Action: go towards the cove to rest, and maybe ambush hunt if something comes later on
Darn, time claims all.
Action: Reincarnate, coming back as a Farynxoskulus sensitivus
Round 209 - P.1
~69.6 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Agentian Stage
Event: 11 - Tsunami
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- 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.
Somewhere of the Tartarus coast, there is a large earthquake that shakes the seafloor and disrupts the water above. This generates a massive wave which has caused all the water at nearby coasts to shrink back to the sea in preparation.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Salcaedis corcillum, Male (LC)
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
NOT YET VOTED
You rest in the water and it is undisturbed so you recover a lot of energy. When you have finished resting, you are close to starvation. In the brackish water, itâs murky and hot. The tide is heading inland and the water level is rising. Behind you, is the pebbly shore leading to a rocky landscape. In the water, you see the muddy bottom, blanketed in algae, but not very far because of the lack of clarity. Past this point comes the chemicals of a Pultrypa. (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: 15% (Hatchling) / 2cm / 1 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 75% / 0.3/2.7 (10%) / 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
Pholgnathus lancus (LC), Hatchling
_Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Summer
You hatch out into brightly lit, warm, fairly murky water. You allow yourself to drop down to the seabed and scoot along the sand with your hyponome. You see a flat, soft sponge on a rock and begin eating that until you have had your fill. You survive a few months, successfully moulting, preying and growing. The conditions remain the same. You see the sandy seabed, interspersed with rocks. Another sponge sits atop a rock, while you your antennae are picking up an Ahyponomus from beneath the floor. Suddenly, there is an earthquake. (3 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.7cm / 3 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 3.6/3.6 (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Warm (Metabolism x 1.25)
Notes: None
Pholgnathus lancus
Latest Mutations: Dorsal Vessel, Improve Smell
This is an arthropod that preys on soft animals in the temperate ocean of the Southern Hemisphere.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 11cm
Nutritional Need: 213 x 11/100 = 23.4NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 23.4 x 0.25 = 5.9NP per round (Needs to intake 5.9/0.7 = 8.4NP per round)/ 23.4NP
Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Smell 2 (detects odours 5m from mouth). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1. Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. Food = move towards, close cheliped over it.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcite exoskeleton in nine plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has blue irridiphore pigmentation. One pair of legs have chela on the end. Around the mouth are chemoreceptors and above is a rostrum and antennae. 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. Steering arms are situated on either side just behind the head. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of legs, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell has low pressure piezolytes. The body is segmented and contains eight segments. It has aquatic spiracles. It has a hemacoel and a dorsal vessel. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. 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.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
_Empropthalmus soundwavia (NT), Hatchling
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
You start to rest in the pitch black water when you sense movement with your electroreception. An Anazitonta is coming rapidly towards you. You flee, swimming away from this sense but swim straight into the tentacles of a Chartitesta sea anemone, protruding from the seabed. You struggle to escape its grip but you exhaust yourself even further. Before you die of exhaustion you are shoved into its mouth and down into its stomach. You perish. (1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.2cm / 3 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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: NT
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 itâs 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 = 2
Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Hatchling
Ithaca Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Spring
You swim along the seabed towards the cove. Just before you get to the entrance, tentacles emerge from the seabed, too late for you to dodge. The tentacles belonging to a Chartitesta tube anemone grip you and pull you slowly towards it mouth. You struggle to escape but you are already exhausted and this makes it worse. You plunge right into its mouth and stomach. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 0.9cm / 3 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 = 1
Pultrypa reponectus (LC), Adult Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Spring
You walk over to the leftovers of the carcass where a female Pultrypa is eating. You successfully reproduce and eggs are scattered through the water but now you are starving. Itâs hot and clear. You are still in the shallows, with the beach visible on one side, and the lagoon on the other. A few Pultrypa are still scattered around the shallows. Protichthys and Caulops are munching on seaweed in the lagoon. (3 + 1 = Congratulations, itâs a baby! Choose 4 mutations to evolve or just reproduce and get a bonus roll on your next evolution.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 100% / 20cm / 1 year
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 13.3/44.2 (30%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: 2 Reproductive Points.
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.
