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[TricMagic]

That would require you to split some off for specific hosts. Do you want your turnips to become one symbiotic being?

Granted, the divorce is real given they're no longer the apex.

[Knightwing64]

I’m not saying I want to do all that, I’m asking that you contribute as well.

[Knightwing64]

Make it so the bodies of your creatures nutures and helps the Turp grow or something 

[TricMagic]

They split and have no brain. They get food and get to grow, but it's on your side to give them a means of reproduction. Otherwise they're more menace than symbiotic. I also have no clue why you're trying to get them to control bodies they have no intelligence for.

As a note, the slime's structure is not something the turp seem to have a reference for.

[Knightwing64]

I can’t do it all at once, boy. I take it this partnership is over?

[TricMagic]

A reminder you're spending your turns trying to take over an intelligent host when the parasite is dumber than grass. Grass at least doesn't spite the earth that feeds it.

[Knightwing64]

I’m working on that. And you feed nothing, you are one host species out of tens.

You are replaceable.

*rips up contract

Clearly, you aren’t grateful and we should go our separate ways. Wait to be contacted by my divorce attorney.

[TricMagic]

Escalates to murder.

Your methods are aberrant and detrimental to the survival of a species. Even your own.

[Magmacube_tr]

Oh, the juicy, scrumptious drama!

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 28


The Events

Power: 42
Temperament: 4


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Better farming abilities for Baitfarmer Terrub: 1+1+2=4
2: Inflatability for Hamster Dikencovy: 5
3: Split Landmover Sazan:
    A: Sharp teeth: 2+1=3
    B: Better intelligence: 5+1+0= Capped at 5
SS: 6, 4


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Airborne Spores for Seaside Sludgebush: 5+1= Capped at 5 (This means that this particular lineage is now cut from hybridisation, they use different spores.)
2: Lightweight gas pockets for Pixie Barbesium from Blimpie: 6
3: Split the resulting species from above:
    A: Improve Barbesium-Turnip Symbiosis: 2+1=3
    B: Toxic flesh: 5+(-3)=2
SS: 6, 1


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Better electric gland for Executioner Turnip: 3+1=4
2: Better control for Executioner Turnip: 5+1= Capped at 5
3: Weaponise lactic acid overload: 3+1+3= Capped at 5
SS: 7

The World

A powerful subocean volcano has erupted!

On the other side of the planet. Only effect on you was a minor tsunami that hit the shores of Lauv Island, and not much else.

Unsmelt Nubnub and Obese Sazan are extinct. The ecosystem of Guguli Shallows is one stiff breeze away from total collapse. All it'll take will be a single negative event, really.


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

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A bottomfeeding animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a snail foot and many long spines, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills, 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 sludgiboo 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.

An ambush  predatory omnivoeousanimal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws to burrow into the seabed, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, along with a liver, all encompassed by a skeleton. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which both hides it and lures in lawnkeepers. It also eats Coralloo. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females inject Sludgiboos with their eggs.

Ecosystem Effects: -10 population to Glidee lineage.

A plantimal-eating animal the size and shape of a medium fish and the niche of a deer, with spiny hardened skin, skeleton, liver, open, immunised circulatory system that 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 lives in groups up to dozens of its kin. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised. It feed exclusively on the Coralloo, with a resistance to its poison.

Ecosystem Effects: -10 population to Coralloo lineage.

A mostly filterfeeding, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a 3 meter long, round fish with a meter long horn coming from its head. It has spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, an open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

An omnivorous, predatory animal the size and shape of a very large, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its sharp toothed 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, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.
Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals

A mostly grazing, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a very large, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its bony mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds, even with other species. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

A mostly filterfeeding, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a very large, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, 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 brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised.

