I will die either of hunger or exhaustion, yey
Action: Go towards the corals once again, see if i can rest away from those jellyfish
We cannot stay here forever, chances are we will die either way so lets try to climb the wall to find somewhere bew
Thanks for the round Stealth!
Ouch, those beaks hurt.
Action: Head towards the sponges, find one of suitable size and burrow into it with my teeth, eating the pieces I tear off before getting some sleep. The sponge should protect me at least a little bit while I heal and rest.
Action: Try to be unobtrusive, while continuing to feed near the other herbivores.
Round 202 - P.1
~67.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Agentian Stage
Event: 5 - None
Meta
Wiki Home Page: https://path-of-the-wild.fandom.com/wiki/Path_of_the_Wild_Wiki
World: https://path-of-the-wild.fandom.com/wiki/Current_World
Species: https://path-of-the-wild.fandom.com/wiki/Extant_Species
Discord Server (anyone can join): https://discord.gg/weGdxFB
Reward Shop
Rewards are subject to change.
- Bonus Point: Get a + or -1 to use on the action roll of any player, yourself included. = 1pt
- Guaranteed Action: Use this on an action to definitely roll a 4 or higher. = 2pts
- Guaranteed Evolution: Use this during evolution to definitely roll a 4 or higher. You can save them up and use multiple at once. = 3pts
- High Roller: Get a guaranteed 6 for either action or evolution. = 4pts
- Call of the Wild: Summon an event that focuses on any specific area of the world you choose. However, the event is random and may be larger than you anticipate. = 5pts
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
NOT YET VOTED
You first look around you, examining your surroundings; the brackish water is hot and murky. The bottom of the estuary is flat and featureless, except for a small island that pokes above the water in front of you. Icthyotelus dart around. You can see some algae growing along the base of it. You smell a Sclerocephalus in the direction of the island. Saltwater is just a distant trace now but freshwater in the opposite direction has become more prevalent. After this, you have a rest which is undisturbed, allowing you to regain some energy. When you have finished resting, you notice that the water is rising, meaning the island is becoming submerged. You are now starving though. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 55% (Juvenile) / 7.2cm / 6 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 85% / 0.8/2.7 (30%) / 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
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You swim down to the sponges and corals on the seafloor whilst being dragged along on a current. You try to bite into a big sponge but it’s outer covering is now too hard for you to bite into. You move onto some smaller sponger encrusting a wall - when you bite these they are much softer and you get some food but they are not big enough to hide in. You are forced to rest outside. Your rest is short but you are safe and recover some energy. You survive for a few months, but now it has grown cool and pitch black. You see nothing. You can smell some sponges and corals below, Masticephalus, jellyfish and Elinopterus above. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 40% (Juvenile) / 2.4cm / 9 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 4.4/4.4 (100% -15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. 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: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
Empropthalmus soundwavia (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Autumn
You look around but there are no coral reefs. The rest of the shoal is resting so you have no choice but to stay with them and not hunt or look for new grounds. You are in warm, murky water with plenty of light alongside your shoal. Around you, you can see the sandy seabed, littered with sparse, small rocks and above a short distance is the surface. The water is populated by many Masticephalus. On the bottom, some sponges and corals sit, along with some Neopolypastilus and several Anazitonta feeding on the sponges. An Anazitonta astatheana is patrolling the upper ocean. In one direction, the water gets shallower and the water is disturbed by waves. In the other direction, the water descends steadily into gloom, except a large rocky outcrop. The tidal current is travelling towards the deeper water. (3)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% (Juvenile) / 2cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 60% / 2.8/3.7 (75%) / 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
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC)
Northern Temperate Shallows, Late Summer
You swim towards the corals that you see at the bottom of the sea and when you have reached their branches, you allow yourself to rest. Your rest is interrupted when the jaws of a Macromorphii crawling about the rocks closes around you. The predator bites down and its jaws snap through you, killing you. (3 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 2.1cm / 8 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Lepidoderes immortalii
Latest Mutations: Extend scale covering = 6, Scales become more flexible = 4, Remove scales from Hatchling stage = 6
A small proto-fish, this species has different types of scale to its predecessor; instead of being brittle yet heavy, they are flexible and light; instead of covering just the tail, the scales go up to where the head begins. The scales can even be shed when attacked to distract or lose an enemy and are quickly regrown. Interestingly, the hatchlings are born without scales and are developed when the reach the juvenile stage.
