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[Shikogan]

This here's a forum game, namely a forum game ripoff of what Spore might have been (though technically we started five months ago).  In Evolution: The Game you, the player, have two options.  You can take the helm of a burgeoning species on a gene warping planet, guide their path through the challenges and perils of natural selection and civilization in a world gone mad.  Or you can lend your imagination and likeness to the Gods, for they are real and powerful, and grant your favor or meet out vengeance.  Meet, trade, battle, pray, build, and forge a world.

Rules:

The Species:
The heart of the matter – every species is a combination of Breeding Rate, Biological Traits, Civil Traits, and Special Traits.  Every trait has a Level between 1 and 50.  Increasing any individual ability or trait costs Evolution Points (EP) – from 1 to 10 costs one EP per level, from 11 to 20 costs two EP per level, three EP for 21-30, four for 31-40, and five for 41-50.  There is no Master List of Traits or anything like that – make up what you'd like to see, and I'll find a way to make it fit.  Bear in mind the 1-50 rating – spending one point at a time won't net you much capability.

    * A general description of the Species is a great place to start.  What they look like, act like, living conditions, any general points.  This will be expanded over time as the species changes and grows.
    * Breeding Ability is what it says.  A species' population growth is determined by (besides outside factors) a Litter Size, Breeding Age, and Death Age.  By default, a species will have a Litter of 1, Breeds at 10, and Dies around 20.  Increasing Breeding Rate costs EP, but to account for the myriad breeding schemes nature can create, just describe a biology and general breeding ability and I'll come up with the numbers and cost.  Differences between EP costs for breeding and the standard start total will be refunded on the species' next turn after joining, just to keep everything simple.  If you're using the old threads for reference, ignore the 'Dividing Factor' on old species.
    * Biological Traits make up the Species' actual physique and abilities.  By default, a species is a formless blob of no determinate size (consider a creature's size subsumed under other traits) capable of moving, perceiving it's environment, self-sustained survival, and little else.  Build thyself, and nothing is too far beyond reason.
    * Civil Traits include anything that isn't paranormal or biological, especially technologies – everything from construction to adaptations to sciences to governance to any conceivable tool or concept, including any kind of civilized organization beyond basic pack-like structures.  Pick up a Civilization game if you need ideas.  Progression must have a logic – it need not be Earthlike or even realistic, but always have a justification.  Right now, every extant species is in the Stone Age, but don't feel pressured to become civilized at all – monster species are great.  Also, don't worry about losing points in narrow paths like Weaving or Fire Making, spend them - later I'll introduce an Ages system to recombine and refund points spent on 'primitive' technologies.
    * Special Traits are anything else, especially paranormal stuff – Psychic powers already being quite popular.  Religious powers would fall under this as well – not the organization of a religion, but the actual ability to contact and influence the Gods.  Again, don't feel obligated, mundanes are always welcome.


The Fickle Dice:
Every turn, I'll roll d100's to determine the effects of the various turn events and attempts by the player at doing things.  Species Abilities add to this roll as appropriate, as does Godly favor (disfavor does what you'd expect).  EP points are awarded (or subtracted) based on the results, along with population growth, resources, new events, and so forth.  For reference, each turn is about a hundred years long - development and conflict takes place on a generational timescale.

The Gods (Attn apathetic players):
Gods don't have to do much besides exists, but Godly players should feel free to post whatever suggestions and guidance you want.  Rules are pretty freeform – Describe the God's manifestations, story, and desires.  Pick one Major Sphere and two Minor Spheres (DF's spheres are a good inspiration) – nothing too broad like 'Death' or 'Creation', but 'Pestilence' or 'Birth' would be acceptable.  A God can perform an Action once per turn, expending Power Points (PP) to kick their chosen ones along the path they set.  Gods are empowered by worship – every 1000 active worshipers generate one PP per turn.

The Planet (Name Wanted!):
All action takes place on one planet, dominated by a giant continent in a giant ocean (referred to as Pangaea for simplicity).  All biomes exist in some form on Pangaea (arctic is rare), and is permeated by deep and powerful energies that supercharge the evolutionary process.  Players can invent whatever incidental wildlife you like (no powergaming), and strategically useful lifeforms will be introduced as events.  As for Pangaea's recent history, after the great floods subsided, a living storm of fungi fell upon the world, and while its now receding, the fungus is probably permanent now.  Mostly a food source if somewhat hostile, certain forms can have weird effects on creatures (spoiler alert).  More recently, the Sun turned green, pushing evolution past overdrive, and putting Pangaea in a generational cold snap.  Things are clearing up all around, many new species have emerged, and many old ones find themselves altered by the long dim years.

