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[Knightwing64]

The Shellfolk: Modify their digestive tract, allowing them to eat anything although still enjoying and deriving more nutrients from meat. Stomach acids are much more acidic to allow for digestion of stranger meals.

The Shellfolk: Tech +1

The Shellfolk: Use the stem cells to actively regenerate from any lethal wounds if in mortal danger 

[notquitethere]

Speciate Galloping Octohorse
1. Make camoflauged against the grassland, harder to hunt [ss]
2. 'Improve' the herding instinct, to allow it to be trainable as a riding animal or beast of burden

(Might be a lost cause, but they're the main omnivore I have here, so:)

Speciate Secondarily Yunus
1. Improve the opportunistic feeding instincts, to maximise poultry snatching (from the huge Poultry Terrub flocks)
2. Improve brainpower- specifically alertness to danger (make it super paranoid) -  and send it to bask on the shores of Lauv Island [SS]

Improve Lifeboat Livyat, give it hearing with new ear canals (to better navigate the depths, and avoid the noise of dangerous settlements)

[Magmacube_tr]

Meanwhile...

"Sir, the Soldier squad 34-67-37 has returned back to the base with a peculiar report at the fissure site."

In the domain of the Kō-Äh, in a dense, ancient, well-engineered growth of Orchards, two Kings convened. Powerful creatures these Kings were, possesing remarkable intellect, and great quasi-psionic abilities. Their bulbous, spherical bodies propelled themselves with a series of flippers and water jets. The larger and the elder of the two used these to manuever around, to face the smaller and younger King.

"You may tell me what this report entails."

"Sir, the Soldier squad have detected an incredibly strange creature while on patrol. It is an extraordinarily hot being, as hot as mountain blood, and is seemingly made of that substance, as its visage is akin to it. It is also perfectly cubical, and makes strange sounds like the Ravagers everywhere it goes."

"Interesting. Are we sure this is not a mirage of sorts? Or some Ravager sorcery previously unknown to us?"

"I can't answer that sir. But the soldiers in question had no flaws."

"Then we will simply assume that something truely anomalous lurks in our water. Whatever the case, we need more information. We must contact this being to determine if it is a threat to our collective. And we shall do this in stealth. If it involves mountain blood, then it is inherently dangerous. In this case, it is downright unacceptable since is alive and autonomous."

"What is your plan sir?"

"Pick your most trusted subordinates and have them commandeer Scouts to continue observation. Secure a perimeter and disseminate a cover up story as freak volcanic activity happening in the area. Contain the anomaly in that zone. Protect the collective."

Unbenownst to them, however, there was a third listener to their little conversation.

The mountain heard.

[TricMagic]

Ah, socialist limes as nature intended.

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 37


The Events
Power: 47
Temperament: 2


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Split Galloping Octohorse:
    A: Camuflage: 3+1=4
    B: Improve herding instinct: 2+1=3
2: Split Secondarily Yunus
    A: Be more predatory: 5+1= Capped at 5
    B: Improve brain, focusing on alertness and send to Lauv
    Island: 1+(-3)=-2 (they became antivaxxers and died lol)
3: Hearing for Lifeboat Livyat: 2
SS: 5, 1


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Make generation ship using hubs and fluffilimps as  blueprint: 3+1+3= Capped at 5
2: Farm Poultry Terrub: 2
3: Sticky trap for turnips using a specialised caste of Meat Slimes= 5+1= Capped at 5
SS: 7


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Omnivory: 4+1+2= Capped at 5
2: Advance into the Medieval Age: 4+1=5
3: Organ scale regeneration: 2+1=3
SS: 6

The World

Lauv island, as uninhabitable as it seems now, houses one giant, Alagadda-esque city populated by lovecraftian creatures. This development is the result of a chain of technological advancements made in Shellfolk sciences.

The city encircles the coast almost completely, only sparing a select few rocky cliff faces, and the inner, higher parts of the island, where the mountain, a shield volcano slowly expanding throught literal ages of small but steady eruptions, have become a kilometer high, with many slopes and plateaus for grass to grow. This place is now cut from the shore almost completely, and Lauv island is now two biomes.

The City of Kabuk, a medieval metropolis that gets its food from the sea, and Yayla Highland, a temperate montane meadow. Poultry Terrub has been moved to The City of Kabuk due to the Shellfolk becoming sedentary.

Greater Sweeping Dikencovy, Decisive Uncod, Roundgut Uncod, and Shorepeeker Yunus are extinct.


