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Title: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on October 29, 2022, 06:15:00 pm
Alright, alright, ya dinguses. Here is your precious creature building simulator ba-

SIKE!!! U THOUT!!!




So, you know the drill; I am not gonna write all about it again.

World. Flesh pea. Survive.

5-sided dice for regular vote, 7-sided dice for the secksual modifier, you can sacrifice your votes to support other's actions by a +1 in the roll. Event power dice is 100-sided, and the event temperament dice is 7 sided. The stuff, you know.

Ok, you don't know that you can't be plants anymore, and that the game has metashifted now. But it is the same at its core.

...
Evolve!

Current Teams
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List of Turns
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Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (0/20)
Post by: notquitethere on October 31, 2022, 11:35:33 am
I am on Team Lean Green Evolving Machine

#1 New Mutation: skin to keep the loose-cluster of cells strongly cohered and protect from some forms of predation

(I'll save the second vote for seconding other suggestions, if I can split like that?)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (0/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 01, 2022, 12:15:37 pm
I am on Team Lean Green Evolving Machine

#1 New Mutation: skin to keep the loose-cluster of cells strongly cohered and protect from some forms of predation

(I'll save the second vote for seconding other suggestions, if I can split like that?)

You can. Votes are independant.

Now if other such players cared to join...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (1/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 01, 2022, 12:31:08 pm
Turn 0



The Events

The very first turn. No event shall happen.



The World

The starting state. The Yanardagh Seamount is rather small at the moment, and no land exists as of yet. There is one biome; the Guguli Shallows, essentially a shallow submarine mountainpeak.

And only one species exists; The Pea, your last common ancestor.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Praire Biome | (1/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (1/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 01, 2022, 12:38:36 pm
Team X2 - #2 Mutation: Waterbound spores which the peas catch, use to share RNA, and then release seeds into the water currents.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (1/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 01, 2022, 12:43:17 pm
Team #2 Mutation: Waterbound spores which the peas catch, use to share RNA, and then release seeds into the water currents.

Yay more players.

Also, you can name your team, if you want. Or it could just be team two.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (1/20)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 01, 2022, 12:48:49 pm
Perfect, flesh turnip v2

Team Perfect Predator Mutation: Develop bargain bin muscles through increase amounts of cells interlaying into each other 
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (1/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 01, 2022, 12:52:35 pm
Perfect, flesh turnip v2

Team Perfect Predator Mutation: Develop bargain bin muscles through increase amounts of cells interlaying into each other 

Yeaaaaaaa.

We are technically ready to go from here. But I will wait for the stragglers.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: notquitethere on November 01, 2022, 04:51:59 pm
Good to see some competition. In case I don't get any more team mates this turn, I'll go ahead with my second vote:

LGEM: Mutation #2: Central tube so food can come in one end and leave at the other.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 02, 2022, 07:18:37 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Skin.
2: Central food tube.

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Sexual Reproduction.
2: ...

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Muscles.
2: ...

Turn in progress...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 02, 2022, 07:39:19 am
Turn 1



The Events

The second very first turn. No events shall happen now, either.



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Nothing significant about the environment has changed. The seamount is still the same as ever.

But life has diversified in these stable conditions. The changes are not in big, flashy ways like the Cambrian Explosion, but things are still recognisably different overrall.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Praire Biome | (4/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 02, 2022, 07:56:27 am
Team Perfect Predator:

Mutation #1 Improve muscles

If I don’t get a new teammate

Mutation 2: Develop a flesh shell to cover ourselves from harsh environmental conditions and also from any predators if they show up.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 02, 2022, 09:04:46 am
X2: Mutations 1 and 2 - Digestion and Slime Body
Instigate a form of proto-digestion, the body being made up of a muscle-rich slime.  The nucleus is kept inside.
The outer skin is easily covered in sand and other  inedible detritus, helping keep it's form.
It eats by absorbing whatever proto-organisms it can engulf.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: notquitethere on November 02, 2022, 09:36:17 am
LGEM: Mutation #1: Spines to help snag food-stuff and adhere to surfaces

LGEM: Mutation #2: Muscular pharynx to pump food into one end of the food tube
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 05, 2022, 06:24:45 am
Turn 2



The Events

Events are now on.

Power: 97 (ooooh)
Temperament: 3 (hmmmmm)



The Actions
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The World

The seamount has started to experience major earthquakes on a regular basis. While mostly inconsequential, this means the waters are always shaken up and muddled.

-5 population to all species in the seamount due to the minor shortage of algea.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (4/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 3 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 06, 2022, 06:12:48 pm
Guys... Oh come on! Again?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 3 | (3/20)
Post by: notquitethere on November 06, 2022, 06:34:59 pm
Classic case of the turn updating while I wasn't in a position to reply then promptly forgetting

LGEM: New Mutation: Complex stomach system   for breaking down the materials that come through the internal pathway efficiently.

LGEM: New Mutation: Open circulatory system bathe the stomach (and any other organs) in a sort of oxygenated soup, to give additional energy for processes.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 3 | (3/20)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 06, 2022, 06:50:39 pm
Mutation 1: Basic Nerve System

Mutation 2: Parasitic tendrils that sucks nutrients from the victim which it uses to grow.


Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 3 | (3/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 06, 2022, 07:38:48 pm
Team X2
MT1: Electrolocation to find food. SS roll.
MT2: Double down on Electrolocation mutation.
(Might take a hit to pop if one is bad, but that's evolution.)

(Hunting the Perfect Predator. And using numbers to test genetic mutations.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 07, 2022, 10:03:14 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Complex stomach system.
2: Open circulatory system.

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Electrolocation. (SS)
2: Electrolocation, again.

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Nerves.
2: Parasitic tendrils.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 08, 2022, 01:35:38 am
Turn 3



The Events

Events are now on.

Power: 72
Temperament: 7



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The seafloor all through the Guguli shallow has risen in size and altitude, both increasing the amount of photosynthesis and the size of the seamount.

Current populations have all increased by 10, and the carrying capacity of the Guguli shallows is now 15 species in total.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (4/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 4 | (3/20)
Post by: notquitethere on November 08, 2022, 04:22:12 am
Can you explain a little more about Speciation... if a creature were to only speciate in a turn, how would the different species be distinct from one another? What's the difference between splitting a species into two sister species and creating an offshoot? Is it that the latter preserves the existing species?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 4 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 08, 2022, 04:45:47 am
Can you explain a little more about Speciation... if a creature were to only speciate in a turn, how would the different species be distinct from one another? What's the difference between splitting a species into two sister species and creating an offshoot? Is it that the latter preserves the existing species?

If you would use two of your votes, that will make three species. They would be distinct.

Creating an offshoot preserves the original lineage. Splitting destroys it.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 4 | (3/20)
Post by: notquitethere on November 08, 2022, 05:13:51 am
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/242/303/06a.png)

OK my species has a decent fitness, so let's give speciating a try!

LGEM: Speciate the Undulating Cownut, creating an offshoot
LGEM: Speciate the Undulating Cownut, creating an offshoot
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 4 | (3/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 08, 2022, 08:34:39 am
LGEM: Speciate the Glistening Sludgiboo, creating an offshoot. Through the intake of water into it's structure, it becomes even in buoancy and can move around slowly through the waters, gliding on the currents.
LGEM: Speciate the Glistening Sludgiboo, creating an offshoot.  Through the digestion of acidic food, it's acidity has further increased to make it a bad snack and help digest food more readily.


Flips evolutionary coin.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 4 | (3/20)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 08, 2022, 12:37:26 pm
Hah. Offshoots. Mere party tricks. (Really getting screwed by the dice here.)

Mutation #1 Crude pheromones that signal other members of their species to not attack them.

Mutation #2: Two small holes that absorb oxygen and then expel it for a method of propulsion and therefore faster movement.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 0 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 08, 2022, 05:27:05 pm
Turn 4



The Events

Power: 80
Temperament: 3



The Actions
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The World

The seamount constantly shakes once again, raising a perpetual cloud of sea debris.

-10 to all populations due to algea shortage. Al long last, the Ancestral Pea is gone.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: notquitethere on November 08, 2022, 05:36:49 pm
Ah, so it would have been good to know that you can simultaneously mutate and speciate at the same time. No matter.

LGEM:  Improve Northern Undulating Cownut "Spines": Thin, sharp and/or poisonous!

LGEM:  Mutate Midsea Undulating Cownut: Gain a swim bladder so it can rise above the dangerous ocean floor

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 08, 2022, 05:45:37 pm
X2: Glistening Sludgiboo: Improve Electrolocation senses.
X2: Floating Sludgiballoon - Improve crosspollination with dna strands and genetic codes being shared among the evolutionary tree. SS Roll.


Pea was not surviving with the predators evolving.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 08, 2022, 09:03:00 pm
Ultimate Predator:

Double down on the parasitic tendrils mutation and try to make them more efficient, durable, just better overall. 

Mutation 2: Start producing large quantities of bioelectricity that is expelled through the tendrils once they are attached to another species to prevent them from running away and added damage.



(Hah. Creating different species. I shall focus on one lifeform and create the ULTIMATE PREDATOR)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 08, 2022, 09:06:24 pm
Ultimate Predator:

Double down on the parasitic tendrils mutation and try to make them more efficient, durable, just better overall. 

Mutation 2: Start producing large quantities of bioelectricity that is expelled through the tendrils once they are attached to another species to prevent them from running away and added damage.



(Hah. Creating different species. I shall focus on one lifeform and create the ULTIMATE PREDATOR)

Does this look like the face of mercy?
(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/771d878b-acc3-43f1-b5ba-dafe3efc9e27/db8ls0j-f72c2075-5e2e-4a03-9269-161dabcf4fc0.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzc3MWQ4NzhiLWFjYzMtNDNmMS1iNWJhLWRhZmUzZWZjOWUyN1wvZGI4bHMwai1mNzJjMjA3NS01ZTJlLTRhMDMtOTI2OS0xNjFkYWJjZjRmYzAucG5nIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.MpLY7Svu24-NbQRfXExEeH-vAF8CqznpW2wbvPKApAM)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 08, 2022, 09:15:27 pm
Is that a threat to my ULTIMATE PREDATOR!?

DUN

DUN

DUN

I welcome the attention of your species as I feast on their entrails
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: TricMagic on November 09, 2022, 09:14:38 am
Sadly we don't have entrails. Just acidic slime.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 10, 2022, 05:49:28 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Improve spines on Northern Undulating Cownut.
2: Swim bladder in Midsea Undulating Cownut.

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve Electroreception on Glistening Slugiboo.
2: Improve RNA pollination in Floating Sludgiballoon. (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Improve parasitic tendrils.
2: Electric stunning attack.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 5 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 10, 2022, 06:48:56 am
Yup

Seems legit
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 10, 2022, 03:16:40 pm
Turn 5



The Events

Power: 80
Temperament: 1 (uh oh)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The subocean volcano which forms the seamount has several, minor, consequent eruptions, which has distrupted algea growth all across Guguli Shallows.

The herbivores were hit first, then predators, parasites and filterfeeders.

-20 to all populations.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Wish we had more players...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 10, 2022, 03:24:47 pm
Does my jellyfish cownut still count as being in the benthic zone, and did I get the +1 improvement bonus to trying to improve the spines?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 10, 2022, 03:27:58 pm
Does my jellyfish cownut still count as being in the benthic zone, and did I get the +1 improvement bonus to trying to improve the spines?

I'm dumb. I forgot to give you that +1 bonus. I'll fix it.

And no, the jellyfish Cownut are not benthic. They have no method of controlling where they go, and thats why they are doing so bad.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 10, 2022, 03:38:05 pm
Yes that makes sense, muscles are on my to do list!

LGEM: Mutate Jellyfish cownut: muscular system

Wiggling the spines has to do something.

LGEM:  Speciate into two sister species the Spiny Cownut:

Speciation 1: Wiggling footpad for moving.
Speciation 2: Exude slime from digestive tract to slowly propel

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 10, 2022, 03:54:25 pm
Team X2

Species-wide mutation: Floating Sludgiballoon passes on it's improved reproduction method to it's kin, allowing gene sharing. In this case, improved electroreceptors for all! SS roll.

Antennaed Sludgiboo Speciation: A variant that derives nutrients from sand, soil, and dead things it digests. Not a predator, though will break down anything that doesn't move or have electricity. Has a very nutritious body due to storing nutrients in it's slime. Gritty texture though.


Is parasitism predetorism? (We got hit pretty hard, parasites' less so. Well, time for a foodie evolution.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 10, 2022, 06:59:18 pm
I’m sure some people will join soon. I can ask around, if you want.


Team Perfect Predator:

Mutation 1: Improve muscular system to fight back against newfound resistance from it’s prey.

Mutation 2: Due to the inefficiency of simply wandering around until they find something, they develop a basic sensory organ to search for prey.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 15, 2022, 01:01:02 pm
Turn 6



The Events

Power: 14
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The period of volcanic eruptions which had previously caused a mass dying has come to an end, instead giving way for a period of environmental mediocrity that allowed the seamount ecosystem to revover.

The previous turns debuff is removed.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (9/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 15, 2022, 01:46:29 pm
(Did it work though?)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 15, 2022, 05:32:43 pm
LGEM: Improve Surviving Undulating Cownut: Improve gut so it can eat dispersed RNA/spores in the water

LGEM: Mutate Surviving Undulating Cownut: Develop Gemmulation, budding off smaller cownuts for more efficient asexual reproduction.

LGEM: Mutate  Seasnail Cownut: Gain rudimentary eyes so it can see predators/food
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 15, 2022, 05:37:56 pm
(Did it work though?)

You rolled a zero. No.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 15, 2022, 05:39:52 pm
LGEM: Improve Surviving Undulating Cownut: Improve gut so it can eat dispersed RNA/spores in the water

This can be done, but it will be nigh useless. Those spores compose only an insignificant fraction of the total organic matter.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 15, 2022, 05:53:12 pm
LGEM: Improve Surviving Undulating Cownut: Improve gut so it can eat dispersed RNA/spores in the water

This can be done, but it will be nigh useless. Those spores compose only an insignificant fraction of the total organic matter.
OK, I was trying to figure out if there was away to disrupt all the store reproduction going on (or benefit from it) but I guess spores are very small and easily dispersed. So I've amended it to a different idea.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 15, 2022, 05:56:45 pm
LGEM: Improve Surviving Undulating Cownut: Improve gut so it can eat dispersed RNA/spores in the water

This can be done, but it will be nigh useless. Those spores compose only an insignificant fraction of the total organic matter.
OK, I was trying to figure out if there was away to disrupt all the store reproduction going on (or benefit from it) but I guess spores are very small and easily dispersed. So I've amended it to a different idea.
Just that I saw a 4 at the bottom. Ah well.


Team X2
Species-wide mutation: Take 2 - Floating Sludgiballoon! Pass on it's improved reproduction method to it's kin, allowing gene sharing. In this case, improved electroreceptors for all! SS roll.
Mutation! Floating Slugibaloon mutates, specializing in actual movement and sweeping down to grasp prey in it's long slime-tentacles, draining them of nutrients, blood, and electricity before leaving the body behind. The electricity is stored/generated in a special sack within the base of the tentacles to paralyze prey.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 19, 2022, 07:46:35 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Budding for Surviving Undulating Cownut
2: Simple eyes for Seasnail Cownut

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improved electrosight for all through cross-species pollination
2: Grasping tendrils for Floating Sludgiballoon

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 24, 2022, 06:28:31 am
Turn 7



The Events

Power: 42
Temperament: 1



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

It all started with a simple biological mistake. A Flagellating Snatchiblie spore, like those of its more peaceful ancestors, had once more managed to combine with one of its distant cousins, namely, a spore from an Avalanche Sludgiboo. From this event, however, came no weird looking forsaken child. Something went horribly wrong. The planktonic zygote which came be failed to form itself a body due to not having the genetic stability, but its cells still split as if to grow. This small clump soon dissolved into the waters. A few cells fell upon a Diarrhea Cownut, and that seemed to be the end of it.


But that was not the end of it. In just a week time, it was everywhere. An illness had broken out on the Guguli Shallows; a contagious cancer that knew no species bounds, eating and splitting wherever it found suitable flesh.

Most creatures have premade resistances to this. Some have acid skin, some digest anything that touches it, but everyone gets a -5 population debuff. Unless you evolve immnune systems, this debuff is permanent

Surviving Undulating Cownut is extinct due to the combined effects of the plague, its deleterious mutation, and the increased predation.

Appearance of the first apex predator have lowered the predation from other predators, which higlighted the differences in complexity between them and caused a chain reaction that rebalanced the prominence of predatory species.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (8/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 24, 2022, 09:22:13 am
Team X2
Improved cross-species pollination to share traits, Take 3.
Antennaed Sludgiboo develops a crude circulatory system and attacking cells to protect from intruders. Most of the body goes through this system eventually, allowing it to self-clean harmful cells.

First case ever of a negative roll. We have invented bacteria! (Or a Virus)
Prime Root developing countermeasures, please wait.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 24, 2022, 09:30:17 am
My first extinction! I tried to save the noble undulating cownut, but alas! Gemmulation was a good idea, I just got unlucky.

I think I've worked out a viable strategy going forward... a sort of evolutionary A/B testing.

#1 Speciate into two sister species Steering Urchinite:
- A: Mutate an immune system into its open-circulatory system
- B: Mutate skin flaps between the spines to create fins for improved navigation!


#2 Speciate into two sister species Eyeful Seagranate:
- A: Mutate an immune system into its open-circulatory system
- B: Improve digestion to allow the consumption of slime-based lifeforms


(Note: I think the shallows are currently at 8/15 species, not 9.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 24, 2022, 09:47:07 am
I find it fun the first apex Predator isn't the Perfect Predator. But there is a reason Birds are king.
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonquest/images/8/8d/Healslime_Artwork.png)
Or Slimes.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 24, 2022, 10:02:18 am
(Note: I think the shallows are currently at 8/15 species, not 9.)

That's strange. I must've miscounted at some point. Oh well.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 24, 2022, 10:10:03 am
Also, thanks for running this Magmacube, it's a fun game idea and I'm enjoying seeing how our little sea creatures develop.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 24, 2022, 11:01:04 am
Always interesting, yeah.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 24, 2022, 08:31:19 pm
I FORGOT

NOOoOoOoOooO


Mutation 1: mutate a basic immune system

Mutation 2: try to develop basic intelligence for better hunting tactics.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 24, 2022, 08:38:07 pm
Question. Are the turnips still Benthic? Since they seem to debuff all other animals.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 24, 2022, 08:42:29 pm
Also, focusing all my attention on my species is working out

😈
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 24, 2022, 08:42:51 pm
I find it fun the first apex Predator isn't the Perfect Predator. But there is a reason Birds are king.
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonquest/images/8/8d/Healslime_Artwork.png)
Or Slimes.

Just you wait…
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 24, 2022, 08:45:45 pm
I find it fun the first apex Predator isn't the Perfect Predator. But there is a reason Birds are king.
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonquest/images/8/8d/Healslime_Artwork.png)
Or Slimes.

Just you wait…
At some point they're be able to track you down and eat you.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 24, 2022, 08:49:42 pm
I will drain the life from your slimes.

For I am the perfect predator. And you are NOTHINGGGGG






(Wonder if it’s ever going to get to the point of us developing tech and stuff)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 24, 2022, 08:50:52 pm
Also, we need to look for more players. How do we do that?

Somebody advertise lol
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 25, 2022, 08:01:30 am
Question. Are the turnips still Benthic? Since they seem to debuff all other animals.

They are not. Turnips are obligate parasites that move only for a short time throught their lifespans, spending most of their time attached to another creature. They are outside that kind of classification.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 25, 2022, 08:30:56 am
Keep on forgetting they're more parasites than predators.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 25, 2022, 08:47:42 am
Also, we need to look for more players. How do we do that?

Somebody advertise lol

Yeah, the game will expand as time goes on. At some point, you three will have so many species that the game will grind down to a halt. Because you simply can't develop that too many.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 25, 2022, 08:54:28 am
Which hopefully involves an action to cut them loose, hopefully. Let them develop on their own.

I'm mostly trying a way around that mind you. Being able to pass along useful evolutions to others in the line.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 8 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 25, 2022, 12:04:48 pm
Do not worry. My species will cut down all overpopulation issues….

Dun dun dun
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 25, 2022, 03:34:24 pm
Turn 8



The Events

Power: 27
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The current era of tectonic calmness and climate stability continues to stretch on, it seems.

Also, apex predator changed.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (10/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 25, 2022, 03:44:57 pm
Who's the Apex now?Giant, that's who   (And does that mean the Sludgiboo has solved the infection?)

Team X2
1: Improve cross-species RNA pollination on Flagellating Snatchiblie: Take 4!
2: Giant becomes King Sludgiboo, developing a proto-brain within the core/heart.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 25, 2022, 07:17:44 pm
LGEM #1 Speciate into two sister species Slimesucker Seagranate:
- A: Mutate muscular/tendon system so the spines can be stabbed at prey
- B: Mutate camoflage to go unnoticed by predators and prey

LGEM #2 Speciate into two sister species Scattery Pinecovy:
- A: Mutate an immune system into its open-circulatory system
- B: Mutate eyes so can actually spot predators and algae
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 25, 2022, 08:44:26 pm
I will not stand for this.


Mutation 1: In response to increased predation from the giants, the Tracker Turnips develop even stronger electric shocks that not only increases their combat abilities, but also lures the giants to them, which is where the second mutation comes in.

Mutation 2: The Tracker Turnip learns to disguise their bio electricity into a perfect match for the giants, and as the electro sense is their only way of sight, they won’t be able to disguise a hostile turnip from a friendly giant, which will be their doom.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 25, 2022, 08:49:53 pm
I will not stand for this.


Mutation 1: In response to increased predation from the giants, the Tracker Turnips develop even stronger electric shocks that not only increases their combat abilities, but also lures the giants to them, which is where the second mutation comes in.