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R.209 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 3
Farynxoskulus sensitivus (NT), Juvenile_
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Spring
You hatch out into hot, clear water and allow yourself to sink to the seafloor a short way below. You follow the scent of food with your antennae, squirming along the ground, until you find a good rock jutting up from the ground. With food concentrations in the water, you filter above the rock with your tentacles, gathering in a lot of food. You are untouched by predators and competition. After a few months of surviving like this, you have become a juvenile. The water is still hot and clear. Around you, you can see the sandy seabed. Behind you its get more rocky but in the other direction it gets deeper. You see a Zuckeria gastropod feeding on some algae coating the rocks, while an Atkinsonia cephalopod crawls along the floor. (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: 35% / 2.5cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 65% / (100% - +35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Farynxoskulus sensitivus
Latest Mutations: Carnivorous Digestion, Long Sensitive Antenna, Pharynx
This weird worm-like creature hunts across the tropical ocean, using its antennae to track down food. However, despite being carnivorous, it is not a predator. It simply has no way of demolishing prey. It can digest meat that it filters. A pharynx helps it digest and breathe better.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (63.5/10 X 7 =) 45NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 36NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Toxic. Buccal Pumping.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, binocular blurry vision to the front, can use chemoreception up to tens of metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation and a proboscis. It also has a thin skin layer. There is a mouth surrounded by small tentacles and chemoreceptors on the proboscis. There are two pinhole eyes on the front of the head and one also on each side, as well as a pair of antennae protruding from the head. A hyponome is at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Hydrostatic muscles surround the hemacoel. A pharynx pumps from the mouth to the throat. The gastrointestinal tract from mouth has a stomach with digestive juices and carnivorous enzymes, followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has blue blood containing hemocyanin, bitter fluid and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Locomotion Type: Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Some Buoyancy Control (Must Keep Swimming To Maintain Depth).
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Physical Stats: Speed = 2, Stamina = 1, Attack = 1, Defence = 1.5, Strength = 1, Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2
Systemic Stats: Osmoregulation = 2 (Quite high, quite low Salinity), Respiration = 2 (cutaneous respiration), Digestion = 3 (meat), Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Coordination = 1, Reflexes = 1. Immune System = 1 (physical barrier)
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Inolarynx maculatus (NT), Subadult
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Autumn
You hatch out into pitch black, cool water. You can see nothing but darkness however you do sense the chemicals of a jellyfish closing over you and another Inolarynx hatchling. Luckily, you just get out in time, picking up a minor scratch from the barbed tentacles, as they close around the other Inolarynx. As you move away, you discover more Inolarynx gathering together through their electrical presence. You join them. It is still dark and cool. Apart from your shoal, you also sense the jellyfish and some Anazitonta. Suddenly, there is an esrthquake. (2)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.8mm / 0 days
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 0.1/0.2 (55%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. Itâs black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lives in loose shoals. Inolarynx has pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allow it to create a buccal pump that draws water past the gills. It also sucks in organisms from the water. It has a much softer memory than its predecessor.
Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm
Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP
Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. âMigmachordatix Toxinâ. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.
External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 4
Saccenta marsupius (LC), Juvenile Male
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
Hovering in the water, you spot a dismembered Saccenta stinger laying in the grit. You approach it and eat it, giving you some, but not a lot, of nutrition. You then follow the scent of the injured Dinocaroides into the gloom. You cannot yet see it. The trail leads you around the bend in the river. After turning the corner, you see the Dinocaroides moving feebly on the floor. You swim quickly towards it and grab it in your claws before crushing its exoskeleton. You have killed it and proceed to eat the flesh. You are now exhausted. A few months pass in which you succesfully grow into a juvenile. You survive long after the last of the light disappears and the river is plunged into darkness. You can feel a layer of thick ice whenever you move towards the surface and the water below is cold, constantly just above freezing. You can smell chemicals coming from upstream belonging to Gryphorhinus, Cilistoma and a Dinocaroides. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 4cm / 6 months
Health: Dismembered arm, exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 15% / 6.7/6.7 (100% - 10% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism X 1)
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).
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 2
Dinocaroides hibridus, Hatchling Male (LC)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Late Winter
You wait in the pitch black darkness for food to come to you on the current but nothing does. You can feel a layer of thick ice whenever you move towards the surface and the water below is cold, constantly just above freezing. You can smell chemicals coming from upstream belonging to Gryphorhinus, Cilistoma and a Saccentus. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 45% / 5.4cm / 10 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 7.4/9.2 (80%) / 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)
2 Likes
Action:Be patient and continue waiting
Action: Try and attack the anazitonta if it became confused from the earthquake.
action: lay down and take a nap.
Yahoo, its time to evolve and thanks for the round as always stealth.
