Turn 15EventStrength Dice: 29
Temperament Dice: N/A
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Team PancakeNaturegirl1999:
absent...Kilojoule Proton:
absent...Demonic Spoon: Branches: 1
Brittle PlatetreeThe vast land forests have been plagued by a maladaptation that was a product of a short sighted evolutionary feature. The plants have developed multiple branches that grow out of the place where the former plate resided, and each of these branches have a smaller plate on them.
At first this was an advantage, as they could cover more ground than the greenplates, and in the end they overshaded them out. But the awful flaw that was being covered up by having an advantage over others have git them full force. Their branches are fragile, and never stop growing longer and longer until they loudly crack and fall. The tree always has to grow new branches.
But since they have no competition around, they manage keep their population up.
Status: LC
Description: A green plant shaped like a flat, rough circle supported by a long, fuzzy stem that is about 5 meters long on average. This stem ends with dozens of evergrowing, fragile branches that all terminate with a single large circular leaf shaped like a pan. 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 producing and shedding a puffy coat of small, perfectly airborne seeds that cover its stem. The walls of its cells are very durable and sturdy. It has a cavity filled with oil inside its stem, which used to store water and nutrients for the mean times. 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: Nearly all land on the local continent.
Team Pasta VēlōcisA_Curious_Cat: Fix the skull plates: 2+1+2= 5
King Zultan:
Supports A_Curious_CatSexual Selection vote: A cartilage spine that encases both the notochord and the nerve chord with its larger and smaller down and up segments: 6
Athletic BlishThe prominent, large crest that once decorated blishes forehead has been tamed. It was not completely rid of due to sexual selection not allowing it, but is now rather reduced to a segmented plate of cartilage that isn't hindering anything.
But the most important change during this evolutionary spurt was the development of a spinal chord. Each vertebrae is compsed of three parts that surround the nerve and notochords, separately. It covers the entirety of these two organs.This new structure allows the blish to have a larger anchoring point for its muscles, and also allows it to put up some fancy and strong vibrations to attract mates. But it is a bit too elsatic to be a reliable spine however, so sometimes blosh can find themselves in stupid positions when swimming.
Swimmings a bit wobbly, and a kind of an opportunistic predator is here at last. So watch out
Status: NT
Description: An aquatic animal that is 45 centimeters long. It moves along the sea floor and above with a 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 ganglion, which stands on the start of a spinal chord 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. Both of these are separately encased in a set of cartilage vertebrae, that form a backbone.The nerves also course the animals skin, and along with specialised sensors there, they provide a sense of touch. The ganglion is surrounded by 12 interlocking rings of cartilage. A fluid-filled internal cavity surrounds its digestive system and acts as a hydroskeleton, which is also surrounded by a net of zig-zag muscles that aid in its movement. A mane of thin and short crimson strands surround the head region, and functions as gills and ammonia disposal, along with a set of pairs of slits that function as additional gills. 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: Benthic waters.
Team Lagus Blobflazeo25: Mammalian reproduction and parenting:
doesn't matters+1+2+2= 5
Maxinum McDreich:
Supports flazeo25The Canadian kitten:
Supports flazeo25Sexual Selection vote: Ammonia disposal by an uretra and the vestigial gills, which now sweat: 3
Synapsidian LagurasThe reproductive system of Laguras has evolved to fit into its new terrestrial lifestyle. The Alur now provide their eggs well after their formation with the eggs fusing to the walls of the womb. These eggs turn to newborn after a few months, and the mother takes care of them for up to six months after.
The Erals have also changed, but alot less. Their separate tendrils have been fused into a phallus, which they use to fertilise the Alurs.
This is highly successful, as young fatalities are low and taking care of the youngs development is easier.
Both genders have gained an urethra that is connected to their sex organs. They use these to pee. Their hills have also been transformed into a fan structure that often sweats, and secretes the ammonia out as well. But this system has flaws. The flaps are not efficent, they lack the adequate surface area to perform their function.
They have taken to eat the fallen Platetree branches, as well as the seed snow. They are also fully terrestrial now, and have left the shores permanently.
