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[Nonanonymous]

Repostan mah speessheeze.

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Species: Nahuantl  (Plural:Nahuantl  Adjective: Nahuantl)

Dividing Factor: 1000  Litter Size: 3 Death Age: 50 Breeding Years: 30

Description:  Nahuantl are 2' to 3' tall monotremes which appear to be lizards with vibrant, smooth, green (on rare occasions blue, and it can be white if their parents spend their lives completely away from the sun.) skin.  They possess muscular tails from 2' to 3' long and in place of hair they have tendrils tapering from the backs of their skulls to roughly 1' in length, though these generally grow to be longer than this as they age.  Females are typically larger than males, with slightly shorter tails.  They have rather fierce looking, black, curved claws on their hands and feet alike, and their feet are also prehensile as well.

Location: The jungles of R-12 and 14, the base of the mountains at R-16, and along the river bank at S-15.

Diet:  Omnivores.  Their diet is primarily fruvivorous, but is complimented with various insects and other bugs.  For one reason or another, they rarely eat fish or meat, though they have no qualms about it when times are tough.

Evolutions:
Manipulators 10: 10 EP
Nahuantl have deft fingers on their hands and feet.

Speed 10: 10 EP
Nahuantl have fairly well developed speed, given that their small size make evasion of larger creatures one of their primary methods of survival.

Language 7: 7 EP
Nahuantl communicate with hoots, whoops, hisses, and slight color shifts in the face and chest area.  Like most creatures, they also communicate through body language.

Claws 5:  5 EP
Nahuantl claws are adapted to helping them climb, but are not particularly useful in combat.

Climbing 10:  10 EP
Nahuantl are excellent climbers, and spend almost all of their lives in the trees.

Swiming 5:  5 EP
Nahuantl are fairly good swimmers, though they don't really excel at it.

Color changing 5:  5 EP
Nahuantl can change the colors of their body to match their surroundings, but can not mimic complex patterns.

Electromanipulation 4:  4 EP
Nahuantl can generate a mild electric shock.  This is too weak to kill on its own, but can generally stun creatures for a moment, possibly giving the Nahuantl the upper hand.

Farming 8: 8EP  Because so many are beginning to starve to death, the Nahuantl are beginning to get a grasp around the concept of farming.

Tactics 5: 5EP Skirmishes with the Jhiar'd and others have much improved the tactics on the field. It was a hard lesson to learn, but now they know to retreat and advance in a semi-ordered fashion.

Caste Systems 9:The Nahuantl have developed a system of goverment based upon segregation of labor by abilty and birth.

Construction 3:Basic shelters of wood and leaves are often seen in Nahuantl land-or not seen as they seem to be hidden most of the time.

Tool Making 3:The Nahuantl know how to use sticks and stones for building and defense.

Martial Arts 2: Many Nahuantl have learned the basic tenants of martial arts. Other than making them deadly in close quarters combat, its tenants are close to being religiously followed.

Weapon Making 2: The use of a simple wooden spear is well know to the Nahuantl.

Armoring 2: Part of the "Tenqgor" or ceremonial armor and weapon set, Nahuantl use simple stone slabs or the blue and white mushroom as an effective shield, allowing them to parry blows.

Disadvantages:

Haughtiness:  The Nahuantl have an inherent sense of superiority to other forms of life, as well as different groups within their own species.

Smallish:  The Nahuantl are threatened as prey by a number of other species.

I'm not really sure what the dividing factor is about.  And I'd guess that I'd need to lower the max age a bit if I wanted to avoid EP costs?  Also, I made an educated guess about the breeding years, since half of 70 iss 35, and the old breeding age was 40.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I'll watch from the sidelines for now. Between RL and running an RTD, I can't make good enough posts for this.

[Shikogan]

Aqizzar just letting you know that i edited my reserved post and posted my creature, just tell me if you see anything wrong with it and ill post my location as soon as you get the map up.

[Draigh]

hmm... nice species there Shikogan. Looks a bit like mine though... :\
Was hoping to remain relatively unique in my own niche of flying psychic creatures...
but oh well...

[Shikogan]

hmm... nice species there Shikogan. Looks a bit like mine though... :\
Was hoping to remain relatively unique in my own niche of flying psychic creatures...
but oh well...

Haha yeah... i got the idea from various fantasy books ect, not until i had finished posting it did i realize it was similar to yours oh well. I mean we are slightly different i mean mine have six limbs and are humanoid your guys are actual birds.

[Draigh]

And my guys have a grand total of 21 points in psychic abilities, split in a general skill and 5 specialties. And no hands, so they are going to need and master their minds.
I based the psychic system on a book series of Julian May (starting with Intervention).

