Round 189 - P.1
~63 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Astathean Stage
Event: 3 - None
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Tectonic activity carries on, causing the volcanoes at mid-ocean ridges to pump megatonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The global temperature has stabilised at 30c. The climate is now mostly tropical and subtropical, as temperate zones have been pushed into the polar zones. Because of the heat, the oceans are highly stratified and water below the thermocline is hypoxic. Ocean downwelling occurs now at the equator, and at much less frequency.
In the estuaries and deltas of Olympia, Tartarus and Aeaea connected by the tropical ocean in which it also inhabits, Pultrypa falbracchi has evolved. It is the largest arthropod yet and an apex predator, both seriously well-armed and well-armoured. It may even pose a threat to the existence of other animals but it is still early days in the growth of its population.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Salcaedis corcillum, Male (LC)
Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
The Mandibulidon that stood nearby the tide-pool moves swiftly on, leaving you practically alone with the Cilistoma and algae. You decide to rest. It is undisturbed and fairl long, and you recover some energy. When you have finished resting, you look around; the tide has risen and the tide-pool has merged with the rest of the estuary. You have been swept up by the tide. Algae coats the rocks. Some Icthyotelus swim over them. You can chemically sense a couple Pultrypa somewhere about. The water is hot, murky and brackish. You can sense increased salinity in one direction, in the direction from which light waves ripple overhead. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 2/2.7 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Salcaedis corcillum
Latest Mutations: Tropical Tolerance = 5, Intelligence = 6, Heart = 5, Stronger Mandibles = 2
This species has become marine, occupying the tropics around the Uteenessa Ocean. It can only hunt soft-bodied creatures because it has rather blunt and weak pincers. It can also graze. When reproducing, they return to certain sites in estuaries based in the tropics across both Olympia and Tartarus. This is thanks to their ability to remember long-term events.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 13cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (133NP/10) x 13/10 = 14.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 8NP / 14.8NP
Abilities: Moderate UV Resistance, Pincers Penetrate Hardness 0, Moulting, Can Roll Up. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Tolerance), Circulation, Excretion. Long-Term Memory.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemical particles from 5m away, only vague sense of direction), Sight 1 (Clear sight to the sides), Perceives Blue and Green.
Stats: Respiration 1, Coordination 1. Digestion 1.2 (Can Break Down Multicellular Matter, Can Digest Meat, Can Digest Plants, 10% less), Immunity (Immunity Physical Barrier), Support 1.5, Intelligence 1, Desiccation Resistance 1, Hardness 3. Walk Speed 2, Swim Speed 4.1, Stamina 2, Jumping 1, Strength 0.5, Dexterity 0.5, Filtration -0.5. Evolution 1 (4 mutations).
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; roll up into a ball. When hungry; look or sense for algae or animals. In Early Spring, when ready to reproduce, move to brackish water and gather in specific breeding sites and then sense for pheromones of opposite sex and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: Iridiphore pigments give the calcified exoskeleton with many plates covering the cylindrical body a metallic, blue sheen. This covers the skin. The mouth has a pair of mandibles (chelicera) and also has nearby chemoreceptors. On the side of the head are a pair of lens eyes and behind them a pair of compound eyes. The exoskeleton sports ten pairs of legs; the first are chelipeds which end in long, serrated pincers (chela), the next four are lined with paddles and used for walking and the final five are smaller, forked (biramous) swimmerets, also with paddles. The exoskeleton ends in a fan tail, and below this is a hyponome.
Internal Features: Spiracles at the edge of the body draw in water past gill-like structures. A closed circulatory system of blood vessels transports blue blood efficiently around the body, pumped by a two-chambered heart. Anti-freeze glycoproteins circulate in the body fluids. A nephridium funnels out chemical waste and expels it through a pore. The body is supported by a system of muscles. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the coiled intestines and finally to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which itself is connected to nerves like rungs of a ladder. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder, while below can be found testes (in a male or hermaphrodite) or an ova (in a female or hermaphrodite). Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: Male & Female until late life (Identical) (+1 Evolution)
Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control.
