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Mutation 1: Notochord for stronger muscle attachments

Mutation 2: Sexual reproduction, with male, female, and hermaphroditic sexes.

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Mutations:

  1. Toxin resistance
  2. Serial hermaphroditism
  3. Desiccation resistance
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Zen you gonna be changing your votes because no extra mutations or you good? If you good then everyone’s responded

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Round 11 - 110 Million Years
Like Earth’s Devonian Period, this planet has witnessed life grow in sophistication and take its first stumbles onto land. For the first time, its children have the eyes and minds to return its gentle gaze. However, these times are not to last. Even now, some species stand on a harrowing precipice…

Species
doomlightning - Fulgurmortis coronafera - LC

  • Tiny Herbivore

  • Habitat: Lowlands

Mutations: Liver, Hearing Organs (+1 Stealth), Chelicerae

Fulgurmortis has developed segmented chelicerae on its face. Like those in harvestmen and horseshoe crabs, they terminate with a pair of digits that ply apart vegetation. This offers more dexterity than the radula and the corona before it. Meanwhile, the sides of its head have what appear to be additional pairs of gill-lungs, only smaller. These tiny slits sense vibrations in the air to provide Fulgurmortis with a sense of hearing.

On the inside, Fulgurmortis has evolved a liver to filter toxins from its water vascular system. This liver also secretes bile into the lower digestive tract in order to aid chemical digestion.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 2 Speed (Water), 3 Speed (Land)

  • 3 Strength (Venom-Resistant)

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

Predated By: Minacia armataevigil

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)

  • Serial Hermaphroditism

  • Hydrostatic Leg Support (+1 Walking Speed)

  • Liver

  • Hearing Organs (+1 Stealth)

  • Chelicerae

fralegend015 - Legendicus transitorium - LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Rivers, Lowlands

Mutations: Terrestrial Legs (-1 Swimming Speed, +1 Walking Speed), Fused Posterior Legs (-1 Swimming Speed, +1 Walking Speed), Bipedalism (-1 Swimming Speed, +1 Walking Speed)

Legendicus has made a dramatic change to its body plan. Almost a hundred years ago, it evolved four pairs of fins along its body. Now, all but the front pair have fused into a single pair of legs optimized for supporting its weight on land. With these legs, its tail for balance, and a patchwork of motor ganglia, Legendicus is the fastest and most stable runner this planet has seen.

More than capable of chasing a Fulgurmortis, Legendicus uses its ever-unmatched speed against a different target. Aclaronomenus have superior eyesight and numbers, in addition to other defenses based on their caste. However, Legendicus are faster in water and over land. With their scant offensive adaptations, Legendicus normally steer clear of Aclaronomenus, especially their missile castes - if their weak eyes see one, there are likely more. However, should watchers ever be absent from the surfaces of spawning pools, Legendicus will readily eat any juveniles or eggs they stumble on. These opportunists are quick to flee at first sight of the missiles, but, due to the mixotroph’s gregarious nature, are sure to make off with a jawless mouthful.

The front legs are also no slouch at supporting this creature’s length. However, they are inefficient to run on, and the hind legs can paddle in the water just fine. They are mostly used for mating nowadays - the male uses them while mounting the female, while the female uses them to support herself and her mate as they eject gametes into still water.

Stats:

  • 2*3 = 6 Stealth

  • 6/6 Speed

  • 2 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Fulgurmortis coronafera, * Hexapinna verrucosus *, 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)

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • More Motor Ganglia (+1 Walking Speed)

  • Terrestrial Legs (-1 Swimming Speed, +1 Walking Speed)

  • Fused Posterior Legs (-1 Swimming Speed, +1 Walking Speed)

  • Bipedalism (-1 Swimming Speed, +1 Walking Speed)

aah31415 - Hexapinna verrucosus - LC

  • Tiny Herbivore

  • Habitat: Rivers

Mutations: Metachrotic Chromatophores (+1 Stealth), Color Vision (+1 Stealth), Digging Claws (+1 Stealth)

Hexapinna’s scales now host cells that can change its appearance. By expanding and contracting pigment-filled vesicles, this herbivore can blend in with surrounding terrain, be it green algae or brown silt. Its eyes also have the distinct cones needed to perceive color. It has little control over how it expresses color, but now possesses a solid advantage over Minacia, whose sharp monochrome vision and electroreceptors once made it supreme in rooting out prey.