Status: LC
Description: A mammal-like animal 80 centimeters in length and 40 centimeters in width. It slowly strides along the forest floor and eats the plant matter there, but also eats corpses. It has a tail resembling of a fish, which is vestigial, and i also has two pairs of short legs to walk on land. Covering the body is smooth skin, which it uses to feel touch. And under that, there is a skeleton that keeps it rigid and provides pathways for its mucscles to work, also supporting cartilage that allows the bones to move smoothly. This is further augmented with a net of nerves just beneath the outer layer, which also controls its movement. This net of nerves converges into a lump in the head, which is a brain that houses a sex-crazed mind. 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 that also handles the ammonia disposal by sending it to an urethra that is integrated to the sex organs. 6 pairs of fleshy protrusions on its head function as sweat flaps. A set of veins and a heart transport nutrients and oxygen throught its body. 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 to one another. It reproduces by the internal fertilisation by the peepee of Eral, and the 3 month pregnancy by Alur, who then gives birth and takes care of the juneviles.
Habitat: The land forests.
Team Friendly PancakeKashyyk: Changes to the way Drones dosperse to Incubators: 3
Sexual Selection vote: Lignin armor: 5+1= 6
Plated HivecakeThe evolutionary arms race between the Eelish and the Hivecake has resulted in an adaptational fork for the Hivecakes. They evolved tougher and tougher tissue, until simple cell wall thickening was not enough. So they covered wherever they can with lignin, but putting too much lignin would mean that the plants would lose their flexibility and become wood, resulting in the collective shattering. So they kept it a level just enough that they were still flexible, which made them a bit more tough than grass. So nothing was lost or gained in the end.
But the outer layer of the plants aside, the reproduction of hivecakes have been changed dramatically. The drones no longer travel inside the veins, but instead are found a plenty inside a sticky nectar that coats the new specialsed tendrils of Incubators.
Eelosh eat these nectar, getting the jello all over themselves and unwitttingly carry the drones inside to their next destination when they visit another Incubator, where al least one gets inside the Incubator, and new drones join in the ride.
This is efficent, but is also a bit counterproductive since Eelish are kinda their predators as well, and they have somehow nullified the intimidating effects of Ambushers. (What kind of an abomination is this? )
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 and supported by a framework of lignin 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, or if its in pain by using the communal nervous system, which others will act accordingly by either giving or taking nutrients, or pulling their brethern away from danger and retaliating if possible. On every caste there are small tendrils specialised on chemoreception .The nutrient transfer is 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 asexual budding from their pans edges 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 one or more drones to fuse into it everytime it makes a new settler. They have specialised tendrils that secrete a sticky nectar with drones in it.
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 are placed inside the nectar until an animal eats the nectar, which then they hitch a ride find another Incubator and fuse into it, carrying the genetic material into the mix.
Strangler: A caste of highly modified waterrakers with a single purpose; catching live prey. Their tendrils are longer and have the ability to curl up very fast. They are also covered in a toxin that shuts down gills. They suffocate, then consume the prey, then send the nutrients to the rest of the complex.
: Open Ocean.
Team EraclitoLeonardo8: Better adaptability to different environments, mainly a pressure sensitive skin and better gass sacks: 2+2+1= 5
GOTOTOTOE:
Supports Leonardo8Sexual Selection vote: A mouth pouch to store the eaten food to be digested later: 4
Nomadic EelishAs millenia passed by the mosy adaptable of Eelish had better food sources than just the increasingly complex hivecakes thrived more, so after time, Eelish became a very adaptable species, capable of diving to depths up to 300 meters below sea level. They now feed upon just about anything, dead biomatter or bodies, eggs, and sometimes other animals. Though they still are omnivores leaning to herbivory.
Their new tolerance to foreign environments have resulted them being able to just find another collective if the one they lived gets out of sight, they can just hold off until there is another one. So they usually take their time on the depths, maybe stay for a day or two, before ascending again to find an another collective. They need the collective as it hold alot of food, and also because they provide a stable place for their eggs to grow on.
