Go to the rocky bank and enter the final sleep
action: rest while keeping an eye out for any possible prey/predators.
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Action: Follow the decline of the seabed the deeper section towards the sparser seaweed to feed on peace along the Pultrypa
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Whoops, pardon the delay on voting.
Action: There’s no use in trying to wait now. Keeping an eye out for any incoming predators, I will descend down in the direction of the scent of the soft coral and feed on any that I find. If I detect any, flee up and away into open water once again.
I’ll use one of my points to give this action a +1.
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So sorry,I just got back from the road, the wifi sucked.
Action: Nestle near the seaweed, laying low as to avoid detection from any potential predator, trying to regain just enough energy to reproduce.
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Round 190 - P.1
~63.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Astathean Stage
Event: 7 - 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.
Over thousands of years, the population of Pultrypa falbracchi has expanded and it has taken over the position of apex predator in tropical seas and estuaries. Many species of other arthropods have been pushed into freshwater. It is in direct competition with Carcharobrachia.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Salcaedis corcillum, Male (LC)
Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
You spot a small Icthyotelus swimming overhead. You paddle and burst towards it, quite easily catching up and grasping it in your claws. You squeeze and cut into your prey. It starts bleeding more and more as you press harder, blood clouding around you in the water. Eventually, the blood loss is too much and the Icthyotelus dies. You eat the remains. A few months pass, during which you feed, avoid predators, moult and grow. 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 Pultrypa nearby. 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. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% (Juvenile) / 7.2cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 2/2.7 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 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 = 1
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
_Polar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You head gingerly down towards the scent of a soft coral. There is no light and all you have to go on is your sense of smell and electroreception. You reach the coral but then you detect the electrical presence of a Cerceps crawl out from somewhere nearby. Panicked, you flee but have very little idea in what direction you are heading because of the lack of sensory stimuli. Fortunately, the Cerceps does not seem to have followed your floundering escape but you used up precious energy and did not manage to eat. It is pitch black and the temperature is cool. You are exhausted. You sense nothing else. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% (Subadult) / 5.1cm / 20 months
Health: Lost pectoral fin, shattered scales, bleeding wounds on tail, exhuasted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 10.8/18 (60%) / 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
A couple of the other members of the shoal are also adults and you approach one of them. It is receptive and you successfully reproduce. Your eggs are scattered into the ocean. You are now exhausted. A hatchling joins your shoal. 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. (4 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 8cm / 24 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 30% / 5.4/7.2 (75%) / 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
Darkness falls before you can get a chance to find food and without sight, you cannot find food as no smells reach your odour receptors. You simply wait out the night, being carried along on the current. Eventually, daylight returns. 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)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% (Hatchling) / 1.4cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 40% / 7.4/10.6 (70%) / 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
In the direction in which you can smell a Salcaedis, you stalk across the pebbles through the murky water as the scent gets stronger. You then see the blue Salcaedis dart out from a crevice in the pebbles. You chase it down, keeping close. The chase keeps going through the estuary until the Salcaedis starts to falter. When it does, you grab it in your claws and cut right through its body. The Salcaedis dies quickly, as its blue blood clouds the water. You eat it. You survive for another few months, managing to find enough food, avoid predation and moulting successfully. You grow into a subadult but are exhausted. 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)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% (Subadult) / 17cm / 10 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / (100% - 50% 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.
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R.190 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 2
Dolichostoma springbloomi (NT)
Tropical Shallows
The water suddenly becomes choppier. You find yourself pulled up towards the chaotic surface as rain and wind batters it. The storm carries into very shallow water. You are bounced around for a while but it eventually subsides and you are fine. However, not long after the surface starts becoming thick with an algal growth. The shallow, algae-covered water starts to decrease in oxygen levels and you become weaker and nauseous. Soon, you pass out from lack of oxygen and die. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 4cm / 1 year
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Dolichostoma springbloomi
Latest Mutations: Increased Intelligence = 3, Increased Size = 5, More Efficient Digestive System = 3
Dolichostoma has a peculiar mouth which has a long, trunk-like siphon. The siphon contracts its muscles to draw water, and with it food, into the mouth. Cirri on the end of the siphon further help to draw food in.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Pelagic Filter-Feeder
Size: 4cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (136NP/10) x (4/10) = 2NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (2 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 1NP / 2 x 0.9 = NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Barrier Immune System. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Liquid Excretion. Long-Term Memory. Moderate UV Resistance. Permeable Skin.
Perception: Blurry Vision. Chemoreception 2 (Senses chemicals 5m away). Light Detection.