Psychic ability is like brute strength
And the subabilities are the finesse and knowledge for specific types of actions
If you want to heal someone, brute strength isnt going to do it
But for lifting something big, it might be enough. Or you just know how to focus well and need a lot less energy to do the same thing.

So my species would consider your species like brutes and beginners.
They might be convinced to teach you though

[Shikogan]

So my species would consider your species like brutes and beginners.
They might be convinced to teach you though

Noice, I might even deign to help you out once and a while, even if you do worship the evil sun! *shakes fist at sun*

[a1s]

aw, now my smell-talking living plants are not as stupidly unique as when we set out...

[Nilocy]

Hmm, my insect race, almight as they are, will set out to gain as much knowledge of everyone as they can. Hopefully by stealing yer genes!

[Nonanonymous]

You're starting to sound like the Tyranid hive-mind now.

[Nilocy]

More basing them off the Starship troopers style bugs tbh. With some elements from the SotSS

[Nonanonymous]

Well, for some bizarre reason I haven't read or watched Starship Troopers yet, but it looks like they were actually the original, or close to it.

[Iituem]

You play the beasts of the world... I'll play the fungus.

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Race:  Yrb
Singular:  Yrble
Genitive:  Yrben

Description and Traits:  The Yrb is the result of a melting pot of micro-organisms brought together in the midst of a world undergoing a surge in psychic evolution.  It can best be described scientifically as colonies of fungi infected with various specialist bacteria and other microbes living in symbiosis.  To the layman, it looks like large mats of mould.  Large mats of strangely unappealing mould.

Individual colonies of Yrb can be described as Yrbles, but the distinction is a loose one because overlapping colonies can mesh.  For the sake of population counts, a single Yrble can be defined as a quantity of Yrb containing enough supplementary microbes to function as an Yrble in the event of being cut off from the larger colony mesh.

Yrb can be loosely classed as omnivorous, but is technically detritivorous; it will eat anything dead.  Whilst it eats already decomposing or dead organisms (plant or animal) in preference, it will deliberately kill organisms if there is not enough detritus for its energy requirements.  Right now, it can only kill plants (by infecting them and leeching nutrients until the plant dies, but this exposes it to plant immune resistance).

Partly as a result of the increasing psychic development of a number of other species in the world, intelligence of a sort has arisen within Yrble colonies.  Yrb has developed a number of basic psychic abilities, despite its non-standard mental structure.  Yrb's "brain" is evolved from the interactions of large colonies of supplementary organisms that form the equivalent of a neural net.  As such, destroying Yrb will actually cause it to grow less intelligent (although what few memories are recorded tend to be done so redundantly across the organism, so splinter colonies may survive to carry memories).


Diet:  Omnivore/Detritivore

Evolutionary Expenditures

Breeding [20?]:  Difficult to categorise, so I've left the EPs open until I know what to spend on this.  If a colony is cut off from the whole and has to survive on its own, it will reproduce and die out at a rate equivalent to an individual lifespan of half a year, spending 15 days generating enough new mass to act as a new colony.  So, lifespan 6 months, childhood 15 days (1/12th of life), litter of 1.

Asexual [5]:  Sex is the domain of higher organisms.  Yrb reproduces with only the need for a single colony.  This cuts the hassle out of finding and attracting a mate, allowing for much more reproduction.  The price of this is reduced genetic diversity.

Sedentary [-]:  Yrb does not move as such, yet.  When it needs to get to a new location, it grows new strands that way and spawns another colony.  Migration is currently accomplished by extending long stretches of hyphae and transferring seeding patches of supplementary organisms to the ends, forming new colonies.

Detritivorous [1]:  Yrb can digest all manner of dead creatures or plants, but not so efficiently that they are unaffected by poisons.

Almost homogenous [5]:  Cut off a large enough piece of Yrb and it will still function as an independent Yrble.  Stab it, and it will just re-route its connections.  Burning works, mind, but generally Yrb is difficult to kill simply because of how time-consuming the necessary large-scale destruction is.  Excising or poisoning specifically the specialist microbes that serve as its 'brain' will just render it harmless fungus, however, and killing off the fungus that serves as its body will starve the neural colonies in turn.


Psychic Powers

This is the meat of the Yrben evolutionary base, and much easier for it to alter.

Ranged Perception [5]:  Yrb has sensory 'organs' of neural colonies that can sense stationary environment in an approximate sense up to sixty feet away and moving objects up to two hundred feet away.  It can sense basic animal minds or Yrbles within five hundred feet and fully intelligent sapient minds within a mile.  This perception is light, sound, smell and touch independent, but requires the presence of a fully-functioning sensory colony.  Such a colony can adjust itself to focus on a specific region (of about twenty feet) within two hundred feet with much greater detail, but loses its wide-range perception.  Adjustment to and from this state can take up to five minutes.  Generally, multiple sensory organs exist within an Yrble.  They can be destroyed with blunt trauma to disperse the neural connections (slicing and stabbing work less well) but can reform if enough organisms survive within about twenty minutes.

