Turn 11EventStrength Dice: 1
Temperament Dice: N/A
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Team PancakeNaturegirl1999:
Supports Demonic SpoonKilojoule Proton:
absent...Demonic Spoon: A deeper system of roots to reach further resources: 2+1+2=5
Miner GreenplateThe majority of the Greenplates reside on the wetter parts of land, but some are not that lucky. At the very limit of where they could possibly grow, Greenplates at the borders of the forests were always under pressure.
So they evolved much deeper roots to tap deeper groundwater, and it did came to fruition when the underground aquifers were reached, giving them all the water they need at all times. They grew more healthily and could support larger sizes than other plants that relied on shallow groundwater alone, so they outcompeted them.
The forests reach much further now, and cover the majority of the plains, converfing it into a vast forest, and they have encountered the source of The Harbringers, a mountain range reaching kilometer high.
The style of reproduction is starting to get a bit too crude, as the young now have a too hard time surviving under their elders.
Status: LC
Description:A green plant shaped like a flat, rough circle supported by a long stem. Its pan is a meter and a half in diameter, and it is stem is 4 meters long. A deep and extensive system of roots at the bottom of its stem dig into the soil and harvest it for water and minerals. 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 has dozens of tiny oil-filled pimples inside its stem, which used to be on its outer surface and for buoyancy on water, but now do not serve much of a purpose beyond being minor storage units. A system of veins course through its every tissue, and transport water and other essentials. It lives like your regular tree, forming vast, dense growths.
Habitat: All around the flat land surrounding The Crater Sea.
Team Pasta VēlōcisA_Curious_Cat: A primitive circulatory system: 5+2=
capped at 5King Zultan:
Supports A_Curious_CatSexual Selection vote: Gill slits equipped with veins lining the throat: 1+1=2
Mouthbreather BlishA critical evolitionary breakthrough has happened among the filterfeeding blish. A circulatory system! The blish now has a periodically contracting tissue that pushes and pulls the liquid inside the veins that courses its entire body, from head to tail. The system is pretty effective, and has allowed this clade to finally break the size barrier they faced for eons.
But there is a bad side to these changes. A replication error have caused the pair of slits that the creature had on its esophagus to appear repeatedly on the pharynx. While these do function as gills, they also have downsides that outwieigth the goods. These slits are lined with close to skin veins, and this causes these veins to lose a bit of the liquid inside them there, the result is a constant losing of valuable nutrients. Their blood has a distinct smell that makes their presence clear to the other blish, making the chances at reproduction higher.
The slits also cause problems with eating, as the organic debris can be lost through the waterflow from the slits before it is filtered. This causes the blish to suck in water at a much faster and frantic rate, for fewer results, and giving it its current name.
It needs to have stitches, and also some gainz on that tail.
Status:NT
Description: An aquatic animal that is 20 centimeters long. It moves along the sea floor and above with its slow-beating, flagella-covered tail and digests any organic debris it can find through its mouth that leads to its complex, three sectioned digestive system, which leads to an anus. 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 chord of nerves that runs from front to back of the animal that branches out to the rest of the body. It is close to a rod of cartilage that supports its body, and has an extension on its front that grants the animal a sense of airflow. A mane of thin and short crimson strands surround the head region, and functions as gills, along with a set of pairs of slits, that while function as additional gills, cause more problems than they do good. A system of blood-filled veins course through its body , powered by a single muscle pump. 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 Blobflazeo25: Two sets of side fins to aid in movement: 2+2=4
Maxinum McDreich:
Supports flazeo25The Canadian Kitten: A fish tail derived from the flagella: 4+1=5
Sexual Selection vote: Comminication through heat and light signals: 3
Slowtalker LagusThe selective pressures for better swimming have caused the Lagus to develop new appendages, two pairs of fins. These fins aid in its locomotion, as it no longer has to contort around to keep direction. One pair is just next to the gills, while the other one is closer to the anus and the new tail.
