Remaining Start Locations:
Benefleur: Your race populates the edge of the plains of the Eastern Continental Island, where you survive by descending from the cliffs to overwhelm the immense herbivores roving the plains. Chief among these herbivores is the Bala, a twelve-foot tall four legged grazer that travels in herds. They sometimes stray too close to the cliff, and then you are able to descend, surround an individual Bala, and rip it apart. The remaining herd members flee from your sting, and the fallen Bala will feed the Hive for weeks. There is, however, a complication that has arisen. Hidden among the Bala are carnivores, disguised to be identical in appearance to the rest of the herd. However, when a herd with these predators among them is attacked, the false Bala will charge the attacker and slice them apart with razor-sharp tusks formerly retracted into the carnivore's skull. These new predators are resistant to your stings, and encounters with them are growing both more deadly and more frequent. You could find a way to dispatch these creatures yourselves, or perhaps you might locate an alternate food source.
Hari-Kan: Your race stalks the Western Archipelago with graceful precision, taking down prey from birds to lumbering beasts. As an apex predator, you were unchallenged and relatively secure; until the food started to run out. Or, rather, it started to run away. With your large bodies, you have proven unable to keep up with the evolution of faster flight among the winged animals, and likewise your hollow flight-capable bones are easily broken in combat with the larger land creatures. Suddenly, famine has become an immediate threat, and extinction is not far off. You only have one option; adapt. Your race needs some edge over it's prey, lest it go the way of your countless exterminated enemies...
Raq Lizards: 'Swamps' is not a valid location. Please re-examine the location options in the original post.
Para: Your race is freshly evolved from a more earthbound tunneling spider. Your numbers are small, but you have the advantage of observing the food chain before entering it. Presently, the large core stalks, once easy prey of many herbivoric species, are beginning to evolve mechanisms of defense. The core stalks might even have some level of consciousness; perhaps you would be able to communicate with it if you burrowed into the stalk's core? There is a nearby stalk with it's core exposed after an insect attack; that would be a good place to start if you are betting on the prosperity of the stalks. Alternatively, there are many animal races that roam the core's surface; you could burrow into any and gain some limited control over their actions, but their lives and yours would be more easily destroyed, and with your limited numbers the risk is a factor worth consideration.
D'Karthigax the Kraken: Hmm, we're going to have to handle you differently. Expect a PM soon.
Islander: Your race was one of the oldest on the planet. As long as creatures crawled on land, they touched your false soil. Not all of these years were prosperous, however, and in this modern day you find yourselves in a rather diminished state. Once your kind mingled among the natural islands of the Western Archipelago, but you gradually drifted east into isolation. Now, you find yourselves with a unique opportunity. The approach of the Great Storm heralds a strong wind current going both East and West. Your clump of island has landed right in the center of the current's divergence, and so it will only take the smallest bit of energy expended by snapping filiments to send you towards either island grouping. The Western Archipelago is familiar, but the creatures there are adapted to prey on you particularly. The Eastern Continent is unfamiliar, but you might have better luck there than in the West.
Nidrakk: Your race is nearly extinct! A horrible mutation in the Nidrakk genome, introduced by an infected creature, slowly weakened the race and made them susceptible to a great viral plague. From your home in the Western Archipelago, you were nearly wiped out. There is a bright side, however; the last remaining Nidrakk colony has hitched a ride on an Islander bio-archipelago. Wherever the Islanders end up, you will have a large food supply to establish yourselves, and a second chance at survival. Luckily, natural selection has purged the plague-enabling gene from your race...
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Too many actions... I'll have to do them separately. See you all tomorrow.
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Topic: Dawn of Evolution-Natural Selection Edition (Read 9878 times)