Information Exchange [4]:  Memory patterns can be freely exchanged between Yrbles by direct physical contact, a process that takes about half as long as the memory itself took to experience.  Unfortunately, this ability is limited by the ability of Yrb to actually grasp concepts and sense the world at large.

Alien Mindset [10]:  Yrb mental structure only vaguely resembles the brains of higher organisms and as it grows more complex departs further and further from the animal brain.  Whilst it can still manipulate the minds of other species without penalty, this gap is difficult for other psychic species to overcome, conferring it a certain level of resistance to other psychic forces.

Empathy [5]:  Yrb has a basic ability to plant emotive thought.  Right now this is generally used for the purpose of fending off other creatures by putting out a sense of aversion:  "I do not want to eat this, I should leave this alone."  Ability to plant thoughts is limited to basic emotions only.  This ability does not confer the ability to perceive emotive thought.


Civil Traits

Language [5]:  The Yrb mindset encompasses certain basic concepts and events, which it can communicate via the physical information exchange process.  It lacks distance communication at this stage, but concepts spread from a single Yrble via information exchange can reach the entire network of colonies.  The limitation upon Yrbs is not the ability to express concepts, which can be copied from 'mind' to 'mind' exactly, but the ability to grasp them in the first place.

Aquizzar, could you work out what sort of BP expenditure I'm looking at for my breeding requirements please?  Right now I've just left a placeholder figure.  Values are generally all wrong as well, so I'll need to adjust quite a bit before I'm done.

Start squares:  J20, K19 L20, L22 [One river and three forests surrounding a fungal forest.]

NB:  For reference (because this is an obvious point for confusion), Yrb does not form fruiting bodies.  Think less mushrooms, more big mats of mould.

[penguinofhonor]

This looks interesting.

My creature is really minimalistic. Mostly because I couldn't think of much to give it.

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Race: Chibor
Singular: Chibor
Plural: Chibor
Adjective: Chibor

Description and Traits:
The chibor is a very small, brightly colored creature. It's lime green and yellow, with a single suction-cup-like foot, a single black eye, insect-like pincers, and a bony spike sticking up out of its back. There are virtually no gender differences.
It's about ~6in tall without the spike. The spike is another 3-5in.

Chibors live in huge colonies, Having neither size nor camouflage to help them survive, they use pure numbers. When attacked, they either swarm their opponents and attempt to stab them with their spikes, or flee. Fleeing is usually ineffective due to their single foot.

Skills:
Breeding [25]: 45EP
The chibors specialize in breeding. They are ready to mate at one year of age, and die at ten to fifteen. They have littlers of five to fifteen baby chibors, which are incredibly small (only a couple inches tall).
They give birth to live young, and have breeding seasons about seven times each year. The young cling to their parent's back, and both sexes care for the children equally.

Speed [4]: 4EP
They can run for short distances, hopping, but they can't really go far. They usually end up giving up the chase and swarming their opponent.

Natural Weapons [4]: 4EP
They have a large bone spike sticking out of their backs, and know how to sharpen it somewhat on trees and other rough surfaces.

Diet [12]: 14EP
They can eat many things. Anything on the ground is game, and their hordes leave areas completely free of fallen leaves and small animals. They don't hunt anything more than twice their size.

Civilized Skills:
Communication [3]: 3EP
Chibors can only convey simple emotions through small chirps or yelps, almost exclusively used as a warning for danger.

[Nilocy]

Ok, here's my race with 70 points... Woop dee shoop doop! A little explanation of what i've relised. My race seems to be the only one remotely resembling any sort of modern day culture to any noticable degree. And as such they do alot of things, just not completely specialised... So ill prolly be using the 4x system, explore/expaned/exploit/exterminate ideaology... hee hee, hive mind here i come

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Dividing Factor: 100 Litter Size: 12 Death Age: 6 Breeding Years: 4
Name: Jhiar'd

Location: P-18, O-17, Q-17, R-16

 Description: The Jhiar'd are a race of giant sentiant insects that live in the dense forests of Harzoor (Thats what my race has named their home). The race is split down into several 'sects', the 'Worker' bug comprises the majority of the population and does the menial work supporting the 'Mother' and 'Warrior' bugs. The workers are relatively weak and have spiked hind legs (for grip) and a mandible on each forward leg to provide manipulation of foods.  The 'Mother' bugs are large fat soft slug like creatures whose sole purpose is to provide eggs for the colonies. 'Head' bugs are the genetic stalk of the colony.While larger than both workers and warriors and coming with 6 legs and 2 maninpulators they look relatively the same. 'Warrior' bugs are larger than workers and have larger claws and thicker exoskeletons.


