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[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 35


The Events
Power: 71
Temperament: 5


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Split Grönland Livyat:
    A: Be deep sea fish by increasing T. N-oxide: 1+(-2)=no
    B: Flatten back for algea growth, and be marine Reapers: 5
2: Split Croccy Terrub:
    A: Suck up to the Shellfolk: 3+0=3
    B: Symbiosis with Lifeboat Livyat: 4
3: Split Clingy Dikencovy:
    A: Become barnacle-like: 2+(-3)= This sucks
    B: Symbiosis with Lifeboat Livyat: 3
SS: 2, 4, 1


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Kō-Äh Union:
    A: Mate Dancer Joltwings into the collective: 6
    B: Due to above action, Scout caste is created: 3+1=4
2: Kō-Äh Diplomacy:
    A: Create meat slime caste: 3
    B: Offer meat slime tribute to the Shellfolk: 3
3: Kō-Äh Cultivate:
    A: Send colony ship to Çay uplift: 1
    B: Mutate AoC-purposed Slime Hub caste: 3
SS: 6, 5


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Advance into the Chalcolithic Age: 1+1=2
2: Even more advanced brain: 3+1=4
3: Reiterative immortality: 5
SS: 5

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)

An incredibly polymorphic, eusocial species of gelatinous, complex animal that comes in many forms which support the greater whole. It forms entire ecosystems upon itself alone. Kelp-like, towering, nourishing Orchards which terraform and grow stalks of fruit and embryoes for the others to eat and spawn from. Small, cheap and unassuming Assassins to kill select targets and overwhelm by sheer numbers. The flat, fragile and circular Gardeners to maintain its very own habitat. Numerous, gaseous and prehensile Air Balloons to reach onto the sky and land. Hardshelled, noxious and sharpended Soldiers to form armies that cut, impale, slash and defend, with the large, powerful and imposing Hubs for them to dock and move around with security. Semi-autonomous, amphibious and flightful Scouts to observe and project force onto the dry grounds. Icky and watery Meat Slime to eat and sate onself and others. And finally, The King of All Slime, the large and powerful, self-aware, seldom hatched minds to rule them all. It is capable of designing its environment and eco-engineer to a remarkable degree thanks to its sapience.

An animal that is an obligate parasite, with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a developed brain and an acid resistant, hardened shell of flesh. They jet around by pushing water off their gills, and have a sense of smell to detect things around. They are somehow resilient to unfavourable conditions, and can survive alone for a short amount of time. They anchor themselves to their hosts via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock from their electric gland to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow in it and direct it to better feeding grounds. They also secrete a chemical cocktail to boost the hosts strenght, which also acts like a dopamine boost, a chemical lobotomy and a pacifier to make the host perfectly obedient to its will. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators. They reproduce via budding much smaller Turnips, that are ejected via the host coughing them up.

An apex predatorial, true amphibious, sophont animal the size of a football with many long, hyperflexible, very muscular, skin penetrating, paralysing, sludgiboo-repellant venom-coated tendrils that also function as legs on land, a brain comparable to that of a genius modern human, an efficent, closed circulatory system, a carnivorous digestive tract with a set of sharp teeth and a very tough, calcified, isolative, very heavy shell. It's body is very regenerative. They swiftly jet around and launch up by pushing water off a powerful water siphon, and breathe by another, smaller siphon lined with water-retaining gills, which can also function on land for very long periods. They have a sense of smell and electrolocation, along with movement-based, frog-like eyes, and a sense of echolocation to detect things around. They anchor themselves to their prey via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock to stun the it, then using the tendrils to tear it into pieces. Between their eyes is a short stalk that ends in a bioluminescent organ that they use to communicate. They mimic the electrical signature of Sarpesium to not be noticed, which doesn't work anymore. They reproduce in two ways. First is much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon. The second happens when they die. A clump of stem cells consume the dead body and create a copy of the deceased. They do animal husbandry and make various items from bones, rock and rarely copper due to its scarcity on the rocks.

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all other animals. Each turn.

A herbivorous, soft-bodied animal the size of a medium-small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a ring of keratin teeth around its mouth that shears seagrass. It can inflate itself into a ball to straighten out its spikes, turning itself into a spiky ball. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It is a semi-eusocial creature that always moves in groups, with some being born as sterile, self-sacrificial, explosive drones. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

An aquatic animal the size of a large lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. It is a domestic farm animal uses by the shellfolk, with various breeds for meat and eggs. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females drop their eggs off their ovipositor.

Lauv Island | Grassland Island | (3/10 species)

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A small, bush-like plantimal that is usually a meter in size, with a beating heart and a small clump of nerves at its center. It has a spherical main body, topped by branches with leaves. It has a sense of electrolocation, provided by two large sensitive eyepots on its chloroplast-filled, poison-infused slime skin. It has many thin tentacles underneath that act as mobile roots, and a gas sack in its center that allows it to float around. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA through airborne spores. It lives on land, in large, migratory and unorganised groves, and can be found anywhere on the island.

