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[FiveBalesOfHay]

Available scum went from 65 last turn to 20 this turn. Assuming The Worm loses population before any other species, it should die out by turn five.

[Magmacube_tr]

When do you predict the worm will die out?

When the predators arrive, or when you guys grow advanced enough and outcompete it. No one speciated yet, and the dead algea is still enough, so the ecosystem is pretty stable, for now.

[Magmacube_tr]

TURN 3


Events

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No events in the first 3 turns.

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FiveBalesOfHay
    1)Larger size: 5
    2)Internal gills inside mouth: 5
    3)Flatter body: 3

Crystalizedmire
    1)Ganglion: 2+1= 3
    2)Grippy hairs: 1
    3)Regeneration: 3

TricMagic
    1)Gills: 5
    2)Solidified proboscis: 3+1= 4
    3)Bioluminesence: 1

The Biomes

The Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (4 species in total)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

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Summary: A small tendril size of a small hair, made of unspecialised cells.
Nervous System: It has no nervous system.
Senses: It has no senses.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has no digestive system.
Respiratory System: It has no respiratory system.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, flatworm-like animal 10 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three black dots on its front that it uses to steer itself to coastal areas, where dead algea are abundant.
Nervous System: Small, primitive, general-purpose ganglion located under its sunspots.
Senses: Primitive photoreception through three sunspots on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a wide, circular mouth that leads to a simple internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

Summary: A small, leathery tendrils covered and puffed up by long quills. It is the size of a long string, with a set of hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues.
Nervous System: It has a net of mechanoreceptive neurons that are concentrated around its whiskers, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth.
Locomotion: Inching across the lakebed on a thousand stiff hairs through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A thin but long, diagonally extending tendril thick as a straw, mostly made of unspecialised cells, except for a calcified straw on its underside that lead into its internal cavity, which a ring of pinkish frills surrounds its base. It has two large, flat, frilled protrusion on its tip that act as additional filterfeeding surfaces and sails to pick up currents. Small orbs of bioluminescent bacteria cover its body, for no particular purpose, wasting calories and growing infectious in short order.
Nervous System: It has no nervous system.
Senses: It has no senses.
Locomotion: Cellular movements, and current surfing.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis, which leads to a small, one-way stomach.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System: It posseses an internal cavity filled with reddish, iron-rich mucus that allows it to store heat and distribute oxygen. The cavity periodically shifts, allowing for heat and oxygen transmission.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division
Habitat: The lake floor, and occasionally on the water collumn.

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Events start next turn!

[TricMagic]

Brightened Wingworm
Improve: Bioluminescent bacteria become symbiotic, providing light for food within the host.
Evolve: Eyes with which to see their surroundings.
Dimorph: Males are larger and fertilize eggs implanted in them by the females. The implantation happens through their proboscis linking together. After birth the new wingworms eventually leave once they've grown a bit. During this time females gather in schools to feed the male and kids what they gather. This allows a wide gene pool to be born from each coupling of male and females. Females of the species produce only a few eggs during each cycle, but as a result they are far more likely to survive.

[Crystalizedmire]

1. Quilled worm mutates a generalized sense of touch in the quills
2. Quilled worm mutates a row of sunspots along its' soon to be back
3. Quilled worm speciates:
 a. quills become smaller and help with gripping surfaces
 b. become larger

[FiveBalesOfHay]

• Sungazer Flatworm: Split sunspots into multiple cells, allowing the species to see the outlines of particles of food
• Sungazer Flatworm: Evolve more neurons in the head, allowing the species to more intelligently navigate the water and search for food
• Speciate Sungazer Flatworm:
  • a. evolve a more effective stomach cavity for digesting plant material
  • b. evolve a more effective stomach cavity for digesting meat

[Magmacube_tr]

TURN 4


Events

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Strength: 53 (Minor Event)
Timeframe: 18 (4 Turns)
Temperament: 3 (Inconvenience)

A recent earthquake has caused a new spring to form. This spring carries traces of arsenic from its source, and pours into the mountain lake you are inhabiting. It will take while for algea to evolve defenses. -50 pondscum for 4 turns.


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FiveBalesOfHay
    1)Primitive eyes: 1+1= 2
    2)Evolve primitive brain: 4+1= 5
    3)Speciate Sungazer Flatworm:
       A) Herbivory: 2+1= 3 (+1 here because you were already eating decomposed plant matter before.)
       B) Carnivory: 3

Crystalizedmire
    1)Quills become mechanoreceptive: 5+1= Capped at 5
    2)Photoreceptive dots on the back: 1
    3)Speciate Quilled Worm:
       A) Smaller quills: 4+1= 5 
       B) Larger size: 3

TricMagic
    1)Fix infectious bioluminescent bacteria: 1+1=2
    2)Sunspots: 5+1= Capped at 5 (No nervous system.)
    3)Sexual reproduction and dimorphism: 3 (Hm........) (SS vote unlocked!)

