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Evolution 1: Fix my nervous system and develop a cleverer brain.
Evolution 2: Fix my eyes and make them quicker at detecting figures.
Evolution 3: Gain small subdermal (poisonous) spikes that pop out whenever someone goes towards me.

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Action: Go find a crevice or a cave to sleep in

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Round 133 - P.1

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~33.25 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Atroxian Period, Untrustolithic Stage
Season: Late Winter (North), Late Summer (South)
Time of Day: Morning Twilight (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

Reward Shop

Rewards are subject to change.

  • Bonus Point: Get a + or -1 to use on the action roll of any player, yourself included. = 1pt
  • Guaranteed Action: Use this on an action to definitely roll a 4 or higher. = 2pts
  • Guaranteed Evolution: Use this during evolution to definitely roll a 4 or higher. You can save them up and use multiple at once. = 3pts
  • High Roller: Get a guaranteed 6 for either action or evolution. = 4pts
  • Call of the Wild: Summon an event that focuses on any specific area of the world you choose. However, the event is random and may be larger than you anticipate. = 5pts
  • Evolution Explosion: Every species immediately gets a chance to evolve, including yourself. = 7pts

State of the World: The global temperature is at about 20c, and there is a high level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Very small moss-like plants exist on land, specifically only in rainy wetlands but most of it is still bare and rocky. Due to the minimal plant life, the atmosphere is oxygen-moderate. There are two supercontinents, Olympia in the north and Tartarus in the south, with the sea transgressing over a lot of land. The continents are surrounded by the superocean Uteenessa, and in-between lies a comparatively small ocean called the Gaia Ocean. The sea levels are high, about 200m above standard, which makes the continental slope begin about 400m below the surface. The ocean is acidic, and the lysocline sits at 2000m. The planet is very tectonically active.

@RoboTrannic - Points Stored = 0
Xirnikrozz crusherei (VU)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Upper Ocean)
Late Summer, Morning Twilight
You hatch out into warm, faintly lit, clear water. You can feel yourself being carried on a current. You can see nothing around you but open ocean although
you can smell some potential food a ways off to one side of the current. You also smell at least one Neoxirnikrozz in this direction too. The light is increasing. (2)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 8.3/13.8 (60%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Xirnikrozz crusherei

Status: VU
Temporal Range: R.117 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Open Ocean
Distribution: Southern Uteenessa
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 31cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 86/10 x 31 = 266.6NP
Predecessor: Xirnikrozz ikrkinkarnikirkn
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can see well in low light, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can accurately smell odours up to tens of metres away
Latest Mutations: Muscles = 6, Olfaction = 6, Jaw = 6
Info: Arising to compete against Xirnikrozz yaisyarkrnk, Xirnikrozz crusherei is fairly similar with strong, energy-efficient muscles, although it has an edge; as the name suggests it has more powerful, reinforced jaws that can crush through cartilage or calcium carbonate shells if it needed two. Substances like bone and chitin are still too tough but it does not need this much power. It can also find prey from further away as it has olfactory receptors which can pick up smells from tens of metres away and follow them fairly accurately to their source. This means that this slinky predator has usurped Xirnikrozz yaisyarkrnk.
Anatomy: This species has a long, blue body that tapers into a whip-like tail, armed with two toxic spikes. It’s muscular jaw is made of cartilage but reinforced with a layer of tessarae and it has serrated teeth here. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye and olfactory receptors are also found on the head. 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 also contains an olfactory lobe. The muscles are strong and energy-efficient. Finally, supporting the entire body is a spine of cartilage vertebrae.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning. Other than its standard survival responses, Xirnikrozz always try to be vigilant of their surroundings, they avoid eating their own kind and they also remain close to their eggs until hatching.
Discoverer: Robotrannicrex

@Agenttine - Points Stored = 1
Unfortais awealias (EX)
SOUTHERN OLYMPIA SHELF (Tropical Shallows)
Late Winter, Morning Twilight
Before you know it, the serious genetic problems end your life, not being able to respond to environmental changes quickly enough to save yourself, you are eaten by a predator. (5 = Your species is extinct, doomed to the pages of history. Please choose a new species. Remember: No Species Lasts Forever.)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.1cm
Health: Dead
Nutrition: N/A
Stamina: N/A
Hydration: N/A
Effects: N/A

