10th TurnEventStrength Dice: 89
Temperament Dice: 3
Algea around the shores of The Crater Sea have evolved into forms that can support longer growths, making it much more abundant.
Team PancakeNaturegirl1999: A vascular system: 3+2=5
Kilojoule Proton:
absent...Demonic Spoon:
Supports Naturegirl1999Towering GreenplateThrough the selective pressures to catch more light, individuals that could grow higher were selected for. For this, this plant have evolved a vascular distribution system akin to Terran plants. The liquids inside are transported through internal pressure the veins have. This pressure have supported the further widening of the green panel they have on the top, making them able to catch more of the light.
Status: LC
Description: A green plant shaped like a flat, rough circle supported by a long stem. Its pan is a meter in diameter, and it is stem is 3 meters 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 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: The wet, close-to-coast regions of The Barren Plains.
Team Pasta VēlōcisA_Curious_Cat: Fixing the notochord: 4+2+1=
capped at 5King Zultan:
Supports A_Curious_CatSexual Selection vote: A tail: 3
Narwhal BlishThe error that was its horn has been repaired and has been added on. It made the blish that had it attractive, so the maladaptation wasn't removed. Instead it was tamed into a useful structure, an antenna. This growth is now much shorter, and it is much thinner and elastic. Inside of it is a chord of nerves adapted to sense the waterflow around. The inside of the creature, the notochord now provides support.
And as an another independant adaptation, the back of the blish have elongated into a fleshy thing, which is supported by the elongated aft end of the notochord. This tail is about a quarter the length of the main body, and slowly moves to grant propulsion. It is sluggish and ultimately redundant as the animal lacks the necessary musculature required. It is covered in flagellum, which still randomly beat, but are mostly vestigial.
Status: NT
Description: An aquatic animal that is 10 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. 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: Muscles: 5
Maxiinum Mcdreich: A digestive tract: 3+1= 4
The Canadian kitten: Light sensors on the heat tendrils: 5
Sexual Selection Vote: A proper nervous system with a central brain: 2+1= 3
Cambrian LagusAnd the award of ''The most changed organism in a single round'' goes to... Cambrian Lagus!
First of all, Lagus now has muscles that course through its entire body, which combined with the gills, grants it an unparalelled elasticity among animals. These muscles have also allowed it to chew its green food and tear it apart into bits to be more easily digested.
The second adaptation is a full digestive system derived from the old, one way one. The stomach have regressed further into the body, forming an throat, and a new, curved and coiling canal have also formed on its back, which is an intestine that allows it to draw in nutrients much more efficently. It ends with an anus that excretes the waste.
The third adaptation is the emergence of sight. It is primitive and doesn't really allows vision greater than slight shapes, but it helps the Lagus to know where it is depth wise, and also compliments its heat vision by giving things more of a shape instead of the glowy haze it saw earlier.
And as a last change, a central ganglion has formed inside its head, which is supposed to coordinate the Lagus better by giving it a degree of behaivorial plasticity, but it is too unspecialised and primitive to process the amount of input. Lagus is a slowthinker as a result.
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 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 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 an ineffective 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. 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: A new super tiny caste that carries genetic information between incubators: 3
Drone HivecakeA new hivecake caste has appeared. These specialised carriers spend their brief existances inside the vast circulatory systems of hivecake collectives, with the goal of reaching to an Incubator. Incubators produce these critters, and they then randomly get transported inside the circulatory system until they reach to another Incubator, which then they fuse into it and give the genetic material they carried to it. Incubator then shuffles the new genome with its existing one, creating a genetically distinct settler as a result. This allows genetic diversity and plasticity that asexual reproduction can't grant.
As a side effect though, Incubators now require a drone to fuse into them everytime they make a Settler, so the process is much slower. But their sheer numbers easily overbear this.
SS vote unlocked!
Status: LC
Description: A 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, 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 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 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: Improved digestive system: 3+2+1=
capped at 5GOTOTOTOE:
Supports Leonardo8Sexual Selection vote: A vertical jaw derived from the mandibles: 6+1=7
Trapjaw BlishThe primitive digestive tube of this clade of blish has been refined into a proper digestive tract they allows it to digest plant matter efficently. The tube is divided into three sections, a tube that directs the food into the stomach, the stomach that dissolves the soft plant matter, and the intestines, that allow an efficent absorbtion of nutrients. This has made it much more active and energy efficent. The digestive tract have also indirectly improved the swim bladder by getting out of its way. No hindrance on either side now.
But on the other hand there is one on a third side. Their mandibles evolved into actual jaws that can very slowly chew the plants they eat, but it soon spiraled out of control when the blish found the ones with biggest jaws attractive. Now this species have ginormous jaws that greatly hinder their swimming and pathfinding through the dense growths of the hiveroot collectives. And as they lack musculature, using these jaws is very difficult.
Status: VU
Description:An 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 a giant, hindersome 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 primitive swim bladder it uses to control it buoyancy. 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 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. 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 Hivecake collectives.
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