@immortaldragon - Points Stored = 2
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
_Polar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You contract a short illness which simply prevents you from being able to scent odours. In the pitch black water, without odours you have very little reference for direction, so you have no choice but to wait it out and go without food. Later, you have recovered from your illness. The water is cool and you are living in the pitch black water. You sense nothing above you but below you smell an Acanthaskulus and a Macromorphii, along with a soft coral. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% (Subadult) / 5.1cm / 20 months
Health: Lost pectoral fin, shattered scales, bleeding wounds on tail
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 14.4/18 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: Reduced agility and speed.
Pigocauda corallus
Latest Mutations: Better eyes with a transparent humor or rather than water = 4, Armour plates around head and jaw = 1, Two-chamber heart = 4
Info: This relatively slow-going proto-fish mainly sticks near to the seafloor because this is where it’s food is located. Unlike its hunting relatives, it’s too slow to be able to hunt enough nutrient-rich food and instead feeds on soft corals. The reason for its lack of speed is the strange scales covering its tail from tip to base; it is composed of heavy but brittle scales that provide no protection but restrict movement of the critical tail. However, it has better stamina because of a two-chambered heart and better eyesight with an actual true eye (composed of a aqueous humor supporting a cornea and lens bending light to the retina) that helps it pick out the soft corals.
Status: NT
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator (eats soft corals)
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (86/10 X 6 =) 51.6NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 25NP / 41NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Bioluminescence. Short-Term Memory.
Perception: Decent binocular vision in front, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: Streamlined fish-shape body with black pigmentation; it has oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines on it’s base. A brittle, heavy type of scale covers the tail from tip to base. Cycloid scales cover the thin skin layer, a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing lots of razor-shaped teeth, olfactory receptors and forwards facing eyes - with aqueous humor supporting the cornea and lens directing light to the retina - make up the face.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin, pumped by a two-chambered heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage membrane. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has stomach a with digestive juices followed by intestines leading to the anus. A slightly bigger brain, with a memory lobe, encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body, near to the electric organ. It hosts male and female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
Archaeostomus fallus (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Early Autumn
Spotting blurrily what appears to be an Anazitonta, you swim hurriedly towards it, your shoal mates following loosely behind. Luckily, your prey does not acknowledge you until it is too late. You lunge into it, delivering a piercing blow with your fangs. Blood clouds the water as your prey begins thrashing. Soon after, it is dead. You eat your prize as your shoal mates simply swim nearby. About a month passes, in which you survive by eating and avoiding predation. You become an adult, ready to reproduce. Your electroreception picks up nothing but your shoal mates and a passing Collodopodus. The water is warm and clear. The surface is not far above. Below you, the water gets darker. Around you stretches empty ocean, gradually becoming gloom. You can see a blurry shape up ahead, but smell both an Anazitonta and a Cerceps. (5 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 24 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 7.2/7.2 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Archaeostomus fallus
Latest Mutations: Long-Term Memory = 6, Quicker Sexual Maturity = 3, Venomous Fangs = 5
This proto-fish has a mouth reminiscent of the Archeoarcha that went extinct in the very early stages of the Oliverian, because it shares venomous fangs with the aforementioned has a larger brain than any other species at the time it appeared because it has a longer memory, that can store information for up to a month.
They use this memory to recognise individuals in the small shoals that they form.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Temperate Shallows, Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator.
