Are you referring to the list on the first post? Sorry that’s out of date. You are on the list in my own private notes.
I’ve also added you Svrangite.
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Round 191 - P.1
~63.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Astathean Stage
Event: 6 - 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.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Salcaedis corcillum, Male (LC)
Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
NO VOTE
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 = 2
Pigocauda corallus (NT)
Polar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
Protected by the pitch black water, you decide to have a rest. You lie still for a short amount of time and recover some energy. Your rest is undisturbed. When you are finished, you pick up the scent of a soft coral and flounder slowly towards it. Luckily, it is not far below and you soon sense the electrical signals of the coral. You munch on some of the coral branches and manage to fill up your stomach. Somehow, you manage to limp your way through survival for several more months all the way through to adulthood. The cool, salty water remains pitch black. You can feel the sandy seabed and sense the electrical signal of an Acanthaskulus very close by. Further away in the direction from which odours are traveling, you can smell sponges like Photus, Tubomorphii and Potimorphii, as well as corals like Gorgonia and Nyctopolypus. From here is the scent of another Pigocauda. However, you can also smell Masticephalus lepusensis, Ostrapodia, several Marleya primus jellyfish and a Cerceps. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 6cm / 2 years
Health: Lost pectoral fin, shattered scales, bleeding wounds on tail
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 51.6/51.6 (100% - 20% left over for growth) / 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
NO VOTE
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 (CR)
Tropical Shallows
Although the current is still moving you along, you are still able to swim to either side of the current. You are able to swim in the direction in which the seabed declines. The surface above you gradually moves further away but there is still plenty of light, as you track the scent of a nearby seaweed. You manage to bump into it and begin eating. You eat well; more than your fill. The blurry silhouette of the arthropod Pultrypa glides through the water well above you, disappearing into the gloom in the direction of deeper water. You survive for several more months, eating enough and avoiding predation long enough to grow into a juvenile. You are exhausted. You are no longer carried against your will by the current. The water is hot and full of sunshine. You look around and blurrily see the flat sandy seabed. You feel the electrical presence of the Zuckeria next to you. Lots of algae grows here and amongst them feed Protichthys - no other Archiprotichthys - but you also see a few young Pultrypa patrolling above the seaweed. Specks of Masticephalus soderqvistii float around. The surface is not far above. You see a canyon on one side, above which float an Atkinsonia, a Mossa mossa and a few Dolichostoma, and the other a wall that leads to shallower water. Among the Dolichostoma is an Elinopterus oviphagus. Between these, the flat seabed stretches into the gloom. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 3.2cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 20% / 24.3/24.3 (100% - 20% 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 = 1
Pultrypa falbracchi, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Wet Barrens
You follow the strong smell of a Salcaedis as you wander across the pebbles in the murky water. The Salcaedis comes into view and it is trying to grab something amongst the pebbles. Despite this, it manages to spot you coming with its other pair of eyes and scrambles away, kicking up pebbles as it paddles away. You shoot after it, but it runs into the wall that leads to the shore and is trapped. You close in, folding up your arms, the when you get close, release them. In a blur, you have grabbed the Salcaedis and broke into its exoskeleton. You attack the soft flesh underneath until it has been ripped apart. You eat the remains. When you are full, you have a long rest near the leftovers. Your rest is undisturbed and you recover lots of energy. Over the next few months, you try to find large enough food which you manage to accomplish, as well as avoiding predation yourself. You also moult successfully. You are now an adult, ready to reproduce. You return to where you hatched out in the estuary, using your memory of significant areas. Here, you see the murky water, which is brackish and hot. You see a pair of Salcaedis, floating through the murk. The chemicals of another Pultrypa drifts in on the current. You can also sense salty water back in that direction. An Arencolus pokes its little head out of the muddy bottom. (6 + 1 = Ding, ding, ding! Congrats, you have won a bonus point! See the reward shop at the top of the round.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 20cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 14.8/14.8 (100% - 60% 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.191 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 2
Dolichostoma springbloomi (NT)
Tropical Shallows
Shortly before you hatched, the long beak of an Elinopterus oviphagus pierced your egg and took a bite out of you. It also stabbed your one eye, blinding you. All you have no is the light intensity detection of the eyespot. With the membrane broken, you hatch out into hot, salty water, full of light. You can chemically sense the Elinopterus nearby, as well as a few other Dolichostoma and an Atkinsonia. In the direction from which chemicals are driven, you sense lots of algae, Protichthys, a Zuckeria and an Archiprotichthys. From higher up, you sense lots of tiny presences of Masticephalus soderqvistii but also a few Pultrypa and a Mossa mossa jellyfish. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.4mm / 0 days
Health: Wounded, lost eye
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 65% / 0.1/0.1 (45%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: Blind
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 start resting in the water. Your shoal mates hang around also until they are suddenly startled and start swimming away. Before you realise what’s happening, you swept up by a thread on a tentacle and pushed into the mouth of a Coliteuthis edentulus. You perish. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 8mm / 0 days
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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
You continue moving randomly to find a mate, gradually drifting downstream in search of a suitable, female Carcharobrachia. You accidentally drift into the murky, brackish waters of an estuary; there are no Carcharobrachia here. Suddenly, the shape of something leaves the murk. It’s a Pultrypa. It swims towards you with its arms folded up, and larger than you. You launch a claw forwards but in a flash, the Pultrypa’s arms have gripped your own and torn it right off. You are surrounded by murky water over a muddy bottom and the Pultrypa is still right in front of you. The water is hot and brackish. The chemicals of freshwater drift in from behind you, as do the chemicals of several Mandibulidon parvus and Gempliaori setobranchius. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Wounded, missing cheliped
