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[Magmacube_tr]

Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?

It's pretty much an ambient germ right now. Most species have immune systems now, so it shouldn't be a bother unless the event dice decides to screw you over.

[TricMagic]

Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?

It's pretty much an ambient germ right now. Most species have immune systems now, so it shouldn't be a bother unless the event dice decides to screw you over.

So this next turn then. 

[Magmacube_tr]

Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?

It's pretty much an ambient germ right now. Most species have immune systems now, so it shouldn't be a bother unless the event dice decides to screw you over.

So this next turn then. 

You'll have to consult the dice gods for that!

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 13


The Events

Power: 8 (See, The Dice Gods have decreed no plague!)
Temperament: N/A


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere(Now, I am pretty sure you meant "gills". But... lel)
1: Split Lightseer Pinecovy:
    A) Lungs (to Çay): 2+1=3
    B) Chemotaxis: 4+0=4
2: Split Zappy Pinecovy:
    A) Lungs: 4+1= 5
    B) Brain (to Çay): 4
SS: 4


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Split Lilypad Roomboo:
    A) Sessile life: 3
    B) Algea Symbiosis: 4+1=5
2: Cross-species pollination between Emperor Sludgiboo and Mishmash Blimpie: N/A+3= 3
SS: 3


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Acid-Resistance for Fencer Turnip: 2+(-2)=0 (Uhhhh... So, literally nothing happens, I guess?)
2: Gills for Fencer Turnip: 1+1=2
SS: 2

The World

The magma bubble seems to have depleted from the creation of the smaller water habitat, and with no biological disaster occuring either, all things are stable once more.

The new sludgiboo hybrid was a only a partial evolitionary success, stemming from a couple stray hybrid planktonic embryos making the journey between the two habitats and then reproducing. They can hunt via engulfing like their benthic ancestor, and float like their pelagic one, albeit with some effort. There is a catch, however. The Çay Uplift is a little less then two-half-times as deep as the Guguli Shallows, and as it stands, they are very unfit for this habitat, having to ascend tens of meters as they feed, tire of swimming and sink down, and can only survive due to not having any competition there on the east.

Avalanche Sludgiboo and Flagellating Snatchiblie are gone from not being up to the new competition on the main habitat.

The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (11/15 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 that both self-oxygenates and seeps off from its 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 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 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 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 photosynthetic proto-animal, 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 is endemic to higher places of the seamount, where there is enough light to photosynthesize.

A herbivorous proto-animal analogous to pandas, that is akin to 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. 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 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 weakly amble on the seabed by pushing water off their pronounced siphon 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. They reproduce much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon.

Ecosystem effects: -15 population to all other animals.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (3/5 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

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 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 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. It has a brain with no senses, and an organ that produces electricity that jams sludgiboo electroreception is the only thing it controls.

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's somehow buoyant, having to actively swim to hunt and sunbathe much above the seabed. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

[Magmacube_tr]

If this game reaches turn 20, I will draw a cladogram of life.

Also, I know you are in the walls, lurkers. This game did not reach 1532 views by just four of us here.

JOYIN MAH GAEM YOU COWARDS!!!

[TricMagic]

Ya know, we were 1 roll away from the turnips causing another catastrophe.

Team X2
Chimeric Flufiflimp improves it's oxygen collection. Other than general improvements, it also can store it in a floatation sack. When it needs to ascend, it can fill it, and when it needs to descend, it can empty it. And when it needs to be neutrally buoyant, it can keep some in reserve. The fluff on the top is also cleared for photosynthesis.
Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo develops a spore chamber within it's bottom for it to release fertilized spores developed within it's body. It collects them from seaweed and then transplants them elsewhere to help it's food source spread. In this manner it can range further afield, as well as allow the species to dock with each other to reproduce. [SS Roll]


The Yu-Ef-Oh is the first bee. Spreading plantlife across the shallows. (This also massively buffs their numbers since every spore will be cross-fertilized before release.)
Meanwhile the Flufiflimp gets a floatation sack. Which it needs given it's weight pulls it down.

