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[kopout]

Based on the classic Eotyrannus  game

The world is recovering.
One million years ago, the greatest challenge that oxygen-breathing life ever faced had finally been conquered. The Gelidian era ('frozen') has finally ended. The glaciers, after 400 million years of grinding the newly-born continents into rubble and dirt, have joined with the sea, and their cargoes of minerals have arrived in the waters. Trillions of photosynthesizing cells are pumping billions of tons of breathable gas into the air and ocean. Oxygen and nutrients are available in vast quantities, and multicellular life has begun. Most are simple creatures, focusing only on taking what they need from the blue-green liquid soup that surrounds them. One of the most prolific of these is the seafloor blob, a tiny organism that feasts off of the organic matter in the ocean's waters. They cover the floors of the ocean. For now, life is good, but competition is starting. One of them is destined to become great, though. And its form of life will survive, no matter what.

This one reproduces, and then dies, like the many other blobs of the reef. But its descendants are evolving. How, though? Will it evolve muscle and dig, or feast on fellow members of its species? Will it let itself free from the ocean floor? If there are a million different choices it could take, which is the choice that it will follow in the end?

That choice is up to you.
 

Spoiler: Explaining the game (click to show/hide)

Hello, and welcome to Competition! This game is about our little... organism. I'm really not sure how it will  turn out, though knowing you lot, it will be twisted.
Our organism is living in its habitat. Because it's a single species, it won't really know much beyond its neighboring biomes (unless it's managed to get worldwide, one way or another). World events will happen, and it'll evolve. You guys are going to direct where it goes with its life. Depending on which rolls we get, it'll either go how you want or it'll do it its way. But, most likely, if you want a bird it'll fly and if you want a fish it'll swim.
Feel free to go wild, as long as you don't delve too far into the realms of the magical. If you suggest something wild, and I can see a way to get it done, I will do it. Although maybe over multiple turns.

GENERATION 1:
Seafloor blob
A yellowish blob of jelly that builds reefs. Their upper surfaces take food from the water. It's about a centimetre or so wide.
REPRODUCTION: It lets out male cells in the current, and growths grow on other blobs when they land. These growths fall off and become another blob.
MOVEMENT: Completely immobile.
EATING: It absorbs cells that are drifting on the current.
PREDATION: No predators or meaningful prey.
COMPETITION: Our blobs are the only ones that live on the bottom, but competition for space is fierce. Most only live for a short time before they are covered by the next generation.
ENVIRONMENT: A shallow sub-tropical sea. Layers upon layers of seafloor blobs have built massive networks of reefs. Fronds grow above the rest, filtering food from the open water. They grow from their stalks so that they don't get covered by the bottom layer. Their underground sections form a complex root system that feeds off of the corpses of blobs that were buried.

Any one suggestion needs two votes to be accepted, after which I role a six sided die and add  one for every two votes beyond the first two. The higher the total the better the adaptation works that round.

[3man75]

Eat other blobs and/or nutrients to get stronger. Than develop sense of touch!

[~Neri]

Barbed poisonous tentacles with a sense of touch. Muscles along tentacles are used to pull prey into us, we can use one or more tentacles to root ourselves in place. We eat anything.

I absolutely expet this to be multiupdate.

[The Froggy Ninja]

ptw

[Hawk132]

PTW.

[Scotsmen]

Barbed poisonous tentacles with a sense of touch. Muscles along tentacles are used to pull prey into us, we can use one or more tentacles to root ourselves in place. We eat anything.

+1, and also make the tentacles strong enough to move us along the ocean floor.

[kopout]

Expand diet: 6
sense of touch:5
powerful tentacle:2
mobility:2
Poison barbed tentacles: 3
Root :5

Other populations of seafloor blobs have evolved into the sponge blobs which are now the main reef formers. Flat sheets known as envelope blobs drift on the current and wrap around hairy blobs which are oblong cilia covered versions of seafloor blobs that swim around and absorb unicellular food.

The krinoid blob is in many ways like the frond blobs which are their primary competition. They have a small oblong core from which a ring of tentacles extend. The tentacles are mobile and covered in microscopic barbs that are slightly poisonous. When plankton brush the tentacles the surface folds in around the food forming a digestive chamber. A large tentacle acts as a root and stem combination anchoring the blob and allowing it to retract out of danger when large organisms brush against it.

