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[Magmacube_tr]

This looks interesting, i would like to join. Can i pick any species i want to start my own clade?

Leonardo, if you are going to post, do it sometime soon because I am going to post next turn.

[Leonardo8]

1) Speciate the Skewer Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Create gill flaps around the gills to protect them and pump water more efficiently

3) Speciate: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Improve brain complexity to better coordinate with others of the same species

[Magmacube_tr]

TURN 10


Events

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Strength: 48 (Minor Event)
Timeframe: 13 (2 Turns)
Temperament: 3 (Inconvenience)

Asymptomatic viral outbreak: 3 Turns Left
Parasitoid cysts: 2 Turns Left

A new creature is in town. Another branch of multicelluar life has developed. It is an infectious, parakariotic pathogen that forms small bumps on a given animals flesh and creates wounds akin to canker sores. They are small, and completely unspecialised, and a result, they are not an extreme danger. It does kill the old and infirm however, and there is always a possibility it can become something worse.


Actions

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FiveBalesOfHay
    1)Muscular tail for Burrower Flatfish: 3+1=4
    2)Muscles for Dometeeth Flatworm: 5
    3)Swimming paddles for Dometeeth Flatworm: 3

Crystalizedmire
    1)Poison immunity for Stingleg Quillpede: 2
    2)Speciate Armored Quillpede:
       A)Memory: 1+1=2
       B)Compound eyes: 4+1=5
    SS)Speciate Puffing Harpoonworm:
       A)Color cones in eyes: 2+1=3
       B)Quills into spades for swimming: 1+1=2
    3)Speciate Regenerative Quillworm:
       A)More regeneration: 4+1=5
       B)Memory: 3+1=4

TricMagic
    1)Color vision for Skewer Starwing: 1+1=2
    2)Immune system for Scrounger Starwing: 5
    3)Silt as digestive aid for Carpet Starwing: 3+1=4
    SS)Better camuflage for Carpet Starwing: 4+1=5

BlackPaladin99
    1)Improve respiratory system: 2+1=3
    2)Improve brain: 1+1=2
    3)Evolve spines: 4+3=Capped at 5
    SS)Supporting Action 3: 7

Aeranthos
    1)Immune system through co-opted ambient viroids: 1
    2)Soft dermal covering for legs: 3+1=4
    3)Most quills flatten into plates: 4+1=5
    SS)More efficent respiratory system: 6+1=7

The Biomes

The Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (16 species in total)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Summary: An carnivorous animal about a meter long covered in white skin, with a long, roundish body with two large dark orbs on its front that are above a long, calcium hollow harpoon, 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 symbiotic bacteria that gives it a slightly glittery apparance. It periodically 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, large or small, stabbing them with its harpoon mouth and taking them apart.
Nervous System: It has a nervous system commaded by a simple ganglion.
Senses: It has a pair of large, lenseless black eyes filled with 16 different kinds of color-receptive cones. It sees all colors. ALL OF THEM!!! It's tiny, unspecialised ganglion often experiences seizures.
Locomotion: Swimming like manta rays with 6 propeller fins and current surfing. It possesses muscles and an endoskeleton connected to the proboscis with a central cage for organs and places for the fin muscles to attach. A small dorsal ridge on its back helps with steering to some degree.
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 has closed circulatory system with a three chambered heart, the first two pump blood in and out of the third, larger and flat chamber that's right underneath the gills. A liver filters ammonia from the bloodstream and processes it, and its kidneys dispose of it.
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.

Summary: A small, flat animal that resembles a squished tadpole with a horizantal fin. It has a main body that is 10 centimeters in length. It is colored a pale, dusty yellow. It has three small composite eyes above its mouth. It has three long, inflexible antennae around its mouth. It burrows into the sand with just its antennae above, then waits for prey. When it detects prey, it launches up with its powerful tail to catch it.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, composite eyes on its head. Sense of water movement from three long, inflexible antennae around its mouth.
Locomotion: Muscle-based propulsion through a single horizontal tail fin. The tail is especially strong.
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. Many indidivuals do not survive their first split, as the tissues are no longer mostly self-sustaining
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A flat animal reminiscent of a lancelet. It has a main body that is 60 centimeters in length along with a wide, flatter extension the back that acts as a tail fin. It has three large composite eyes above its round, toothy mouth and a pair of flexible tendrils on its sides that are covered in sharp, serrated spines, which are used to slash and stab prey and rivals alike. It actively seeks prey to cut up to pieces, and eat them afterwards. It reacts fast to stimuli, but has no object permanence; anything going outside the range of its senses cease to be.
Nervous System: Small, hyperactive brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Full-color, triocular sight through three large composite eyes on its head. Mechanoreception through the tendrils at the sides of the mouth.
Locomotion: Muscle-based propulsion through its single horizontal tail fin.
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 large, vascularised gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system powered by two hearts at either side of its body.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually, with female, male, and le sexes. Tiny and underdeveloped haploid males are spawned by les and carried as ready-to-hatch eggs under its body. When it is time to reproduce, the le lays its eggs, which immidiately hatch and fertilise the females, which lay eggs that hatch into les and females in a 1/5 ratio, respectively.
Habitat: The water collumn, and occasionally lake floor.