As if these adaptations weren’t enough, Hexapinna’s fins and their claws have become more robust. They now offer the articulation to dig holes in the mud that can fully shelter this creature.

Stats:

  • 7*3 = 21 Stealth

  • 6/1 Speed

  • 3 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)

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • Fin Claws (+1 Strength)

  • Metachrotic Chromatophores (+1 Stealth)

  • Color Vision (+1 Stealth)

  • Digging Claws (+1 Stealth)

Nonametoseehere - Aclaronomenus ascendilus - LC

  • Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

  • Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts, Rivers, Lowlands

Mutations: Rain Dishes on Producers, 8 Spiked Wings on Producers (+1 Strength), Cerebellum

Aclaronomenus’s producer caste has grown into a vegetative life in the winds. A wide, flat structure on the tongue, modified from the leaves, collects rainwater, allowing descents to be less frequent. In addition, she now bears eight wings compared to the mover caste’s four. While they do provide more surface area for sailing and photosynthesis, their real purpose is to brandish protective spikes. Whenever she does need to descend to waters below, they grant her substantial protection against any Minacia armataevigil that mistake her enlarged but simplified body for a banquet - at least, long enough for the missile castes to arrive.

In addition, the motility of all nervously-complex castes has been greatly improved with a cerebellum. They offer the ability for Aclaronomenus to orient themselves in even turbulent winds. Even the simple-minded mover castes have one to further fulfill their purposes. Conversely, the archivist caste has theirs nestled beneath their enlarged forebrains. Combined with their neural claws, a linked flotilla of Aclaronomenus centered around a mover or archivist can weather heavy windstorms.

While adult Aclaronomenus are at less risk in the sky than ever, a new annoyance is plaguing their eggs and young. Inland fleets know to spawn away from the rivers Minacia frequent, but lowland lakes and ponds are falling victim to Legendicus. Both thanks to and in spite of their bipedalism, these opportunists are faster in water and over land than wind-reliant Aclaronomenus. No match for missiles, Legendicus that slip beneath their notice may seize an unborn or undeveloped juvenile. These raids are unintentional, only taking place when they do not see any Aclaronomenus hovering over water - the moment their shallow vision glimpses a missile, they retreat. A more subdued threat faces seaside coves - though Legendicus are rare along the coasts, M. armataevigil test the vigilance of missiles both in air and under water in lean times. Colonies in open waters, whose archivists absorb and pass down manipulators’ knowledge of abandoned Salixelysia nests, do not face nearly the same threat to their offspring. However, even the seafaring archivists find these visions troubling.

Stats:

  • 3*3 = 9 Stealth

  • 3 Speed (Water), 3 Speed (Air)

  • 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa

Predated By: Legendicus transitorium, Minacia armataevigil

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 (+2 Flight Speed due to cerebellum)

  • Salt Retention

  • Manipulatory Caste

  • Bioluminescent Communication

  • Archive Caste (has Intermediate Brain)

  • Blanket-Forming Caste

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • Missile Cast (+1 Strength)

  • Rain Dishes on Producers

  • 8 Spiked Wings on Producers (+1 Strength)

  • Cerebellum

TeaKing - Evolumia analysia - LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Thicker Skin (+1 Strength), Efficient Gills, Bony Pectoral Fins (+2 Speed from efficient gills)

In the coasts’ endless fight for survival, Evolumia has toughened its skin against its rivals’ attacks. Its serrated fins are also now complemented by fins near the front. Unlike the fins, they are stiffened and strengthened with bony joints attached to the vertebra. Their performance is bolstered by Evolumia’s overclocked gills. They radiate out from the front of its serpentine body, giving it an unmistakable silhouette.

… Come to think of it, do the fins come out horizontally or vertically? Does Evolumia more like an elongated lionfish or sea robin?