Yayla Highland | Montane Meadow Biome | (2/6 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

A mostly herbivorous animal the size and shape of a half a meter long, wide capybara 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 brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. It has a swim bladder, an adrenal gland along with a set of muscles that control its eight short legs. 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 herbivorous animal the size and shape of a 5 meter long, wide horse with a meter long horn coming from its head. It has spiny hardened, light and dark brown striped, camuflaged 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 brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. It has a swim bladder, an adrenal gland along with a set of muscles that control its eight long, digitgrade legs. 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.

The City of Kabuk | Medieval City Biome | (4/4 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

An apex predatorial, true amphibious, sophont animal the size of a beachball with many long, hyperflexible, very muscular, skin penetrating, paralysing, sludgiboo-repellant venom-coated tendrils that also function as legs on land, a brain comparable to that of a genius modern human, an efficent, closed circulatory system, an omnivorous digestive tract with a set of sharp teeth and a very tough, calcified, isolative, very heavy shell. They can regenerate entire organs if given the chance. 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 for very long periods. They have a sense of smell and electrolocation, along with 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 powerful electric shock to stun it, then using the tendrils to tear it into pieces. Between their eyes is a short stalk that ends in a bioluminescent organ that they use to communicate. They can also use their electricity to send simple silent messages. They reproduce in two ways. First is much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon. The second happens when they die. A clump of stem cells consume the dead body and create a copy of the deceased. They are capable of agriculture, and medieval metallurgy, up to primitive steel.

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all other animals. Each turn.

A mostly herbivorous animal the size and shape of a 4 meter long, wide horse 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 brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. It has a swim bladder, an adrenal gland along with a set of muscles that control its eight long, digitgrade legs. They take care of eachothers young and live in hundreds, strong herds, and are used as beasts of burden and steeds by Shellpeople. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

An aquatic 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. It is a domestic farm animal uses by the shellfolk, with various breeds for meat and eggs. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females drop their eggs off their ovipositor.

An omnivorous, predatory aquatic animal the size and shape of a meter long, round seal, with spiny hardened skin with a thin layer of 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 smart brain, a robust, beaked jaw, and a omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its three pairs of paddless. 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.

Yanardag Shelf | Primordial Chaos Biome | (7/? species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

An incredibly polymorphic, eusocial species of gelatinous, complex animal that comes in many forms which support the greater whole. It forms entire ecosystems upon itself alone. Kelp-like, towering, nourishing Orchards which terraform and grow stalks of fruit and embryoes for the others to eat and spawn from. Small, cheap and unassuming Assassins to kill select targets and overwhelm by sheer numbers. The flat, frilly and circular Gardeners to maintain its very own habitat. Numerous, gaseous and prehensile Air Balloons to reach onto the sky and land. Hardshelled, noxious and sharpended Soldiers to form armies that cut, impale, slash and defend, with the large, powerful and imposing Floating Hubs for them to dock and move around with security. Huge, ship-like and segmented Arks to sail afar to safekeep a sample of the collective with a growth of their own little chorus. Semi-autonomous, amphibious and flightful Scouts to observe and project force onto the dry grounds. Fatty and filling Meat Slime to eat and sate onself and others. Digestive and sticky Sludge for trapping and suffocating parasite younglings. And finally, The King of All Slime, the large and powerful, self-aware, seldom hatched minds to rule them all. It is capable of designing its environment and eco-engineer to a remarkable degree thanks to its sapience.

An animal that is an obligate parasite, with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a developed brain 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 are somehow resilient to unfavourable conditions, and can survive alone for a short amount of time. They anchor themselves to their hosts via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock from their electric gland to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow in it and direct it to better feeding grounds. They also secrete a chemical cocktail to boost the hosts strenght, which also acts like a dopamine boost, a chemical lobotomy and a pacifier to make the host perfectly obedient to its will. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators. They reproduce via budding much smaller Turnips, that are ejected via the host coughing them up.

A herbivorous, 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. It can inflate itself into a ball to straighten out its spikes, turning itself into a spiky ball. It is covered in a thin layer of slime that allows it to blend in with Kō-Äh growths. 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 is a semi-eusocial creature that always moves in groups, with some being born as sterile, self-sacrificial, explosive drones. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A herbivorous, 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. It can inflate itself into a ball to straighten out its spikes, turning itself into a spiky ball. 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 is a semi-eusocial creature that always moves in groups, with some being born as sterile, self-sacrificial, explosive drones that spread a virus that neuter other animals. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

An omnivorous, photosynthetic animal the size and shape of a titanic, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, open, immunised, circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its sharp toothed mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes, a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, a set of long whiskers and a pair of primitive fish ears, all connected to a large, photographic 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. Under its throat is a gland that neutralises poisons. It has an incredibly slow metabolism, and can live for multiple millenia. It has a perfect flat, soft skinned back that grows algea, which supports a whole ecosystem of symbiotes and sustains it with photosynthesis during its decades long slumbers. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its thousand young via milk from its thousand belly teats for short while, before leaving off into the abbys again. It has an insanely long reproductive cycle, maybe once in 50 years time.

