7th Turn
Event
Strength Dice: 80
Temparement Dice: 2
The new crater formed from the relatively recent explosion have also filled with water, and a new, smaller river now feeds The Crater Sea.
The problem is that the comet had many heavy metals inside it, and these are slowly leaking into the sea, sinking to the seafloor.
This is temporary, as these metals are finite and will hopefully form less toxic compounds with their surrounding atoms. But for now, there is trouble. Your population counts go one stage lower than it should be.
Team Pancake
Naturegirl1999: Endospores that grow inside the outer layer of the plant, and then split off as miniature adults: 3+2+2= capped at 5
Kilojoule Proton: Supports Naturegirl1999
Demonic Spoon: Supports Naturegirl1999
Coastal Pan
The selective pressure to make sure that the young survives and the new pressures of dry land have caused a change of plans in this organisms reproductive system. Instead of using it pan to shed small pieces and leave them to their fate, they instead use a modified version their oil pimples to hatch a miniature adult directly, and when the pmpile bursts and the junevile pops out, it is much more ready than its ancestors did when young. This has allowed them to properly colonise the coasts too, with growths of them covering the thin belt of wet shore.
They don't have any adaptations for living on land except for their thick outer layer, and the shedding of their still fragile pan has become a detrimental thing.
Status: VU
Description
A small green plant shaped like a flat, thin circle. It is 17 centimeters in diameter. A small water siphon is situated at its center, which it uses to get minerals and nutrients more efficently. Surrounding this pump, a ring of long and thin, retractable white tendrils reside, and are used to filter the water and digest the things they catch. It reproduces by growing miniature adults inside capsules just under its outer layer, which burst when the young is developed. The walls of its cells are very durable and sturdy. It lives permanently stuck to the sea surface through the dozens of tiny oil-filled pimples across its body, although it is also seen on wet shores. It's not unusual for it to form coincidental mats, but can usually be found alone as well. The outer sections of it's pan is still very fragile, a vestigial remnant from its old method of reproduction.
Habitat: Sea surface. mostly found close to shore, and also on the coasts.
Team Pasta Vēlōcis
A_Curious_Cat: Sexual reproduction by external fertilisation of eggs: 1+2+2=5
King Zultan: Supports A_Curious_Cat
0cra_Troper: Auto-placed on A_Curious_Cat
Breeding Blish
This clade of blish has been the first to develop active reproduction among the other creatures of the sea. When a male blish cathches the smell the opposite genders mating pheromones, it follows the trail and tries to get the female to drop her eggs. The more 'manly smells' it can make, more it is likely for the female to drop them. If the male is successful at his courting, he gets to fertilise the eggs with a cloud of sperm. Eggs are then left alone to their fates, and as there is nothing to eat them, they usually survive. They hatch into miniature adults, which gain full size in about 5 months, and reach sexual maturity in 8 months.
SS vote has been unlocked.
Status:NT
Description
An aquatic animal that is 10 centimeters long. It moves along the sea floor and above with its tuff of flagella on its bum and digests any organic debris it can find through its mouth that leads to its digestive insides. It has 10 black dots on its very front, 4 of them larger then the other 6. The smaller six form a hexagon that surrounds a square that is formed from the bigger 4, which surrounds a single jawless mouth. It uses these dots to smell the water around and act according to them, approaching or avoiding alike. These dots and everything this animal has as parts are connected to and commanded by a net of nerves just under the skin. A mane of thin and short crimson strands surround the head region, and functions as gills. It reproduces by external fertilisation of eggs performed by two distinct genders. The fertilised eggs hatch into tiny juneviles, which reach full size and sexual maturity not too long after.
Habitat: The sea, near the sea floor as its food is there.
