Path of the Wild (Forum Game)

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Action: Let me eat

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Action: get stuck in my predator’s throath and suffocate him
And then be reborn i guess, thanks for the round

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Round 135 - P.1

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~33.75 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Atroxian Period, Untrustolithic Stage
Season: Late Spring (North), Late Autumn (South)
Time of Day: Midday (West), Midnight (East)
Event: 12 - Volcanic Eruption

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.

Off the southeastern coast of Tartarus, the active seafloor has created a crevice in the seafloor, and magma is rushing up to fill it, causing tremors in the seabed.

Also, many new species have appeared.

@RoboTrannic - Points Stored = 0
Xirnikrozz crusherei (CR)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Shallows)
Late Autumn, Midday
It is still bright but the clear water has become a cool temperature. You glide along a current as plankton, honing in on food ahead by smell. Once you get closer, you can see a few Phyoskulus hatchling swept up by the current. The current aides you in your approach but the hatchlings notice you when you get close. However, they start turning when a large jellyfish materialises in the water ahead, and one of them turns right towards your jaws. You bite down and crush it’s brain, killing it almost instantly. You then feed on the corpse as it drifts slowly downwards. You eat your fill. You are still planktonic. Now you can finally see a seabed a fair way down, in what seems to be the top of a cliff. In the current you can detect several Masticephalus, being harried by Leptia. On the seabed, some sponges and corals grow on the outcrop, and patches of seaweed can be seen with various Phyoskulus feeding. Other shelled animals can be seen pottering about the open seabed. (5)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.6cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 12.1/13.8 (87.5%)
Stamina: 70%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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 LAKE IN OLYMPIA (Temperate Forest)
Late Spring, Midday
Bright light has finally returned and the murky water is also warm. The river carries you downstream over muddy banks until you see the riverbed disappear and there becomes nothing but water below you as far as you can see. Also, there is no current and you can swim freely. However, you have been struggling to warm up as the river carried you, and the few other smaller Archaiapasaria have managed to get a bit warmer, and therefore faster than you. Each one you try to chase is able to escape so you give up. You are finally able to catch up, temperature-wise. There are several Archaiapasaria dotted around you in all directions, of differing sizes. (2 + 1)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: (37.5%)
Stamina: 80%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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)
Late Spring, Midday
Bright light has finally returned and the water is also warm. The tide has stopped. You go to filter some food from the water but then detect a Pensaspidus coming close. It heads towards you so you are forced to swim away and fortunately it gives in quickly. You feel the tide starting up again but moving the other way. You can sense several Icthyotelus and Aspondylus nearby, and still detect a Pensaspidus a bit further away. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 7.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1.6/2.3 (67.5%)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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 Spring, Midday
It is now warm and bright in the fairly murky water. You still detect the larger Sanelectrophorus and so move away, You leave the crevice and swim across sandy plains until you no longer detect a threatening presence. Now, you can focus on feeding. You detect a few Hemithateus feeding on some seaweed and head down. They try to escape but you stun the smallest one with a blast of weak electricity and then bite it until it is incapacitated. Then you eat. Around you is a sandy plain, doted here and there by rocks, sponges or corals with outcrops of seaweed. The Hemithateus you jumped are still within the area, but so is a Soundwavia. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity: 22.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 4.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 37.9/38.9 (97.5%)
Stamina: 70%
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
TEMPERATE NORTHWEST UTEENESSA (Temperate Upper Ocean)
Late Spring, Midday
After choking your consumer, you hatch out into warm, brightly lit, clear water. A current carries you along. Around you, you can smell little specks of floating food, as well as sense other Edentulae hatchlings, jellyfish, Masticephalus and several Leptia. (4)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.3cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1.6/2 (80%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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.135 - P.2

