6th TurnEventStrength dice: 92 (oh)
Temparement dice: 1(oh no)
A comet has struck The Barren Plains on the north of The Crater Sea. The sheer power of the collusion have triggered volcanic eruptions, and started a caused a massive release of CO2 that has increased the global tempatures.
The Harbringer's volume has decreased due to global warming, and as such there is less circulation and replenisment
You need to adapt to this much warmer, less oxygenic ocean now.
You will all be losing population counts, but also as the result of the population bottleneck you will experience, you all get a +1 on your votes to simulate its effects.
Team PancakeNaturegirl1999:
Supports Demonic SpoonKilojoule Proton:
Supports Demonic SpoonDemonic Spoon: Thicker cell walls to avoid dessication: (doesn't even matters)+2+2+1=5
Thickskinned PancakeNatural selection has promoted more rigid cells walls in this clade of pancake. They do not lose a molecular speck of internal fluid or gas to the outside, and are even able to survive on shore, in open air and all.
But as their reproduction relies on water breaking off pieces from their now only fragile part, they can only
survive out there, not
thrive.
This species was hit hard from the sudden changes, but their newfound sturdiness definitely helped them survive, and the structural stability resulted in a bit of a size growth.
Status: EN
DescriptionA 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 shedding the outer edges of its pan and the pieces with stem cells growing into new pancakes. 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 may rerely found on shore. It's not unusual for it to form coincidental mats, but can usually be found alone as well.
Team Pasta VēlōcisA_Curious_Cat: A net of nerves that courses between the outer and inner layer: 3+1+1=5
King Zultan: Gills: 4+1=5
0cra_Troper:
absent...Red Maned BlishThe primitive triggering connection between the tuff and the chemoreceptors has been outphased in favor of a much more complex net of nerves that course through the underside of the animals skin. This net controls everything, and makes blishes moves much faster and coordinated. This allowed the existance of actual sense of smell, not just chemotaxis. It now knows not only what to approach, but to avoid, such as regions too low on oxygen.
And as an another beneficient adaptation, this organism has a dense ring thin red strands surrounding its 'head' like a crimson mane. This is a primitive external gill that allows it to get much more oxygen. The gills, along with expelling CO2, also expel ammonia the animal produces, as a small bonus.
Even before the impact, this clade has been slowly evolving better means to get oxygen from the surrounding water, but as the things suddenly went downhill, this process gained momentum with momentum.
Of course, the situation has taken its toll. But overral, blish did managed to stay. It's reproduction is starting to get a bit too slow, if there were active predators, blish would die out imstantly due to how cumbersome it has become.
Status: VU
DescriptionAn 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 splitting in two when it gets too big.
Team Lagus Blobflazeo25: Nervous system: 4+1: 5 (Phew, if the dice flopped right there, you would go bye bye.)
Precursor FlageeAs it gained a nerveous system, and is capable of coordinating its movements now, this creature is now.can be considered a true animal.
The nervous system have granted the organism the ability to not just sense, but
interpret the heat it recieved, and it now knows what to do when it starts to get a bit too airey, as it will now ignore the heat and return to the chiller depths if it senses dessication. The tempature stagnation of the sea certainly helped.
Its nervous system has convergently evolved to like its distant cousins, the blish, but there is a twist. The nerve net near the outer surface have also granted the flagee the ability to sense pressure. It is unrefined and not strong, but it helps by faintly informing the animal of the depth its in, independant of the ambient heat.
It has shrunk considerably in size due to much less oxygen around, but it did pulled off at the end. Barely. The issue with the way of reproduction of the blish also applies here.
Status: EN
DescriptionA 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. A specialised protein allows it to sense and change directions towards the heat. 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 reproduces by splitting in two when it gets too big.
Team Friendly PancakeKashyyk: Separate suncatcher and waterraker castes: 3+1=4
Segregated HivecakeThe co-dependant nature of this variety of pancake is carried to a higher point in this species, with any specimen separate from a colony not being able to survive at all. There are two separate subtypes of this single species now, each performing a role the other can't.
These two morphs are the suncatcher and the waterraker, and they come with significant anatomical differences.
Suncatchers are the hivecakes that form the upper layer of a given hive. Their pans and pimples are hyperthropied, while their water pumps are vestigial, with tendrils only being connective ones. Their job is to photosynthesize and keep the colony afloat.
Waterrakers are the ones that form the bottom of the hivecake colonies. These individuals are pale white, with their pans, or what vestigial remains of it only serving as a support structure for their hyperthropied water pump and long and very numerous tendrils.
Their colonial nature means that as long as they stick together, they survive, but the damage is inevitable. The splitting has also become a bit of a hassle.
Status:VU
DescriptionA small green protoplant 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.
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 and tensrils are hyperthropied. Their job is to filter the water for any essentials and store nutrients in their cells.
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.
Multicelluar life is limited the sea, represented only by simple lifeforms. Vast growths of algea and giant mats of protoplants can be seen along the shallow coasts and the deep sea. It does make brief camoes outside of it though, on where the shore meets the sea.
More players are much appreciated.
-Magma
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Topic: Competitive Evolution (Turn 18) (11/15) (Read 36953 times)