A predatory, carnivorous animal that is a 20 centimeter long cylinder with many interlocking bony, electrode plates that culminate in a sharp point at the head. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin that has a round, engulfing mouth in their middle and a well developed brain on the back, along with many small eyespots on its face that allows it to vaguely see. It has gills under its armor plates, and a circulatory system that connects them to a heart. It moves around by a water siphon at its back. It has a swim bladder thats lighter than air, and it glides in the water with a pair of extended, serrated plates on its sides that also vent and inject a hallucinogenic substance, and lives in groups numbering up to thirty, using a body language of wobbles to communicate and electric outlines to identify eachother. It has a symbiotic relationship with an endemic Turnip variety, with a few unintended side effects. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

A predatory, carnivorous animal that is a 10 centimeter long cylinder with many interlocking bony, electrode plates that culminate in a sharp point at the head. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin that has a round, engulfing mouth in their middle and a well developed brain on the back, along with many small eyespots on its face that allows it to vaguely see. It has gills under its armor plates, and a circulatory system that connects them to a heart. It moves around by a water siphon at its back. It has a swim bladder thats lighter than air, and it glides in the water with a pair of extended, serrated plates on its sides that also vent and inject a hallucinogenic substance, and lives in groups numbering up to thirty, using a body language of wobbles to communicate and electric outlines to identify eachother. Its flesh is very toxic, which also makes it smaller due to the expensenof producing the poison. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 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, poison-infused 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 and sazans 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 animal 30 centimeters in diameter, with a cluster of nerves and a beating heart at the center and a ring of long gill extensions on its equator. It finds prey and its way through the water and air via crude electrolocation by many sparkly dots in its slime skin, moving by wind using its gas bladder and descending every once in a while to wet its gills. 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

An obligate parasite proto-animal with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a net of nervous cells and an 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 from their electric gland to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow in it and direct it to better feeding grounds. They also secrete a chemical cocktail to boost the hosts strenght, which also acts like a dopamine boost, a chemical lobotomy and a pacifier to make the host perfectly obedient to... something. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators.

Ecosystem effects: -5 population to all other animals.

An apex predatorial animal the size of a football with many long, hyperflexible, muscular, skin penetrating, paralysing venom-coated tendrils, a brain comparable to that of a parrot, an efficent, closed circulatory system, a carnivorous digestive tract with a set of sharp teeth and a very tough, calcified shell. They swiftly jet around and launch up by pushing water off a powerful water siphon, and breathe by another, smaller siphon lined with water-retaining gills, which can also function on land. They have a sense of smell, and movement-based, frog-like eyes, and a sense of echolocation 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. They mimic the electrical signature of Sarpesium to not be noticed, which doesn't work anymore. They reproduce much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon.

Ecosystem effects: -50 population to all other animals.

Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/5 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A herbivorous, soft-bodied, amphibious animal the size of a medium-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 teeth around its mouth that shears grass of both realms. It can inflate itself into a ball to roll on land for short periods. 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 coral-like plantimal, that is akin to an amorphous mass of hard, porous 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, poison-infused slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA through airborne spores. It lives on land, and in thickets, as a species endemic to the sandy portions of the coasts of the island.

An ambush  predatory, amphibious animal the size of a large lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. It spends some time on land, away from predators. It instinctively cultivates beds of algea and sludgebushes to lure prey and reproduce, which limits its habitat to the shores of the island. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females inject Sludgiboos with their eggs.

Ecosystem Effects: -10 population to all animals.

An ambush  predatory, amphibious animal the size of a lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which both hides it underwater and lures in lawnkeepers. It spends some time on land, away from predators. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females inject Sludgiboos with their eggs.

Ecosystem Effects: -10 population to Dikencovies.

A mostly filterfeeding, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a 3 meter long, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its three pairs of paddles. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds that spend some time on land. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A herbivorous 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 plates around its mouth that shears algea. 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 medium-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 set of keratin baleen in its mouth that it uses to rake algea. 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, long, herbivorous digestive canal with gut flora 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 animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes, fish ears, 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 mostly filterfeeding, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a very large, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, 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 small brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. It reproduces by internally hatching 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 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: -15 population to all animals.