Team Lagus Blob
flazeo25: A protrusion with two large heat sensors and a crusher: 3+2=5
Maxinum McDreich: Supports flazeo25
Googly Lagus
This animals is the cutest in the entire planet. It has two giant 'eyes' made out of heat receptors, complete with eyelids. This organisam also has a 'jaw' of sorts two calcite protrusions that are connected to the animals main skeleton. This mouth doesn' serves much of a purpose, as there is no muscle to effectively chew or a stomach to digest the food it chews. These two things reside on a 'head' that contains a much denser nerve net. The the entire thermoreceptive capability is now concentrated on the two eyes.
It's heat reception is much better now, but there is no change in efficency whatsoever. The heavy metals have brought this species to a critical position from an already vulnerable one.
Status: CR
Description
A round animal 5 centimeters in width and length. It slowly moves along the sea shore and digests any organic debris it can find, which is usually algea. It has a long tail resembling a flagella, which it uses to move around. Covering the body, a specialised layer of tissue prevents any nutrient loss. And under and around that, there is a calcite framework that keeps it rigid and provides pathways for cells to move. This is further augmented with a net of nerves just beneath the outer layer, which also controls its movement and grants it a bit of pressure reception that informs it of the depth. It has a defined front side with a head, which has two giant patches of heat sensitive proteins, kind of like heat eyes, that allows it to detect the amount of ambient and directional heat, and a non-functional primitive jaw .It reproduces by splitting in two when it gets too big.
Habitat: Inside the algea growths that cover the shallow waters.
Team Friendly Pancake
Kashyyk: Communication between cells and and therefore, individual plants by special chemicals: 4+2=capped at 6
GOTOTOTOE: Supports Kashyyk
Communicative Hivecake
As the vast, mutualistic colonies of this plants grow and grow, there are always ones that get left behind. To make use of all members of a colony efficently, hivecakes have evolved a way to share their situation with eachother. When a cell is starving or has too much nutrients, it will release a special chemical signal that allows it to make other either give or take nutrients from it. In macro scale, this allows a slow and cumbersome transferring of nutrients from one plant to another. It is slow, but the amount of plants possibly starving is much lower now. And as a complimentary quirk, tissues of the plant have become much more streamlined, with cells spaced out evenly and are guaranteed to pick up the signals each other give and transfer the nutrients more efficently.
This organism is now complex enough to be considered an actual plant.
Status: NT
Description
A small green plant shaped like a flat circle. It is 12 centimeters in diameter. A small water siphon is situated at its center, which it uses to get minerals and nutrients more efficently. Surrounding this pump, a ring of long and thin, retractable white tendrils reside, and are used to form connections with others of its kind to transfer nutrients in some, and just as water harvesters on the others. Surrounding the edges of the pan is a coat of bonding proteins that allows it to stick to others of its kind. It reproduces by splitting in two when it gets too big. It lives permanently stuck to the sea surface through the dozens of tiny oil-filled pimples across its body. It can be found as mats numbering thousands plants, and never alone, as they die if they are separated. It features specialised subtypes. It has the ability to let others know if it is low on or has too much nutrients by using special chemical signals, which others will act accordingly by either giving or taking nutrients.
Habitat: Open ocean.
Environment
On the southern hemisphere of the planet Aqautico, a giant warm saltwater crater lake called The Crater Sea resides.
Surrounding the sea, a hot barren, lifeless rocky wasteland goes on for hundreds of kilometers, stretching as far as eye can see.
And through the east side, four rivers called The Harbringers follow curved, close-by paths to the sea, coming from far away and who knows where. Where they come from is also close to a volcano. Along with the four rivers, there is a dry river bed, a remnant of a time when there were five of The Harbringers. These four rivers show signs of being stronger before, abeing able to carry more water than they do now.
A smaller and much younger freshwater crater is also nearby, residing by the north of The Crater Sea. It is connected to the it by a small hazardous stream that carries toxic, heavy metals from the lake it comes from.
Multicelluar life is limited the sea, represented only by simple lifeforms. Vast growths of algea and giant mats of colonial plants can be seen along the shallow coasts and the deep sea respectively. It is also present on the shores too, as a thin, distinct outline that mostly surrounds the sea.
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Topic: Competitive Evolution (Turn 18) (11/15) (Read 36950 times)