And as a second adaptation that originally appeared as a display structure, Eelish can now take large amounts of food into a large cavity between the mouth and the stomach, which then are slowly shallowed. This has allowed Eelish to store food, but as they lack any cheeks, food that is kept there gets right back out when the mouth is opened again.
Status: LC
Description: An serpentine, aquatic, mucus covered animal that is a meter long. It swims inside the colonies of hivecakes with slithering motions of its muscular body and tail fin and chews pieces from the said plants through a giant, vertically opening jaw that leads to its large gullet that it uses to store food, and then its three segmented, efficent digestive tract with a stomach and intestines, which leads to an anus. It moves in large troupes numbering up to a hundred and can hold complex communication with pheromonal signals. Its 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. This cord of nerves is connected to a well developed brain. Two stripes of thin and short crimson strands course through the animals sides, and function as gills. Derived from these, a system of bloodfilled chambers and muscular valves pump blood through the animals body through thousands of thin veins. A set of glands that produce an antipoison to protect the gills. It is adaptable to many marine environments. 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: The Hivecake collectives and the deep sea floor, and everywhere inbetween.
Team AkınMagmacube_tr
1) A sexual reproduction system similar to that of anglerfish: 5
2) A set of internal gills: 3+1= 4
3) Eyes: 3
Undulating AmaranthThe Amaranth no longer split in two. They have evolved to reproduce sexually, but not in a conventional way. Females are large, and asexually spawn minuscule males with the only purpose of fertilising an another female from a small cavity just above the womb. When they reach an another females womb, they explode, releasing all the gametes inside them there. These gametes are then absorbed by the womb walls, which are actually composed of egg cells. About 300 babies come to life, and only 2 or 3 survives to get out because they steal resources from one another like a weird game of turf war.
The line of gills on the Amaranths bcak have also been improved upon. In the place of those primitive gills, there is now a long and narrow crest that lines the back. It constantly undulates up and down in a sync with opening and closing of the eight holes on it. The holes lead into isolated internal chambers where the oxygen is taken in and CO2 and ammonia is taken out. This way, at east one gill is taking oxygen in while one another takes out waste at all times.
And as a weird and seemingly random mutation, Amaranth has developed two pairs of eyes. One pair is located infront of the animal, providing binocular vision, while the other is on the sides, and give a peripheral vision.
All and all a net upgrade. It heart is beginning to fail though. And it is growing a bit too big to feed from nutrient poor dirt.
Status:
Description: A semi-oval animal 20 centimeters in length. It aimlessly crawls along the sea floor by using its six small legs and digests any organic debris by gulping the seafloor soil in, filtering it inside its tubular pseudo-gut, and then expelling it out. It has a long and thin, constantly wavering hump on its back that has eight internal chambers that it uses as gills, which also functions as the ammonia disposal. It has a nervous system that controls its bodily functions, which converge into a chain of ganglion. Six small protrusions line its mouth, and are used to smell around and taste the soil to determine its quality. It has a primitive, closed circulatory system that distributes the essentials inside its body. A skin layer surrounds the animal, giving it the sense of touch. It posesses two sets of eyes, one foward-looking and the other is on the sides. It reproduces by imternal fertilisation of females by other females sending exploding, minuscule male drones inside their wombs, and sibling squishing followed by the birth of 2 or 3 smaller Amaranth.
Habitat: Sea floor.
EnvironmentOn the southern hemisphere of the planet Aqautico, on a continent named Samel, a giant warm saltwater crater lake called The Crater Sea resides.
Surrounding the sea, a verdant forest of Platetrees cover the flat ground far as eye can see. Its surface is covered with a layer of fluffy seeds that look and act like snow. It is silent for the most part, but a bit flashy and filled with high pitched wheezing and guttural sounds due to the communication and the sprawling walking style of the animal inhabitants, The Laguras that eat the seed snow and plant matter.
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.
All these are on the continent Samel, which is surrounded by an ocean called The Big Blue.
Multicelluar life is abundant and complex. Vast collectives of "eusocial" plants can be seen along the shallow coasts and the deep sea respectively. Sparse algal growths exist as well, and used to be much more widespread than they used to be.
It is also very clearly present on the flat land surrounding The Crater Sea, as the Platetree forest.
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