For once, Evolumia has the upper hand over its offshoot Minacia and is enjoying a stronbelgium as the premier predator. It has even begun to hunt adult Signumeris, now that it outpaces it - even with this rival’s resistance to electricity and brevetoxins, Evolumia’s matches it in internal and external toughness, and takes the literal edge with its serrated fins.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth (Electric Organ)

  • 6 Speed

  • 6 Strength (Toxin Glands)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryopsis digitata, Minacia chirodropoides, 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)

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • Vertebra (+1 Strength)

  • Thicker Skin (+1 Strength)

  • Efficient Gills

  • Bony Pectoral Fins (+2 Speed from efficient gills)

UndyingHazard - Minacia chirodropoides - EN/LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts, Rivers

Mutations: Notochord (+1 Speed), Trisexual Reproduction

The original Minacia is the latest species to adopt an internal spine. While not bony, it offers this creature a stiffer posture. In addition, it now practices a form of reproduction that incorporates male, female, and hermaphroditic sexes. This arrangement is almost unheard of on Earth, and unraveling the genetic triggers involved would keep a fervent xenobiologist awake for days. What matters is that Minacia can evolve at a more rapid pace.

Minacia in the rivers continue to face minimal competition. They are strong enough to take down the odd Hexapinna they can get the drop on, and their senses are their most reliable weapon against the strong and unsubtle Testificatus. However, Minacia in the ocean have fallen on hard times. Their cousin, Evolumia, has not only surpassed them in strength and speed, but take the initiative as well thanks to their bioelectric interference. Unlike Signumeris, they do not have a broadened diet to fall back on, and are beginning to disappear.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth

  • 5 Speed

  • 5 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, * Hexapinna verrucosus *, Testificatus relictus, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: Evolumia analysia, 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

  • Tentacle Teeth (+1 Strength)

  • Tentacle Jaws

  • Notochord (+1 Speed)

  • Trisexual Reproduction

Chiori - Nomenchiori echinoides - LC

  • Small Herbivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Two-Chambered Heart, Increase Size (Small), Enhanced Respiratory System

Nomenchiori’s bloodstream is now mustered by a two-chambered heart. In addition, its gills now have oxygen-rich water driven into them by a pair of opercula. Now that its vessels carry more oxygen faster, the eight fins - a memento of the original Legendicus - give Nomenchiori even more speed in the water (some things never change).

Both of these new features are vital to Nomenchiori sustaining its most striking adaptation - its body has more than doubled in size. Thanks to the square-cube law amplifying its defenses in turn, this fierce herbivore has become a living redoubt against its predators.

Stats:

  • 4*2.5 = 10 Stealth

  • 5 Speed

  • 7*1.5 = 10.5 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata

Predated By: N/A

Mutation History

  • Lateral Muscles (+2 Speed due to gills)

  • Grinding Teeth

  • 8 Fins (+2 Speed due to Enhanced Respiratory System)

  • 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

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • Sharper Pincers (+1 Strength)

  • Two-Chambered Heart

  • Increased Size (Small)

  • Enhanced Respiratory System

willow - Salixelysia aurata - LC

  • Tiny Mixotrophic Herbivore

  • Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts

Mutations: Dual Hydrogen Bladders (+1 Flight Speed), Color Vision (+1 Stealth), Stored Stem Cells (+1 Strength)

Much like its offshoot, Salixelysia aurata now gets its buoyancy from hydrogen, making it lighter than air. However, this main lineage has two hydrogen bladders rather than one, situated along the back. Its eyes have also improved to the point that they can distinguish wavelengths of visible light from each other, giving this species color vision.

In an unusual measure against predation, Salixelysia has developed reserves of stem cells in its epithelial tissues. As difficult as it is for a paralyzed Salixelyisa to struggle free as a Minacia armataevigil mauls it, it is not impossible, especially not if it can use its floating bladders. If its circumstantial predator is ever forced to relinquish its grip, the wounded Salixelysia can recover from even severe injuries using its stem cells. A dripping blue gash can heal back to black at a phenomenal rate.