Unfortais awealias

Status: EX
Temporal Range: R.133 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Temperate Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Predator
Size: 22.4cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 76/10 x 12.8 = 170.2NP
Predecessor: Dentaskulus pigerai
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©
Perception: N/A
Latest Mutations: Nervous System = 2, Eyes = 5, Spikes = 2
Info: A rare offshoot of the Thanostomines, this species is hardly seen because of its serious deficiencies and it is surprising that this lineage has persisted as long as it has. It had so few neurones in its head that it couldn’t process any of its senses and it was also riddled with poisonous bacteria which sometimes targeted their host. It had two pinhole eyes instead of one pinhole and one cup eye, but that is the only way it improved from its predecessors. These eyes have protective lenses.
Anatomy: Unfortais has a long, blue tapering body, skirted by a ribbon on the top and underside, ending in a spiked whip-like tail. It has a cartilage jaw and two venomous canines surrounded by rather primitive teeth. It has a pinhole eye on each side of the head with a protective lens. It also has three gill slits, and a line of electroreceptors running down its body. Internally, a gut leads to a stomach containing carnivorous digestive bacteria and cartilage vertebrae runs down the spine. It has a swim bladder, centrally located in its body. A simple heart pumps the blood through its closed circulatory system, which supports organs such as muscles. It also has a nervous system composed of two nerve cords and rungs of nerves connected to a brain in the head, although it has very few neurones. Poisonous bacteria flow through the skin.
Behaviour: N/A
Discoverer: AgentTine

@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Aspondylus flexibilus (VU)
AN OLYMPIAN ESTUARY (Temperate Forest)
Late Winter, Morning Twilight
It is cold and dark. You decide to rest and stop moving around - although the tide still pulls at you. Your rest is undisturbed and you recover a lot of energy. When you’ve finished resting, you can still detect several Icthyotelus and a couple Aspondylus around, all filtering sluggishly. At the edge of your electroreception field, there is still a Pensaspidus is moving slowly. The tide keeps moving you. (5)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1.1/1.8 (62.5%)
Stamina: 90%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

Aspondylus flexibilus

Status: VU
Temporal Range: R.122 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Taiga Estuary
Distribution: Northern Olympia
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Nutritional Worth: 46/10 x 7 = 32.2NP
Size: 7cm (length)
Predecessor: Icthyotelus sinspica
Classification: Aspondylusinae (sf), Brevicauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can sense electrical signals within ten metres, and can see and detect the direction of light.
Latest Mutations: Eel-like fins = 2, Cartilage Skeleton = 2, Feeding tendrils = 3
Info: This species has seen a regression during evolution in which it has lost its cartilage vertebrae almost entirely; all that remains is a single rod, a notochord. It also has smaller pectoral fins than its predecessors. It is not a very successful species, living only in one estuary in the world, where it is still less common than Icthyotelus sinspica, the cold north of Olympia.
Anatomy: It has a tapering body, lined with electroreceptors and three gills on each side. It has two small pectoral ray-fins and a pair of forward-facing cup eyes on the head. 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 is a notochord. In the gut, is a primitive stomach with the ability to digest multicellular matter.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.

@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
Sanelectrophorus electricus (LC) - Male
WESTERN OLYMPIA SHELF (Temperate Shallows)
Late Winter, Morning Twilight
It is cool and dimly lit in the fairly murky water. You send out a pulse of weak electricity and discover some rocks not far away that provide a small crevice for you to slip into. As you make your way over, a lucky couple of scraps of flesh float by. You snap these up, so as not to lose any more nutrition. You get to the crevice and hide inside, and rest long enough to regain a lot of energy. When you have finished resting, you send another pulse and find that nearby is a pair of recently mated Phyoskulus. Their young - in eggs - has been deposited close to some seaweed close to the rock. You can detect no other animals except some nearby sponges. The light is increasing. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status:
Maturity: 22.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 4.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 26.3/38.9 (67.5%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

Sanelectrophorus electricus

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.123 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Open Ocean
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 20cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 86.5/10 x 20 = 173NP
Predecessor: Soundwavia amazonus
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Latest Mutations: Gender = 5, Better electroreception = 6
Perception: Decent vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception up to tens of metres away.
Info: One of the strangest Thanostomines up to this point, not only can this species monitor a very large area for electrical signals, it can also generate its own field and use electricity as a weapon. Most of the abdomen is taken up by large organs that produce the electrical discharge, that can give other animals a little shock. These organs also allow the animal to continuously create it own own electric field and discover its surroundings through disturbances in the field. It has also developed male and female genders.
Anatomy: 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 eyes, with cornea supported by vitreous humour and the retina at the back, 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 small pectoral flippers, as well as a tiny dorsal fin on the back. The omain electric organ stretches across the dorsal portion of the body, mirrored by the Hunter’s organ at the bottom and the Sach’s organ towards the rear; all three contain electrocytes. An open circulatory system bathes the organs in hemacoel, and the body is dcontrolled 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. There are both male and female castes.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.

