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[Jbg97]

you can sense that it has little hairs for increased motion.

goddamn hipsters
shave for god's sake, this used to be a good pool of water before they came!

[endlessblaze]

Aha! A dirty ciliate! Best be wary of them, they're a bit predatory.

Keep moving in the same direction - we belong in high places, since there's more light there.

Although... how exactly are we moving? Pseudopodia?

+1

yep, jugging from the art that was a "fake foot" I would say. in other words, pseudopod...or whatever the grammatically correct form is.

[flabort]

Aha! A dirty ciliate! Best be wary of them, they're a bit predatory.

Keep moving in the same direction - we belong in high places, since there's more light there.

Although... how exactly are we moving? Pseudopodia?

+1

Re: Pseudopodia: More or less, yes. Yes.


As you ascend, you can feel the water getting mildly warmer. There's also bits of some particular stuff; dead cell matter from higher up, you'd guess. You feel another small creature nearby, with feathery appendages that cling to the dead material.

[Peradon]

Absorb dead stuff.

[Andres]

Absorb dead stuff.

+1. We gots ta be da biggest and da strongest.

[Tidal]

Absorb dead stuff.

+1. We gots ta be da biggest and da strongest.

[flabort]

Absorb dead stuff.

+1. We gots ta be da biggest and da strongest.

The dead matter doesn't struggle. You absorb it and start breaking it down. It's mostly decomposed already, and is worth more mass and less energy than live cells.
You feel like you've eaten enough to reproduce. When reproducing you can choose a trait to gain (such as the cilium seen on the blue cell earlier, or the feelers used to gather food) or improve (such as your spores).
Alternatively you can continue to explore and/or consume.

[Harry Baldman]

Spontaneously develop cilia, because there's nothing in life that you can't do better when you have cilia.

And also eat that other dead thing. There's actually no difference between mass and energy for living organisms. You can take apart mass for energy if there's still lipids, proteins and sugars in there, which there should be if it's still identifiably organic and something else is eating it.

[InZane]

PTW

[Prophet]

Spontaneously develop cilia, because there's nothing in life that you can't do better when you have cilia.

And also eat that other dead thing. There's actually no difference between mass and energy for living organisms. You can take apart mass for energy if there's still lipids, proteins and sugars in there, which there should be if it's still identifiably organic and something else is eating it.

+1

[Orange Wizard]

pee tea double yew