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[notquitethere]

OK, I will continue the A/B testing of features, but with a new strategy of "Improve the Best, Ignore the Rest":

Speciate Lightseer Pinecovy into two sister species. This is close to being an animal. Let's try:

A: Improve circulatory system, its main weakness
B: Mutate oxygen diffusion from water flowing through the central gut (like a sponge) [SS]p/b]

Speciate Gulpy Pinecovy into two sister species:

A: Mutate teeth for more efficient algae consumption (and maybe protection) [SS]
B: Improve fins, streamlining them into a more fish-like arrangement with a dorsal, tail, pectoral, pelvic fins etc.

[TricMagic]

Do I need to focus on the blimp or is it fine-ish?

[notquitethere]

I think the blimp wants to switch to a herbivorous diet, next turn it's going to be a bloodbath in the shallows.

[Magmacube_tr]

Do I need to focus on the blimp or is it fine-ish?

I guess? Unless something catasthropic happens, it will be okay.

[TricMagic]

Team X2
Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo refines the maladaptation of their spore chamber. [SS Roll] (See last turn's attempt 1)
Sessile Roomboo split developments
\One linage develops chloroplasts and cell walls for structure, switching to a stationary lifestyle like some weird form of plant. Acidity is lost in favor of more sunlight collection. The can be seen blotting the sides clinging to their chosen spots.
\Another detaches from the walls, also developing chloroplasts. Instead of being stationary, their thin forms dot the water's surface. Acid is kept as a defensive measure. While a good number are eaten by Blimpies, a few manage to float out to the Çay Uplift. (Where they may get eaten by chimeras.)

Since the Çay Uplift chimeras are fine(though needing an update in the lists), focus on the solarvores this turn.

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 15


The Events

Power: 99 (alright...)
Temperament: 4 (huh?!?!) (Apparently this incredibly powerful event will not impact you in any meaningful way?)


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Lightseer Pinecovy:
     A: Closed circulatory system: 2+1=3
     B: Internal gills: 2+1+0=3
2: Split Gulpy Pinecovy:
     A: Teeth: 4+(-3)= 1
     B: Piscine fin structure: 2+1=3
SS: 4, 1


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Spore sack upgrade for Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo: 3+1+2= Capped at 5
2: Split Sessile Roomboo
    A: Become sessile plant: 1+1=2
    B: Become floaty plant: 2
SS: 6


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
SS: ...

The World

A comet has struck Gezegen!.. On the very opposite side of the planet, relative to your habitats. A tsunami came with the impact, but it had lost most of its force by the time it reached you.

In other news, nothing of interest happened this turn.

Lightseeker Pinecovy and Evading Urchinite has gone extinct due to outcompetition, and more lineages have become fully fledged animals.

The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (13/15 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a snail foot and many long, movable spines, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth.

A bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a wiggling gastropoid foot and many long spines, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the ambient-like electric signals, which prevents the sludge linage from detecting it.

A bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a wiggling gastropoid foot and many long electro-conductive spines, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the ambient-like electric signals, which prevents the sludge linage from detecting it.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin. It has a closed, immunised circulatory system that oxygenates from the mouth, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder, a pair of simple lungs that it uses to breathe air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It has an organ that produces electricity that jams sludgiboo electroreception.

A bottomfeeding, apex predatory animal that is akin to a giant, 20 centimeter big, veiny and fluffy amoeba with a beating heart and a small brain at its center. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin, along with many small eyespots that allows it to vaguely see. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

A coral-like plantimal, that is akin to an amorphous mass of hard green tissue that is 75 centimeters in its dimensions, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It has a sense of electrolocation, provided by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It lives in multi-generational clusters and is endemic to higher places of the seamount, where there is enough light to photosynthesize.

A mobile plantimal, that is akin to a veiny, gelatinous flat disc that is 50 centimeters in diameter, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It has a sense of electrolocation, provided by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It clings to the ocean surface, forming small mats which pinecovy always nibble at.

A herbivorous, partially photosynthetic proto-animal analogous to wild bees. It is a veiny, gelatinous UFO-shaped disc that is 30 centimeters in diameter, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores using a sack on its underside. This sack also carries seaweed spores from one plant to another like a bee, fertilising them in the process. It floats using the gasses that the algea inside its body produce, swimming by rippling its slimy tissues.

