Thrive Rules of Nature Competition

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Why doednt the motor ganglia orbthe structural spine give me speed on land?

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I strife for power and defense while also keep up with other things.

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i’m mostly just going with the flow

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I’m just going towards a certain goal, adapting to new challanges appearing in the environment.

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I decided to not have bombs and instead do something more beneficial:

“Producer Blankets: a new caste that is a simple hydrogen bladder that can connect to the others of its caste, forming large photosynthetic blankets filling the sky, the other castes can directly acquire energy from them, allowing them to be stronger and faster than they ever could using their own energy source.”

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Round 9 - 90 Million Years

Lowlands all across the continent have turned green thanks to the emergence of Porcusetum, though the thick-walled cells this vascular plant needs to support its weight are difficult to digest.

Species

doomlightning - Fulgurmortis coronafera - LC

  • Tiny Herbivore

  • Habitat: Lowlands

Mutations: Nephridium (Salt Retention), Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

In order to survive further inland, Fulgurmortis has developed a nephridium to moderate its body’s salt levels. Now drinking seawater will overwhelm it, but it can survive off of fresh water from rivers and lakes. This grazer can now be found everywhere that experiences adequate rain.

Stats:

  • 2*3 = 6 Stealth

  • 2 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Land)

  • 3 Strength (Venom-Resistant)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata, Kisthos thalassena, Marchantinella colliosa

Predated By: Minacia litorevenator

Mutation History

  • Rotifer-like Corona

  • Epidermis

  • Pharyngeal Slits

  • Cephalization

  • Silicone Scales (+1 Strength)

  • Water Vascular System

  • Closed Vascular System

  • Branchiostegal Gills

  • Radula

  • Mucus Glands (+1 Strength; counters Venom)

  • Internal Fertilization

  • Hibernation

  • Chemoreception

  • 7 Hydro-Pump Legs (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

  • Nephridium (Salt Retention)

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

fralegend015 - Legendicus transitorium - LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Rivers, Lowlands

Mutations: Kidneys (Salt Retention), Leg Bones (+1 Walking Speed)

Like Fulgurmortis, Legendicus has developed organs to regulate its internal salt levels. With its pair of kidneys, it has acclimated itself to freshwater environments, though this meant leaving the ocean behind. The bones in its eight fins have also toughened and lengthened, meaning they now emerge from proper legs. These allow it to maintain pace with Fulgurmortis and its tube feet. Meanwhile, in water, it relies on its speed against vigilant Sequentioscriptus and Testificatus. Its speed in navigating rivers also serves it well in encounters with an old rival - Minacia, whose keener senses would otherwise allow it to surprise and overpower this jawless amphibian.

Stats:

  • 2*3 = 6 Stealth

  • 9/2 Speed

  • 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera, Sequentioscriptus vasculus, Testificatus relictus

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

  • Lateral Muscles (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Grinding Teeth

  • 8 Fins (+1 Speed)

  • Gills

  • Tail Muscles (+1 Speed)

  • Circulatory System

  • Omnivorism

  • Motor Ganglia (+1 Speed)

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Denser Tail Muscles (+1 Speed)

  • Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)

  • Structural Spine (+1 Speed)

  • Foregut

  • Enzyme Glands

  • Fin Bones (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

  • Gill-Lung Spiracles

  • Kidneys (Salt Retention)

  • Leg Bones (+1 Walking Speed)

aah31415 - Sequentioscriptus vasculus - LC

  • Tiny Herbivore

  • Habitat: Rivers

Mutations: Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Scales (+1 Strength)

Sequentioscriptus’s pinhole eyes are now enclosed by a lens and cornea. Its other superficial change is a cover of overlapping scales, granting its skin better protection. Both of these adaptations are needed now more than ever, as Minacia’s brackish habits have allowed it to become invasive in the rivers.