1: better circulatory system like a three chambered heart
2: Start using thunniform (dolphins and tuna) swimming instead of anguilliform (eel) (this would move the main propulsion muscles to the tail end and give a more dolphin like body)
3: make mi BIGGER!!!
4: develop my brain so I can have behaviors
Ayyye, thatâs the best I think Iâve got from the rng in a while. Thanks for the round, my guy.
Action: Head deeper to see what lays below, keeping an eye out for any potential predators.
Thanks for the new round Stealth. 
And pardon the late reply. 
Action: Attack and kill the Ahyphonomus to eat. Then stick around the sea floor for a bit to see if thereâs any changes in the water around me. If there arenât, or at least no worrying ones, travel across the floor in search of more prey.
Round 210 - P.1
~70 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, Agentian Stage
Event: 8 - None
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The earthquake caused a tsunami which picked up many marine organisms in its path and beached them on the land.
In the tropics, a new arthropod, Diplopygus ramstirpes, has appeared. It is much bigger than other predators and looks likely to become the new apex predator above Pultrypa.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Salcaedis corcillum, Male (LC)
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
You paddle through the murky water, following the scent of the Pultrypa. Suddenly, you see it emerge from the murkiness. Itâs very large. Itâs arms are tucked up and then in the blink of an eye, they strike, grabbing you by your outstretched arm. You are dragged towards it and turned upside down until your arm is completely taken off. It attacks you again now that youâre more vulnerable, slicing through your armour and crushing your head. You perish. (2 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% (Hatchling) / 2cm / 1 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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
Pholgnathus lancus (LC), Hatchling
_Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Summer
A pulse of water spreads out from the zone of the earthquake, carrying you in its path. It ripples across the surface, growing larger and larger. Not long after, you find yourself bearing down on the coast. You are smacked straight into a cliff, killing you instantly. (1 + 1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 1.7cm / 3 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
Pholgnathus lancus
Latest Mutations: Dorsal Vessel, Improve Smell
This is an arthropod that preys on soft animals in the temperate ocean of the Southern Hemisphere.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 11cm
Nutritional Need: 213 x 11/100 = 23.4NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 23.4 x 0.25 = 5.9NP per round (Needs to intake 5.9/0.7 = 8.4NP per round)/ 23.4NP
Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Smell 2 (detects odours 5m from mouth). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1. Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. Food = move towards, close cheliped over it.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcite exoskeleton in nine plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has blue irridiphore pigmentation. One pair of legs have chela on the end. Around the mouth are chemoreceptors and above is a rostrum and antennae. 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. Steering arms are situated on either side just behind the head. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of legs, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell has low pressure piezolytes. The body is segmented and contains eight segments. It has aquatic spiracles. It has a hemacoel and a dorsal vessel. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. 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.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
_Empropthalmus soundwavia (NT), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
You hatch out into warm, fairly murky saltwater. You are floating along near the surface. Some nearby Empropthalmus hatchlings join up with you into a shoal. One heads off and the rest of you follow. You then see the leader chasing an Anazitonta, squirming through the viscous water. The chase leads right to you so you swoop in easily with a fatal bite. You consume the front of the corpse, the part you tore off. You continue surviving for months on end, as the conditions change to a dark, cool winter. You are now a juvenile. You see nothing but sense the electrical presence of your shoal close nearby. You have detected the scent of more Anazitonta but among them is an Anazitonta astatheana. There is also a Leptotheca. (6)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 2.8cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / (100% - 35% 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: NT
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 itâs 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 = 2
_Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Ithaca Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You hatch out into warm, fairly murky saltwater. You are being carried along on a current close to the surface, where you see an Elinopterus hunting a Masticephalus. You squirm after it, hunting it down. The Elinopterus tires of chasing prey and this gives you an opportunity to catch up. You get to it and bite straight through it, cutting it in half and killing it. You eat half as the other sinks through the water. You survive for months afterwards. It is now dark and cool. You see nothing but detect the smells of more Masticephalus and Elinopterus. There is also the smell of a jellyfish. (4 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 1.5cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 2.8/2.8 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
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 = 1
Diplopygus ramstirpes (U), Juvenile Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Spring
You hatch out buried by sand. You sense the chemicals of several other nearby Diplopygus as well as something edible. You claw through the sand and discover a morsel of meat from a fish. After consuming this, you dig your way out of the sand and see the tropical sea above you. You continue life on the surface for several months. You have now grown into a juvenile. Around you lies the sandy seabed. You can see an Atkinsonia mollusc plodding along and a Dinocaroides is swimming close to the surface - but there is also a Pultrypa heading towards it. In front of you, you see the opening for a canyon that heads deeper. In the opposite direction, the sea gets shallower. (6)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 12cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / 26.5/26.5 (100% - 35% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None.