A photosynthesizing, predatory, spherical proto-animal 10 centimeters in diameter. It finds prey and its way through the water via crude electrolocation by many sparkly dots in its slime skin, moving by flagellating its slime tendrils. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores, producing planktonic embryo and even sometimes even mostly unviable hybrids with others of the sludgiboo lineage. It is a nocturnal hunter, detecting the night via a small cluster of photosensititive dots on its top.

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all animals

A parasitic proto-animal with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a net of nervous cells and a slightly acid resistant, hardened shell of flesh. They jet around by pushing water off their gills, and have a sense of smell to detect things around. They anchor themselves to their hosts via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow and hide in it, though these usually also attracts the King Sludgiboo, which can see the shock even though it mimicks its electric signature; King Sludgiboo has no qualms about eating its own kin.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all other animals.

A parasitic proto-animal with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils, a net of nervous cells and a hardened, reinforced shell of flesh. They swiftly jet around by pushing water off a water siphon, and breathe by another, smaller siphon lined with gills. They have a sense of smell to detect things around. They anchor themselves to their prey via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock to stun the it, then using the tendrils to tear it into pieces. The shock usually attracts the King Sludgiboo, which can see it, and even though it mimicks its electric signature; King Sludgiboo has no qualms about eating its own kin. They reproduce much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon.

Ecosystem effects: -25 population to all other animals.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/5 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a ring of keratin spikes around its mouth. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its piscine body and fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that run through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins and a small organ that conceals its electric emmisions.  It has a brain and a tuff of electroreceptive whiskers that cover its face.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that run through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins and a small organ that conceals its electric emmisions. It has a brain and has small heat-sensitive crevices on its face.

An apex predatory, weakly photosynthetic animal that is akin to a giant, 15 centimeter big, veiny and fluffy amoeba with a beating heart and a small brain at its center, along with many short, stocky tendrils on its underside. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin, along with many small eyespots that allows it to vaguely see. It has a swim bladder on the center of its body. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

[TricMagic]

The dice taketh, and trolleth.

In other news, more plants manage to spread. Also, just to check. The Chimeric Fuffimp description still hasn't changed any? Thought it would with the correction of the SS roll.

[notquitethere]

LGEM

Split Thinking Seagranate into two sister species:

A: Mutate gills
B: Mutate Reproductory system: eggsacs which incubate inside predatory creatures and feed on them in their larval form [SS]


Split Mouthbreathing Pinecovy into two sister species:

A: Mutate a heart
B: Mutate skeletal structure for additional robustness and power [SS]

[Knightwing64]

Foldable Turnip: Mimic bio electricity of their prey and make it look the same.

Fast Turnip: Develop circulatory system (SS)

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Thinking Seagranate:
     A: Gills
     B: Sexual reproduction by parasitic eggs (Seagranates
     do not have an SS roll yet.)
2: Split Mouthbreathing Pinecovy:
     A: Improve Heart (Pinecovidae lineage already has an open
     circulatory system, and so they have hearts as well.)
     B: Skeleton(SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Brain for Mishmash Blimpie, using cross-pollination. (SS roll)
2: Tentacle-roots for Surfer Falselily

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: TF2 Spy disguise for Foldable Turnip
2: Circulatory system for Fast Turnip (SS)

[TricMagic]

Any chance I can get my question answered Magmacube?

[Magmacube_tr]

Any chance I can get my question answered Magmacube?

Such a change kinda means doing a retcon right now. It is on turn 14, and turn 15 is on top of it. I can re-roll and change if you really want, but that will mess with your current situation.

Sorry for this. Didn't notice what you meant before I took a closer look.

Edit: Alright, I think I can change it without much temporal disarray.

[TricMagic]

Just that I redid the Yu-Ef-Oh last turn since that was the one that got hit by the SS roll. Also bay12 still 500ing.

Team X2
Mishmash Blimpie develops a brain, crosspollination occurring from the Emperor. SS Roll
Surfer Falselily develop tenetacleroots on the bottom to catch and entangle anything that feeds on them.(Before draining caught prey of nutrients) These also act as water intakes, meaning it's the rest is no longer permeable.

[Magmacube_tr]

Also bay12 still 500ing.

Tell me about!

