4th Turn
Events
Strength Dice: 53
Temperament Dice: 4
A series of major Earhquakes have caused a small islet to rise from the lakebed, along with depositing more rocks to the rocky area. The islet is only as big as a football field and is actually a round hill, and has little to no significance to the total amount of food, and changes not too many things. The islet is called Magma Island. The Aegla has colonised this offshore place quickly, its entire shoreline is covered with the said plant.
Team Chaos
Knightwing64: Ability to detect potential hosts by picking up stray vibrations around: 2
Flatlander Turnip
By the only the looks of it, there is little to no change in this new generation of Turnip than the one before. But their behavior aspects are different. By using their already flexible flesh, they have rgained their ability to roll around, now too rigid to flow. But there is a problem. Turnips are now constantly on the move, from the moment they bud off from their parents and hit the ground for the first time. They are motivated by the constant vibrations the waves in the water give out. They essentially chase nothing most of the time, unless they come close enough to a potential host for them to make a spot of higher vibrations in their senses.
Their newly-evolved sensory cells can theoretically pick up heat, but this almost never comes to play because no fauna produces their own heat. Only exception is that if the individual is born near the center of the lake, this causes them to target, then fall down to the geothermal pit and become tiny well-cooked meatballs.
Juveniles now suffer a little higher death rates; moving costs energy that they don't have any way of replenishing. Adults are unaffected, since once they root, they root for life. And their range has gotten a bit smaller. Waves hitting obstacles are the loudest reliably reoccuring thing in the lake right now, so the steep shores, the rocky zone and the shores of the Magma Island have ceased to be as viable to Turnips due to the overwhelming noise blocking any Turnip newborns from targeting actual prey.
Most of the range is intact though, everywhere flat all around is their domain.
Although their main targets, the Puffers, have a treasure hidden beneath their skins now, very few Turnips have ever reached it, since rooting doesn't lasts forever and usually stops before they can reach there.
Status: NT
Description: A small proto-animal. It is a parasite, it attaches itself to faunal hosts and feeds off of them with a set of long, branching tendrils that grow when attached to suitable surfaces. It's tissues have the ability to flex and move. It has specialised cells all around its body that control its movement towards higher ambient vibrations. It reproduces asexually by occasionally budding.
Habitat: The warm and pebbly mountain lake floor, attached to other peas.
Team Divergent
Mercur: A primitive closed circulatory system: 4
Bloodsack Puffer
The flesh of Puffers first got more porous to better enable fluid transfer, then this feature was concentrated on the layers between the skin and the stomach of the animal. Then this space got fully empty and got lined with isolative cells, turning into one large psudeo-heart that slowly churns with the movements of the animals many limbs, shaking the liquid inside so that it moves. This sack is especially close to the unerside of the gills and the stomach walls to get oxygen and nutrients in.
The liquid inside is an slightly viscous, clear, oxygenated mixture of celluar cytoplasm, organic and inorganic nutrients that the sack has directly absorbed from the stomach. The movement of this liquid allows the essentials inside to move quicker and more efficently.
The things from the previous turn still apply. Puffers still have no way of knowing, efficently moving, or keeping a concrete shape. Along with that, asexual reproduction by budding is starting to be an issue due to the now more complicated features of the animal having to replicated then and there, all at once, lest the baby may absorb too much from its parent and cause death of both. Puffers bud really slow as a result.
Status: LC
Description: A rotund proto-animal around 9-10 centimeters in diameter. It aimlessly crawls on the lake floor with 10 pairs of tentacles and digests any organic debris it can catch with its gaping maw, using six shovelling appendages that line it to shove the food into it. It passively respirates through its short coat of hair-like tendrils that cover its body. On the space between its outer surface and stomach, an isolated internal sack shaped like a vase acts as one large blood vessel and heart, shaking the liquid insde up so that the. This sack also envelopes the stomach to get the nutrients inside. It reproduces asexually by rarely, and slowly budding, usuallly one by one.
Habitat: The warm and pebbly mountain lake floor.
Team Sol
TricMagic: Better energy storage: 4+1=5
Shadower Pancake
The violet lineage has kept their strategies and morphology mostly the same for awhile now. But now their impact on their surroundings have actual significance, beyond photosythesis.
The nutrient and energy storage of the Shadower Pancake has become very efficent and capable by evolution. And while this has merely increased their size by a small margin by individual perspective, the effect of this on their spawning rates are immense. The outer softer layer now replenishes like crazy, and shedding much faster and frequently as a result.
There are now mats of them, not because they are adhesive or anything, but because they are now numerous enough that the hyrology of the lake gathers them together in long, thin drifting mats that strecth and combine, following the spiraling currents, only interrupted by the rocks, the islet, and the descendants of the Daises, who indiscriminately cling onto them also.
The effects of this can even be seen from orbit. It's rather artistic, really. With bold violet streaks that form a spiral pattern on a somber blue backdrop.