[TricMagic]

I've no clue why the Barbsium are still considered Benthic predetors. Well, time to abandon ship.

Team X2: Extinction Trigger

Pixie Barbesium speciation:
\One linage switches to gathering air directly rather than from water, creating a lighter than air creature. It promptly migrates to Lauv Island, using it's fin-tipped tentacles to navigate the skies with it's jet used to drop on and drug prey, which it swiftly eats before re-ascending. It's spends much of it's awake time in the air, dropping in from above in swarms. It occasionally drops in nearby water to refill it's jet reserves. When it rains they gather together to "talk" on solid surfaces and spread their spores. [SS Roll] (The Executioner Turps it carries are cultivated within itself as part of the creature, given to newborn young if they survive. Skyborne Pixies are fairly small and live in groups, high as a kite.)
\The other goes gigantic, behemoths forming hunting grounds which occasionally speak of current events and dangers. They cultivate a number of Executioner turnips to insure their many sharp fin-tentacles drugs are kept concentrated and deadly, and pass new ones to young giants. They may occasionally gather together against threats to their kind. The venting of the drug into water is capable of killing lesser creatures not adapted to it, and drugging others. [SS Roll]

Dartfrog Barbesium speciation:
\One compacts and improves upon their poison, using it in place of the drugs of their ancestor. Extremely poisonous to life, they are ambush hunters, hiding within seaweed. [SS Roll]
\The other has lost their shells, choosing to bury into lifeforms and poison them from within, stealing food until it dies. They are more like the sludgiboo of old, squeezing into cracks. While very small, they make use of this to be eaten by their prey before absorbing the acid in their stomachs. [SS Roll]

Forestformer Falselily speciation:
One becomes a choking mass of plantlife, spreading itself and consuming anything caught in it's vines. Extremely invasive, it's vines drift down from the surface like giant hooks, and many a mat breaks off and covers the ocean floor. [SS Roll]
Another ends up sinking below the surface, their hardened leaves serving as an enticement to prey, encircling it's body. When one seeks to nibble upon them, they snap out around the foe and drag it into the center body to be digested. If it is instead too large the leaves stick to the outside of the prey like a snowflake, as the center slowly digests a hole in the side. They float among the currents as innocent tempters. [SS Roll]



Also, Magmacube. The Executioner Turnips no longer have a life outside the Skyborne Pixies, they are now it's herd animal. They have no means of survival outside it.
[Yes Knightwing, they are divorcing, and taking the child with them.]

[Knightwing64]

Heh heh heh. That’s where your wrong.


I’m now giving my turps a method of reproduction, which, considering that my turps are inside of your creatures, would tear them apart from the inside. Next stop, a brain.

[TricMagic]

Well, hopefully they are out of there before the new ones come in. That way the pixies have the relics, even if the rest have the chestbursters.

[notquitethere]

Well, well, well. An explosion of new life threatens to crowd out more of my species from the shallows... so it's time to intensify that. Let's see how all those obligate carnivores and parasites fare without herbivores to eat.

Operation Opportunist Omnivore

Speciate Narwhal Yunus
1: Mutate sparkles for the horn (actually a flashbang-like effect caused by luminescent generator shone down the horn tube, to blind enemies and act as a warning signal for other herding animals)
2: Improve brain, focusing on the appreciation and creation of beauty (for sexual selection of attractive fitness features like decorative fins etc.) [SS]

Speciate Newcomer Livyat
1: Improve brain, focusing on understanding sense input (much like a shark's large brain) [SS]
2: Improve fin/skeletal structure, becoming sleeker with a a huge powerful rear tail fin for speed

Speciate False Smarter Sazan:
1: Improve intelligence further, focusing on creativity (to develop new eating tactics)
2: Improve eyes for spotting food/predators, making them huge, extended out on bulging stalks [SS]

[TricMagic]

Knghtwing's move. This is going to be chaos. I love it, just an explosion of growth followed by an end. We're all in a chicken race heading for the cliff..