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[TricMagic]

I'm not sure Algae even have an electric signature. The Lawnkeepers mostly rely on their brain and what little emshadows they can perceive around them.

[notquitethere]

The lawnkeepers have only one sense, so they must know they've bumped into algae somehow, right? Plants do have an electric signature.

[TricMagic]

The lawnkeepers have only one sense, so they must know they've bumped into algae somehow, right? Plants do have an electric signature.

Neat.

Still, I more saw it as them wandering around known areas for seagrass, bumping it, then doing their thing to graze and gather.
Magma, how sensitive are the eyespots? Can they see plant signatures?

[notquitethere]

If they do in fact navigate by shadow or whatever, then change that to Improve spines to mimic the shape of algae fronds, to lure the bees

[TricMagic]

beez~

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ever seen a Bobbit Worm?

[notquitethere]

That's neat. It's occupying a similar niche as the trapdoor spider does on land. We haven't really had an evolutionary arms-race over speed yet (though some slow creatures have been outcompeted), most of the animals/proto-animals here are quite ponderous.

[Magmacube_tr]

The lawnkeepers have only one sense, so they must know they've bumped into algae somehow, right? Plants do have an electric signature.

Neat.

Still, I more saw it as them wandering around known areas for seagrass, bumping it, then doing their thing to graze and gather.
Magma, how sensitive are the eyespots? Can they see plant signatures?

Yes, lawnkeepers can locate and differentiate electric signatures around them by type and intensity. But they can't really do much else.

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 19


The Events

Power: 46
Temperament: 7


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Slowly Seagranate:
     A: Improve muscles: 3+1=4
     B: Electric signature bait: 2+1+3= Capped at 5
2: Split Koala Sazan:
     A: Teeth: 4
     B: A liver: 3+3= Capped at 5
SS: 7, 7 (one in a forty-nine chance!)


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Organ rearrangement for Springster Fluffiboo: 5+0= 5
2: Circulatory system for Saturnal Blimpie by crosspollination with Springster Fluffiboo: N/A+6= 6
SS: 4, 6


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Eyes for Insane Turp: 3+(-3)=0 (an eon of more suffering it is then)(at least it didn't got worse than it is)
2: Better flesh armor for Insane Turp: 4+1=5 (I think I am just gonna make it a shell at this point...)
SS: 1

The World

The seamount weakly erupts from its eastern exit, lifting the Çay uplift a ten or so meters up to the ocean surface and marginally expanding it.

This has made this habitat a little more spacious and hospitable place. Carrying capacity of Çay has increased from five to seven.

Vascular Pinecovy is extinct.

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 animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, an very slow 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 same electric signals algea growths does, which both hides it and lures in lawnkeepers. 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 bottomfeeding proto-animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, a wiggling gastropoid 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 and radiate the scent of seawater, which prevents predators 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.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised, fast 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 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 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 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: -5 population to Coralloo lineage.

A plantimal-eating animal the size and shape of a large fish and the niche of a koala, with spiny hardened skin, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system that self-oxygenates from its flat-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, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. 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 meager resistance to its poison.

A filterfeeding animal the size and shape of a 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 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 fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A bottomfeeding, apex predatory animal that is akin to a giant, 30 centimeter long, veiny and fluffy cylinder with a beating heart at its center. 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 small brain on the back of them, along with many small eyespots on its face that allows it to vaguely see. It moves around by a simple water siphon at its back. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -30 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 15 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 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: -15 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 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 to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow in it and direct it to better feeding grounds, though these usually also attracts the Empower Sludgiboo, which can see the shock even though it mimicks its electric signature; Empower Sludgiboo has no qualms about eating its own kin.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all other animals.

An apex predatorial proto-animal with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils, a rather large and developed brain, an efficent, closed circulatory system and a very tough, calcified shell. 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 Empower Sludgiboo, which can see it, and even though it mimicks its electric signature; Empower 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.

Their existence is one of abject misery.

Ecosystem effects: -25 population to all other animals.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/7 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. There is a ring of keratin spikes around its mouth. 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, 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 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 on the center of its body. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals.

The turn which I promised to draw a cladogram on approaches. And I have no idea how to draw it lol.

[Magmacube_tr]

You guys have been very lucky so far. I expected at least a single mass extinction to occur by this point.

Well, just know that I won't hesitate to blank those habitats if the dice says a 100-1.

[TricMagic]

Anything wrong with those dice? the gamble just went through fairly normally. (If not for the SS6.)

Team X2
 Neat Sarpesium speciates, SS Rolls to All. (All develop community/hunting tendencies)
\First version focused on a stronger brain, to organize others.
 \Second Version focused on better sight, to spot strange things.
  \Third Version focused on a better jet, to hunt down prey.
   \Fourth Version develops electrical generation, to incapacitate.

The time of extinction hath come. Bunker down, it's time for a frenzy

[Magmacube_tr]

Anything wrong with those dice? the gamble just went through fairly normally. (If not for the SS6.)

I am not talking about that gamble.

The Events

Power: 46
Temperament: 7

I am talking about this one.

[Knightwing64]

Bruh

Insane Turp Mutation1: Develop eyes

Mutation 2: Crude echolocation.

[Magmacube_tr]

Bruh

I know right?

[TricMagic]

On second thought. Magma, and the insane ones benthic?

[Knightwing64]

Reproduction is a scam, my rolls were better without it, I’ve been bamboozled