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[Roboson]

For generations your species has survived, hidden deep within a comet hurtling through space. Your icy spaceship held within its core a micro-ecosystem that endured the long journey through space. In those cold waters several species evolved and survived for an untold amount of time. Yet now, that age has come to an end. Your species has arrived at its destiny, a planet. As your home enters the atmosphere it breaks apart and crashes into an alien ocean, spilling its contents into the strange unknown waters. What the future holds for your species, its impossible to say. But one thing is certain, only the strong will survive.

Evolution: This is a turn based evolution game. At the beginning of each turn each player will make a small change to their creature. These can be used to manually evolve your creature's body, mind, or behaviors. Small evolutions may only take one turn, but the more complex the evolution, the more turns it will take. There will be a good deal of price checking at first, but as the game goes on we'll figure out about how many turns everything takes. At the end of each turn there is a chance that your species may randomly mutate without cost. This mutation can be beneficial or harmful, but will almost always be a small. After any mutation, your species as a whole advances, and those who do not advance will die off or speciate into an NPC.

Events: This world is unknown and changing all the time, occasionally large events may effect your species and the area in which you live. All species will have to adapt to survive. These can occur any turn, and even multiple turns in a row if the dice hate you.

Locations: There will be various locations which will have different mixes of plants and animals. There will be both land, fresh water, and ocean environments at start.

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species: (Try and make it sound scientific, latin is a good start, but by no means necessary.)
Species Nickname: (A descriptive name which is useful for common use)
Description of species: (Try and be thorough here, but keep in mind its at the beginning of its evolutionary journey.)
Number of species: (See next spoiler)
Size of species: (See next spoiler)
Trait: (A special starting trait. Optional, and requires approval).
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: (-10 being total carnivore, 10 being total herbivore, where does your creature fit?)

Spoiler: How to determine Size/Number/Traits (click to show/hide)

 Larger species have lower populations to begin due to a lack of food inside the comet. The base population for each species is 100 divided by length (in inches) multiplied by width multiplied by 2. Equation: (100/(LxW))x2.  So a species that is 5 inches long by 5 inches wide would have a starting population of 8. (100/25)x2 =8). Please do not play as a microscopic creature, its a real headache for me. (Must be at least 1x1).

Furthermore, if your species has a special trait (being poisonous, covered in spines, ect ect. it will reduce the starting population. This is done so that cool species can be played, but aren't overpowered right from the start. Just price check your trait with me and I'll let you know.

Feel free to submit additional sheets for NPC species as well. Just clearly mark them as such and I may snag them to flesh out the ecosystems.


This is basically going to be a carbon copy of the evolution game I ran forever ago. New locations, new creatures, same big idea. It's a classic game and hope y'all have fun with it.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Spoiler: What is this horrific thing going to become? (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species:Piscium Mala Exhauriunt
Species Nickname:The Wicked Vampire Fish, draining fish or simply vampiric eel.
Description of species:The vampiric eel, wicked vampire fish or draining fish is most accurately described as a proto-eel with insectoid quality's. Possessing of a slim, but long body, being 5 inches long and two inches wide, it has an almost translucent body, it's skin barely developed and in reality just a soft exterior, like a blue maggot. From it's tiny proto-brain, to its primitive weak organs that are specialized towards consuming the vitae, the blood, the life-force of other creatures and rarely plants, even more infrequently tiny organisms. The Piscium Mala Exhauriunt, meaning evil draining fish, is more a flat out parasite to larger creatures and an opportunistic scavenger, only being an opportunistic predator, though opportunity's at times are quite plentiful.

It's slim body possesses no real locomotives to it besides wiggling in the currents and as such it is an opportunistic ambusher, attaching itself to coral or a rock or even another creature to launch itself at its prey to feed upon and be carried by, until it spots another of its kind and reproduces with them. It's methods of sensing the world are quite basic, tiny black spots litter it's body, faintly sensing heat signatures, it's not precise, it goes after what it notices and it takes the chance to breed excitedly.

If one were to ever try to consume it, after proper preparation one would find it rather tender and its insides perhaps faintly pleasant, somewhat like squid and crawdads in its flavor. Put simply, this creature is a spot covered long and thin noddle with a primitive blood sucking device at it's front and a primitive exit to expel what minute waste it creates below its stomach, its organs for reproduction are small and meager and if successful in mating, they are birthed in fairly large hatches of five to ten and mature over around the course of a month. It is not uncommon for the young to consume their parent's blood and slay it for sustenance.