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Subpolar Temperate Upper Ocean, Polar Temperate Shallows, Polar Temperature Upper Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 6cm (length)
Nutritional Need: (184NP/10) x 7.5/10 = 13.8NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: (13.8 x 0.6) x 0.9 = 7.5NP / 13.8NP
Abilities: Air Space. Barrier Immune System. Bioluminescence. Circulation. Cutaneous Respiration. Fatal Toxin. Gas Buoyancy. Liquid Excretion. Permeable Skin. Penetrates Hardness 1 (jaw). Ram Ventilation. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Strong UV Resistance.
Perception: Electroreception 1 (1 body length away, sideways field). Sight 1 (clear vision to the front, depth perception), Smell 1 (Detects smells).
Stats: Agility 1. Buoyancy 1. Coordination 1. Digestion 2 (Can break down multicellular matter, can digest meat, 20% off). Filtration 0. Intelligence 1. Reflexes -1. Respiration 1. Sharpness 2. Stamina 2.5. Strength 1.5. Swim Speed 2.4. Support 1.5. Toughness 1. 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: The fish-shaped body has black melanin pigmentation in its
skin. The mouth contains razor-sharp teeth and has a pair of olfactory receptors above it. There are also forwards facing eyes. Cycloid, deciduous scales cover from tail to where the head begins. A line of electroreceptors flanks the body. It has oval pectoral ray-fins and a semi-circular diphycercal caudal fin beneath the tail. At the base of the tail is a pair of spines. The whole of the body is covered in cycloid scales and blue autogenic photophores. Scales are not present in hatchlings.
Internal Features: Migmachordatix toxin is produced and secreted into spines. Three gill slits line just behind the head. A network of vascular blood vessels circulates red blood containing hemoglobin is pumped by a two-chambered heart. There is also a nephridium and the body is lined with muscle. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw. Food enters the stomach and then the intestine before exiting the anus. A brain with a memory lobe leads to a nerve cord with nerves running off like rungs on a ladder. The nerve cord is supported by a cartilage vertebrae. In the centre of the body is a swim bladder and below this are the testes in males and ova in females, with both in hermaphrodites.
Reproduction: Sexual. Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Hatchling and Final Form.
Locomotion: Carangiforme (+1 Swim Speed). Crawling. Active. (20NP)
@jellyfishmon - Points Stored = 0
Pultrypa reponectus, Male (LC)
Tropical Shallows
You hatch out into hot, clear water bathed in sunlight. You feel yourself being moved along by a current, as you watch the sandy seabed go by. You spot a Caulops hatchling drifting along in the current near to you. Folding your legs into lobes, you glide through the water to your target. The Caulops just dodges your attack. It swims away but you are faster and catch up. While chasing, you wind up your arm, then when you are close enough to launch it forwards, grabbing your victim with strength. You crush through its exoskeleton and right through its body - killing it. You then consume your prey. A few months pass. You have been eating well and avoided predators, as well as moulted successfully. You are now a juvenile. You can now swim freely against the current. You look around, observing the shallow water with an undulating, sandy bottom. The water column is dotted with Elephazous and a couple of Peeudoichthys are hunting them. A Protichthys is grazing on a patch of seaweed. You spot a Dinocaroides swimming just above the sand not far away. Behind you, the water gets shallower, and many rocks are lying about. In front, the seabed gets increasingly deeper. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% (Juvenile) / 5cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 11/11 (100% - 25% left for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Pultrypa reponectus
Latest Mutations: Improve Paddles = 4, Better Muscles = 3, Increase Size = 3, Sand colored with a white underbelly. When in mating season give the males blue stripes on their limbs = 5
An arthropod with complicated appendages that is the top of the food chain in the tropical seas and oceans, as well as tropical estuaries around the world. They approach their prey before launching a wound-up arm at their victim and slicing it to death. The complication is that it has legs for walking but can fold them up so that the paddles form a lobe-like structure, such as in an Anomlaocaris. They employ two tones of colour to camouflage when seen from above or below but adult males will develop stripes of blue on their legs.
