Is there still room for one more if i branch of of someone else?
If so then i branch of Legendicus vigorosus.
Mutation 1: Fins- to swim faster through the water
Mutation 2: belgiumes/Thorns- to fend of potential predetors (maybe enhances strenght?)
Mutation 1: 8 Fins for faster movement
Mutation 2: gills for better oxygen intake, allowing for a more extensive use of muscles.
Mutant 1: Pharyngeal slit
Mutant 2: Cephalization and Segmentation
Chemorecepta continues to adapt…
M1: simple teeth developped on their mouths, allowing them to grind up bits of food that come near them
M2: A tail also developped which made them much faster in water
i will join and split off from Aclaronomenus ascendicus with this mutation sheet
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modify digestive system to keep the chlorogyra suspended with cilia and move them through a complex system of tubes that keeps them in the light
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teeth made from iron and silicon dioxide from the water
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Round 2 - 20 Million Years
Species
@doomlightning - Fulgurmortis coronafera - NT
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Tiny Detrivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Pharingeal Slit, Cephalization
Fulgurmortis has optimized itself further for a life of filter feeding. Not only does its corona draw in water, it now has slits along its neck to expel water and debris once food has been strained from it. It has also improved on its bilateral body plan: its sensory functions are focused (in both proximity and ability) near its mouth, forming a true head. Meanwhile, its digestive and muscular tissues run from its midsection to its posterior.
Because it is slower and weaker than most of its peers, Fulgurmortis is one of the prey items that Minacia has the most success against. Fulgurmortis’s only advantage is that its relatively durable epidermis bears the hunter’s venomous stings, sometimes averting paralysis. Still, this remarkable silt sifter is on a downward trend.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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1 Speed
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1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides
Mutation History
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Rotifer-like Corona
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Epidermis
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Pharingeal Slit
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Cephalization
@fralegend015 - Legendicus vigorosus - LC
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Tiny Herbivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: 8 Fins (+1 Speed), Gills (enhance Muscles)
The latest generation of Legendicus is even faster than its ancestors. At its front may be observed a series of gill slits that draw in water. These enrich its lateral muscles with oxygen, sustaining a higher level of activity. However, what truly distinguishes it is a row of four fins on each side of its body. Combined with its invigorated muscles, these fins grant Legendicus unmatched speed above the seafloor.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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4 Speed
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1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
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Lateral Muscles (+2 Speed due to gills)
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Grinding Teeth
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8 Fins (+1 Speed)
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Gills
@aah31415 - Sequentioscriptus vasculus - VN
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Tiny Herbivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Chemoreception, Gills
Sequentioscriptus has also developed gills. However, rather than muscles, its active ability to respire is used to oxygenate its bloodstream. This adaptation helps to sustain this creature’s other latest development, the bundle of nervous cells at its front. These direct it to its food sources, just as in Chemorecepta.
Unfortunately, Sequentioscriptus is by far the most defenseless animal in the sea. Its jarring inability to fight or flee makes it Minacia’s favorite prey species, and it risks extinction.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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1 Speed
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1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides
Mutation History
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Grinding Teeth
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Bloodstream
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Chemoreception
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Gills
@Nonametoseehere - Aclaronomenus ascendilus - LC
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Tiny Herbivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth), Grinding Teeth
Aclaronomenus has refined its eyespots into pinhole eyes analogous to those of the nautilus. These allow it to not only judge light exposure, but also shapes formed by reflected light. This makes Aclaronomenus the first inhabitant of this planet to see the world around it. It also boasts a set of calcified teeth in its mouth, which it uses on any Chlorogyra patches it sees below it.
Its advantage in scanning its environment over Minacia allows Aclaronomenus to turn tail and flee before the carnivore catches so much as a sniff of it.
Stats:
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2*3 = 6 Stealth
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2 Speed
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1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
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Swim Bladder
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Tail (+1 Speed)
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Enhanced Eyespots (+1 Stealth)
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Grinding Teeth
@TeaKing - Chemorecepta serpentis - LC
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Tiny Herbivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Grinding Teeth, Tail (+1 Speed)
Chemorecepta’s ability to sense food synergizes well with its new calcareous teeth. Similarly, its elongated body now terminates in a finned tail. With this additional surface area, it is able to drive itself through water in a side-to-side paddling motion on its way to new food sources.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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3 Speed
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1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
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Elongation (+1 Speed)
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Chemoreception
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Grinding Teeth
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Tail (+1 Speed)
@UndyingHazard - Minacia chirodropoides - LC
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Tiny Carnivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Nematocysts (+1 Strength), Sharp Teeth
An offshoot of Chemorecepta, Minacia has adapted to feed on sources more engaging than sea belgium. Its mouth houses teeth that emerged just before it split with its sister genus. However, the teeth of Minacia are thin and sharp - ideal for pulling apart the dead bodies of other animals. Minacia’s real weapon, however, is the ring of stinging cells surrounding its mouth. These inject a paralytic agent into prey animals, preventing their escape as Minacia consumes them.
While it readily kills anything that moves, its favored prey species are Fulgurmortis and Sequentioscriptus, which lack means to evade or fight back against it. This has caused their numbers to decline in recent years.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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2 Speed
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2 Strength
Preys On: Fulgurmortis coronafera, Sequentioscriptus vasculus, Salixelysia aurata
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
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Elongation (+1 Speed)
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Chemoreception
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Nematocysts (+1 Strength)
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Sharp Teeth
@Chiori - Nomenchiori echinoides - LC
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Tiny Herbivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Fins (+1 Speed), Spines (+1 Strength)
This Legendicus offshoot has also developed fins (whether they are two rows of four or something else is up to you). However, rather than sets of gills, Nomenchiori brandishes quills. These ossified structures emerge from the back like the blunt teeth of the mouth, only much sharper.