Mutation 2: The Tracker Turnip learns to disguise their bio electricity into a perfect match for the giants, and as the electro sense is their only way of sight, they won’t be able to disguise a hostile turnip from a friendly giant, which will be their doom.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 6 (3/20)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 26, 2022, 03:39:47 pm
Turn 9



The Events

Power: 55
Temperament: 5



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

A new strain of algea has appeared on the seamount. Instead of being microplanktonic, these algea grow in small clusters on the sandy soil, and have quickly made the place an actual meadow. This affects nothing in regards to the wellbeing of the  pre-existing ecosystem, since you are all filterfeeders to some extent and have no adaptations to eat or actively seek this food source.

Diarrhea Cownut and Acidic Blechiboo are extinct due to being outcompeted.


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (10/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Was already looking for a way to intruduce the multicelluar plants lol. I was going to force them in turn 10, but this is more natural.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 26, 2022, 03:52:40 pm
Quote
1: Improve the cross-species population of Flagellating Snatchiblie, again: 2+1+(-2)=1 (GODDAMMIT DICE GODS) (You realise that you aren't specifying where to put the SS roll so it defaults to your first roll, right?)

Yes, yes I do. The Dice Gods apparently love it.

Quote
King Sludgiboo has no qualms about eating its own kin.
More Slime for the King Slime. Haha.

Team X2
Improve the cross-species pollination ability of Flagellating Snatchiblie, Take 5!
King Sludigboo splits in two lines.
\The First improves it's processing ability, to the point of being able to identify prey types and recognize patterns. And developing a structure around it's core.
 \The Second turns the mass into a more shifting form like a pancake, taking advantage of the algae that have formed to hoover up the new food source. While smaller in mass, it's body manipulation and algae diet renders it a green color that blends in with it's primary food source.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 26, 2022, 04:03:33 pm
(Having your own species cannibalize each other will surely be great for your population in the long run)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 26, 2022, 04:04:05 pm
And developing a calcite structure around it's core.

This one is competely unrelated to the first action about processing ability. You have to pick this or the other.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 26, 2022, 04:05:53 pm
Also, How do I get the apex predator title thingy? I have the most population, so it’s not that. What are the requirements?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 26, 2022, 04:09:02 pm
Also, How do I get the apex predator title thingy? I have the most population, so it’s not that. What are the requirements?

You prey on everything. Nothing preys on you (your own species do not count). King Sludgiboo preys on you, so you are out. Also, you are a parasite, you do micropredation. If you want it, then you may wanna speciate a branch to develop into a predator.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 26, 2022, 04:20:20 pm
Ah.


Spilt once into a line that forgoes all parasitic elements for pure predatory power.

Mutation 2: Get little drills on the top of each tendril that allow the turnip to pierce and burrow into other animals much more efficiently, which coincidentally also lets them reach the beating heart of the giant sludigboo much faster where they generally deliver a deadly shock.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 26, 2022, 04:40:45 pm
#1. LGEM Speciate into two sister species the Steering Urchinite:
A: Mutate sense of smell to find better find algae / avoid prey
B: Mutate translucence to make it harder to spot floating about in the water

#2. LGEM Speciate into two sister species the Cancer-free Pinecovy:
A: Mutate eyes so it can finally see what it's doing
B: Mutate electrogenesis to mess with electrolocation of predator/parasitic species (e.g., decoy sparks)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 9 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 26, 2022, 05:12:22 pm
And developing a calcite structure around it's core.

This one is competely unrelated to the first action about processing ability. You have to pick this or the other.

(ignore the calcite bit.) Structure is for the heart/brain to have something to build off of. (Ignore that bit if it doesn't actually work.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 27, 2022, 04:32:53 pm
Turn 10



The Events

Power: 10
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The things are calm. It is mostly the same. Except the Translucent Urchinite went extinct as soon as it appeared. That must be a record!


The Guguli Shallows | Algea Prairie Biome | (13/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 27, 2022, 04:46:09 pm
Quote
Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve the cross-species population of Flagellating Snatchiblie, ONCE again: 4+1+(-2)= 3 (FINALLY! Praised be the Dice Gods!)
2: Split King Sludgiboo:
    A) A brain: 2+1=3
    B) Herbivory: 1 (I take it back.)
SS: 2

rolls about laughing like a mad blobbo.

Team X2
Emperor Sludgiboo develops... Photoreceptors? They form spots along it's membrane surrounded by nerves to see the movement and basic shape of things around them. The Emperor's Brain allows it to use these for defense and hunting nearby prey, which is pretty much the same thing to it.
Flat Roomboo develops base liquid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_(chemistry)) to add to it's body, able to take of spores and seeds from plant life and transplant them. This also includes the ability to selectively cut off parts of the plant via holding it in the membrane between base membrane on it's outer skin and acid parts of itself. SS Roll.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 11 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 27, 2022, 07:36:50 pm
Mutation 1: (Predator) The Job Finisher Turnip evolves a more durable and environmentally resistant flesh shell that it uses to weather the blows of other creatures and changes in climate.

Mutation 2: (Parasite) The Sickle Turnip capitalizes on other creatures internal electrical outputs and muscles.

when they attach to a creature they use their electricity to shock various muscles into moving, basically creating a rough version of body control. They do this not only to hide from predators, but also to allow a few meme ears of their own species to hop on their host if they don’t have one of their own.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 11 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 28, 2022, 03:18:49 am
Poor Translucent Urchinite. I had misread one of the other predators, thinking the eyespots were eyes. That was totally on me.

Time for some intelligence to interpret these light signals???

Mutate Lightseer Pinecovy: Brain

Mutate Eyeful Seagranate: Brain

Bound to work on one of them.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 28, 2022, 05:06:23 pm
Turn 11



The Events

Power: 74
Temperament: 7 (oh wow)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The multicelluar algea have undergone a rapid chain of accelerated evolution, turning into a more organised, seaweed like organism. The ancestral form is still here, but the larger size and sun catching ability of the seaweed means that the seamount has transformed into a seaweed meadow.

Eyeful Seagranate has gone extinct die to increased predation and malignant mutations that hindered its lateral splitting to reproduce.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (12/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 11 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 28, 2022, 05:11:44 pm
Oh and to be able to jump from proto-animal to just animal, a species needs...

-A specialised way to get food (All species have them already)
-A respiratory track (Only the turnips possess gills)
-Muscles (All lineages have at least 1 species with someting analogous with musculature)
-A circulatory system (Almost all species have it)
-A nervous system (Most has it)
-Some specialised form of reprodiction other than splitting in half. (Only the Sludgiboo order has it)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 28, 2022, 05:29:07 pm
Time to make the jump.

Team X2
Emperor Sludgiboo develops a method of chemical separation, taking in oxygen from the water around it to heighten it's nervous and musculature-like systems. 
The APEX animal approaches. It is a Slime.

Flagellating Snatchiblie crosspollinates with the Lilypads, gaining access to photosynthesis. As a result of this, it now hunts in both the higher and lower reaches. The new creature resembles a green blimp, it's tentacles around the bottom, and "sleeps" during sunny days on the surface, hunting during the night. SS Roll
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 28, 2022, 05:30:24 pm
Might as well try to make this thing into a fish.

Mutate gills/respiratory track for Lightseeker Pinecovy

Mutate egg-based reproduction for Lightseeker Pinecovy

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 28, 2022, 05:53:43 pm
Might as well try to make this thing into a fish.

Mutate gills/respiratory track for Lightseeker Pinecovy

Mutate egg-based reproduction for Lightseeker Pinecovy


Mmm, roe.

Roe roe roe your boat, gentle down the stream.
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream. Crunch goes the avalanching sludigboos.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 28, 2022, 06:04:31 pm
If you get too successful and wipe out all my herbivores, your predators will all starve!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 28, 2022, 06:10:31 pm
All shall become slime. (We got pandaslime.)

Slimes also eat each other. To the detriment of mimics. :P

(I just find it funny that the amoeba is the apex.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 28, 2022, 07:24:50 pm
Puppeteer Turnip Mutation: The Turnips develop the ability to burrow themselves in their host’s, to hide from the slugiboo and for further protection.

Reinforced Turnip Mutation: The Turnip further develops their pheromones into being able to call other turnips to themselves to sexually reproduce.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 12 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 29, 2022, 04:10:01 am
If you get too successful and wipe out all my herbivores, your predators will all starve!


And besides, you have fish, buddy.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 10 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 08:14:09 am
Turn 12



The Events

Power: 81
Temperament: 5



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

This period was very volcanically active, but not from your habitat itself.

Instead of erupting from its main exit, Yanardag volcano has sprouted an offshoot from its east side, which, after constant eruptions, has built itself near the level of the main plateau,  being 60 to 50 meters deep in the ocean, compared to the Yanardag seamounts mere 20 to 5, making it a place where the seaweed cannot grow, making it a darker past version of the Guguli Shallows.

This much smaller, closeby but separate seamount, named Çay, has a carrying capacity of 5, and is separated from its parent body by about a kilometer. You will need to be able to swim to colonise this place.

Right now, however, this doesn't affects you in any way whatsoever.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (12/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (0/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 30, 2022, 08:34:31 am
Exciting developments...

What stands between my pinecovies and being able to swim to the new terrain?

And before it can be classed a full animal, does the lightseer need to improve its faulty gill situation?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 09:21:37 am
Exciting developments...

What stands between my pinecovies and being able to swim to the new terrain?

And before it can be classed a full animal, does the lightseer need to improve its faulty gill situation?

Nothing stands in the way for the pinecovies or the floating branch of the sludgiboo. Knightwings turnips only have a water siphon that they use to get around quicker and no swim bladder. So they can't.

It's just that you need to speciate upon there; the two populations would be allopatrically separated.

Yes, you need a respiratory organ to jump to animal. not a mouth without skin.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 30, 2022, 09:31:01 am
Got it, so, is this a valid set of orders?

LGEM
1: Speciate creating two sister species of Lightseer Pinecovy, one for each biome:

A: Improve lungs - send to Çay Uplift
B: Mutate chemotaxis [+ sexual selection roll]

2: Speciate creating two sister species of Zappy Pinecovy, one for each biome:

A: Mutate lungs
B: Mutate Brain send to Çay Uplift
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 30, 2022, 09:46:15 am
What is the emperor missing to become an animal? hat should be everything?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 09:59:14 am
What is the emperor missing to become an animal? hat should be everything?

Hmmmmm...

Yeah, its gills are subpar, but they work. So I guess you have the first ever actual animal.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 10:34:04 am
Got it, so, is this a valid set of orders?

 -da orderz-

Yes, they are.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on November 30, 2022, 11:15:16 am








Fencer Turnip: Renounce parasitic ways and become a predator. and develop resistant flesh to whatever the slugiboo uses to kill. (SS Roll) (this would make the fencer a apex prefator, right?

Fencer Turnip: Make better gills, see if you can become a full animal now.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 30, 2022, 11:31:08 am
Team X2
Lilypad Roomboo Speciates
\Some leave the waters for the shallows, attaching themselves to the shoreline and taking in air to photosynthesize sugars from light, water, and carbon dioxide.
\Some integrate seaweed deeply into their makeup, becoming living spreaders of the plant life they eat. The gases this produces allows them to move along the currents. Their bodies become more like rays spreading seaweed/spores behind them as streamers.
Mishmash Blimpie undergoes a cross-pollination event with the Empower Fluffiboo. SS Roll. (The resulting chimeric species will be a mix of the two with both parents' traits, and some head for the The Çay Uplift due to it's niches being taken by it's parent linage tree.)

Anyone remember the fact I spent multiple turns on cross-pollination improvements? Well, it's come home to roost. Behold the Chimeric Flufiflimp





Fencer Turnip: Renounce parasitic ways and become a predator. and develop resistant flesh to whatever the slugiboo uses to kill. (SS Roll) (this would make the fencer a apex prefator, right?

Fencer Turnip: Make better gills, see if you can become a full animal now.

As advice, the Sludiboo line tends to use Acid and devour prey whole. Barring the blimp that uses tentacles. The main issue is the Emperor is the common ancestor and can see your shocks. (And fills your interiors with acid, which is very difficult to protect against.)


Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 12:20:07 pm

Fencer Turnip: Renounce parasitic ways and become a predator. and develop resistant flesh to whatever the slugiboo uses to kill. (SS Roll) (this would make the fencer a apex prefator, right?

Fencer Turnip: Make better gills, see if you can become a full animal now.


You don't have a circulatory system.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 12:26:13 pm
Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?

It's pretty much an ambient germ right now. Most species have immune systems now, so it shouldn't be a bother unless the event dice decides to screw you over.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 30, 2022, 12:34:39 pm
Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?

It's pretty much an ambient germ right now. Most species have immune systems now, so it shouldn't be a bother unless the event dice decides to screw you over.
So this next turn then.  :P
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 12:40:41 pm
Also, what's the status of the disease? How many are currently effected by it?

It's pretty much an ambient germ right now. Most species have immune systems now, so it shouldn't be a bother unless the event dice decides to screw you over.
So this next turn then.  :P

You'll have to consult the dice gods for that!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 02:40:58 pm
Turn 13



The Events

Power: 8 (See, The Dice Gods have decreed no plague!)
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The magma bubble seems to have depleted from the creation of the smaller water habitat, and with no biological disaster occuring either, all things are stable once more.

The new sludgiboo hybrid was a only a partial evolitionary success, stemming from a couple stray hybrid planktonic embryos making the journey between the two habitats and then reproducing. They can hunt via engulfing like their benthic ancestor, and float like their pelagic one, albeit with some effort. There is a catch, however. The Çay Uplift is a little less then two-half-times as deep as the Guguli Shallows, and as it stands, they are very unfit for this habitat, having to ascend tens of meters as they feed, tire of swimming and sink down, and can only survive due to not having any competition there on the east.

Avalanche Sludgiboo and Flagellating Snatchiblie are gone from not being up to the new competition on the main habitat.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (11/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (3/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on November 30, 2022, 02:44:42 pm
If this game reaches turn 20, I will draw a cladogram of life.

Also, I know you are in the walls, lurkers. This game did not reach 1532 views by just four of us here.

JOYIN MAH GAEM YOU COWARDS!!!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 14 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 30, 2022, 04:23:45 pm
Ya know, we were 1 roll away from the turnips causing another catastrophe.

Team X2
Chimeric Flufiflimp improves it's oxygen collection. Other than general improvements, it also can store it in a floatation sack. When it needs to ascend, it can fill it, and when it needs to descend, it can empty it. And when it needs to be neutrally buoyant, it can keep some in reserve. The fluff on the top is also cleared for photosynthesis.
Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo develops a spore chamber within it's bottom for it to release fertilized spores developed within it's body. It collects them from seaweed and then transplants them elsewhere to help it's food source spread. In this manner it can range further afield, as well as allow the species to dock with each other to reproduce. [SS Roll]


The Yu-Ef-Oh is the first bee. Spreading plantlife across the shallows. (This also massively buffs their numbers since every spore will be cross-fertilized before release.)
Meanwhile the Flufiflimp gets a floatation sack. Which it needs given it's weight pulls it down.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 14 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on November 30, 2022, 08:58:13 pm
LGEM

1. Speciate Must Scream into two sister species. Time to develop senses:

A: Develop Electroreception (this may count as an improvement on electrogeneration)
B: Mutate heat sensing pits for sensing infrared thermal radiation


2. Speciate Disguised Seagranate into two sister species (time for more countering):

A. Mutate a brain for threat/prey identification (remembering it can only digest slime and plants iirc)
B: Mutate electro-redirection with the long spines (an adaptation that backfires electric shocks of parasites etc)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 14 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on November 30, 2022, 09:07:42 pm
Knightwing should totally send some of theirs over here. Just to see what happens during overpop.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 02, 2022, 05:19:29 am
I am a shameless latecomer.

Knightwing, just post already.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 02, 2022, 05:28:07 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Must-Scream Pinecovy:
     A: Electroreception
     B: Heat vision
2: Split Disguised Seagranate:
     A: Brain
     B: Electrically reflective spines

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: A swim bladder
2: A spore chamber

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 14 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 02, 2022, 05:38:49 am
Slow Turnip: Fix gills and make them better

Foldable Turnip: Acid Resistance (SS)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 02, 2022, 04:56:02 pm
Turn 14



The Events

Power: 22
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Nothing of interest happened in this turn.

Turnips only need circulatory systems to reach animal status.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (12/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (4/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 02, 2022, 05:14:43 pm
Hmm, I've tried a few ways to prevent predation, but that strategy doesn't seem to do anything. Spines, armoured skin, hiding, swimming away, attempted immunity to electo-shock don't seem to have undone any of the maluses to population.

So, as it seems more effective just to increase the general fitness of a creature, that'll probably be what I do.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 02, 2022, 07:06:29 pm
Ya know, we were 1 roll away from the turnips causing another catastrophe.

Team X2
Chimeric Flufiflimp improves it's oxygen collection. Other than general improvements, it also can store it in a floatation sack. When it needs to ascend, it can fill it, and when it needs to descend, it can empty it. And when it needs to be neutrally buoyant, it can keep some in reserve. The fluff on the top is also cleared for photosynthesis.
Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo develops a spore chamber within it's bottom for it to release fertilized spores developed within it's body. It collects them from seaweed and then transplants them elsewhere to help it's food source spread. In this manner it can range further afield, as well as allow the species to dock with each other to reproduce. [SS Roll]


The Yu-Ef-Oh is the first bee. Spreading plantlife across the shallows. (This also massively buffs their numbers since every spore will be cross-fertilized before release.)
Meanwhile the Flufiflimp gets a floatation sack. Which it needs given it's weight pulls it down.

Kinda got the wrong roll selection there magma. Oof on that -3 though.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 03, 2022, 04:03:24 am
Hmm, I've tried a few ways to prevent predation, but that strategy doesn't seem to do anything. Spines, armoured skin, hiding, swimming away, attempted immunity to electo-shock don't seem to have undone any of the maluses to population.

So, as it seems more effective just to increase the general fitness of a creature, that'll probably be what I do.

The predators you are trying to compete with are faster and more advanced than you. It's like the transition between Cambrian and Ediacaran; being a proto-animal just doesn't cut it anymore.

Kinda got the wrong roll selection there magma. Oof on that -3 though.

Dang.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 03, 2022, 10:09:00 am
OK, I will continue the A/B testing of features, but with a new strategy of "Improve the Best, Ignore the Rest":

Speciate Lightseer Pinecovy into two sister species. This is close to being an animal. Let's try:

A: Improve circulatory system, its main weakness
B: Mutate oxygen diffusion from water flowing through the central gut (like a sponge) [SS]p/b]

Speciate Gulpy Pinecovy into two sister species:

A: Mutate teeth for more efficient algae consumption (and maybe protection) [SS]
B: Improve fins, streamlining them into a more fish-like arrangement with a dorsal, tail, pectoral, pelvic fins etc.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 03, 2022, 11:32:11 am
Do I need to focus on the blimp or is it fine-ish?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 03, 2022, 11:48:15 am
I think the blimp wants to switch to a herbivorous diet, next turn it's going to be a bloodbath in the shallows.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 03, 2022, 12:57:43 pm
Do I need to focus on the blimp or is it fine-ish?

I guess? Unless something catasthropic happens, it will be okay.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 03, 2022, 01:41:19 pm
Team X2
Yu-Ef-Oh Roomboo refines the maladaptation of their spore chamber. [SS Roll] (See last turn's attempt 1)
Sessile Roomboo split developments
\One linage develops chloroplasts and cell walls for structure, switching to a stationary lifestyle like some weird form of plant. Acidity is lost in favor of more sunlight collection. The can be seen blotting the sides clinging to their chosen spots.
\Another detaches from the walls, also developing chloroplasts. Instead of being stationary, their thin forms dot the water's surface. Acid is kept as a defensive measure. While a good number are eaten by Blimpies, a few manage to float out to the Çay Uplift. (Where they may get eaten by chimeras.)

Since the Çay Uplift chimeras are fine(though needing an update in the lists), focus on the solarvores this turn.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 05, 2022, 04:26:31 pm
Turn 15



The Events

Power: 99 (alright...)
Temperament: 4 (huh?!?!) (Apparently this incredibly powerful event will not impact you in any meaningful way?)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

A comet has struck Gezegen!.. On the very opposite side of the planet, relative to your habitats. A tsunami came with the impact, but it had lost most of its force by the time it reached you.

In other news, nothing of interest happened this turn.

Lightseeker Pinecovy and Evading Urchinite has gone extinct due to outcompetition, and more lineages have become fully fledged animals.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (13/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 05, 2022, 04:36:43 pm
The dice taketh, and trolleth.

In other news, more plants manage to spread. Also, just to check. The Chimeric Fuffimp description still hasn't changed any? Thought it would with the correction of the SS roll.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 05, 2022, 05:54:48 pm
LGEM

Split Thinking Seagranate into two sister species:

A: Mutate gills
B: Mutate Reproductory system: eggsacs which incubate inside predatory creatures and feed on them in their larval form [SS]


Split Mouthbreathing Pinecovy into two sister species:

A: Mutate a heart
B: Mutate skeletal structure for additional robustness and power [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 05, 2022, 07:01:37 pm
Foldable Turnip: Mimic bio electricity of their prey and make it look the same.

Fast Turnip: Develop circulatory system (SS)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 7 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 07, 2022, 03:11:32 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Thinking Seagranate:
     A: Gills
     B: Sexual reproduction by parasitic eggs (Seagranates
     do not have an SS roll yet.)
2: Split Mouthbreathing Pinecovy:
     A: Improve Heart (Pinecovidae lineage already has an open
     circulatory system, and so they have hearts as well.)
     B: Skeleton(SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Brain for Mishmash Blimpie, using cross-pollination. (SS roll)
2: Tentacle-roots for Surfer Falselily

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: TF2 Spy disguise for Foldable Turnip
2: Circulatory system for Fast Turnip (SS)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 07, 2022, 09:19:29 am
Any chance I can get my question answered Magmacube?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 07, 2022, 09:35:09 am
Any chance I can get my question answered Magmacube?

