9th TurnEventStrength Dice: 60
Temperament Dice: 3
Through the formation of a new mountain region nearby, The Barren Plains now get more rain. This is especially beneficial for the land plants, and i also helps to the refreshment of the sea.
Team PancakeNaturegirl1999: Growing a stem: 3+2+2=
capped at 5Kilojoule Proton:
Supports Naturegirl1999Demonic Spoon:
Supports Naturegirl1999Lifted GreenplateThese plants became too differentiated from its ancestors to be a pancake. It is no longer one with the ground, it now has a long, durable stem that lifts it a good meter up. They cover the wet areas and give shade to the sunblasted plains.
But not having a vascular system has started to show its negative effects, as this is the maximum size it can grow until the cell-to-cell transfer fails. On the other hand, the pimples have automatically migrated inside the stem, as clusters of internal dots. The vestigial remnants of the water pump are now entirely gone.
Status: LC
DescriptionA green plant shaped like a flat, rough circle supported by a long stem. Its pan is 40 centimeters in diameter, and it is stem is a meter long. A ring of long and thin 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, but now do not serve much of a purpose beyond being minor storage units. It lives like your regular tree, forming vast, dense growths.
Habitat: The wet, close-to-coast regions of The Barren Plains.
Team Pasta VēlōcisA_Curious_Cat: A digestive system:
doesn't matters+2+2+1=5
King Zultan:
Supports A_Curious_Cat0cra_Troper:
Auto-placed as support to A_Curious CatSexual Selection vote: A notochord: 1
Stiff BlishThe food this blish eats is a sparse and hard-to-harvest one, so the natural pressures made its digestive tract more and more complex until it became very efficent. The food is sucked in by the mouth which then travels through the pharynx, where an endostyle filters the water to catch it inside a mucus. The cilia on the endostyle then push the mucus back, into the esophagus, where this mucus is culminated and the place water that was sucked in exits through two slits. The mucus culminated here until it is again pushed into the intestine, where it is digested and then excreted out of the anus.
This system itself is very efficent, but just as itself is unsufficent. The animals lacks any musculature and circulation, so the it is again stuck at the same size.
But as there is evolutionary success, there is also failure. The inside of the animal is a rod of cartilage that is supposed to provide support, but it just grows and grows until it bursts out of the animals 'forehead' and keeps growing, forming an elastic horn that hinders swimming, hurts, and just makes things much harder in general.
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 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 always grows and eventually pierces the animals front.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 Blobflazeo25: Gills between the head and the body: 5+2=
capped at 5Maxinum McDreich: A primitive one-way digestive system: 2+1= 3
The Canadian kitten:
Supports flazeo25Sexual Selection Vote: Two thermoluminecent tendrils at the head: 6
Flair LagusThe growths of algea it swam inside have were always richer in oxygen than other places, so it was only a matter of time until Lagus evolved to exploit this too. Six pairs of protrusions lined with redhairs provide the all oxygen it needs, so it is now much more active, yet still slow due to its tail being primitive.
A yet another adaptation was for digestion. The Lagus' mouth have gained muscle, and can open and close. It also now leads to a stomach also lined with muscle. The stomach is one way though, so half digested food is also disposed along with the feces, lowering the advantages.
As both respiratory and digestive features have been relocated, the outer layer of this lagus is now just isolative in function.
But the most eyecatching evolution on this animal is without a doubt are the heat tendrils. These tendrils are long and have some muscle to be flailed around, they each carry a sphere that produces alot of heat, and by this, in their vision the orbs glow. This is metabolically costy, and isn't vey useful, but they look nice.
Again, this animals lacks any circulation and a muscle system, so it too is stuck in the same size as well.
Status: LC
DescriptionA round animal 10 centimeters in width and length. It slowly moves along the sea shore and nibbles 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, 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 primitive jaw that leads to a one-way stomach. 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.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: Inside the algea growths that cover the shallow waters.
Team Friendly PancakeKashyyk: A new caste of hivecake that produces new, independant colonies: 3+2=5
GOTOTOTOE:
Supports KashyykShipyard HivecakeAmong the colonies of hivecake, a new mutation has occured and by the refinement of natural selection, it has turned into a brand new caste. Incubators create colonies. They grow them inside their single enormous oil storage, and when it is big enough, they release it. No longer new colonies form by breaking apart.
But fitting alot of plants inside there is hard, so the incubator hatches a yet another caste that emergened from its influence, the settler. The settlers are a hybrid between a suncatcher and a waterrraker, essentially the ancestral form. They split horizontally instead of the normal diagonally into a single suncatcher and a waterraker, which then split into a new colony.
They are now so numerous that they can are noticable from orbit.
Status: LC
DescriptionA small green plant shaped like a flat circle. It is 12 centimeters in diameter. 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 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 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 wwhen 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 and their tendrils are hyperthropied. Their job is to filter the water for any essentials and store nutrients in their cells.
Incubator: The specialised caste of hivecake that neither photosynthesizes or filters water. Instead, it produces settlers that grow into new colonies inside its oil filled womb, and eject them ny turning inside out.
Settler: The ones that produce new colonies by horizontally splitting into one suncatcher and a waterraker. They resemble both of their offspring.
: Open ocean.
Team EraclitoLeonardo8: A swim bladder that is derived from the end of the digestive system: 1+1=2
Sexual Selection vote: Two fleshy mandibles with calcite spikes to chew at the hivecake colonies: 5
Vandalising BlishA new lineage has split from the blish before the development of the new digestive system. These blish live inside the colonies of hivecakes and nibble at them.
Their anus is now connected to a small sack that fills with the gasses from the digestive processes. This sack is a swim bladder that allows the animal to control its buoyancy more effectively. But it has some significant downsides. It hinders the digestive tube, and it is also ineffective as the digestive tube has evolved to digest organic debris, not tough plant matter, so the gasses that do appear are very low. But it does function.
The digestion of the said plant matter is assisted by two fleshy, spiky mandibles. These tear of small pieces an bits from the plants, an send them inside for digestion.
It struggles with the same things its close and distant relatives struggle with.
Status: LC
DescriptionAn aquatic animal that is 10 centimeters long. It swims inside the colonies of hivecakes with its tuff of flagella on its bum and eats pieces from the said plants through the spiky fleshy mandibles in its mouth that leads to its digestive canal, which leads to an anus. Anus is also connected to a primtive swim bladder it uses to control it buoyancy that often hinders the digestive functions. 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. 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: Inside the colonies of hivecakes.
We only have 4 spots left. And no, not three because I am going to kick 0cra_Troper out, since they never vote at all and act as a dead weight on their team.I'm okay with GOTOTOTOE switching teams, if that matters.
This round is already done with them on your team, so GOTOTOTOE is considered to have switched now for the 10th round.
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