Each hex can have a max population of for a "regular" species of 10000, but hexes must be improved to gain this maximum. How much improvements are to be decided by me.

new species have 85 EP to spend, and can choose 5 hexes, also gods are just 'there', there is no god movement like there was in Evo Lite and gods begin with 1 PP.

[Shikogan]

Map of Pangaea
http://i520.photobucket.com/albums/w324/Shikogan/Evo4-Turn0.jpg

MAP FEATURES
D-29 The Shriekers, lost offshoot of the Shrike
N-26 The Myarri, regressed descendants of the Mii'Ari
M-23 Epicenter of The Fungus
O-19 Active magma vents
V-6 Massive self-sustaining cyclone
W-27 Huge glowing meteor
Fungus zones, while hostile to native life, are livable.


The Species -

Duke 2.0's Shrike - EP Total:132 Available:17

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Shrike

The Shrike were once aquatic creatures, and thus they have long, smooth bodies that are very hydrodynamic. Now they breathe air, and have limbs that keep them up. Like their ancestors, they are hunters built for speed. Thus their bodies are low to the ground, hind legs strong and fore legs mostly used for balance. Limited tool useage thanks to their locomotive nature. They generally look like the mix between a Dog, a Carp and a cave-person.

Breeding Ability (10: 10EP)- They breed through eggs, laid in muddy nests near water-sources. Oddly enough, these nests make the clay around them high in iron and copper. After the spawn hatches they migrate over the mud to a nearby water-source, where they are generally protected from land creatures. Aquatic creatures are not much better at getting them, as the Shrike used to be aquatic predators. After a few weeks, the young are mature enough to remain on dry land.
Litter Size:5 Breeding Age:1 Death Age:10  Dividing Factor: 1

Biological Abilities:

Strength 10: 10EP
The muscles on this creatures body are strong, helping with locomotion.

Limbs 18: 26EP
The limbs of this creature are good at what they do. Strong hind legs help the Shrike run across the plains and climb terrain. The front legs are mostly used for balance, with a limited ability to use tools.

Hunters Organ 19: 29EP
An organ in this creatures body uses a charge stored in it's fat cells to shock prey and predators. Currently it does little more then stunning smaller prey and scaring off larger predators. It takes a day to re-charge fully, allowing for a few small shocks or one large shock.

Jaws 5: 5EP
The jaws of this creature are long and sharp, while not obstructing the ability of the mouth to move. These jaws are not that powerful, but strong enough to gnaw meat off prey. Killing is done through ramming the prey or shocking it.

Bioluminescent 5: 5EP
A few splotches on the sides of this creature glow in the dark.

Swimmer 5: 5 EP
While this creature used to be aquatic, fully-grown limbs are not as good as fins. Still, they can swim decently.

Civilized Abilities:

Language 12: 15EP
The Shrike, while they can utter a few sounds out of their mouths, generally just use rapid small shocks to send messages to each other. They can communicate a lot more through them than speech, but it is very short range. Thus they have oral utterances for long-range communication.

Shelter 11: 12EP
The Shrike sometimes use clay to make crude shelters, which is generally them making a mound of clay and digging into it. They are not particularly good diggers, which is why they need to make mounds, which allows the clay to get soft. This takes them a while, and very little space is inside. Thus they generally just hole up in them during storms.

Farming 5: 5EP
The Shrike have discovered the basics of controlled seed planting, sowing farms in defensible areas.

Spiritualism 11: 13EP

Nilocy's Jhiar'd – EP Total:155 Available:18

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Name: Jhiar'd

Description: The Jhiar'd are a race of giant sentient 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 manipulators they look relatively the same. 'Warrior' bugs are larger than workers and have larger claws and thicker exoskeletons.

Life Span (12: 15EP): Litter Size: 12 Death Age: 6 Breeding Years: 4 Dividing Factor: 4 Although short lived, the Jhiar'd replace their population fast when needed.

Diet: Omnivores

Biological Abilities:

Senses 8: 8EP
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.

Claws 13: 16EP
The active Jhiar'd have large slicing claws.  The Warriors' claws are larger than the Workers'.

Civilized Abilities:

Spirituality 6: 6EP
Some small groups have grown up and regularly sacrifice themselves to the lava.  Recent miricals have made the Jhiar'd more firm in their belief theres something up there helping them.