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 16


The Events

Power: 31
Temperament: 4


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Thinking Seagranate:
     A: Gills: 2
     B: Sexual reproduction by parasitic eggs: 5 (SS roll
     unlocked)
2: Split Mouthbreathing Pinecovy:
     A: Improve Heart: 4+1=5
     B: Skeleton: 2+3=5
SS: 7


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Brain for Mishmash Blimpie, using cross-pollination: N/A+6=6
2: Tentacle-roots for Surfer Falselily: 3
SS: 6


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Electrical disguise for Foldable Turnip: 1+1=2
2: Circulatory system for Fast Turnip: 2+0=2
SS: 4

The World

Something so insignificant happened that the cubical volcano god which created the seamount forgot what it was and cannot tell you what happened.

Nothing important happened this turn. Wired Seagranate is extinct.

The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (14/15 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a snail foot and many long, movable spines, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth.

A bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with fuzzy, hardened skin, a wiggling gastropoid foot and many long spines, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the ambient-like electric signals, which prevents the sludge linage from detecting it.

A bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a wiggling gastropoid foot and many long spines, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the ambient-like electric signals, which prevents the sludge linage from detecting it. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females inject Sludgiboos with their eggs.

Ecosystem Effects: -5 to all Sludgidae.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin. It has a closed, immunised circulatory system that oxygenates from the mouth, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised, fast circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder, a pair of simple lungs that it uses to breathe air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It has an organ that produces electricity that jams sludgiboo electroreception.

A bottomfeeding, apex predatory animal that is akin to a giant, 20 centimeter big, veiny and fluffy amoeba with a beating heart and a small brain at its center. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin, along with many small eyespots that allows it to vaguely see. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

A coral-like plantimal, that is akin to an amorphous mass of hard green tissue that is 75 centimeters in its dimensions, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It has a sense of electrolocation, provided by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It lives in multi-generational clusters and is endemic to higher places of the seamount, where there is enough light to photosynthesize.

A mobile plantimal, that is akin to a veiny, gelatinous flat disc with wispy roots, that is 75 centimeters in diameter, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It has a sense of electrolocation, provided by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It clings to the ocean surface and has ground-holding tentacles that acts as roots. It forms large mats which pinecovy usually get away on nibbling at.

A herbivorous, partially photosynthetic proto-animal analogous to wild bees. It is a veiny, gelatinous UFO-shaped disc that is 30 centimeters in diameter, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores using a sack on its underside. This sack also carries seaweed spores from one plant to another like a bee, fertilising them in the process. It floats using the gasses that the algea inside its body produce, swimming by rippling its slimy tissues.

A photosynthesizing, predatory, spherical proto-animal 10 centimeters in diameter, with a cluster of nerves at the center. It finds prey and its way through the water via crude electrolocation by many sparkly dots in its slime skin, moving by flagellating its slime tendrils. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores, producing planktonic embryo and even sometimes even mostly unviable hybrids with others of the sludgiboo lineage. It is a nocturnal hunter, detecting the night via a small cluster of photosensititive dots on its top.

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all animals

A parasitic proto-animal with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a net of nervous cells and a slightly acid resistant, hardened shell of flesh. They jet around by pushing water off their gills, and have a sense of smell to detect things around. They anchor themselves to their hosts via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow and hide in it, though these usually also attracts the King Sludgiboo, which can see the shock even though it mimicks its electric signature; King Sludgiboo has no qualms about eating its own kin.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all other animals.

A parasitic proto-animal with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils, a net of nervous cells, A set of internal tubes and a hardened, reinforced shell of flesh. They swiftly jet around by pushing water off a water siphon, and breathe by another, smaller siphon lined with gills. They have a sense of smell to detect things around. They anchor themselves to their prey via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock to stun the it, then using the tendrils to tear it into pieces. The shock usually attracts the King Sludgiboo, which can see it, and even though it mimicks its electric signature; King Sludgiboo has no qualms about eating its own kin. They reproduce much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon.

Ecosystem effects: -25 population to all other animals.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/5 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a ring of keratin spikes around its mouth. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its piscine body and fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that run through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins and a small organ that conceals its electric emmisions.  It has a brain and a tuff of electroreceptive whiskers that cover its face.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that run through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins and a small organ that conceals its electric emmisions. It has a brain and has small heat-sensitive crevices on its face.

An apex predatory, weakly photosynthetic animal that is akin to a giant, 15 centimeter big, veiny and fluffy amoeba with a beating heart and a small brain at its center, along with many short, stocky tendrils on its underside. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin, along with many small eyespots that allows it to vaguely see. It has a swim bladder on the center of its body. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.