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Author Topic: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Chapter 1: Emergence  (Read 22409 times)

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You are drifting along a current.

You can't see.
You can't hear.
You can't smell.
You can only feel.

Technically, you are not breathing.
You are absorbing the oxygen in the water as it passes by you.
You do not have a mouth.

You can not move.
You are little more than a single celled organism.

But you can evolve.



E.V.O.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention

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When you evolve your creature, try to be as specific as possible. There are many ways a creature can look and function, and diversity is useful.

Nothing in the game will give a straight +x to actions, it is all based on what you're going up against. You may get a +1 against one type of creature, but not against another, depending on varying circumstances.

The game will use 10 sided-dice. Overshoots on 10.




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Spoiler: Puttle (BFEL) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Xanalok (Xantalos) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Puff (Pufferfish) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Kraill (draco1234) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Sporians (Coolrune206) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Forlane (Devastator) (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Lysots (Powder Miner) (click to show/hide)
« Last Edit: December 06, 2013, 01:13:49 am by mastahcheese »
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2013, 02:49:06 am »

Species Name: Elephant
Color: Grey
Starting Evolutions:
  Trunk-mouth
  Eye-tusks 
  Elephant hoof things

Also, if it's using a d10, it's technically not an RTD.
« Last Edit: December 05, 2013, 02:55:07 am by Elephant Parade »
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2013, 02:53:32 am »

Species Name: Puttle
Color: A greenish, vomit-like color.
Starting Evolutions: A star shaped proboscis for ingesting foodstuffs, Capable of sensing electric fields, Capable of discharging electric energy for small amount of movement.
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2013, 03:09:48 am »

Also, if it's using a d10, it's technically not an RTD.
Roll to Dodge simply means it uses a Die for rolling. The size does not matter, and people have actually made entire classification systems for RtDs that include non D6 rolling methods, and even non-dice methods of obtaining results.
So yes, it's still a RtD.
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2013, 03:16:40 am »

Species Name: Ballisto-shrimps
 Color: maroon.
 Starting Evolutions: A four-tined jaw for holding onto  food while it is absorbed, A bulbous sack behind the mouth containing proto-eyes and an echolocation organ,  a battery of  narrowing tubules through which water is squeezed  rapidly to move.
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2013, 03:39:24 am »

Species Name: Xanalok
Color: Purple
Starting Evolutions:
-Hardened spikes all around the outside of the cell membrane
-Increased reproduction rate
-Many tiny filter mouths in the areas where spikes don't cover (should be small)
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2013, 03:53:21 am »

Species Name: Puff

Color: Pastel yellow

Starting Evolutions:
-amoebic pseudopodes
-jellyfish-like light sensing organs
-a pincer-esque jaw, much like a bulldog ant

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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2013, 06:33:08 am »

One question: do we start out as prokaryotes or eukaryotes? This is rather important, to be honest.

Species Name: Noxoplasm
Color: Navy
Starting Evolutions:
- has a thick cell wall formed out of peptidoglycan.
- possesses a set of fimbria that allow it to attach to various substrates.
- can form tough endospores. can perform oxygenic photosynthesis.

Another question: is absorbing chemicals through our cell membranes something we automatically have?
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2013, 06:40:58 am »

((I like how we joined on a sliding scale going from ridiculous to scientific.))
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2013, 06:58:59 am »

Species Name: Kraill
Color: Pale blue (or whatever blue stands out enough to be easily visible)
Starting Evolutions:
-Flagellum surrounding half of the cell (opposite the mouth), allowing it to propel itself around and giving it rudimentary temperature and chemical sensing.
-Short proboscis on one end of the cell to absorb nutrients.
-Longer (barbed?) flagellum surrounding the proboscis that have evolved to latch onto other cells and pull them in to the proboscis.

(the above evolutions are probably ridiculous and inaccurate, but ah well)
I can't wait until we evolve to the point where I sort of know what's what.
« Last Edit: December 05, 2013, 07:01:42 am by draco1234 »
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2013, 07:22:41 am »

Species Name: Sporians
Color: Cyan
Starting Evolutions: Mouth-Eyes-Jet (A body part that absorbs water, and shoots it out behind, creating a rocket-like way of propulsion.
« Last Edit: December 05, 2013, 07:24:42 am by Coolrune206 »
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2013, 09:09:29 am »

Also, if it's using a d10, it's technically not an RTD.
Roll to Dodge simply means it uses a Die for rolling. The size does not matter, and people have actually made entire classification systems for RtDs that include non D6 rolling methods, and even non-dice methods of obtaining results.
So yes, it's still a RtD.
It's a bit more complex than that...but yeah, I've run RtD's with d10's and stuff.

One question: do we start out as prokaryotes or eukaryotes? This is rather important, to be honest.

...

Another question: is absorbing chemicals through our cell membranes something we automatically have?
Pretty much everyone is already multicellular, so eukaryote.

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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2013, 09:59:13 am »

Pretty much everyone is already multicellular, so eukaryote.

Well, I was asking because...

You are little more than a single celled organism.

Or are we multicellular?
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« Reply #13 on: December 05, 2013, 10:29:25 am »

Species name: Forlane
Color: Orange.
Starting Mutations:
Ocelli (light-sensitive spots), Pulsation (for movement, jellyfish style), and a small hole for ingestion of nutrients.
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Re: E.V.O.: Necessity is the Mother of Invention (Illustrated Evolution RtD)
« Reply #14 on: December 05, 2013, 10:45:09 am »

Pretty much everyone is already multicellular, so eukaryote.
Well, I was asking because...
You are little more than a single celled organism.
Or are we multicellular?
I said everyone else was multicellular.
Species Name: Elephant
Color: Grey
Starting Evolutions:
  Trunk-mouth
  Eye-tusks
  Elephant hoof things
Species Name: Puttle
Color: A greenish, vomit-like color.
Starting Evolutions: A star shaped proboscis for ingesting foodstuffs, Capable of sensing electric fields, Capable of discharging electric energy for small amount of movement.
Species Name: Ballisto-shrimps
 Color: maroon.
 Starting Evolutions: A four-tined jaw for holding onto  food while it is absorbed, A bulbous sack behind the mouth containing proto-eyes and an echolocation organ,  a battery of  narrowing tubules through which water is squeezed  rapidly to move.
Species Name: Xanalok
Color: Purple
Starting Evolutions:
-Hardened spikes all around the outside of the cell membrane
-Increased reproduction rate
-Many tiny filter mouths in the areas where spikes don't cover (should be small)
Species Name: Puff

Color: Pastel yellow

Starting Evolutions:
-amoebic pseudopodes
-jellyfish-like light sensing organs
-a pincer-esque jaw, much like a bulldog ant
Most of these have 2-3 (underlined) adaptations that don't work on cells. Although...how does a jawed, organed animal have pseudopodes?

Moreover...
You can spend these on evolving your creature into whatever you can feasibly get it to. For starters, though, you'll want some way of ingesting food. Mouths are traditional for this. After that, some basic sensory organs never hurt anyone, or methods of movement.
Mouths and sensory (and other) organs only apply to multicellular organisms.
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