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[notquitethere]

Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it

What's currently preventing us from eating seagrass?

[Magmacube_tr]

Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it

What's currently preventing us from eating seagrass?

Most of you have no teeth, or jaws.

[TricMagic]

Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it

What's currently preventing us from eating seagrass?

Should be noted most of the sludigoos could eat it. Given they ate most anything. Glidee mostly subsist off of seaweed right now though.

Seagrass is a case where you need teeth or some way to uproot it. (The old bletchi sludgiboo could too I think. Given it upturned the silt)

[notquitethere]

Plateface Dikencovy can already breathe air, has skin, and isn't reliant on using balleen like Sweeper, and almost has a working mouth, so honestly might be my best bet.

Speciate Plateface Dikencovy into two sister species:
1. Evolve jaw to chomp those face plates, finally getting a working mouth, to allow eating seagrass. Send it up to wallow on the shore of Lauv Island like a manatee. It can use its fins to roll around.
2. Also evolve a jaw but with [SS] and keep it in the shallows

(Spreading my bet with this one.)

Speciate Buffaloo Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve gills, transforming into air-breathing lungs   (it rises up to the surface to breathe like a whale now)
B: Evolve a jaw for chewing, biting, tearing (until I evolve teeth, it can use hard skeletal plates) [SS]

(Buffaloo Sazan is my most advanced creature, so it makes sense to me to develop a strand of it in the direction of land-dwelling.)

Third vote! This guy already has legs, so it won't take long to improve him, so long as he doesn't go extinct first:

Speciate Burrower Nubnub into two sister species:
A: Evolve lungs alongside the gills (like an isopod) so it can predate above the shoreline. Send it up to the Lauv Island (where it maybe can eat Dikencovy?)
B: Mutate a liver for handling coralloo poison (for feeding on coralloos as well as the glidees) [SS]

[Magmacube_tr]

What is your third vote?

[Knightwing64]

Multiple Turnip’s worth of chemicals on a single thing can surely have no long term health risks

[Magmacube_tr]

Multiple Turnip’s worth of chemicals on a single thing can surely have no long term health risks

LOL

You invented drugs.

[notquitethere]

What is your third vote?

Sweet, I missed that. I've now updated with a third vote.

[TricMagic]

Multiple Turnip’s worth of chemicals on a single thing can surely have no long term health risks

LOL

You invented drugs.

They shall seize the means of drug production and eat it. Also if food is going to evolve for higher reaches, it may develop an air bladder.

[Knightwing64]

Majoral Turp: Capitalizing on its carnivorous digestive system, it develops a jaw of sharp teeth to bite and tear into prey as a method for more food/another combat option.


Majoral Turp: Basic lungs that combine with the gills, so they can now breathe air and water.


Symbiotic Turp: Due to the increasing complexity of its victims it has evolved to control its prey through chemicals that condition the host to follow the Turp’s will and electric body control.

[TricMagic]

Not sure why one is going for body control. Not sure if they even use chemicals given the slime base. Turnips don't even have a brain.

Kinda wondering how this will be treated. As proto-animals without a method of reproduction, will the old conflict with the outer new? Or will my SS roll actually be able to decide that fate as they cultivate them. Or vice versa.

[Knightwing64]

You don’t need a brain to be smart, what my grandpappy always told me before he bought Jumanji

[TricMagic]

Not sure what this control can even do to help it though. Symbiotes don't need negative effects to be positive. Get your own symbiosis. You got a creature that can benefit too. Anyway, randomness go.

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 26


The Events

Power: 9
Temperament: N/A


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Plateface Dikencovy:
    A: Jaws, send to the Lauv Island: 3
    B: Jaws: 2+3=5
2: Split Buffaloo Sazan:
    A: Lungs from gills: 2+1=3
    B: Jaws: 3+1+(-1)=3
3: Split Burrower Nubnub:
    A: Evolve lungs, send it to Lauv Island: 3
    B: Evolve toxin resistance: 4+0=4
SS: 7, 3, 4


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Air pores for Toxic Coralloo: 1+(-1)=0
2: Floating for Vibrate Blimpie: 4+1=5
3: Symbiosis with Turnips: 1+0=1
SS: 3,5,4


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Teeth for Majoral Turp: 3+1+0=4
2: Lungs for Majoral Turp: 5
3: Better host control for Symbiotic Turnip: 4+1=5
SS: 4

The World

Nothing of interest happened.

Robust Sazan is extinct due to outcompetition.

The symbiosis between Turnip and Barbesium is going horribly. Turnip is too powerful and yet utterly clueless, and Barbesium has no adaptations to accomodate it in its body. Especially the chemical cocktail. Sludgiboo's have no muscles, they have a type of plasmic, fluid tissue. All the Turnip does is sending the Barbesium sky high at random intervals.


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 omnivoeousanimal 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, along with a liver, 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. It also eats Coralloo. 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 3 meter long, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, 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. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

A mostly grazing, 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 bony 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. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. 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 giant, almost spherical fish, with spiny hardened skin with sevwral layers 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 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 bottomfeeding predatory animal that is a 20 centimeter long cylinder with many interlocking bony, electrode plates that culminate in a sharp point at the head. 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 and electric outlines to indetify eachother. It has a partially symbiotic relationship with an endemic Turnip variety, which ends up with awful side effects. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -25 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 30 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 and air via crude electrolocation by many sparkly dots in its slime skin, moving by wind using its gas bladder and descending every once in a while to wet its gills. 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, though with little accuracy. They also secrete a chemical cocktail to boost the hosts strenght, which also acts like a dopanime boost to make the host more obedient. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators.

Ecosystem effects: -15 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 brain comparable to that of a parrot, an efficent, closed circulatory system, a carnivorous digestive tract with a set of sharp teeth 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 water-retaining gills, which can also function on land. 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, which doesn't work anymore. 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.

Lauv Island | Terrestrial Island | (2/5 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A heebivorous soft-bodiedbanimal 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 ring of keratin teeth around its mouth that shears seagrass. 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.

An ambush  predatory, amphibious animal the size of a large lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, 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 underwater and lures in lawnkeepers. It spends some time on land, away from predators. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females inject Sludgiboos with their eggs.

Ecosystem Effects: -20 population to Shore Pinecovy.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A herbivorous 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 shears 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 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 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 small 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 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.

[TricMagic]

Yay? Drug production seized.

     ●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.

This rule exists. Symbiosis has a base, just need to develop it fully.

Team X2
Junkie Barbesium works to develop the electrical circuit to make use of the turnip's energy, integrating the turnip itself into it's slime body. Excess turnip shall be dissolved as needed. [SS Roll]
Junkie Barbesium works with the chemicals of the turnip, storing them in their finshells. The finshells become more edged, connecting to shell-covered tentacles, and can be slashed into prey as they pass to send them on a sky-high ride. Excess chemicals are vented.
Toxic Coraloo Two: Venom Boogaloo. (Take 2 on air pores/landing)


One thing of interest. The Terrudoesn't actually have a method of reproducing on land, as they require sludgiboos. So how do they survive?