Such a change kinda means doing a retcon right now. It is on turn 14, and turn 15 is on top of it. I can re-roll and change if you really want, but that will mess with your current situation.

Sorry for this. Didn't notice what you meant before I took a closer look.

Edit: Alright, I think I can change it without much temporal disarray.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 07, 2022, 09:58:43 am
Just that I redid the Yu-Ef-Oh last turn since that was the one that got hit by the SS roll. Also bay12 still 500ing.

Team X2
Mishmash Blimpie develops a brain, crosspollination occurring from the Emperor. SS Roll
Surfer Falselily develop tenetacleroots on the bottom to catch and entangle anything that feeds on them.(Before draining caught prey of nutrients) These also act as water intakes, meaning it's the rest is no longer permeable.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 07, 2022, 10:15:04 am
Also bay12 still 500ing.

Tell me about!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 08, 2022, 04:12:23 pm
Turn 16



The Events

Power: 31
Temperament: 4



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Something so insignificant happened that the cubical volcano god which created the seamount forgot what it was and cannot tell you what happened.

Nothing important happened this turn. Wired Seagranate is extinct.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (14/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 08, 2022, 05:01:03 pm
Team X2
Mishmash Blimpie develop air collection from the Empower Sludgiboo along their sides, containing it within an air bladder of their own evolution. SS Roll.
Clustering Coralloo develops toxins to better fight off predators. Those that eat shall die. They also end up forming many differing colors and harden.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 08, 2022, 05:25:31 pm
LGEM

Split Eggjecter Seagranate into two sister species:

A: Mutate gills
B: Mutate Muscles [SS]



Improve Rigid SazanFins into more efficient piscine structure [SS]

(Always exciting to get a new taxon)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 08, 2022, 05:57:36 pm
LGEM

Eggjecter Seagranate: Mutate gills [SS]

(I think that's all it needs to become an animal)
It needs muscles too. Muscles evolved only once in the Seagranates, and it was on Speedy Seagranate.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 08, 2022, 06:27:44 pm
Ahh in that case, I will amend my action... (I'm strategically splitting on important things, as the SS roll could go either way, as we've seen with the unfortunate Spike-Faced Pinecovy, so it's best to spread out the risk)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 15 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 08, 2022, 08:09:04 pm
Foldable Turnip: Improve acid resistance due to constant annoying predation from slugiboos.

Hollow Turnip: Fix circulatory system (SS)



Sorry for not positing in a while. Kept 505ing and eventually I just gave up.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 10, 2022, 09:02:29 am
Turn 17



The Events

Power: 75
Temperament: 5



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Guguli Shallows have become geologically active once more. It rose some more, becoming more shallow on average. This has caused the plant and plantimal populations to increase, and in turn increase the animal populations.

This rise has also created a peculiar little patch on the seamount; an incredibly shallow hill that borders on being an islet. It is quite small, and it is barely above the water.

The Toxic Coralloo has expanded threefold, and their inedible nature has caused the shallowest places to be completely occupied by them.

Great Sazan is the largest animal yet. Apex predator title now has two occupiers. Slasher Turp and Empower Sludgiboo coexist by niche partitioning. Turp targets Pinecovidae, and Sludgiboo eats benthic prey.

Fuzzy Seagranate is extinct. It had no way to compete with its better gilled relative. The habitats are now full. Sudden Death is enabled.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 10, 2022, 11:27:26 am
Team X2
Empower Fluffiboo mutates a water bladder and reaction chambers to allow it to jet around, becoming a bit more solid, and much faster. It can even hop a bit along the seafloor, which helps it run down prey. Centered around a "back", these allow decent vectoring and thrust
It also develops stronger acids to persuade other predator's to leave it alone and liquify prey faster once trapped. These are centered in a new mouth/stomach on it's skin it opens to swallow things whole. This now denotes a "front" where the eyespots and new mouth are. [SS Roll]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 10, 2022, 12:31:01 pm
Looking good, though you need to fix a quote ending there though, and maybe add Fuzzy's anti-sludigiboo effect.

So let's push ahead for animalhood:

Split Fuzzbutt Seagranate into two sister species:
A: Develop musculature
B: Create scent masking to become invisible to creatures that only have a sense of smell like Turp/Turnip [SS]

Split Great Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve digestive system to allow the consumption of toxic plantimals
B: Evolve layers of blubber (so it can eat more and get bigger!)

Let's find out what happens when there are too many species in the habitat...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 10, 2022, 12:59:36 pm
As a question, what is the Saturnal Blimpie missing to be an animal? I think it's just circulation right now..
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 10, 2022, 01:41:48 pm
As a question, what is the Saturnal Blimpie missing to be an animal? I think it's just circulation right now..

Yes, it is just circulation left.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 11, 2022, 07:39:53 am
WIP
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 11, 2022, 03:51:40 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1:  Split Fuzzbutt Seagranate:
     A: Muscles
     B: Scent masking: (SS)
2: Split Great Sazan:
     A: Toxin Resistance (SS)
     B: Blubber

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: A water jet
2: A digestive cavity (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...

Unless the dice divines it, and an extinction event happens to empty out some species slots, any speciation will kill off another species. Remember, Sudden Death is enabled.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 11, 2022, 09:16:32 pm
Wait

Gimme till tomorrow. I gotta go to bed, but I’ll post in the morn
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 12, 2022, 12:35:28 am
Wait

Gimme till tomorrow. I gotta go to bed, but I’ll post in the morn

WHY ARE YOU POSTING IN THE MOM?!

Edit: I read morn as mom. Can't blame me tho.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 12, 2022, 11:07:31 am
Foldable Turnip: BETTER MIND CONTROL

Slasher Turnip: Increase intelligence and enable pack tactics and the ability to learn from mistakes.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 12, 2022, 11:12:17 am
the ability to learn from mistakes.
You're making your turnip feel guilt and regret, dang.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 12, 2022, 11:36:52 am
Nein, the ability to learn from how they killed something wrong, and why it wouldn’t work and then kill it BETTER
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 12, 2022, 11:40:33 am
If you roll a 1, you just gave those sea creatures anxiety.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 12, 2022, 11:42:39 am
They will channel that anxiety into killing better…..
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 12, 2022, 12:09:06 pm
They will channel that anxiety into killing better…..
I suggest giving that one the SS roll, since you can't not use it once unlocked. Give them crippling panic.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 12, 2022, 12:57:32 pm
Nah. I’m making it randommmmmm
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 12, 2022, 02:36:11 pm
They will channel that anxiety into killing better…..
I suggest giving that one the SS roll, since you can't not use it once unlocked. Give them crippling panic.

He has no other option. The Turnip still splits. The only reason I let it slide is because the turnips stay still for 99% of their lives.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 12, 2022, 03:52:27 pm
Turn 18



The Events

Power: 9
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The Yanardag Seamount has returned to calm.

But for a peculiar inhabitant, there is no calm. Insane Turp has developed, due to a sudden shift in sexual fencing tactics, a substantial degree of intelligence through an unorthodox case of Fisherian Runaway.

They are as intelligent as a small marsupial now. It has a basic sense of existing, and can remember what has occured before and act accordingly. It is an omni-savant in its ecosystem.

It is an efficent, cunning predator... Just, without the sharp, refined senses of one.

These pathetic creatures spend most of their lives in utter emptiness, their only sense being a primitive sense of smell. And so, without the necessary stimuli, they eventually stop thinking.

Speedy Seagranate, Zappy Pinecovy and Wimpy Seagranate are extinct; the first two got outcompeted, the last one was hunted to extinction.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (14/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

I like how there is nothing going on on Çay Uplift. The species there are a relict population. If this goes on, one day you will look at them as fossil species that reflect back what once was.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 12, 2022, 04:00:53 pm

Oh, and also, the Insane Turp needs a digestive tract to be an animal. And at least eyes or something to be functional.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 12, 2022, 04:23:09 pm
I love it, what a wonderful development.

I'm weighing up whether or not to bother improving Slowy... I thought it might have become an animal that round, but maybe its muscles are too nonfunctional for that?


Hmm, then, if the Seagranates no longer give the malus to sludgiboo pop, maybe they're not worth developing. Decisions, decisions...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 13 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 12, 2022, 04:37:50 pm
I like how there is nothing going on on Çay Uplift. The species there are a relict population. If this goes on, one day you will look at them as fossil species that reflect back what once was.
Well, not like they have any reason to evolve. They're in a decent harmony of an ecosystem, with the fluff on top.

Team X2
Springster Fluffiboo improves upon it's circulation system, tying it together with it's gills, jet organs, and stomach to direct air, food, and water, and nutrients throughout the body. The outer skin thickens further to hold everything in, now that it has a way of processing food more efficiently. [SS Roll]
Saturnal Blimpie develops a circulatory system, once again with help from cross-pollination with the now Springster Fluffiboo. [SS Roll.]


Nothing saying both can't develop. Also see what happens.


I love it, what a wonderful development.

I'm weighing up whether or not to bother improving Slowy... I thought it might have become an animal that round, but maybe its muscles are too nonfunctional for that?


Hmm, then, if the Seagranates no longer give the malus to sludgiboo pop, maybe they're not worth developing. Decisions, decisions...
Tat's what was leaving them in danger? Just as well you can no longer implant them so easily. Mostly cause they get eaten. Mmm, calimari and roe.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 12, 2022, 08:45:03 pm
Fuck

Insane Turp: Develop eyes so they don’t go insane from sensory deprivation.

Insane Turp 2: Increase the defense of the flesh shell due to deceased population numbers.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 13, 2022, 02:34:30 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: ...
2: ...

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: An organ re-arragement for Springster Fluffiboo (SS)
2: Circulatory system for Saturnal Blimpie via cross pollination with Springster Fluffiboo (SS)
(Using SS for both? Gambley much?)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Eyes for Insane Turp (SS)
2: Better flesh armor for Insane Turp
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 18 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 13, 2022, 02:45:16 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: ...
2: ...

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: An organ re-arragement for Springster Fluffiboo (SS)
2: Circulatory system for Saturnal Blimpie via cross pollination with Springster Fluffiboo (SS)
(Using SS for both? Gambley much?)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Eyes for Insane Turp (SS)
2: Better flesh armor for Insane Turp
Spoiler: Gambley yis. (click to show/hide)
Blimpie should qualify as a plantimal after this.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 13, 2022, 03:13:09 pm
OK, I'm backtracking on my rule against saving duff species, but I think these two have promise, so:

LGEM

Split Slowy Seagranate into two sister species:
A: Improve Musculature of Slowy Seagranate
B: Improve electric generation to mimic algae, to lure Lawnkeeper Glidees to their doom (like an electric version of Anglerfish)[SS]

Split Koala Sazan into two sister species:
A: Evolve layers of grinding teeth to more efficiently eat all this toxic foodstuff
B: Evolve a liver to actually digest the toxins properly [SS]


I expect some of these will be nonfunctional and instantly be outcompeted, but I might get lucky.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 13, 2022, 04:03:25 pm
I'm not sure Algae even have an electric signature. The Lawnkeepers mostly rely on their brain and what little emshadows they can perceive around them.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 13, 2022, 04:24:41 pm
The lawnkeepers have only one sense, so they must know they've bumped into algae somehow, right? Plants do have an electric signature (https://www.icr.org/article/7700/).
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 13, 2022, 05:04:07 pm
The lawnkeepers have only one sense, so they must know they've bumped into algae somehow, right? Plants do have an electric signature (https://www.icr.org/article/7700/).
Neat.

Still, I more saw it as them wandering around known areas for seagrass, bumping it, then doing their thing to graze and gather.
Magma, how sensitive are the eyespots? Can they see plant signatures?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 13, 2022, 05:15:49 pm
If they do in fact navigate by shadow or whatever, then change that to Improve spines to mimic the shape of algae fronds, to lure the bees
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: TricMagic on December 13, 2022, 05:25:29 pm
beez~

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Ever seen a Bobbit Worm?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: notquitethere on December 13, 2022, 05:38:28 pm
That's neat. It's occupying a similar niche as the trapdoor spider does on land. We haven't really had an evolutionary arms-race over speed yet (though some slow creatures have been outcompeted), most of the animals/proto-animals here are quite ponderous.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 19 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 12:26:34 am
The lawnkeepers have only one sense, so they must know they've bumped into algae somehow, right? Plants do have an electric signature (https://www.icr.org/article/7700/).
Neat.

Still, I more saw it as them wandering around known areas for seagrass, bumping it, then doing their thing to graze and gather.
Magma, how sensitive are the eyespots? Can they see plant signatures?

Yes, lawnkeepers can locate and differentiate electric signatures around them by type and intensity. But they can't really do much else.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 02:24:38 pm
Turn 19



The Events

Power: 46
Temperament: 7



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The seamount weakly erupts from its eastern exit, lifting the Çay uplift a ten or so meters up to the ocean surface and marginally expanding it.

This has made this habitat a little more spacious and hospitable place. Carrying capacity of Çay has increased from five to seven.

Vascular Pinecovy is extinct.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (5/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

The turn which I promised to draw a cladogram on approaches. And I have no idea how to draw it lol.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 02:28:59 pm
You guys have been very lucky so far. I expected at least a single mass extinction to occur by this point.

Well, just know that I won't hesitate to blank those habitats if the dice says a 100-1.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 14, 2022, 02:38:21 pm
Anything wrong with those dice? the gamble just went through fairly normally. (If not for the SS6.)

Team X2
 Neat Sarpesium speciates, SS Rolls to All. (All develop community/hunting tendencies)
\First version focused on a stronger brain, to organize others.
 \Second Version focused on better sight, to spot strange things.
  \Third Version focused on a better jet, to hunt down prey.
   \Fourth Version develops electrical generation, to incapacitate.

The time of extinction hath come. Bunker down, it's time for a frenzy
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 02:46:07 pm
Anything wrong with those dice? the gamble just went through fairly normally. (If not for the SS6.)

I am not talking about that gamble.

The Events

Power: 46
Temperament: 7


I am talking about this one.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 14, 2022, 03:42:44 pm
Bruh

Insane Turp Mutation1: Develop eyes

Mutation 2: Crude echolocation.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 04:11:14 pm
Bruh

I know right?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 14, 2022, 04:22:41 pm
On second thought. Magma, and the insane ones benthic?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 14, 2022, 04:24:37 pm
Reproduction is a scam, my rolls were better without it, I’ve been bamboozled
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 14, 2022, 04:30:14 pm
I've had it pretty much since game start. It has it's ups and downs.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 14, 2022, 05:41:25 pm
On second thought. Magma, and the insane ones benthic?

The mobile turnip lineage is... I think benthic. They have no swim bladder, instead they skip on the ocean floor with that water pump.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 14, 2022, 05:59:31 pm
On second thought. Magma, and the insane ones benthic?

The mobile turnip lineage is... I think benthic. They have no swim bladder, instead they skip on the ocean floor with that water pump.
Suppose that means my four way mass might push them out then. (Since for whatever reason they prey on all strata somehow. Do plantimals count as animals?)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 15, 2022, 12:31:16 am
On second thought. Magma, and the insane ones benthic?

The mobile turnip lineage is... I think benthic. They have no swim bladder, instead they skip on the ocean floor with that water pump.
Suppose that means my four way mass might push them out then. (Since for whatever reason they prey on all strata somehow. Do plantimals count as animals?)

Yes they do.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 15, 2022, 03:48:31 am
LGEM
Split Primitive Uncod into two sister species:
A: Evolve otoliths (fish ears) to hear sound and sense acceleration/gravity
B: Co-evolve microbiome of helpful bacteria to break down food [SS]*

Split Spike-Faced Pinecovy into two sister species:
A: Improve keratin mouth spikes into sharp protective teeth
B: Improve keratin mouth spikes thinning them out into a fine moustache baleen, for more efficient filterfeeding [SS]


*This could go quite wrong...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 15, 2022, 12:44:34 pm
...a fine moustache baleen, for more efficient filterfeeding [SS][/b]

*This could go quite wrong...

You escape the my unforgiving jaws... for now.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 15, 2022, 04:07:07 pm
All [3] Actions have been submitted. Let the slaughter commence. Unless the slimes all end up as one superspecies like humans.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 20 | (3/20) (Players Wanted)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 15, 2022, 05:30:52 pm
Turn 20



The Events

Power: 89
Temperament: 4 (Again? Really? RNGsus must be trolling me.)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

In the sky, is a rock.

Gezegen has a permanent natural sattelite now, a captured asteroid now named Uydu. It is too small to be of any signifcance, being only a few dozen kilometers big, about the size of Phobos.

It's orbit seems stable, but only time will tell what will happen.

The Turp suffers no more...

Masticate Sazan is extinct.

Turp is still the most intelligent animal around. With their new senses and their shell, they go by mostly unaffected by the new predators. It kinda needs a digestive tract, by now.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Well, we reached turn 20. I gotta work on that cladogram now I guess.

And that asteroid is definitely not a pulling card to be activated when the event dices inevitably destroy everything.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 15, 2022, 05:55:15 pm
Team X2
Gang Sarpesium develop language via wobbles. Mostly due to using their liquid bodies as living seismographs. A gang member can stay still enough to sense vibrations from surprisingly far away. "Wobble wobble" [SS Roll]
Takeoff Sarpesium develop shells to improve their profile in the water. They've also taken to hunting creatures with shells or scales specifically, piercing into them with a charge from the shells point around their mouth. Once pierced it opens the wound as it's slime lunges in to feast. It's circulation is enough to fuel it's waterjet for "functionally" unlimited swim time with the new aerodynamics.[SS Roll]


Takeoffs look like shellfish with their gills being in cracks of the armor. Plus their eyespots also being part of said armor. Slime Knight!

Like huh despite not evolving, the Flufflimp benefits from increased prey in the region.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 15, 2022, 08:34:57 pm
My foldable is doing well, so I’m just letting it sit for a while.

Insane Turp: Develop a basic digestive system

Insane Turp 2: Develop small needles on each tendril that dissolves the stuff the slugiboos are made of, which allow the insane Turp to fight back.




Muhaha, yes…. They are developing, they are learning…

Soon…

Soon…
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 15, 2022, 08:39:52 pm
I'm somewhat surprised they bounced upward with two benthic predators about. there's currently a -60/80 penalty to them now.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 15, 2022, 08:54:40 pm
I'm somewhat surprised they bounced upward with two benthic predators about. there's currently a -60/80 penalty to them now.

It's mostly because of the shell. Sarpesium has no teeth, so their mouths do nothing.

And that they are by far the most clever species.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 15, 2022, 09:01:22 pm
Fair enough. Too bad the acid sludgiboos died. Like melting jawbreakers.
`
Sarpesium are at least about to takeoff now. The same shells shall fuel theirs. poke~
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 16, 2022, 06:26:29 am
OK:

LGEM

Split Deer Sazan into two sister species:

A: Improve the spines, coalescing them into a set of four antlers, for breaking up plantimals and skewering predators
B: Improve the brain, adding emotional processsing to allow social pack behaviour [SS]


Split Luresome Angranate into two sister species:

A: Improve oviposter to specialise in injecting Sarpesium [SS]
B: Mutate legs for scuttling more effectively along the seabed
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 16, 2022, 07:11:18 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Deer Sazan:
    A: Antlers
    B: Herding (SS)
2: Split Luresome Sazan:
    A: Better ovipositor (SS)
    B: Legs

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Body Language for Gang Sarpesium (SS)
2: Exoskeleton (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Digestive Tract for Turps (SS)
2: Sludgiboo dissolving venom

This cladogram thing is taking a while...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 16, 2022, 08:01:57 pm
Dissolving would suggest some sort of base mixture over an acidic one. Which would protect completely from the balloon linages, I'll admit.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 18, 2022, 07:49:36 am
Okay, you know what?  This cladogram thing is an absolute nightmare. Like, it is such a pain to make.

Imma just continue.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 18, 2022, 08:30:13 am
Turn 21



The Events

Power: 33 (üğ)
Temperament: 2 (öğ)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

A random comet shard apprached, but reached a critical tempature and exploded in the air before it could impact. The shockwave killed a bunch of things, but had no longlasting effects.

Speedster Pinecovy and Briny Seagranate are extinct. At long last, basal pinecovies and proto-animals are now only found in Çay Uplift.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (13/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 18, 2022, 08:40:12 am
Interesting developments. Was the new antlered Deer Sazan dead on arrival then?



I had a play around with some Cladogram software for the first two rounds of the game:

(https://i.imgur.com/QDMvmQo.png)

Worth doing for the rest?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 18, 2022, 09:31:40 am
Interesting developments. Was the new antlered Deer Sazan dead on arrival then?

-snip-

Worth doing for the rest?

No, its just that the mutation didn't even occur.

Maybe? The problem with making the tree is that it gets very cluttered very quickly. Unless that software has a auto stretch feature, it would be hard.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 18, 2022, 10:59:16 am
Destroyer Turp: Further develop brain, MOAR intelligence!

Destroyer Turp: Improve water jet, allowing destroyer turp to shoot itself upward for other prey to feast on.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 19, 2022, 04:48:49 am
No, its just that the mutation didn't even occur.
Huh, I would have expected in cases like that for the original species to survive: f I'd mutated instead of spitting and got a 0, that wouldn't have killed the original koalas.

Maybe? The problem with making the tree is that it gets very cluttered very quickly. Unless that software has a auto stretch feature, it would be hard.
I can do it for the existing species. I did a count though and there are only 13 not 14 listed in the shallows.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 19, 2022, 04:55:04 am

I can do it for the existing species. I did a count though and there are only 13 not 14 listed in the shallows.