Dying typically after up to three or four years from predatation, disease or otherwise, if kept in some kind of captivity? It could perhaps survive for around ten years, before its organs would be unable to sustain it and it would begin to slowly die through total organ failure. It's defining feature it's proto-probuscus is three inches long.
Number of species:15 with Gm Approval!
Size of species:Five inches long, two inches wide.
Trait:Proto-Proboscis, a primitive version of what in another world would be a bloodsucking tool. It is both a weak self-defense weapon and its only way of gaining the nutrition and food it requires, through the lifeblood of other creatures, and in an emergency the juices and sugars of plants or things living inside them. It is three inches long, to allow it to reach into small spaces and pierce veins and reach the vitae it requires.
Carnivore/Herbivore scale:-5, it clearly has a preference for blood and life-fluids, but it can digest plenty of liquids and nutrients inside plants at a reduced rate and is a opportunistic creature, even willing to try to consume small creatures or plant matter if it can fit it inside it's proto-proboscis.

Thank's Robo!

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species: Longus hirsutus cetera vermis
Species Nickname: Feeler worms
Description of species: A worm like creature covered with hairy protrusions it uses to "feel" for other things in the area.
Number of species: <20
Size of species: 2x5
Trait: *primitive* kinetic sonar (a Slightly better sense for vibrations, where they are coming from and all that
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: 0 ~Scavenger, will eat anything~

[TricMagic]

Spoiler: Enter the Dragon (CARP) (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species: Draco regna; CARPO antiquis
Species Nicknames: The Thousand Year Dragon; Eternal Carp.
Description of species: Most commonly referred to as the Thousand Year Dragon, this species continues to grow over the course of it's life, eventually becoming a top-tier predator. Though without resources, it has difficulty growing. It's scales change depending on where it was born, with blue and silver being most common. It's very rare for any to live long enough to reach their full size, though in captivity they can live for a very long time. Their size at birth is determined by the size of the parents. Has four fins on it's sides to help with swimming.
Number of species:  (100/5)x2 =20)(Without Trait taken into consideration, 40. Long Lives tend to lead to lower numbers in a confined ecosystem)
Size of species: 5 inches L x 1 inches W = 5.
Trait: Dragon's Lifespan(Lives for a 1000 years, with 400 being common for it's younger form of the Carp. Continues growing if the conditions are right.{Plenty of Food, with a high meat content in their diet})
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: -3, can eat meat, and prefers it. Will eat plants though, if meat is unobtainable. Perfectly fine with eating each other in cases where overcrowding occurs, usually in battles for territory when they get larger.

Why? It's called a carp is simple folklore.
Likely cost for trait is the x2 multiplier. Roboson?

[Leonardo8]

Please forum  gods, let this game last for more than 2 turns.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species: Multiplex Ferox
Species Nickname: Blood Minnow
Description of species: At firts glance, the blood minnow does not look particulalry intimidating. it resembles a cross between a fish and a shrimp, with 10 oar-like appendages being used for swimming, a tail that is used for steering and a little mounth full of very sharp teeth. The blood minnow however is the first creature to evolve some kind of social behavior, communicating through others of it's kind trough pheromones. Since it is based on a very simple form of chemotaxis, it does not show any kind of complex behaviours, but it can emit two kind of signals. The first maintains the cohesion of the swarm, making sure that it's members do not drift away from one another. The second is released when attacking their prey, and ensures that every member of the pack takes part in the attack, causing a feeding frenzy.
Number of species: 200 (before traits)
Size of species: 1x1
Trait: Swarming behaviour
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: -7. They have a strong preference for meat, but they will eat plants if there is nothing else available. It's not an heealthy diet for them in the long therm though.

I dont' know how much should i reduce my starting population. What do you think Robonson?

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species: Mobulidae Iuradae
Species Nickname: White Ray
Description of species: A globular floating white fleshy herbivore ray that swim with grace yet is relatively large compared to the origins of macroscopic life, as in being a ray it has two large “flaps” or pectoral fins that it utilize for itself to navigate around the giant aquatic meteor environs, they speciated by being the largest creature in the block and bully itself towards that precious green source of food in which they would latch on and chew to their hearts content, annoyed that their are too many species of parasites in the meteorites they utilized their enhanced momentum to drift them off of crush them beneath it force.
Number of species: 5
Size of species: 8x5
Trait: The large white pectoral fins of the White Rays allow them to move from plant source to plant source fast, they have improved swimming capabilities through Improved Swimming Speed, they can reach fast velocities when swimming as their white flapping and powerful nerves in their pectoral fins allow them to have superior naval acceleration much faster than standard. Allowing them to evade the “always a arger fish” if threatened, and reach a plant food source more quickly.
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: 10

[darkwarlock3]

Scientific Name of species: venenum comedenti
Species Nickname: cleaners
Description of species: these creatures are reptilian like, they have black scales with a green strip that goes down its back vertically, has four limbs plus a tail...
Number of species: 26
Size of species: 3 L by 1 W
Trait: venom Resistance: AB
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: 0 (will eat anything)

[Roboson]

 Applications are still open. Probably going to take around 8 applicants. It will not be first come first serve. Application submission will close this evening, about 7 hours from this post.