Stats:

  • 4*3 = 12 Stealth

  • 6/1 Speed

  • 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryodea nodula

Predated By: Legendicus transitorium, Minacia chirodropoides

Mutation History

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Bloodstream

  • Chemoreception

  • Gills

  • Six Fins (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Freshwater Adaptation

  • Neural Ganglia

  • Simple Heart

  • Basic Jaw

  • Improved Digestive System

  • Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Horizontal Tailfin (+1 Speed)

  • Coaxial Spinal Cords

  • Vertebra (+1 Swimming Speed)

  • Lobed Fins (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Scales (+1 Strength)

Nonametoseehere - Aclaronomenus ascendilus - LC

  • Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

  • Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts, Rivers, Lowlands

Mutations: Blanket-Forming Caste, Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

Aclaronomenus’s latest instance of specialization is its producer caste. As brainless as movers, producers are the premier photosynthesizers of this species. They spend their lives high among the clouds, descending only to replenish water for glucose production, as well as to eat algae to supplement even their lethargic lifestyles. For greater stability in turbulent air, they lock together with their neural claws. The overwhelming surplus of energy their metabolism generates isn’t for themselves, but for members of other castes - producers secrete sugars in a honeydew-like solution, which other Aclaronomenus consume by allowing it to trail down their tongues.

Meanwhile, a change that is readily apparent on the more active castes is lensed eyes forming a ring around their bodies. These offer greater clarity and range of sight than the pinhole eyes they had before. For the most part, they give any Legendicus or Minacia labuntur they see skulking below a wide berth. On the other hand, they readily communicate with and approach others of their kind drifting in the same direction, especially movers with unoccupied connections. And, if they see any intact carcasses on the ground, they carefully descend on those.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 3 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Air)

  • 1 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa

Predated By: Legendicus transitorium, Minacia labuntur

Mutation History

  • Swim Bladder

  • Tail (+2 Speed due to Algae Assimilation)

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Adhesive Tongue

  • Algae Habitation

  • Algae Assimilation

  • Simple Brain

  • Hydrogen Sack (+1 Flight Speed)

  • Neural Claws

  • Water-Storing Stem

  • Mover Caste (+1 Flight Speed)

  • Salt Retention

  • Manipulatory Caste

  • Bioluminescent Communication

  • Archive Caste (has Intermediate Brain)

  • Blanket-Forming Caste

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

TeaKing - Evolumia analysia - NT

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Electric Organ (+1 Strength, counters Electroreceptors)

Evolumia is the latest species to adopt lensed eyes, which put it at an equal footing with its cousin Minacia in terms of senses. However, this species has another, more novel adaptation to compete with its opponent: an organ that produces electricity. Evolumia’s bioelectricity can both passively generate a field and emit a heavy discharge. Its field confounds Minacia’s electroreceptors, while its intense shocks are useful against both prey and threats. As a result, Evolumia has mostly disappeared from its fellow Chemorecepta descendant’s menu.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth (Electric Organ)

  • 4 Speed

  • 4 Strength (Toxin Glands)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryopsis digitata, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: Signumeris rugosus

Mutation History

  • Elongation (+1 Speed)

  • Chemoreception

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Tail (+1 Speed)

  • Simple Brain

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Gills

  • Efficient Muscles (+1 Speed from gills)

  • Notochord

  • Open Circulatory System

  • Serrated Fins (+1 Strength)

  • Disruptive Camouflage (+1 Stealth)

  • Omnivorism

  • Jaws

  • Neurotoxin Glands (+1 Strength)

  • Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Electric Organ (+1 Strength, counters Electroreceptors)

UndyingHazard - Minacia chirodropoides - LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts, Rivers

Mutations: Freshwater Tolerance, Simple Brain

Minacia has evolved to survive in both freshwater and saline conditions. It urinates more often in rivers to avoid becoming saturated with water, while it must urinate less often in the sea for the opposite reason. Its body automatically matching solute concentrations in its environment may leave this species vulnerable to chemical hazards, but for now, this has vastly expanded Minacia’s range. Its pheripheral ganglia now also have a central brain in the head to coordinate them.

