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[Knightwing64]

(Having your own species cannibalize each other will surely be great for your population in the long run)

[Magmacube_tr]

And developing a calcite structure around it's core.

This one is competely unrelated to the first action about processing ability. You have to pick this or the other.

[Knightwing64]

Also, How do I get the apex predator title thingy? I have the most population, so it’s not that. What are the requirements?

[Magmacube_tr]

Also, How do I get the apex predator title thingy? I have the most population, so it’s not that. What are the requirements?

You prey on everything. Nothing preys on you (your own species do not count). King Sludgiboo preys on you, so you are out. Also, you are a parasite, you do micropredation. If you want it, then you may wanna speciate a branch to develop into a predator.

[Knightwing64]

Ah.


Spilt once into a line that forgoes all parasitic elements for pure predatory power.

Mutation 2: Get little drills on the top of each tendril that allow the turnip to pierce and burrow into other animals much more efficiently, which coincidentally also lets them reach the beating heart of the giant sludigboo much faster where they generally deliver a deadly shock.

[notquitethere]

#1. LGEM Speciate into two sister species the Steering Urchinite:
A: Mutate sense of smell to find better find algae / avoid prey
B: Mutate translucence to make it harder to spot floating about in the water

#2. LGEM Speciate into two sister species the Cancer-free Pinecovy:
A: Mutate eyes so it can finally see what it's doing
B: Mutate electrogenesis to mess with electrolocation of predator/parasitic species (e.g., decoy sparks)

[TricMagic]

And developing a calcite structure around it's core.

This one is competely unrelated to the first action about processing ability. You have to pick this or the other.

(ignore the calcite bit.) Structure is for the heart/brain to have something to build off of. (Ignore that bit if it doesn't actually work.)

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 10


The Events

Power: 10
Temperament: N/A


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Split Steering Urchinite:
    A) Chemotaxis:4
    B) Translucence:4 (There are no predators that can see, this
         was useless.)
2: Split Cancer-free Pinecovy.
    A) Eyes: 4
    B) Decoy electric signals: 4
(4)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve the cross-species population of Flagellating Snatchiblie, ONCE again: 4+1+(-2)= 3 (FINALLY! Praised be the Dice Gods!)
2: Split King Sludgiboo:
    A) A brain: 2+1=3
    B) Herbivory: 1 (I take it back.)
SS: 2


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Offshoot from Better Tracker Turnip, behaviorial change, more predatorial: 4
2: Small drills on Better Tracker Turnip tendrils: 3

The World

The things are calm. It is mostly the same. Except the Translucent Urchinite went extinct as soon as it appeared. That must be a record!

The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie 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 wiggling gastropoid foot and many long spines, open, immunised circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous 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 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. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the ambient-like electric signals, which prevents the sludge linage from detecting it.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system 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 spines, which it uses to swim around. A pair of specialised spines near its mouth are chemoreceptive, allowing it to find food and evade the Snatchiblie.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes(although no 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.

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 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 filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it, along with photoreceptive spots on its back that steers it towards the sea surface. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins.

A bottomfeeding, apex predatory proto-animal that is akin to a giant, 20 centimeter big, veiny 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. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

A herbivorous proto-animal analogous to pandas, that is akin to a veiny, gelatinous flat disc that is 25 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 slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It is endemic to the very tops of underwater hills; most shallowest places, where enough algea grows to feed it.

A bottomfeeding proto-animal that is akin to a large amoeba. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It eats anything it encounters.

Ecosystem Effects: -5 population to all benthic animals.

A predatorial proto-animal size of an orange. 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 lethally unviable hybrids with its sister species.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all benthic 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 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 the host, though that 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: -15 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 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 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.

Ecosystem effects: -5 population to all other animals.

[TricMagic]

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve the cross-species population of Flagellating Snatchiblie, ONCE again: 4+1+(-2)= 3 (FINALLY! Praised be the Dice Gods!)
2: Split King Sludgiboo:
    A) A brain: 2+1=3
    B) Herbivory: 1 (I take it back.)
SS: 2

rolls about laughing like a mad blobbo.

