Surviving Supers (Inspired by Surviving Earth)

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  1. Development of β€˜sonic’ arms that pinpoint the target instead of spreading generally instead of in a direction without missing a base.
  2. Improvement of chemoreceptor ability.
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Is this supposed to be misspelled on purpose?

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I did not notice it was misspelled.

You can only upgrade your powers after surviving an Extinction Event, in Rule 7. You need to change it.

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M2: Development of arms that increase the area of food collection

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Round 2

Location: Belgium

Original Time Period: Ediacaran ~ 589 Million years ago

About 13 million years later, Global Sea Levels continue their steady stabilization from their estimated sudden 500m drop and increase due to Snowball Earth. This has given an opportunity for the current macroscopic life to thrive in the warming conditions. Underwater supers now slowly expand their reach beyond their ocean cradle to new regions, but a small anoxic event reduces each species’ population by 0.2. The previous fungi on land have started to become replaced by some land offshoots of the firebending ones. As for the underwater plants, we will find out soon enough.

Lantianelle laevis

Using its power of The Sensory Possession, this early conical vase metazoan has increased its food intake of zooplankton via specialized pores. Its powers have also increased the organisms range by using spores to move to new deep locations, especially by attaching to the invisible Sprigginia floundersi. Curiously, the spores also tend to follow the Mycelium network of Xinuiningella rara. Although, this new spore method also provides a potential new food source for other Ediacarans. Other sessile feeders now have steep competition.

Power Level Pop Food Gathering Health Speed Movement Intel
1 1.8 3 ? 1 0 ?
Xinuiningella rara

This Pyrokinesis (Firebending) powered sessile organism has now become a Fungus. This strange Fungus has been able to expand slightly into more northern regions and deeper regions of the ancient oceans due to its Firebending ability warming the water around it. Underground, underwater Mycelium networks from colonies of this organism have begun to penetrate into the microbial mats, creating new antagonistic and mutualistic relationships in the oceans not seen at this point in the previous timeline. However, this Fungus is facing competition from other sessile feeders and the burrowing invisible Spriggina floundersi, with the Mycelium avoiding the sonications from Vendoconularia triradiata.

Power Level Pop Food Gathering Health Speed Movement Intel
1 1.3 2.5 ? 1 0 ?
Spriggina floundersi

Having the power of Hyper-camo (Invisibility), it has slightly expanded its range beyond most of the sessile feeders. The small gain in speed from more efficient movement, due to having bilateral symmetry, is offset by the organism’s new chitin proto-armor. The proto-armor creates slightly deeper depressions in the microbial mats, which can now have Mycelium close to Xinuiningella rara colonies. For now, this is the only organism that truly moves horizontally across the ocean floor, occasionally running into the light flash from Arborea elegans.

Power Level Pop Food Gathering Health Speed Movement Intel
1 1.3 2.2 ? 1 1 ?
Flabellophyton Mystificus

This vase-like metazoan with Attraction Force has become slight larger. Due to this, it takes slightly more time to mature, and thus reproduce, forming less dense colonies than before. Thus, the habitat range of this range has expanded less than of other sessile organism, and is facing increasing competition from other sessile feeders. The organism has made up for it by have appendages to increase the gathering area of potential microscopic food, and does not seem bothered by the Mycelium from Xinuiningella rara like Arborea elegans.

Power Level Pop Food Gathering Health Speed Movement Intel
1 1.9 3 ? 1 0 ?
Vendoconularia triradiata

The trisymmetrical, phosphate mineral shell organism with Echolocation (Sonic Scream) has become more precise in stunning microscopic prey by using β€œsonic arm” appendages. This has led to an increase in its colony density due to shortening the minimum distance to avoid its own vibrations, but the underground underwater Mycelium from Xinuiningella rara still tends to avoid areas of higher density of this organism. When combined with its improved chemoreceptor ability, the organism had vastly improved its ability to gather food. Despite not expanding its habitat range on the ocean floor, the increase in colony density makes up for it.