@blackink - Points Stored = 0
Edentulae edentulae (NT) - Male
TROPICAL NORTHWEST UTEENESSA (Tropical Upper Ocean)
Late Winter, Morning Twilight
It is hot and there is a little bit of light. You smell plenty of food and swim towards it. You can sense a few other Edentulae here but before you begin feeding, a new scent arrives. It is a Stellingus ubivus, and you detect its electrical signal moving closer to you rapidly. You try to flee and swim upwards towards the light - the predator follows you. Then you find you can swim no more as you have reached the surface. The Stellingus now closes in. You try to slip past but it’s whip-like tail smacks you in the head and you are dazed. (1)
Status
Maturity: 45% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 5.2cm
Health: Dazed
Nutrition: 18.6/33.8 (55%)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.5

Edentulae edentulae

Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.126 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 11.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (65/10 X 11.5 =) 74.8NP
Predecessor: Lampsichelus paladarus
Classification: Skelechelusinae (sf), Brevicauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can detect the presence of light above, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Serrated teeth in upper jaw = 2, Closed circulatory system = 5, Improved Gut = 4, Kidneys = 3
Info: The mouth of Edentulae is completely toothless, making it more suited to filtering than its predecessors. It has a closed circulatory system, with vessels carrying red blood throughout the body that increases the animals, oxygen distribution among other things, giving it better stamina. Furthermore, it’s intestine is not shrunken and small like its predecessors but about the same size as the gut of species before that development. Edentulae is a pelagic filter-feeder, found quite commonly across much of the shallow oceanic areas.
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, toothless mouth are olfactory receptors and facing forwards are a pair of cup eyes. 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, a closed circulatory system pumps red blood around the body. All the muscles contin a vacuoles. A gut runs from the mouth and features a stomach of carnivorous digestive bacteria in the middle. 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.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.
Discoverer: BlackInk

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R.133 - P.2

@Biologicah - Points Stored = 0
Neoxirnkirozz cormeus (LC)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Upper Ocean)
Late Summer, Morning Twilight
You hatch out into warm, faintly lit, clear water. You can feel yourself being carried on a current. You can see nothing around you but open ocean although you can smell some potential food a ways off to one side of the current. You also smell at least one Xirnikrozz in the other direction. The light is increasing. (3)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 2.3cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: (70%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Neoxirnikrozz cormeus

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.126 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 46cm (length)
Nutritional Worth:
Predecessor: Xirnikrozz crusherei
Classification: Peragapodusinae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can see well in low light, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can accurately smell odours up to tens of metres away
Latest Mutations: Heart, Larger
Info: The record for largest animal on Ezta has once again been broken, this time by Neoxirnikrozz, almost half a meter in length. This comparatively large predator dominates the temperate shallows around Tartarus, feeding on the large herbivores. It has been forced to evolve a primitive heart to pump blood around this large body.
Anatomy: This species has a long, blue body that tapers into a whip-like tail, armed with two toxic spikes. It’s muscular jaw is made of cartilage but reinforced with a layer of tessarae and it has serrated teeth here. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye and olfactory receptors are also found on the head. 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. The open circulatory system contains red blood is pumped around by a smal one-chambered heart in the ventral area. It’s brain also contains an olfactory lobe. The muscles are strong and energy-efficient. Finally, supporting the entire body is a spine of cartilage vertebrae.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning. Other than its standard survival responses, Xirnikrozz always try to be vigilant of their surrounding, they avoid eating their own kind and they also remain close to their eggs until hatching.
Discoverer: StealthStyle

@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 2
_Pensaspidus aquadulciensis (LC)
AN OLYMPIAN ESTUARY (Temperate Forest)
Late Winter, Morning Twilight
It is cold and dark but this time when you swim upwards there is no cold solid, and the water flows. You follow the flow, taken by the tide as it brushes into a much larger body of water. You detect some prey and sense it to be an Icthyotelus hatchling. The tide carries you right to it and before it can escape you have clamped it’s head in your mandibles. You squeeze until your prey stops thrashing and then you eat your victim. You finally regain some strength. When you’ve finished eating, you sense that there are yet more Icthyoletus hatchlings close nearby and you do not sense any other Pensaspidus around. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 2.4/2.8 (85%)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Pensaspidus aquadulciensis

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.127 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus
Niche: Predator
Size: 7.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (69.5/10 X 7.5 =) 52.1NP
Predecessor: Pensaspidus jellyfishmonii
Classification: Roharasrinae (sf), Codowecoiidae (f), Probocephala (o), Cylindrea ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, blurry front vision with depth perception.
Latest Mutations: Brackish Tolerance, Freshwater Tolerance
Info: Seeking refuge from ocean predators, this Pensaspidus species has moved into the relatively calm waters of the estuaries, where there is ample prey and no predators to face. They live only in estuaries due to that being where their prey is, but they can tolerate freshwater too.
Anatomy: The top of the blue, cylindrical body is protected by a tough exoskeleton made out of chitin, which has extended to form a pair of mandibles around the mouth at the end of a proboscis. Some of the armour has also formed a fan-shaped tail protruding from the rear, which can be moved up and down by muscle and a muscular siphon at the rear propels out water. The armour behind the head contains a spiracle on each side, allowing oxygen through it. There are four pinhole eyes below the armour, but none of them look up; two are at the front, and two are on the sides. 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. The body is adapted to brackish and freshwater.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.
Discoverer: StealthStyle

