is too focused on eating, and does not notice it is being hunted. You quickly swim underneath, then jab upwards to get the soft underside. Your beak stabs the Arthroskulus, and it starts to bleed heavily from the wound. As it bleeds out, the scent of blood scares away the other scavengers. Soon after, the Arthoskulus dies from blood loss, and you get your fill of its corpse. You now have the large Xirnikrozz corpse all to yourself as well. You are now almost an adult but are exhausted from your exertions. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 82.5% (Subadult)
Current Size: 6.2cm
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 38.8/38.8 (100%) (60% left over for growth)
Stamina: 20%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Arthroskulus pelagus

Status: NT
Timespan: R.89 - Present
Habitat: Shallow Sea, Ocean Surface
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere Temperate & Polar Ocean & Seas
Niche: Predator
Nutritional Value: 30.3
Size: 7.5cm (length)
Predecessor: Arthroskulus circumcaudus
Classification: Roharasridae, Codowecoidea, Aquamusculidia
Latest Mutations: Swim Bladder
Info: With a swim bladder allowing Arthroskulus pelagus to control its buoyancy, this species can now not only remain around the surface of shallow seas, but also survive out in the open ocean. It hunts the larger jellyfish, Regemsitula.
Description: The top of the blue, cylindrical body is protected by a tough exoskeleton made out of chitin. Some of the armour has formed a fan-shape protruding from the rear, which can be moved up and down by muscle. Also, the armour behind the head contains a spiracle, allowing oxygen through it. Underneath the armour, the animal has a hydrostatic skeleton composed of strong, longitudinal muscles, which seem to be slightly more powerful than those of its predecessors. At the front, the characteristic sharp beak protrudes from a proboscis. There are four pinhole eyes, but none of them look up; two are at the front, and two are on the sides. A muscular siphon at the rear propels out water. Inside their body, they have a simple gut leading to an anus, a stomach containing digestive carnivorous bacteria, a nerve network and small bunch of ganglia, and an open circulatory system filled with blue-green hemacoel. There is also a swim bladder, unconnected to the gut. Anti-freeze proteins flow through the hemacoel.

Previous Mutations

Bitter Chemicals, Chemoreceptors, Proboscis, Sharp Beak, Digestive Carnivorous Enzymes, Bigger, Blue Pigmentation, Open Circulatory System, Anti-Freeze Proteins, Hyponome, Hydrostatic Skeleton, Pinhole Eyes, Exoskeleton Shield, Stronger Muscles, Spiracles, Fan-Tail

@PositiveTower
Ostracoderma densissima (NT) - Male
NORTHWESTERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 500m deep)
Early Spring, Midnight
A short illness leaves you temporarily too weak to travel off in search of a better place to find food, so you remain where you are as you recover - on a precipice with several other Ostracoderma in cold, dark water. (2)
Status
Maturity: 90% (Subadult)
Current Size: 2.7cm
Health: Mild Illness
Nutrition: 7.5/13.6 (55%)
Stamina: 45%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

"Ostracoderma densissima

Status: NT
Timespan: R.97 - Present
Habitat: Deep Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 3cm
Predecessor: Almoskulus caecorum
Classification: Ostracadermae, Almoskulisidea, Tunicoidea, Membrania
Latest Mutations: Shell = 5, Improve Nervous System = 1, Longer Tentacles = 3, Phragmocone = 2
Info: Proliferating through the deep seas, the thick, calcium carbonate cap-shaped shell of this species is impenetrable by any contemporary predators, making it difficult to be preyed upon. This is a good thing, because it has a very slow, inefficient nervous system composed of only one nerve cord, and the heavy, thick shell slows it down ever further. To move, it must drag itself across soft sediments using its fins, which is very ungainly and slow. The gliding membranes of its predecessors have completely disappeared. Once it finds a good spot, it filters in microbial matter with its short tentacles. It can only live below the thermocline because of the acidic surface waters and above 4,000 metres because calcium carbonate is not useable at this depth.
Description: The tubular body is hidden beneath a cap-shaped shell made of calcium carbonate, specifically calcite, with just enough of the body showing to allow the two eyestalks to stick out. The shell is quite thick and relatively heavy for its size. Beneath the shell is a mouth surrounded by chemoreceptors - two small tentacles also protrude from underneath the shell. There are three gill slits along the body. Under the body is a pair of sturdy, short fins. There is a small brain, attached to a single nerve cord, attached to webs of nerves. The gut is simple and leads straight to the anus. Hemolymph is distributed through the body to hemacoels, as the open circulatory system. It contains anti-freeze proteins.

Previous Mutations

Muscles, Fleshy Membrane (along back and underside), Chemoreceptors, Basic Instincts, Three Gill Slits, Yellow Pigmentation (L), Dentine Teeth, Open Circulatory System, Pinhole Eye With Lens (one on top of head), Notochord, Anti-freeze Proteins, Slow Reactions, Red-Transparent Colour Shifting, Small Tentacles, Eyes, Fins, Weak Skin (L), Fix Skin

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damn you yearly drought
Action: Look for a deep part of the river with an abundance of food and start eating.

Damn stupid predator
Action: Wait a while till i don’t smell the predator and get a piece of that corpse/food

Jesus Christ
Action: Find food

Action: Find food thanks for the round :slight_smile:

thanks for the round stealth
Action: eat as much as I can then rest

Action Feed whilst drifting to cooler waters

Action: Feed on the little fishies.