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (179NP/10) x 8/10 = 7.2NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (7.2 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 4.3NP / 7.2 x 0.9 = 6.5NP
Abilities: Air Space. Bioluminescence. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Toxin, Fatal. Circulation, Large-Body. Penetrates Toughness 1 (jaw). Permeable Skin. Pressure Tolerance, Moderate. UV Resistance, Strong.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (passive electrical field 1 body length away). Blurry Sight (above). Smell 1 (detects odours 1m away).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Break Down Multicellular Matter, Digest Meat, 10% off). Evolution 1 (4 votes). Filtration 0.5. Flexibility 2. Immunity 1. Intelligence 1. Memory 2 (1 month). Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration, Ram Ventilation, 10% off). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 3.3. Toughness 0.5. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; swim away. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, smell for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: It has a fish-shaped body with black pigmentation, oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines at it’s base. Cycloid scales cover the skin and a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing sharp teeth and a pair of fangs in the upper jaw, olfactory receptors and upwards facing pinhole eyes make up the face.
Internal Features: Inside each cell has a low pressure tolerant metabolism. Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin, pumped by a simple heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage vertebrae. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw, which is linked to a cartilage skull. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has a stomach with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. There is also a liver. A brain with a memory lobe encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body. It hosts either male or female gonads. Kidneys, connected to circulatory system, expels waste to the bladder a tract.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (Identical) (+1 Evolution).
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Gas Buoyancy. Active. (20NP)
@blackink - Points Stored = 1
Archiproticthys backshalli (NT)
Tropical Shallows
You hatch out into hot, clear water, with the sun beating down and creating ripples of light in the sea. You feel yourself being carried along by the current, but close below you can see the sandy seabed and growing in it is a seaweed. You squirm through the thick jelly-like water to the base of the seaweed and munch as much as you can until the current moves you on. You are forced to do this again, snagging food wherever you pass. A few weeks pass and you grow a bit bigger, eating enough and avoiding predation, so that the water is no longer viscous. However, you still feel yourself being carried along in a current. The current is carrying you along the seabed but to one side you can blurrily see the seabed declining and in the other you can see it inclining. The shallower section appears to have more seaweed but also more activity, spotting several Archiprotichthys and Protichthys but also Pseudoichthys. In this area and the slightly deeper section, seaweed becomes sparser but you see nothing but a single, blurry Pultrypa silhouette swimming through the gloom. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% (Hatchling) / 1.4cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Archiproticthys backshalli
Status: NT
Temporal Range: R.150 - Present (Oliverian)
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Temperate Shallows
Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Niche: Herbivore
Size: 9cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (76/10 X 4 =) 26.6NP
Predecessor: Leptia leptia
Classification: Sanicthyopsinae (sf), Skelechelusidae (f), Eoicthyes (so), Chordata (sc), Bilateria §
Perception: Blurry binocular vision in front, can use electroreception up to ten metres away, can smell odours up to ten metres away.
Latest Mutations: Genders, Heart, Bigger
Info: With little competition and predation, this species of proto-fish can focus on improving things like reproductive fitness, evolving genders. It also has a simple heart to increase its stamina and has grown larger on the ample supply of algal food.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: Streamlined fish-shape body with black pigmentation; it has oval pectoral ray-fins, a caudal fin beneath the tail and two spines on it’s base. Cycloid scales cover the thin skin layer, a line of electroreceptors on the flank and blue autogenic photophores dot the body. A mouth containing square teeth, olfactory receptors and upwards facing pinhole eyes make up the face.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits sit each side of head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin, pumped by a simple heart. Muscles line either side of the body between the body wall and the cartilage membrane. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. The gastrointestinal tract from the mouth has stomach a with digestive juices followed by intestines, with vegetation-digesting microfauna, leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into network of nerves. A swim bladder lies in the centre of the body. It hosts either male or female gonads. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Discoverer: StealthStyle
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 0