Mixed Agriculture 14: 19EP
The Jhiar'd can reliably grow larger crops of mundane fungus, and maintain groups of fattened maggots, mostly for the Heads and Queens.

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

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

Weapon Making 10: 11EP
The Jhiar'd can make tree-cutting axes, and the Heads have realized the potential of the axe as a weapon. They begin to train with the hand axe.

Tactics 14: 18EP
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 prevalent within the 'military'.

Pioneering 4: 4EP
New colonies bring more experiences that can be passed down through the genetic line. Experience building 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.

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 ultra-low 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 constructions or rallying of troops. The bugs also have a very private written form of expression that is carved or painted into walls to instruct of territories 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 colors they now see.

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

Fire Making 1: 1EP
Inspired by the vast hotstuffs the Jhiar'd tried to make some for themselves, by carrying large blocks of wood set alight by the hot stuff.

Special Abilities:

Genetic Acquisition 9: 9EP
The 'Head' bugs can acquire 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 benefits i.e increased speed, strength, or the understanding of a new species.

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 antennae, 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 disarray... Causing all sorts of weird things to happen, workers mating with the mothers... warriors murdering their own kin. etc. etc.

Aqizzar's Kadesh - EP Total:134 Available:10

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Species: Kadesh (Plural: Kadesh Adjective: Kadeshi)

Description: The Kadesh are a semi-aquatic amphibious species of gathering scavengers. They resemble armless kangaroos covered in teal scales, with huge finned legs and tails, giant black eyes, and a bundle of tentacles sprouting from mid-torso. They are fairly large, 2-3 meters from beak to tailtip, and are light for their size, just heavier than neutral buoyancy.

Diet: Omnivores

Life Cycle (5: 5 EP): Kadesh are born in large batches, with maybe a half-dozen survivors to maturity.  They grow throughout their lives, but are effectively adults at around 8-9 years. Few live much more than 20.  Dividing Factor: 1

Biological Abilities:

Amphibious 13: 16 EP
A Kadesh must immerse itself in water or stay in a humid climate or it will begin to dry out and weaken. They are still ultimately tied to breathing water, but can stay in air for many hours in the right conditions.

Manipulators 10: 10 EP
Kadeshi tentacles are evolved to pick through riverbeds and coral reefs for morsels. They are deft at manipulating small objects, but have very little strength.

Speed 15: 20 EP
It's muscular legs and finned tail make up half of a Kadesh's mass, and propel them through water at considerable speeds.  On land, they can cover some distance in great strides.

Vibration Sense 10: 10 EP
Kadesh have an array of streamers and antennae around their faces which can detect vibrations in water, and to a lesser degree in air.

Extended Eyesight 10: 10EP
A Kadesh's large, wide spaced eyes are made for an aquatic prey species. They have a very wide field of view and can see well in low light levels, important under water.

Civilized Abilities:

Language 10: 10 EP
Kadesh communicate with sounds and body movements. Underwater, they produce a range of singing noises. Out of water, they can croak and gurgle, and use “hand” signals. Their actual language is limited to declaratives and warnings.

Domestication (Defensive) 12: 15EP
The Kadesh can use their psychic communication to negotiate with primitive brains, convincing them to work for the Kadesh.  In particular, they have found some creatures that can protect them from predators and other threats.

Special Abilities:

Spirituality 10: 10EP
The beliefs of the Kadesh have grown strong. Many powerful groups now vie for followers to worship their patron saints.

Psychic Communication 14: 18EP
Mutated by the Fungus, some Kadesh can talk straight into the minds of other creatures. Mostly useful for communicating at range with each other, they can also talk and bargain with primitive species, though anything with a developed brain can easily block them out. If a Kadesh risks killing itself in the process, they can “shout” loud enough to ward off many predators.

Disadvantages-
Amphibious problems as stated. They aren't really adapted to life on land, and can't go far from water.

Their eyesight is meant to protect them from predators, and is geared to pick up movement. They have a hard time focusing on objects.

The same mutations that turned some Kadesh psychic can also turn them insane. Various forms of madness run through the population.

Iituem's Wimdit's Yrb - EP Total:116 Available:11

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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.

Breeding (17: 25EP): 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, dividing factor 1 for simplicity.

Diet: Omnivore/Detritivore

Biological Abilities:

Sedentary 0: 0EP
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 6: 6EP
Yrb can digest all manner of dead creatures or plants, but not so efficiently that they are unaffected by poisons.

Homogeneous 10: 10EP
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.

Civil Traits

Language 10: 10EP
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.