Stats:

  • 4*3 = 12 Stealth

  • 5 Speed (Water), 3 Speed (Air)

  • 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa Kisthos thalassena

Predated By: Minacia armataevigil

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

  • Hermaphroditism

  • Natural Selection Awareness (Salixelysia Nests)

  • Dual Hydrogen Bladders (+1 Flight Speed)

  • Color Vision (+1 Stealth)

  • Stored Stem Cells (+1 Strength)

zenzonegaming - Iocusis myriadus - VU

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Improved Digestion System, Intermediate Brain, Social Swarming

Iocusis has evolved a variety of internal improvements. Its digestive tract, able to break down the metals in sand, now has a gut divided into two structures. The one just after the stomach resembles a small intestine, while the second shares characteristics with both a vertebrate’s large intestine and a mollusk’s cecum. It forms a loop, wringing out not only water and salts from food, but also minerals for its exoskeleton. Meanwhile, the brain in its tentacled head has swelled at the front. This swelling is Iocusis’s limbic system, and it has greatly expanded interactions within this species. Rather than mindless swarms, Iocusis can assemble as thinking individuals into cooperative units. Communication in this eyeless species relies on pheromones and touch, and its purpose has expanded from hunting to mating and mutual defense. This is a far cry from self-awareness or even theory of mind - an individual Iocusis does not intuit what its peers sense or think - but it remains a remarkable display of sophistication.

Unfortunately, in spite of its recent innovations, this species is starting to face competition with Evolumia, who breaks the stalemate between both species with its keener senses. Iocusis only holds the edge in its ability to absorb its rival’s toxin clouds while fighting in numbers. To make matters worse, its other rival, Signumeris, has developed a resistance to its poisonous flesh. Before, Iocusis could depend on its reproductive rate to see it through hard times. Now, juveniles are being killed and eaten for the first time in millions of years. If something happens to its source of ciguatoxins again, Iocusis may not cling to life this time.

Stats:

  • 2*3 = 6 Stealth

  • 6 Speed

  • 4*1.5 = 6 Strength (Poisonous, Venom-Resistant)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Signumeris rugosus

Predated By: Signumeris rugosus

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)

  • Absorption Stings (+1 Strength)

  • Improved Muscles (+2 Speed due to cerebellum)

  • Cerebellum

  • Improved Digestive System

  • Intermediate Brain

  • Social Swarming

Cha - Testificatus relictus - LC

  • Small Herbivore

  • Habitat: Rivers

Mutations: Improved Leg Muscles (+1 Walking Speed), Retractable Lower Mandibles (+1 Strength), Venom Glands (+1 Strength)

Testificatus has expanded the improvements in its exoskeletal muscles. Its legs are more than capable of supporting its weight on land, enough to rival the smaller Fulgurmortis’s strengthened tube-feet. With competition for Bryodea returning as both this species and Hexapinna adapt to the threat Minacia poses, some adventurous Testificatus use their newfound strength to graze Marchantinella at the water’s edge, though they cannot leave water for long.

Testificatus’s more dramatic adaptation of late is an additional pair of mandibles below the first. Possessing minimal dexterity, they are more like retractable fangs meant to puncture Minacia’s thick skin. The size of this animal alone would make a direct hit lethal for its predator. However, this species has one more new weapon that makes even its adolescents formidable quarry - venom glands at the base of the secondary mandibles. Much like Minacia’s, this venom consists of simple peptides, but is designed to kill tissues rather than disable them. Its new defenses are so thorough, adults of this species are practically invincible to Minacia.

Stats:

  • 3*2.5 = 7.5 Stealth

  • 4/2 Speed

  • 4*1.5 = 6 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Bryodea nodula, Marchantinella colliosa

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)

  • Increase Size (Small)

  • Increased Clutch Size (Sexual Reproduction substitute)

  • Improved Leg Muscles (+1 Walking Speed)

  • Retractable Lower Mandibles (+1 Strength)

  • Venom Glands (+1 Strength)

sci0927 - Signumeris rugosus - VU

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Polyether Toxin Resistance, Serial Hermaphroditism, Desiccation Resistance

Signumeris has evolved three adaptations that modify its bodily functions. One is resistance to algae-derived polycyclic polyethers such as ciguatoxin and brevetoxin, which Signumeris’s rivals Iocusis and Evolumia weaponize. Another is serial hermaphroditism - individual Signumeris can change between male and female at any point in their lives. The third is a resistance to drying out, courtesy of the sugar trehalose, which is employed by tardigrades and unhatched brine shrimp. As such, Signumeris and its eggs mirror certain African killifish in their ability to survive outside of water.