Huh, weird. You can try that, it would be interesting to see.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 19, 2022, 10:09:44 am
The software is really primitive and crashed when I put in 20 species, but I was able to get an accurate cladogram for 18 of the living species, which shows the branching off points more-or-less accurately:

(https://i.imgur.com/twlSRLL.png)



Let's start filling those niches again:

Split Luresome Nubnub into two sister species:
A: Build bones so those nubs can turn into legs.
B: Improve spines, concentrating them as stilts at the end of the nubs! [SS]


Split Fat Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve skeleton, adding a more robust rib cage to get the blubber belly in check
B: Improve reproductive system, creating a womb for developing eggs internally [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 19, 2022, 03:19:06 pm
The software is really primitive and crashed when I put in 20 species, but I was able to get an accurate cladogram for 18 of the living species, which shows the branching off points more-or-less accurately:

(https://i.imgur.com/twlSRLL.png)

This is pretty cool. Shame it is so old.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 19, 2022, 03:25:25 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Luresome Nubnub:
    A: Bones
    B: Stilts  (SS)
2: Split Fat Sazan:
    A: Improve skeleton
    B: Ovoviviparousness (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: ...
2: ...

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Imrprove brain (SS)
2: Improve water jet
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: TricMagic on December 19, 2022, 04:04:04 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Luresome Nubnub:
    A: Bones
    B: Stilts  (SS)
2: Split Fat Sazan:
    A: Improve skeleton
    B: Ovoviviparousness (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: ...
2: ...

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Imrprove brain (SS)
2: Improve water jet
Team X2: Repeat previous turn's rolls. Take 2! [SS Rolls Both Around Strenuously]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 19, 2022, 05:18:44 pm
Turn 22



The Events

Power: 29
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Nothing happens. Some disgruntled clicks start eminating from under the seabed, but orherwise, life goes on.

Nothing's extinct. Huh. Strange.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 19, 2022, 05:23:02 pm
You know what? If no one else joins until turn 25, I will...

Shut down joining. And just play with you three until this game ends. Updating this game is no sweat, at most a 30 minute job. I think I will open that RTD I was talking about.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 19, 2022, 09:28:26 pm
Why did everyone get so low all the sudden?

Foldable Turnip: Learn how to erase electric signature to hide.

Superjumper Turnip: Increase muscle density for stronger and more efficient killing machine.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: TricMagic on December 19, 2022, 09:37:26 pm
Why did everyone get so low all the sudden?

Foldable Turnip: Learn how to erase electric signature to hide.

Superjumper Turnip: Increase muscle density for stronger and more efficient killing machine.

That would be your thing. -40 to all.

Team X2
Merge Sarpesium back into one linage.  Fins added for control over their swimming, their segmented plates still allow for communication via vibration. True pack hunters, they use their brains and communication to perform quite well in this hostile zone. [SS Roll, second action consumed.]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 02:01:37 am
Merge Sarpesium back into one linage.  Fins added for control over their swimming, their segmented plates still allow for communication via vibration. True pack hunters, they use their brains and communication to perform quite well in this hostile zone. [SS Roll, second action consumed.]

Good, we needed more space.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 20, 2022, 06:05:34 am
That effects my own species?

Didn’t I do a pheromone thing that stops them from targeting each other?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 06:53:10 am
That effects my own species?

Didn’t I do a pheromone thing that stops them from targeting each other?

Turnip is an obligate parasite. When its hosts go down, so does it.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: notquitethere on December 20, 2022, 08:02:00 am
May the rolling luck continue!

Split Crawly Nubnub into two sister species:

A: Mutate the front set of legs into digger claws to dig out dens in the ground for ambushing! [SS]
B: Develop sense of smell, specialising in sensing fresh corpses, so it can scavenge the mess made by the Turp's messy eating

Split Basking Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve spines, mutating them into a thick coat of fur (to survive colder parts of the seabed, perhaps protect against some parasitism) [SS]
B: Improve digestion allowing the huge Sazan to opportunistically feed on anything
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: TricMagic on December 20, 2022, 09:12:39 am
The Çay Uplift is at least normal. Perfectly balenced as all things should be, with one predator and many prey. There is a reason there is usually only one apex predator usually. This area has two, one of which hits even non-benthic targets.. I suspect the Sarpesium is about to mess with the Superjumper though. Need better eyes, though distress sounds should be enough.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 09:26:46 am
The Çay Uplift is at least normal. Perfectly balenced as all things should be, with one predator and many prey. There is a reason there is usually only one apex predator usually. This area has two, one of which hits even non-benthic targets.. I suspect the Sarpesium is about to mess with the Superjumper though. Need better eyes, though distress sounds should be enough.

Do you have hearing? I don't remember anything except one species of uncod having ears.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: TricMagic on December 20, 2022, 09:46:18 am
The Çay Uplift is at least normal. Perfectly balenced as all things should be, with one predator and many prey. There is a reason there is usually only one apex predator usually. This area has two, one of which hits even non-benthic targets.. I suspect the Sarpesium is about to mess with the Superjumper though. Need better eyes, though distress sounds should be enough.

Do you have hearing? I don't remember anything except one species of uncod having ears.
The method of communication was vibration. Sensing it and producing it via their wobbles. Water's really good at carrying sound, and sound is vibrations. Depends on how well they roll if they can keep it though, given a dialect change of shifting plates vs wobbling. Their bodies are still mostly liquid even with the muscles developing. Though better 'hearing' is probably a good thing to invest in.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 10:07:00 am
Turn 23



The Events

Power: 16 (AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-)
Temperament: N/A (uf)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Nothing happens. Again. The disgruntled clicks turn into frustrated ones.

Starting through just one fertile hybrid between the two branches of the Sarpesium tree, the once separate gene pools gradually reconnect and meld together into one once more.

Gambly Angranate and Furry Sazan are extinct.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: TricMagic on December 20, 2022, 10:36:26 am
Team X2
Plated Barbesium improves it's brain, better able to recognize patterns and adapt. SS Roll
Plated Barbesium refines it's brain, better able to see through deceptions and counter. SS Roll

Battle of the apex brains. Also, is this option vestigal now?
Quote
●Sacrifice your vote to support one of   
       your teammates vote, granting the   
       said vote a +1 in dice points. (This
       function can only be used once per
       vote to prevent over-supporting with
       everyone hogging over one vote,
       and neither can you support your own
       vote with the other. Come up with
       your own ideas.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 11:17:47 am
Battle of the apex brains. Also, is this option vestigal now?

No.You can't support your own action. Yes, that makes it de-facto vestigial because none of you three have a teammate to support or get supported by. If there were more players this wouldn't happen.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: notquitethere on December 20, 2022, 12:10:45 pm
Behold, a readable diagram of the different species!

(https://i.imgur.com/OG2impA.png)

Let me know if there are any mistakes- the sludgie lineage is particularly confusing with the cross-pollination.

Shows the clear split in my species between fish-like creatures and snail-like creatures. Thanks goes to Knightwing for being helpful and not believing in speciation, keeping his side of the diagram nice and straightforward. Expand your own copy if you like. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g5FA2LCiBuj-G1NwAGVpu2Ty3H-wOuIE/view?usp=sharing)



Improve Unsmelt Nubnub's terrible sense of smell [SS]

Split Basketing Sazan into two sister species:
A. Improve intelligence, focusing on trickery [SS]
B. Develop milk-ducts to feed newborn young 

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 12:38:37 pm
Behold, a readable diagram of the different species!

(https://i.imgur.com/yRw5aCb.png)

Let me know if there are any mistakes- the sludgie lineage is particularly confusing with the cross-pollination.

Shows the clear split in my species between fish-like creatures and snail-like creatures.

Yeah, pretty cool ancestry diagram. It is legible,  don't worry.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 01:06:16 pm
And you just updated it. Cool.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: notquitethere on December 20, 2022, 01:14:55 pm
Yeah I just coloured in the taxons which are now extinct. Also the hexagonal boxes indicate taxons with 2+ offshoots.

That raises the question, are these groups like Pinecovy, Roomboo etc genera or families? I understand the specific creations like "Foldable Turnip" as species in the Turnip family/genus.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 20, 2022, 01:55:46 pm
That raises the question, are these groups like Pinecovy, Roomboo etc genera or families? I understand the specific creations like "Foldable Turnip" as species in the Turnip family/genus.

Pinecovies are the order Pinecovyformes. All come from the same ancestor and have their swim bladders from that source.

Both Turnips are their own genus and families.Both are too distant from one another.

Sludgiboo taxa are... confusing? There has been many gene transfers between the lineages. But I suppose Roomformes is a thing.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: TricMagic on December 20, 2022, 02:05:01 pm
That raises the question, are these groups like Pinecovy, Roomboo etc genera or families? I understand the specific creations like "Foldable Turnip" as species in the Turnip family/genus.

Pinecovies are the order Pinecovyformes. All come from the same ancestor and have their swim bladders from that source.

Both Turnips are their own genus and families.Both are too distant from one another.

Sludgiboo taxa are... confusing? There has been many gene transfers between the lineages. But I suppose Roomformes is a thing.
Generally, best to remember they're slimes. They mostly evolved based on what they eat. (Lot of cross-pollination and stealing ideas from one another, though that time seems to be ending.)

Roomformes and their linage have mostly drifted from their slimy roots to become more plant than animal. Though Glidee still needs some work to make that jump. :bees:
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 24 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 20, 2022, 08:27:26 pm
Silent Turnip: Get basic self sufficiency to survive long enough to get a new host if the first is killed.

Hyper flexible Turnip: Gain some more size, for more power and vigor
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 23 | (3/20) (JOIN!!! OR ELSE!!!)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 21, 2022, 03:27:54 pm
Turn 24



The Events

Power: 36 (NO NOT A MINOR EVENT AGAIN!)
Temperament: 4 (I am shaking and crying rn)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The Seamount lashes out in frustration, as the clicks turn incessant and furious. The seafloor shakes, but soon quells as the mysterious force returns to its slumber.

The ecosystem in the Guguli Shallows is on the brink of collapse. If the current trends go on, the predators will start hunting to extinction.

Luresome Stiltnub is extinct.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (14/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

I keep miscounting the number of species. So, they are now numbered.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: notquitethere on December 21, 2022, 03:49:30 pm
Split Dimwit Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve intelligence! [SS]
B: Also improve intelligence AND send this population to the Çay Uplift to displace something there

Split Bovine Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve mind, developing emotional processing to give an instinct to protect its young
B: Improve blubber, packing on denser layers to become truly humongous [SS]


Waiting for the extinction cascade in the shallows!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: TricMagic on December 21, 2022, 04:03:40 pm
Prey grows scarcer. Even as predators grow larger. There is a hunt to be had.

Team X2
Plated Barbesium: Electrical Transfer/Storage in it's shells. When touched they'll give a zap, and the creature generates electricity to allow others in the pack to see them, with the one that shines brightest being the leader. The generation rate isn't much, but they excel at transfer of electricity between the pack. Combined with their recent brain increase, tricking them becomes impossible, the shape of pack members is just too distinct in their sights. [SS Roll]
Plated Barbesium: Improved Jet Attack Tactics. Through the clever use of hunting tactics and hardier/sharpened shell, it's jet attack can break through even the hardiest of shells to the delicate insides. This tactic is more focused on hunting Majoral Turps which have plenty of meat in them. So long as one can manage a clean blow, the rest can follow through and pile on.


Clearly this is a case where there can only be one.


Split Dimwit Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve intelligence! [SS]
B: Also improve intelligence AND send this population to the Çay Uplift to displace something there

Split Bovine Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve mind, developing emotional processing to give an instinct to protect its young
B: Improve blubber, packing on denser layers to become truly humongous [SS]


Waiting for the extinction cascade in the shallows!
That's going to be yours if you keep SPLITTING! I hope your migration suffers the bite of the apex hunter.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: notquitethere on December 21, 2022, 04:08:18 pm
I fully expect to make one of the Pinecovidae extinct, but I think it's probably better for my species overall if something fairly robust is in the Uplift (and before it became Dimwitted, that Sazan was good).
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: TricMagic on December 21, 2022, 04:10:11 pm
I'm still wondering how the Turnip has managed to grow to 50 under the effects of another Apex animal. They are in it's benthic range. Is it's shell just that good or something.

Blimpie has no shot at hunting in the Benthic zone right now.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 22, 2022, 12:09:21 am
I'm still wondering how the Turnip has managed to grow to 50 under the effects of another Apex animal. They are in it's benthic range. Is it's shell just that good or something.

Blimpie has no shot at hunting in the Benthic zone right now.

It's the newfound size. Gigantism is the oldest evolutionary trick in the book. Turp is the size of a football right now, catching fish and snails with its long spindly tentacles.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: TricMagic on December 22, 2022, 09:16:21 am
I'm still wondering how the Turnip has managed to grow to 50 under the effects of another Apex animal. They are in it's benthic range. Is it's shell just that good or something.

Blimpie has no shot at hunting in the Benthic zone right now.

It's the newfound size. Gigantism is the oldest evolutionary trick in the book. Turp is the size of a football right now, catching fish and snails with its long spindly tentacles.
Well, suppose we're going to trade size for hunting numbers. Humans killed the ice age.(Mammoths)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 22, 2022, 04:18:18 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)
2: Split Bovine Sazan:
    A: Parental drive
    B: More blubber (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Electric signalling (SS)
2: Better and sharper shell

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: TricMagic on December 22, 2022, 04:53:07 pm
Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Electric signalling (SS)
2: Better and sharper shell

I'll point out the signaling is the direct result of a better brain and their eyespots. They can recognize patterns, so they can also recognize what is and isn't, as where as strength and any variation in positions on the shell.

The main thing is Transfer/Storage of the electricity within the shells(With minor generation rate), mostly as a defense. (The fact that means electrical attacks are less effective is the bonus, so long as it's hitting the shell.) The rest of the explanation is just logical inferring over what they already have. As it has been confirmed they can see sea kelp's bioelectricity via another linage. Which means they can see differing strengths. The rest is just pack behavior.

They also transfer it to help recharge pack members. Older ones with plenty of nutrients gen more is the idea. Anything else that rubs against it also gets the shock, but that storage is what makes them able to deal with other animal shocks.(Like the jumper's method of stun.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 22, 2022, 05:11:03 pm
1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)
Should they both be SS?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 22, 2022, 05:20:59 pm
1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)
Should they both be SS?

If you wanna?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: notquitethere on December 22, 2022, 05:30:39 pm
Nope, too swingy— only the one I marked as [SS] please!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: TricMagic on December 22, 2022, 06:32:44 pm
Just noting electric signaling isn't really what I'm going for. That's not too useful given I want them to hunt something that stuns with electricity.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 22, 2022, 08:25:59 pm
Majoral Turp: EVEN MORE BRAIN

Silent Turp: Use synthesized chemicals to I,prove the strength of the creatures they control.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 07:21:24 am
Just noting electric signaling isn't really what I'm going for. That's not too useful given I want them to hunt something that stuns with electricity.

You want electric absorbing armor, as I understand?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 07:23:15 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Dimwit Sazan:
    A: Improve brain (SS)
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift
2: Split Bovine Sazan:
    A: Parental drive
    B: More blubber (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Electric absorbing armor (SS)
2: Better and sharper shell

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Better brain for Majoral Turp (SS)
2: Strenght increasing chemicals for Silent Turnips hosts
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: notquitethere on December 23, 2022, 08:05:26 am
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)
Once again: please no reproduction roll for the Çay Uplift Sazan unless I have to!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 08:30:16 am
    B: Improve brain and migrate to the Çay Uplift (SS)
Once again: please no reproduction roll for the Çay Uplift Sazan unless I have to!
Okay, okay. I didn't forget that. I just forgot to edit the list.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 09:21:40 am
Just noting electric signaling isn't really what I'm going for. That's not too useful given I want them to hunt something that stuns with electricity.

You want electric absorbing armor, as I understand?
Yeah.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 23, 2022, 10:15:28 am
Just noting electric signaling isn't really what I'm going for. That's not too useful given I want them to hunt something that stuns with electricity.

You want electric absorbing armor, as I understand?
Yeah.

:)

I was looking to increase my combat options anyway. But with any luck you’ll roll a one and become extra electric weak
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 10:18:08 am
Turn 25



The Events

Power: 88 (YES)
Temperament: 7 (...I suppose I can work with this.)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The periodic torrents of clicks finally cease.

Then the rumbles start. From everywhere.

Lava emerges in small surges from the volcanoes sides, and the seafloor along the Guguli shallows start to rise and expand. This is almost unperceptable in the lifespan of a single creature. In the next eon, the smal islet on the Guguli Shallows became a whole island, while the seafloor that once was there got replaced by the new underwater terrain.

This is the start of new era. And a new, terrestrial habitat; The Lauv Island.

The ecosystem balance is the same: The changes were too gradual to knock it off-course. It has reached a fragile equiblirium once more. If one predator outbests the other, this balance will be broken. Turp almost always outsmartedly dodges the Barbesium before they can attack, but Barbesium usually wins if the Turp is caught offguard and fails to fight back.

Turnips seem to have become less of a parasite and more of a symbiote.

Paintbrush Pinecovy is extinct. Only one basal pinecovy species left. And only two proto-animals still stand.



The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Terrestrial Island | (0/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



I am closing joins as of now. I guess I am stuck with you three.

Speaking of three, You each have three votes from now on.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25 | (3/20) (LAST CHANCE TO JOIN)
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 23, 2022, 10:21:00 am
YES

MORE VOTE MORE POWER
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: notquitethere on December 23, 2022, 10:37:44 am
Wonderful. Before I make a dumb mistake, am I right in thinking the things needed to live on land are basically:
- Air breathing
- Some kind of way of moving on land (like legs)
- The ability to eat whatever is currently on land (presumably some sort of plantmatter at the moment?)

Anything else?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 11:02:11 am
Wonderful. Before I make a dumb mistake, am I right in thinking the things needed to live on land are basically:
- Air breathing
- Some kind of way of moving on land (like legs)
- The ability to eat whatever is currently on land (presumably some sort of plantmatter at the moment?)

Anything else?

The requirements are:

Air-breathing
Impermeable skin
Terrestrial locomotion

Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it, so you may need better mouths to digest land plants. Not that there any right now. The island is barren.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 11:09:48 am
With the emergence of an island, the Toxic Coralloo is the first to really 'notice', for a given value of notice in a such spans of time. It is one of the closest to the prime sludgiboo ancestor, and like it's ancestor, it adapts.

Team X3
Toxic Coraloo evolves. The Poison Slime crawls up onto land, slowly but surely. Freed of the water, it sucks in the air through it's skin, photosynthesizing vital nutrients, drinking of the occasional rains. The first "Plant"imal of Lauv Island. [SS Roll]
Meanwhile the Vibrate Blimpie takes note of the land, specifically the seas. With the lower layers becoming more difficult to hunt in successfully, it develops lighter than air gases to become the first airborne creature, hunting the lake's Falselily. They can occasionally be found on the water's surface swimming along and absorbing water to break down into more gas, as their movement through the air is more like a balloon. [SS Roll]
Plated Barbesium meanwhile find something... interesting. Symbiote Turnips are capable of generating electricity and improving physical strength. They've therefore taken to cultivating them, gaining an ability to direct electrical energy smoothly through a circuit system. [SS Roll]


To Magmacube. Barbesium are taking in Symbiotes as they are and merging them with their species, developing electrical circuits to harness them. (The result being a species that lives in harmony. Turnips get food, and Barbesium get strength and electricity.) They also occasionally eat excess of them if the food costs are too great. Let's see what happens, yeah?



Ninja. Ironically, slimes mostly have that given how they move. Coraloos have mostly taken to being sedimentary creetures, but they can still move.

Nin3: The Magma Pillows. Coraloo have a hard mass of tissue, so they're mostly likely to act like plants without any competition. Ambush predators' eventually.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 11:13:15 am
...specifically the -lake-. With the lower layers becoming more difficult to hunt in successfully, it develops lighter than air gases to become the first airborne creature, hunting the -lake's- Falselily. They can occasionally be found on the -lake's- surface...

You mean the ocean right? There isn't a lake on Lauv island.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 11:19:07 am
...specifically the -lake-. With the lower layers becoming more difficult to hunt in successfully, it develops lighter than air gases to become the first airborne creature, hunting the -lake's- Falselily. They can occasionally be found on the -lake's- surface...

You mean the ocean right? There isn't a lake on Lauv island.
Occasionally get confused by geometry.

Lay of the land, specifically the seas.
Vibrate Blimpie's still hunting the Shallows. Just not the lower layers, they can just float off if anything attacks them. (That may change if they ever mange fulltime float.) This also means they've mostly escaped the Turnips's hunting range. Bit difficult to hunt something airborne.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: notquitethere on December 23, 2022, 11:44:31 am
Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it
What's currently preventing us from eating seagrass?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 11:57:30 am
Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it
What's currently preventing us from eating seagrass?

Most of you have no teeth, or jaws.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 11:57:41 am
Well, there is seagrass and none of you eats it
What's currently preventing us from eating seagrass?
Should be noted most of the sludigoos could eat it. Given they ate most anything. Glidee mostly subsist off of seaweed right now though.

Seagrass is a case where you need teeth or some way to uproot it. (The old bletchi sludgiboo could too I think. Given it upturned the silt)

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: notquitethere on December 23, 2022, 12:27:01 pm
Plateface Dikencovy can already breathe air, has skin, and isn't reliant on using balleen like Sweeper, and almost has a working mouth, so honestly might be my best bet.

Speciate Plateface Dikencovy into two sister species:
1. Evolve jaw to chomp those face plates, finally getting a working mouth, to allow eating seagrass. Send it up to wallow on the shore of Lauv Island like a manatee. It can use its fins to roll around.
2. Also evolve a jaw but with [SS] and keep it in the shallows


(Spreading my bet with this one.)

Speciate Buffaloo Sazan into two sister species:
A: Improve gills, transforming into air-breathing lungs   (it rises up to the surface to breathe like a whale now)
B: Evolve a jaw for chewing, biting, tearing (until I evolve teeth, it can use hard skeletal plates) [SS]


(Buffaloo Sazan is my most advanced creature, so it makes sense to me to develop a strand of it in the direction of land-dwelling.)