Stats: Agility 0.5. Coordination. Digestion 2 (can break down multicellular matter, 10% off). Filtration 3. Intelligence 1. Respiration 2 (10% off). Solid Excretion. Stability 1. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1. Support 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Walk Speed 0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When feeling pain; swim away. When hungry; filter with tentacles. When ready to reproduce, sense for a member of the opposite sex, move toward it and mate with the source. There is a chemical for each of the following meanings: “follow me”, “danger” and “help”.
External Features: The soft skin of the cylindrical body is covered in yellow structural colouration. The mouth has a siphon that extends from it and on the end are eight cirri with chemoreceptors. On one side of the body is a pinhole eye, on the other an eyespot. An umbrella-shaped lobe , made of four parts that can fold in, surrounds the head and four membranous lobes running down the body have cillia on them.
Internal Features: Behind the head are six gill slits. An open circulatory system carries fluid across the body, and anti-freeze glycoproteins travel in the fluid. There is also a nephridium and muscles lay longitudinally along the body. A tube from the mouth meets the intestines, which leads to the anus. A brain in the head is connected to the nerve cord with branches of nerves, with a notochord running along side it. In the male, a testes can be found and in the female an ova can be found.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (Identical). (Evolution +1)
Locomotion: Suspension, Cilliated Rowing. Active (20NP)
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Archaeostomus fallus (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Autumn
You hatch out into warm, clear water but almost instantly are grabbed by a tentacle. You start struggling as you are wrapped tighter and tighter by the tentacles. Barbs along the tentacles scratch your skin. Miraculously, you slip free of the tentacles and squirm as fast as you can away from the jellyfish. For you, the water is thick and jelly-like, and you squirm through it. You blurrily see what appears to be a shoal of other Archaeostomus and head towards it. You make it there safely but are now exhausted. Your electroreception picks up nothing but your new 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. (1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 8mm / 0 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 0.7/1.4 (50%)
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)
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 3
Carcharobrachia rigidus, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Winter
Using the murk of the river, you hide yourself while you rest. Your rest is undisturbed and you recover lots of energy. When you have finished your rest, you see a Dinocaroides coming closer. You thrust a stinger forward and it I pales the Dinocaroides on the underside. A cloud of blood spills into the water. The Dinocaroides tries to attack you but it’s wounds are too great. It dies and you eat the carcass. It’s several months later. You have grown into an adult, ready to reproduce. You are now exhausted. You can see a muddy riverbed over which a fairly murky river flows. A few Masticephalus float downstream. You can one of the banks, and a few Cilistoma filter fromhere. You can smell a Dinocaroides and a Carcharobrachia on the opposite side. Downstream, the flow of the river is slower while it is faster upstream. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 20/20 (100% - 50% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Carcharobrachia rigidus
Latest Mutations: Stronger Pincers = 5, Better Digestive System = 4, Spinal Cord = 4, Paralytic Poison = 2
The pincers of this species can crack even calcified exoskeletons, allowing it to hunt previously inaccessible animals.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & 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, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (168NP/10) x 16/10 = 26.9NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (26.9 x 0.6) x 0.86 = 13.9NP / 26.9NP
Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze, Barrier Immune System, Can Roll Up, Circulation, Foul Taste. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance, Moulting, Penetrates Hardness 2 (Pincers). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Chemoreception 1 (Senses chemicals from 1m away). Sight 1 (Clear vision to the sides, can perceive green and blue light). View Angle 1 (from one pair).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 0.5. Digestion 2.4 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 14% off). Filtration 0. Hardness 2. Intelligence 1. Jumping 1. Respiration 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1.7. Swim Speed 2.7. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; roll up. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, look for other adults 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 five pairs of legs; the first are chelipeds which end in pincers (chela), the next are long and spindly with sharp stingers at the end, protruding close to the base on the outside of the chelipeds, and the final three are lined with paddles and used for walking. 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. 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 and a axochord. From the mouth, a tube leads to the stomach, then into the tightly 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. There is a gland in the body that secretes a seemingly useless substance. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder, while below can be found testes (in a male) or an ova (in a female). Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female. (+1 Evolution) Hermaphrodite.
Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control. Active (20NP)
@Skyguy98 - Points Stored = 1
Skylos skylos, Male (NT)
Tropical Very Wet Barrens
You see a Carcharobrachia heading straight towards you and so you turn to swim away. You start squirming away but the water for you is thick and jelly-like. Your progress is therefore slow and you quickly start running out of energy. You die from exhaustion as the Carcharobrachia catches up. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.6mm / 1 day
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Skylos skylos
Latest Mutations: Greater Social Intelligence = 3, More Efficient Digestion = 5, Something that enables us to spend longer times on the sand = 4, Eggs have shells = 5
This species can spend a bit more time than usual out of water because it can retain more water in its aquatic spiracles as a valve and the end can close over it. This valve also has waterproof hairs to stop water escaping. Other advantages include a muscular stomach and tightly coiled intestines for greater digestion and leathery eggs with yolk inside.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & 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, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (160NP/10) x 6/10 = 26.9NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (26.9 x 0.6) x 0.86 = 13.9NP / 26.9NP
Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze, Barrier Immune System, Can Roll Up, Circulation, Foul Taste. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Moderate UV Resistance, Moulting, Penetrates Hardness 2 (Pincers). Solid Excretion.