However, Signumeris’s current threat is Evolumia’s recent success. Nowadays, even adult Signumeris have no advantage in senses, mobility, or fighting against it. Unlike mainline Minacia, Signumeris is not vanishing from the seas for one reason: its ability to safely digest Iocusis meat. Being able to process and expel the ciguatoxin its rival used as a crutch for so long gives Signumeris a formerly untapped food source. By passing the buck to Iocusis, Signumeris narrowly hovers above endangerment.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth

  • 5 Speed

  • 3 Strength (Electricity Resistance, Polycyclic Toxin Resistance)

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa, Ulvopsis digitata, Iocisus myriadus

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)

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • Electricity Resistance

  • Toxin Resistance (counters Polyether Toxins)

  • Serial Hermaphroditism

  • Desiccation Resistance

TwilightWings21 - Minacia armataevigil - LC

  • Tiny Omnivore

  • Habitat: Coasts

Mutations: Lateral Eyespots (+1 Stealth), Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth), Lightweight Abrasive Scales (+1 Strength)

Minacia armataevigil’s most visible difference from its ancestor is the array of lensed eyes down its body, just above the gliding flaps. These allow this predator to both target prey from a greater distance and avoid its rivals getting the drop on it. Much less obvious are the sharp, fine scales that are an organic match for Fulgurmortis’s own silicone bulwark, durable enough to rebuke the mandibles of a struggling Salixelyisa. They also protect M. armataevigil from the sun’s glare and retain moisture, though they do not cover the air-gills.

In lean times, when many Fulgurmortis fall into hibernation, M. armataevigil relies on these new adaptations to take on more risky prey. True to its name, its armor and vigilance are vital in daring raids on Aclaronomenus’s coastal nesting sites. If this predator can slip through the gaze of watchful guards and their bioluminescent alarm signals, their eggs and juveniles fall quickly to its lethal sting. The missile castes can detonate like minute underwater mines, but the risk of a scalding blast outweighs a slow death to starvation.

Stats:

  • 5*3 = 15 Stealth

  • 5/2 Speed

  • 5 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)

  • Sexual Reproduction

  • Spinal Cord (+1 Flight Speed)

  • Lateral Eyespots (+1 Stealth)

  • Lensed Eyes (+1 Stealth)

  • Lightweight Abrasive Scales (+1 Strength)

willow - Salixelysia radicatus - LC

  • Small Mixotrophic Herbivore

  • Habitat: Global Ocean, Coasts

Mutations: Gamete Genetic Reshuffling (Sexual Reproduction substitute), Active Water Retention

Salixelysia radicatus now practices an enhanced form of meiosis in its reproductive organs. Thanks to this, beneficial mutations can occur more often and work their way into the general population more quickly.

This mixotroph has also put a new spin on the internal channels it once transported Chlorogyra symbionts with. Now the cells lining these channels form a water-storing pulp just beneath the skin. S. radicata can go for longer without descending to the ocean surface, and can even survive being blown inland for over a week.

Stats:

  • 3*2.5 = 7.5 Stealth

  • 5 Speed (Water), 3 Speed (Air)

  • 2*1.5 = 3 Strength

Preys On: Chlorogyra filamentosa Kisthos thalassena

Predated By: Minacia armataevigil

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)

  • Fin-Leaf Bladders

  • Heart-Facilitated Size Increase (Small)

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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), Badlands

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: Badlands

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. armataevigil, S. radicatus

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

  • Flora: Chlorogyra, Bryodea

  • Fauna: Hexapinna, 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.

Here’s the food web for this round. You might need it more than ever!

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The second event will take place on next round. This time, the biosphere is much more competitive. Will any species be the first to fall?

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thx for the round!

Mutant 1: Silicone Osteoderm

Mutant 2: Mesotherm (Allows me to regulate my body temperature, is effective in case there are extreme stress situations, optimizes me and increases the chance of survival. Combines with hibernation even better)

Mutant 3: Adipose tissue

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Viviparous reproduction (no more predators eating my eggs)

Separation of salt into chlorine and sodium to pollute the atmosphere

Respiration of chlorine into carbon tetrachloride to pollute the ocean

(I’m taking the become the crisis ascension perk lol.)

