So, you know the drill; I am not gonna write all about it again.
World. Flesh pea. Survive.
5-sided dice for regular vote, 7-sided dice for the secksual modifier, you can sacrifice your votes to support other's actions by a +1 in the roll. Event power dice is 100-sided, and the event temperament dice is 7 sided. The stuff, you know.
Ok, you don't know that you can't be plants anymore, and that the game has metashifted now. But it is the same at its core.
The Way of Action
You play as an evolutionary clade of fauna, and you make it evolve, speciate and survive.
Players will congregate in teams of at most 4 players, with maximum team count being 5.
Each one of you will have a two votes to use each round. You can use this vote to;
●Suggest a new mutation, adding a
new feature to one of teams creatures.
(There is no limit on how much a
species can change in a turn. Go nuts)
●Improve upon a faulty, vestigial,
or insufficent feature, which gets a
+1 in dice points due to it already
having a base to develop on.
●Sacrifice your vote to support one of
your teammates vote, granting the
said vote a +1 in dice points. (This
function can only be used once per
vote to prevent over-supporting with
everyone hogging over one vote,
and neither can you support your own
vote with the other. Come up with
your own ideas.)
●Speciate, either creating an offshoot
or splitting a species into two sister
species, both distinct from the parent
one. The number of species created may
be three if this action is supported. (More
about this in the Speciation section.)
If a team evolves sexual, or any other type of resource-intensive way of reproduction, they gain a special roll they can add to any vote they want. It is fittingly called the Sexual Selection bonus-penalty, and operates as a 7-sided dice, with its number ranging from 3 to -3. It can either be a blessing or a curse, and must be used every turn once unlocked. Where and how it will be used will be decided by all of the team that has it. Its result will be applied onto the previously selected normal vote.
The Dices
The degree of your personal votes success is determined by a 5-sided dice I will roll. Values of the said rolls are;
5=Better than expected. The addition/
modification adds an small extra
perk along with the intended feature.
Significant increase in the species'
fitness.
4=Just as you asked. No more, no less.
An increase in the species's
fitness.
3=The vote is successful, but the
feature comes out as mediocre, and
doesn't adds, or substracts anything.
Little change in fitness.
2=The votes effects are more harmful
than beneficial, but not to a major
degree. A minor decrease in the
species's population.
1=Maladaptation. The feature/
modification proves to be defective
or harmful, causes a significant
decline in the species' population.
This dice upper caps at 5, period. No making it 6. The lower cap is 1. You won't get a -1 or something even if Sexual Selection Modifier lowers something down by 3. You know what, no.
But just because you got a 5, doesn't necessarily means you get the benefits. For example, evolving eyes is useless if there is no nervous system to control and use it. Or a jaw won't work without muscles, which will work very inefficently if there is no respiratory and/or circulatory systems around. It's a ladder of prgression, you first need the supporting systems to get more complex things in your range of efficency.
Populations
The state of your species' population is indicated as both an abstract population number, and the wildlife status symbols used worldwide, and their success will be signified by their population status.
LC/>50: Least concern. This species
enjoys their high and healthy
population counts. Not in any direct
threat.
NT/50-31: Near Threatened. Not quite in
danger, but could be in a better
situation than it is.
VU/30-16: Vulnerable. This species is at the
limit from enough, to not enough.
Needs to get better at survival a bit.
EN/15-6: Endangered: The danger of
extinction is close to this species.
Needs to adapt to whatever is
causing its decline.
CR/5-1: Critically Endangered: It's at the
edge of going extinct. Something
must be done, and quick, or else...
EX/0: Extinct. This species has no living
members. If you hit this, you lose
this speciss entirely. If it was your
only/last, then you have to branch out
of someone else.
Speciation, and Habitats
Alright, so, what I wanted to have all along. The metashift itself. Before this, you were in charge of a single creature. But now you will be controlling entire clades.
The concept is simple; you use a vote to make a new species in your teams clade, either separating one off as a sidebranch, or splitting a species into multiple different ones.
Habitats are a simple concept as well. In each habitat there are a varying amount of space for species. These habitats will change with time, according to the plans I have.
Events
Things such as geological or cosmological events will also be rolled once every round. Two dices will be rolled, one for the strength, the other for the effect. Strength dice is 100-sided, and Temperament dice is 7-sided. The values are;
Strength dice:
0-30= Nothing happens.
31-70= Minor event.
71-90= Major Event
91-100= Very Major event.
Temperament dice:
7= Awsome stuff
6= Good stuff
5= Convinient stuff
4= "Meh" stuff
3= Inconvinient stuff
2= Bad stuff
1= Awful stuff
The Environment
You are on the Yanardag Seamount, a shallow underwater plateau created by an volcanic hotspot not unlike that of Iceland, on an otherwise completely abbysal planet covered with a global, dozen kilometer deep ocean, called the Lazzic Ocean, and the planet is named Gezegen. Only rich green clusters of algea and a small, unassuming animal lives here.
And that animal is the Pea. Pea is a, well, pea-sized, aquatic bottomfeeder proto-animal. It is a merely a cluster of cells, that very slowly move around and feed on whatever they touch, including eachother. To reproduce, they bud a smaller Pea from a random place of their bodies. They lack any advanced structures.
General Etiquette
Please write down the team you are in when you vote. It makes my job much easier.
Vote realistically and openly. Just saying "circulatory system" or "limbs" is not enough. Is the circulatory system open or closed? How many and/or what kind limbs are to be added? You must specify these. Little explanations will be enough, but you can go into some detail if you wish, just not in excess, please.
The description of creatures will be much more stratified and shorter as there will be at least couple of dozen now. So, don't bother giving details too fine for them to fit into the short summaries.
Please refrain from opening new teams, if there are teams with open spots for players, join them instead. This isn't an obligation though, you can open your own team if you wish, unless all five team slots are full, in that case you can't.
You can join anytime you want. Unless all spots are full, which is unlikely.
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