 Diet: Omnivores

 Life Span: 6 years. (2% as children)

 Evolutions:

Weapon Making 2:2EP-The Jhiar'ds Heads have realised the potential of the cutting axe used as a weapon. They begin to train with the hand axe.

Tactics 6:6EP-Recent battles have understated the need to have a large coordinated front when dealing with enemies, tactics will allow for a greater amount of communication between the heads and their warriors, basic orders such as "advance","retreat","flank left/right" etc are becoming more prevaltent within the 'military'.

Tree Cutting 7:7EP - The bugs can cut down trees with more effectiveness. They can also make basic axes.

Pioneering 4:4EP - New colonies bring more experiances that can be passed down through the genetic line. Experience buillding new colonies has resulted in a a class of tough bugs that can reliably called upon to tame new lands and pave the way for future settlers.

Food Management: 4:41EP - Food is controlled a bit more effectively.

Senses 6:6EP - The more the bugs investigate new things, the better they begin to understand themselves and what their bodies are capable of. The workers now see shades of colours, while the warriors now see distinct shapes.

Language 9:9EP - They chirp and sing to each in a high pitched noise expression most emotions and conversations. The Heads have another vocal cord which allows them to send an ultralow frequency single that can be picked up by every bug touching the ground within a mile radius. These are usually used for warnings of attacks, need for contructions or rallying of troops. The bugs also have a very primative written for of expression that is carved or painted into walls to instruct of terriotories and warnings. The establishment of tactics had furthered the Workers and Warriors uses of language. They improve on what they already had, now being able to describe the colours they now see.

Hierarcy 10:10EP - The colonies are organised into seperate sections all providing the most efficient work they can. Heads are always incharge of import things, expansion, conflict, diplomacy etc. Workers co-ordinate their work patterns to improve efficiency within the colony. Mothers birth when most needed (after attacks, colony splitting (The process of a formation of a new colony) )as not to waste resource and energy.

Genetic aquisition 9:9EP - The 'Head' bugs can aquire genetic material from fallen prey. This is done in the form of eating living DNA and mating with the mother bugs to produce a new set of bugs. New material (Other sentient creatures for example) comes extremely rarely and a usual Head won't see any worthwhile genetic harvest. Although once harvested it can have a varied amount of effects, ranging for general benifits i.e increased speed, strengh, or the understanding of a new species.

Fast breeders 6:6EP - Although short lived, the Jhiar'd replace their population fast when needed.

Constructions 7:7EP - The Jhiar'd workers can build different styles of homes to suit each sects, birthing nurseries for the 'mother' bugs, communial barracks for warriors, and hovels for the individual worker, mine shafts and walls for colony defence aswell.

Sect specialisation 8:8EP - Each sect does what it does to the best it can do. Workers are weak but can manipulate the enviroment (farming, chopping, fishing) while mothers produce alot of eggs. Warriors are tougher and can hurt things more.

Warrior claws 7:7EP - Warrior bugs have powerful claws .

Worker claws 4:4EP - Work bugs have not so powerful claws.

Spirtuality 3:3 EP-Some small groups have grown up and regularly sacrifice themselves to the lava

Animal Husbandry 2:2 EP-Some Jhiar'd have begun to raise meaty grubs for their people to meat, it's a delicacy for the nobles presently and occasionaly a reward for hard workers.

Farming 1:1 EP-The basics of managing a fungal farm have been grasped by the Jhiar'd. They grow a small yet stable amount of food-hunger is less than it was.

Weaknesses:

Very few 'Mother' bugs, about a dozen per colony. If they're murdered or die off then the colony will surely fail.

If you cut of the antenne, then you've effectively killed off the bugs senses.

Head bugs get extremely defensive over 'their' land, usually resulting in the majority of Heads to die before a new colony is founded.

Because the heads are the controlling bodies the lack of them can cause a colony to go into dissarray... Causing all sorts of weird things to happen, workers mating with the mothers... warriors murdering thier own kin. etc. etc.

0 Left-over EP

Dammit, just realised that i have 78 EP... can i keeps them since I worked so hard to get them? pllzzzzz
*puppy bug eyes*

You play the beasts of the world... I'll play the fungus.

Does this mean that I've harvested you before? I'm thinking some sort of relationship will have existed since i started to farm the fungas properly... Dunno. But i like the idea of living moulds of icky stuff It shall be interesting to see where you go.