Diplopygus ramstirpes
Latest Mutations: Three-Chambered Heart = 5, Speed = 6, Bigger = 5, Brain = 6
An arthropod species with legs that become lobes for swimming and dangerous chelipeds. It is a predator and hunts some of the bigger animals around. It lives in tropical seas, oceans and estuaries as the apex predator and the largest arthropod to exist so far. Diplopygus differs from its predecessors, on top of being much bigger, by having a three-chambered heart pumping a double circulatory system. It also has a faster hyponome and ends in a pair of fan tail lobes. Furthermore, it has a slightly better brain and buries its eggs with food. Cannibalism is also relatively rare.
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: 35cm (length)
Nutritional Need: FEMALE: 219 x 35/100 = 76.7NP. MALE: 221 x 35/100 = 77.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: FEMALE: 76.7 x 0.25 = 19.2NP per round (Needs to intake 19.2/0.7 = 27.4NP per round)/76.7 x 0.9 = 69NP MALE: 77.4 x 0.25 = 19.4NP per round (Needs to intake 19.4/0.7 = 27.7NP per round)/77.4 x 0.9 = 69.7NP
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 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 4.4. 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. 1) Digs a hole for eggs and then buries them. 2) Deposits food in hole for eggs. 3) Do not cannibalise unless starving.
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 two fan tail lobes 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 double circuit has a three-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.
1 Like
R.210 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 3
Farynxoskulus sensitivus (NT), Juvenile_
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Spring
You contract a short, mild illness that compels you to remain where you are and not use up energy moving or searching for food. The water is still hot and clear. Around you, you can see the sandy seabed. Behind you its get more rocky but in the other direction it gets deeper. You see a Zuckeria gastropod feeding on some algae coating the rocks, while an Atkinsonia cephalopod crawls along the floor. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 2.5cm / 4 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 55% / 11.1/15.9 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Farynxoskulus sensitivus
Latest Mutations: Carnivorous Digestion, Long Sensitive Antenna, Pharynx
This weird worm-like creature hunts across the tropical ocean, using its antennae to track down food. However, despite being carnivorous, it is not a predator. It simply has no way of demolishing prey. It can digest meat that it filters. A pharynx helps it digest and breathe better.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (63.5/10 X 7 =) 45NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 36NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Toxic. Buccal Pumping.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, binocular blurry vision to the front, can use chemoreception up to tens of metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation and a proboscis. It also has a thin skin layer. There is a mouth surrounded by small tentacles and chemoreceptors on the proboscis. There are two pinhole eyes on the front of the head and one also on each side, as well as a pair of antennae protruding from the head. A hyponome is at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Hydrostatic muscles surround the hemacoel. A pharynx pumps from the mouth to the throat. The gastrointestinal tract from mouth has a stomach with digestive juices and carnivorous enzymes, followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has blue blood containing hemocyanin, bitter fluid and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Locomotion Type: Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Some Buoyancy Control (Must Keep Swimming To Maintain Depth).
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Physical Stats: Speed = 2, Stamina = 1, Attack = 1, Defence = 1.5, Strength = 1, Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2
Systemic Stats: Osmoregulation = 2 (Quite high, quite low Salinity), Respiration = 2 (cutaneous respiration), Digestion = 3 (meat), Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Coordination = 1, Reflexes = 1. Immune System = 1 (physical barrier)
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Inolarynx maculatus (NT), Subadult
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Autumn
There is a large wave overhead that you feel pull for a brief period and then pass by harmlessly. It happened to pull an Anazitonta right into your path. It tries to crawl away as you crawl after it through the thick water. You catch up to it and dodge the spikes on it tail before delivering a venomous bite on to its flank. Injured and overcome with venom, the Anazitonta slows before coming to a complete halt. You then tear in on your catch and get a decent amount of food. You are exhausted from the chase. It is still dark and cool. Apart from your shoal, you also sense the jellyfish and some Anazitonta. (3 + 1)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.8mm / 1 day
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 25% / 0.2/0.2 (95%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. Itâs black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lives in loose shoals. Inolarynx has pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allow it to create a buccal pump that draws water past the gills. It also sucks in organisms from the water. It has a much softer memory than its predecessor.
Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm
Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP
Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. âMigmachordatix Toxinâ. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.