Summary: An animal about 80 centimeters long covered in white skin, with a long, roundish 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 symbiotic bacteria that gives it a slightly 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 is a true opportunist, though it does prefer meats -fresh or dead- over plant matter, both of which it will readily consume.
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 propeller fins and current surfing. It possesses muscles and an endoskeleton connected to the proboscis with a central cage for organs and places for the fin muscles to attach. A small dorsal ridge on its back helps with steering to some degree.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis with an internal lining of muscles to chew, which leads to a digestive tract with a large, dirt-filled stomach and then an intestine.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System:It has closed circulatory system with a three chambered heart, the first two pump blood in and out of the third, larger and flat chamber that's right underneath the gills. A liver filters ammonia from the bloodstream and processes it, and its kidneys dispose of it. It has a robust immune system that renders it immune to any standard bacterial infection.
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.

Summary: A segmented, cylindrical animal with many long, hydraulic insectoid legs. It is covered in leathery skin and puffed up by long quills. It has no determinable maximum length, always growing new segments and legs which eventually become too many for its circulatory system to support, leading to weak blood flow and ammonia build up. It has a set of hairs around its mandibles 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. It's legs have a small canal inside that injects paralytic venom into prey, which it then eats alive. Its body constantly produces antivenom, rendering some of its own venom ineffective
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: Walking across the lakebed with a dozens of long, spider-like hydraulic legs.
Digestive System: It has a pair of mandibles, and a two-ended digestive canal of indeterminate length in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on the sides of each of its segments that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart. It eventually becomes unable to support the length of the body.
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, near the coasts.

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Summary: A small, slightly pear-shaped, flatworm-like animal 25 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 clusters of algea. It is mind-numbingly slow.
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 periodically clusters into large groups and releases clouds of unisexual gametes that combine with those of others.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

Summary: A segmented, cylindrical animal with many long, hydraulic insectoid legs. It is covered in tough exoskeletal plates and puffed up by long quills. It has no determinable maximum length, always growing new segments and legs which eventually become too many for its circulatory system to support, leading to weak blood flow and ammonia build up. It has a set of hairs around its mandibles 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 and inject mildly necrotic venom when disturbed.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a tiny brain with short term memory.
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: Walking across the lakebed with a dozens of long, spider-like hydraulic legs.
Digestive System: It has a pair of mandibles, and a two-ended digestive canal of indeterminate length in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on the sides of each of its segments that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart. It eventually becomes unable to support the length of the body.
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, near the coasts.

Summary: A segmented, cylindrical animal with many long, hydraulic insectoid legs. It is covered in tough exoskeletal plates and puffed up by long quills. It has no determinable maximum length, always growing new segments and legs which eventually become too many for its circulatory system to support, leading to weak blood flow and ammonia build up. It has a set of hairs around its mandibles 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 and inject mildly necrotic venom when disturbed.
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 compound eyes that gives it a full 360 degrees of blurry, shape and shadow-based vision.
Locomotion: Walking across the lakebed with a dozens of long, spider-like hydraulic legs.
Digestive System: It has a pair of mandibles, and a two-ended digestive canal of indeterminate length in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on the sides of each of its segments that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart. It eventually becomes unable to support the length of the body.
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, near the coasts.

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Summary: A 30 centimeter long, leathery tendril covered by a fur of long quills which stay down when not in use. It has a set of hairs around its 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. When disturbed by predators, the quills puff up, and activate the tiny chambers at their bases with harpoons that fire and inject mildly necrotic venom.
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 8 small eyes on its back that gives it a simplistic, colored vision.
Locomotion: Inching across the lakebed on a thousand stiff hairs through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a wide, spade-shaped mouth lined with flat calcium teeth, which leads to a digestive canal that digests and absorbs nutrients.
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 a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart.
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, around the sandy coastal areas where lake meadows are.

Summary: A 30 centimeter long, leathery tendril with many small wide plates that act as paddles. It has a set of hairs around its 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. When disturbed by predators, the paddle muscles flex, and activate the tiny chambers at their bases with tiny harpoons that fire and inject mildly necrotic venom.
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 paddles. It has 8 small, primitive eyes on its back that allows it to percieve shapes and shadows.
Locomotion: Slowly swimming through the waters with many small paddles on its body. It is a clumsy swimmer.
Digestive System: It has a wide, spade-shaped mouth lined with flat calcium teeth, which leads to a digestive canal that digests and absorbs nutrients.
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 a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart.
Reproductive System: It has a few long, thin quills on its back that are 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, around the sandy coastal areas where lake meadows are.

