1st Turn
Events
Strength Dice: 9
Temperament Dice: N/A
Nothing of importance happened in this turn.
Team Chaos
Knightwing64: Muscularisation of tissues: 3
Buffy Pea
In a random change in the shape of the tissue, the cells of this new lineage of pea are capable of using their natural flowing ability against eachother, creating a motion that resembles flexing and squirming. Their newfound way of locomotion actually makes them a tiny bit faster than other peas. But overral, this hasn't changed their way of life in the slightest, as they have no way actually finding food. They can only stumble upon it.
It's its relatives are better at it at obtaining and finding food. It is being outcompeted very slowly, as the conditions of the like are still pretty Ediacaran.
Status: NT
Description:A pea-sized proto-animal. It aimlessly moves along the lake floor and digests any organic debris it can find. It's tissues have the ability to flex and push the creature forward. It reproduces asexually by occasionally budding.
Habitat: The warm and pebbly mountain lake floor.
Team Divergent
Mercur: A coat of tendrils that increase the surface area: 5
Abundant Puff
Perhaps the most obiquitous of all peas, the Abundant Puff may not even be considered a pea anymore. It's larger than its relatives by a wide margin, and is covered entirely in a thick coat of tendrils that while resemble quills, are actually soft flesh. It uses these tendrils as both a way to feed, and additionally a way to breathe. Since peas breathe and eat from their outside surface, larger the that area is, the better things are.
There is a problem though. These long and silky tendrils help it feed and breathe, but they make it harder than before for the animal to move around, since flowing isn't possible anymore. So the population is clustered around the center of the lake, and are much less common everywhere else. They also frequently cannibalise eachother due to not being able to distinguish anything from anything at all.
But the most interesting thing however is that the central lake puffs and the outer lake puffs are becoming distinct ecotypes due to food availability, with the much more numerous inner ones less likely to eat eachother and better at filtering from the soil around them, and rarer outer ones instead being more adept at digesting large clumps of food instead of debris, using their tendrils as trawling nets to entangle and digest smaller peas, and even pancakes they can reach.
Status: LC
Description: A cueball-sized proto-animal. It aimlessly moves along, or usually, just sits on the central lake floor and digests any organic debris it can catch with its innumerable, long and silky tendrils. It reproduces asexually by occasionally budding. There are two varieties, a more predatory one and a more sedentary one.
Habitat: The warm and pebbly mountain lake floor.
Team Sol
TricMagic: Increased photosynthesis efficency: 4+1=5
Violet Pancake
The increasing competiton for sunlight has led this small plant to evolve better ways to do the only thing it can do. Photosynthesize. The changes in their biology have resulted in a change of color as well, that being their color shifting darker, towards the shades of violet. While this has made them much more abundant, there is no real difference made.
Status: LC
Description: A small, violet protoplant shaped like a flat circle. It is the size of a penny. It is very efficent at what in its way of life. It reproduces asexually by sedding its outer edges, which grow independantly.
Habitat: The warm waters of the mountain lake.
Team Tetramylsis
flazeo25: Tendrils on the edges that secrete sticky mucus: 3
Pile Pancake
As a freak mutation, a single pancake gained the ability to secrete a mucus derived from sytoplasmic plasma from a series of tiny tendrils that protrude from it outer edges. And that was what it took. Soon, small and large mats of its descendants would sail along in colonies on the waters surface, moving through the streams created by convection forces.
Even though this abilty allows the small pieces shed to stay attached to their parent and grow beside it, there is no mutualism to see here. Each individual are as independant as their ancestors, so no additional fitness is granted. Infact, the pancakes on the centers of such mats may die to starvation.
Status: LC
Description: A small, purple protoplant shaped like a flat circle. It is the size of a penny. It is capable of secreting a sitcky substance from a series of tiny tendrils that allows it to form mats on the water surface. It reproduces asexually by sedding its outer edges, which grow independantly.
Habitat: The warm waters of the mountain lake. Particularly at the surface.
Team Pizza
Leonardo8: Positive chemotaxis towards food: 4
Sniffly Pea
The first creature on Thetri to be currently able to actually find food. It's outer surface has specialised cells sprinkled on that alert the other cells to come towards it when it detects a chemical associated with food. This creates a tug on the peas flow and directs it towards food. It is mostly unchanged in appearance, but tends to be a bit larger thanks to a richer diet.
Status: LC
Description: A proto-animal slightly larger than a pea. It moves along the lake floor and digests any organic debris it can detect with its ability to detect specific chemicals in the water. It reproduces asexually by occasionally budding.
Habitat: The warm and pebbly mountain lake floor.
Environmental And Ecological Report
Environment is excatly the same as before, the mountain lake is still churning with hot water from its center, and a small stream feeds it from who knows where. The one thin that needs to be mentionesd is that the soil richness and tempature sharply increases as one approaches to the center of the lake, aka. the thermal vents. Outer lake surface is cooler and is considerably less nutritious.
But despite the unchanged grounds, there are profound developments in the realm of life, and a primitive ecosystem is forming inside the lake. The first predator is on the loose. It is not an active one, but the outer puffs gain most of their food from other, macroscopic organisms. There are no pyhsical differences between them and their lazier relatives, its forms of digestion and therefore diet that separates them.
The least successful of the lake is the buffy pea, since it is just the original blob but a bit faster.
Also, both of the original species are extinct due to out-competiton.
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