External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 4
Saccenta marsupius (LC), Juvenile Male
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
When you bump along the underside of the ice in the pitch black, it starts to freeze around you. When you are partially frozen, you cannot pull away because the ice has trapped some of your body. It continues to encapsulate your helpless body until you are surrounded by ice. You literally freeze to death. (1 = You have not thrived. You will be reborn, as your species goes on.)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 4cm / 6 months
Health: Dead
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: N/A
Temperature: N/A
Notes: N/A
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).
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 3
Dinocaroides hibridus, Subadult Male (LC)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
You wait in the pitch black darkness for food to come to you on the current. Finally, you pick up the scent of a dead Saccenta, drifting slowly along towards you. You move to the side to intercept it and hold the corpse in your mandibles. You eat a large amount. The winter continues. You eke out an existence here until finally, the light returns and the temperature becomes warmer. You hunt, avoid predation and moult during this time. The winter returns again and the sun has just set leaving the land in total darkness and the water cold, just above freezing. You feel the ice that has formed again above you. Now, you have grown into a subadult. You can smell chemicals coming from upstream belonging to Gryphorhinus, Cilistoma and a Saccentus. (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: 85% / 10.2cm / 20 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 17.4/17.4 (100% - 40% left over for growth) / 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)
2 Likes
Action: rest for a while, being wary of the surrounding creatures
Action: Slowly swim below the jellyfish at some distance, when it catches something i will eat its debris falling down
Action: Signal for my shoal to rest and keep guard of me
Thanks for the round stealth, glad my mutations went so well.
Action: head toward the canyon away from the predators and see if I can scavenge any food along the way.
Action rest under a rock beneath the stream
Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksiving 
Action: Swim down to the Atkinsonia and try to lure it towards a larger predator to kill it.
Round 211 - P.1
~70.3 million years since the Atroxian Began~
Oliverian Period, ??? Stage
Event: 8 - None
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Diplopygus ramstirpes has asserted itself as the apex predator of the tropics.
A new generation of species has been discovered by paleontologists in rocks dating to this period in time. At least twenty-two new species have been found but as of yet they have not all been formally described. As soon as they have been, the details will be shared.
However, one exciting discovery known is that the first known land plants on Ezta have been found. These are very simple moss-like plants clinging to the sides of waterways. This may be the beginning of a new era of life on Ezta, where life on land is possible. Such a change in flora may also bring about other changes, such as climate.
@Agenttine - Points Stored = 4
Salcaedis corcillum, Male Hatchling (LC)
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Wet-Dry Barrens, Early Spring
You hatch out into hot, murky, brackish water. You can sense the chemicals of some algae and head towards it. The water is thick so you have to crawl through it rather than swim. Your prize is only a small bit of algae but it is enough. You survive for another month or so, growing slightly. The water is no longer viscous for you. You remain in the hot, murky, brackish water. The tide is slack. The scent of salt arrives from one direction and freshwater from the other. Patches of algae grow along the banks of mud in the water. Icthyotelus filter around. A couple of small Pultrypa are patrolling the salty and fresh ends respectively. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 15% / 2cm / 1 month
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 55% / (100% - 15% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism 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
Pholgnathus lancus (LC), Hatchling
_Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
You hatch out into a warm, fairly murky area. Your antennae quickly pick up the scent of a nearby Anazitonta. You walk across the seabed towards the scent and find half a corpse. You are able to feast on the flesh revealed beneath the scales. You grow over time into a juvenile, but it has now become dark and cool. You can sense the chemicals of a shoal of Empropthalmus above you. There are also a couple Anazitonta around but further away and nearby on the seabed is the scent of a Leptotheca. (5)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 2.8cm / 6 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 5.5/5.5 (100% - 25% left over for growth) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Pholgnathus lancus
Latest Mutations: Dorsal Vessel, Improve Smell
This is an arthropod that preys on soft animals in the temperate ocean of the Southern Hemisphere.
Status: LC
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 11cm
Nutritional Need: 213 x 11/100 = 23.4NP.
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 23.4 x 0.25 = 5.9NP per round (Needs to intake 5.9/0.7 = 8.4NP per round)/ 23.4NP
Characteristics: Anti-Freeze. Foul Taste. Intolerant of more than low pressure. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Moults. Osmoconformer (Quite Low Salinity). Rolls Up. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (sees clearly up to 5m away at the sides, blue and green perception, monocular vision). Smell 2 (detects odours 5m from mouth). Chemoreception 1 (chemicals 1m from mouth). Touch 1. Wide Vision 1 (wide field of view from sides that catches peripheral movement, monocular vision).