Summary: A small, noticably pear-shaped, vaguely turtle-like animal 20 centimeters in length. It has 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 waterweed to eat.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, enclosed, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Muscle-based propulsion via four paddles on its sides.
Digestive System: It has a wide, circular mouth filled with large, round calcium teeth, surrounded by numerous prehensile tendrils that pull in watergrass. The mouth leads to a 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. Movements of its fins transport the water inside.
Reproductive System: It periodically clusters into large groups and releases clouds of unisexual gametes that combine with those of others.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

Summary: An animal about 70 centimeters long covered in white skin, with a long, roundish 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 symbiotic bacteria that gives it a slightly glittery apparance, along with a dense growth of algea and watergrass enmeshed into its back skin. It periodically 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 spends its time constantly grazing to keep up with its metabolic demands.
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 propeller fins and current surfing. It possesses muscles and an endoskeleton connected to the proboscis with a central cage for organs and places for the fin muscles to attach. A small dorsal ridge on its back helps with steering to some degree.
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. The stomach uses silt to better grind down watergrass.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System:It has closed circulatory system with a three chambered heart, the first two pump blood in and out of the third, larger and flat chamber that's right underneath the gills. A liver filters ammonia from the bloodstream and processes it.
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, around lake meadows.

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Summary: Arthropoid animal covered in leathery skin and puffed up by wide, short plates with lines of hooked quills in the seams. It has a with a pronounced, raised front. It has an oblong body 35 centimeters in length with 8 short, stumpy legs. It has 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. It is constantly beset by a crippling viroid infection that produces anti-bacterial proteins as a byproduct.
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: It can see shapes and shadows around and above itself using its three eyes on the sides and above its mouth. 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.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with 8 short legs. The quills and legs are connected to an internal body support chasis which muscles connect to. It can use its large gill chambers as a short-range water jet.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through. Food is mechanically and chemically processed inside of a large, tough, acidic foregut before being digested.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of spiracles on the front and back sides of its body. The front pair pulls water in and lead to a pair of internal chambers that absorb oxygen from the water. The chambers are emptied of water by the back spiracle pair.
Cardiovascular System: It has an open circulatory system operated by a muscle valve within the center of the body. An organ connected to it and the digestive system filters ammonia into pellets and dispenses them out of the end of the digestive tract.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. When two individuals meet, they exchange sperm packets that they then use to fertilise themselves with. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, leathery worm covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It has 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 extreme regenerative abilities. Any piece of its body can grow into a clone of its owner if given 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 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 worm covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It has 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 strong regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing entire sections of its body, and survive up to half of its mass gone. It is a long-living animal due to this, and splitting is not so crippling as a result.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a small brain that is mainly dedicated to memory, and remembrances of locations and past experiences. It lives long, so even without any real thinking, it can be quite the clever animal.
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 leathery worm 12 centimeters in length, covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It has 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 a decentralised circulatory system with multiple small hearts.
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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[Crystalizedmire]

1. Fix Stingy Quillpede's antivenom problem by not having the bodypart with the venom have antivenom
2. Stingy Quillpede speciates:
    a. Longer whiskers
    b. Immune system
3. Quivering Paddleworm speciates:
    a. Body sway side to side to help with locomotion
    b. Foregut to help with digestion
SS speciate Forgetful Quillpede:
    a. Longer whiskers
    b. Stronger heart

[Leonardo8]

Mmm...i suppose i was too late to get in. No matter, i'll just start this turn.

1) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Increase brain complexity to better understand the impulses from its eyes and stop having seizures

3) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Develop nocturnal habits, avoiding the light.

[TricMagic]

The Mantis can see everything, from the electromagnetic waves given off by the plant below to the stars pouring down radiation from above.
See this as an absolute win.

Mantis Starwing develops neural centers to separate (roll)
and categorize the different colors into processable data (roll)
in addition to a general increase to the complexity of the brain. (roll)
SS Roll: Landmover Starwing improves upon it's ammonia recycling to help feed the plants growing upon it's back. (previous rolled a 2 last turn.)


Welcome to the Starwings Leonardo. I feel there are about to be a lot less prey around though~

[Magmacube_tr]

Mmm...i suppose i was too late to get in. No matter, i'll just start this turn.

1) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Increase brain complexity to better understand the impulses from its eyes and stop having seizures

3) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Develop nocturnal habits, avoiding the light.

Huh... Two different lineages? I mean, there really is nothing to prevent this... so I guess you can. But I would recommend using vote one for a single establishing speciation, and then splitting. It would be the same thing, but with a single source instead of two. You can side-speciate and mutate on the same action.