In the riverways of the supercontinent, Minacia has begun to gorge itself on the abundant Testificatus living there. If its stinging tentacles are unable to find their mark through its quarry’s exoskeleton, then they simply pull it apart at the seams before setting upon the gooey insides.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth

  • 4 Speed

  • 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Sequentioscriptus vasculus, Testificatus relictus, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: Signumeris rugosus

Mutation History

  • Elongation (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Chemoreception

  • Nematocysts (+1 Strength)

  • Sharp Teeth

  • Paired Single-Chambered Hearts

  • Gills

  • Undulating Flaps (+1 Speed)

  • Venomous Tentacles (+1 Strength)

  • Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)

  • Compartmentalized Gut

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

  • Neural Ganglia

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Electroreceptors (+1 Stealth)

  • Freshwater Tolerance

  • Simple Brain

Chiori - Nomenchiori echinoides - LC

  • Tiny Herbivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Chemoreceptor, Intermediate Brain

To improve its prospects in competing with more and more jawed creatures that feed on Ulvopsis, and to keep its options open in the presence of Chlorogyra, Nomenchiori now bears a chemoreceptive notch right above its pincered mouth. Its brain has also grown significantly in the past few million years - a limbic system has taken shape in the front. Nomenchiori can remember past experiences, and these memories shape its future actions. However, its thoughts mostly consist of associations with stimuli, and its emotions are shallow.

Stats:

  • 4*3 = 12 Stealth

  • 4 Speed

  • 6 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

  • Lateral Muscles (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Grinding Teeth

  • 8 Fins (+1 Speed)

  • Spines (+1 Strength)

  • Digestive System

  • Bloodstream

  • Gills

  • Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Defensive Pincers (+1 Strength)

  • Simple Brain

  • Auditory System (+1 Stealth)

  • Vertebra (+1 Strength)

  • Notochord

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Chitinous Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)

  • Chemoreceptor

  • Intermediate Brain

willow - Salixelysia aurata - LC

  • Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

  • Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts

Mutations: 4 Legs (+1 Walking Speed), Black Chloroplasts

Salixelysia’s body has changed from green to black - it has switched from chlorophyll to melanin to maximize absorbed wavelengths. In addition, its frontmost and rearmost fins have strengthened to allow it to land and crawl on solid surfaces. Its lifestyle still centers around saline waters, but it can be observed resting on seaside rocks and cliffs on days when the sun isn’t too harsh.

Now that Legendicus is no longer to be seen in coastal waters, Salixelysia’s most common predator is now Minacia labuntur, which is sometimes able to catch it in both water and air.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 5 Speed (Water), 2 Speed (Air)

  • 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa Kisthos thalassena

Predated By: Minacia labuntur

Mutation History

  • Swim Bladder

  • Tail (+1 Speed)

  • Algae Assimilation

  • Metallic Teeth

  • One-Way Heart

  • 10 Fins (+2 Speed due to Algae Assimilation)

  • Algae Absorption

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Chloroplast Assimilation

  • Simple Brain

  • Gliding Wings (+1 Flight Speed)

  • Hemocyanin

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Ovoviviparity

  • Glass Pincers (+1 Strength)

  • Wing Muscles (+1 Swimming and Flight Speed)

  • 4 Legs

  • Black Chloroplasts

zenzonegaming - Iocusis myriadus - NT

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Two Sexes, Swarming (*1.5 Strength)

Interactions among and between Iocusis have become more complex. Its reproductive strategy has changed to include distinct male and female sexes. This has increased the rate at which mutations find their way into the overall gene pool. It has also begun to hunt cooperatively - whenever one of these blind creatures comes across prey, it emits a pheromone signal to alert others of its kind.

Because it sometimes has the advantage of numbers, it has gained the edge in encounters with its Chemorecepta-derived rivals. However, it continues to face the challenge of finding prey first.

(You can make a third vote each round as long as it logically follows one of the other two, not just any past mutation.)