@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Nimiastoma cavatunicus (NT) - Male
SOUTHWEST TARTARUS SHELF (Temperate Shallows)
Late Summer, Morning Twilight
It is warm but only dimly lit in the clear water. You are now looking for a mate and there are many Nimiastoma around to choose from. However, many, especially those in the current where you are, are youngsters not yet ready to reproduce. A few others are not females. When you approach these, you are quickly rebuffed and forced to keep looking. Not long after, you find a receptive adult female and successfully reproduce, although you are now tired from your search. The light is still increasing. (4 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity: 100% (2/8 - Young Adult)
Current Size: 5cm
Health: Tired
Nutrition: 17.5/30.5 (57.5%)
Stamina: 20%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Nimiastoma cavatunicus

Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.127 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (61/10 X 5 =) 30.5NP
Predecessor: Ostracoderma kinifolis
Classification: Nimiastomasinae (sf), Ostracodermidae (f), Colyphora (o), Violymphia ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Decent vision with no depth perception either side, can sense chemicals up to ten metres away with accuracy.
Latest Mutations: Strong Tentacles For Swimming = 1, Phragmocone = 5, Larger = 3, Long Strings Used For Filtering = 5
Info: This species has floated upwards, away from its historically benthic kind, and risen to plough the water column for its microbial food. This flotation is made possible by the rounded shell deposited by the mantle that continues on past the cylindrical body, as it contains a phragmocone - sectioned off areas of gas that make the shell lighter than the surrounding water. This means the animal is suspended with its head facing down. The tentacles have been completely replaced by a thick curtain of rough string dangling from a circular ring around the mouth. The strings can be retracted into a pocket on the body, pulling any particles they’ve captured with them. The pair of find that their ancestors used to crawl along the floor, are now used to create a swimming movement.
Anatomy: A red, conical calcium carbonate shell produced by the mantle tops the cylindrical body pointing down, as it contains sections of gas creating a phragmocone. Most of the body is covered by this thick, heavy shell, with eyestalks and two cartilage-rayed fins sticking out through special pores and the gill slits are completely covered. The circular mouth contains small teeth and is surrounded by chemoreceptors and a ring of rough strings that dangle below and can be retracted into pockets. In the head, ganglion lead to their single nerve cord that runs down the body meeting a web of nerves, alongside the cartilage notochord. The gut leads straight from the mouth to the anus. Violet blood is pumped around the body by the vessels of an open circulatory system to organs such as the muscles. Anti-freeze proteins are present in the blood.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli, however, it’s response is often delayed. It also has basic reasoning. Other than its standard survival responses, the female responds to the stimuli of producing eggs by embedding them in her tentacles and tucking the tentacles under her body.

@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Hemithateus springbloomi (NT)
WESTERN OLYMPIA SHELF SEA (Temperate Shallows)
Late Winter, Morning Twilight
It’s cool and dimly lit in the fairly murky water. It’s still too dark for you to see much. You follow a siblings electrical signal, but none of you have any way to find algae in the dark, so you cannot feed. Thankfully, the light now starts to increase. (5)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 5.4/7.7 (70%)
Stamina: 80%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

Hemithateus springbloomi

Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.123 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere
Niche: Herbivore
Size: 19cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 76.5/10 x 19 = 145.4NP
Predecessor: Hemithateus spicati
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Increased Size = 3, Better Digestive System = 4, Better Immune System = 5
Info: Hemithateus springbloomi faces more predation than its cousin Hemithateus novaglacianus due to its smaller size, yet it remains almost as numerous because it has a more efficient digestive system and has evolved blood clotting that lets it survive more injuries.
Anatomy: The long, blue, tapering body is supported by a vertebrae of bone, although the whip-tail at the end is composed of flexible cartilage. Along the body are three gill slits and a line of electroreceptors. There are no limbs. The head has a cartilage jaw, with a pair of venomous canines surrounded by square shaped teeth. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye, with the ability to swivel around. At the end of the tail, six venomous spikes stick out. A gut leads to a stomach containing digestive herbivorous bacteria. The muscles contain special vacuoles for storing extra energy, and are bathed in hemacoel by the open circulatory system, which has platelets in it.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.

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Action: eat the eggs and swim off (Am I able to do this?) Also if I die will I lose these two points I have saved up? and am I able to save these points when I survive and mate? just making sure of things because if I can save them up and mate then I’ll probably do so if I survive. Ty for the round as always and sorry for the delay of my past vote

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Action: Swim in the direction of possible food and eat possible food

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Thanks for the new round Stealth! :grin:

Action: Search for food, preferably away from the Pensaspidus.

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Could this go as far as sapience?

Let me rephrase that: Could a play actually escape from the aware stage into the early awakening if they tried? Because StealthStyleL didn’t mention anything about this, and because that’s the main goal of Ancestors, I would like a player to reach sapience, even if they can’t advance past the stone age. (But where’s the fun in that?) I would also laugh if you tried to smeltal the meltal.