The Biomes

The Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (6 species in total)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Summary: A small, flatworm-like animal 10 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three small composite eyes above its mouth. It actively seeks smaller animals and tries to shallow them whole. It's prey is usually the ancestral worm and its own kinds and closest relatives' young, as the others are either too fast, too spiky or flighty to catch.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a very wide, circular mouth that leads to a simple internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

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Summary: A small tendril size of a small hair, made of unspecialised cells.
Nervous System: It has no nervous system.
Senses: It has no senses.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has no digestive system.
Respiratory System: It has no respiratory system.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, pear-shaped, flatworm-like animal 10 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three small composite eyes above its mouth. It stays on the shallow waters, seeking films of algea and other detrius.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a wide, circular mouth that leads to a relatively long, clustered internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

Summary: A 10 centimeter long, leathery tendril covered and puffed up by long quills. It is the size of a long string, with a set of hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth.
Locomotion: Inching across the lakebed on a thousand stiff hairs through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, leathery tendril covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It is the size of a long string, with a set of hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with many small hooked quills through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A thin but long, diagonally extending tendril thick as a straw, mostly made of unspecialised cells, except for a calcified straw on its underside that lead into its internal cavity, which a ring of pinkish frills surrounds its base. It has two large, flat, frilled protrusion on its tip that act as additional filterfeeding surfaces and sails to pick up currents. It is dotted with many microscopic, benign cysts of bioluminescent commensal bacteria that gives it a glittery apparance.
Nervous System: It has no nervous system.
Senses: It has a binocular pair of photoreceptive cups on its body, which allows it to detect light, and to some extent, outlines of shadows.
Locomotion: Cellular movements, and current surfing through its sails.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis, which leads to a small, one-way stomach.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System: It posseses an internal cavity filled with reddish, iron-rich mucus that allows it to store heat and distribute oxygen. The cavity periodically shifts, allowing for heat and oxygen transmission.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. Larger males fertilise the small number of eggs that females lay inside of them by linking their proboscii together. The young emerge as miniature adults.
Habitat: The lake floor, and occasionally on the water collumn.

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Did I miss something? My incessant, almost pathological self-doubt GM senses think I did.

[TricMagic]

We're officially pushing the limit of pondscum.

Stardust Wingworm
Evolve: A nervous system allowing control over fins and connected to the sunspot eyes.
Improve: Bioluminescent Bacteria now actively grow alongside the Wingworm, able to brighten and dim according to the nervous system.
Evolve: The ability to digest prey through using their probiscis to skewer.
SS Roll: Stardust Wingworms now leave trails of light on the current and can be mixed into the sands, providing paths for the species to follow. The bacteria uses the food from the worms to jumpstart their growth cycles, forming sheets on the ocean floor.

It is both predator and recycler. Food converted to nutrients, which eventually spore off and form vegetation.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

• Gnawer Flatworm: evolve a ring of chitinous teeth inside the mouth to better process prey and protect the inside of the mouth from quills
• Grazer Flatworm: evolve a cavity that can pump blood throughout the body, to get oxygen to areas far from the gills
• Grazer Flatworm: evolve an impression in the head that eye cells line, and a translucent covering over this impression to protect the cells from damage

[Magmacube_tr]

Grazer Flatworm: evolve an impression in the head that eye cells line, and a translucent covering over this impression to protect the cells from damage

So... you want a dome over the three eyes? Like barrel eye fish has?

Also, for all of you, the ancestral reproduction style will soon become highly unadvantageous.

[Crystalizedmire]

1. Climbing Quillworm mutates a chamber in the digestive system where muscles break down food in preparation for the rest of the digestive tract
2. Greater Quillworm mutates tiny chambers at the base of the quills holding tiny harpoons that activate when the quills are touched
3. Climbing Quillworm speciates:
    a. whiskers become longer
    b. evolve a row of sunspots on the soon to be back in order to avoid the sun

[TricMagic]

Also, for all of you, the ancestral reproduction style will soon become highly unadvantageous.

Does that include me though? Also with that speciation worm is about to die out. wouldn't mind another turn today.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

So... you want a dome over the three eyes? Like barrel eye fish has?

Also, for all of you, the ancestral reproduction style will soon become highly unadvantageous.

I mean for each individual compound eye.