Status: LC
Description: A violet protoplant that resembles a featureless lily pad 6 centimeters in diameter. It is very efficent at what in its way of life. Besides from its very edges, the entirety of the plant is reinforced by a network of hexagonal cell walls. It reproduces asexually by rapidly shedding its softer outer edges, which grow independantly.
Habitat: The warm waters of the mountain lake, particularly at the surface, forming vast, .
Team Tetramylsis
flazeo25: A cellulose exoskeleton: 4+1=5
Cant read the sign: Supporting flazeo25
Self-Stacking Kiteflower
The purple lineage has abandoned a soft outer layer entirely, and has aassumed a shape similar to a miniature kite, hence the name. Kiteflowers live much the same way as their ancestors. They cling onto eachother and photosynthesize.
But their entire outer surfaces, even mostly including their internal canals are now entirely covered in a thin, yet very durable layer of cellulose. It's like cardboard, but wetter. The outer tendrils are now straight protrusions covered with countless pores, vacuoles now spheres and canals now pipes. It still has a some surface areas untouched ans till soft, the inner side of its vacuoles are still soft, since it still needs to secrete mucus, excrete, shed small bits, and absorb, and that can't be done in full isolation.
Aside from a major size increase and much neater looking piles, Kiteflower is still a Daisy at heart.
They frequently include a Shadower Pancake or two in their piles.
Status: LC
Description: A purple protoplant shaped like geometrocally shaped flower. It's three centimeters in diameter. It is flat for the most part, except for the storage vacuole on its center, which is usually filled with nutrient rich water or waste gasses. This vacuole is connected to the outside by a short tube that itself branches into rigid, porous protrusions that line the plants outer edges. It is capable of secreting a sticky substance from a ring of vacuoles that is carried over onto their protrusions by the smaller tubes. It's inner and outer surfaces are almost entirely covered by a cellulose exoskeleton that gives it its rigid shape, save for the internal surfaces of the vacuoles. The mucus allows it to form mats on the water surface by sticking to eachother. It reproduces asexually by periodically releasing microscopic pieces of itself every gas expelling routine. These pieces then grow into full Kiteflowers independantly.
Habitat: The warm waters of the mountain lake. Particularly at the surface in the form of piles.
Team Pizza
Leonardo8: Asexual Egglaying: 5
Egglaying Corndog
This animal doe what its name implies, it lays eggs. Roll credits!
It's actually a highly modified way of budding that involves ejecting the young from their bud state in very small and underdeveloped sizes and into an internal cavity.
These young are all formed simultaneously, usually in the dozens. The parent wastes no time in feeding them directly, instead pre-filling this sealed cavity to its fullest with a very cohesive, yet malleable nutrient rich fluid that forms into buoyant spheres when in contact water.
As soon as the underdeveloped young form just enough and are cut away from the parent at the same time the surface surrounding the wombs exit secretes a solvent that breaks down the part of the shell which obscures the hole in question, forming a small hole.
The womb then rapidly contracts, pushing everything out of itself until everything is out. The egg fluid wraps around the newborn, and carries them along on a magical adventure to the lakes surface, where they travel for about three more days, eat the egg fluid and rapidly form into full miniature adults, finally descending when they finish eating their egg.
The current lifestyle, diet and lack of bodily system does not allow the Corndogs to reproduce often. The production and the gradual stockpiling of the egg gell takes a very long time, relatively speaking. So an average Corndog maybe only reproduces for two to three times before their impeding, inescapable death.
Status: LC
Description: A tubular proto-animal 2 centimeters in lenght. It slides along the lake floor and eats any organic debris it can detect with its ability to detect specific chemicals in the water using its circula mouth and yellow lips, with digestion done in the tube shaped cavity that is lined with absorbant tissue. It lacks an anus, and instead has many small exits that mix the dirt a mucus that solidifies on the creatures sides and back to form a segmented dirt armor. It reproduces asexually by laying floating eggs, in long, ardulous cycles.
Habitat: The warm and pebbly mountain lake floor.
Environmental And Ecological Report
The Aegla fields of the Magma Island have a new species endemic to them. This unique form of Buff Vermiform have adapted to eat the mucus of the Aegla. They are much larger than their benthic cousins, and are much flatter and flexible to better traverse the dense growings.
And it appears that the peas are not actually extinct at all. Because one just fell from the stream that feeds the lake. They are very similar to their ancestors, except they are better at, well, pretty much everything. Better at motion through an internal dense fluid matrix, better at digestion through a microscopically very bumpy surface, better at finding food due to their herding behavior via chemotaxis. They use a pheromone to guide the ones behind; they secrete one type constantly in low amounts to keep together a swarm, and spontaneously secrete the in high amounts of a second type when they find large amounts of food.
These Herding Peas go around in troupes, ranging from a mere dozen to sometimes thousands, each acting for others as an increase in chemotaxis range. They also don't digest eachother, their tissues have a distinct taste that blocks digestive functions of eachother.
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