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Okay, I’m gonna be meta but I can’t see another way to survive
Action: escape by swimming directly towards the bottom, hoping that I have more stamina and that stupid stellingus can’t adjust its gas filled swim bladder fast enough to catch me

Thanks for the round

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Action:Rest somewhere near the females

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Action: Feed in the morning light.

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Finally some good luck lol
Thanks for the round stealth. (I type that out so much autocorrect just fills in the whole sentence for me lol)
Action: eat the other hatchlings

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Round 134 - P.1

Chat: https://discord.gg/weGdxFB

~33.5 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Atroxian Period, Untrustolithic Stage
Season: Early Spring (North), Early Autumn (South)
Time of Day: Morning (West), Evening Twilight (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

Reward Shop

Rewards are subject to change.

  • Bonus Point: Get a + or -1 to use on the action roll of any player, yourself included. = 1pt
  • Guaranteed Action: Use this on an action to definitely roll a 4 or higher. = 2pts
  • Guaranteed Evolution: Use this during evolution to definitely roll a 4 or higher. You can save them up and use multiple at once. = 3pts
  • High Roller: Get a guaranteed 6 for either action or evolution. = 4pts
  • Call of the Wild: Summon an event that focuses on any specific area of the world you choose. However, the event is random and may be larger than you anticipate. = 5pts
  • Evolution Explosion: Every species immediately gets a chance to evolve, including yourself. = 7pts

State of the World: The global temperature is at about 20c, and there is a high level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Very small moss-like plants exist on land, specifically only in rainy wetlands but most of it is still bare and rocky. Due to the minimal plant life, the atmosphere is oxygen-moderate. There are two supercontinents, Olympia in the north and Tartarus in the south, with the sea transgressing over a lot of land. The continents are surrounded by the superocean Uteenessa, and in-between lies a comparatively small ocean called the Gaia Ocean. The sea levels are high, about 200m above standard, which makes the continental slope begin about 400m below the surface. The ocean is acidic, and the lysocline sits at 2000m. The planet is very tectonically active.

@RoboTrannic - Points Stored = 0
Xirnikrozz crusherei (VU)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Upper Ocean)
Early Autumn, Morning
It is warm and the clear, open water is illuminated in sunshine. You continue to drift in the current, ignoring the smells of food off to the side. However, there is no food around you in this current and you move no closer to the animals you can smell in front of you. (2 + 1)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 5.2/13.8 (37.5%)
Stamina: 90%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Xirnikrozz crusherei

Status: VU
Temporal Range: R.117 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Open Ocean
Distribution: Southern Uteenessa
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 31cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 86/10 x 31 = 266.6NP
Predecessor: Xirnikrozz ikrkinkarnikirkn
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can see well in low light, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can accurately smell odours up to tens of metres away
Latest Mutations: Muscles = 6, Olfaction = 6, Jaw = 6
Info: Arising to compete against Xirnikrozz yaisyarkrnk, Xirnikrozz crusherei is fairly similar with strong, energy-efficient muscles, although it has an edge; as the name suggests it has more powerful, reinforced jaws that can crush through cartilage or calcium carbonate shells if it needed two. Substances like bone and chitin are still too tough but it does not need this much power. It can also find prey from further away as it has olfactory receptors which can pick up smells from tens of metres away and follow them fairly accurately to their source. This means that this slinky predator has usurped Xirnikrozz yaisyarkrnk.
Anatomy: This species has a long, blue body that tapers into a whip-like tail, armed with two toxic spikes. It’s muscular jaw is made of cartilage but reinforced with a layer of tessarae and it has serrated teeth here. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye and olfactory receptors are also found on the head. 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 also contains an olfactory lobe. The muscles are strong and energy-efficient. Finally, supporting the entire body is a spine of cartilage vertebrae.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning. Other than its standard survival responses, Xirnikrozz always try to be vigilant of their surroundings, they avoid eating their own kind and they also remain close to their eggs until hatching.
Discoverer: Robotrannicrex

@Agenttine - Points Stored = 1
Archaiapasaria venator (LC)
A RIVER IN OLYMPIA (Temperate Forest)
Early Spring, Morning
You hatch out into cold and dark water. It’s flowing quite gently, the current carrying you slowly. With electroreception, you can detect a couple of other Archaiapasaria venator hatchlings nearby and one Archaiapasaria circulus downstream. Light is appearing gradually and the water temperature is increasing. (2 + 1)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: (70%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Archaiapasaria venator