[Magmacube_tr]

Also, for all of you, the ancestral reproduction style will soon become highly unadvantageous.

Does that include me though? Also with that speciation worm is about to die out. wouldn't mind another turn today.

No. Yours is different, so it is about Crystal and Bales.

[Magmacube_tr]

TURN 5


Events

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Strength: 87 (Major Event)
Timeframe: 5 (Single Turn)
Temperament: 7 (Awsome)

Arsenic-rich river: 3 turns left (-50 pondscum -50 plant matter)

Algea inside the lake has experienced a sudden evolutionary burst, first becoming multicelluar and inhabiting the coasts with strands of green, but also adapting more plant-like forms and colonising the sandy substrates as well. Two new, strictly herbivore niches now exist. Creatures engaged accordingly. By creatures I mean the Grazing Flatworm because the rest of you are still just adapted to eat pondscum. The currently ongoing arsenic problem affects them as well.

The Worm is extinct. Congrats!


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FiveBalesOfHay
    1)Ring of keratin teeth for Gnawer Flatworm: 5
    2)Circulatory system for Grazer Flatworm: 2 (You don't have muscles. So no heart.)
    3)Transparent domes for each eye of Grazer Flatworm: 4

Crystalizedmire
    1)Mechanical foregut for Climbing Quillworm: 3+1= 4
    2)Nematovesicules around quills for Greater Quilled Worm: 2
    3)Speciate Climbing Quillworm:
       A) Longer whiskers: 2+1=3
       B) Improve sunspots: 3+1=4 (Climbing Quillworm already has sunspots? You probably missed them because I accidentally wrote them inside the nervous system instead of senses.)

TricMagic
    1)Nervous system: 5
    2)Control over light production: 2+1= 3
    3)Evolve predation using proboscis: 1+1= 2
    SS) Dispensing glowing bacteria fertiliser for ecosystem engineering: 7

The Biomes

The Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (6 species in total)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Summary: A small, flatworm-like animal 10 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three small composite eyes above its mouth. It actively seeks smaller animals and tries to shallow them whole. It's prey is usually the ancestral worm and its own kinds and closest relatives' young, as the others are either too fast, too spiky or flighty to catch.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a very wide, circular mouth with sharp ring of keratin teeth, that leads to a simple internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

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Summary: A small, slightly pear-shaped, flatworm-like animal 15 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three small composite eyes above its mouth that are surrounded by three transparent domes individually. It stays on the shallow waters, seeking films of algea and other detrius.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, enclosed, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a wide, circular mouth that leads to a relatively long, clustered internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has a series of internal tubes that connect to the gills with a membrane.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

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Summary: A 10 centimeter long, leathery tendril covered and puffed up by long quills. It is the size of a long string, with a set of hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues. Bases of its quills have tiny chambers with harpoons that fire when disturbed. They are non-venomous, however.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Locomotion: Inching across the lakebed on a thousand stiff hairs through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, leathery tendril covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It is the size of a long string, with a set of long hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through long whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with many small hooked quills through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through. Food is mashed inside of a foregut before being digested.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, leathery tendril covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It is the size of a long string, with a set of hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues. This species has a strong aversion to light and only comes out at night, using its ten equally sized sunspots to determine time.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has 10, large dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark, and detect moving shadows.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with many small hooked quills through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through. Food is mashed inside of a foregut before being digested.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A thin but long, diagonally extending oblong blob as big as a plum with two dark depressions on it, mostly made of unspecialised cells, except for a calcified straw on its underside that lead into its internal cavity, which a ring of pinkish frills surrounds its base. It has two large, flat, frilled protrusion on its tip that act as additional filterfeeding surfaces and sails to pick up currents. It is dotted with many microscopic, benign cysts of bioluminescent commensal bacteria that gives it a glittery apparance. It perodically flashes and releases a film of glowing matter onto the lake bed that stimulates bacteria growth. It coordinates the fertiliser releases with others through the flashing. It may intentionally land on and consume corpses on occasion.
Nervous System: It has a nervous system commaded by a simple ganglion.
Senses: It has a binocular pair of cup eyes on its body, which allows it to see shapes and distance.
Locomotion: Cellular movements, and controlled current surfing through its sails.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis, which leads to a small, one-way stomach.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System: It posseses an internal cavity filled with reddish, iron-rich mucus that allows it to store heat and distribute oxygen. The cavity periodically shifts, allowing for heat and oxygen transmission.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. Larger males fertilise the small number of eggs that females lay inside of them by linking their proboscii together. The young emerge as miniature adults.
Habitat: The water collumn, and occasionally the lakebed.

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Alright, Tric. Here it is I guess.