Round 4 - Year 0, Month 4
EVENT
(Removed to not take up forum space)
Severity - 3/4 (-3 conservation status)
For a long time now, the users only pushed the creatures off the posts into the void below. Now however, they have learnt a new, dangerous ability - by fastly moving the cursor, they now can slice the organisms before removing them off face of this forum. This innovation has grim effects on local lifeforms…
Species
@Teaking - Multipoda TeaKinges, “The Crawler” - NE
- Tiny Omnivore
Mutations: Circulatory System, Omnivoreous Diet
Preceding the users’ invention, Multipoda has evolved a circulatory system which transports oxygen and nutrients through it’s body. Creatures of this kind also developed other, important change: by becoming more generalistic in diet, Multipoda can now feed both on Vegetation and other organisms.
When slicing was introduced to it’s environment, Multipoda populations were put under extreme pressures - Users managed to find a tactic which is extra more effective against this species, putting it in direct risk of extermination. Now, only a small population inhabiting a single topic lives, and if it doesn’t develop right adaptations, it’s doomed to go extinct, either by the users or the aggresive Fabula.
Statistics:
- Speed - 4
- Stealth - 2*(3) = 6
- Strenght - 2*(1) = 2
- User Usefulness - 0
Preys On: Vegetation, Dichorisare Hemozore
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
- Respiratory System
- Basic Tentacles (+2 Speed due to Respiratory System)
- Grinding Teeth
- Stronger Muscles (+1 Strenght)
- Camouflage (+1 Stealth)
- Jumping Limbs (+1 Speed)
- Circulatory System
- Omnivorous Diet
@fralegend015 - Fabula Ambulacustos, “Guard” - ID+
- Tiny Herbivore
Mutations: Stretchy Stomach, Claw-like Structures (+1 Strenght)
In order to get more time between feedings, Fabula specimens have developed a stretchier stomach which can hold larger portions of the letters. Behaviour of this species has also changed - it developed rigid, claw-like structures at ends of it’s limbs, which are used to attack other herbivores which it sees eating letters.
When cursors began to slice, many populations of Fabula have collapsed, however the species as a whole managed to survive in multiple topics.
Statistics:
- Speed - 4
- Stealth - 2*(3) = 6
- Strenght - 3*(1) = 3
- User Usefulness = 1
Preys On: Vegetation
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
- Muscular Flaps (+2 Speed due to Respiratory System)
- Respiratory System
- Limbs (+1 Speed)
- Gripping Flaps (+1 Strenght)
- Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
- Cute Features (+1 User Usefulness)
- Stretchy Stomach
- Claw-like Structures (+1 Strenght)
@doomlightning - Dichorisare Chiozore, “Divider” - ID
- Tiny Herbivore
Mutations: Circulatory System, Stylocone Tail / Evil Face (+1 Strenght)
Dichorisare, before the advent of slicing techniques, has developed a circulatory system. It also got another, unique feature - a Stylocone tail, which ends with a face of the current most powerful creature - that being Fabula.
Having fooled many users into thinking that this species is Fabula, Dichorisare managed to outlast the event and currently lives in many locations.
I was not able to find information on what a “Stylocone tail” is, so I had to guess it on my own. Sorry if this is not what you were asking for.
Statistics:
- Speed - 5
- Stealth - 1*(3) = 3
- Strenght - 3*(1) = 3
- User Usefulness - 0
Preys On: Vegetation
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
- Segmentation
- Annular Muscles (+2 speed due to Axial Respiratory System)
- Axial Respiratory System
- Siphon (+1 Speed)
- Mantle (+1 Strenght)
- Joints (+1 Speed)
- Circulatory System
- Stylocone Tail / Evil Face (+1 Strenght)
@willow - Dichorisare Hemozore, “Photophagous Divider” - NE-
- Tiny Herbivore
Mutations: Active Respiration, Cute Leaves (+1 User Usefulness)
During the last month before slicing has been invented, D. Hemozore has developed an even more plant-like appearance - It has developed unique cells with many nuclei that can contract and expand as a form of active respiration and leaves for more surface area for photosynthesis and breathing.
Extinction had a large impact on populations of this species, which had collapsed in every topic it inhabited. Even worse, nothing stops Fabula from tearing apart creatures of this kind who tried to eat letters, and Multipoda has easy time killing photophagous dividers if they end up in the topic to which this omnivoreous species is currently restricted. Now, only a few dozen specimens are still alive and if they don’t evolve in just the right way, in few weeks they will be gone completely from the forum.
Your oxygenating-oriented vascular system will now be treated as a circulatory system.
Statistics:
- Speed - 3
- Stealth - 1*(3) = 3
- Strenght - 1*(1) = 1
- User Usefulness - 1
Preys On: Vegetation
Predated By: Multipoda TeaKinges
Mutation History
- Segmentation
- Annular Muscles (+2 speed due to Vascular System)
- Asexual Reproduction
- Vascular System (Extra Speed)
- Photosynthetic Pigments
- Carbon Fixation Enzymes
- Active Respiration
- Cute Leaves (+1 User Usefulness)
Species which have NE- conservation status no longer suffer from User Hunting Pressure as most users by this point think that the species went extinct.
Do not expect another round until September.