Yes, a tail. Along with the development of side fins, Lagus have finally outphased its ancient flagella in favor of a tail more reminicent of fish, evolving it off of its old tails remains. This tail grants much more efficent locomotion than the old one.
And as a not so succesfull development, the Lagus can send primitive messages to eachother through the new mechanisms that allowed them to produce light and heat at will. But as the Lagus' brain was already oveewhelmed by its senses and bodily systems, the messages are slurry, and it often takes Lagus so long that the reciever or sender already leaves by the time they can recieve or send the message.
Lagus isdumb, Lagus is sad, Lagus' brain, run by
GOBLIN. Pull him out and
BEAT HIM!Also it has no blood.
Status:LC
Description: A round animal 10 centimeters in width and length. It slowly moves along the sea shore and chews algea. It has a tail resembling of a fish, which it uses to swiftly move around, and it is aided by two pairs of side fins keeping balance, one pair on the front, one on the back. 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 its mucscles to work. 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. This net of nerves converges into a lump in the head, which is a very ineffective central ganglion. It has a defined front side with a head, which has two giant, organised patches of heat sensitive proteins, kind of like heat eyes, that allows it to detect the amount of ambient and directional heat, and a jawed mouth that leads to a full digestive tract. 6 pairs of fleshy protrusions covered with red hairs function as gills. Just above the eyes two long and flexible tendrils reside, and these end with fleshy orbs that produce heat, which equals to strong glow in their vision. These orbs also have cone and rod cells inside, which allows these orbs to function as primitive eyes capable of percieving shape, they can even change the amount of heat they produce to send messages, though it is very, very slow. It reproduces by the internal fertilisation by the gamet-injecting tendrils of Eral, and the internal hatching of eggs by Alur, who then releases the offspring onto a suitable patch of algea.
Habitat: The dense and long algea growths on the shores of The Crater Sea.
Team Friendly PancakeKashyyk: Thicker cell walls: 5+1:
capped at 5Sexual Selection vote: Better water filtering tentacles: 4+1=5
Feathered HivecakeThe detriment of blish living inside ot has started to take a toll on the hivecake colonies, as they have to deal with near-constant nibbling withoutna clear defense or distraction. It doesn't really matters, as they are vast, and small bite is below inaignificant to the hives. But they did evolved thicker tissues out of necessity, which also granted them larger individual sizes and the strength of their connections, increasing the size of the colonies.
And to get enough food for the larger hive, the now-impractical tendrils had to be refined, and be turned into very large, feather-like structures to filter the most water at once. Each waterraker can only support three of these, but it isn't a detriment as the new feathers far surpass their precursors.
Status: LC
Description: A complex of plants shaped like a flat circles with varying sizes. A ring of long and thin, retractable white tendrils reside, and are used to form connections with others of its kind to transfer nutrients. Surrounding the edges of the pan is a coat of bonding proteins that allows it to stick to others of its kind. It's tissues are tough to prevent injuries. It lives permanently stuck to the sea surface through the dozens of tiny oil-filled pimples across its body, which only some plants have. It can be found as mats numbering several tens of 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. This accomplished by a communal circulatory system that spans the entirety of a given hive, and it is powered by the beating of tens of thousands of internal water pumps. It reproduces by splitting in two when it gets too big to expand their colonies, and by incubating settlers, which are made by a process that makes them genetically distinct, when creating new colonies.
CastesSuncatcher: The green hivecakes with larger pans and the only ones that have oil pimples in their body, along with only having vestigial water pumps and their tendrils ony being connective ones. They compose the upper surface of a given colony. Their job is to photosynthesize and keep the colony afloat.
Waterraker: The pale white hivecakes with almost non-existant pans and non-existant pimples. Their water pumps are still external. Their job is to filter the water for any essentials and store nutrients in their cells. They do this by specialised filtering tentacles shaped like wide, long feathers.