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 14/20 (70%) / 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 hatch out into hot, flowing freshwater. As you flow along on the stream, you see carpets of algae growing along the river. You are able to pick up bites here and there as you go. There are lots of pebbles along the bed of the clear water and you see algae growing on them. Feeding on it is a mixture of Skylos and Hydroambula. A few Ichtyotelus sensus filter the water. Downriver, the flowing water steepens and picks up speed. Upriver, water bubbles out of the ground. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% (Juvenile) / 1.5cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (75% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
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
You see a rock poking out of the river bank. Exhausted, you move yourself underneath and rest. Your rest is undisturbed and you recover some energy. The river is hot and quite murky. You see lots of little Mandibulidon floating along it. Downriver, you can see a Carcharobrachia resting on the riverbed.In this direction, the river slows and widens. Upriver, the force of the river is increased.(3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% (Subadult) / 10.2cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 11.9/17 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
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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Evolve 1: Electroreception to be used for communication with others of my species (If not how can I allow my species to communicate better with one another?)
Evolve 2: Better eye sight to make my eyes less blurry and be able to see better in water
Evolve 3: Evolve my species nose to be able to smell blood
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Action:Charge at the carcharobrachia and start an epic battle to the death
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Focus on thr bed of pebbles near me for now, feeding on the algae and herding among my kin
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run away frantically and keep my protrusions close to my body to keep it from tearing off another limb.
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The other two are fine but with the first one, you need to advance electroreception more before you can use it as communication. Alternatively, there are plebty of ways that animals communicate; just look it up. You could always use photophores to communicate. Some fish, for example, use a muscle to beat their swim bladders like a drum.
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Thanks! You’re the steathest!
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Thanks for the new round Stealth! 
Action: Head over to the other Pigocauda and see if it wants to reproduce. If yes, reproduce immediately. If no, try to find another that is willing.
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Action: Make my way to the Algae as best I can, trying to stay near other instances of my kind.
Action: Rest amidst the algae, hoping the material will hide my smell and the herbivores cover my shape from a predator’s sight
Huh thats interesting to learn then I will change my vote Evolve1: make my electroreception stronger as in like my older species where it allowed them to shock other species (is this fine?)
Thats OK. So you would be focusing on mutating an electric organ with electroreception improvement as just a possible bonus?
Also, what woumd you like to name it?
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The mutating an electric organ with an electrorecption improvement sounds good
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Round 192 - P.1
~64 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Astathean Stage
Event: 2 - 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.
Empropthalmus soundwavia has emerged in the Southern Hemisphere as a similar competitor to Archaeostomus.
I’m going on holiday (vacation if you are American) next week, so there will be no rounds as I take a break. I may still be around to chat a bit though but if I’m not around that’s why. Have a good week and I’ll be back soon.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 3
Salcaedis corcillum, Male (LC)
Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
The water suddenly starts to become really choppy as heavy storm clouds gather overhead and chuck rain down below. Large waves form on the estuary and one of them catches you and carries right up onto the rocky shore, then leaves you, dissipating back into the estuary. You start to suffocate. You clamber your way back over the rocks and into the estuary, just about making it before you run out of oxygen. You are exhausted. Soon after, the storm subsides and the water calms down. The brackish water is hot and murky. The bed is muddy, and the tide is moving up. Within your view are several Salcaedis and an Icthyotelus sensus. You can detect the smell of a couple Pultrypa through the murk. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% (Juvenile) / 7.2cm / 6 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 1.9/2.7 (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, Early Winter
You follow the scent of the other Pigocauda, brushing through what you feel is soft coral. You miraculously bump into each other in the dark, and even more miraculously, you are able to reproduce successfully, spreading eggs into the water. You are still in cool, pitch black, salty water. Around you, you can smell soft corals but this smell is also mixed in with Pigocauda and Cerceps, as well as lots of Masticephalus lepusensis (6 = 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) / 6cm / 2 years
Health: Lost pectoral fin, shattered scales, bleeding wounds on tail, exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 41.3/51.6 (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
Empropthalmus soundwavia (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Early Autumn
You hatch out into warm, clear saltwater, being carried along on a current. To move is like crawling through jelly. You cannot see any seabed, just the open, clear water. You sense the electrical current of an Anazitonta and see it nearby. You wriggle through the water after it and bite into it. Your prey flashes around in the cloud of blood until it finally stills. You eat the corpse. A few months pass and you grow a bit so the water is no longer jelly-like. It’s still warm, clear saltwater. The water looks the same in all directions. Nearby in the current, you can sense the electrical signal of both an Anazitonta and a Cerceps. Further out, coming from behind with current, you smell more ??? and a Pteryphysis. (4)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% (Hatchling) / 1.2cm / 5 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 2.2/2.2 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Empropthalmus soundwavia
Latest Mutations: Electric Organ = 4, Better Eyesight = 5, Smell Blood = 2
This Southern Hemisphere proto-fish has a true camera eye, which allows it to see clearer and further, and an active electroreception sense but it has a less powerful sense of smell. The eyes help it to hunt in the sunlit summers, while electroreception aids in the dark polar nights. This small predator lives in small shoals and uses its sharp, venomous fangs to subdue prey.