Stats:

  • 2*3 = 6 Stealth

  • 4 Speed

  • 4.5 Strength (Poisonous, Venom-Resistant)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Evolumia analysa, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Bloodstream

  • Chemoreception

  • Gills

  • Fecundity

  • Movement Tentacles (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Ciguatera Poisoning

  • Improved Digestive Tract

  • Simple Brain

  • Simple Heart

  • Corrosive Stomach Acids

  • Silicate Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)

  • Hooked Tentacles (+1 Strength)

  • Tailfin (+1 Speed)

  • Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

  • Venom Absorption(counters Venom)

  • Two Sexes

  • Swarming (*1.5 Strength)

Cha - Testificatus relictus - VU

  • Tiny Herbivore

  • Habitat: Rivers

Mutations: Compound Eyes (+1 Stealth), Exoskeletal Muscles (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

Testificatus has improved and expanded on its simple pinhole eyes. Four compound eyes now surround the mouth, with one pair in front and one to the sides. In addition, the muscles attached to its exoskeleton have improved the support provided by this animal’s legs, even supporting it on dry land on odd occasions.

In other news, Minacia’s freshwater excursions have impacted this species for the worst. Its impressive reproductive rate has delayed the threat of extinction for now.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 4/1 Speed

  • 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryodea nodula

Predated By: Legendicus vigorosus, Minacia chirodropoides

Mutation History

  • Symbiotic Camouflage

  • Elongated Mouth

  • Freshwater Adaptation

  • Cephalization

  • Hairy Tongue

  • 10 Crawling Legs (+2 Speed due to Gills)

  • Open Circulatory System

  • Book Gills

  • Chitinous Exoskeleton (+1 Strength)

  • Fecundity

  • Simple Brain

  • Mandibles

  • Compound Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Exoskeletal Muscles (+1 Swimming and Walking Speed)

sci0927 - Signumeris rugosus - NT

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Color Vision (+1 Stealth), Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

Signumeris’s eyes now have cones enabling it to distinguish different wavelengths. This allows it to discern monochrome-striped Evolumia from vibrant backgrounds, though the pattern still breaks up its outline. Another boon to its senses has emerged in the form of a pair of nostrils, an improvement on the chemoreceptor it shared with Sequentioscripta long ago. These adaptations have given Signumeris more success in spotting juvenile Evolumia, though it still prefers to flee from adults rather than fight.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth

  • 5 Speed

  • 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata, Evolumia analysia

Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides, Evolumia analysia, Iocusis myriada

Mutation History

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Bloodstream

  • Chemoreception

  • Gills

  • Four Fins (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Rough Skin (+1 Strength)

  • Notochord

  • Improved Digestive System

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Tail (+1 Speed)

  • Simple Brain

  • Skeleton (+1 Strength)

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Jaws

  • Omnivorism

  • Dorsal Fin (+1 Speed)

  • Color Vision (+1 Stealth)

  • Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

TwilightWings21 - Minacia labuntur - LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Air Gills, Gliding Flaps (+1 Swimming and Flight Speed)

Minacia labuntur has adapted in light of Fulgurmortis’s recent departure from the coastlines. Its gills have modified to draw oxygen from the air, so long as they remain moist. Meanwhile, its gliding flaps have broadened significantly, enough to allow it to catch and glide on winds. Together, these allow the strategy of soaring onto Fulgurmortis grazing on beachside mats of Marchantinella, then quickly dispatching them.

Though Fulgurmortis remains a sporadic food source in coastal waters, M. labuntur’s ability to glide allows it to take down Aclaronomenus and both species of Salixelysia in the right circumstances. These are a crucial supplement to its usual diet in lean times.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 5/1 Speed

  • 4 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera, Aclaronomenus ascendilus, Salixelysia aurata, Salixelysia radicatus

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

  • Elongation (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Chemoreception

  • Nematocysts (+1 Strength)

  • Sharp Teeth

  • Paired Single-Chambered Hearts

  • Gills

  • Undulating Flaps (+1 Speed)

  • Venomous Tentacles (+1 Strength)

  • Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)

  • Compartmentalized Gut

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Grinding Teeth

  • Nostrils (+1 Stealth)

  • Neural Ganglia

  • Low Mucus Adhesion (counters Mucus Glands)

  • Closed Cardiovascular System

  • Air Gills

  • Gliding Flaps (+1 Swimming and Flight Speed)

willow - Salixelysia radicatus - LC

  • Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

  • Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts

Mutations: Pectoral Gill-Strainers, Hydrogen Bladder (+1 Flight Speed)