Team X2
Emperor Sludgiboo develops... Photoreceptors? They form spots along it's membrane surrounded by nerves to see the movement and basic shape of things around them. The Emperor's Brain allows it to use these for defense and hunting nearby prey, which is pretty much the same thing to it.
Flat Roomboo develops base liquid to add to it's body, able to take of spores and seeds from plant life and transplant them. This also includes the ability to selectively cut off parts of the plant via holding it in the membrane between base membrane on it's outer skin and acid parts of itself. SS Roll.

[Knightwing64]

Mutation 1: (Predator) The Job Finisher Turnip evolves a more durable and environmentally resistant flesh shell that it uses to weather the blows of other creatures and changes in climate.

Mutation 2: (Parasite) The Sickle Turnip capitalizes on other creatures internal electrical outputs and muscles.

when they attach to a creature they use their electricity to shock various muscles into moving, basically creating a rough version of body control. They do this not only to hide from predators, but also to allow a few meme ears of their own species to hop on their host if they don’t have one of their own.

[notquitethere]

Poor Translucent Urchinite. I had misread one of the other predators, thinking the eyespots were eyes. That was totally on me.

Time for some intelligence to interpret these light signals???

Mutate Lightseer Pinecovy: Brain

Mutate Eyeful Seagranate: Brain

Bound to work on one of them.

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 11


The Events

Power: 74
Temperament: 7 (oh wow)


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Brain for Lightseer Pinecovy: 4
2: Brain for Eyeful Seagranate: 1


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Photoreceptors for Emperor Sludgiboo: 5
2: Photosynthesis for Flat Roomboo: 3+0=3
SS: 4


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Better flesh shell for Job Finisher Turnip: 2+1=3
2: Mind control for Sickle Turnip: 5

The World

The multicelluar algea have undergone a rapid chain of accelerated evolution, turning into a more organised, seaweed like organism. The ancestral form is still here, but the larger size and sun catching ability of the seaweed means that the seamount has transformed into a seaweed meadow.

Eyeful Seagranate has gone extinct die to increased predation and malignant mutations that hindered its lateral splitting to reproduce.

The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (12/15 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. Its soft, gelatinous tissues output the ambient-like electric signals, which prevents the sludge linage from detecting it.

A filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system 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 spines, which it uses to swim around. A pair of specialised spines near its mouth are chemoreceptive, allowing it to find food and evade the Snatchiblie.

A filterfeeding proto-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. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. Its brain takes quite a while to split in half.

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 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 filterfeeding proto-animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open circulatory system and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it, along with photoreceptive spots on its back that steers it towards the sea surface. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins.

A bottomfeeding, apex predatory proto-animal that is akin to a giant, 20 centimeter big, veiny 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: -30 population to all benthic animals.

A herbivorous proto-animal analogous to pandas, that is akin to a veiny, gelatinous flat 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. It is endemic to higher places of the seamount, where there is enough to algea to eat and light to photosynthesize.

A bottomfeeding proto-animal that is akin to a large amoeba. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores. It eats anything it encounters.

Ecosystem Effects: -5 population to all benthic animals.

A predatorial proto-animal size of an orange. 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 lethally unviable hybrids with its sister species.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all benthic 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 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, 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: -15 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 jet around by pushing water off their gills, and 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. Unlike its much more sedentary kin, it has problems with splitting in two to reproduce.

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all other animals.

[Magmacube_tr]

Oh and to be able to jump from proto-animal to just animal, a species needs...

-A specialised way to get food (All species have them already)
-A respiratory track (Only the turnips possess gills)
-Muscles (All lineages have at least 1 species with someting analogous with musculature)
-A circulatory system (Almost all species have it)
-A nervous system (Most has it)
-Some specialised form of reprodiction other than splitting in half. (Only the Sludgiboo order has it)

[TricMagic]

Time to make the jump.

Team X2
Emperor Sludgiboo develops a method of chemical separation, taking in oxygen from the water around it to heighten it's nervous and musculature-like systems. 
The APEX animal approaches. It is a Slime.

Flagellating Snatchiblie crosspollinates with the Lilypads, gaining access to photosynthesis. As a result of this, it now hunts in both the higher and lower reaches. The new creature resembles a green blimp, it's tentacles around the bottom, and "sleeps" during sunny days on the surface, hunting during the night. SS Roll

[notquitethere]

Might as well try to make this thing into a fish.

Mutate gills/respiratory track for Lightseeker Pinecovy

Mutate egg-based reproduction for Lightseeker Pinecovy