Incubator: The specialised caste of hivecake that neither photosynthesizes or filters water. Instead, it produces genetically distinct settlers that grow into new colonies inside its oil filled womb, and eject them by turning inside out. It requires a drone to fuse into it everytime it makes a new settler.
Settler: The ones that produce new colonies by horizontally splitting into one suncatcher and a waterraker. They resemble both of their offspring, and are made.
Drones: This tiny, perfectly round caste specialises solely to be genetic carriers between Incubators. They are produced by Incubators and released into the circulatory system, which then they find another Incubator and fuse into it, carrying the genetic material into the mix.
: Open ocean.
Team EraclitoLeonardo8: Muscles: 5
GOTOTOTOE: Gills: 2+1=3
Sexual Selection vote: A set of gas bladders that give the creature a new shape: 3+1=4
Swole EelishThis lineage is now stronger. The oversized jaw came with the initiation of the development of muscle tissues, which then spread to the entire body. The animal now uses these to chew the plants it eats. But as good as they are, the muscles are still much too costy to use to their full potential due to oxygen inefficency.
Gills had to adapt and change to bring the minimum amount of oxygen to the animals new body. The gills are still the same in structure, but they are now found as a pair of bands that course the entirety of the length of the animal. They still supply the same rate of oxygen .
The swim bladder got bigger and bigger as it was found aytractive to have it, and soon this enlarged bladder needed more space, so it split into two, and then those two split as well, and so on and on. Then these bladders took shape that hindered the least and aided the best at moving
A adult eelish have about sixteen segments, but as juneviles, they are still the spherical blish, only gaining their shape as the swim bladder inflates into the chain that gives them their shape. The adult bladders are thin and tall, giving the animal a surface to push the water in a serpentine way using its new muscles. This is still quite slow though, as muscles are always letargic.
Each segment have a narrower connection point, making it obvious where one segment ends and begins.
It doesn't has blood.
Status: NT
Description: An serpentine, aquatic animal that is 50 centimeters long. It swims inside the colonies of hivecakes with slithering motions of its muscular body and chews pieces from the said plants through a giant, vertically opening jaw that leads to its three segmented, efficent digestive tract with a stomach and intestines, which leads to an anus. Anus is also connected to a chain of gas bladders it uses to control it buoyancy and give its body its shape. It has 10 black dots on its very front segment , 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 its 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 chord of nerves that runs from front to back of the animal that branches out to the rest of the body. Two stripes of thin and short crimson strands course through the animals sides, and function as gills. It reproduces by external fertilisation of eggs performed by two distinct genders. The fertilised eggs hatch into tiny, neotenic, single segmented juneviles, which reach full size, shape and sexual maturity not too long after.
Habitat: Inside the hivecake collectives.
Environment(which I just realised that I forgot about it in the previous turn and the round before that!)
On the southern hemisphere of the planet Aqautico, a giant warm saltwater crater lake called The Crater Sea resides.
Surrounding the sea, a verdant forest of Greenlate trees cover the flat ground far as eye can see, but it is totally silent except for the wind as there are no terrestrial animals yet.
Through the east side, four rivers called The Harbringers follow curved, close-by paths to The Crater Sea, coming from a tall mountain range called The Snowtipped Wall. The mountain range is also very close to an active volcano. Along with the four rivers, there is a dry river bed, a remnant of a time when there were five of The Harbringers.
A smaller and much younger freshwater crater lake is also nearby, residing by the north of The Crater Sea. It is connected to the it by a small stream that used to carry toxic, heavy metals from the lake it comes from.
Multicelluar life is abundant and complex. Vast growths of algea and collosal collectives of "eusocial" plants can be seen along the shallow coasts and the deep sea respectively.
It is also very clearly present on the flat land surrounding The Crater Sea, as a dense and vast forest of long, mushroom-like plants that cover much of the said land.
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