Status: Unlisted
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperate Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (183NP/10) x 8/10 = 14.6NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (14.6 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.9NP / 14.6 x 0.9 = 13.1NP
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). Sight 2 (Binocular Vision, Front). Smell 0.5 (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. Join small shoals of other members of the species.
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 are on the head. They have forwards facing camera eyes with a calcite lens, that focuses by moving backwards and forwards, but have a blind spot.
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. There is an electric organ. 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 (EX)
Tropical Shallows
You head into the algae to rest but you see a blurry shape move towards you. You aren’t sure what it is but then quick as a flash, strong claws are clasped around you, and they clamp down, slicing through your body. You are killed. (1 = Your species is extinct, doomed to the pages of history. Please choose a new species. Remember: No Species Lasts Forever.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 3.2cm / 4 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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 = 1
Pultrypa falbracchi, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Wet Barrens
You follow the chemical traces until it leads you to the Pultrypa that you can now see, emerging from the murk. You approach it. You are in luck as it is a female and you successfully mate and reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. The brackish water is hot and murky. The bed is muddy, and the tide is moving up. Within your view are two more Pultrypa and an Icthyotelus sensus. You can detect the smell of some Salcaedis through the murk. (4 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 20cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 10.6/14.8 (70%) / 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.192 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 2
Dolichostoma springbloomi (NT)
Tropical Shallows
The current carries you along blindly, with the only chemicals sensed coming from behind. Without warning, you are gripped by a tentacle and pushed into a mouth. You are swallowed down the creatures throat and make your way to the stomach. The digestive enzymes work away at you until you are dead. (1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 0.4mm / 0 days
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 Upper Ocean, Late Spring
You hatch out into warm, fairly murky saltwater, being carried along on a current. To move is like crawling through jelly. Your vision is blurry but you cannot see any seabed. The water looks the same in all directions. Nearby in the current, you can sense the electrical signal of both an Anazitonta and a Cerceps. Further out, coming from behind with current, you smell more Archaeostomus and a Pteryphysis. (2 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 8mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 0.1/0.1 (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)
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 3
Carcharobrachia rigidus, Male (LC)
Tropical Very Humid Barrens, Late Winter
The Pultrypa is distracted by another approaching Pultrypa allowing you to easily slip, wounded, back towards the freshwater but you are exhausted from your exertions. Back in freshwater, it’s hot and fairly murky. You can see several Madibulidon parvus and a Dinocaroides amongst them. From further upriver, you can smell a Carcharobrachia. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% (Adult) / 16cm / 1 year
Health: Wounded, missing cheliped, exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 8/20 (40%) / 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
The current continues to carry you helplessly onwards and unfortunately it brings you over a stretch of water in which you can see no algae. You are not able to feed. Later in the hot, now fairly murky freshwater, you flow above some algal patches again, where again you can see more Skylos and Hydroambula feeding. A couple Icthyotelus also swim past. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% (Juvenile) / 1.5cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 50% / 1.1/2.4 (45%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
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
You swim towards the Carcharobrachia that you can see through the fairly murky water, and the river widens and becomes slower. Your target ambles out of the water and onto a bank of thick mud. You try to follow and launch yourself onto the bank but get nowhere near as far as the Carcharobrachia and end up getting stuck in the mud, under the heavy rains and humid air. You try to wriggle yourself free but it is very tough. The Carcharobrachia heads off back into the water, while you are left to struggle. It takes a lot energy and you almost suffocate but you finally manage to work your way back to the water. Back in freshwater, it’s hot and fairly murky. You reemerge amidst a group of several Madibulidon parvus. From further upriver, you can smell a Carcharobrachia. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% (Subadult) / 10.2cm / 10 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 6.8/17 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
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: sneak up not the anazitonta, using the other fish’s scent for cover, then attack the anazitonta.
Bonus point on my action
Dive down to the algae and eat something before I did again
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Action:Rest in a hole somewhere