Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

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Heya! I’m new to the forums, and this seems really interesting. Could I be added to the waiting list? (If its full) I’d love to play!

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Sure, you can join the waiting list. Thanks for your interest!

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Round 103 - P.1

Chat: https://discord.gg/weGdxFB

~25.75 million years into the game~
Untrustolithic Period, Novaglacian Stage
Season: Late Spring (North), Late Autumn (South)
Time of Day: Dawn (West), Afternoon (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)
Late Autumn, Dawn
It is cold and black. You detect the chemical presence of many Glistroskulus beside you on this rock that sticks up from the abyssal plain. The larger ones have assumed the best positions to gather food, and you are related to a relatively poor spot closer to the bottom. The rock still provides ample food in the form of particles in the passing current, and you get some of this, pulling in tiny bits of microbial food with your tentacles. (4)
Status
Maturity: 70% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 1.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 5.5/5.5 (100%) (+40% left over for growth)
Stamina: 80%
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 LAKE, (Chapparal Lake)
Late Spring, Dawn
It is dawn, and there is faint light. As the water level drops, you are forced to search upstream for a better supply of water. At one point, you discover that the river you are on is a smaller offshoot of a larger, deeper river that, although still decreasing, seems to have enough size and depth to be at little risk of running dry. You go with the current downstream in this new river, and after a bit of journey, it opens into a deep lake. Like the river it is warm and murky, but it is also quite full of algae at the surface, experiencing somewhat of a bloom under the sun. You join the many other Archaiapasaria here, filtering algae from the surface and grow under these conditions into an adult, ready to breed. You have, however, been tired out by your journey. The sun is becoming stronger in the sky. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 1/8)
Current Size: 12.5cm (length)
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 78.1/78.1 (100%) (+60% left over for growth)
Stamina: 15%
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)
Late Spring, Dawn
You hatch out in low light. The water is warm and murky. You can see that you are isolated in a small puddle which is also full of your siblings. Already, you are in trouble. The sun rises higher in a clear, blue sky, and becomes stronger. (2)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1.6/1.6 (100%)
Stamina: 75%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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)
Late Spring, Dawn
The light is quite low and the warm water quite murky, so your eyesight is not very useful, but you scan for any feeding opportunities with your electroreception ability. You experimentally bump the shell of an Ostracoderma, but there is no way of getting through that defence. But then, two Ostracoderma come together, and one of them is inadvertent turned over. Being so close, you can just about make it out in the faint light, and see the edible flesh underneath. You bite its underside, and venom fills its system. It shudders a bit but soon after falls still, and you feed on the meat. It was an adult and larger than you, so there is plenty to eat. The sun becomes stronger and higher in the sky, but numbers of prey are falling. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! Give either yourself or another player a + or -1. Choose carefully; you cannot exchange it later.)
Status:
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 7.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 46/46 (100%) (+35% left over for growth)
Stamina: 85%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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)
Late Spring, Afternoon
It is pitch black and hot. You can no longer sense the adult. Taking your chances you swim slowly - still badly injured - along the seamount rock towards the smell of the corpse. Arriving, it seems to be deserted, and you scrape of and eat the scraps of meat that still cling to the tough, cartilage vertebrae. The adult actually left a fair amount, although from the condition you started it is not enough to build up your fat reserves. (5)
Status
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 4.6cm
Health: Bad wound on side, internal damage
Nutrition: 24.6/27.8 (88.5%)
Stamina: 65%
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.103 - P.2