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Mutation 1: 3 long dexterious tongue like structures in which the teeth grow, these structures have function analogue to that of a jaw (they stay inside the mouth most of the time exiting it only when eating or attaking.)

Mutation 2: size, become bigger (would this also make me faster since I would have longer legs than a smaller species?)

Mutation 3: Eyes capable of better distinguishing shapes and details.

Also, my bigger size would make me capable of ignoring the missile castes of that one species

And even if it doesnt my better eyesight allows my species to target vulnerable castes (plus the misisle caste would still do less damage)

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On another note:

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@hhyyrylainen On the topic of storage space, Discourse will automatically delete the old food webs if I remove them from their posts, right?

I don’t think I need to explain the chemical properties of sodium to tell you this wouldn’t work. Your missile castes would be more effective, at least :stuck_out_tongue:

Same goes for carbon tetrachloride. You’d need a body heat above the boiling point of water to produce it, and it’s not water-soluble anyway.

(I like how your other priority was viviparity. Apparently, causing the apocalypse to kill the animals eating them wasn’t enough.)

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What apocalypse? The changes would take millions of years to have a significant effect, at which point the other species would have already adapted to metabolize or expel those particles.

(Also his species isn’t even adapted to expel them, legendicus would probably survive even without any specific adaptations because of its kidneys)

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Looking at u, humans.

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Except humans did those changes in a century or less, not millions of years.

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Yeah, I’m pretty sure any images not used in any posts will get deleted with some delay.

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Break it into 2 posts

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Mutation Uno: brackish water adaption

Mutation dos: Fermenting stomach

Sub mutation: 4 kidneys to regulate salt levels in Lower or higher salt level enviroments

Kinda funny relicus just went from near NT and strait back to LC due to the egg production when it could start defending itself

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Mutation 1: Skeleton develops (do I get a jaw included?)

Mutation 2: Wings develop at the front with proper skeletal support

Mutation 3: Great Burn Resistance all across body, even inside throat so that it I eat a missile caste and it blows up in my mouth I’m still fine.

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FEAR THE DEATH SERPENT OF THE SEAS

Btw i imagined evolumias new fins being set horizontally since i am an earthling whose first thought when choosing the previous rounds mutations was eastern dragons

M1: as some lifeforms’ eyes have become better, Evolumia’s camouflage becomes more blue to blend in with the seas, but its striped light and dark patterns stay around to keep the prey confused

M2: to cause extra confusion with this new camouflage, Evolumia’s hunting behaviour grows more complex, as now males and females stick and hunt together after mating. as the two mates attack, the prey wont be able to tell where the attack is coming from or where it should hit, to defend itself, and gets shredded to pieces whilst trying to survive

M3: Among other developments, a lung-like organ evolves that stores air and lets Evolumia survive getting out of water for a longer period of time, perhaps the world above the seas is worth exploring…

Btw, can yall give me a brief description of your species? I feel like drawing the creatures

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Idk Legendicus is so fast I cant see it clearly

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Well most of our species are absolutely tiny, but currently my species by next round looks something like this (scales are present but not individually visible in this image, jaw hopeful but not definite):

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Edit: oop the image is sideways. Well whatev ig lol

As for the others (will slowly be editing to include what they look like if I u derstand correctly):

Doom - Worm like body shape with a defined head that has hearing slots on the side, covered in metalloid scales with gaps for them to breath through branchiostegal lungs. Has seven legs, and many chelicerae (little arms) ringing their mouths. They have simplistic eyespots, and can shoot mucus at foes (mentioning cus this would be visible from outside). It will be covered in metalloid osteoderms and have some body fat.

Frale - A fast creature with extremely well developed hind legs and forelimbs about a third of the size of the hind ones, runs on two legs. Has openings across its body that serve as spiracles, which are guarded by thick skin. It has a structural spine, and well developed side muscles, but other than these muscles and limbs looks largely like a worm in body shape. It also has better eyes for shape differentiation and finer detail, but not lensed or color vision, and grinding teeth within a jawless mouth, and a pseudo jaw composed of three toothed tongues. It is significantly larger than most other creatures - I believe around the height of a humans knee instead of their ankle.