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.126 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Freshwater
Distribution: Olympia
Niche: Predator
Size: 22cm (length)
Nutritional Worth:
Predecessor: Archaiapasaria circulus
Classification: Archaiapasarinae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Carnivorous Digestive Bacteria, Larger
Info: After millennia on its own in the rivers and lakes of Ezta’s continents, the herbivorous Archaiapasaria genus has produced a carnivorous species and moved into the niche of predator. At the moment, the only prey around is other Archaiapasaria. Like them, they are very common, however, they evolved at a time when the continents are separate and so only exist in Olympia.
Anatomy: It has a stout, orange and red, stream-lined body, like the shape of a fish , although it has a whip-tail, with a tail fin above and below the base of 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 line the body, which is also lined with electroreceptors. The mouth leads to a primitive gut and stomach, with carnivorous bacteria. The food is ground up in a gizzard first, by gastroliths. 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.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.
Discoverer: StealthStyle

@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 0
Aspondylus flexibilus (VU)
AN OLYMPIAN ESTUARY (Temperate Forest)
Early Spring, Morning
The water continues to be cold and dark. As the tide moves you, you are able to filter in some of the food particles which get caught up in it. Another Pensaspidus is detected some way to your front, so you are forced to move to the other side of the estuary to get out of its way. This isn’t very far though, but it does not seem to be approaching. You continue to drift in the tide, although the tide is slowing. Light is appearing gradually and the water temperature is increasing. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 7.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 2.3/2.3 (100%) (+2.5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 70%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Aspondylus flexibilus

Status: VU
Temporal Range: R.122 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Taiga Estuary
Distribution: Northern Olympia
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Nutritional Worth: 46/10 x 7 = 32.2NP
Size: 7cm (length)
Predecessor: Icthyotelus sinspica
Classification: Aspondylusinae (sf), Brevicauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can sense electrical signals within ten metres, and can see and detect the direction of light.
Latest Mutations: Eel-like fins = 2, Cartilage Skeleton = 2, Feeding tendrils = 3
Info: This species has seen a regression during evolution in which it has lost its cartilage vertebrae almost entirely; all that remains is a single rod, a notochord. It also has smaller pectoral fins than its predecessors. It is not a very successful species, living only in one estuary in the world, where it is still less common than Icthyotelus sinspica, the cold north of Olympia.
Anatomy: It has a tapering body, lined with electroreceptors and three gills on each side. It has two small pectoral ray-fins and a pair of forward-facing cup eyes on the head. 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 is a notochord. In the gut, is a primitive stomach with the ability to digest multicellular matter.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.

@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
Sanelectrophorus electricus (LC) - Male
WESTERN OLYMPIA SHELF (Temperate Shallows)
Early Spring, Morning
It is cool and the fairly murky water is also lit by sunlight. Just as you are about to leave your crevice to eat up the nearby eggs, you sense a larger Sanelectrophorus in the area and are forced to wait. The bigger animal then comes and swallows the eggs itself but does not notice you. It then swims off, although you can still detect its presence not too far away. You detect some nearby sponges but also a few other animals scattered across the sand - a Hemithateus also loiters nearby. The temperature is gradually increasing. (2 + 1)
Status:
Maturity: 22.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 4.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 22.4/38.9 (57.5%)
Stamina: 90%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

Sanelectrophorus electricus

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.123 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Open Ocean
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 20cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 86.5/10 x 20 = 173NP
Predecessor: Soundwavia amazonus
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Latest Mutations: Gender = 5, Better electroreception = 6
Perception: Decent vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception up to tens of metres away.
Info: One of the strangest Thanostomines up to this point, not only can this species monitor a very large area for electrical signals, it can also generate its own field and use electricity as a weapon. Most of the abdomen is taken up by large organs that produce the electrical discharge, that can give other animals a little shock. These organs also allow the animal to continuously create it own own electric field and discover its surroundings through disturbances in the field. It has also developed male and female genders.
Anatomy: 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 eyes, with cornea supported by vitreous humour and the retina at the back, 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 small pectoral flippers, as well as a tiny dorsal fin on the back. The omain electric organ stretches across the dorsal portion of the body, mirrored by the Hunter’s organ at the bottom and the Sach’s organ towards the rear; all three contain electrocytes. An open circulatory system bathes the organs in hemacoel, and the body is dcontrolled 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. There are both male and female castes.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.

@blackink - Points Stored = 0
Edentulae edentulae (NT) - Male
TROPICAL NORTHWEST UTEENESSA (Tropical Upper Ocean)
Early Spring, Morning
You head straight down, seeking cover in the darker depths, but you are not able to sneak past the Stellingus, which has you trapped against the surface. As you head past, still a little dazed, it’s bites you. It’s teeth rip through and not long after you faint from the attack. Then you die. (3 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity: 45% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 5.2cm
Health: Dead
Nutrition: N/A
Stamina: N/A
Hydration: N/A
Effects: N/A