Concealment 6: 6EP
Yrbles have begun the practice of growing their central nodes within trees and beneath the ground as protection from predation and the elements.

Trade 3: 3EP
Basic exchanges of information, nutrients and agreements on available land to colonise are being conducted between Yrbles, but without unifying social structure this cannot emerge beyond the most basic agreements.  Trade is still enforced by mutual threat between trading parties.

Special Abilities

Ranged Perception 10: 10EP
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.  It can perceive the most basic mental pathways of minds close to its sensory organ.

Information Exchange 10: 10EP
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.

Psychic Resistance 10: 10EP
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 10: 10EP
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.

Sense Emotion 5: 5EP
Yrb can determine the current mood of an entity.

Relationships
Chibor - Contact

penguinofhonor's Chibor - EP Total:109 Available:16

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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.

Biological Abilities:

Breeding 28: 54EP
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.  Diving Factor: 10

Speed 5: 5EP
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 Weapon 7: 7EP
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 13: 16EP
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.

Psi Resistance 5: 5EP
Can resist psychic commands that conflict with it's nature.

Civilized Abilities:

Language 12: 14EP
Chibors can convey simple emotions through small chirps or yelps, almost exclusively used as a warning for danger.  Over time, they have become much more specific and directed.

Domestication (Food) 8: 8EP
With considerable organization and low self-awareness, the Chibor's leaders can direct the breeding of other Chibor.  The intended result was be a Chibor that was fat, slow, and dumb: perfect for food.

Relationships
None

Tuv's Umgran - EP Total:102 Available:17

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Name: Umgran

Description: Umgran look more akin to walking rocks, or strange turtles than anything else. They have four stubby legs that stick out from either side, and a small arrow-like head that protrudes only slightly from it’s body. If you were to walk by one, you might mistake it for a rock, because in a way, an Umgran’s body is similar to a rock in a way. Though obviously reptilian, an Umgran does not grow it’s “scales” or “shell” itself, but rather breaks down rocks and the like that it eats, and deposits it as a kind of natural armor. They are quite large, but move very slowly and reproduce even slower.

Breeding Habits (0: 0EP): Lay 1 egg, Adult at 35, Max age 70, Females usually die to predators after laying the egg. Can only give birth again once they have reached “critical mass” for minerals and nutrients again. Dividing Factor: 0.1

Biological Abilities:

Digestive System 20: 30EP
The Umgran digestive system consists of a stomach with incredibly powerful acids, and a system of absorption that leaves little to no waste. Umgran will eat ANYTHING, meat, plants, carrion, rocks, whatever they can get a hold of.

“Armor” 15: 20EP
Umgran are prone to eating rocks and other normally inedible substances. These precipitate to the outside of their body, and form a protective shell. Because the shell is based off what each individual Umgran eats, all the shells appear different and have different hardnesses.

Spitting 10: 10EP
Umgran have been slowly developing a muscular organ near their heads that connects directly to their digestive tract. This muscle allows them to spray their volatile stomach acids a few feet.

Legs 10: 10EP
An Umgran’s legs, though short and stubby, end in a semi-prehensile foot that has three inch-long claws at the end of it. They are mostly useless, but can be effective in grasping small things and bringing them closer to the mouth.

Civilized Abilities:

Language 15: 20EP
Umgran communicate with one-another with low, guttural hums. They don’t travel very far, and can be hard to detect for other creatures, or even for the Umgran themselves, which need to be fairly close to adequately communicate.

Caste System 6: 6EP
Different diets and lifestyles have split the Umgran into different colored types.  The order is Glow-Rock-Bone-Fungal

Organization 10: 10EP
The Umgran follow orders of any Umgran that is a rank above them, and have begun to create their own ordering system with ranks.

Relationships
None

Shikogan's Ahkarii - EP Total:121 Available:14

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Race: Ahkarii
Pural:Ahkarii Noun: Ahkarii

Description and Traits: The Ahkarii are a race of humanoid beings. The average height is about 8 foot 2 and weight around 120 pounds. The Ahkarii have well developed feathered wings on their backs independent of their arms. Their wingspan depends on their height it is about a ratio of 3 and a half foot of wings to 10 pounds of weight.

Breeding (5: 5EP): An Ahkarii is ready to mate at 7 years of age and they die at 28. they can have a litter size of 4 but usually only have 2  Dividing Factor: 0.5

Diet: Omnivores, but they prefer to eat meat above all else, and they abhor cannibalism.