Aah - This species of fish or worm like creature has six lines fins running down its sides, three per side, with heavy duty digging claws adorning them and used in self defense. It is also covered in scales that can change color to help it hide within its habitat, along with lensed eyes that have color vision to make best use of this adaptation. It has visible gills on its sides, and a tail that moves like that of a whale or dolphin while swimming. It also has nostrils, and a basic jaw full of grinding teeth.

Noname - Floating high above the seas in the clouds, a group of six castes of this species float. The most basic caste has no specific name, and serves as the original, with a hydrogen bladder sitting atop of a long, stem like tongue that stores water and has an abundance of leafy protrusions sticking off of it, home to species of symbiotic algae. They also have four small claspers that they can use to link to others of their kind and share information with one another. This group also has a ring of lensed eyes around the top of their body, below the stem, and said body ends in a fish like tail used when they descend beneath the waves for more water. They also have many bright bioluminescent patches they can use for communication. This group is a little smaller than a human palm. The next caste is the Manipulatory Caste, which is of a similar size and shape to the basic caste but has significantly more developed brains and manipulatory claspers. They are capable of seeking out and using small parts of other animals as sails to move around the sky. The third caste is the Missile Caste, and while of a similar body shape and size to the basic cast could not be more different. With large and threatening flashes of light, the missile cast will approach an enemy before blowing up, releasing a burning heat whether underwater or in the air. The fourth caste is the Mover cast, who has developed large wing-fins at the cost of brain power, able to move freely in the sky for the most part but needing to be guided by other casts via neural connection due to their poor cognitive abilities. The are a little bit smaller than a human hand. The fifth cast is the producer cast, a group with eight large, spiked wing fins that can be used for photosynthesis and defense. They also have a raindish like organ on their stem that gathers water so they don’t have to descend as often. Producers create a massive excess of energy, locking themselves by their neural claspers in leather blankets covering the sky, and then secrete that as sugary fluids for the other castes to consume for energy. The final caste is the archivers caste, the largest caste that’s around half the size of a human forearm, and it completely stationary unless carried by other castes. They have by far the largest brains of the species, and contains all the memories and neural inputs from all of the members of their species that they have interacted with. Life centers around the archivers in this species, as they are the hub and information center of them.

TeaKing - This species is long and serpentine, with razor sharp, serrated ‘fins’ (not used for swimming) extending out from their gill area. They also have large, horizontally set bony fins, almost like the wings of western dragons. They have good noses as well as defined jaws and spine. They secrete clouds of neurotoxins into the waters around them, and stalk through the water watching their prey with lensed eyes, hidden by their disruptive camouflage breaking up their silhouette before striking with a burst of electricity. Their thick skin and sharp scales protect them from attacks, and they are beasts to be feared in the sea, even if they are no longer than a human hand. They have begun to expand their domain to the land as well.

(Also @TeaKing I noticed that your three votes this round didn’t really have any relation to one another? Mito said the third vote had to be a direct expansion off of one of your other votes that round, and you have better camouflage, bigger brain, and land adaptation which don’t seem directly related)

Hazard - This predatory organisms were one of the first to terrorize this worlds waters, having keen senses of smell, lensed eyes, and paralyzing tentacles. Long flaps run down either side of its body and help propel it through the water as if it was a flying carpet. It’s mouth sports both grinding and sharpened teeth, and it has a pseudo jaw made from a few of its tentacles, which have been lined with teeth. It senses the movements of organisms around it with its electroreception, and if it’s new spinal cord doesn’t let it dodge an opponents attacks then it’s thick skin will stop them. It is only a little longer than a human hand, and __________ (whatever the votes for this round are)

Chiori - These veritable swimming tanks are around the size of a human forearm, with large spines and thick, water retaining skin. They have several fins and legs, which have support from a recently developed skeleton. They have sharp, defensive pincers and are roundish in form, with a defensive exoskeleton atop their thick skin. They have basic chemoreceptors, lensed eyes and an auditory system, and no jaw

