TURN 6
EventsStrength: 41 (Minor Event)
Timeframe: 7 (Single Turn)
Temperament: 3 (Inconvenience)
Arsenic-rich river: 2 turns left (-50 pondscum -50 plant matter)
An uptick of small meteorite collisions have occured. Since the planets atmosphere is pretty thin, it is bad at burning them away. While inconvenient, it is also pretty inconsequential in the long term.
ActionsFiveBalesOfHay
1)Sandy camuflage for Domedeye Flatworm: 3
2)Feeding tendrils for Domedeye Flatworm: 5
3)Horizontal tail for Chewer Flatworm: 1
Crystalizedmire
1)Hemaphroditic reproduction for Harpooned Worm: 3
2)Hemaphroditic reproduction for Nocturnal Quillworm: 2
3)Speciate Feeler Quillworm:
A) Acidic foregut: 1+1=2
B) Increase regeneration: 2+1=3
TricMagic
1)Digestive tract: 3+1=4
2)Muscles in the proboscis to bite: 4+1=5
3)Segmentation: 4
SS)Cell specialisation: 3
The BiomesThe Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (7 species in total)
Summary: A small, flatworm-like animal. It has a main body that is 10 centimeters in length along with a long flat section at the back that grows indefinitely. It is 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.
Summary: A small omnivorous animal about 10 centimeters long covered in white skin, with a long body with two dark depressions on its front that are above a calcified straw, with a ring of pinkish frills surrounding its base. It has three pairs of large, flat protrusion on its sides that act as fins 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 actively targets prey, stabbing them with its probocis.
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: Swimming like manta rays with 6 fins and current surfing.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis with an internal lining of muscles to chew, which leads to a digestive tract with a simple stomach and intestine.
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.
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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 tentacled mouth that are surrounded by three transparent domes individually. It is pale yellow in coloration and has stripes of darker yellow. 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 surrounded by numerous prehensile tendrils that rake in algea. The mouth 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: A few of the quills that surround it can be used to fertilise others of its species. After fertilisation, the mother lays a few hundred eggs that hatch into highly neotenic larvae that resemble the ancestral worm. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
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. This ability comes in handy, as the foreguts inner lining is always being digested.
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 mechanically and chemically processed inside of an acidic 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 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 regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissue groups and survive up to quarter of its mass gone. It lives significantly longer as a result.
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 periodically lays eggs, and fertilises those that it encounters. It will eat any fertilised eggs it stumbles upon. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor.
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Dont thank me, thank RNJesus.
Also, for your knowledge, active movement without muscles is pretty inefficent and slow, and won't get you far. Muscles are a very effective evolutionary advantage against those who lack them. Just sayin'. Lift.
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Topic: Competitive Evolution Season 5 │ Joins Open │ Turn 14 (Read 7035 times)