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[Magmacube_tr]

That raises the question, are these groups like Pinecovy, Roomboo etc genera or families? I understand the specific creations like "Foldable Turnip" as species in the Turnip family/genus.

Pinecovies are the order Pinecovyformes. All come from the same ancestor and have their swim bladders from that source.

Both Turnips are their own genus and families.Both are too distant from one another.

Sludgiboo taxa are... confusing? There has been many gene transfers between the lineages. But I suppose Roomformes is a thing.

[TricMagic]

That raises the question, are these groups like Pinecovy, Roomboo etc genera or families? I understand the specific creations like "Foldable Turnip" as species in the Turnip family/genus.

Pinecovies are the order Pinecovyformes. All come from the same ancestor and have their swim bladders from that source.

Both Turnips are their own genus and families.Both are too distant from one another.

Sludgiboo taxa are... confusing? There has been many gene transfers between the lineages. But I suppose Roomformes is a thing.

Generally, best to remember they're slimes. They mostly evolved based on what they eat. (Lot of cross-pollination and stealing ideas from one another, though that time seems to be ending.)

Roomformes and their linage have mostly drifted from their slimy roots to become more plant than animal. Though Glidee still needs some work to make that jump. :bees:

[Knightwing64]

Silent Turnip: Get basic self sufficiency to survive long enough to get a new host if the first is killed.

Hyper flexible Turnip: Gain some more size, for more power and vigor

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 24


The Events

Power: 36 (NO NOT A MINOR EVENT AGAIN!)
Temperament: 4 (I am shaking and crying rn)


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Improve Unsmelt Nubnub's terrible sense of smell: 2+1+(-3)=0
2: Split Basketing Sazan:
     A: Better Brain: 1+1+(-1)=1
     B: Milk: 3
SS: 1,3


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Better Brain for Plated Barbesium: 5+1+0= Capped at 5
2: Better Pattern Seeeking for Plated Barbesium: 1+1+2=4
SS: 4, 6


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Independant survival skills for Silent Turnip: 1
2: Increase in size for Superjumper Turp: 5+1+1= Capped at 5
SS: 5

The World

The Seamount lashes out in frustration, as the clicks turn incessant and furious. The seafloor shakes, but soon quells as the mysterious force returns to its slumber.

The ecosystem in the Guguli Shallows is on the brink of collapse. If the current trends go on, the predators will start hunting to extinction.

Luresome Stiltnub is extinct.

The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (14/15 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, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws to burrow into the seabed, 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, all encompassed by a skeleton. 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.

An ambush  predatory animal the size of a large sea snail, with hardened skin, five pairs of stubby legs 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 and a patch of chemoreceptive cells near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. 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: -5 population to Glidee lineage.

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 lives in groups up to dozens of its kin. 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: -10 population to Coralloo lineage.

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 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. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

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 simple, not-so-smart 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 animal the size and shape of a large, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, robust 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 predatory animal that is a 20 centimeter long cylinder with many interlocking bony plates. 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 thay connects them to a heart. It moves around by a water siphon at its back and glides in the water with a pair of extended plates on its sides, and lives in groups numbering up to thirty, using a body language of wobbles to communicate. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -35 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

An obligate parasite 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. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all other animals.

An apex predatorial animal the size of a football with many long, hyperflexible, muscular, skin penetrating, venom-coated tendrils, a large and well developed brain, an efficent, closed circulatory system, a carnivorous digestive tract and a very tough, calcified shell. They swiftly jet around and launch up by pushing water off a powerful water siphon, and breathe by another, smaller siphon lined with gills. 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, even though that usually attracts the said predator. They reproduce much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon.

Ecosystem effects: -50 population to all other animals.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 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 plates around its mouth that forms a shield. 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 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.

I keep miscounting the number of species. So, they are now numbered.