GENERATION 2:
krinoid blob
A yellowish flower shaped critter that lives on reefs. Their tentacle surfaces take food from the water. It's about a centimetre or so wide and just as tall.
REPRODUCTION: It lets out male cells in the current, and growths grow on other blobs when they land. These growths fall off and  root themselves on the reef.
MOVEMENT: Able to retract and flinch from danger.
EATING: It absorbs cells that are drifting on the current and envelopes plankton.
PREDATION: Preys on hairy blobs and is in turn eaten by envelope blobs
COMPETITION: We compete directly with the fronds, while they are much larger we are poisonous and able to eat larger prey 
ENVIRONMENT: A shallow sub-tropical sea. Layers upon layers of sponge blobs have built massive networks of reefs.  The Fronds are not as common as they once were due to competition with the krinoid blob. The shroom blob is descended from the Fronds, consisting mostly of the underground root complex that feeds on decaying blobs.

[Rolepgeek]

Develop hardened, stiff, sharp tentacles that puncture envelop blobs that try to land on us. Grow cilia along our tentacles(both stiff and non stiff), that assist in grabbing more food to pull in. Have some of our tentacles develop light suction pads that allow us to move along seafloor slowly, and gain ability to slowly scrape away at and eat sponge blobs with our normal, food grabbing, tentacles.

[kopout]

Bump for visibility.

Also, its worth noting we have no mouth yet, nor any kind of digestive system beyond folding our outer surface around food bits, so mooving food along our surface is kind of useless at this point.

[~Neri]

Develop Stomach. Develop many toothed mouth surrounded by multipart beak. Grow larger. More tentacles.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Develop Stomach. Develop many toothed mouth surrounded by multipart beak. Grow larger. More tentacles.

+1

[Scotsmen]

Develop Stomach. Develop many toothed mouth surrounded by multipart beak. Grow larger. More tentacles.

+1

+1

[kopout]

Develop Stomach: 6
Develop many toothed mouth surrounded by multipart beak: 4
Grow larger: 4
More tentacles: 3


The remaining Fronds have given rise to the fern blobs which have green algae symbiotically living in their flesh. Decedents of the envelope blobs consist of grazing doilies, which travel over the reef with a muscular fridge and digest anything that they move over with their core region and gellphish which have a double bell shape, the inner bell being a primitive gut and the outer one being used to swim. The hairy blobs are still around but have given rise to the dreadlock blobs which trail streamer like feeding tentacles behind a bullet shaped body with rows of coordinated cilia. Chimney blobs are descended from sponge blobs but are larger and tower shaped.

The gut flower is a vase shaped animal on a muscular stalk. Most of its body is filled with a remarkably powerful stomach with a mouth/anus at one end that has a number of mobile “teeth” derived from modified tentacles, the outer most “teeth” are larger and can close up like a beak. The mouth is surrounded by a ring of poisons tentacles which can grab prey and drag them to the mouth.

GENERATION 3:
gut flower
REPRODUCTION: It lets out male cells in the current, and growths grow on other blobs when they land. These growths fall off and root themselves on the reef.
MOVEMENT: Able to retract and flinch from danger and also to grasp and ingest prey.
EATING: It absorbs cells that are drifting on the current and envelopes plankton.
PREDATION: Preys on dreadlock blobs and occasionally small gellyphish. Their young are eaten by grazing doilies but the adults are too large and poisonous to be easy prey.
COMPETITION: We compete with each other for space but have no competition from other species.
SENSES: A sense of touch allows them to capture prey if it drifts within reach and flinch from danger.
ENVIRONMENT: A shallow sub-tropical sea. Layers upon layers of sponge and chimney blobs have built massive networks of reefs.  Fern blobs tower over the reef grazing doilies crawl slowly across the surface while gellyphish and dreadlock blobs swim over it. The shroom blob is descended from the Fronds, consisting mostly of the underground root complex that feeds on decaying blobs.

[Rolepgeek]

Develop ability to move. Develop improved senses; passive sonar. Develop longer tentacles. Develop ability to root on Fern blobs.

[kopout]

meant to modify, quoted by accident.