Pultrypa falbracchi, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Wet Barrens
You hatch out into hot, murky, brackish water. Next to you, you can see a Salcaedis hatching from its own egg. You pull your clawed arms back to ready them for attack. You crawl through the viscous, jelly-like water towards it. The Salcaedis hatchling is occupied with emerging from the egg. You swim past as it finally breaks free and your arms spring forward. It is crushed in your claws and its blue blood fills the water. Your prey quickly dies of its injuries and you consume your prize. You survive for another few months, managing to find enough food, avoid predation and moulting successfully. You grow into a juvenile. Looking around, you are still in the murky, hot, brackish water. The water becomes quite shallow, with pebbles giving way to a shore. The tide is rising and the pebbles are becoming deeper. Hidden in the pebbly area you can smell a Salcaedis. In the opposite direction it becomes muddier and you spot a couple of Icthyotelus flitting in and out of the murk. In a similar direction, where it becomes deeper, you can smell saltwater. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 7cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Pultrypa falbracchi
Latest Mutations: Bigger = 4, Larger, Sharper Mandibles = 6 (penetrates hardness 3), Spring-loaded Arm (a small saddle that winds up the arm to strike quicker) = 4, Better Respiration = 6
The claws of Pultrypa are devastating weapons; they are long, serrated and can crush through even calcified chitin exoskeletons. The only armour they cannot penetrate are full on calcium carbonate shells. And a saddle-like muscle can prepare the chelipeds to be launched like they are spring-loaded, moving these dangerous weapons with lightning-quick speed. Add all this to their relative size, the largest animal at the time of its appearance, and improved respiratory system, which has enlarged the spiracles into chambers, and it creates an Oliverian apex predator.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean & Brackish Water in Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Tropical Monsoon Barrens, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Tropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Tropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Humid Barrens, Subtropical Monsoon Barrens, Subtropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Subtropical Winter Semi-Arid Barrens, Subtropical Arid Barrens, Subtropical Very Arid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 20cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (160NP/10) x 20/10 = 14.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 8NP / 14.8NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Circulation, Large-Body. Excretion, Liquid. All High Pressures Intolerant. Moults. Osmoregulation, Variable (Brackish, High Salinity). Penetrates Toughness 3. Rolls Up. Taste, Bitter. UV Resistance, Moderate.
Perception: Chemoreception 2 (Detects chemicals 5m away from the front). Peripheral Vision (Clear sight to the side). Sight 2 (Clear sight to the side, Blue and Green Perception).
Stats: Coordination 1. Desiccation Resistance 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2.2 (Digests Meat, 12% off). Filtration 0. Flexibility -0.5. Immunity 1. Intelligence 1. Jumping 1. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 3. Strength 0.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Toughness 3. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; roll up into a ball. When hungry; look or sense for algae or animals. In Early Spring, when ready to reproduce, move to brackish water and gather in specific breeding sites (+1 Evolution) and then sense for pheromones of opposite sex and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: About fourteen segments of a calcified, chitin exoskeleton cover the cylindrical, slightly rounded body, and connected by a flexible tissue. The structure creates a blue sheen. The exoskeleton covers the skin. A pair of mandibles lay on either side of the mouth. There are also chemoreceptors on the front and at the side of the head are a pair of lens eyes, then a pair of compound eyes both with blue and green receptor cells. On each segment of the middle exoskeleton is a pair of jointed legs, adding up to ten. The first pair are chelipeds which ends in long, serrated pincers (chela). The next four pairs of legs are lined with paddles up until the tip. The final five pairs are biramous swimmerets, lined with paddles. At the end is a fan tail, extended from the exoskeleton, with a hyponome below.
Internal Features: The hyponome does not form much of a chamber. Spiracles dotted along the body lead to muscular chambers containing gills. The mouth leads to a tube that reaches the stomach, which connects to the coiled intestines and this to the anus. A brain in the head connects to a nerve cord, which is connected to nerves that spread across the body like rungs of a ladder. Blood vessels cross all over the body, connected to a two-chambered heart. The blood is blue because it contains hemocyanin; it also contains anti-freeze glycoproteins. A muscular system exists in the body, including a saddle-like muscle on the inside joint of the chelipeds. There is a nephridium, a swim bladder and sexual organs. A bitter fluid is produced by a sac.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs per spawning. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: Male & Female until late life (Identical) (+1 Evolution)
Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Hyponome Cruising.
Hmm, this is an interesting conundrum.