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[notquitethere]

Very pleased with this outcome so far. Should the remaining Burrower Nubnub have received a liver or somesuch?

[Knightwing64]

How dare you, a symbiotic relationship is supposed to be good for both parties. All you are trying to do is take. I won’t accept it.

Literally Turnip: The turnip develops the ability to store/stockpile electricity for later use. If the turnip is killed, either by a predator or host shenanigans, it emits all of this stored up electricity and any chemicals they have stored up to take their killer down with it.

Literally Turnip: Develop new chemicals that will work on even the strangest of host’s. Too often they get saddled with slimy abominations.

Majoral Turnip: Taking inspiration from their smaller brethren, these turnips constantly secrete a tailor made chemical blend to strengthen muscles and up reaction time.

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve Barbesium-Turnip Symbiosis: (SS)
2: Venomous Fins for Junkie Barbesium
3: Landfall for Coralloo

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Electric Battery for Literally Turnip
2: Improve Literally Turnips drugz.
3: Strength inducing chemicals for Majoral Turp (SS)

[notquitethere]

Speciate Surfacing Yunus into two sister species:

A: Give a long horn (improve spines for it?) for skewering enemies, scraping plants etc. [SS]
B: Improve fins, flattening out to leave a powerful set of tail flippers and hand flippers (a bit like a seal) so it can bask on shore, and send to Lauv Island

Speciate Shore Dikencovy into two sister species:
1: Mutate a mouth pouch (like a hamster) to store seagrass to feed on later
2. Evolve advanced microbiome for better digestion, but really so that the droppings on the seashore are more likely to grow interesting new life [SS]

Speciate Tiktaalik Terrub:
1: Improve brain to add an instinct to farm: to gather up plantlife and put it in rockpools and tend it, spreading its food availability
2: As its life-cycle still involves going into the water, evolve minituarisation, becoming so small it can hitch a ride on bigger species. [SS]

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Surfacing Yunus
    A: Unicorn (SS)
    B: Fins to paddles
2: Split Shore Dikencovy
    A: Mouth pouch
    B: Gut biome (SS)
3: Split Tiktaalik Terrub
    A: Instinctive seaweed farming
    B: Dwarfism (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve Barbesium-Turnip Symbiosis: (SS)
2: Venomous Fins for Junkie Barbesium
3: Landfall for Coralloo

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Electric Battery for Literally Turnip
2: Improve Literally Turnips drugz.
3: Strength inducing chemicals for Majoral Turp (SS)

am tired rn

turn will be coming soon tho

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 27


The Events

Power: 86
Temperament: 6


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Surfacing Yunus
    A: Unicorn: 1+1+1: 3
    B: Fins to paddles: 2+1: 3
2: Split Shore Dikencovy
    A: Mouth pouch: 3
    B: Gut biome: 3+(-3): 0
3: Split Tiktaalik Terrub
    A: Instinctive seaweed farming: 2
    B: Dwarfism: 4+3: Capped at 5
SS:5, 1, 7


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve Barbesium-Turnip Symbiosis: 1+1+0: 2
2: Venomous Fins for Junkie Barbesium: 3+1: 4
3: Landfall for Coralloo: 2
SS: 4


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Electric Battery for Literally Turnip: 1
2: Improve Literally Turnips drugz: 5+1: Capped at 5
3: Strength inducing chemicals for Majoral Turp: 3+(-2): 1
SS: 2

The World

Seaweed have evolved onto land and became something very convergent on grass. They grow on the barren soil  and have turned the place into a giant prairie. There are no trees. Yet.

Turnip-Barbesium symbiosis is now marginally better. Most of the drugz seep off the fins. But the Barbesium is still in a constant high, just not in the sky.

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 a meter long horn coming from its head. It has spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, an 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, serrated plates on its sides that also vent and inject a hallucinogenic substance, 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 some 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, and a significant error margin due to a defective electricity gland. They also secrete a chemical cocktail to boost the hosts strenght, which also acts like a dopamine boost, and a pacifier to make the host more obedient. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators.

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all other animals.

An apex predatorial animal the size of a football with many long, hyperflexible, muscular, skin penetrating, venom-coated tendrils that are always overloaded with lactic acid, 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 | Grassland Island | (5/5 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A heebivorous soft-bodied 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 ring of keratin teeth around its mouth that shears seagrass, and an also has elastic pouch for a mouth cavity. 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 coral-like plantimal, that is akin to an amorphous mass of hard, porous 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 that disperse only during a rain. It lives on land, and in small clusters, as a species endemic to the sandy portions of the coasts of the island.

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 tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. It spends some time on land, away from predators. It instinctively cultivates beds of algea to lure prey, which limits its habitat to the shores of the island. 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 all animals.

An ambush  predatory, amphibious animal the size of a 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 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: -10 population to Dikencovies.

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 three pairs of paddles. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds that spend some time on land. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

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]

Team X2
Seaside Sludgebush develops airborne spores. There is much grass to eat, so many shall be born.
Pixie Barbesium develop lighter than air gasbladers from Skyward Blimpie crosspolination. This moves them from pure benthic to one capable of more hunting grounds. [SS Roll]
Pixie Barbesium speciates,
\One also develop heightened reaction times from the drugs. While high, the symbiosis continues to be improved. [+1 to an underdeveloped trait.]
 \The other bucks the Turnip cultivation entirely, developing it's body to be extremely poisonous to other forms of life. [SS Roll]

[notquitethere]

Haha, look who's top predator now (in one specific biome)!

Improve Baitfarmer's farming instinct, so now it herds slimes as well (primarily for injecting with eggs)- hopefully that way the Terrubs may no longer need to return to the ocean as part of its lifecycle [SS]

Mutate Hamster Dikencovy, evolve inflatable outer-layer of skin, to allow rolling as a ball across the island!

Speciate Landmower Sazan:

1. Develop sharp teeth (perhaps improving on spine production). Along with the existing jaw, this may hopefully turn this Sazan into a more formidable predator (it's already big enough to swallow most of the lesser species whole).
2.  Develop emotional intelligence even further, allowing shoaling with other species of Sazan [SS]

[Knightwing64]

Emergency fix on the electric battery for executioner turnip.

Increase the executioner turnip’s body control to the point where it can control the bodies systems to squash any possible resistance.

Use the overflowing acid to the sore turps advantage, increasing its potency and allowing it to secrete very strong acid.

[TricMagic]

No clue why you are trying to kill hosts knightwing  Symbiosis that abhorrent?(The slimes have an odd chemical structure in the first place.)

[Knightwing64]

Bruh

Nobody’s trying to kill the host’s.

I’m just getting insurance.

Besides, you’ll be fine, the body control works through chemicals and electricity for now.

Also, I expect you to start making some contributions to this relationship to help my turps, this isn’t a one way street bud.

[TricMagic]

Bruh

Nobody’s trying to kill the host’s.

I’m just getting insurance.

Besides, you’ll be fine, the body control works through chemicals and electricity for now.

Also, I expect you to start making some contributions to this relationship to help my turps, this isn’t a one way street bud.

To quote Naruto, pay your rent. They get food for living. If w eat any excess, it's only because they are still protoanimals without a mean of reproduction.

[Knightwing64]

Okay, we seem to be mistaking which of us is providing the chemicals and who isn’t, make things more comfy for my turps or I’ll find a different provider of a non slimy variation.

[Magmacube_tr]

Knightwing-Tric divorce arc lesss gooooo

[Knightwing64]

Perhaps.