7th Turn
Events
Strength Dice: 22
Temperament Dice: N/A
Nothing of interest from outside sources happened during this turn.
Team Chaos
Knightwing64: Echolocation: 5+1= capped at 5
Aeranthos: Supports Knightwing64
Sattelite Turnip
This species of turnip, somehow, without a brain, has evolved a crude from of echolocation, undergoing novel adaptations in the process.
The upperside of its body is now shaped like a sattelite dish. It is lined with the specialised vibration detecting cells that once were all around its body. This new arrangement allows it to detect the specific frequencies moving animals make, making their babies much better at survival than their ancestors by giving them a reliable way to find hosts. This has allowed it to outcompete its ancestors entirely.
It also allows for a more defined way of controlling the hosts movements. The dish detects movement constantly due to the hosts movements, and in turn steers movement, which makes the host much more prone to move. This means little besides some heavily infested Puffer not being able to sleep, but its something.
Status: LC
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, also using them to weakly influence where its host is going. It's tissues have the ability to flex; undulate to generate heat, and move around. It has a wide, circular cavity on its upper half that is lined with specialised cells. This steers its movement towards specific ambient vibrations. It reproduces asexually by occasionally budding.
Habitat: Both the Aegla Fields and Silty Flats, attached to other peas.
Team Divergent
Mercur: A herbivorous digestive system: = 1+2= 3
Vegetarian Puffer
A new species of puffer had appeared. These puffers are much more adept at digesting the soft and slimy vegetation that now covers much of the lake.
This new adaptation means little though. They have no muscles to speak of, and are totally helpless on what their feeding appendages do.
They exist in low numbers all around the Aegla fields as a separate population from Sleeper Puffers.
Status: EN
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 plant material 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. It back has a series of black dots that detect light intensity. 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 inside so that the oxygen and nutrients move around. This sack also envelopes the stomach to get the nutrients inside. It reproduces sexually, by periodically releasing gamates into the water from a dark spot on its bum and leaving the rest at pure chance.
Habitat: The Aegla Fields.
Team Sol
TricMagic: Pollination by airborne spores: 4
Flowering Lily
The petals on top of lilies have gained another purpose. Well, at least some of them. The outmost petals have lost their breathing function and were reshaped so they reach further away. They form a full circle around the plant.
These specialised produce a dust like substnce that is released onto the air when a petal rubs onto another solid surface, that usually being an another petal of their kind.
This dust is a kind of pollen. When it sticks to an another plants pollen petals, they are absorbed by it, then transfered to a seed on the seed stalk internally via the nutrient canals. The genes that the pollen carries is then mixed with the ones in the seed, creating a genetically unique offspring.
This pollination event happens at late fall, when the seeds start to loosen and the weather gets cold. All lilies to this in synch, ensuring that the genes all mix around in the next generation.
SS modifier unlocked.
Status: LC
Description: A violet plant that resembles a sterotypical lily pad 10 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. From its center, three sets of thin, soft petals grow up like flower, their function being absorbing oxygen. All of the plants tissues are connected via an internal network of vascules that move nutrients and water around. It reproduces sexually by air pollination
through a specialised set of petals. Their young start as stalks of hardshelled, hazel colored seeds from their parents underside and are released all enmasse in the early winter. Seeds wait out the winter and germinate in the early spring.
Habitat: The waters of the mountain lake, particularly at the surface.
Team Tetramylsis
flazeo25: Sexual reproduction by specialised stalks: 4+1=5
Cant read the sign: Supports flazeo25.
Flower Kiteflower
Kiteflowers now resemble actual flowers. And it is not just due to their new petals, but also because their new ability to sexually reproduce.
From the center of their bodies, three specialised stalks go up. One on the very middle is analogous to a stigma, which is much longer and produces a gooey substance that carries genetic information. And the other two are analogous to pistil, and are much smaller and thinner and carry genetic material inside, like a cup.
When, by chance, the stigma of a kiteflower sticks to the pistil of another, the genetic material which both carry mix into a genetically unique proto-seed that is then carried by the vascular system of the bearer plant and into other stalks where smaller kiteflowers sprout. The proto-seed then fully forms and germinates here, starting the cycle anew.
Where do the petals come from? Nowhere in particular really. It's just that the very first kiteflower to have the defect that became all this, also had those petals as a separate mutation, and its decendants just carried it over.