@Biologicah
Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai (VU)
SOUTHERN TARTARUS (Temperate Shallows)
Late Autumn, Dawn
Dawn casts a faint light through the cool, quite murky sea, as you hunt for food. You pass over the smaller, shelled animals that are not worth the energy, and try and use your short-range electroreception. But swimming towards the shore, as the sandy plain gets shallower, you have some luck. An Esoteralimnus adult lays half-buried in the silt, dead. It is probably a casualty of the recent storm. It’s broken body is an easy meal for you, and you feed. This helps you to grow into an adult, ready to breed. You feel quite tired after your meal. The last light of the season is over quickly, and the dawn recedes into total polar night, casting darkness over the sea. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 1/8)
Current Size: 31cm
Health: Tired
Nutrition: 209.3/209.3 (100%) (+50% left over for growth)
Stamina: 40%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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 600m deep)
Late Spring, Dawn
The water warms with the season, so you are forced to head to edge of the plateau and swim down the cliff face. You move from an area of scarce light to an area of complete darkness. On the plus side, you manage to get deep enough that you are in cold water again. You do not manage to feed as you travel, but there is plenty of food in the currents drifting up the cliff face where you hover. (4)
Status
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 3.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 14.9/22.1 (67.5%)
Stamina: 50%
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)
Late Autumn, Dawn
It is cool and pitch black. With the other predators recently frightened off, there is plenty of meat just for you on the big corpse, and you eat what is left of the edible flesh. You grow into an adult, ready to breed. Having eaten, you decide to then rest, which is undisturbed and recover some energy. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! Give either yourself or another player a + or -1. Choose carefully; you cannot exchange it later.)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 1/8)
Current Size: 7.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 46.9/46.9 (100%) (+40% left over for growth)
Stamina: 60%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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
SOUTHWESTERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 500m deep)
Late Spring, Dawn
It is dark and cold. You crawl away from this busy precipice and find another slightly lower down on the rock face, jutting out into the water. This one you have to yourself, and so sit at the end and filter the plentiful food from the passing current with your tentacles. However, traveling to this new spot on low energy has traveled you. (5)
Status
Maturity: 95% (Subadult)
Current Size: 2.9cm
Health: Tired
Nutrition: 14.7/14.7 (100%) (+5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 25%
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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Thanks for the new round Stealth. The dice gods seem to like giving me struggles. :tired_face:

Action: Try and get out of the puddle.

813

Action: Let’s go ahead and r e s t.

814

Welp, atleast i wasnt eaten, feel like i’m lagging behind in the evolutionary career.
Action: Swim perpendicular to the water current, maybe i can grab the scent oficina more food nearby

815

Action: Rest but keep an eye out for any potential mates.

816

Action: Go find a crevice or something to hide in and sleep +1 to myself almost forgot about that lol. TY for the round

817

Action:Find me some food

818

Action: Eat snow stuff

819

Thanks for the round stealth
Action: look for a mate

820

Round 104 - P.1

Chat: https://discord.gg/weGdxFB

~26 million years into the game~
Untrustolithic Period, Novaglacian Stage
Season: Early Summer (North), Early Winter (South)
Time of Day: Morning (West), Dusk (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 Winter, Morning
More food can be collected if one is at the top of the rock, so you swim upwards and try to muscle yourself into the best spot. An adult Glistroskulus comes alongside and knocks you back off the top before you can continue feeding. You float back down to the oozy floor of the abyssal plain, having not been able to feed. In the cold darkness, you can only sense the group of Glistroskulus using the rock as a home. (3)
Status
Maturity: 70% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 1.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 3.9/5.5 (70%)
Stamina: 60%
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 LAKE, (Chapparal Lake)
Early Summer, Morning
You find a resting spot amidst the shallows and settle down to rest. Your rest is undisturbed and you regain just enough energy that you are immediately able to search for a mate afterwards. This is no challenge because the lake, particularly the shallows, is well-populated with Achaiapasaria circulus. You quickly find a receptive female, even in the substantial murkiness, and successfully reproduce. (5 + 1 = Well done! You have successfully passed on your genes; let’s hope they fit. Choose 4 mutations to try and evolve.)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 2/8)
Current Size: 12.5cm (length)
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 27.3/78.1 (35%)
Stamina: 15%
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 Summer, Morning
Desperate to escape this puddle, you heave yourself onto the wet mud of the estuary and try to wriggle your way to what is hopefully a better home. It’s fins do not help much, and crossing the quickly drying mud is tough - not to mention that your destination is getting further away as the tide continues to go out. After a while of struggling, you take a breather, having still not made it very far. To make matters worse, the sun is beating down on you and burning your delicate skin, the temperature is hot causing you to overheat, and you are rapidly drying out. (2)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Overheating, tired
Nutrition: 0.6/1.6 (40%)
Stamina: 30%
Hydration: 67%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.5