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
Size: 20cm
Nutritional Need: FEMALE: 219 x 20/100 = 43.8NP. MALE: 221 x 20/100 = 44.2NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: FEMALE: 43.8 x 0.25 = 11NP per round (Needs to intake 11/0.7 = 15.7NP per round)/43.8 x 0.9 = 39NP MALE: 44.2 x 0.25 = 11.1NP per round (Needs to intake 11.1/0.7 = 15.9NP per round)/44.2 x 0.9 = 40NP
Characteristics: Absorption. Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Osmoregulation (High Salinity, Brackish Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Chemoreception 2 (chemicals 5m from mouth). Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view that catches peripheral movement).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2 (100% Meat). Evolution 1. Filtration 0. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity, Stomach Acid). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Reactions 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Stamina 4. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 2.9. Swim Stability 0.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 1. Walk Speed 1.7. Warming -0.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = roll up. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move to Tropical Shallows breeding sites. (FEMALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive blue stripes = reproduce). (MALE ONLY: Mating hormones + own species chemicals + perceive no blue stripes = reproduce). Move signal in water = fold legs against body to create lobes, hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. ??? = move towards, wind up cheliped then launch it.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcified, calcite exoskeleton in fourteen plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has sandy melanin pigmentation on top and white melanin pigmentation underneath. One pair of legs have chela on the end. In front of the circular mouth is a mandible. Around the mouth are a few chemoreceptors. On either side of the head is a camera eye with calcite lens that changes shape and has no blind spot and a typical apposition compound eye, which both contain blue and green cone cells. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of normal legs, one to a segment, that have a large paddle on the outer side. When swimming, these are folded in to give the effect of a continuous lobe halfway along the body. Behind that is five pairs of biramous, paddle-lined swimmerets, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome. Males in the mating season have a series of blue stripes on their limbs, unique to the species.
Internal Features: The body is segmented and contains fourteen segments. Spiracles lead to aquatic trachae. Blood vessels travel past every cell, carrying blue blood caused by hemocyanin, and the single circuit has a two-chambered heart. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has a sex-appropriate gonad and a large protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a stomach and coiled intestines. A gland releases a foul fluid into the body fluids. Ganglia in the head lead into a dual dorsal nerve cord that has many nerves branching off. A cerebrum has memory neurons.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Genders.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Undulation, Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.
R.202 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 2
Dolichostoma springbloomi (CR)
Tropical Shallows
A great number of Elephazous are gathering in these waters and before you can move your way towards some food that you can detect an Elephazous gets there first, meaning you have not been able to feed. You are also exhausted. The hot water is clear. You can just about see many Elephazous filtering the water nearby but also several Pseudoichthys all living close to the surface, where you smell lots of food to filter. Below, is a bed of sand. In one direction, the seabed gets shallower but also gets more rocky. In the other direction, the seabed deepens. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% (Juvenile) / 1.4cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 35% / 0.8/1.9 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
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: CR
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
Empropthalmus soundwavia (LC)
Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Autumn
You turn to your shoal mates right next to you, searching them for a suitable mate. One of them is receptive and you successfully reproduce, scattering eggs into the water. You are in warm, fairly murky water with plenty of light alongside your shoal. Around you, you can see the sandy seabed, littered with sparse, small rocks and above a short distance is the surface. The water is populated by many Masticephalus. On the bottom, some sponges and corals sit, along with some Neopolypastilus and several Anazitonta feeding on the sponges. An Anazitonta astatheana is patrolling the upper ocean. In one direction, the water gets shallower and the water is disturbed by waves. In the other direction, the water descends steadily into gloom, except a large rocky outcrop. The tidal current is travelling towards the deeper water. (6 + 1 = Congratulations, it’s a baby! Choose 3 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution. 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) / 8cm / 2 years
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 10.8/14.6 (75%) / 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)
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 4
Saccenta marsupius, Male (LC)
Tartarus - Tropical Very Humid Barrens
You search for shelter along the muddy estuary bed when you stumble across another Saccenta. This one is larger and grabs you in its claws before you can turn away. You struggle relentlessly to escape its grip, but the other Saccenta closes its claws, creating a bleeding gash in your exoskeleton. You use this opportunity to wrench yourself clear and start swimming away as fast as you can, until you no longer sense your attacker around. You are now exhausted and starving. You are in brackish, hot, fairly murky water and because of the murk you cannot see very far. The estuary bed is muddy and you can also see a muddy bank. You can see a Gempliaori on the riverbed. You can smell another Saccenta in the murk. (1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 95% (Subadult) / 15.2cm / 11 months
Health: Exhausted, bleeding wound, starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 7.5/25 (30%) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Saccenta marsupius
Latest Mutations: Better Brain = 4, Retractable lure = 3, Special sack = 5, Burrow into sand and ambush prey = 4
Info
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
Niche: Predator, Herbivore
Size: 16cm (length)
Nutritional Need: 167 x 16/100 = 3.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 3.4 x 0.25 = 0.9NP per round (Needs to intake 0.9/0.7 = 1.3NP per round)/ 3.4NP
Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Foul Taste. Liquid Excretion. Moults. Short-Term Memory. Solid Excretion. Roll Up.