Power Level Pop Food Gathering Health Speed Movement Intel
1 2.0 4 ? 1 0 ?
Arborea elegans

This Light Control powered fern-like animal organism has evolved the ability to somehow trap and store excess light that filters through the oceanic Twilight Zone. This light is then used in a light flashing defense mechanism, but no current organism is able to detect this light. However, this does slightly end up concentrating UV rays, which can cause small damage to other organisms. Also, this ability does end up briefly disrupting Spriggina floudersi’s Hyper-camo (Invisibility), which more often than not bears the brunt of this sessile light-manipulator’s powers. This has caused a slight decrease in density of the colonies of this organism in order to better gather light, as its habitat range has barely increased. Like Flabellophyton Mystificus, it does not mind the underground Mycelium from Xinuiningella rara.

Power Level Pop Food Gathering Health Speed Movement Intel
1 1.3 1 ? 1 0 ?

Planet Conditions:

Mean atmospheric O2 content: ~8.08 vol % (~40.4% of modern)

Mean atmospheric CO2 content: ~4545 ppm (~16.2 times pre-industrial)

Mean surface temperature: ~18Β°C (4.5Β°C above pre-industrial)

Mean Sea level: +20m above present

Everyone has 2 Mutations.

What Super Powers would you give to Plants and microorganisms?

What should we name the Period instead of the Ediacaran?

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M1: Development of muscle cells, especially on the arms, to allow for their harvest to be gulped
M2: Chemoreception to be able to judge when to close the arms
(I imagined the arms would function similarly to those of brittestars with them being gulped of their catch from time to time)

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Mutation 1: Spread spores using Explosisomes - membrane encapsulated organelles located at the proximal end of reproductive cells where Group I metal ions are deposited by specific metal ion sequestering enzymes and active transport membrane metal transporters, in an anaqueous environment made by active transporters of water molecules, to create microscopic crystals of pure Group 1 metals that violently react in an explosive fashion when exposed to water via calcium-ion induced aquaporin channels.

Mutation 2: Evolve extra side appendages that have the same short extensions located on top the main body for capturing more microscopic prey.

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Wouldn’t this also damage the other parts of the repro cells?

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  1. Elongation of the tentacles, increasing the range of food gathering, information gathering and focusing of the sonic arms.
  2. Inducing a phenomenon of Peramorphosis in the later stages - development of a disorganized third germ layer which forms buoyancy vesicles on the sides of the shell, causing detachment from the ocean floor. (analogy to Graptoloidea)
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Was there supposed to be a poll in there?

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M1: Primitive appendages to become legs.
M2: Thicken the armor shell.

Edit: Where’s the Earth Map?

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Also a question AA, how do we change our location? Will there be action votes available to us later on?

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M1: Establish a symbiosis interface both biologically and through Sensory Possession (to make sure the symbiosis is accepted and the spores are not killed), whereby spores can symbiotically attach to Sprigginia floundersi (Using the stealth and mobility of the species to reach farther places to establish colonies, in exchange for warding off predators and gathering more food), attach to Xinuiningella rara for temperature regulation and enhanced protection in exchange for the warding off of Sprigginia floundersi (because of existing Sprigginia floundersi symbiosis), attach to Vendoconularia triradiata for enhanced protection in exchange for M2’s warnings, attach to Arborea elegans for more territory, giving M2’s warning, and attach to Flabellophyton Mystificus for more territory. This mutation does not at all diminish the effectiveness of not symbiotic growth, and colonies can form on the seafloor like nomal.

M2: Unified control, several members can combine their strength into a Sensory Possession action, greatly increasing effectiveness and range for each added member (population). Also allows for intermember communication of survival instincts, such as attacks, large movements, food or anoxic events (which can be passed on to spores & symbiotic members such as Sprigginia floundersi or Xinuiningella rara)

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I wanted everyone to come up with powers.

I only put the Earth Map at the beginning of each Period to minimize forum space…

Yes, there will be soon once everyone’s organisms gain enough movement, since most organism’s are still sessile right now in their adult forms.

Possible Plant power: Magnetism Control
Possible Microorganism power: Phasing Ability

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If you don’t achieve movement, can you still move your population by only β€œreproducing in a certain direction”?

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What is the Intel stat? Is it like intelligence or information gathering?

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I think it’s most obviously the former

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Yeah, I was not sure if there is enough space to write it fully out, which is why I also started abbreviating population as pop.

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Do the stats do anything? I know that if Pop is 0 then you die, but are there hidden calculations based on them?

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They probably influence the judgement of the GM on how should a species fare at least

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