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 Summer, Morning
You search for a good place to rest, but all you can see in a stretch of sand and no places to hide. So, you settle down on the sand instead, but the arrival soon after of an adult Soundwavia forces you to swim away. It doesn’t seem to have chased you, but you were not able to rest. (2 + 1)
Status:
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 7.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 25.3/46 (55%)
Stamina: 60%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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 Summer, Dusk
Your swimming ability is greatly hindered by your injuries, and you can only paddle slowly through the current that upwells along the seamount. You can not travel far enough to reach the pockets of passing food that happen to be a bit further away, and you go hungry this time. It is still hot but very dark here. You sense no other life around here. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 4.6cm
Health: Bad wound on side, internal damage
Nutrition: 10.7/27.8 (38.5%)
Stamina: 45%
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.104 - P.2

@Biologicah
Xirnikrozz uysaisiroai (VU)
SOUTHERN TARTARUS (Temperate Shallows)
Early Winter, Morning
It is cool and pitch black as you search for a place to rest undisturbed. Although you cannot see, you avoid other animals through use of electroreception, and try to find somewhere lonely. Soon, you come across a small cove in a coastal cliff where the water is calm and few animals that can bother you live here, just a few small filter-feeders. You rest in a bed of seaweed and recover a lot of energy. Just as you are finishing your rest, there is a faint, dawn-like glow starting to form, as the sun briefly peeks over the horizon. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 2/8)
Current Size: 31cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 167.4/209.3 (80%)
Stamina: 90%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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 600m deep)
Early Summer, Morning
A feeling of nausea and weakness overcomes you as are about to start filtering for food along the face of the plateau. It seems a scratch you didn’t even realise you had has become infected, and you have contracted a dangerous disease. With little way of fighting pathogens, your chances of survival are slim. For now, you simply float in place in the dark, cold ocean, as the disease has taken too much out of you to move. (1)
Status
Maturity: 40% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 3.4cm
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 6.1/22.1 (27.5%)
Stamina: 20%
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 Winter, Morning
Down the bottom of this flooded sinkhole, you cannot find a mate because you scared off the other scavengers earlier. It’s just you and the spine of the Xirnikrozz corpse down here. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 2/8)
Current Size: 7.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 32.8/46.9 (70%)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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
SOUTHWESTERN UTEENESSA OCEAN (Temperate Deep Ocean, About 500m deep)
Early Winter, Morning
It is cold and pitch black. You continue to filter food from the current passing up the seamount, sitting at the edge of the precipice and pulling in particles with your tentacles. You are exhausted by now though but you have become an adult. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 100% (Young Adult - 1/8)
Current Size: 3cm
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 15.2/15.2 (100%) (+40% left over for growth)
Stamina: 15%
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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Woo, new round! Thanks Stealth. :grin:

Action: Keep going for the water, I can rest when I get there!

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Yay, I finally managed to evolve! I’m thinking that becoming a lungfish will allow me to survive these periods of droughts.
Mutation 1: Thick, dry resistant skin to survive the sun’s heat.
Mutation 2: Denser fins to support ourselves out of water, and to allow burrowing into mud.
Mutation 3: Primitive lungs to ensure we can actually breathe out of water (but avoid replacing our gills completely).
Mutation 4: Tropical tolerance, just incase the seasonal droughts stop in our local area.

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oh cool a land animal, also thanks for the round
Action: leave the cavern then search for a mate

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826

Action:find a mate to mate with ,mate

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827

keep eating 20 characters

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828

Action: rest

Ty for the round

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