What remains and has become of the first Kō-Äh colony ship. A group of mindless, feral masses of Meat Slime that herbivores love to eat. It reproduces by making more of itself.

An aquatic animal the size of a medium lizard thing, with leathery, warty skin, four pairs of uneven, stumpy legs, many easily broken spines of various lengths, a weak, bony pair of useless front claws, an anemic, open circulatory system connected to a fragile flail of gills and a single small lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous, intolerant digestive canal that runs through it, with two myopic eyes near the mouth and a stupid brain behind them, all encompassed by a crumbly skeleton. It is a domestic farm animal uses by the Kō-Äh, with various breeds for meat and eggs. Its soft tissues output random, meaningless electric signals, making them incredibly easy to spot by Kō-Äh eyes. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females drop their eggs off their ovipositor.

Notably, the species is extraordinarily inbred, due to it originating from a mere dozen eggs. As a result, they are susceptible all sorts of diseases, and other such ailments, therefore are quick to die. Also, they are stupid and ugly and nobody likes them.

The Giants Back | Algea Growth Biome | (2/2 species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

An ambush  predatory, aquatic animal the size of a medium 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 instinctively cultivates large beds of algea to lure prey. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females lay their eggs on the algea beds.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals.

An algea grazing 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 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 hooked fins, which it uses to cling to the giants back. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

[TricMagic]

Goodbye Wandeertrees, enjoy being scenery.

[notquitethere]

Exciting developments! Love those poor Hapsburg Terrubs...

Now they're settled, are the Shellfolk still giving their ongoing -10 to the highland and shelf?

[Magmacube_tr]

Now they're settled, are the Shellfolk still giving their ongoing -10 to the highland and shelf?

They do not hunt in the highland. The low population is merely the pre-recovery numbers.

Also, direct consumption is not the leading factor at this point. Livestock are.

[notquitethere]

Zebra Octohorse
1. Improve the horn, splitting it into several spurs to more efficiently uproot vegetation. [SS]
2. Improve legs, growing hardened keratin hooves for roving

Lifeboat Livyat
1. Evolve vocal chords, to sing across the vast ocean, communicating messages between its kind. [SS]

Racoon Yunus
1. Evolve sharp claw like hands for scurrying up and over walls, and grasping stolen terrubs
2. Increase intelligence further, for scavenging and den building and send to live in the Yayla Highland [SS]

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Zebra Octohorse
    A: Improve horns to be more numerous (SS)
    B: Hooves
2: Singing communication for Lifeboat Livyat (SS)
3: Split Racoon Yunus
    A: Evolve grasping, clawed flippers
    B: Make landfall, again (SS) (Yunus had become aquatic again, remember?)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

[TricMagic]

Team X2
Speciation and Growth
\Rebuild the Orchards of the Yanardag Shelf, restoring the forest. Their fruits born from sunlight will alleviate the food shortage.
 \Develop a land-bearing version of the Orchards. No mind, just sturdy roots and fruit-bearing fans, a tree that can be harvested.

Long Term Hibernation
\Have Arks sail out into the greater seas, spreading to other areas.
 \Develop an Ark for long term hibernation, buried deep underground and using the growth of algae to provide air and energy.

Warfare and History
\Develop obsidian-based equipment for capture, processing, and study of anomalous creatures.
 \Mutate an Ancestor, bereft of mind but capable of endless evolution. The first in the line brought back to life for study. [SS Roll] (The first branch of Team X2)

[Magmacube_tr]

\Develop obsidian-based equipment for capture, processing, and study of anomalous creatures.

Oh no, what would I ever do?

[TricMagic]

\Develop obsidian-based equipment for capture, processing, and study of anomalous creatures.

Oh no, what would I ever do?

(They are described as eco engineers. I don't expect it to work.)

[Magmacube_tr]

Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Zebra Octohorse
    A: Improve horns to be more numerous (SS)
    B: Hooves
2: Singing communication for Lifeboat Livyat (SS)
3: Split Racoon Yunus
    A: Evolve grasping, clawed flippers
    B: Make landfall, again (SS) (Yunus had become aquatic again, remember?)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Ecoenginnering:
    A: Regrow the plantimal jungle
    B: Develop a land orchard
2: Order Arks to sail far into the ocean, and bury one into the ground.
3: Scientific endevours:
    A: Obsidian eqiupment
    B: Revive the first Sludgoboo to live (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

KNIGHTWING!!!!!!!!!

[notquitethere]

The Shellfolk eat an infected Terrub leg and die of food poisoning.