@Biologicah - Points Stored = 0
Neoxirnkirozz cormeus (VU)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Shallows)
Late Autumn, Midday
It’s now cool in the bright, clear water. The current carries you onwards until you can see the seabed below. You swim downwards towards the edge of the drop-off, where a cliff descends into the gloom. You are following the smell of a Physokulus and come across a freshly dead corpse of an adult. Larger Neoxirnikrozz are already feeding but they do nothing when you join in and eat your fill before retreating away. You then rejoin the current above, which carries you all the way to a coast, where a bay opens up. You can smell seaweed and prey in the bay. In the opposite direction are sandy plains, relatively empty, except for small, shelled animals shuffling about and a Vermoides or two hidden in the sand. You smell no predators. (6)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 2.3cm
Health: Hungry
Nutrition: (87.5%)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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 Spring, Midday
Bright light has finally returned and the water is also warm. The tide has stopped. This part of the estuary appears to be littered with rocks and at your small size, it is easy to find a small hole. You fit inside a rest a bit, recovering some energy. You feel the tide starting up again but moving the other way. You can sense several Icthyotelus and Aspondylus nearby, and detect a Pensaspidus a bit further away. (4)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1.3/2.8 (47.5%)
Stamina: 60%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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 Autumn, Midday
You hatch into cool, brightly lit, fairly murky water. You can see a seabed a short way below and sense specks of food floating in the water. You can also see several other Nimiastoma and Masticephalus nearby, already feeding on the food. Suddenly, you feel the seafloor start to rumble and shake up the shallow water. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.3cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 1.4/1.8 (80%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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 (VU)
WESTERN OLYMPIA SHELF SEA (Temperate Shallows)
Late Spring, Midday
Out of nowhere an even larger predator crashes into the Sanelectrophorus attacking you and disappears with its catch. You recover from your daze. It is now warm and still sunny in the fairly murky water. A few fronds of a broken seaweed flow past and you snap these up, enough to keep your from getting anymore hungry. You can see a seaweed lined bay nearby and you can detect no more predators. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 3.1/7.7 (40%)
Stamina: 50%
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: Find my way back to crevice and sleep

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Action: CONSUME ONE OF THE SMOL BOIS

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Thanks for the new round Stealth. :grin:

Action: Search for some food in a hopefully safer spot. But don’t exert too hard to do so. Gotta save that stamina.

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Hey, it’s raining food!
Action: start to eat the specks of food
Thanks for the round as always

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Actiob:Eat the speck of food

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Action: FEED ME MORE

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action feast on them 'weeds.

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@StealthStyle can you post the waiting list? i don’t know where it is.

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R.136 - P.2

@Biologicah - Points Stored = 0
Neoxirnkirozz cormeus (VU)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Shallows)
Early Winter, Afternoon
It is cool and bright in the fairly murky water. You follow the smell of prey into the bay. Passing through a crop of seaweed, you see a menagerie of animals in the bay behind. Close by, feeding on the seabed through which you are passing is a young Phyoskulus, which does not notice you. You burst out of the vegetation and deal a crushing blow with your teeth on its soft head, killing it instantly. You then feed on its body. There is plenty of food in this bay, and you grow into a juvenile. You can detect more and larger Phyoskulus with your sense of smell. Regular seaweed beds provide cover. You also detect no other predators hunting here, except some hatchlings. It is getting darker. (6)
Status
Maturity: 53% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 24.4cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: (100%) (+48% left over for growth)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: None

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 Summer, Afternoon
The murky water is bright and warm. The tide carries you on a current and you see that an Aspondylus has been pushed mostly onto the muddy bank by a stray wave. It is an easy catch and you grab it’s helpless self with your mandibles and drag it back into the water where you finish it off. You then eat it. The current continues to carry you, and at your small size, slip right into a small, isolated pool. Trapped inside are some Icthyotelus hatchlings. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 12.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.9cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 6.3/6.3 (100%) (+7.5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 50%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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 Winter, Afternoon
Explosions erupt from the seabed accompanied by a rumbling, as bubbles of boiling hot water escape to the surface. The water sadly boils you alive. (4 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 0.3cm
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 (VU)
WESTERN OLYMPIA SHELF SEA (Temperate Shallows)
Early Summer, Afternoon
It is warm and bright in the fairly murky water. You enter the seaweed-lined bay, and start munching on the food. There is plenty for you. There are lots of Hemithateus feeding nearby and benthic animals. It is starting to get darker. (5)
Status
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 7/7.7 (90%)
Stamina: 40%
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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Round 136 - P.1

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~34 million years since the Atroxian Explosion~
Atroxian Period, Untrustolithic Stage
Season: Early Summer (North), Early Winter (South)
Time of Day: Afternoon (West), Morning Twilight (East)
Event: 8 - 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

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  • Bonus Point: Get a + or -1 to use on the action roll of any player, yourself included. = 1pt
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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.