Willow 1 - this species is an all terrain beast, it’s only weakness being that is still breaths through its skin and so needs moist environments to survive. It has four legs at its front and back, followed by four fins, and then in between all those limbs are two powerful wings. On it’s back it supports two hydrogen bladders for easier liftoff and maintaining flight, and in front of the forelegs it has sharp pincers covered in an armor of glass. It’s teeth are made out of metal and glass, and it has assimilated algae into itself so it can perform photosynthesis, black in color to absorb as much sunlight as possible. It’s color vision is phenomenal, and despite its small size of no bigger than a human palm, it understands on a rudimentary level natural selection, and they make large nesting colonies on the cliff sides where only the best choices for the species survival pass their genes on to the next generation. It has a balancing tail used in swimming, and they have stored stem cells that allow them to heal at extremely rapid paces once they escape predators. They also _______(votes for this round)

Zenzone - This eyeless species of fishlike organism has hooked tentacles covering the front of it’s face, which can be used for attacking or to move around, and a powerful sense of smell. They have powerful swimming muscles and tail fins, and tend to gather in large swarms to rip apart prey, who are helpless to attack back thanks to their tough metallic exoskeletons. If they do manage to attack a lone member of this species, they will soon regret it, because this species absorbs the stings of those who have tried to sting it, whose venom it is immune to just like all other venoms and poisons, and it repurposes them all in one deadly concoction that is it’s own sting. And if a predator does manage to survive killing one of them, the second it takes a bite it is poisoned by this creatures poisonous flesh! It recently developed an internal skeleton. They are each around the size of a human palm.

Cha - This species sports a long, extended suction mouth that it used to feed from a distance, and a long, extendable tongue that allows them to filter feed. Around the size of a humans forearm, this species is covered by a heavy exoskeleton and has ten legs it uses to move around on the land, though it has to return to the water frequently to wet its book gills. When hiding among plants, it is very difficult to spot visually, having a symbiotic relationship with the plants. It has four compound eyes near its mouth, and mandibles to help it gather food. This detrivore also has some more hidden defenses, though, such as a retractable set of mandibles beneath its other set that launch out like spear and poison opponents.

Sci - This organism has four fins on either side, along with a dorsal fin, and lives on the fringes, able to eat the poisoned meat that others can’t due to it’s toxin resistance and having electricity resistance to defend itself from electrical blasts from predators. It is also resistant to drying out and dying of dehydration, and is an all around survival tank - thriving nowhere, but surviving pretty much anywhere underwater and occasionally - accidentally - on the surface. They use their powerful sense of smell to sniff out their food and then race over to it as quickly as possible using their powerful tail and supportive notocord. Around the size of a human palm, the also _______ (this rounds votes)

Twilight - This predatory organism, derived from one of the earliest predators on the planet, uses its newly developed wings to chase down prey flying through the sky and on land, using the dozens of lensed eyes running down its sides above its air-catching gliding flaps to not miss a single detail, also tracking prey with a powerful sense of smell. It’s covered in tough but lightweight scales, and it’s mouth is full of sharp teeth, grinding teeth, and paralyzing tentacles. It is very resistance to all forms of heat/burns, and while still able to swim decently is much more comfortable in the air, only skimming the waves briefly every now and again to dip its head under and wetten it’s air gills. It a little longer than a human hand, and yet it still odd and terrifying.

Willow 2 - This species of flying organism has a central pair of wing fins, and on either side of those has two pairs or fins, which are mostly used as sails nowadays. In front of the foremost fins are pincers, armored with sharp glass, and under the wings are gill strainers that pull nutrients out of the water. They also have powerful tails used when they are swimming. This species flies via a large hydrogen bladder that supports their wings, and have excellent water retention, being able to survive for upwards of a week when over the continent. This species has bonded with algae and is photosynthetic, and has teeth made of silicon and glass. Their second and fourth pairs of limbs have additional small hydrogen bladders on each of the limbs, and all these hydrogen bladders let them stay high up in the air for significant amounts of time. This species is around the size of a human forearm. They also have ________ (this rounds votes)

And then there are several species of plants, most of them curly, thin, and downy with a few that are like photosynthetic plates. Only one species is predominant on land, a large plant up to a humans waist (so twice as tall as the largest current organism) that looks like a cross between curly grass and a bush.

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