Perception: Sight 2. Wide Vision 1. Chemoreception 1 (1m from mouth).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Circulation 2. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 3.5. Evolution 1 (5 votes). Filtration 0. Flexibility -1. Immunity 2 (Barrier Immunity). Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 3. Reach 1. Respiration 2 (Cutaneous Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 0.7. Support 2.7. Swim Speed 1.7. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour:
External Features: Medium Colouration. Exoskeleton. Skin. Mandibles. Claws. Mouth. Chemoreceptors. Camera Eye. Compound Eye. Legs with paddle linings. Stinger. Pouch. Hyponome. Fan tail.
Internal Features: Aquatic Spiracles. Closed Circulatory System. Anti-Freeze Compound. Nephridium. Axochord. Muscular System. Stomach. Coiled Intestine. Ganglion. Nerve Cord. Harmless Substance Gland. Swim Bladder. Gonads. Foul Fluid Gland.
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs.
Castes/Phases: Male and Female (+1 Evolution).
Locomotion: Paddling. Hyponome Burst. Slightly Active (10NP).
@Skyguy98 - Points Stored = 1
Skylos skylos, Male (NT)
Tropical Very Wet Barrens
You move to the edge of the pool and try to move your legs into the small ledges and crevices that are chiselled into the wall. You climb out of the water and into the hot sun and air. The climb is strenuous and a serious drain of energy, alongside the heat. You are also running out of oxygen. You make it only part way when you lose your footing and tumble back into the water. You are now exhausted and also starving. The water is clear and hot. Everywhere you look, this area appears to be surrounded by a tall, unclimbable wall. There is little life left around here. There are only small scrap of algae growing on rocks at the bottom and the Hydroambula decapodus. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 40% (Juvenile) / 2.4cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted, starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 20% / 0.8/3.8 (20%) / 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)
Tartarus: Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Spring
You hatch out into pitch black, cool water. You can see nothing. You can sense the chemicals of a few other nearby Dinocaroides. Suddenly, you detect the scent of a Saccentus and start swimming as fast as you can to get away. You keep swimming until you are satisfied that you are safe. Now, you are exhausted. You are still in the pitch black, fresh, cool water and see nothing. You do sense the chemicals of nearby Masticephalus and Scleronotus, as well as a Sclerocephalus. (1 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% (Hatchling) / 1.2mm / 0 days
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 1.2/2.1 (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
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)
What do i need to get on land?
The rng god hates me
Action:rest somewhere,preferably unaccessable for things larger than me
Thanks for the new round Stealth! 
Action: Go prowling after a Masticephalus and try to kill it from below, preferably if it’s one that looks injured or otherwise slowed down.
action: try to bury myself in some rocks and ambush whatever comes near.
To live permanently on land you need to be able to breathe air.
Also, there’s no food there at the moment, but plants are coming very soon.
Mutation: Improve stamina via much larger lungs (would this also make my shape change? considering how my lungs would change the proportions of my body.)
Mutation: Improve brain enough for packs to form
Mutation: Lower nutritional requirement Via longer digestive tract
You only have 3 mutations like it says in your round, so you must eliminate 1. Also, what donyou want to evolve to improve your stamina? Examples of things that improve stamina are improving circulatory and respiratory systems, changing your body shape etc. If you want to lower nutritional requirement, again what do you want to evolve to do this? Something in the digestive system?
oh, yes. I edited my posts with the new mutations.
Thanks for the round stealth, sorry for being late ;-;
Action: crawl through the rocky floor and wait for an animal to come close enough that i can use my jet to ambush them.
Mm ok, but I really want you guys to be a bit more engaged even than that. Just saying inprove respiratory system is still quite vague. What particular part of a respiratory system/digestive system do you want to evolve? If you are having trouble, you can ask the others or just research even in something as simple as Wikipedia. Its what I mostly use for this game. @OoferDoofer
If its possible, can u add my for the waiting list?
Yeah, sure. Consider yourself added.