Explosions erupt from the seabed accompanied by a rumbling, as bubbles of boiling hot water escape to the surface. A volcano submerged in a shallow sea has erupted, fuelled by the tectonic activity of the planet.

@RoboTrannic - Points Stored = 0
Xirnikrozz crusherei (EX)
SOUTHERN UTEENESSA (Temperate Shallows)
Early Winter, Afternoon
Explosions erupt from the seabed accompanied by a rumbling, as bubbles of boiling hot water escape to the surface. The water sadly boils you alive. (1 = 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: 1.6cm
Health: Dead
Nutrition: N/A
Stamina: N/A
Hydration: N/A
Effects: N/A

Xirnikrozz crusherei

Status: EX
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 LAKE IN OLYMPIA (Temperate Forest)
Early Summer, Afternoon
You look around you in the murky, warm water with sunlight illuminating what it can of the sediment-filled water. You also use electroreception because the murk means low visibility. However, in this patch of water all the Archaiapasaria are larger than you, although some only slightly, so you don’t make a move. But you are now starving, so may soon have to. You can perceive nothing else except open water and no floor. The light is increasing. (3)
Stats
Maturity: 5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 1.1cm
Health: Starving
Nutrition: (15%)
Stamina: 70%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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 Summer, Afternoon
It is bright and warm in the fairly murky water. As the tide rises gently, you ride freely in the current. Being so small, you manage to slip into an area of water that is inaccessible to larger animals, and so it quite isolated with only you in it. Here, you serenely filter particles brought in by the tide. The tide continues to rise. (5)
Status
Maturity: 25% (Juvenile)
Current Size: 1.8cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 8.3 / 8.3 (100%) (+17.5% left over for growth)
Stamina: 40%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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 Summer, Afternoon
It is warm and bright in the fairly murky water. You swim down to the seabed and hide in a gap in between rocks. Here, you rest until, you are completely re energised. When you check outside, the seabed is still dotted with rocks sponges and coral across open sand and there in front of you is a freshly killed Hemithateus carcass. You cannot detect anything else. It is getting darker. (5 + 1)
Status:
Maturity: 22.5% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 4.5cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 32.7/38.9 (84%)
Stamina: 100%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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
TEMPERATE NORTHWEST UTEENESSA (Temperate Upper Ocean)
Early Summer, Afternoon
In warm, brightly lit water you are carried about by a current and filter food that passes your way. There is plenty to eat and you quickly grow into a juvenile capable of swimming against the current if need be. Thankfully, where the current deposits you, you can smell vast amounts of phytoplankton around the surface layers. This is accompanied by several filter-feeders such as other Edentulae, jellyfish, Masticephalus and even a Brachiostomus. You can also detect some benthic species. This amount of prey attracts predators, but so far it is only small Leptia, and they have not shown to be interested in you. It is getting slightly darker. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity: 45% (Hatchling)
Current Size: 5.2cm
Health: Healthy
Nutrition: 33.8/33.8 (100%) (+40% left over for growth)
Stamina: 90%
Hydration: 100%
Effects: Metabolism x 1.25

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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Action: KILL, EAT, THRIVE

1168

Action: Bring the corpse back to the crevice and eat it
Ty for the round

1169

Action: Rest a bit, and grow.

Thanks for the round my man.

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Oof Sorry I missed this one
Action: eat all the babies :baby:

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Thanks for the round Stealth! :grin:

Action: Rest a bit before getting back out into the estuary proper.

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Action: eat whatever is available along my brothers, there is strength in numbers in case a predator is roaming around