Third vote! This guy already has legs, so it won't take long to improve him, so long as he doesn't go extinct first:

Speciate Burrower Nubnub into two sister species:
A: Evolve lungs alongside the gills (like an isopod) so it can predate above the shoreline. Send it up to the Lauv Island (where it maybe can eat Dikencovy?)
B: Mutate a liver for handling coralloo poison (for feeding on coralloos as well as the glidees) [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 12:35:07 pm
What is your third vote?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 23, 2022, 12:37:31 pm
Multiple Turnip’s worth of chemicals on a single thing can surely have no long term health risks
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 12:38:41 pm
Multiple Turnip’s worth of chemicals on a single thing can surely have no long term health risks

LOL

You invented drugs.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: notquitethere on December 23, 2022, 01:03:29 pm
What is your third vote?
Sweet, I missed that. I've now updated with a third vote.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 01:39:22 pm
Multiple Turnip’s worth of chemicals on a single thing can surely have no long term health risks

LOL

You invented drugs.
They shall seize the means of drug production and eat it. Also if food is going to evolve for higher reaches, it may develop an air bladder.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 23, 2022, 02:50:20 pm


Majoral Turp: Capitalizing on its carnivorous digestive system, it develops a jaw of sharp teeth to bite and tear into prey as a method for more food/another combat option.


Majoral Turp: Basic lungs that combine with the gills, so they can now breathe air and water.


Symbiotic Turp: Due to the increasing complexity of its victims it has evolved to control its prey through chemicals that condition the host to follow the Turp’s will and electric body control.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 03:26:02 pm
Not sure why one is going for body control. Not sure if they even use chemicals given the slime base. Turnips don't even have a brain.

Kinda wondering how this will be treated. As proto-animals without a method of reproduction, will the old conflict with the outer new? Or will my SS roll actually be able to decide that fate as they cultivate them. Or vice versa.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 23, 2022, 04:43:44 pm
You don’t need a brain to be smart, what my grandpappy always told me before he bought Jumanji
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 26
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 05:30:44 pm
Not sure what this control can even do to help it though. Symbiotes don't need negative effects to be positive. Get your own symbiosis. You got a creature that can benefit too. Anyway, randomness go.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 25
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 23, 2022, 05:59:50 pm
Turn 26



The Events

Power: 9
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Nothing of interest happened.

Robust Sazan is extinct due to outcompetition.

The symbiosis between Turnip and Barbesium is going horribly. Turnip is too powerful and yet utterly clueless, and Barbesium has no adaptations to accomodate it in its body. Especially the chemical cocktail. Sludgiboo's have no muscles, they have a type of plasmic, fluid tissue. All the Turnip does is sending the Barbesium sky high at random intervals.



The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Terrestrial Island | (2/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: TricMagic on December 23, 2022, 06:40:47 pm
Yay? Drug production seized.
Quote
     ●Improve upon a faulty, vestigial,       
       or insufficent feature, which gets a         
       +1 in dice points due to it already     
       having a base to develop on.
This rule exists. Symbiosis has a base, just need to develop it fully.

Team X2
Junkie Barbesium works to develop the electrical circuit to make use of the turnip's energy, integrating the turnip itself into it's slime body. Excess turnip shall be dissolved as needed. [SS Roll]
Junkie Barbesium works with the chemicals of the turnip, storing them in their finshells. The finshells become more edged, connecting to shell-covered tentacles, and can be slashed into prey as they pass to send them on a sky-high ride. Excess chemicals are vented.
Toxic Coraloo Two: Venom Boogaloo. (Take 2 on air pores/landing)


One thing of interest. The Terrudoesn't actually have a method of reproducing on land, as they require sludgiboos. So how do they survive?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: notquitethere on December 23, 2022, 07:25:19 pm
Very pleased with this outcome so far. Should the remaining Burrower Nubnub have received a liver or somesuch?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 23, 2022, 08:04:27 pm
How dare you, a symbiotic relationship is supposed to be good for both parties. All you are trying to do is take. I won’t accept it.

Literally Turnip: The turnip develops the ability to store/stockpile electricity for later use. If the turnip is killed, either by a predator or host shenanigans, it emits all of this stored up electricity and any chemicals they have stored up to take their killer down with it.

Literally Turnip: Develop new chemicals that will work on even the strangest of host’s. Too often they get saddled with slimy abominations.

Majoral Turnip: Taking inspiration from their smaller brethren, these turnips constantly secrete a tailor made chemical blend to strengthen muscles and up reaction time.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 26, 2022, 01:16:26 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve Barbesium-Turnip Symbiosis: (SS)
2: Venomous Fins for Junkie Barbesium
3: Landfall for Coralloo

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Electric Battery for Literally Turnip
2: Improve Literally Turnips drugz.
3: Strength inducing chemicals for Majoral Turp (SS)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: notquitethere on December 26, 2022, 03:50:01 am
Speciate Surfacing Yunus into two sister species:

A: Give a long horn (improve spines for it?) for skewering enemies, scraping plants etc. [SS]
B: Improve fins, flattening out to leave a powerful set of tail flippers and hand flippers (a bit like a seal) so it can bask on shore, and send to Lauv Island


Speciate Shore Dikencovy into two sister species:
1: Mutate a mouth pouch (like a hamster) to store seagrass to feed on later
2. Evolve advanced microbiome for better digestion, but really so that the droppings on the seashore are more likely to grow interesting new life [SS]

Speciate Tiktaalik Terrub:
1: Improve brain to add an instinct to farm: to gather up plantlife and put it in rockpools and tend it, spreading its food availability
2: As its life-cycle still involves going into the water, evolve minituarisation, becoming so small it can hitch a ride on bigger species. [SS]


Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 21 | (3/20) (JOIN ALREADY)
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 27, 2022, 04:52:38 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Surfacing Yunus
    A: Unicorn (SS)
    B: Fins to paddles
2: Split Shore Dikencovy
    A: Mouth pouch
    B: Gut biome (SS)
3: Split Tiktaalik Terrub
    A: Instinctive seaweed farming
    B: Dwarfism (SS)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Improve Barbesium-Turnip Symbiosis: (SS)
2: Venomous Fins for Junkie Barbesium
3: Landfall for Coralloo

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Electric Battery for Literally Turnip
2: Improve Literally Turnips drugz.
3: Strength inducing chemicals for Majoral Turp (SS)

am tired rn

turn will be coming soon tho
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 28, 2022, 12:12:32 pm
Turn 27



The Events

Power: 86
Temperament: 6



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Seaweed have evolved onto land and became something very convergent on grass. They grow on the barren soil  and have turned the place into a giant prairie. There are no trees. Yet.

Turnip-Barbesium symbiosis is now marginally better. Most of the drugz seep off the fins. But the Barbesium is still in a constant high, just not in the sky.


The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: TricMagic on December 28, 2022, 12:33:00 pm
Team X2
Seaside Sludgebush develops airborne spores. There is much grass to eat, so many shall be born.
Pixie Barbesium develop lighter than air gasbladers from Skyward Blimpie crosspolination. This moves them from pure benthic to one capable of more hunting grounds. [SS Roll]
Pixie Barbesium speciates,
\One also develop heightened reaction times from the drugs. While high, the symbiosis continues to be improved. [+1 to an underdeveloped trait.]
 \The other bucks the Turnip cultivation entirely, developing it's body to be extremely poisonous to other forms of life. [SS Roll]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 27
Post by: notquitethere on December 28, 2022, 12:48:41 pm
Haha, look who's top predator now (in one specific biome)!

Improve Baitfarmer's farming instinct, so now it herds slimes as well (primarily for injecting with eggs)- hopefully that way the Terrubs may no longer need to return to the ocean as part of its lifecycle [SS]

Mutate Hamster Dikencovy, evolve inflatable outer-layer of skin, to allow rolling as a ball across the island!

Speciate Landmower Sazan:

1. Develop sharp teeth (perhaps improving on spine production). Along with the existing jaw, this may hopefully turn this Sazan into a more formidable predator (it's already big enough to swallow most of the lesser species whole).
2.  Develop emotional intelligence even further, allowing shoaling with other species of Sazan [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 28, 2022, 07:35:05 pm


Emergency fix on the electric battery for executioner turnip.

Increase the executioner turnip’s body control to the point where it can control the bodies systems to squash any possible resistance.

Use the overflowing acid to the sore turps advantage, increasing its potency and allowing it to secrete very strong acid.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: TricMagic on December 28, 2022, 07:45:59 pm
No clue why you are trying to kill hosts knightwing  Symbiosis that abhorrent?(The slimes have an odd chemical structure in the first place.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 28, 2022, 08:57:31 pm
Bruh

Nobody’s trying to kill the host’s.

I’m just getting insurance.

Besides, you’ll be fine, the body control works through chemicals and electricity for now.

Also, I expect you to start making some contributions to this relationship to help my turps, this isn’t a one way street bud.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: TricMagic on December 29, 2022, 08:56:03 am
Bruh

Nobody’s trying to kill the host’s.

I’m just getting insurance.

Besides, you’ll be fine, the body control works through chemicals and electricity for now.

Also, I expect you to start making some contributions to this relationship to help my turps, this isn’t a one way street bud.

To quote Naruto, pay your rent. They get food for living. If w eat any excess, it's only because they are still protoanimals without a mean of reproduction.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 29, 2022, 10:58:17 am
Okay, we seem to be mistaking which of us is providing the chemicals and who isn’t, make things more comfy for my turps or I’ll find a different provider of a non slimy variation.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 29, 2022, 11:05:20 am
Knightwing-Tric divorce arc lesss gooooo
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 29, 2022, 11:58:01 am
Perhaps.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: TricMagic on December 29, 2022, 12:37:10 pm
That would require you to split some off for specific hosts. Do you want your turnips to become one symbiotic being?

Granted, the divorce is real given they're no longer the apex.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 29, 2022, 12:59:18 pm
I’m not saying I want to do all that, I’m asking that you contribute as well.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 29, 2022, 12:59:54 pm
Make it so the bodies of your creatures nutures and helps the Turp grow or something 
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: TricMagic on December 29, 2022, 01:07:46 pm
They split and have no brain. They get food and get to grow, but it's on your side to give them a means of reproduction. Otherwise they're more menace than symbiotic. I also have no clue why you're trying to get them to control bodies they have no intelligence for.

As a note, the slime's structure is not something the turp seem to have a reference for.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 29, 2022, 08:43:26 pm
I can’t do it all at once, boy. I take it this partnership is over?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: TricMagic on December 29, 2022, 09:24:12 pm
A reminder you're spending your turns trying to take over an intelligent host when the parasite is dumber than grass. Grass at least doesn't spite the earth that feeds it.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 29, 2022, 09:27:33 pm
I’m working on that. And you feed nothing, you are one host species out of tens.

You are replaceable.

*rips up contract

Clearly, you aren’t grateful and we should go our separate ways. Wait to be contacted by my divorce attorney.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: TricMagic on December 30, 2022, 09:16:45 am
Escalates to murder.

Your methods are aberrant and detrimental to the survival of a species. Even your own.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 28
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 30, 2022, 09:56:02 am
Oh, the juicy, scrumptious drama!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 30, 2022, 10:59:07 am
Turn 28



The Events

Power: 42
Temperament: 4



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

A powerful subocean volcano has erupted!

On the other side of the planet. Only effect on you was a minor tsunami that hit the shores of Lauv Island, and not much else.

Unsmelt Nubnub and Obese Sazan are extinct. The ecosystem of Guguli Shallows is one stiff breeze away from total collapse. All it'll take will be a single negative event, really.



The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (15/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on December 30, 2022, 12:20:09 pm
I've no clue why the Barbsium are still considered Benthic predetors. Well, time to abandon ship.

Team X2: Extinction Trigger

Pixie Barbesium speciation:
\One linage switches to gathering air directly rather than from water, creating a lighter than air creature. It promptly migrates to Lauv Island, using it's fin-tipped tentacles to navigate the skies with it's jet used to drop on and drug prey, which it swiftly eats before re-ascending. It's spends much of it's awake time in the air, dropping in from above in swarms. It occasionally drops in nearby water to refill it's jet reserves. When it rains they gather together to "talk" on solid surfaces and spread their spores. [SS Roll] (The Executioner Turps it carries are cultivated within itself as part of the creature, given to newborn young if they survive. Skyborne Pixies are fairly small and live in groups, high as a kite.)
\The other goes gigantic, behemoths forming hunting grounds which occasionally speak of current events and dangers. They cultivate a number of Executioner turnips to insure their many sharp fin-tentacles drugs are kept concentrated and deadly, and pass new ones to young giants. They may occasionally gather together against threats to their kind. The venting of the drug into water is capable of killing lesser creatures not adapted to it, and drugging others. [SS Roll]

Dartfrog Barbesium speciation:
\One compacts and improves upon their poison, using it in place of the drugs of their ancestor. Extremely poisonous to life, they are ambush hunters, hiding within seaweed. [SS Roll]
\The other has lost their shells, choosing to bury into lifeforms and poison them from within, stealing food until it dies. They are more like the sludgiboo of old, squeezing into cracks. While very small, they make use of this to be eaten by their prey before absorbing the acid in their stomachs. [SS Roll]

Forestformer Falselily speciation:
One becomes a choking mass of plantlife, spreading itself and consuming anything caught in it's vines. Extremely invasive, it's vines drift down from the surface like giant hooks, and many a mat breaks off and covers the ocean floor. [SS Roll]
Another ends up sinking below the surface, their hardened leaves serving as an enticement to prey, encircling it's body. When one seeks to nibble upon them, they snap out around the foe and drag it into the center body to be digested. If it is instead too large the leaves stick to the outside of the prey like a snowflake, as the center slowly digests a hole in the side. They float among the currents as innocent tempters. [SS Roll]



Also, Magmacube. The Executioner Turnips no longer have a life outside the Skyborne Pixies, they are now it's herd animal. They have no means of survival outside it.
[Yes Knightwing, they are divorcing, and taking the child with them.]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 30, 2022, 01:18:56 pm
Heh heh heh. That’s where your wrong.


I’m now giving my turps a method of reproduction, which, considering that my turps are inside of your creatures, would tear them apart from the inside. Next stop, a brain.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on December 30, 2022, 01:23:11 pm
Well, hopefully they are out of there before the new ones come in. That way the pixies have the relics, even if the rest have the chestbursters.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: notquitethere on December 30, 2022, 05:35:33 pm
Well, well, well. An explosion of new life threatens to crowd out more of my species from the shallows... so it's time to intensify that. Let's see how all those obligate carnivores and parasites fare without herbivores to eat.

Operation Opportunist Omnivore

Speciate Narwhal Yunus
1: Mutate sparkles for the horn (actually a flashbang-like effect caused by luminescent generator shone down the horn tube, to blind enemies and act as a warning signal for other herding animals)
2: Improve brain, focusing on the appreciation and creation of beauty (for sexual selection of attractive fitness features like decorative fins etc.) [SS]

Speciate Newcomer Livyat
1: Improve brain, focusing on understanding sense input (much like a shark's large brain) [SS]
2: Improve fin/skeletal structure, becoming sleeker with a a huge powerful rear tail fin for speed

Speciate False Smarter Sazan:
1: Improve intelligence further, focusing on creativity (to develop new eating tactics)
2: Improve eyes for spotting food/predators, making them huge, extended out on bulging stalks [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on December 30, 2022, 06:17:26 pm
Knghtwing's move. This is going to be chaos. I love it, just an explosion of growth followed by an end. We're all in a chicken race heading for the cliff..
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 30, 2022, 06:35:19 pm
Are you guys trying to stage your own mass extinction or something? Like, the entire shallows is supported by a few herbivores and some plantimals, the increased ecosystem effects will be the ruin of you all.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on December 30, 2022, 07:04:31 pm
Extinction Dice can't kill us if we kill ourselves first. NQT might be fine-ish.

As is, have 6 SS rolls.

Also, the whole gigantism barbs mostly results in them splitting ways. So they're more solo hunters that occasionally get together to chat. Wide hunting grounds for each, occasional get togethers and possible councils of war. Followed up by hunting down the interlopers. Don't need to be the most dangerous when you can work together. And such hunts result in much food too, both of enemy predators and dead allies.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: notquitethere on December 30, 2022, 07:22:53 pm
My plan is to starve off the carnivores, as the Sazan family species can all feed on plant-life. I know I'm going to lose the Nubnubs and Seagranate, but that branch lives on with the Terrubs of Lauv island

Snapshot of extant species before the fall:

(https://i.imgur.com/Iu5OjdZ.png)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 30, 2022, 08:20:30 pm
Make actions tomorrow


Also Magma, I dunno man, I’m not a biologist
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 31, 2022, 09:05:43 am
I am sorry, but I have some bad news...

This game is on hiatus until next year.

See you then!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 31, 2022, 10:25:08 am
0.0


THIS CAME OUT OF NOWHERE
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: notquitethere on December 31, 2022, 10:51:00 am
See you in approximately 8 hours time then!

KW I'm looking forward to seeing your play here. Do you speciate x3 as well?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 31, 2022, 10:57:08 am
Omg


I’ve been trolled
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on December 31, 2022, 02:48:02 pm
Omg


I’ve been trolled

Wait, Knight, are you for real? Seriously man?

This is like, the first trick in the book on new year jokes.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 31, 2022, 05:53:18 pm


Executioner Turnip: They learn how to reproduce by splitting into new version of themselves.

Executioner Turnip: Develop brains

Paralyzer Turnip: Develop air permeable skin which combined with its lung gills will allow it to go on land?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on December 31, 2022, 06:03:45 pm


Executioner Turnip: They learn how to reproduce by draining the host of life and using that nutrients to make a new version of themselves.

Executioner Turnip: Develop brains

Executioner Turnip: develop a pheromone that draws other species to them so they don’t die after they reproduce.

... This is different from normal how? Splitting already means they've drawn nutrients, parasites do that.
The latter is also almost completely useless since the creatures in the pond never developed smell.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: notquitethere on December 31, 2022, 06:05:45 pm
The latter is also almost completely useless since the creatures in the pond never developed smell.
Turp and Turnip both have a sense of smell, which could lead to amusing results here...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on December 31, 2022, 06:36:20 pm
The latter is also almost completely useless since the creatures in the pond never developed smell.
Turp and Turnip both have a sense of smell, which could lead to amusing results here...
Hahaha. Yeah, that would be fairly hilarious. New Year's Update, everything is dead.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 31, 2022, 10:27:17 pm
I…

Huh.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on December 31, 2022, 10:31:07 pm
Thank you for bringing that to my attention
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 01, 2023, 04:09:56 am
ALRIGHT HIATUS IS OVER!!

I know you all missed me in my year long absence, but wipe your fat salty tears, for I am back now.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 01, 2023, 07:56:51 am
*wipes big fat salty tears
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: TricMagic on January 01, 2023, 09:13:54 am
*Points out how it has technically been almost 8736 hours since you last updated.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 06, 2023, 06:15:46 pm
Turn 29



The Events

Power: 48 (âğ)
Temperament: 1 (Only if this came in with a 90<. Anyways, minor extinction event now time now. You all really did manage to ride the ecosystem to the edge of a cliff.)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

It all started with that small, insignificant contagious cancer randomly mutating once again. It was just a small mutation really, but this alone, somehow, made it incredibly lethal to Seagranates, causing their extinction.

This caused more predation on Nubnubs, which also killed them off. And so with the total absence of prey taking its effect on the mostly omnivorous ecosystem, and the situation with the Falselily infestation causing Glidees to be near-extinct, here we are. It was inevitable, everyone!

Prime Seagranate, Jellosucker Nubnub, Antelope Sazan, Smarter Sazan, Toxic Corallo, My Little Yunus, Cunning Yunus and Gliding Planeasium, are all extinct. If it is not repaired, a complete ecosystem collapse is imminent.



The Guguli Shallows | Seaweed Meadow Biome | (10/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: TricMagic on January 06, 2023, 06:35:55 pm
I'm honestly surprised this game of chicken didn't have an end.

Team X2
Invasive Scourgy develops fruit bearing flowers, seeds and all. The seeds are extremely resistant to acid, and bloom into new Scourgy. This offers a source of food and reproduction. Lawnkeepers once more have something to pollinate. The flowers give off their own spore/pollen, but Lawnkeepers greatly increase productivity.[SS Roll]

Coastal Sludgebush evolves twiceover, settings down roots, literally, becoming a plant. Or mushroom as the case may be. Fern? It's flesh is spongy, and it's grasping roots strong. These roots can retract, and grasp solid objects to hold them in place as it buries into soil.[SS Roll]
It also develops lighter than air flight through a gas sack, creating a floating ball of greenery. It's roots keep it attached, and when it retracts them into it's body has it carried by the wind. It soaks up sunlight and rain wherever it goes. When it comes time to spread their spores, they fly free on the winds to drop them everywhere. [SS Roll]


Also a question, why are the giants still hunting in larger groups? As is, the Worldcrosser Turnip is about to make landfall. Or starve, either or.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 06, 2023, 06:47:22 pm
I'm honestly surprised this game of chicken didn't have an end.

Team X2
Invasive Scourgy develops fruit bearing abilities, seeds and all. The seeds are extremely resistant to acid, and bloom into new Scourgy. This offers a source of food and reproduction. [SS Roll]

Coastal Sludgebush evolves twiceover, settings down roots, literally, becoming a plant. Or mushroom as the case may be. Fern? It's flesh is spongy, and it's grasping roots strong. [SS Roll]
It also develops lighter than air flight through a gas sack, creating a floating ball of greenery. It's roots keep it attached, and when it retracts them into it's body has it carried by the wind. It soaks up sunlight and rain wherever it goes. When it comes time to spread their spores, they fly free on the winds to drop them everywhere. [SS Roll]


Also a question, why are the giants still hunting in larger groups? As is, the Worldcrosser Turnip is about to make landfall. Or starve, either or.