Perception: Chemoreception 1 (Senses chemicals from 1m away). Sight 1 (Clear vision to the sides, can perceive green and blue light). View Angle 1 (from one pair).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Desiccation Resistance 1.5. Dexterity 0.5. Digestion 2.6 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 16% off). Filtration 0. Hardness 2. Intelligence 1. Jumping 1. Oxygen Storage 1. Respiration 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 2.7. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. When observing a predator; roll up. When hungry; look for prey. When ready to reproduce, look for other adults 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 five pairs of legs; the first are chelipeds which end in pincers (chela), the next are long and spindly with sharp stingers at the end, protruding close to the base on the outside of the chelipeds, and the final three are lined with paddles and used for walking. 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 and have valves with waterproof hairs at the opening. A closed circulatory system of blood vessels transports blue blood efficiently around the body. 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 muscular stomach, then into the tightly 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 and an ova. Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. The eggs have a leathery outer layer and contain yolk.
Castes/Phases: None.
Locomotion: Walking. Paddling. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control. Active (20NP)
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 0
Dinocaroides hibridus, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Early Spring
Utilising the river current, you swim downstream on your lobes towards the nearest Masticephalus that you see floating along. When you crash into it with your mandibles, it’s soft body is almost instantly torn apart. You eat the scraps but it’s quite a measly meal. You become a subadult. A few months later, you can see a muddy riverbed over which a fairly murky river flows. You are exhausted. A few Masticephalus float downstream, along with Mandibulidon parvus. You can one of the banks, and a few Cilistoma filter from here. You can smell a Carcharobrachia on the opposite side. Downstream, the flow of the river is slower while it is faster upstream. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% (Subadult) / 10.2cm / 10 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 17/17 (100% - 50% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Dinocaroides hibridus
Latest Mutations: Flexible Flaps, Bigger
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Freshwater & 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, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Very Arid Barrens, Warm Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Subpolar Moderate Continental Arid Barrens, Polar Cool Oceanic Summer Semi-Humid Barrens
Niche: Predator
Size: 12cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (171NP/10) x 12/10 = 20.5NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (20.5 x 0.6) x 0.88 = 10.6NP / 20.5NP
Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze. Circulation, Large Body. Foul Taste. Gas Buoyancy. Excretion, Liquid. Excretion, Solid. Moulting. Penetrates Hardness 3 (Pincers). Toxin, Painful. UV Resistance, Moderate.
Perception: Chemoreception 1 (Senses chemicals from 1m away). Sight 1 (Clear vision to the sides, can perceive green and blue light). View Angle 1 (from one pair).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 0.5. Digestion 2.2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 12% off). Filtration 0. Toughness 2. Intelligence 1. Respiration 1. Stability 1. Stamina 2. Strength 0.5. Support 1.5. Swim Speed 3.0. Walk Speed 0.5.
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, look for other adults and move towards them, then attempt to mate with the source.
External Features: Iridiphore pigments give the chitin 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 has flexible flaps that overlap each other to create a whole lobe on the side and ends in a fan tail. 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. 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. Toxin glands are inside the mandibles. 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 or an ova. Throughout the whole body seeps a bitter fluid.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphrodite.
Locomotion: Undulation. Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Buoyancy Control. Active (20NP)
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Action: rest in a safe place nearby and hope my shoal mates do the same.
Just a tip, you have no method of communication.
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action: search for a mate, if it is another member of my species that is not sexually mature then attempt to eat it.
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Contemplate the meaning of life while waiting to be reborn
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Action:Hide and disguise myself as rock and rest
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Ah, darn, poor little dude.
Action: Be reborn
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How are you going tondisguise yourself as a rock? You don’t look like a rock?
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So the conditions are basically the same as the previous round? Then i guess i will simply keep doing the same…
Action: Follow the decline of the seabed the deeper section towards the sparser seaweed to feed on peace along the Pultrypa
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Idk since i have a pretty hard skin and almost every creature around probably can’t see color very well i thought i could just burry myself next to a rock.I guess i will just change it to hide under a big rock
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Hey, can i be put on the waiting list for if a spot opens up please?
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Thanks for the new round Stealth. 
Seems I’m not catching a break.
Action: Take a small rest, not long at all, just enough to get some stamina back. Enough to get me to the next patch of coral once I’m awake.
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I asked to be in the waiting list a while ago. It does not list my name though. Is there a reason for this or could you please fix that?
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