Stats: Buoyancy 1 (Adjustable Buoyancy). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Dexterity 1. Digestion 1 (100% Meat, Digests 70%). Filtration 1. Immunity 2. Jumping 1. Pierce Strength 1. Reach 1. Respiration 1 (Stationary Respiration). Sharpness 1. Stamina 3. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 1. Swim Speed 1.5. Toughness 2. UV Resistance 2. Walk Speed 1.5.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Subconscious Functions. Body Movement Control. Tiredness = rest. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move. Adult = Release mating hormones. Mating hormones = move. Mating hormones + own species chemicals = reproduce. Move signal in water = hyponome boost and paddle with fan tail. Move signal against a surface = walk. Food = move towards, close cheliped over it.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body which has a calcite exoskeleton in nine plates with joint tissue in between. The skin underneath has blue irridiphore pigmentation. One pair of legs have chela on the end. Around the mouth are chemoreceptors and above is a rostrum and antennae. 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. Steering arms are situated on either side just behind the head. Not including the chelipeds, it has four pairs of legs, one to a segment. The rear of the body has a fan tail and below that a hyponome.
Internal Features: Each cell has low pressure piezolytes. The body is segmented and contains eight segments. It has aquatic spiracles. It has a hemacoel and a dorsal vessel. An anti-freeze xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide is in the blood. The body is supported by a system of muscles. It has gonads and a protonephridium. There is a enclosed, one-chambered swim bladder in the dorsal side. There is a monogastric digestive system. 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.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawning.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Paddling, Hyponome Boosting. Walking.
@soundwave - Points Stored = 2
_Empropthalmus soundwavia (NT), Juvenile
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Early Winter
You fall behind the rest of the shoal as you try to rest, but the others in the shoal do not stay around. Instinct forces you to carry on following them, so you do not get to rest. You trail behind the shoal as it goes around, scans for food and killing one or two Anazitonta and consuming them for themselves. Itâs pitch black and cool. You see nothing but sense the electrical presence of your shoal close nearby. You have detected the scent of more Anazitonta but among them is an Anazitonta astatheana. There is also a Leptotheca near a Pholgnathus beneath you. (3)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 2.8cm / 8 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 45% / 4.1/5.1 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
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: NT
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 itâs 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 = 2
_Lepidoderes immortalii (LC), Juvenile
Ithaca Coast, Subpolar Temperate Shallows, Late Autumn
You try to follow the faint scent of the jellyfish through the pitch black water. The scent trail becomes minimal and then you lose it completely. You cannot find the jellyfish and so instead go hungry. You are now starving. It is dark and cool. You see nothing but detect the smells of more Masticephalus and Elinopterus. The smell of a jellyfish returns. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 25% / 1.5cm / 6 months
Health: Starving
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 2.2/2.8 (80%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
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 = 1
Diplopygus ramstirpes (LC), Juvenile Male
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Spring
In the clear tropical water, you glide towards the canyon, seeking shelter between its walls. When you get to it, you are pushed away by a strong current running through it moving towards you. You have to stop just outside the canyon, back to where you were. Also, you did not spot any food to scavenge and you have become exhausted. Around you lies the sandy seabed. You can see an Atkinsonia mollusc plodding along and a Dinocaroides is swimming close to the surface - but there is also a Pultrypa heading towards it. In front of you, you see the opening for a canyon that heads deeper. In the opposite direction, the sea gets shallower. (2 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 12cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 35% / 18.6/26.5 (70%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None.
Diplopygus ramstirpes
Latest Mutations: Three-Chambered Heart = 5, Speed = 6, Bigger = 5, Brain = 6
An arthropod species with legs that become lobes for swimming and dangerous chelipeds. It is a predator and hunts some of the bigger animals around. It lives in tropical seas, oceans and estuaries as the apex predator and the largest arthropod to exist so far. Diplopygus differs from its predecessors, on top of being much bigger, by having a three-chambered heart pumping a double circulatory system. It also has a faster hyponome and ends in a pair of fan tail lobes. Furthermore, it has a slightly better brain and buries its eggs with food. Cannibalism is also relatively rare.