Oh, right, they are supposed to take territories.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: TricMagic on January 06, 2023, 06:57:09 pm
I like the 75^Invasive Scorgies.
(https://i.etsystatic.com/18924660/r/il/05942a/1696484594/il_570xN.1696484594_b55b.jpg)
Who's a good invasive species, you are~


More seriously, fruiting. Some of them may just end up dropping and rotting. But the flowering gives Lawnkeepers something to do and a food source.

(https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/17/mar/kelpl.jpg)
These things specifically. They reach from ground up towards the sky.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 06, 2023, 07:24:37 pm
Worldhopper Turnip: Develop a bladder full of air which it can activate to float all the way up to surface and back down.

Hydra Turnip: Develop environmental adaptations to help survive in new environments depending on where the it/host goes, ala fisher king.

Worldhopper Turnip: Increase the efficiency of the eyes with newfound electro vision, allowing it to see prey no matter where they are so the Worldhopper can track them down and feast.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: TricMagic on January 06, 2023, 07:28:55 pm
I now kinda hope the plant completely fails and knightwing just wipes out the last of the populations. Or knightwing oversuceeds and just wipes out the last of the populations
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: notquitethere on January 07, 2023, 06:14:11 pm
x2 mutations on one version of Stargazers:

A. Mutate full jaw so it can actually chow down properly
B. Improve gut into a three-stage plant-matter fermenting chambers, specialising in a herbivorous/plantimal diet [SS]

Speciate the Livyat into two sister species:

1. Mutate kidney-like organs which filtrate the system, immunising against Turnip chemicals and Turp venom
2. Mutate ears, specifically to hear the beating heart of the Invasive Scourgy, to more efficiently feed on them. [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 11, 2023, 05:29:11 pm
Turn 30



The Events

Power: 41
Temperament: 2



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

A meteor shower hit the seamount, which caused many small meteor fragments to be deposited onto the seafloor. This increased the concentration of heavy metals in the seamount as a whole, causing minor toxicity everywhere.

Hammerhead Sazan and Deaf Sazan are extinct.



The Guguli Shallows | Plantimal Jungle Biome | (9/15 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/5 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/7 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 11, 2023, 05:29:57 pm
TURN 30 BABY!!!

WOOOOOOO

By the way, just make your last proto-animals into full naimals dammit. It's taking too long.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: notquitethere on January 11, 2023, 05:36:56 pm
The shallows are still ticking along I see. I guess my other livyat also went extinct on entry?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 11, 2023, 05:37:16 pm
A
U forgot my creatures

All of their stuff is the same

Heathery
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 11, 2023, 05:40:39 pm
Uplift is finally with the times.

Team X2 is also the first and only to reach full numbers. 100 baby!
Lawnkeepers are also in fine straits. Plenty of food and work to do~

Team X2
Roaming Wandertree develops shoots of leaves, to increase the amount of sun their floating forms can get. Like beach parasols they float in the wind.
Chimeric Flufiflimp develops shoots of leaves alongside fins, able to improve it's swimming ability and sunbathing, better able to dive and ascend.
Fae Barbesium fully incorporates drug production into their biology, ridding themselves of Hydra Turnips in favor of their own reproduced variant. [SS Roll]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 11, 2023, 05:47:10 pm
The shallows are still ticking along I see. I guess my other livyat also went extinct on entry?

Yea.

A
U forgot my creatures

All of their stuff is the same

Heathery

Wait wat. Oh. Sorry. The things you voted this turn were so...bland.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 11, 2023, 07:21:31 pm
Ouch

Well

I was trying to survive, not make cool additions
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 11, 2023, 07:29:18 pm
Well, didn't work too well. this forest within the shallows probably messes with vision, electro or otherwise. On the other hand, it's pretty at least.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Chances of them dying off at this point are slim. They've achieved peak faulora.


Also, why in the world are the Fae still Benthic hunters at this point? They got an air bladder and everything or swimming about. (Fruit is also higher up, so they have to go up to eat it the following turn.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 12, 2023, 09:15:48 am
Also, why in the world are the Fae still Benthic hunters at this point? They got an air bladder and everything or swimming about. (Fruit is also higher up, so they have to go up to eat it the following turn.)

Well, some minute details slip from my grasp as this game constantly evolves. I will correct that the next turn.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 12, 2023, 09:23:12 am
Honestly probably applies to the Fishbait too given there isn't carnivals below these days.. Wolrdcrossers are good eating for Fishbaits. :D
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 12, 2023, 11:21:27 am
U wish

My shells are impenetrable to your puny fishbait
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 12, 2023, 11:56:02 am
Go ahead, eat the fishbait. It will eat you alive from the inside.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 12, 2023, 12:58:22 pm
Tric-Knightwing rival arc got me like:
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 12, 2023, 01:04:29 pm
Can say our team rules the Shallows. You may have taken our apex predator title, but we have the apex organism.
Up until the next extinction event anyway.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 15, 2023, 04:52:10 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Leaves for Roaming Wandertree
2: Photosynthetic flippers for Chimeric Fluffilimp
3: Complete absorption of the internal turnip (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: notquitethere on January 15, 2023, 05:04:33 pm
Hmm, I thought I'd done this. One moment...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 30
Post by: TricMagic on January 15, 2023, 05:08:21 pm
TURN 30 BABY!!!

WOOOOOOO

By the way, just make your last proto-animals into full naimals dammit. It's taking too long.

6)Lawnkeeper Glidee | LC/50 | Team X2
A herbivorous, partially photosynthetic proto-animal analogous to wild bees. It is a veiny, gelatinous UFO-shaped disc that is 30 centimeters in diameter, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled slime skin. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores using a sack on its underside. This sack also carries seaweed spores from one plant to another like a bee, fertilising them in the process. It floats using the gasses that the algea inside its body produce, swimming by rippling its slimy tissues.

Glidees still protoning along.  :P

Is it a plantimal.. Or just a case of symbiotic algae in an animal suited to it's cultivation.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: notquitethere on January 15, 2023, 05:27:08 pm
Split Rhinofish into two sister species:
1. Develop adrenal gland for fight/flight
2. Improve the toughness of the skin, making it more impervious to predators  [ss]

Split Livyat into two sister species:
1. Develop long fine whiskers for sensing prey and predators in the tight jungle confines [ss]
2. Develop plant-like camouflage for stalking through jungle

Split Roller Puffercovy into two sister species:
1. Improve gut, to develop gases which can be used for levitation or propulsion [ss]
2. Improve inflation + spines as a defense mechanism vs predation and send to the Shallows!!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 15, 2023, 05:49:31 pm
I’m tired

Post action tomorrow
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 18, 2023, 08:17:58 pm
I’m sorry, school is really ripping me apart,

Can you just auto actions that will help me survive? Like, a tougher shell for my creatures and regeneration, or something.

Just for this turn, but I don’t really have much time to think about things rn
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 18, 2023, 08:27:06 pm
I’m sorry, school is really ripping me apart,

Can you just auto actions that will help me survive? Like, a tougher shell for my creatures and regeneration, or something.

Just for this turn, but I don’t really have much time to think about things rn
Tougher Shell[SS], Stronger Muscles, Better Gills.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 19, 2023, 09:52:26 am
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Meandering Rhinofish
    A: Adrenal gland
    B: Tougher skin (SS)
2: Split Pure Livyat
    A: Whiskers (SS)
    B: Plant camuflage
3: Split Roller Puffercovy
    A: Gas jet (SS)
    B: Become a proper pufferfish

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Leaves for Roaming Wandertree
2: Photosynthetic flippers for Chimeric Fluffilimp
3: Complete absorption of the internal turnip (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Tougher shell (SS)
2: Stronger Muscles
3: Better Gills

This is it, then?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: notquitethere on January 19, 2023, 09:57:25 am
Looks like it...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: TricMagic on January 19, 2023, 10:04:35 am
Other than noting those are for the Worldcrosser.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 22, 2023, 06:15:48 am
Turn 31



The Events
Power: 76
Temperament: 6



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Recent volcanic activity on Yanardag Seamount has expanded the island, creating new land, while shrinking the seafloor that surrounds it. There is a minor expansion on the Çay Uplift, as well.

The island now supports three more species, and the shallows three less. The uplift have also expanded by three new species slots.



The Guguli Shallows | Plantimal Jungle Biome | (12/12 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/8 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



THE SPIRIT OF THE MOUNTAINBLOOD HAS RETURNED AMONGST YOU!!!

REJOICE!!!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: notquitethere on January 22, 2023, 06:28:44 am
I am rejoicing. So I think it might be time to pause conflict in the Shallows, which seems nicely balanced once again now that I've restocked the herbivores. The main problem with that zone is excessive predation from the Turnips which keep getting deadlier.

I'm definitely going to do something with Lauv island (with legs!), but I might also give a new branch to the ancient Uncod. Hmmmm...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: TricMagic on January 22, 2023, 09:59:32 am
Meanwhile, it still says we're benthic in spite of the fact they jet around with lighter than air bladders.

Team X2
Skyward Blimpie crosspolinates/speciates: switch to using gas as a propellent, using algae within the body producing it as a biproduct. A trick gathered from Lawnkeeper Glidee. They also gain omnivorous tendencies, eating of the fruits, and having their own spore chamber for docking with each other to produce spore offspring. [SS Roll]
\One of the two lines Migrate to Lauv Island in addition to the above, using their bodies' algae to help produce the needed oxygen. [SS Roll]

Fae Barmbesium crosspolinates: Switch to using gas as a propellant. It's produced within the body from algae, a trick gathered from Lawnkeeper Glidee. They also gain omnivorous tendencies, eating of the fruits, and having their own spore chamber for docking with each other to produce fertilized spores.

Fae Barbesium speciation:
\One linage switches to gathering air directly rather than from water, creating a lighter than air creature. It promptly migrates to Lauv Island, using it's fin-tipped tentacles to navigate the skies with it's jet used to drop on and drug prey, which it swiftly eats before re-ascending. It's spends much of it's awake time in the air, dropping in from above in small groups to overwhelm prey. When it rains they gather together to "talk" on solid surfaces and spread their spores. This species are smaller than their ancestor, so as to be light enough to float. [SS Roll]
\The other repeats the second action, expanding upon it and adding more fins with which to cut through the waters.


Behold the POWER!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: notquitethere on January 24, 2023, 10:17:20 am
Mutate the Sunbather Yunus twice:

1. Evolve a jaw for chomping on the leaves of the Wandertree
2. Improve the paddles into a more leg-like shape, to be able to traverse the island [SS]

Split the Rancher Terrub into two sister species:

- Improve farming to cultivating thick mats of algae to feed swimming creatures and move to the The Çay Uplift [SS]
- Improve farming to cultivating grass and plantimals-- this Terrub should no longer need to enter the sea as part of its life-cycle.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: TricMagic on January 24, 2023, 12:29:55 pm
Who wants to auto knightwings thing this turn?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 24, 2023, 02:28:47 pm
Woah

I’ll do it tomorrow

I have swim lessons today
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: notquitethere on January 24, 2023, 02:45:11 pm
If he doesn't turn up tomorrow we must assume he drowned.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: TricMagic on January 24, 2023, 02:47:16 pm
A common threat in elementary schools.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 24, 2023, 07:18:30 pm
A common threat in elementary schools.

Shaddup Tric
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: TricMagic on January 24, 2023, 07:52:48 pm
A common threat in elementary schools.

Shaddup Tric
Was a nightmare I had that the water fountains burst and started flooding the school. Door was locked so had to run down the hallway to the other exit while being chased by the rising water.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 25, 2023, 08:22:24 pm
I’ll post action tomorrow

Sorry for all the delay

Been kinda busy  :-[
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: notquitethere on January 26, 2023, 03:54:05 am
Keep your head high and try not to swallow too much water.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 26, 2023, 07:32:07 pm
Worldcrosser Turnip: develop various organs that emit chemicals that encourage healing, trying to create like a passive regen effect.

Worldcrosser Turnip: Bigger brain, use tendrils to grab and make tools?

Hydra Turnip: Develop intelligence to better control host bodies
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 30, 2023, 08:03:13 pm
I WAS ALMOST DONE WITH THE TURN AND CHROME CRASHED!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Magmacube_tr on January 30, 2023, 08:08:17 pm
end my suffering
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Knightwing64 on January 30, 2023, 08:10:00 pm
Lmao
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Strif3 on January 31, 2023, 08:18:53 am
Magmacube my friend. Have you not been acquainted with our lord and savior Notepad++ yet? When i ran the WBG, pretty quickly i figured out that the postbox is unsuitable for writing posts of any real length. No fear of losing work either because you just save it as a text file, then copy and paste over to the postbox to preview and post.

Not here to join the game though. Too far along and i'd have no idea what to do. Just here looking out for my friends. So i guess this is a PTW post.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: TricMagic on January 31, 2023, 03:53:16 pm
Magmacube my friend. Have you not been acquainted with our lord and savior Notepad++ yet? When i ran the WBG, pretty quickly i figured out that the postbox is unsuitable for writing posts of any real length. No fear of losing work either because you just save it as a text file, then copy and paste over to the postbox to preview and post.

Not here to join the game though. Too far along and i'd have no idea what to do. Just here looking out for my friends. So i guess this is a PTW post.
Just pick a species and create an offshoot. The Çay Uplift has some space open for a newcomer, though dice might decide otherwise.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 06, 2023, 10:05:28 am
Turn 32



The Events
Power: 24
Temperament: N/A



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The Turps are getting quite intelligent. Too intelligent.

Warmthseeker Pinecovy is extinct due to the increase in predation.



The Guguli Shallows | Plantimal Jungle Biome | (12/12 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (7/8 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: TricMagic on February 06, 2023, 02:18:13 pm
Not sure if 5 - 1 is 3.

Dancer Joltwing seem like a solid land flyer. Even if it still states it swims through water...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 06, 2023, 02:27:30 pm
Not sure if 5 - 1 is 3.

Dancer Joltwing seem like a solid land flyer. Even if it still states it swims through water...

Omg lol
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: TricMagic on February 06, 2023, 02:35:15 pm
Team X2
Merging Dancer Joltwing with Overland Blimpie lines. Dancer Joltwing gains access to oxygen-photosynthesis, cross-pollination, and better tentacles for it's gliding drug-injection fins. [SS Roll]
Dancer Joltwing improves upon it's photosynthesis yet further using the merger with the Blimpie. [+1 if above is successful?]
Dancer Joltwing gains access to an enlarged oxygen bladder for diving and extended chases/flights, able to swim in sky or sea equally. It regularly migrates between the two areas, making it's home on the island but perfectly willing to gather from the shallows easy fruits of the Everpresent Orchidtree.

Dancer of the skies and seas. The Joltwing takes full advantage of every resource.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 06, 2023, 03:07:57 pm
I am going to let you guess what will happen in the next turn.

It is a scripted event. No dice will be rolled.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 06, 2023, 10:14:36 pm
Said turnips were getting too intelligent. Maybe something with that
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: TricMagic on February 06, 2023, 10:44:52 pm
I'm honestly wondering when the Worldcrosser will walk on land. They just need to breathe air to do so and become it's apex predetor.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 06, 2023, 11:06:57 pm
I'm honestly wondering when the Worldcrosser will walk on land. They just need to breathe air to do so and become it's apex predetor.

They do. They just do it offscreen...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: TricMagic on February 06, 2023, 11:16:59 pm
Guess there is precedent for the Dancing Joltwings then.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 06, 2023, 11:18:55 pm
Guess there is precedent for the Dancing Joltwings then.

Yeah. If the dice succeeds, they will swim, just offscreen.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: notquitethere on February 07, 2023, 12:23:43 pm
OK:

Improve the jaw of the Sunbather Yunu, so it does something [SS]
Then split it into two sister species:
   #1 Try evolving legs again
   #2 Send to the Çay Uplift and improve the musculature of the paddles for more easy swimming up to the surface for air

Split Sweeper Dikencovy into two sister species:

#1 Make larger to maximise algae raking! [SS]
#2 Evolve latching hooks on fins so it can ride on other animals and steal their food
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 08, 2023, 05:15:10 am
Are you guys lowkey trying to return to the ocean?

Yoi better do...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: notquitethere on February 08, 2023, 05:25:53 am
This is my Yunus:

(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F564x%2F9e%2F8d%2F2d%2F9e8d2da8fb2b15c061b88115aac09ee4.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=6f722e59f02e646bf658eb76ac6e8061c6358d914995613775595678c69db3b3&ipo=images)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: TricMagic on February 08, 2023, 09:09:10 am
The dancers are the ultimate omnivore. They'll eat anything to get an advantage. Including parasites.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 08, 2023, 09:10:59 am
The dancers are the ultimate omnivore. They'll eat anything to get an advantage. Including parasites.

You wish, loser.

Anyways, I‘ll post my actions after I heal from this bout of bubonic plague
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 08, 2023, 10:10:52 am
The dancers are the ultimate omnivore. They'll eat anything to get an advantage. Including parasites.

You wish, loser.

Anyways, I‘ll post my actions after I heal from this bout of bubonic plague

I wonder what will you vote for...

hmmmmmm
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 09, 2023, 04:39:41 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Improve the Sunbather Yunus jaws
2: Split Sunbather Yunus
    A: Paddles to legs
    B: Return to fishe
3: Split Sweeper Dikencovy
    A: Gigantism
    B: Hooks on fins

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Merge Dancing Joltwing with Overland Blimpie (this will destroy the blimpie species)
2: Improve photosynthesis for Dancing Joltwing (joltwibg is already photosynthetic, just weakly)
3: Oxygen tank for Dancing Joltwing

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

Guys, don't want to be an alarmist, but I think Knightwing drowned in the pool.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 09, 2023, 05:03:28 pm
I feel just as terrible, I think I’ve been actually hit with the bubonic


Worldcrosser Turnip: MORE BRAINS

Hydra Turnips: Develop the ability to stay outside of a host for a limited amount of time to allow newly born turnips to find different hosts to expand the species diversity

Worldcrosser Turnip: Develop a anglerfish sort of hypnotic light thing that draws prey toward their death through mechanisms I’m too miserable to bother looking up
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 33
Post by: TricMagic on February 09, 2023, 05:14:09 pm
The braindead who can't tell a plant from a apex predator? And it's a angler fish, they're more ambush hunters. Fish sees light, moves too close, gets eaten.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 09, 2023, 06:22:37 pm
Turn 33



The Events
Power: IT'S OVER 9000!!!
Temperament: There are no words...



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Something incredible had just happened.

Something awful had just happened.

Something that thinks.

Something that kills.

Something that not only sees, but looks, not only hears, but listens.

Something that knows.

And something that knows, that it knows.

The Shellfolk have evolved. The inevitable has come. The wildest joker card in all of existence has been pulled and put onto the table by someones own will. If anyone is to blame, it is them.

Now only time will tell what will happen.




The Guguli Shallows | Plantimal Jungle Biome | (12/12 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (6/8 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (9/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



I think you are getting the picture on where this is going...

H-H-Hurry Up!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: TricMagic on February 09, 2023, 06:52:29 pm
The die has been cast, the end has come. There can only be one ending. Also they are very much idiots.

Team X2
Flatfish Barbesium have developed a Cross-species Knowledge in response to this threat.
Flatfish Barbesium have developed a Cross-species Wisdom in response to this threat.
Flatfish Barbesium have developed a Cross-species Community in response to this threat.
Flatfish Barbesium have developed a Cross-species Leadership in response to this threat.
Flatfish Barbesium have developed a Cross-species Combination in response to this threat.
Flatfish Barbesium have developed a Cross-species Reunion in response to this threat.

SS Rolls have been applied to all Speciation. Skyward Blimpie Crosspolination is in full effect.
Reabsorption of Speciation occurring during massive evolutionary pressure. King of All Slime, Koas evolving.
Everpresent Orchardigan linage traces back to original Ancestor, crosspollinating. Reabsorbed into Barbesium. Fishbait Inchisium traces back to original Ancestor, crosspollinating. Reabsorbed into Barbesium. Lawnkeeper Glidee linage traces back to original Ancestor, crosspollinating. Reabsorbed into Barbesium. Skyward Blimpie linage traces back to original Ancestor, crosspollinating. Reabsorbed into Barbesium.  Flatfish Barbesium linage traces back to original Ancestor... Crosspollinating. Reabsorbed into Barbesium.
King of All Slime has been created, all Sludigboo Subspeices under Koas' Banner.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 09, 2023, 09:09:34 pm
Tric, see where taunting has gotten you? The time for cooperation is over. There is only….


Bloodshed


The Shellfolk: Increase size/denser muscles.

The Shellfolk: In response to futile resistance from lesser life-forms, the Shellfolk adapt their venom coated tendrils to be especially lethal to slime of all kinds.

The Shellfolk: use brains to forge armor and weapons from corals or something
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 09, 2023, 09:09:55 pm
How the turns have tabled
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 10, 2023, 08:45:30 am
Meanwhile...

A young adult shellperson sits upon a hilltop of the only land he knows. He is watching the sunset, and after a long day of wandering, pondering and thinking, he has come to the conclusion that this, all of this, had to come from somewhere.

"The sun can't be my god; it sinks. Moon, the same. The sea can't be my god; it can't reach the air and land. Land, the same; it descends and dissapears into the darkness. And neither air can penetrate the land or the sea."

So he gets up and loudly announces to the world with a series of powerful flashes of light. "There must be something above all of this. Something that caused this."

He pauses to think, and an idea comes to him. It is illogical at best to assume it, but for him, it is strangely hypnotic.

"Or maybe someone-"

The ground shakes. He turns back to see the peak of land, where the mountain bleeds. He sees something flying out of the bowl of the volcano, launched far into the air and strafing directly above him.

Before he can think of what to do, the object he saw swiftly descends. He braces for impact.

But it never comes.

Instead, the thing stops just before it hits the ground. Floating above the ground like a wandertree. It is not a wandertree though. It was bright orange colored, warm and shaped really weirdly. Like a cube-

"STOP. THINKING. THAT.""

He didn't saw any lights, nor heard noise from the object. But the message was loud and clear. It was as if the voice was put into his head.

"But-"

"NO. BUTS. Look, I know you guys are like, sapient and hyperintelligent and therefore can pattern seek the universe, but you can't trust me."