Populations with traits taken into consideration:

Cleaners: 26

White Ray: 4 (May want to elaborate, aiming for speed, or bursts of movement, or generally stronger swimming, or something else?)

Blood Minnow: 140. Given how advanced pheromones could be and the overall complexity, 140 feels about right.

Dragon Carp: 20 seems good. Though they're very likely to only make it a few hundred years (under normal conditions) before they will have difficulty sustaining themselves.

Feeler Worms: 15.

Vampire Fish: 60. It seems all above board to me! Very detailed too.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Sixty!

Woo!

Thank's Robo! I enjoyed making them and in case your wondering, proper preparation would involve thoroughly smoking/boiling or otherwise thoroughly cooking them to kill any parasitic diseases or otherwise in the blood they consume and to thoroughly clean them. These things would be a real nightmare in real life, just some semi-long fish lunging at your leg and drinking your blood, latching onto you.

I'm curious, where I can take them and where evolution takes them. Any plans for what happens when we make it to sentient species if we do?

[Naturegirl1999]

Spoiler: Parva comedenti (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name of species: Parva comedenti
Species Nickname: Small Eaters
Description of species: A radially symmetrical creature with a body that has tentacles with mineralized spines. The tentacles surround an orifice that functions as a mouth and anus that leads into the rest of the body, which contains a gastrovascular cavity for digestion, a neural net for the nervous system that extends to the tentacles with a small bundle of neurons towards the center of the body to process touch, temperature, and chemical signals received from the tentacles and bell
Number of species:200
Size of species: 1 inch by 1 inch
Trait: Spines on tentacles to assist in grabbing
Carnivore/Herbivore scale: 0

[Screech9791]

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Gotta give credit where it's due, it's not easy to fuck up spoiler tags by pressing j instead of ], as the two aren't even that close to eachother on the keyboard. Yet again, 2019ers will be 2019ers.

[Naturegirl1999]

[spoiler=Parva Comedenti]
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Gotta give credit where it's due, it's not easy to fuck up spoiler tags by pressing j instead of ], as the two aren't even that close to eachother on the keyboard. Yet again, 2019ers will be 2019ers.

I fixed it. Also I’m using an IPad and the symbol for brackets is in a similar place when the symbols key is pressed

[Screech9791]

[spoiler=Parva Comedenti]
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Gotta give credit where it's due, it's not easy to fuck up spoiler tags by pressing j instead of ], as the two aren't even that close to eachother on the keyboard. Yet again, 2019ers will be 2019ers.

I fixed it. Also I’m using an IPad and the symbol for brackets is in a similar place when the symbols key is pressed

Well, go figure. I'm not even used to mobile typing.

Anyways, I might pitch in with some creatures if I can be bothered to and have the imagination, but otherwise I'm just gonna put this PTW here.

[Shadowclaw777]

Hey Robo can I poke your head on some of your thoughts for the balancing of the racial traits?

Cleaners: 26 The Cleaners would have 66 population before Venom Resistance, that’s a significant decrease in population, is that intended?

White Ray: 4 I have fixed the problem, with a desire of improved velocity and acceleration when swimming.

Blood Minnow: 140. ”Seems Fine.”

Dragon Carp: 20 seems good. Though they're very likely to only make it a few hundred years (under normal conditions) before they will have difficulty sustaining themselves. ”Is it me or is this two traits at the price of one, a... venerable long (but scientifically accurate for invertebrate creatures) lifespan and “endless” size growth, there should be some form of cap, hopefully?.

Feeler Worms: 15 “Seem fine-a-roo”

Vampire Fish: 60 ”This is strange a 5x2 creature should only have 20 members before starting racial trait adjustment.

[Doubloon-Seven]

Spoiler: Submission (click to show/hide)

Scientific Name: Anguilla Pilum Vulgaris
Common Name: Glaive Eel

Description: The Glaive Eel is a lithe, winding creature with mottled scales and brown speckling. Its body is almost totally unremarkable, traversing through undulating motions and able to sense its surroundings only with the primitive senses of touch and temperature. However, its mouth is a marvel of biology. The Glaive Eel has a long and bony beak which tapers swiftly into a blade of bone. Contrary to what might be expected, the Glaive Eel is not a predator, instead preferring to use the muscles of its face to saw apart seaweed, kelp, and other shallow-water plants.

It uses its Glaive to dig through the silty seafloor, where it rests with its body under a comfortable layer of earth. These burrows also serve as a place to lay its eggs, which it fertilizes asexually in clusters of about five.

Number Of Species: <33~
Size of Species: 6in. Length, 1in. Width

Trait: Glaive. The Glaive Eel has a beak uniquely suited to cutting apart plant matter efficiently, whereupon the Eel can take its food elsewhere to consume without the threat of being predated upon while eating in a food-rich area. The Eel's "Glaive" is also useful when attempting to fight off predators, and for basic digging.

Carnivore/Herbivore: 5

Might as well give a go, y'know.