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
Size: 35cm (length)
Nutritional Need: FEMALE: 219 x 35/100 = 76.7NP. MALE: 221 x 35/100 = 77.4NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: FEMALE: 76.7 x 0.25 = 19.2NP per round (Needs to intake 19.2/0.7 = 27.4NP per round)/76.7 x 0.9 = 69NP MALE: 77.4 x 0.25 = 19.4NP per round (Needs to intake 19.4/0.7 = 27.7NP per round)/77.4 x 0.9 = 69.7NP
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 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Speed 4.4. 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. 1) Digs a hole for eggs and then buries them. 2) Deposits food in hole for eggs. 3) Do not cannibalise unless starving.
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 two fan tail lobes 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 double circuit has a three-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.
1 Like
R.211 - P.2
@Spring_blooms - Points Stored = 3
Farynxoskulus sensitivus (NT), Juvenile_
East Tartarus Coast, Tropical Ocean, Early Spring
Sliding over the sand, you make your way towards the Atkinsonia, which is cruising along the seabed, its tentacles just poking out of its shell. It pays no attention to you, making no change to its movements, even when you get close. Itâs relatively huge compared to you. You witness a Pultrypa emerge from somewhere and attack the Atkinsonia, but itâs claws do nothing against the hard shell. You have become exhausted. The water is still hot and clear. Around you, you can see the sandy seabed. Behind you its get more rocky but in the other direction it gets deeper. You see a Zuckeria gastropod feeding on some algae coating the rocks, while an Atkinsonia cephalopod crawls along the floor. (4)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 35% / 2.5cm / 4 months
Health: Exhausted
Stamina/Nutrition//Hydration: 35% / 6.4/15.9 (40%) / 100%
Temperature: Hot (Metabolism x 1.5)
Notes: None
Farynxoskulus sensitivus
Latest Mutations: Carnivorous Digestion, Long Sensitive Antenna, Pharynx
This weird worm-like creature hunts across the tropical ocean, using its antennae to track down food. However, despite being carnivorous, it is not a predator. It simply has no way of demolishing prey. It can digest meat that it filters. A pharynx helps it digest and breathe better.
Status: LC
Habitat: Tropical Shallows, Tropical Upper Ocean
Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder
Size: 7cm (length)
Nutritional Worth: (63.5/10 X 7 =) 45NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 19NP / 36NP
Abilities: Permeable Skin. Below Freezing Metabolism. Fluid Freeze Prevention. Bitter Taste. Toxic. Buccal Pumping.
Perception: Blurry vision with no depth perception on either side, binocular blurry vision to the front, can use chemoreception up to tens of metres away.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Processes information and responds based on fixed behaviours. It knows to eat and avoid being harmed.
External Features: It has a cylindrical body with blue pigmentation and a proboscis. It also has a thin skin layer. There is a mouth surrounded by small tentacles and chemoreceptors on the proboscis. There are two pinhole eyes on the front of the head and one also on each side, as well as a pair of antennae protruding from the head. A hyponome is at the rear.
Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes in addition to enzymes. Glands on the body secrete a paralysing toxin. Hydrostatic muscles surround the hemacoel. A pharynx pumps from the mouth to the throat. The gastrointestinal tract from mouth has a stomach with digestive juices and carnivorous enzymes, followed by intestines leading to the anus. A brain encased in the head connects to two nerve cords which branch into a network of nerves. There is a swim bladder in the middle, not connected to gut. It hosts both male and female gonads. The hemacoel cavity, open circulatory system has blue blood containing hemocyanin, bitter fluid and anti-freeze proteins. Protonephridia, connected to hemacoel, expels waste through pores.
Locomotion Type: Fluke Swimming. Hyponome Burst. Some Buoyancy Control (Must Keep Swimming To Maintain Depth).
Reproduction: Sexual, Ovuliparity (External Fertilisation). 1,000 eggs. Hermaphroditism.
Castes/Phases: None.
Physical Stats: Speed = 2, Stamina = 1, Attack = 1, Defence = 1.5, Strength = 1, Support = 0.5, UV Resistance = Weak, Filtration = 2
Systemic Stats: Osmoregulation = 2 (Quite high, quite low Salinity), Respiration = 2 (cutaneous respiration), Digestion = 3 (meat), Circulation = 1, Excretion = 1, Coordination = 1, Reflexes = 1. Immune System = 1 (physical barrier)
@OoferDoofer - Points Stored = 2
Inolarynx maculatus (NT), Subadult
Southern Tartarus Coast, Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Early Autumn
You and the rest of your shoal are able to rest in the dark water. Your rest is decent and undisturbed, so you are no longer exhausted. After your rest, you look around again. Itâs still pitch black and cool. Apart from your shoal, you also sense the jellyfish and some Anazitonta. (4)
Status:
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 0.8mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.2/0.2 (75%) / 100%
Temperature: Cool (Metabolism x 1)
Notes: None
Inolarynx maculatus
This is a predatory proto-fish that lives in the Temperate Ocean of the Southern Hemisphere. Itâs black, has bioluminescent spots all over it and sharp, venomous fangs. It lives in loose shoals. Inolarynx has pharyngeal muscles around the mouth and throat that allow it to create a buccal pump that draws water past the gills. It also sucks in organisms from the water. It has a much softer memory than its predecessor.