SS modifier unlocked.
Status: LC
Description: A purple plant shaped like geometrically shaped flower. It's five 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. From the center of the plant, on top of the central bump, eight twisting vines grow into the open sky, sprouting more sticky tendrils and small leaves and reaching 50 centimeters in lenght. Inside these tendrils and plants, a series of canals carry an oily plant sap that is also an antifreeze substance. It reproduces sexually by their reproductive stalks at their center and their unusual leaves. When the two kinds of stalks of different kiteflowers meet ends, a zygote forms. This zygote is the transfered to the stalks to form leaves. These leaves, actually being miniature, genetically unique kiteflowers, fall away when heavy enough, then grow into adult Kiteflowers independantly.
Habitat: The waters of the mountain lake. Particularly at the surface in the form of interconnected choruses and small forests.
Team Pizza
Leonardo8: Mucus teeth: 4+1= 5
Toothy Plateworm
First starting as an extension of the plates, then becoming their own thing, the teeth of the plateworm is a very useful tool to navigate its habitat.
The teeth are hardened mucus that are secreted by the back of their mouths. There are two sets of teeth, ones at the front, do a shearing motion, keep themselves sharp and cut the plant material, and ones at the back grind the food to be digested more easily.
This new mode of life means bigger guts also, so the Toothy Plateworm is girthier than its ancestors at the flats, though it is at a limit on what can be done without a brain.
They are now found everywhere around the fields, chewing at the plants all day and night and reproducing like crazy. Their new speed of reproduction also allows at least some of their young actually surviving. Predators are around now, and its effects are felt.
Status: LC
Description: A tubular proto-animal 10 centimeters in lenght and 5 centimeters in girth. It crawls along the lake floor using its ring muscles and eats plants it can detect with its ability to detect specific chemicals in the water using its circular mouth, yellow lips, and two sets of cutting and crushing teeth to eat 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. Just under its mouth is an another cavity that opens into a network of thin canals all over the animals body. This second mouth sucks in water which then travels across these canals and supplies oxygen. It reproduces asexually by laying floating eggs, which hatch after a week of floating around.
Habitat: The Aegla Fields.
Team Volcano
Magmacube_tr:
1) Gills: 5
2) A circulatory system: 3
Picketing Chickpea
The time has selected the Chickpeas for size. And they did got larger alright, though it's ancestors are still around a smaller predators.
Picketing Chickpea has gills; slits that open into vascularised cavities that take in and push out water to filter the oxygen inside.
Along with that, its entire body is now lined with veins, which converge into a simple heart at the center of the body.
It is more then triple the size of its ancestors and hunts larger game as a result. Herbivorous peas, vermiforms, Plateworm eggs, all they can trace.
It's shape now resembles an oval more than a sphere.
Description: An oval proto-animal 10 centimeters in size. It squirms on the lake floor using its muscles, using an internal fluid matrix as internal support for that movement and a nutrient storage. It feeds akin to a starfish, it has a one way stomach that it uses as a net. It is capable of chemotaxis to find food and detect pheromones secreted by others of its kind that signals food availability and prevents them from eating eachother. It has gills, and a circulatory system powered by a single valve heart. It reproduces asexually by periodically budding.
Habitat: The Aegla Fields.
Environmental And Ecological Report
The growth of Aegla has stopped, and will stay that way as long as things don't get colder. The fields they form now take up to 90% of the lake, only the center still being the ancestral biome.
Plateworms left at the Silty flats are now smaller in size due to resource scarcity, and they have developed wider mouths to scour larger areas.
Sleeped Puffs have also evolved to combat the smaller areas by getting smaller, but also by becoming even slower. Additionally, they have developed way thicker skin. Literally. Allowing them to be much more resistant to Turnips.
At the fields, a lineage of vermiform, called wavies, have become free swimming, using its new muscles and gills and chemreception to waver its eay through the water collumn. They are very specious now, some even have adapted to form schools and/or stick by the plants floating above to hide their scent from predators, be it chickpea or wavie.
Magma Island is still expanding and getting messier looking. The other small bumps on its surroundings have also risen above the water now, forming a small archipelago. This may be a sign.
I am inevitable.
More players are very much appreciated. Don't be shy.
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