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TURN 11


Events

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Strength: 45 (Minor Event)
Timeframe: 7 (1 Turn)
Temperament: 6 (Good)

-Asymptomatic viral outbreak: 2 Turns Left
-Parasitoid cysts: 1 Turn Left
-3 Turns until the evolution of kelp analogue.

The large dome volcano down southeast had a series of minor eruptions that resulted in ash clouds that landed around the lake, invigorating plant life for short while, and adding plant mutagens into the water. This has started something... A chain reaction.

A clade of protoanimals have emerged from the parasitoid cysts. These small, red, fluffy mites of muscle tissue eat whatever that is under their digestive underside and are NPC vermin, providing the basis of a currently small new niche.


Actions

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FiveBalesOfHay
    1)Muscles for Greater Sandstripe Flatworm: 2+1=3
    2)Horizontal tail fluke for Greater Sandstripe Flatworm: 4
    3)Herding behavior for Greater Sandstripe Flatworm: 4
    SS)Supporting Action 1: 5

Crystalizedmire
    1)Fix poison immunity for Stingleg Quillpede: 2+1=3
    2)Speciate Stingy Quillpede:
       A)Longer whiskers: 4+1=5
       B)Immune system: 2+1=3
    3)Speciate Quivering Paddleworm:
       A)Serpentine locomotion: 2
       B)Foregut: 1+1=2
    SS)Speciate Forgetful Quillpede:
       A)Longer whiskers: 5+1=6
       B)Stronger heart: 1+1=2

TricMagic
    1)Visual processing center for Mantis Starwing: 2+1=3
    2)Cognitive centers for Mantis Starwing: 3+1=4
    3)Increase brain complexity for Mantis Starwing: 2+1=3
    SS)Improve plant symbosis for Landmower Starwing: 4+1=5

BlackPaladin99
    1)Better brain: 1+1+2= 4
    2)Faster reproductive speed: 1+1=2
    3)Increased size: 5
    SS)Supporting Action 1: 6

Aeranthos
    1)Evolve immune viroid glands: 2+1=3
    2)More efficent circulatory system: 1+1=2
    3)Jaws: 3+1=4
    SS)Altruistic herding behavior: 6+1=7

Leonardo8
    1)Speciate from Mantis Starwing and evolve denticles: 2
    2)Increase brain complexity for Action 1 result: 2+1=3
    3)Speciate from Mantis Starwing and evolve chemoreception at the tip of proboscis: 3
    SS)Become nocturnal for the result of Action 3: 7

The Biomes

The Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (21 species in total)
  -Secondary Consumers
  -Primary Consumers


Cladogram

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Soooooooo... 40.000 characters limit... FUCK!!! Okay, calm down... I am gonna come up with something...

I did promise NPC vermin... So here it is. You now have a new niche to try and conquer all at once.

Crystal seems to be taking the competitive part of ''Competitive Evolution'' pretty seriously.

There can only be one apex predator at a time in a given ecosystem.

Okay Paladin. I made it faster. Happy? No, you can't get rid of it, I WON'T LET YOU!!!

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Spoiler: Secondary Consumers | 8 species | (The Mountain Lake) (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 commanded by a complex brain specialised on interpreting its sense of sight, with a large visual cortex.
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!!!.
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: An carnivorous animal about a meter long covered in innumerable, uneven denticles, 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 small brain.
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!!!
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: 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 chemoreceptive tissue on its tip, and 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 is only active at night, and 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 has a ring of chemoreceptive tissue on its harpoons tip.
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 horizontal 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 a meter 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, allowing it to target prey quickly.
Nervous System: Small fast 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 alive inside a small pouch under its body. When it is time to reproduce, the le releases the males, which immidiately home in to their target and go inside the female reproductive cavity and then explode into a cloud of gamates. The fertilised eggs hatch into underdeveloped larvae that eats the mother alive, and emerge as miniature adults ready for life.
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, flexible, movable 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 main body constantly produces antivenom, preventing the venom in its legs from affecting itself.
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: Mechanoreception through long mobile 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 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 main body constantly produces antivenom, preventing the venom in its legs from affecting itself.
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. It possesses immune cells which engulf alien matter.
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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Spoiler: Primary Consumers  | 13 species | (The Mountain Lake) (click to show/hide)

Summary: A small, slightly pear-shaped animal 30 centimeters in length, with a horizontal tail fluke at the end. 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 clusters of algea. It forms schools numbering around a hundred individuals, increasing eachothers field of vision.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, enclosed, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Muscle powered swimming by horizontal tail.
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: Above 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 ring of long, prominent hairs around its mandibles that allows it to detect the vibrations and sounds around it, 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: Mechanoreception through the circular array of hairs 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 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 large, two chambered heart that beats fast. 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 serpentine motions, using its paddles as swimming surfaces. 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 30 centimeter long, leathery tendril with many small wide plates that act as paddles. It has a very noticable bulge on its frontal region that impedes how fast it can swim. 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 large foregut and 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 grazing and sunbathing to remove ammonia from the bloodstream.
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 wide, toothless jaws 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 forms large swarms, sometimes a thousand strong. Smaller individuals are compelled to go inwards, while larger ones tend to go outwards of the swarm.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and plating, 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 ingested through a wide, toothless mouth and 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 a closed 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. A series of small glands connected to the bloodstream expel symbiotic viroids against illness as defense.
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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[TricMagic]

See-All Starwing
Evolve a chemical pigmentation system to change colors actively to blend in.
SS Roll: Develop a method of communication among it's species to signal danger, food, safety, and/or courtship using colors, movement, and flashes.

