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[Magmacube_tr]

ALRIGHT HIATUS IS OVER!!

I know you all missed me in my year long absence, but wipe your fat salty tears, for I am back now.

[Knightwing64]

*wipes big fat salty tears

[TricMagic]

*Points out how it has technically been almost 8736 hours since you last updated.

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 29


The Events

Power: 48 (âğ)
Temperament: 1 (Only if this came in with a 90<. Anyways, minor extinction event now time now. You all really did manage to ride the ecosystem to the edge of a cliff.)


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Narwhat Yunus
    A: Sparkly Horn: 3+1=4
    B: Improve Brain: 5+1+(-3)=3
2: Split Newcomer Livyat
    A: Improve cognition: 1+1+(-2)=0
    B: Improve body plan to be akin to Selachimorpha: 4+1=5
3: Split False Smarter Sazan
    A: Improve brain: 1+1=2
    B: Improve eyes to be like a hammerhead shark: 5+1+(-3)=3
SS: 1, 2, 1


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Split Pixie Barbesium
    A: Becoming Airborne: 1+0=1
    B: Gigantism: 2+1+1=4
2: Split Dartfrog Barbesium
    A: Extreme toxicity: 2+1+(-2)=1
    B: Endoparasitism: 3+1=4
3: Split Forestformer Falselily:
    A: Invasiveness: 4+0=4
    B: Clasping leaves: 2+1+(-3)=0
SS: 4, 5, 2, 5, 4, 1


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Splitting specialisation for Executioner Turnip: 4+1=5
2: Brain for Executioner Turnip: 5+1= Capped at 5
3: Impermeable skin for Paralyser Turnip: 1+1+0=2
SS: 4

The World

It all started with that small, insignificant contagious cancer randomly mutating once again. It was just a small mutation really, but this alone, somehow, made it incredibly lethal to Seagranates, causing their extinction.

This caused more predation on Nubnubs, which also killed them off. And so with the total absence of prey taking its effect on the mostly omnivorous ecosystem, and the situation with the Falselily infestation causing Glidees to be near-extinct, here we are. It was inevitable, everyone!

Prime Seagranate, Jellosucker Nubnub, Antelope Sazan, Smarter Sazan, Toxic Corallo, My Little Yunus, Cunning Yunus and Gliding Planeasium, are all extinct. If it is not repaired, a complete ecosystem collapse is imminent.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (10/15 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

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 brain that loves sparkly stuff, 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 long, bulbous eyestalks and a tiny chemoreceptive third one on the forehead, 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 predatory, carnivorous animal that is a meter 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. It is solitary, and holds territories, 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: -10 population to all benthic animals.

A micro-predatory animal that is a 5 centimeter long cylinder that 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 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 a few dozen, using a body language of wobbles to know when to strike 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: -5 population to all benthic animals.

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 gargantuan mats which are ecological dead zones.

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 animal that is an obligate parasite, with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a brain 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 its will. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators. They reproduce via budding much smaller Turnips, that are ejected via the host coughing them up.

An apex predatorial, true amphibious animal the size of a football with many long, hyperflexible, muscular, skin penetrating, paralysing venom-coated tendrils that also function as legs on land, 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, isolative 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: -20 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'm honestly surprised this game of chicken didn't have an end.

Team X2
Invasive Scourgy develops fruit bearing flowers, seeds and all. The seeds are extremely resistant to acid, and bloom into new Scourgy. This offers a source of food and reproduction. Lawnkeepers once more have something to pollinate. The flowers give off their own spore/pollen, but Lawnkeepers greatly increase productivity.[SS Roll]

Coastal Sludgebush evolves twiceover, settings down roots, literally, becoming a plant. Or mushroom as the case may be. Fern? It's flesh is spongy, and it's grasping roots strong. These roots can retract, and grasp solid objects to hold them in place as it buries into soil.[SS Roll]
It also develops lighter than air flight through a gas sack, creating a floating ball of greenery. It's roots keep it attached, and when it retracts them into it's body has it carried by the wind. It soaks up sunlight and rain wherever it goes. When it comes time to spread their spores, they fly free on the winds to drop them everywhere. [SS Roll]


Also a question, why are the giants still hunting in larger groups? As is, the Worldcrosser Turnip is about to make landfall. Or starve, either or.

[Magmacube_tr]

I'm honestly surprised this game of chicken didn't have an end.

Team X2
Invasive Scourgy develops fruit bearing abilities, seeds and all. The seeds are extremely resistant to acid, and bloom into new Scourgy. This offers a source of food and reproduction. [SS Roll]

Coastal Sludgebush evolves twiceover, settings down roots, literally, becoming a plant. Or mushroom as the case may be. Fern? It's flesh is spongy, and it's grasping roots strong. [SS Roll]
It also develops lighter than air flight through a gas sack, creating a floating ball of greenery. It's roots keep it attached, and when it retracts them into it's body has it carried by the wind. It soaks up sunlight and rain wherever it goes. When it comes time to spread their spores, they fly free on the winds to drop them everywhere. [SS Roll]


Also a question, why are the giants still hunting in larger groups? As is, the Worldcrosser Turnip is about to make landfall. Or starve, either or.