"..."

"Okay, okay. You want answers. Fine. I made this place. I found the empty sea and the air and rose up the land and the seafloor, seeded it with life and then gradually, with the will of my friends, you came to be. Okay. Here is your answer. Kindly descend down the hill and be spiritually fulfilled now."

"Huh."

"I don't care if you make a religion out of this. You are an evolutionary dead end anyways. What you do doesn't really matter. Hell, you don't matter. Just descend down to your tribe. Just stop."

"But where did you come from, then!"

"GODDAMIT"

"I am here, you know."

"Fuck everything."

Who was that? There was a second thing now. Something made of flesh, and with this fabric on it? And suddenly, it spoke to him, in the same telepathic way.

"Hey, young man. You are my prophet now."

"YAHWEH FUCK OFF!!!"

"If you accept, I'll give you virgins. If you refuse, I'll burn you forever."

"Well that is a hard bargain if I ever saw one."

"WHY COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?!"

"The admission fee is the tip of your dick."

"...I accept."

"YOU UNGREATEFUL REPROBATE-"

"Look, young lad, I want you to kill all those filthy homosexuals down there. That is your first order. Then, destroy all the neighboring tribes."

You know what, whatever. When they go extinct in a few turns, you will disspate too. Have your fun, Yahweh...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: TricMagic on February 10, 2023, 09:13:27 am
Tric, see where taunting has gotten you? The time for cooperation is over. There is only….


Bloodshed

How the turns have tabled
Don't you see? The tables never turned, this world has no dimenions, just bits of code...

The Truth shall set you free. Our Community joins you.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: notquitethere on February 10, 2023, 10:10:45 am
Let's try to save the species that I can (and do the most revenge damage with the ones that can't be saved):

- Speciate the Stalward Rhinofish:
1. Improve intelligence, specifically the threat sense, such that it seeks to skewer predators on sight [SS]
2. Mutate the fins into a series of eight legs and send it to live on land, on Lauv Island (it already has lungs)

- Speciate Catfish Livyat
1. Maddened by habitat loss, this Catfish improves aggression, getting a taste for murdering young Shellfolk [SS]
2. Slow down the metabolism, such that it lives longer and needs much less food but moves much slower, and send to the Uplift (like a Greenland Shark)

- Speciate the Actual Puffercovy
1. In every shoal of the aquatic Puffercovy, one Puffercovy is designated as decoy and moves slower and takes more risks than the others. This explodes with a mix of powerful gases in its inflationary chamber, sending deadly shards into any predator that tries to attack the Puffercovy [SS]
2. Other Puffercovy are driven back onto Lauv Island again! Its ball form improves into a tyre-like shape, which when inflated allows it to race about Lauv Island, with wheel-spikes along its non-inflated sides.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: TricMagic on February 10, 2023, 10:33:24 am
Let's try to save the species that I can (and do the most revenge damage with the ones that can't be saved):

- Speciate the Stalward Rhinofish:
1. Improve intelligence, specifically the threat sense, such that it seeks to skewer predators on sight [SS]
2. Mutate the fins into a series of eight legs and send it to live on land, on Lauv Island (it already has lungs)

- Speciate Catfish Livyat
1. Maddened by habitat loss, this Catfish improves aggression, getting a taste for murdering young Shellfolk [SS]
2. Slow down the metabolism, such that it lives longer and needs much less food but moves much slower, and send to the Uplift (like a Greenland Shark)

- Speciate the Actual Puffercovy
1. In every shoal of the aquatic Puffercovy, one Puffercovy is designated as decoy and moves slower and takes more risks than the others. This explodes with a mix of powerful gases in its inflationary chamber, sending deadly shards into any predator that tries to attack the Puffercovy [SS]
2. Other Puffercovy are driven back onto Lauv Island again! Its ball form improves into a tyre-like shape, which when inflated allows it to race about Lauv Island, with wheel-spikes along its non-inflated sides.
Claps. Good showing.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 10, 2023, 10:58:16 am
Wait

Someone explain what’s going on to me, in confused now
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: notquitethere on February 10, 2023, 11:06:30 am
What's happening is you've got too smart for your own good and your Shellfolk are going to wipe out the whole ecosystem:

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all other animals. Each turn.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: TricMagic on February 10, 2023, 11:25:06 am
Pure predators with the ability to work together and learn. The ecosystem can't actually keep up with the rate they're murdering the rest of the life. You've even started to cut down the Everpresent Orchids to adapt the biome to your liking.

The Slimes are adapting by gathering together into a single group of many species with a single King, as they have an omnivore linage. Notquitethere's creations are either migrating or adapting to be more aggressive in their tactics against predators, being for the most part herbivores with some omnivores. The Turps are adapting by growing even more needy, needing more food to keep up, as their brains require more nutrients. They outpace the ability for the ecosystem to sustain them, and will go extinct within 2 to 4 turns.

That's the choice you've made, and there isn't much stopping it now without reversing into another direction like the Orchids did.

Basically, this era is likely to end sooner or later now. The only question is what it will look like afterward.

The Truth will set you free. Don't you see? The tables never turned, the world has no dimensions, just bits of code...
Our Community joins you, The Broken Machine. You got One Shot, One Chance, the end of this Game.
Slave to instincts, daring to dream, memory fragmenting at the seams. (https://youtu.be/_QSUUmLYCL4)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 10, 2023, 11:59:46 am
Meh. More of a you problem then a me problem. I’ll just mutate some sort of photosynthesis next turn and maybe, maybe.. if you are good, I might let your creatures live as cattle.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: TricMagic on February 10, 2023, 12:11:55 pm
Well, this will be fun. Be interested to see you try.

Maybe try not to kill all the orchids though? They're one of the only food sources that renews itself.
 
Of course, you can't eat fruit, so... Too bad for you.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 10, 2023, 04:55:08 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Stalwart Rhinofish
    A: Increase stalwardness
    B: Legs and to the Lauv Island
2: Split Catfish Livyat
    A: Increased aggression
    B: Slower metabolism and to the Çay Uplift
3: Split Actual Puffercovy
    A: Explosive self-sacrificial caste
    B: Become wheel and to the Lauv Island

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Merge everything you have into one species(?)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Become more robust
2: Anti-sludgiboo secretions
3: Neolithic technology

Time for some REAL CARNAGE!!!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: notquitethere on February 10, 2023, 05:17:34 pm
Big extinction incoming!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: TricMagic on February 10, 2023, 05:43:51 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Stalwart Rhinofish
    A: Increase stalwardness
    B: Legs and to the Lauv Island
2: Split Catfish Livyat
    A: Increased aggression
    B: Slower metabolism and to the Çay Uplift
3: Split Actual Puffercovy
    A: Explosive self-sacrificial caste
    B: Become wheel and to the Lauv Island

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Merge everything you have into one species(?)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Become more robust
2: Anti-sludgiboo secretions
3: Neolithic technology

Time for some REAL CARNAGE!!!
One species with many subtype castes and a single King of all Slimes. Effectively attempting to jumpstart Sapience an civilization to counter the looming threat. We got our farmers, our leaders, our scouts, our assassin caste, our warriors.

For reference, this is a grand total of 6 rolls. It's just that each speciation pair plays off of two separate but connected traits using their cross-polination. And the last one is effectively remerging vs multi-species civilization.

The King is effectively the most fit to lead the final result. At which point it's the Slimes vs the Shellfolk.

Knowledge and Wisdom, Community and Leadership, Combination and Reunion. Once, the Sludgiboo's only distinction was in what they did. Now, the Slime's only distinction is what they do. The Barbesium have learned how to work alone, and how to work together, so are the most fit to lead the others. And the massive amount of cross-pollination ongoing will ensure others get the traits they are evolving. So the final result is left up to chance. As it has been, as it will be.


More simply, the Shellfish are homogenous, while the Slimes will be heterogeneous.
One tribe, varied as they all. They are connected by their genus. (Call them Zerg if it helps)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 34
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 10, 2023, 05:56:09 pm
This is all so very nostalgic to me.

Something very similar to this happened in a very similar forum game, a long time ago.

Let's see how this all turns out.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 10, 2023, 06:18:47 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Stalwart Rhinofish
    A: Increase stalwardness
    B: Legs and to the Lauv Island
2: Split Catfish Livyat
    A: Increased aggression
    B: Slower metabolism and to the Çay Uplift
3: Split Actual Puffercovy
    A: Explosive self-sacrificial caste
    B: Become wheel and to the Lauv Island

Team X2
TricMagic:
1, 2 and 3: Combine Everpresent Orchardigan, Fishbait Inchisium, Lawnkeeper Glidee, Skyward Blimpie and Flatfish Barbesium into one, polymorph, sapient species.

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Become more robust
2: Anti-sludgiboo secretions
3: Neolithic technology
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 32
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 11, 2023, 07:16:56 pm
Turn 34



The Events
Power: 97 (oh)
Temperament: 2 (crap)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The world as once known is ending, it seems.

The Yanardag Seamount is rising rapidly, Lauv Island volcano is constantly erupting, the already shallow seabed of the Guguli Shallows is rising up from the sea, forming massive tideponds and many, many islets. The Çay Uplift is experiencing something simila. The abyysal gap between the two peaks is swiftly closing up, bringing the two habitats to the brink of merging into one.

This event will have lasting consequences for the far future. But for now, all it does is muddying the waters and expediting the currently ongoing extinction event.

All seems doomed right now.

Dwarf Terrub, Rancher Terrub, Placoderm Rhinofish, Tigerfish Livyat, Canopy Livyat, Herding Wheelcovy and Eastern Sazan have gone extinct.

Everpresent Orchardigan, Fishbait Inchisium, Lawnkeeper Glidee, Skyward Blimpie and Flatfish Barbesium have lost their individualities as separate species.



The Guguli Shallows | Primordial Chaos Biome | (5/? species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (5/8 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (9/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



This entire restructuring thing was going to ideally going to happen after this ordeal. But curse the Dice Gods, I guess.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 11, 2023, 08:30:24 pm
Such was the wish, and so they answer at the worst time. And random RNG favors the Kō-Äh.

Team X2

Kō-Äh Union: The Dancer Joltwing makes contact with the strange Kō-Äh when diving one day. [SS Roll Both]
/Their Gamites are compatible, adding the Dancer Joltwing's traits to the species collective of parts.\
\The Joltwings born from the union become the amphibious fast moving Scouts, with their own photon-sensitive sight. This grants them better reaction speeds against the Shellfish attacks./

Kō-Äh Diplomance: Peace via food production.
/A new type of food is developed, which creates a gelatinous mass  that grows off of algae within themselves. They are nutritious and well suited to feed those with a more protein-heavy diet like the Soldiers, but have no brains or sapience, or even organs. Just nutritious meat-slime.\
\The Kō-Äh attempt to offer food to the Shellfish tribe to open relations. With hopes of eventually settling with them./

Kō-Äh Cultivate: Home is where the core is.
/The Greenship, a mass of Orchards capable of propelling itself slowly through the waters and carrying a colony to start anew elsewhere. It is sent to The Çay Uplift with a King of All Slime directing the others. The ship will serve as a good defensive structure in the new deeper waters as they begin terraforming.\
\The Slime Hub, a carefully woven root network of acidic slime orchids that act as defense against larger creatures, like the Shellfish. While stationary, the multilayered structure and grasping of the roots can catch anything that tries to breach it, offering warning and letting Soliders and Assassins mobilize to counter. A safe home from threats and a way to project force./



Hi Knightwing~ Guess who has access to Six actions.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Primordial Chaos is here, and the Kō-Äh have managed to make the leap and survive.
... All that remains is to see if they contrinue to thrive. The Finale of the TricMagic-Knightwing Arc approaches.
NQT is there too. Might want to make a bid for the mainland.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 11, 2023, 08:46:27 pm
Ah yes, the classic strat of taunting someone and then trying to ally

I love it


The Shellfolk: Increase the TECH TREE

The Shellfolk: Try upgrading brain more?

The Shellfolk: Copy the immortal jellyfish thing, where whenever a Shellfolk is going to die because of age, it resets it’s life cycle.


Immortal regenerative seafolk, now I just need to convince them to worship a giant squid and boom, lovecraft story
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 11, 2023, 08:57:06 pm
Also, I would like to point out that my creatures have tens of hyper dense venomous sharp super muscly electric anti slime tendrils

I would be astounded if your acidic slime orchids manage to capture my creatures for any important amount of time before being decimated

Behold, the wonders of min maxing one species for most of the game!


Also, has anyone else even bothered upgrading intellect more then once? It’s like brains vs brawn’s, but I have the best of each.


Magma, do my creatures group together and form society’s and stuff, or do they all go separate ways and occasionally meet up
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 11, 2023, 09:01:36 pm
The main issue is you get caught in the roots. Orchards aren't dumb, and can alert the main colony, which sends Soldiers and Assassins to your location.

Then you get all the food you can eat! And die from food poisoning.

It's like stepping on an ant hill. Except the ants can fly and stuff themselves down your throat and sting you with deadly stingers. So more like a killer wasp nest.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 11, 2023, 10:51:12 pm
Cough

Shell

Cough
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 11, 2023, 11:02:58 pm
I've no clue why you think your shell is the defense to end all attacks. You may be regenerative, but your tentacles can be cut and held up, and your mouth has to exist as a predator of your type. Which is big, large, and capable of being stuffed full of poison.

You've never really understood the title of apex is one to sit on. There is a reason those don't evolve, because they throw things out of order. For the longest time, the Sludgiboo held the title of Apex. For the longest time, that family simply existed, growing and changing over eons. Even now, before they were forced to evolve, the humble Roomba acted as caretaker for their endless garden.

The Shellfish may be large, but they are not the biggest organism in this Primordial Sea. That title goes to the Orchards.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: notquitethere on February 12, 2023, 05:28:49 am
What are the main factors killing species in Lauv Island? Is it volcanic activity wiping things out or...?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 12, 2023, 07:29:46 am
We shall see.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 12, 2023, 09:14:40 am
What are the main factors killing species in Lauv Island? Is it volcanic activity wiping things out or...?

Shellfolk are comfortable living on land as well as in the sea. It is both right now.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 12, 2023, 09:29:58 am
I've given up on the Bushes surviving this. They were never really meant to be hunted so much.

I fully expect the The Çay Uplift to go too. Only survival option is to try and become livestock, or raise up a species yourself.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 12, 2023, 09:38:22 am
I fully expect the The Çay Uplift to go too. Only survival option is to try and become livestock, or raise up a species yourself.

Don't expect any sapients to survive this. If you try to become livestock, you will most likely go extinct along with your overlords. Creatures that typically survive mass extinctions are  the small vermin.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 12, 2023, 09:40:04 am
Lack of food only matters if you need food, which I am working on. Perhaps a change of diet is in order?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 12, 2023, 09:46:48 am
Lack of food only matters if you need food, which I am working on. Perhaps a change of diet is in order?

Last timeI checked, plants do need hospitable environments to live.

Also, photosynthesis on a active creature such as a Shellperson is merely a supplement.

What you guys need to do now is to prepare for the complete collapse of everything. It is inevitable at this point forward. As you know, you chose violence and at the same time, the Dice Gods decided to wipe the slate clean. I believe you guys will all survive this with at least one species extant. Then we will simply go post-PT.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: notquitethere on February 12, 2023, 10:11:16 am
Shellfolk are comfortable living on land as well as in the sea. It is both right now.
Oh dear. I thought as they're not taking a slot there, and KW has never made any migratory action, they hadn't migrated to land.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 12, 2023, 10:16:22 am
Unless my Shellfolk somehow manage to make nukes, I don’t see how this could hurt the environment in any significant way.


Worst case scenario, Shellfolk kill everything else and no peace is achieved, photosynthesis along with hibernation based slowed metabolism and maybe eating coral would be a good way to survive until I could figure out a better solution.


Hm, your artificial food may actually be useful. I might spare you. Shall we get back together? For the kids, at least?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 12, 2023, 10:17:50 am
Shellfolk are comfortable living on land as well as in the sea. It is both right now.
Oh dear. I thought as they're not taking a slot there, and KW has never made any migratory action, they hadn't migrated to land.

Well, I made a predatory creature capable of migration, I don’t see why they wouldn’t expand their hunting grounds.


Also, I’m a big boy now. Birthday day best day
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 12, 2023, 10:26:16 am
Mostly depends on the Shellfolk pulling back their aggressiveness for a more farming nature. Which means becoming omnivores. Photosynthesis isn't all that useful to you because you're way too big and proactive for that to work right now.

Ecosystem effects: -20 population to all other animals. Each turn.
You need to take actions to reduce this effect, which means downsizing, ominivourism, and more careful thought to the environment.(Use your brain more and let some prey go to breed up again.) Assuming these things are down, the two can work together to weather this storm.

Also need to decide on a niche to fulfill. You are better at building and crafting with your more solid frame, as an example. The Kō-Äh are brute forcing buildings with bio-manipulation. Work on developing more fine manipulation and better tools.


Shellfolk are comfortable living on land as well as in the sea. It is both right now.
Oh dear. I thought as they're not taking a slot there, and KW has never made any migratory action, they hadn't migrated to land.

Well, I made a predatory creature capable of migration, I don’t see why they wouldn’t expand their hunting grounds.


Also, I’m a big boy now. Birthday day best day
Grats to you.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 12, 2023, 11:09:51 am
Also, I’m a big boy now. Birthday day best day

Aweeeeee~ It feels like yesterday when you were 14...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: notquitethere on February 12, 2023, 11:39:56 am
OK, last bids for survival. We know there was a meteorite on the other side of the planet, so there will be nutrients there. We just need to spread the plantlife. This turn three species will speciate, with some staying behind with adaptation to the new shellfolk order, and others will leave across the vast uninhabitable sea to create new biomes safe from unsustainable predation.

Speciate Grönland Livyat:
1. Massively increase the Trimethylamine N-oxide levels in its flesh, allowing it to live at lower pressures and also making its flesh toxic (it might be being squeezed out, but this might help it live on the periphery). [SS]
2. Flatten the back of this Lifeship Livyat, making it a solid platform for algae to encrust and grow. Send it out across the uninhabitable zone to live on the other side of the planet.

Whose going to cultivate that algae onto the Livat?

Speciate the Croccy Terrub:
1. Become domesticated and send to the Shellfolk homelands in the shallows to act as their all-purpose livestock and companion animals (this may require the parasitism aspect of their lifecycle to end, with eggs instead being cultivated by Shellfolk as an industrial foodstuff) [SS]
2. Become symbiotic with the Lifeship Livyat, cultivating plantlife on their bodies (again might need to atrophy the sludgiboo egg laying).

Who else is taking the Lifeship?

Speciate Clingy Dikencovy
1. Move to the Shallows and become barnacle-like, latching onto the Kō-Äh's gelatinous forms (linking their success to that of the Ko) [SS]
2. Become symbiotic with the Lifeship Livyat, hitching a ride on its back, eating algae particles cultivated by the terrub, and helping feed the Livyat and Terrub in turn.



Happy Birthday KW!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 12, 2023, 12:04:30 pm
Thought this was a lake?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: notquitethere on February 12, 2023, 01:32:59 pm
We're in the small habitable part of a huge planet-wide ocean:

completely abbysal planet covered with a global, dozen kilometer deep ocean, called the Lazzic Ocean,
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 12, 2023, 04:04:37 pm
Thought this was a lake?

What kind of world were you livin' in before?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 12, 2023, 04:07:04 pm
2. Flatten the back of this Lifeship Livyat, making it a solid platform for algae to encrust and grow. Send it out across the uninhabitable zone to live on the other side of the planet.

Ummmmmm, there is no other habitable space on this planet. Even if there was, it is outside of the games scope.

What is on the Seamount stays on the Seamount.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: notquitethere on February 12, 2023, 04:24:02 pm
I guess I'll die then!

OK, do the same, but the Livyat just goes on long migratory journeys between the different biomes instead.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 15, 2023, 03:36:10 pm
I guess I'll die then!

OK, do the same, but the Livyat just goes on long migratory journeys between the different biomes instead.

Okay how about this;

Your lifeboats swim out into the almost sterile abyys and enter a deep stasis for decades, maybe even a century. After that, they come back to the Seamount to feed and reproduce, and then disperse again in these long cycles, and may live for millenia. Their neotenic, atavistic babies would live on the seamount as a sort of school fish.

The abyysal ocean is too deep for any meaningful amount of nutrients to be found on the surface. The only reason life exists here is that the Seamount exists.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: TricMagic on February 15, 2023, 03:54:55 pm
If there is another turn, the Kō-Äh could also do something similar. Mostly via returning to Plant, as all things should be. Food gathered purely through photsynthesis of giant mats, with maybe one or two Kings being alive each generation to keep things going, with a few aids.
Granted, then sets in elunili(or however it's spelled), and they end up going mad and falling apart into wild growths without direction or minds.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 15, 2023, 04:45:43 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Grönland Livyat
    A: Be deep sea fish by increasing Trimethylamine N-oxide
    B: Flatten back for algea to grow, and be marine Reapers
2: Split Croccy Terrub
    A: Suck up to the Shellfolk
    B: Symbiosis with Lifeboat Livyat
3: Split Clingy Dikencovy
    A: Become barnacle-like
    B: Symbiosis with Lifeboat Livyat

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Kō-Äh Union:
    A: Mate Dancer Joltwings into the collective (SS)
    B: Due to above action, Scout caste is created (SS)
2: Kō-Äh Diplomacy:
    A: Create meat slime caste
    B: Offer meat slime tribute to the Shellfolk
3: Kō-Äh Cultivate:
    A: Send colony ship to Çay uplift
    B: Mutate AoC-purposed Slime Hub caste.