Biological Abilities:

Flight 14: EP18
Ahkarii can fly for long distances while maintaining a speed of 60mph and 80mph sprinting for short periods of time.  While cruising and gliding they can fly all day due to thermals but at night they can only fly for 4 hours before tiring.

Avianoid Bones 11: 12EP
The muscular structure they have had to develop for flight has given them incredible upper body strength and heightened reflexes but lesser lower body. The bones of the Ahkarii are especially lightweight and are still strong despite the apparent lack of weight.

Fangs and Claws 6: 6EP
They have developed short black claws on their hands and feet for hunting, and also fangs as their diet consists of mainly meat to any other food but can eat other foods if available.

Superb Perception(hearing) and Raptor Sight 11: 12EP
Due to their main food being meat they have had the need to hunt it down, this has given them extraordinary hearing and sight, allowing them to hear acutely and see any prey from up to a kilometer away.

Civilized Abilities:

Hierarchy 5: 5EP
Thanks to their highly developed brains they have an intelligent form of hierarchy in the forms of tribes, whose leaders form a council and eventually a "king"(of sorts) to govern the council.

Hut Building 14: 19EP
Ahkarii can build strong shelters in and around trees to protect themselves.

Farming 5: 5EP
Ahkarii practice limited foraging and cultivation.

Toolmaking 3: 3EP
Ahkarii can weave reeds and vines into useful construction.

Bridge Building 4: 4EP
The Ahkarii can make bridges but they cannot last in strong wind.

Axes 3: 3EP
Ahkarii have copied and manufacture a crude version of the Jhiar'd axe.

Special Abilities:

Psychic Communication 10: 10EP
The Ahkarii can communicate to each other or other species over a short distance.

Wind Manipulation 14: 18EP
With the influence of the Maelstrom, the Ahkarii can use their psychic abilities to direct wind currents.

Relationships
None

The Gods -

Lukut Cush Lhac, by Gantolandon - Power Points: 6

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Wrathful Amoeba God of Unity, Flesh, and Growth
Favoring: Kadesh
Worshiped by: Kadesh, 5% of All Regions

Nevon, by Asheron – Power Points: 41

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Judgmental Wyrm God of Magma, Curiosity, and Invention
Favoring: Jhiar'd
Worshiped by: Jhiar'd, 95% of O-19, 25% of Other Regions

Omega Alpha, by omagaalpha – Power Points: 1

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Worldly Unmortal God of Meteors, Wind, and Vigor
Favoring: Umgran
Worshiped by: Umgran, 25% of W-27

Timad, by Grek - Power Points: 0

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Spectral slumberer of Dreams, Nightmares and Fish
Start position: E11, if applicable for dieties.

Andrea, by andrea – Power Points: 1

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Immaterial Goddess of Cities, Farming, and Healing
Favoring: Ahkarii
Worshiped by: Ahkarii, 1% of All Regions

Patecatl by Cheetar - Power Points: 0
[spoile]Bovine divinty of Earth, Medicine, Fertility[/spoiler]

[Shikogan]

okay now, everyone who wishes to continue playing must pm me, and then post the last turn they did in Evo 3 as it doesnt appear that Aqizzar is going to finish the last turn.

[Pandarsenic]

I can has joining?

[penguinofhonor]

PM'd.

The green chibor were chattering busily amongst themselves. Several generations ago, some chibor had decided that one green chibor wasn't enough to make decisions for the ever-growing chibor population. Therefore, several green chibor now lead them at a time.

Their self-domestication had worked. This not only gave them a new source of food, but got rid of some of the dumber chibor. The only problem was that some larger predators would come in search of the tasty chibor and would take down many of the regular chibor when in their territory. They instructed the breeders to specialize the tasty chibor's flavor, in order to make them appeal only to the chibor themselves.

There was another strange problem. The chibor in the southwest were moving themselves away from the areas with the Lar. The green chibor suspected that the Lar had strange powers beyond the chibor's comprehension (although it's not hard to be beyond the chibor's comprehension). They weren't scaring the chibor, just telling them to move. And the chibor were believing them. How odd.
The green chibor altered the minds of their own chibor to become resistant to any foreign thoughts that would be projected into their heads.

They could see that there was probably going to be conflict with the Lar, and didn't want that. But they valued their territory and decided to push forward as hard as they could.

The Aam had become strangely disorganized, like their leaders had been lost. The Chibor saw an opportunity in their farms, which they still kept. The chibor, still motivated primarily by hunger, were going to try to expand into their territory as well.