Edentulae edentulae

Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.126 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 11.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (65/10 X 11.5 =) 74.8NP
Predecessor: Lampsichelus paladarus
Classification: Skelechelusinae (sf), Brevicauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Can detect the presence of light above, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Serrated teeth in upper jaw = 2, Closed circulatory system = 5, Improved Gut = 4, Kidneys = 3
Info: The mouth of Edentulae is completely toothless, making it more suited to filtering than its predecessors. It has a closed circulatory system, with vessels carrying red blood throughout the body that increases the animals, oxygen distribution among other things, giving it better stamina. Furthermore, it’s intestine is not shrunken and small like its predecessors but about the same size as the gut of species before that development. Edentulae is a pelagic filter-feeder, found quite commonly across much of the shallow oceanic areas.
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, toothless mouth are olfactory receptors and facing forwards are a pair of cup eyes. 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, a closed circulatory system pumps red blood around the body. All the muscles contin a vacuoles. A gut runs from the mouth and features a stomach of carnivorous digestive bacteria in the middle. 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.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.
Discoverer: BlackInk

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R.134 - P.2

@Biologicah - Points Stored = 0
Neoxirnkirozz cormeus (LC)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Upper Ocean)
Early Autumn, Morning
It’s warm and well-illuminated in the clear water, as you drift on the current. You swim towards one side of the current to get towards the scent of food but by the time you cross to the other side the current has moved you on past the scent. You have to go without food, becoming hungry, as the current carries on. There is nothing else you can sense right around you but you can smell a small amount of prey in front of you, but also a Xirnikrozz. Also, the temperature is increasing. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 2.3cm
Health: Hungry
Nutrition: (27.5%)
Stamina: 70%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

Neoxirnikrozz cormeus

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.126 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere
Niche: Apex Predator
Size: 46cm (length)
Nutritional Worth:
Predecessor: Xirnikrozz crusherei
Classification: Peragapodusinae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can see well in low light, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can accurately smell odours up to tens of metres away
Latest Mutations: Heart, Larger
Info: The record for largest animal on Ezta has once again been broken, this time by Neoxirnikrozz, almost half a meter in length. This comparatively large predator dominates the temperate shallows around Tartarus, feeding on the large herbivores. It has been forced to evolve a primitive heart to pump blood around this large body.
Anatomy: This species has a long, blue body that tapers into a whip-like tail, armed with two toxic spikes. It’s muscular jaw is made of cartilage but reinforced with a layer of tessarae and it has serrated teeth here. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye and olfactory receptors are also found on the head. 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. The open circulatory system contains red blood is pumped around by a smal one-chambered heart in the ventral area. It’s brain also contains an olfactory lobe. The muscles are strong and energy-efficient. Finally, supporting the entire body is a spine of cartilage vertebrae.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning. Other than its standard survival responses, Xirnikrozz always try to be vigilant of their surrounding, they avoid eating their own kind and they also remain close to their eggs until hatching.
Discoverer: StealthStyle

@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 2
_Pensaspidus aquadulciensis (LC)
AN OLYMPIAN ESTUARY (Temperate Forest)
Early Spring, Morning
It is still cold and dark as you swim towards the scent of the Icthyotelus. They also sense you approaching and take evasive action. You chase one of them and are luckily able to catch up before you run out of energy, although you are now tired. However, when you bite it with your mandibles, it turns out that it is fully grown and you make no more than a bad scratch before it swims off. The others have scarpered and now a few Pensaspidus have appeared, following the trail of the injured Icthyotelus. The tide that carries you is slowing and it is getting both warmer and lighter. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Exhausted
Nutrition: 1.7/2.8 (60%)
Stamina: 20%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 0.5

Pensaspidus aquadulciensis

Status: LC
Temporal Range: R.127 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Monsoon Forest, Savannah, Hot Steppe, Subtropical Desert, Chaparral, Temperate Forest, Taiga Estuaries
Distribution: Tartarus
Niche: Predator
Size: 7.5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (69.5/10 X 7.5 =) 52.1NP
Predecessor: Pensaspidus jellyfishmonii
Classification: Roharasrinae (sf), Codowecoiidae (f), Probocephala (o), Cylindrea ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, blurry front vision with depth perception.
Latest Mutations: Brackish Tolerance, Freshwater Tolerance
Info: Seeking refuge from ocean predators, this Pensaspidus species has moved into the relatively calm waters of the estuaries, where there is ample prey and no predators to face. They live only in estuaries due to that being where their prey is, but they can tolerate freshwater too.
Anatomy: The top of the blue, cylindrical body is protected by a tough exoskeleton made out of chitin, which has extended to form a pair of mandibles around the mouth at the end of a proboscis. Some of the armour has also formed a fan-shaped tail protruding from the rear, which can be moved up and down by muscle and a muscular siphon at the rear propels out water. The armour behind the head contains a spiracle on each side, allowing oxygen through it. There are four pinhole eyes below the armour, but none of them look up; two are at the front, and two are on the sides. 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. The body is adapted to brackish and freshwater.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.
Discoverer: StealthStyle