Oh, right, they are supposed to take territories.

[TricMagic]

I like the 75^Invasive Scorgies.

Who's a good invasive species, you are~


More seriously, fruiting. Some of them may just end up dropping and rotting. But the flowering gives Lawnkeepers something to do and a food source.


These things specifically. They reach from ground up towards the sky.

[Knightwing64]

Worldhopper Turnip: Develop a bladder full of air which it can activate to float all the way up to surface and back down.

Hydra Turnip: Develop environmental adaptations to help survive in new environments depending on where the it/host goes, ala fisher king.

Worldhopper Turnip: Increase the efficiency of the eyes with newfound electro vision, allowing it to see prey no matter where they are so the Worldhopper can track them down and feast.

[TricMagic]

I now kinda hope the plant completely fails and knightwing just wipes out the last of the populations. Or knightwing oversuceeds and just wipes out the last of the populations

[notquitethere]

x2 mutations on one version of Stargazers:

A. Mutate full jaw so it can actually chow down properly
B. Improve gut into a three-stage plant-matter fermenting chambers, specialising in a herbivorous/plantimal diet [SS]

Speciate the Livyat into two sister species:

1. Mutate kidney-like organs which filtrate the system, immunising against Turnip chemicals and Turp venom
2. Mutate ears, specifically to hear the beating heart of the Invasive Scourgy, to more efficiently feed on them. [SS]

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 30


The Events

Power: 41
Temperament: 2


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Jaw for Stargazer Yunus: 3+1=4
2: Improved herbivore guts for Stargazer Yunus: 2+1+1=4
3: Split Ichty Livyat
    A: Poison resistance against Turnipkin secretions: 5
    B: Ears: 1+(-2)= -1
SS: 5, 2


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Fruits for Invasive Scourgy: 3+2=5
2: Retractable roots for Coastal Sludgibush: 2+3=5
3: Gas sack morphology: 3+2=5
SS: 6, 7, 6 (incredibly lucky, to the point that they didn't even overflowed)


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Air bladder for Worldcrosser Turp: 3+(-3)=0
2: Environmental resilience for Hydra Turnip: 3
3: Electroreception for Worldcrosser Turnip: 3
SS: 1

The World

A meteor shower hit the seamount, which caused many small meteor fragments to be deposited onto the seafloor. This increased the concentration of heavy metals in the seamount as a whole, causing minor toxicity everywhere.

Hammerhead Sazan and Deaf Sazan are extinct.


The Guguli Shallows | Plantimal Jungle Biome | (9/15 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A mostly herbivorous animal the size and shape of a 5 meter long, wide 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 brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. 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. Under its throat is a gland that neutralises poisons. 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: -10 population to all animals

A predatory, carnivorous animal that is a meter 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. It is solitary, and holds territories, 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: -10 population to all benthic animals.

A micro-predatory animal that is a 5 centimeter long cylinder that 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 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 a few dozen, using a body language of wobbles to know when to strike 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: -5 population to all benthic animals.

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 by flowering and bearing fruit. It clings to the ocean surface and has ground-holding tentacles that acts as roots. It, as an entire species, now forms an unbroken jungle all throught the Guguli Shallows, and are the defining faulora of the biome.

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 animal that is an obligate parasite, with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a brain 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 are somehow resilient to unfavourable conditions. 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 its will. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators. They reproduce via budding much smaller Turnips, that are ejected via the host coughing them up.

An apex predatorial, true amphibious animal the size of a football with many long, hyperflexible, muscular, skin penetrating, paralysing venom-coated tendrils that also function as legs on land, 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, isolative 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 electrolocation, along with 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: -20 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, floating mass of hard, porous green tissue that is a meter in size, 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 has many thin tentacles that act as mobile roots, and a gas sack in its center that allows it to float around. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA through airborne spores. It lives on land, in large, migratory and unorganised groves, and can be found anywhere on 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)

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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.

[Magmacube_tr]

TURN 30 BABY!!!

WOOOOOOO

By the way, just make your last proto-animals into full naimals dammit. It's taking too long.

[notquitethere]

The shallows are still ticking along I see. I guess my other livyat also went extinct on entry?

[Knightwing64]

A
U forgot my creatures

All of their stuff is the same

Heathery

[TricMagic]

Uplift is finally with the times.

Team X2 is also the first and only to reach full numbers. 100 baby!
Lawnkeepers are also in fine straits. Plenty of food and work to do~

Team X2
Roaming Wandertree develops shoots of leaves, to increase the amount of sun their floating forms can get. Like beach parasols they float in the wind.
Chimeric Flufiflimp develops shoots of leaves alongside fins, able to improve it's swimming ability and sunbathing, better able to dive and ascend.
Fae Barbesium fully incorporates drug production into their biology, ridding themselves of Hydra Turnips in favor of their own reproduced variant. [SS Roll]