Ursaline Starwing
Evolve a segmented beak from it's proboscis, allowing a greater ease in eating prey or ripping up plants or corpses.
Improve it's dorsal fin to spread into a tail for faster movement.

[Magmacube_tr]

Could you provide a little feedback on how usable the new format is? It is weird and unintuitive, but 40.000 limit makes these things necessary.

[Aeranthos]

The format seems fine to me, I didn't really have much of a problem reading it. The new niche and incoming kelp analogue seem like they'll be plenty of fun to deal with as well!

              1: Speciate the Swarmer Stumper:
                                              Variant A: Develop a eusocial structure where only a few of the Stumpers breed, while most others see to their defense and care.
                                              Variant B: Stay relatively individualistic, but cut back greatly on the herding behavior, only gathering in herds of only 100 or so at most, primarily around Variant A.
              2: Have Variant A begin feeding on plants and dead animals, acting as an herbivore that subsidizes it's diet with scavenging.
              3: Have Variant B begin feeding on Variant A.
            SS: Have Variant B grow larger, using the larger size primarily to bully other creatures away from areas Variant A reside.

Not quite certain how this idea will turn out, but it should be interesting regardless of what happens, at least. Also, I hope your ceiling gets fixed, and that no one was hurt when it rudely decided to collapse. Bloody architecture, can't believe it would do something so crass.

[Crystalizedmire]

1. Colorseer Harpoonworm mutates the harpoons to be connect to the digestive system. Become vermin eater
2. Sagely Quillworm evolves acidic foregut
3. Wriggling Paddleworm becomes more flat/fishlike, eyes go to the side
SS: Watchful Quillpede evolves colour cones

Could you provide a little feedback on how usable the new format is? It is weird and unintuitive, but 40.000 limit makes these things necessary.

I think they look fine. Can't wait for kelp forests

[Crystalizedmire]

Soooooooo... 40.000 characters limit... FUCK!!! Okay, calm down... I am gonna come up with something...

Hitting the character happened surprisingly early. I expected at least half a year before that happened. Although, that might just been because your turns are quicker.

Crystal seems to be taking the competitive part of ''Competitive Evolution'' pretty seriously.

I have to make another player's species extinct otherwise I'm the only player who let a species go extinct!

Okay Paladin. I made it faster. Happy? No, you can't get rid of it, I WON'T LET YOU!!!

Cannibalism! Yum!

[FiveBalesOfHay]

• Launcher Flatfish: Make antennae green and resembling the watergrass.
• Launcher Flatfish: Evolve reproduction with gamete transfer via the tail and eggs deposited underground.
• Shoaling Pearfish: Evolve resonating organs between the eyes that can detect sound waves in the water.
• SS: Shoaling Pearfish: Evolve vibrating tissue in the throat that produces sound used by lost shoal members to allow them to meet back up with the shoal.

I think the new format works fine. Good luck with the roof!

[Magmacube_tr]

Good luck with the roof!

We already fixed it. Thanks though.

[TricMagic]

Crystal seems to be taking the competitive part of ''Competitive Evolution'' pretty seriously.

I have to make another player's species extinct otherwise I'm the only player who let a species go extinct!

If you aren't careful a second of yours will go extinct. Grassbacks are at 90 while your Colorseer Harponworm is at 40.

There are benefits to focusing on a solid base before speciation. Mine aren't like to die out anytime soon.

[Leonardo8]

 Nightstalker Starwing
1:Change the wavelenght of bioluminescence so it's heavily shifted towards red. Only visible to those with advanced sight, like other starwings.
2:Mucus cocoon to sleep in during the day to protect themselves from parasites and predators, derived from the fertilizing biofilm.
3:A more specialized digestive system, with a larger, more acidic stomach and proportionally shorter intestines to maximize meat digestion efficiency.

Prickly Starwing
SS vote: Males develop a specialized pouch during mating season, allowing a single male to host the offsprings of multiple females inside them.

Is the fertilizer Biofilm going vestigial soon for the predatory starwings? i am not sure what they use it for.

[BlackPaladin99]

Okay Paladin. I made it faster. Happy? No, you can't get rid of it, I WON'T LET YOU!!!

Actually, I’m very happy. 

Weirder Whipfish:
1) Faster reproductive speed (SS)
2) Grow more of the defensive-offensive spines
3) Grow more movement fins 

How exactly would I go about making a species go extinct?  How would I become apex predator?

[TricMagic]

Apexes eat everything. You seem to be going for more defense than offense. And the See-all Starwing has a lot of offensive mutations.