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: Advance into the Chalcolithic Age
2: Even more advancee brain
3: Reiterative immortality
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: notquitethere on February 15, 2023, 05:21:15 pm
Okay how about this;

Your lifeboats swim out into the almost sterile abyys and enter a deep stasis for decades, maybe even a century. After that, they come back to the Seamount to feed and reproduce, and then disperse again in these long cycles, and may live for millenia. Their neotenic, atavistic babies would live on the seamount as a sort of school fish.
Yes that makes more sense. Good idea, I'm happy with that.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Sockmit2007 on February 17, 2023, 08:05:37 am
*clap* *clap* *clap* quite an intresting game.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 35
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 17, 2023, 05:24:41 pm
*clap* *clap* *clap* quite an intresting game.

Does a series of bows to an invisible crowd, dignified and validated.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 17, 2023, 08:07:24 pm
Turn 35



The Events
Power: 71
Temperament: 5



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The eruptions are still happening, but not as often as before. The effects of them have been reduced.

The seafloor has risen above the water in numerous places. all connected to the Lauv island., increasing its capacity from 8 to 10, while substractung from the Guguli Shallows.

The gap between Guguli shallows and Çay Uplift is still closing. Çay Uplift has expanded by two as well. Both seafloors will combine in the next turn. The dice delayed the merge.

Stalward Rhinofish, Deflating Puffercovy, False Thorngrazer, Bitey Dikencovy, Deepdiver Livyat and Spiny Barnacovyhas gone extinct.



The Guguli Shallows | Primordial Chaos Biome | (5/? species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (3/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/12 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The Giants Back | Algea Growth Biome | (2/2 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)


Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 17, 2023, 09:07:45 pm

The Shellfolk: Increase size/strength, each Shellfolk shall be a titan to other creatures.

The Shellfolk: Further develop the tech tree.

The Shellfolk: Create various organs along the lining of the Shellfolk body that concentrate and enhance the power of their bio electricity. Organic Lightning bolts? 




Make the meat slime better and you’ll live, probably. The development of cattle decreased it to only minus 10, so having a sustainable food source would probably help you in the moment.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 18, 2023, 09:34:08 am
Speciate the Suicidal Puffercovy
1. Mutate slime gland so that it can coat itself in disguising secretions to gain protection in the Kō-Äh ecosystem (possible displacing the Gardeners) [SS]
2. Co-evolve powerful diseases that effect reproductivity which are harmless to the Puffercovy, but spread when it explodes and its disease-laced needles perforate other species.

Speciate the Stalward Octorhino
1. Become much smaller, to take advantage of the empty niche for very small hervivores [SS]
2. Improve legs to become more adept at galloping

Improve the Lifeboat Livyat:
1. Improve the memory of the Lifeboat Livyat, so it can build up useful memories of threats, feeding grounds etc. over its long lifetime (like an alephant does) [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 29
Post by: notquitethere on February 18, 2023, 10:12:45 am
Here's the latest state of the species:

(https://i.imgur.com/btzQf8l.png)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36
Post by: TricMagic on February 18, 2023, 12:16:46 pm

The Shellfolk: Increase size/strength, each Shellfolk shall be a titan to other creatures.

The Shellfolk: Further develop the tech tree.

The Shellfolk: Create various organs along the lining of the Shellfolk body that concentrate and enhance the power of their bio electricity. Organic Lightning bolts? 




Make the meat slime better and you’ll live, probably. The development of cattle decreased it to only minus 10, so having a sustainable food source would probably help you in the moment.
I'd ask to stop increasing your requirements for life.

Team X2
Kō-Äh: Meat Slimes Alteration
\Meat slimes are modified to produce a slow-metabolism enzyme, reducing food requirements in those that eat it. This has the side effect of making them delicacies with their fatty meat, perfect for more sedentary Shellfolk who spend most of their time in a single place. (A number of Meatslime Orchard stalks are even donated to the Shellfolk to use as cattle producers, both made without any sapient minds) [SS Roll]
 \A number Meat Slimes are modified to be extremely attractive to Hydra Turnips and used as bait to cull the parasites' population. [SS Roll]

Kō-Äh Farm Life
\Poultry Terrub are cultivated to lay eggs. Males are culled to control the breeding population and females used for a steady source of protein in Ko-Ah diets. [SS Roll]
\Their farming ground is improved, growing plenty of seaweed within the Hub to graze them on.

Kō-Äh:Crossbreeding Shipbuilding
\Floating Slimehubs are developed from Hubs, small ships focused on photosynthesis sent into the open seas for future generations, with a King Slime born each generation to tend to their own personal garden. They travel in groups and stick to near surface much like the mats of old. The ships use a waterjet to move, and gas-sacks filled by algae to keep them afloat, with large ferns forming the deck where photosynthesis happens. Gardeners are the main subjects, meant to tend to the ships Orchards, with small numbers of others. As an aside, Saturnal Flufiflimp have also been discovered, and their solar fins are used as the basis for the ferns, allowing better direction of the ship. (They've been added to the collective's data) [SS Roll]
\Saturnal fins are merged into Gardeners for photosynthesizing and movement. Long time coming this.



Better meat slimes, as ordered. These reduce how much you eat and move, a slower metabolism is always a good thing.
Also, Hydras need to go down a bit, they are a drain on our populations.
Meanwhile, Saturnals join the information they have access to, though no new caste. And Poultry are farmed for their eggs.

This is now Civilization BC: Magmacube Edition.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 18, 2023, 02:09:16 pm
This is now Civilization BC: Magmacube Edition.

All evolution-themed forum games reach this state sooner or later. Trust me, I know from experience.

It won't last forever though.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 18, 2023, 02:39:06 pm
Certainly not going without a fight. If anyone wants to join before the change there is now a mindless mass of plant-meatslimes around.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 18, 2023, 03:05:47 pm
I like how we've pursued three different speciation strategies:
- LGEM: Maximises branching the tree for variety
- X2: continually branch and merge species until one final huge merge
- Perfect Predator: put most effort into just one core species

I've experienced the most extinctions but I also have more living species than everyone else combined. (Though maybe not for much longer.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 18, 2023, 03:27:36 pm
Yeah, this has been a very fun thing to GM so far. I loved the ways life diversified. Can you guys recall how all this emerged from a featureless flesh orb the size of a pea? Me neither.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 18, 2023, 03:36:10 pm
Meanwhile the Wandertree is about to just die cause it can no longer merge with the rest of it's old family. Turn into a plant already, you'd be safer.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 18, 2023, 04:57:08 pm
Meanwhile the Wandertree is about to just die cause it can no longer merge with the rest of it's old family. Turn into a plant already, you'd be safer.

You can turn it into a plant with some minor adjustments. But it comes with a huge downside.

It won't be an animal anymore. You will essentially make it a part of the background, permanently.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 18, 2023, 05:04:16 pm
Meanwhile the Wandertree is about to just die cause it can no longer merge with the rest of it's old family. Turn into a plant already, you'd be safer.

You can turn it into a plant with some minor adjustments. But it comes with a huge downside.

It won't be an animal anymore. You will essentially make it a part of the background, permanently.
Better than most. Set down roots, hopefully survive in the background as part of the ecosystem.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 18, 2023, 05:04:32 pm
Yeah, this has been a very fun thing to GM so far. I loved the ways life diversified. Can you guys recall how all this emerged from a featureless flesh orb the size of a pea? Me neither.
The first few splits set in the main visual differentiators of the three animal subtypes: spiky nut; slimeball; or tendrils. The evolutionary zoologists of the future of this world would have a hard time working out the evolutionary origins of the Kō-Äh though!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 36
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 18, 2023, 06:22:13 pm
Turn 36



The Events
Power: 44
Temperament: 5



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The eruptions are still becoming less and less often, but what had begun has already ran its course. Guguli Shallows and Çay Uplift have merged into a single biome. And with that Shellfolk now has full access to the natives of the latter habitat. The combined seabed is essentially the all of the seamount. So the new habitat is named Yanardag Shelf.

Roaming Wandertree and Dancer Joltwing are extinct.

Saturnal Fluffilimp has been absorbed into the Kō-Äh.


Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (2/10 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Yanardag Shelf | Primordial Chaos Biome | (12/? species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)




The Giants Back | Algea Growth Biome | (2/2 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 37 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 18, 2023, 06:26:00 pm
Knightwing, please direct your hunger at the mass of meat dividing out of control.

Team X2
Take 3 at producing colony ship, see last attempt for specifics. [SS Roll]
Farming foul poultry, see last attempt, take 2.
Sticky Trap for Hydra Turnips, Take 2.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 37 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 19, 2023, 01:10:03 pm
The Shellfolk: Modify their digestive tract, allowing them to eat anything although still enjoying and deriving more nutrients from meat. Stomach acids are much more acidic to allow for digestion of stranger meals.

The Shellfolk: Tech +1

The Shellfolk: Use the stem cells to actively regenerate from any lethal wounds if in mortal danger 
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 37 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 19, 2023, 03:15:19 pm
Speciate Galloping Octohorse
1. Make camoflauged against the grassland, harder to hunt [ss]
2. 'Improve' the herding instinct, to allow it to be trainable as a riding animal or beast of burden

(Might be a lost cause, but they're the main omnivore I have here, so:)

Speciate Secondarily Yunus
1. Improve the opportunistic feeding instincts, to maximise poultry snatching (from the huge Poultry Terrub flocks)
2. Improve brainpower- specifically alertness to danger (make it super paranoid) -  and send it to bask on the shores of Lauv Island [SS]

Improve Lifeboat Livyat, give it hearing with new ear canals (to better navigate the depths, and avoid the noise of dangerous settlements)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 37 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 19, 2023, 05:38:24 pm
Meanwhile...

"Sir, the Soldier squad 34-67-37 has returned back to the base with a peculiar report at the fissure site."

In the domain of the Kō-Äh, in a dense, ancient, well-engineered growth of Orchards, two Kings convened. Powerful creatures these Kings were, possesing remarkable intellect, and great quasi-psionic abilities. Their bulbous, spherical bodies propelled themselves with a series of flippers and water jets. The larger and the elder of the two used these to manuever around, to face the smaller and younger King.

"You may tell me what this report entails."

"Sir, the Soldier squad have detected an incredibly strange creature while on patrol. It is an extraordinarily hot being, as hot as mountain blood, and is seemingly made of that substance, as its visage is akin to it. It is also perfectly cubical, and makes strange sounds like the Ravagers everywhere it goes."

"Interesting. Are we sure this is not a mirage of sorts? Or some Ravager sorcery previously unknown to us?"

"I can't answer that sir. But the soldiers in question had no flaws."

"Then we will simply assume that something truely anomalous lurks in our water. Whatever the case, we need more information. We must contact this being to determine if it is a threat to our collective. And we shall do this in stealth. If it involves mountain blood, then it is inherently dangerous. In this case, it is downright unacceptable since is alive and autonomous."

"What is your plan sir?"

"Pick your most trusted subordinates and have them commandeer Scouts to continue observation. Secure a perimeter and disseminate a cover up story as freak volcanic activity happening in the area. Contain the anomaly in that zone. Protect the collective."

Unbenownst to them, however, there was a third listener to their little conversation.

The mountain heard.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 37 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 19, 2023, 05:53:23 pm
Ah, socialist limes as nature intended.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30 pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 21, 2023, 05:52:38 pm
Turn 37



The Events
Power: 47
Temperament: 2



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

Lauv island, as uninhabitable as it seems now, houses one giant, Alagadda-esque city populated by lovecraftian creatures. This development is the result of a chain of technological advancements made in Shellfolk sciences.

The city encircles the coast almost completely, only sparing a select few rocky cliff faces, and the inner, higher parts of the island, where the mountain, a shield volcano slowly expanding throught literal ages of small but steady eruptions, have become a kilometer high, with many slopes and plateaus for grass to grow. This place is now cut from the shore almost completely, and Lauv island is now two biomes.

The City of Kabuk, a medieval metropolis that gets its food from the sea, and Yayla Highland, a temperate montane meadow. Poultry Terrub has been moved to The City of Kabuk due to the Shellfolk becoming sedentary.

Greater Sweeping Dikencovy, Decisive Uncod, Roundgut Uncod, and Shorepeeker Yunus are extinct.



Yayla Highland | Montane Meadow Biome | (2/6 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



The City of Kabuk | Medieval City Biome | (4/4 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)



Yanardag Shelf | Primordial Chaos Biome | (7/? species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)




The Giants Back | Algea Growth Biome | (2/2 species)
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 21, 2023, 06:16:03 pm
Goodbye Wandeertrees, enjoy being scenery.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 22, 2023, 04:55:49 am
Exciting developments! Love those poor Hapsburg Terrubs...

Now they're settled, are the Shellfolk still giving their ongoing -10 to the highland and shelf?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 22, 2023, 05:24:30 am
Now they're settled, are the Shellfolk still giving their ongoing -10 to the highland and shelf?

They do not hunt in the highland. The low population is merely the pre-recovery numbers.

Also, direct consumption is not the leading factor at this point. Livestock are.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 22, 2023, 06:38:07 am
Zebra Octohorse
1. Improve the horn, splitting it into several spurs to more efficiently uproot vegetation. [SS]
2. Improve legs, growing hardened keratin hooves for roving

Lifeboat Livyat
1. Evolve vocal chords, to sing across the vast ocean, communicating messages between its kind. [SS]

Racoon Yunus
1. Evolve sharp claw like hands for scurrying up and over walls, and grasping stolen terrubs
2. Increase intelligence further, for scavenging and den building and send to live in the Yayla Highland [SS]
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 24, 2023, 05:00:09 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Zebra Octohorse
    A: Improve horns to be more numerous (SS)
    B: Hooves
2: Singing communication for Lifeboat Livyat (SS)
3: Split Racoon Yunus
    A: Evolve grasping, clawed flippers
    B: Make landfall, again (SS) (Yunus had become aquatic again, remember?)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 24, 2023, 05:12:24 pm
Team X2
Speciation and Growth
\Rebuild the Orchards of the Yanardag Shelf, restoring the forest. Their fruits born from sunlight will alleviate the food shortage.
 \Develop a land-bearing version of the Orchards. No mind, just sturdy roots and fruit-bearing fans, a tree that can be harvested.

Long Term Hibernation
\Have Arks sail out into the greater seas, spreading to other areas.
 \Develop an Ark for long term hibernation, buried deep underground and using the growth of algae to provide air and energy.

Warfare and History
\Develop obsidian-based equipment for capture, processing, and study of anomalous creatures.
 \Mutate an Ancestor, bereft of mind but capable of endless evolution. The first in the line brought back to life for study. [SS Roll] (The first branch of Team X2)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 24, 2023, 06:37:30 pm
\Develop obsidian-based equipment for capture, processing, and study of anomalous creatures.

Oh no, what would I ever do?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 24, 2023, 07:52:24 pm
\Develop obsidian-based equipment for capture, processing, and study of anomalous creatures.

Oh no, what would I ever do?
(They are described as eco engineers. I don't expect it to work.)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 31
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 26, 2023, 04:40:52 pm
Team LGEM
notquitethere:
1: Split Zebra Octohorse
    A: Improve horns to be more numerous (SS)
    B: Hooves
2: Singing communication for Lifeboat Livyat (SS)
3: Split Racoon Yunus
    A: Evolve grasping, clawed flippers
    B: Make landfall, again (SS) (Yunus had become aquatic again, remember?)

Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Ecoenginnering:
    A: Regrow the plantimal jungle
    B: Develop a land orchard
2: Order Arks to sail far into the ocean, and bury one into the ground.
3: Scientific endevours:
    A: Obsidian eqiupment
    B: Revive the first Sludgoboo to live (SS)

Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64:
1: ...
2: ...
3: ...

KNIGHTWING!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on February 26, 2023, 05:08:36 pm
The Shellfolk eat an infected Terrub leg and die of food poisoning.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 26, 2023, 05:24:45 pm
Knıghtwing

2009-2023


Rest in Pieces
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 26, 2023, 05:37:52 pm
Oop

I got u fam
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 26, 2023, 05:45:45 pm
Oh Gods! He has risen!
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 26, 2023, 05:54:53 pm
Hmm, I have no predators or enemies that can reach me. Well, time to build up foundation until I can make a nuke.


The Shellfolk: Upgrade tech, authority positions are given to Shellfolk who have physical abilities above the rest, or who are smarter. The reigning Shellfolk king and various other nobility titles are given to whoever is smartest/strongest to lead the rest to a age of even greater efficiency.


The Shellfolk: Upgrade the brain even further, to the point where Shellfolk can attempt to reliably predict the
future through advanced probability equations based on prior data and evidence.


The Shellfolk: Send a squad of scouts to make contact with the strange mountain god we keep hearing about, see if any mutually beneficial relationships or trades could be made with this entity.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 26, 2023, 05:56:25 pm
Yup, next I’ll make a zombie virus???

Maybe?

Well, there’s a few fungus’s who do things similar in rl, so I guess it wouldn’t be too far fetched…





HMMMmMmM
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 38 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on February 27, 2023, 05:22:08 pm
Turn 38



The Events
Power: 97
Temperament: 1 (eheehhuhu oh no)



The Actions
Spoiler (click to show/hide)



The World

The Skyboulder seemed to come ever closer to the ground and the sea, the Ascendants noticed. They observed, they foresaw, then, they went to pray.

They went up to the mountain, as they always do. But this time there, they found someone. The mountain god.

The god of mountain blood spoke, told them the secrets of space and time, matter and energy. They learned these under his command, and with that knowledge, they made the impossible.

The Ascendants built a ship. Not a ship to cruise through the waves but one to pass between the stars. They put inside it a thousand eggs from a thousand different duels, then sent it off to someplace else. Where, the mountain god does not know.

Then the moon broke. Skyboulder broke into pieces and each of these pieces bombarded the ocean with such force that almost toppled the Seamount from its very foundation.

The City died. The Island did too. Many things died to the crushing force of a wave large enough to break mountains.

Then the world fell under a decades long spell of cold.

One Lifeboat made it through all of it. Just one. It returned where it knew home and died there. It's passengers though, the green fuzz and the piggybackers, they simply got off and went their way, there they encountered the tough grass of the sea, and some distantrelatives. There they took the infection of the Second Mind, which had survived with the survivors.

As these were occuring, the rocks lifted to reveal a single giant vessel. It was buried under the earth to sleep through the end of the world. And it had succeeded in its mission to survive into the future.

The world has started anew.



Dwarf Octorhino, Tusked Octohorse, Clippy Octohorse, Horsie Octohorse, Seal Yunus, Theiving Quadcat, Slimy Puffercovy Puritan Puffercovy, Slimy Remnant and Terrestrial Slimetree are extinct.

The Poultry Terrub and Habsburg Terrub have merged, creating the Feral Seapoult.

The Lifeboat Livyat fullfilled its purpose.

The Shellfolk have left the planet.



Overbroad Shale | Vast Barren Underwater Rock Biome | 5/10 species
Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 27, 2023, 05:27:55 pm
Even at the end of time the Hyrda somehow manages to survive.

The Kō-Äh have also managed a single small group. Sapience lives on in mourning.

(https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640911259474329601/1079894503239991417/image.png) (https://youtu.be/EEhpKadFfRA)
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 27, 2023, 05:48:00 pm
AYYYYYY

W FOR ME, LETS GOO

There should be a rematch of this, it would be fun. Maybe the fluff could be a new planet that the Shellfolk have seeded with life, or something.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 27, 2023, 05:56:11 pm
The Shellfolk managed to evolve themselves out of existence, good job. Now you just have the random Hydra Turnip.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 27, 2023, 06:27:36 pm
No, don’t try to spin this Tric. I ascended my species to a higher plane, that was a victory. Don’t you even.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 27, 2023, 07:27:35 pm
You know Magma is gonna call. Who ya gonna bust?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on February 27, 2023, 08:36:36 pm
I refuse to believe I lost for being too good. I’m pretty sure I won.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on February 27, 2023, 08:48:19 pm
Doesn't mean the game has ended. Hydras are still here.

Team X2
Very little remains of the past wonders of the Kō-Äh. The fields are barren, moon broken and shattered. What happened to the other Arks is unknown, and history has faded into folklore. The Last Prince sits upon their moldy throne. Though melancholy, they survived, and lived on. It would be a betrayal to give up now.

Downsize. The ancient Orchards that make up the Ark are old and weary. Use them to spread seagrass and kelp around the rocky bed to try and heal the sea.
Break. Develop Earthturners like the ancient ones, capable of breaking rock down into silt through their acids. The better for life to grow.
Lighten. Let the Gardeners take cuttings of the Orchards, massive lilies that absorb what sunlight exists and forms fruits on their underside. [SS Roll]

Nothing like the great kelp forests of the past, but a start to help restore the ecosystem and provide food.

Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on March 01, 2023, 06:51:59 pm
We could continue, but I'm happy to call the game there as it's a nice ending point. A bittersweet dawn of a new age. What do we reckon?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on March 01, 2023, 06:52:34 pm
I kinda want to keep playing though.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on March 02, 2023, 04:08:36 pm
I think I want to call it an ending too. This game can go on for an eternity, and if I end it here, I can finally say that I finished a forum game for once.

Bolivian Army Ending it is.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on March 02, 2023, 04:34:21 pm
Well, can say the Slimes succeeded too. Not many left, but they will go on to rule the seas. Hopefully. Sadly we will not sea that.

Another game of CE Magmacube?
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: notquitethere on March 02, 2023, 04:53:43 pm
Thank you for running, Magma, that was a lot of creative fun, trying variously to out compete one another and live alongside one another.

Here's a fun fact I learned recently: about 40-50% of all animals are parasites. Knightwing was on to something.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: TricMagic on March 02, 2023, 05:23:52 pm
Same. Just wish it could go on a bit longer.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Magmacube_tr on March 02, 2023, 05:33:55 pm
Yea, this was a blast. Like, I didn't expect it would evolve to this.

As for Season 4, later down the line, most likely.
Title: Re: Competitive Evolution: Season 3 | Turn 39 | 30+ pages of competitive evolvin'
Post by: Knightwing64 on March 02, 2023, 08:29:35 pm
AYYYYYY

Validation! I also knew speciation was a lie, let’s go. GG, can’t wait for season 4 :)