@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Nimiastoma cavatunicus (NT) - Male
SOUTHWEST TARTARUS SHELF (Temperate Shallows)
Early Autumn, Morning
You rest in the warm, well-lit, clear water, with many other Nimiastoma nearby. However, before you can get much rest in an explorative Stellingus arrives and tries to nip at your tentacles. You are forced to flee but it continues to chase you. Soon, you become so exhausted that you die. (1 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity: 100% (2/8 - Young Adult)
Current Size: 5cm
Health: Dead
Nutrition: N/A
Stamina: N/A
Hydration: N/A
Effects: N/A

Nimiastoma cavatunicus

Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.127 - Present (Untrustolithic)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean
Distribution: Southern Hemisphere
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 5cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (61/10 X 5 =) 30.5NP
Predecessor: Ostracoderma kinifolis
Classification: Nimiastomasinae (sf), Ostracodermidae (f), Colyphora (o), Violymphia ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Decent vision with no depth perception either side, can sense chemicals up to ten metres away with accuracy.
Latest Mutations: Strong Tentacles For Swimming = 1, Phragmocone = 5, Larger = 3, Long Strings Used For Filtering = 5
Info: This species has floated upwards, away from its historically benthic kind, and risen to plough the water column for its microbial food. This flotation is made possible by the rounded shell deposited by the mantle that continues on past the cylindrical body, as it contains a phragmocone - sectioned off areas of gas that make the shell lighter than the surrounding water. This means the animal is suspended with its head facing down. The tentacles have been completely replaced by a thick curtain of rough string dangling from a circular ring around the mouth. The strings can be retracted into a pocket on the body, pulling any particles they’ve captured with them. The pair of find that their ancestors used to crawl along the floor, are now used to create a swimming movement.
Anatomy: A red, conical calcium carbonate shell produced by the mantle tops the cylindrical body pointing down, as it contains sections of gas creating a phragmocone. Most of the body is covered by this thick, heavy shell, with eyestalks and two cartilage-rayed fins sticking out through special pores and the gill slits are completely covered. The circular mouth contains small teeth and is surrounded by chemoreceptors and a ring of rough strings that dangle below and can be retracted into pockets. In the head, ganglion lead to their single nerve cord that runs down the body meeting a web of nerves, alongside the cartilage notochord. The gut leads straight from the mouth to the anus. Violet blood is pumped around the body by the vessels of an open circulatory system to organs such as the muscles. Anti-freeze proteins are present in the blood.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli, however, it’s response is often delayed. It also has basic reasoning. Other than its standard survival responses, the female responds to the stimuli of producing eggs by embedding them in her tentacles and tucking the tentacles under her body.

@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 0
Hemithateus springbloomi (NT)
WESTERN OLYMPIA SHELF SEA (Temperate Shallows)
Early Spring, Morning
The fairly murky water is cool and illuminated by sunlight. You see some seaweed on the seafloor shortly below and head down. You go to munch on the seaweed when a Sanelectrophorus suddenly burst out of the patch. You manage to dodge its initial attack but become dazed when an electrical shock hits you. (1)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 3.1/7.7 (40%)
Stamina: 60%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

Hemithateus springbloomi

Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.123 - Present (Novaglacian)
Habitat: Temperate Shallows
Distribution: Northern Hemisphere
Niche: Herbivore
Size: 19cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: 76.5/10 x 19 = 145.4NP
Predecessor: Hemithateus spicati
Classification: Thanostominae (sf), Thanostomidae (f), Flagracauda (so), Caudomorphii ©, Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, can use electroreception up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Increased Size = 3, Better Digestive System = 4, Better Immune System = 5
Info: Hemithateus springbloomi faces more predation than its cousin Hemithateus novaglacianus due to its smaller size, yet it remains almost as numerous because it has a more efficient digestive system and has evolved blood clotting that lets it survive more injuries.
Anatomy: The long, blue, tapering body is supported by a vertebrae of bone, although the whip-tail at the end is composed of flexible cartilage. Along the body are three gill slits and a line of electroreceptors. There are no limbs. The head has a cartilage jaw, with a pair of venomous canines surrounded by square shaped teeth. On each side of the head is a pinhole eye, with the ability to swivel around. At the end of the tail, six venomous spikes stick out. A gut leads to a stomach containing digestive herbivorous bacteria. The muscles contain special vacuoles for storing extra energy, and are bathed in hemacoel by the open circulatory system, which has platelets in it.
Behaviour: This species is capable of processing information gathered from sense receptors and using that to form a picture of its surroundings. It can then respond to stimuli. It also has basic reasoning.

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Action: Move to a new location to eat

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Action: Move downstream and devour some food.

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Thanks for the new round Stealth. :grin: And yay I didn’t die once more! :relieved:

Action: Try and get some more food.

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Mutation 1:Closed circulatory system

Mutation 2:Better eyes

Mutation 3:Larger bebe

Mutation 4:Larger eyes

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Thanks for the round!

Action: Try and defend myself as best I can.

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why do the dice gods hate me in this game ;-;
Thanks for the round anyways stealth.
Action: rest in a crevice to avoid predators attracted by the blood.