[TricMagic]

Starwings with the knack for quickly filling out niches.

I like how the parasitic cysts probably have to deal with the bioluminescent cysts.

[Aeranthos]

So viral thing didn't turn out quite right, but everything else was a success! 3 out of 4 ain't bad...

    Infected Stumper:
                               1: Convince the infesting virus to protect Infected Stumper by growing specific areas in the body to house and grow them.
                               2: Switch to a more efficient closed circulatory system.
                               3: Expand the skeletal structure to form a set of jaws for the mouth.
                             SS: Begin moving in groups, with the largest/strongest working to protect the other members of said groups.

[Leonardo8]

Mmm...i suppose i was too late to get in. No matter, i'll just start this turn.

1) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Increase brain complexity to better understand the impulses from its eyes and stop having seizures

3) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Develop nocturnal habits, avoiding the light.

Huh... Two different lineages? I mean, there really is nothing to prevent this... so I guess you can. But I would recommend using vote one for a single establishing speciation, and then splitting. It would be the same thing, but with a single source instead of two. You can side-speciate and mutate on the same action.

Mmm...my idea was to have 2 lineages that deal with the color problems in 2 different ways. One simply gets a better brain and improves swimming, the other side-steps the problem by going nocturnal, since less light=less imputs, starts to orient by smell. They don't share a single mutation, which is why i picked 2 lineages.

[Magmacube_tr]

Mmm...i suppose i was too late to get in. No matter, i'll just start this turn.

1) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Increase brain complexity to better understand the impulses from its eyes and stop having seizures

3) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Develop nocturnal habits, avoiding the light.

Huh... Two different lineages? I mean, there really is nothing to prevent this... so I guess you can. But I would recommend using vote one for a single establishing speciation, and then splitting. It would be the same thing, but with a single source instead of two. You can side-speciate and mutate on the same action.

Mmm...my idea was to have 2 lineages that deal with the color problems in 2 different ways. One simply gets a better brain and improves swimming, the other side-steps the problem by going nocturnal, since less light=less imputs, starts to orient by smell. They don't share a single mutation, which is why i picked 2 lineages.

Alright, fair. It is allowed. It is just.. an unorthodox placement.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

• Greater Sandstripe Flatworm: evolve muscles
• Greater Sandstripe Flatworm: evolve a side-to-side fin at the back of the body for propulsion
• Greater Sandstripe Flatworm: evolve to live alongside others of its species for protection from carnivores

[TricMagic]

Mmm...i suppose i was too late to get in. No matter, i'll just start this turn.

1) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Increase brain complexity to better understand the impulses from its eyes and stop having seizures

3) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Develop nocturnal habits, avoiding the light.

Huh... Two different lineages? I mean, there really is nothing to prevent this... so I guess you can. But I would recommend using vote one for a single establishing speciation, and then splitting. It would be the same thing, but with a single source instead of two. You can side-speciate and mutate on the same action.

Mmm...my idea was to have 2 lineages that deal with the color problems in 2 different ways. One simply gets a better brain and improves swimming, the other side-steps the problem by going nocturnal, since less light=less imputs, starts to orient by smell. They don't share a single mutation, which is why i picked 2 lineages.

The second one doesn't work cause the Starwings produce their own light. Darkness is no protection from them.

[Leonardo8]

Mmm...i suppose i was too late to get in. No matter, i'll just start this turn.

1) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Develop denticles on the skin to decrease drag and turbolence
2) Increase brain complexity to better understand the impulses from its eyes and stop having seizures

3) Speciate the Mantis Starwing: Chemoreceptors on the tip of the proboscis to locate preys
4) SS supported: Develop nocturnal habits, avoiding the light.

Huh... Two different lineages? I mean, there really is nothing to prevent this... so I guess you can. But I would recommend using vote one for a single establishing speciation, and then splitting. It would be the same thing, but with a single source instead of two. You can side-speciate and mutate on the same action.

Mmm...my idea was to have 2 lineages that deal with the color problems in 2 different ways. One simply gets a better brain and improves swimming, the other side-steps the problem by going nocturnal, since less light=less imputs, starts to orient by smell. They don't share a single mutation, which is why i picked 2 lineages.

The second one doesn't work cause the Starwings produce their own light. Darkness is no protection from them.

If the problem is over stimulation it should still help. The amount and variety of radiation during the day is going to be orders of magnitudes bigger compared to the night. And at night the bioluminescence actually turns useful, giving them a way to orient themselves should the chemoreceptors vote fail or simply be insufficient.

[BlackPaladin99]

Whipslinger Finfish:
1) Evolve enhanced brainpower/memory.  (SS)
2) Evolve increased reproductive speed.
3) Evolve increased size.