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

• They try to change the tasty chibor so that they don't taste as good to predators.
• They expand into H-20.
• They push back into the territory they lost.

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• 5 into a new skill, Psi Resistance
• 6 into breeding, increasing it by 2 up to 28

[spoiler=Comment/Question]
It seems that you merged the Chibor's language and communication skills, even though you emphasized their separation.

[Armok]

~Post Reserved~

I am probably in to many forum games already, feel free to PM me if I'm forgetting stuff.
I have seen these evolution games grow hugs, and they seem fun if a bit on the silly unrealistic side.

[Tuv]

Spoiler: Actions (click to show/hide)

The Rock-shells in V26 order some of the White-Shells to explore to the northwest in a search for more habitable lands. Colonization attempt at U25 from V26.

The Glow-Shells from W27 send representatives to the other colonies to establish a control base, and unify the families under their control.

Experiment with expanding the burrows, and making them more comfortable.

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10 EP in organization, social-structure, civilization, whatever you are calling that thing that is distinct from language, but still necessary for mass-projects.

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Fancy RP-ish thing, is on hold, and might not come... I am feeling quite Ill.

[Grek]

I'll sign up as a God.

Timad was a deity that occurs in the myths of Pangaea. Timad was most often depicted as a male hydra and was associated with nightmares, dreams and fishing. Major sphere will be dreams, I think. With Duke 2.0's permission, I'd like to be favouring the Shrike.

Backstory:
At the dawn of time, when life had just began to evolve, Timad swam the seas, eating fish. Lots and lots of fish. As the ages passsed, Timad grew old and tired. He now spends most of his time asleep and dreaming of the world. He will often share his dreams with favoured mortals, granting them visions of his old fishing spots, strange ideas or simply horrible nightmares.

[Shikogan]

sorry no. no-one new is joining there may be spots later on if people drop out but otherwise keeping player list as-is.

[omagaalpha]

"When in time I have recover I will bring yous more asteroid from sky to show you what I can do. In mean time I will helps yous make more comfortable burrows" said Omega Alpha to his followers.
Omega Alpha who had also took little time to study how they lived and do stuff. Then Omega Alpha start to help Umgran more so with white shells to try reward them in improve the burrows after he was sure he knew how they live and work.

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1. Gain understand how Umgran live and work.
2. If above goes well then Aid them with my own hands in helping improve burrows.

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I believe this last turn,wait minute I have 1 pp wahoo.


Since still in visible form and on the ground so I can do thing don't need pp though good as if had spend pp on it.

[Pandarsenic]

Ah, okay. Thrown off by "I'm not making a player-cap right now" in first post. X_X

[Nilocy]

I want to continue. I'll post my turn asap.

[Aqizzar]

I suppose I ought to be ashamed.  I've got pretty used to missing stuff, so meh.

Honestly, this semester just about killed me, partly because I had a lot of essay heavy stuff so I was burned out of writing.  Even time I thought of doing the last turn I'd remember that with all those players, it took me about 15 hours to write all the updates.  So far, every GM to tackle this game has made through three turns before crapping out.  Good luck.

Also, if you'll have me, I'd love to keep playing.  As previous GM I should tell you that the d100 system from the old OP doesn't work all that well.  The system I adopted later (if you've forgotten) totaled the EP of all species, came up with the average, centered that on zero, and made it the die roll.  I can repost the bigger explanation if you need it.

True to form, I haven't though of actions or anything yet.

[Asheron]

Alright, here is my last action from Evolution 3.

Very good. My agenda is furthered.

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Nevon was pleased. Her avatar would secure the J'hiard's future in case of a full blown war. Now, it was time for some private issues.
She looked back at the lava colony. The faith of her believers was purely mental, and was easily to fade out from existence. It was time to change that. As she commonly did, she spreaded visions in the minds of  her believers in the lava colony. Visions of a great temple to her power; an enormous tower formed like an obelisk that reached to the sky. A monument to her divine being. It would be inspiring and divine. It would be glorious!

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Nevon spends 20 PP on teaching her followers to build her temple, and encourages them to do so.

[Shikogan]

Ah, okay. Thrown off by "I'm not making a player-cap right now" in first post. X_X

yeah sorry about that it was just a copy and paste from Aqizzar's one, i honestly didn't read through it lol. so yeah  my bad....

okay so far we are only waiting on: andrea, Euchre Jack, Gantolandon, Iituem, Draigh, NonAnonymous, Duke 2.0 and A1s....hmm that's a fair few people, so yeah when they are done and posted i will do the results.