Latest Mutations: Pharyngeal Muscles = 5, Improve brain for packs = 2, Longer digestive tract = 3
Status: NT
Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean
Niche: Predator
Size: 8cm
Nutritional Need: 187 x 8/100 = 15NP
Food / Oxygen Requirement: 15 x 0.25 = 3.8NP per round (Needs to intake 3.8/0.9 = 4.2NP per round)/ 15 x 0.9 = 13.5NP
Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Bioluminsecence. Intolerant of more than Low Pressure). Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. âMigmachordatix Toxinâ. Only Works Underwater; gills. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Passive Electroreception. Permeable Skin. Ram Ventilation. Startle. Stationary Respiration. Solid Excretion.
Perception: Sight 2 (Sees clearly up to 5m away from the front). Electroreception 1 (detects movement at sides). Smell 1 (detects odour traces up to 1m away from the front).
Stats: Buoyancy 1. Coordination 2. Dexterity 1. Digestion 2. Immunity 2. Filtration 1 (7/4 = 1.8x1 = 1.8). Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 2. Sharpness 2. Stamina 3. Strength 2. Suction 0.5. Support 1. Swim Agility 2. Swim Speed 2.5. Toughness 1 (2 in spine). UV Resistance 3. Walk Agility 1. Walk Speed 0.7.
Intelligence / Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Hunger hormones = move around. Pain = move around. Move signal = carangiform. When tired = rest. Sense ??? right in front = bite with mouth. Mating hormones = move around. ??? w/ mating hormones = reproduce.
External Features: The skin of the tapering, fairly stream-lined body is covered in cycloid scales with black melanin pigmentation and blue autogenic photophores. The head has a mouth with razor sharp teeth and venomous fangs. There are also a pair of forward-face camera eyes and olfactory receptors. It has a pair of pectoral fins and a line of electroreceptors along the flank. At the end of the body is a dicypheral caudal fin as a semicircle below the tail and spines at its base.
Internal Features: Behind the head are three gill slits. The mouth is supported by a cartilage jaw and has pharyngeal muscles around it. It has a closed circulatory system. There are muscles across the body. It has a monogastric digestive system. It has a swim bladder, gonads, a Migmachordatix neurotoxin gland, an electric organ and a nephridium. Ganglia in the head connect to a single dorsal nerve cord, protected by a cartilage vertebrae.
Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilisation. 1,000 eggs per spawn.
Castes/Phases: Hermaphroditism.
Locomotion: Active (20NP). Carangiform (+1 Swim Speed).
@Zenzonegaming - Points Stored = 4
Saccenta marsupius (LC), Juvenile Male
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
You hatch out into pitch black, cold water. You immediately begin searching for food but you can see nothing and your chemoreception can also not detect anything. There is a layer of ice when you bounce against the top of the water, as you feel yourself being carried along on a slow current. You can now detect chemicals coming from upstream belonging to Gryphorhinus, Cilistoma and a Dinocaroides. (3)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 1% / 1.6mm / 1 day
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 65% / 0.1/0.1 (65%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
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).
@PositiveTower - Points Stored = 3
Dinocaroides hibridus, Subadult Male (LC)
Southern Tartarus, Oceanic Temperate Humid Barrens, Early Winter
In the pitch black water, you move to the bottom of the stream and wriggle your body to create a you-sized ditch in the pebbles. You rest in this ditch. It is lonand undisturbed so you recover a lot of energy. You are no longer exhausted. It is still completely dark with cold water. You can smell chemicals coming from upstream belonging to Gryphorhinus, Cilistoma and a Saccentus. (5 + 1)
Status
Maturity/Size/Age: 85% / 10.2cm / 20 months
Health: Healthy
Stamina/Nutrition/Hydration: 95% / 16/17.4 (90%) / 100%
Temperature: Cold (Metabolism x 0.5)
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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