[notquitethere]

LGEM

1. Speciate Must Scream into two sister species. Time to develop senses:

A: Develop Electroreception (this may count as an improvement on electrogeneration)
B: Mutate heat sensing pits for sensing infrared thermal radiation


2. Speciate Disguised Seagranate into two sister species (time for more countering):

A. Mutate a brain for threat/prey identification (remembering it can only digest slime and plants iirc)
B: Mutate electro-redirection with the long spines (an adaptation that backfires electric shocks of parasites etc)

[TricMagic]

Knightwing should totally send some of theirs over here. Just to see what happens during overpop.

[Magmacube_tr]

I am a shameless latecomer.

Knightwing, just post already.

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Must-Scream Pinecovy:
     A: Electroreception
     B: Heat vision
2: Split Disguised Seagranate:
     A: Brain
     B: Electrically reflective spines

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: A swim bladder
2: A spore chamber

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

[Knightwing64]

Slow Turnip: Fix gills and make them better

Foldable Turnip: Acid Resistance (SS)

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 14


The Events

Power: 22
Temperament: N/A


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Must-Scream Pinecovy:
     A: Electroreception: 3+0=3
     B: Heat vision: 3
2: Split Disguised Seagranate:
     A: Brain: 4
     B: Electrically reflective spines: 1+1=2
SS: 4


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: A swim bladder for Chimeric Flufiflimp: 3
2: A spore chamber: 4+(-3)=1
SS: 1


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Better gills for Slow Turnip: 3+1+3= Capped at 5
2: Acid Resistance for Foldable Turnip: 2
SS: 7

The World

Nothing of interest happened in this turn.

Turnips only need circulatory systems to reach animal status.

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 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 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 that both self-oxygenates and seeps off from its 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 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 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 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 photosynthetic proto-animal, 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 is endemic to higher places of the seamount, where there is enough light to photosynthesize.

A herbivorous, partially photosynthetic proto-animal analogous to wild bees. t 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 an amorphous sack on its underside that makes it unbalanced. This sack also carries seaweed spores from one plant to another. 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 | (4/5 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. 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 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 at the center of its body. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 population to all benthic animals.

[notquitethere]

Hmm, I've tried a few ways to prevent predation, but that strategy doesn't seem to do anything. Spines, armoured skin, hiding, swimming away, attempted immunity to electo-shock don't seem to have undone any of the maluses to population.

So, as it seems more effective just to increase the general fitness of a creature, that'll probably be what I do.

[TricMagic]

Ya know, we were 1 roll away from the turnips causing another catastrophe.

Team X2
Chimeric Flufiflimp improves it's oxygen collection. Other than general improvements, it also can store it in a floatation sack. When it needs to ascend, it can fill it, and when it needs to descend, it can empty it. And when it needs to be neutrally buoyant, it can keep some in reserve. The fluff on the top is also cleared for photosynthesis.
Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo develops a spore chamber within it's bottom for it to release fertilized spores developed within it's body. It collects them from seaweed and then transplants them elsewhere to help it's food source spread. In this manner it can range further afield, as well as allow the species to dock with each other to reproduce. [SS Roll]


The Yu-Ef-Oh is the first bee. Spreading plantlife across the shallows. (This also massively buffs their numbers since every spore will be cross-fertilized before release.)
Meanwhile the Flufiflimp gets a floatation sack. Which it needs given it's weight pulls it down.

Kinda got the wrong roll selection there magma. Oof on that -3 though.

[Magmacube_tr]

Hmm, I've tried a few ways to prevent predation, but that strategy doesn't seem to do anything. Spines, armoured skin, hiding, swimming away, attempted immunity to electo-shock don't seem to have undone any of the maluses to population.

So, as it seems more effective just to increase the general fitness of a creature, that'll probably be what I do.

The predators you are trying to compete with are faster and more advanced than you. It's like the transition between Cambrian and Ediacaran; being a proto-animal just doesn't cut it anymore.

Kinda got the wrong roll selection there magma. Oof on that -3 though.

Dang.