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[Spiderking50]

The world had only just now begun to flourish. Several species had come to inhabit the shallows of this world. One had taken to the depths.

1: Tropikus

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(Shelled, herbivore, long lived, slow reproduction)

2: Foam-crowned creeper

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(Plant, Tall, fast reproduction)

3: Bullet Fin

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( Carnivore?Fast, small)

4: Sol-pesce

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(Carnivore, Stealthy)

5: Tardus Jelly

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 (Filter feeder,asexual reproduction, ink defense, extremely short lifespan)

6: Shallow Cruster

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(plant,protective shell, retraction)

7: Virin

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(Carnivore,fast, big mouth)

8: Baac-Dreh

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(Omnivore, Smart, fragile)

9: Felurosh

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(Omnivore?,Squid)

10: Kjetch

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(Carnivore?Eel!, maneuverable)

11: Lemmiding

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 (Herbivore? Filter Feeder?Stealthy, slow)

12: Trisaas

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(Omnivore?Fast, small)

GM Note: Some colors ended up being similar and others simply made the map unreadable. This was the best I could do. If you have questions as to which blob represents your creature's range, let me know. Also if there is a ?  in your traits or something wrong with your traits let me know what it should be.

Current EP Values

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1: Tropikus (1EP)

2: Foam-crowned creeper (1EP)

3: Bullet Fin (1EP)

4: Sol-pesce (1EP)

5: Tardus Jelly (1EP)

6: Shallow Cruster (1EP)

7: Virin (1EP)

8: Baac-Dreh (1EP)

9: Felurosh (1EP)

10: Kjetch (1EP)

11: Lemmiding (1EP)

12: Trisaas (1EP)

GM note: I'm not exactly sure how Lord_Lemonpie was doing EP. Here's how it works here. Still sort of working on it. Suggestions welcome.
+1 EP if you are being hunted
+2 EP if you are being severely hunted
+1 EP if you are a plant
+1 EP if you are a hunter
+# EP for game events
-# EP for game events

New Mechanic: Speciation

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If you are omnivorous and you tend to eat more plants than animals, you will eventually go through speciation. This means your creature will split into two groups, one which is as you were and one which is specialized for a particular diet. Speciation gets you +2 EP if you decide to change into the new species. You cannot speciate into an omnivore.

[spümpkin]

((I think my blob is in the bottom-left corner. That is 5, right? Also, I haven't done one of these before, so what do I do exactly?))

[Spiderking50]

((I think my blob is in the bottom-right corner. That is 5, right? Also, I haven't done one of these before, so what do I do exactly?))

You're the bottom left. You specified that you were deep sea. As you are utterly alone out there in the ocean you... well... really its up to you. Normally you'd evolve to be a better hunter or more difficult prey, but you have no foes at all. Everyone else is in the shallows. You mostly just evolve and spread. Eventually we will enter the tribal, then civilization phase, but those are a long way off.

[spümpkin]

Right. I guess being deep-sea has its perks.

The Tardus Jellies spread maniacally, unfought in the darkened abyss they call home, breeding until they take up most of the deep sea. There are millions of them, but they die so quickly and are so small, especially compared to the ocean, that they are nearly unnoticeable. There are certain clumps of them where they reside, but otherwise the depths are empty.

Breed crazily and spread out through the ocean, creating clumps of jellies.
((So do I evolve now?))

[Spiderking50]

At the end of this round I will post how everyone's action went. Your action doesn't cost any EP because you aren't changing and you aren't increasing your breeding rate. You will slowly spread, but it helps not having any predators.

[fillipk]

Search for food and eat it, specifically search for kelp

[DAPARROT]

Trisaas: search for algae and plankton to eat, start evolving the ability to leap out of the water and glide for a few seconds
(They are herbivorous)

[Iituem]

Sometimes, the potent spirits guiding the evolution of their chosen species had a grand scheme in mind that shaped their decisions, or perhaps they reacted to short term problems to get results.  Sometimes... sometimes it seemed that nobody was at the wheel.

The crusters lived a fairly blessed life - grow, crust, reproduce, get eaten (hopefully in that order), offspring repeat.  Yet they remained in the shallows, unable to spread beyond the plentiful carbon dioxide and light.  Spreading into the deeps would require more efficient photosynthesis and better dioxide extraction.  Spreading to land would require a more stable structure.

Instead, something nonsensical happened.  The crusters developed a mutation that spent some of their excess of energy not improving their lot, but instead expending it on the useless production of atmospheric hydrogen and oxygen.  It was indeed the case that oxygen was needed for respiration (photosynthesis simply produced oxygen for a plant's respiration, the excess it exuded was a by-product), but splitting water required energy that could only be produced as a result of photosynthesis regardless.

Nevertheless, hundreds of little crusters wasted their energy, bubbling away.

Cruster Evolution: Develop capacity to hydrolyse, splitting water into atmospheric hydrogen and oxygen that can be used in respiration.  Excess hydrogen escapes from plant pores as small bubbles.

[ATHATH]

I thought that I would start in the caves. May I start in them?

Become more social, grouping together and communicating with each other.

[tntey]

The stone fish starts to dive bomb prey using it's fast speed and rocky head bump

[Spiderking50]

I thought that I would start in the caves. May I start in them?

Become more social, grouping together and communicating with each other.

They are more like sink holes. You can start there I think.

[ATHATH]

I thought that I would start in the caves. May I start in them?

Become more social, grouping together and communicating with each other.

They are more like sink holes. You can start there I think.

May I?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Sol-Pesce: Feed on smaller fish and had near the surface of the water in alge patches. Evolve full camouflage to blend in with the surrounding even better and take down larger prey.

[Rolepgeek]

Foam-Crowned Creeper

The shores were a good source of nutrients, for the Creeper. Fish would wash up there, die, and decay, leaving their bodies as fertilizer. And so it was that the creeper grew closer to the shoreline, and spread along it's coasts, tips poking out of the waves as always. Their roots spread, to better harvest the bounty of the refuse that fell to the sea's floor.

The life grew far.

[Detoxicated]

Hide within the plantlife of my area, and feed carefully off of them. Try to protect the plants from other feeders, especially the Shallow Crusters. Hide from the Felurush.