Between this and its speed, Nomenchiori is the species that Minacia has the most difficulty bringing down. Were it not for its agile physique, Minacia would be impaled in a vital area more often before Nomenchiori even register the need to escape.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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3 Speed
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2 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: N/A
Mutation History
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Lateral Muscles (+1 Speed)
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Grinding Teeth
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Fins (+1 Speed)
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Spines (+1 Strength)
@willow - Salixelysia aurata - NT
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Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore
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Habitat: Coasts
Mutations: Algae Assimilation, Metallic Teeth
Salixelysia has developed a remarkable symbiotic relationship with Chlorogyra. Rather than swim from one patch to the next purely to digest the algae, this Aclaronomenus relative incorporates it into its own body. The chlorophyll-bearing cells are transported to the skin via a modification of its digestive tract, where they are allowed to photosynthesize in minute structures resembling its much larger swim bladder. In return, the Chlorogyra provide their host with plentiful sugars and a striking green tint. With a partially photosynthetic metabolism, Salixelysia makes drifting aimlessly in the currents a viable lifestyle.
Salixelysia also sports unusual ferrous teeth made out of dissolved iron it absorbs, supported by silicate structures mirroring the cell walls of diatoms. These teeth are no less effective at dislocating clumps of Chlorogyra than their calcareous counterparts.
Minacia are sometimes able to spring up from the seafloor and deliver their fatal stings to Salixelysia that are preoccupied harvesting algae. These mixotrophs, being of equal speed, are only able to escape half the time. However, their ability to swim through neritic currents that Minacia struggles against has allowed this species to coexist uneasily with its new predator.
Stats:
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1*3 = 3 Stealth
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2 Speed
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1 Strength
Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa
Predated By: Minacia chirodropoides
Mutation History
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Swim Bladder
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Tail (+1 Speed)
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Algae Assimilation
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Metallic Teeth
NPC - Chlorogyra filamentosa - LC
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Tiny Producer
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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.
Habitats
Coasts: Warm, saline waters surrounding the supercontinent. The floor lies as deep as 150 meters beneath the surface.
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Flora: Chlorogyra
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Fauna: Fulgurmortis, Legendicus, Sequentioscriptus, Aclaronomenus, Chemorecepta, Minacia, Nomenchiori, Salixelysa
Rivers: A network of waterways found all over the supercontinent, but especially the West and South.
- Flora: Chlorogyra
Badlands: A muddy, rainswept land spanning much of the supercontinent.
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.
(We’ll just pretend I didn’t fail at multiplication there…)
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Is it too late to join?
Sure, nine players should still be fine.
Mutant 1: Six fins along the body
Mutant 2: Freshwater survival adaptation (move to river biome)
I’ll start as Sequentioscriptus vasculus.
Mutations: Increased reproductive ability, limbs (tentacles to assist in movement).
Mutation 1: strong tail muscles to allow for greater speeds.
Mutation 2: Circulatory system for faster distribution of nutrients and oxygen in the body.
Mutations:
A long tongue that can stick to things, letting it stick food to its tongue while on the move, and eat it when it’s safe.
A new type of cell that invades Chlorogyra without harming them, and takes excess food from them, letting it simply keep food on its tongue, and slowly take all the energy it doesn’t need, which is more efficient than eating it, takes more time, but lets it be practically autotrophic.
I would say the fins are 4 on each side.
Mutation 1: Digestive system wich allows Nomenchiori to get more value from its food.
Mutation 2: A bloodstream the allows it to better distribut nutriens throughout its body
Mutation 1: simple cardiovascular system, consisting of two single chambered hearts.
Mutation 2: Simple respiratory system for greater endurance.
It seems that I already have to find a way to survive. I have some stinky stuff that might help against them.
Mutant 1: Silicone scales (sandpaper layer, make the predators suffer from cuts and erosion of the teeth)
Mutant 2: Water vascular system (compensate for the scaly layer which is quite impermeable to oxygen. Make water reach into the body through the Pharyngeal Slit ability. You will also be able to increase the effectiveness of the flow of oxygen to the body and the flow of food from the intestines.)
it seems going for the most obvious unexploited niche worked
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a muscle with one way valves to circulate the fluid in the stomach so the chlorogyra can get more CO2 and i, in turn, get more oxygen
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10 muscular fins to increase photosynthetic area and maneuverability
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Chemorecepta evolves, its starting to become unrecognisable compared to its original appearance…
M1: the chemoreceptors and eyespots on its front caused more neurons to develop there, eventually becoming a simple brain that analyses all the incoming information from those cells
M2: the eyespots themselves also started changing, as they now became pinholes capable of more precise detection of visual information
Due to being so different from its previous form, The species will have a new name, Evolumia analysia
Also, by now, wouldnt the plant species start dwindling quite a lot? At least in the beaches
And i think it would be helpful if theres a pic of the foodchain in its current state every round
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i think most of its predators eat it from the ground but it lives mostly suspended in the water until it gets too heavy for that
Is there room for one more player?
Two things:
- In addition to what @willow said, as well-adapted to grazing on it as most species have become, the carrying capacity that Chlorogyra provides them hasn’t changed all that much. So there’s more herbivorous species, but the actual number of herbivores hasn’t reached unsustainable levels, especially with Minacia around.
Also, I didn’t take competition between herbivores into account at all. - What a coincidence you should bring up Chlorogyra facing selective pressures!
Can do.
Sure! My only concern with a high player count was delays caused by one player taking a while to post (something I’ve been guilty of before). I think the highest number of players I’ve hosted at a time for one of these things was 14.
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