This separate branch of the Salixelysia line has a different approach to flight. Salixelysia radicatus has modified its swim bladder to store hydrogen gas. It now relies on its new source of buoyancy rather than the strength of its wings to remain aloft. This is significantly less draining on stamina, and even allows this creature to stay in the light above low storm clouds.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 5 Speed (Water), 3 Speed (Air)

  • 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa Kisthos thalassena

Predated By: Minacia labuntur

Mutation History

  • Swim Bladder

  • Tail (+1 Speed)

  • Algae Assimilation

  • Metallic Teeth

  • One-Way Heart

  • 10 Fins (+2 Speed due to Algae Assimilation)

  • Algae Absorption

  • Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Chloroplast Assimilation

  • Simple Brain

  • Gliding Wings (+1 Flight Speed)

  • Hemocyanin

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Ovoviviparity

  • Glass Pincers (+1 Strength)

  • Wing Muscles (+1 Swimming and Flight Speed)

  • Pectoral Gill-Strainers

  • Hydrogen Bladder (+1 Flight Speed)

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NPC Plants

NPC - Chlorogyra filamentosa - LC

  • Tiny Producer

  • Habitat: Coasts, Rivers

Chlorogyra grows in fresh and salt water with plenty of sunlight. Its box-shaped cells line up in long filaments, their chloroplasts forming distinctive spirals. While colonies can survive anywhere in the water column, they form clusters at the surface and floor when undisturbed. In still waters, Chlorogyra can form a green carpet over rock and silt alike.

NPC - Ulvopsis digitata - LC

  • Small Producer

  • Habitat: Coasts

Ulvopsis is a marine alga that forms a thin, vertical sheet. It sprouts from well-lit sands swept by gentle currents, where entire fields of it sway. Its stern structure protects it from herbivores that lack jaws or mandibles.

NPC - Bryodea nodula - LC

  • Small Producer

  • Habitat: Rivers

Bryodea is a freshwater alga that grows in long, thin strands. It grows near the edges of rivers and lakes, where more sunlight can reach the bottom. If allowed to grow, its colonies weave together into tangled messes that are difficult to pull apart.

NPC - Kisthos thalassena - LC

  • Small Producer

  • Habitat: Global Ocean

Kisthos is a free-floating relative of Ulvopsis. Its “leaves” are much smaller and grow in chains. With the aid of minute air bladders, this alga resembling green Sargassum can maintain buoyancy at the ocean surface. This has allowed it to expand into the global ocean, where the seafloor is too deep for light to reach. Great mats of it can form wherever the currents converge.

NPC - Marchantinella colliosa - LC

  • Tiny Producer

  • Habitat: Rivers (Shoreline), Lowlands

Marchantinella grows in thin, fine strands. This plant is adapted to survive outside of water, and individuals coil together into a soft bed wherever they grow. Dense masses are able to cover the ground beneath them from the sun, slowing down the evaporation of water. However, they still need water to transfer gametes, so they can only grow on soils regularly saturated with water.

NPC - Porcusetum convolutus - LC

  • Small Producer

  • Habitat: Lowlands

The stalk of Porcusetum houses vessels of xylem and phloem, allowing it to grow taller. About as thick as a grass stalk, individuals grow in wide curves that readily coil together. Their specialized roots are shallow and weak, so individual Porcusetum use this curving growth pattern to support one another. Hip-high thickets of this plant form in much less strict conditions than Marchantinella, even on hilltops whose soil collects little rain. Porcusetum allows its leaves to grow longer at the top when it finds support, but its stalk always has a spore-bearing head.

Habitats

Global Ocean: A vast ocean spanning the entire world.

  • Flora: Chlorogyra, Kisthos

  • Fauna: Salixelysia, Aclaronomenus, S. radicatus

Coasts: Warm, saline waters surrounding the supercontinent. The floor lies as deep as 150 meters beneath the surface.

  • Flora: Chlorogyra, Ulvopsis, Kisthos

  • Fauna: Aclaronomenus, Chemorecepta, Minacia, Nomenchiori, Salixelysa, Iocusis, Signumeris, M. litorevenator, S. radicatus

Rivers: A network of waterways found all over the supercontinent, but especially the West and South.