[notquitethere]

Split Dimwit Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve intelligence! [SS]
B: Also improve intelligence AND send this population to the Çay Uplift to displace something there

Split Bovine Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve mind, developing emotional processing to give an instinct to protect its young
B: Improve blubber, packing on denser layers to become truly humongous [SS]

Waiting for the extinction cascade in the shallows!

[TricMagic]

Prey grows scarcer. Even as predators grow larger. There is a hunt to be had.

Team X2
Plated Barbesium: Electrical Transfer/Storage in it's shells. When touched they'll give a zap, and the creature generates electricity to allow others in the pack to see them, with the one that shines brightest being the leader. The generation rate isn't much, but they excel at transfer of electricity between the pack. Combined with their recent brain increase, tricking them becomes impossible, the shape of pack members is just too distinct in their sights. [SS Roll]
Plated Barbesium: Improved Jet Attack Tactics. Through the clever use of hunting tactics and hardier/sharpened shell, it's jet attack can break through even the hardiest of shells to the delicate insides. This tactic is more focused on hunting Majoral Turps which have plenty of meat in them. So long as one can manage a clean blow, the rest can follow through and pile on.


Clearly this is a case where there can only be one.

Split Dimwit Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve intelligence! [SS]
B: Also improve intelligence AND send this population to the Çay Uplift to displace something there

Split Bovine Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve mind, developing emotional processing to give an instinct to protect its young
B: Improve blubber, packing on denser layers to become truly humongous [SS]

Waiting for the extinction cascade in the shallows!

That's going to be yours if you keep SPLITTING! I hope your migration suffers the bite of the apex hunter.

[notquitethere]

I fully expect to make one of the Pinecovidae extinct, but I think it's probably better for my species overall if something fairly robust is in the Uplift (and before it became Dimwitted, that Sazan was good).

[TricMagic]

I'm still wondering how the Turnip has managed to grow to 50 under the effects of another Apex animal. They are in it's benthic range. Is it's shell just that good or something.

Blimpie has no shot at hunting in the Benthic zone right now.

[Magmacube_tr]

I'm still wondering how the Turnip has managed to grow to 50 under the effects of another Apex animal. They are in it's benthic range. Is it's shell just that good or something.

Blimpie has no shot at hunting in the Benthic zone right now.

It's the newfound size. Gigantism is the oldest evolutionary trick in the book. Turp is the size of a football right now, catching fish and snails with its long spindly tentacles.

[TricMagic]

I'm still wondering how the Turnip has managed to grow to 50 under the effects of another Apex animal. They are in it's benthic range. Is it's shell just that good or something.

Blimpie has no shot at hunting in the Benthic zone right now.

It's the newfound size. Gigantism is the oldest evolutionary trick in the book. Turp is the size of a football right now, catching fish and snails with its long spindly tentacles.

Well, suppose we're going to trade size for hunting numbers. Humans killed the ice age.(Mammoths)

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)
2: Split Bovine Sazan:
    A: Parental drive
    B: More blubber (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Electric signalling (SS)
2: Better and sharper shell

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

[TricMagic]

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Electric signalling (SS)
2: Better and sharper shell

I'll point out the signaling is the direct result of a better brain and their eyespots. They can recognize patterns, so they can also recognize what is and isn't, as where as strength and any variation in positions on the shell.

The main thing is Transfer/Storage of the electricity within the shells(With minor generation rate), mostly as a defense. (The fact that means electrical attacks are less effective is the bonus, so long as it's hitting the shell.) The rest of the explanation is just logical inferring over what they already have. As it has been confirmed they can see sea kelp's bioelectricity via another linage. Which means they can see differing strengths. The rest is just pack behavior.

They also transfer it to help recharge pack members. Older ones with plenty of nutrients gen more is the idea. Anything else that rubs against it also gets the shock, but that storage is what makes them able to deal with other animal shocks.(Like the jumper's method of stun.)

[notquitethere]

1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)

Should they both be SS?

[Magmacube_tr]

1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)

Should they both be SS?

If you wanna?

[notquitethere]

Nope, too swingy— only the one I marked as [SS] please!