  • Flora: Chlorogyra, Bryodea

  • Fauna: Sequentioscriptus, Testificatus, Aclaronomenus, Legendicus, Minacia

Lowlands: Flat plains and rolling hills spanning much of the supercontinent.

  • Flora: Marchantinella, Porcusetum

  • Fauna: Fulgurmortis, Legendicus, Aclaronomenus

Great Mountains: A jagged wall of mountains at the heart of the supercontinent.

Eastern Desert: A vast rain shadow desert on the eastern half of the supercontinent.

All vascular plants need gut fermentation to digest, in addition to the necessary mouthparts. Because this necessitates slow digestion, and ingested meat could allow a buildup of harmful bacteria, only herbivores can perform this action.

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Omnivorous Vascular Plant Eater idea that I’m not going to use

I’m not planning to do so, but couldn’t some omnivores develop chambered guts similar to cows, one frontal chamber used as digestion for both before the now mostly liquified meat is sent to the secondary ‘stomach’ (more of a pipe) that sieves out the meat (because meat is usually easier to digest and liquifies faster iirc) while plant matter that needs to ferment could be sent to a tertiary stomach to ferment for as long as needed?

(Got this idea from the Thorngrazers of Serina)

Anyway, thanks for the round! Looks like I evolved gliding at just the right time.

Mutation 1: Sexual Reproduction

Mutation 2: Spinal Cord, for finer movement control/quicker reaction time (necessary midair)

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Mutation 1: repurpose some of the ingested toxins into a poisonous sting on the tentacles to paralyze and incapacitate prey.
Mutation 2: improve our musculature.
Mutation 3: evolve a central nervous system to make better use of the enhance muscles.

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Mutant 1: Sexual Reproduction
Mutant 2: Claws on all pairs of fins (excluding tail fin)
Claws have many uses, like doom’s mucus - They can be used to fight back and they can be used to dig safe tunnels in which sequencescripti can hide in.

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Why didn’t producer blankets increase speed and strength? More energy would allow it to sacrifice efficiency for the sake of POWER.

Mutations:

Sexual reproduction, where the normal caste functions as a male, and the producer blankets function as females, allowing for rapid population growth.

Missile caste, which is similar to the normal caste, but is larger and can trigger itself to blow up, doing heat and normal force damage. (Creatures will need special heat protection, haha tracking missiles go brrrrrr)

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Mutation 1: Backwards facing tooth-like barbs lining the inner parts of the oral tentacles for better grip.

Mutation 2: Fuse some of the oral tentacles into a set of “Jaws”

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Mutant 1: Serially hermaphroditic

Mutant 2: Hydrostatic legs-bottom skeleton ring base

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Oooh
Looks like having two sexes is a good idea now
No wonder everyone is getting that

M1: you know the drill, two castes develop among Evolumia, one creating male gametes only, and the other creating female gametes only, copying many organisms around it

M2: proper vertebrae develop around Evolumia’s notochord, adding protection whilst not impacting its movements negatively

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here its some physiologic knowledge here:
if someone has more vote than other, everyone else will do the same, in some form.

because more vote- more radiant of apptrnity

we just greedy

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Because they are producing energy, but your other castes are still limited by the amount of energy they can use

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Mutation 1: Sexual Reproduction
Mutation 2 : Sharper pincer to better break down food and cut into the flesh of attackers

Behaviour change: Nomenchiori becomes more territorial towards members of other Species

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mutations:

  1. sexual reproduction
  2. resistance to electricity
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Mutation uno: Increase in size (small).

Mutation dos: Hermaphrodite (if we already are that then relicus just lays larger batches of eggs though not hatching earlier)

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With the new sexual reproduction mechanic, my species might be able to meet my vision in … 11-12 rounds! Woohoo!

Loving the diversity, though the oceans themselves are surprisingly lacking, likely due to just generally more interest in being a land species. But it makes room for secondarily oceanic organisms to evolve which is cool

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I think that we should change our genus name on round 10, like how we did in UTGC2.