A predatory, partially photosynthetic, omnivorous animal that is a half a meter long kite with many interlocking, wide, thin, bony, electrode plates that culminate in a sharp point at the head. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin that has a round, engulfing mouth in their middle and a well developed brain on the back, along with many small eyespots on its face that allows it to vaguely see. It has air-breathing gills under its armor plates, an oxygen bladder, and a circulatory system that connects them to a heart. It moves around by a gas jet on its back. It has a large gas bladder that is lighter than air, and it glides in the air and water alike with a pair of extended, serrated plates on its sides that also secrete and inject a hallucinogenic substance. A set of tendrils grow out of the bases of these plates. It is social, and lives in small packs, using a body language of wobbly dances to communicate and electric outlines to identify eachother. It reproduces by internal fertilisation through RNA and producing endospores with the additional ability to fertilise other species with compatible gamates.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals.

A mostly herbivorous animal the size and shape of a 5 meter long, wide fish with a meter long horn coming from its head. It has spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, an open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. It has a swim bladder, an adrenal gland along with a set of muscles that control its eight short legs. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

The Çay Uplift | Algea Prairie Biome | (7/12 species)

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A filterfeeding animal the size of a very large fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a set of keratin baleen in its mouth that it uses to rake algea. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It grows all throught life at a fast pace, eventually growing too large to live. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, long, herbivorous digestive canal with gut flora that runs through it. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its piscine body and fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes, fish ears, and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its piscine body and fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

An apex predatory, photosynthetic animal that is akin to a giant, 15 centimeter big, veiny and fluffy lotus with a beating heart and a small brain at its center, along with many short, stocky tendrils on its underside and a ring of large flat extensions around its diameter. It finds its way via electrolocation by two large sensitive eyepots on its slime skin, along with many small eyespots that allows it to vaguely see. It has a swim bladder on the center of its body. It reproduces via broadcast fertilisation and dispersion of RNA and spores.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals.

A mostly herbivorous, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a 3 meter long, round seal, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, a robust, beaked jaw, and a omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its three pairs of paddless. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

An omnivorous, photosynthetic animal the size and shape of a titanic, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, open, immunised, circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its sharp toothed mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes, a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle and a set of long whiskers, all connected to a simple brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. Under its throat is a gland that neutralises poisons. It has an incredibly slow metabolism, and can live for millenia. It has a perfect flat, soft skinned back that grows algea, which supports a whole ecosystem of symbiotes and sustains it with photosynthesis during its decades long slumbers. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its thousand young via milk from its thousand belly teats for short while, before leaving off into the abbys again. It has an insanely long reproductive cycle, maybe once in 50 years time.

What remains and has become of the Kō-Äh colony ship. A mindless mass of Meat Slime that herbivores love to eat. It reproduces by making more of itself.

The Giants Back | Algea Growth Biome | (2/2 species)

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An ambush  predatory, aquatic animal the size of a medium lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. It instinctively cultivates large beds of algea to lure prey. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females lay their eggs on the algea beds.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals.

An algea grazing animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a set of keratin baleen in its mouth that it uses to rake algea. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of hooked fins, which it uses to cling to the giants back. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

[Knightwing64]

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.

[notquitethere]

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]

[notquitethere]

Here's the latest state of the species:

[TricMagic]

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.

[Magmacube_tr]

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.

[TricMagic]

Certainly not going without a fight. If anyone wants to join before the change there is now a mindless mass of plant-meatslimes around.

[notquitethere]

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.)

[Magmacube_tr]

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.

[TricMagic]

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.

[Magmacube_tr]

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.

[TricMagic]

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.

[notquitethere]

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!

[Magmacube_tr]

Turn 36


The Events
Power: 44
Temperament: 5


The Actions

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Team LGEM
notquitethere
1: Split Suicidal Puffercovy:
    A: Be commensal via skin slime among Kō-Äh: 4+3=
    Capped at 5
    B: Evolve papillomavirus: 5
2: Split Stalwart Octorhino:
    A: Dwarfism: 5+1+(-3)=3
    B: Improve legs: 4+1=5
3: Improve Lifeboat Livyat's brain: 5+1+2=Capped at 5
SS: 7, 1, 6


Team X2
TricMagic:
1: Split Kō-Äh Meat Slime Caste:
    A: Produce an enzyme to give a saturating feel: 4+1=5
    B: Sticky trap for Turnips: 2+1+(-2)=1
2: Kō-Äh cultivates Poultry Terrub and helps them with their
    algea: 1+1+(-2)=0
3: Kō-Äh adds the DNA of the Saturnal Fluffilimp and uses it: 2
SS: 2, 2, 2 (these rolls are duckin ridiculous)


Team Perfect Predator
Knightwing64
1: Gigantism: 4+1+(-1)=4
2: Advance into the Iron Age, skipping bronze out of scarcity
    because the local volcano god hated copper: 5+1=Capped
    at 5
3: Improve bioelectricity: 2+1=3
SS: 3

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)

A mostly herbivorous animal the size and shape of a half a meter long, wide capybara with a meter long horn coming from its head. It has spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, an open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. It has a swim bladder, an adrenal gland along with a set of muscles that control its eight short legs. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

A mostly herbivorous animal the size and shape of a 5 meter long, wide horse with a meter long horn coming from its head. It has spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, an open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a brain that loves sparkly stuff, and a wide jaw that leads to a long, three sectioned digestive canal. It has a swim bladder, an adrenal gland along with a set of muscles that control its eight long, digitgrade legs. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

Yanardag Shelf | Primordial Chaos Biome | (12/? species)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

An incredibly polymorphic, eusocial species of gelatinous, complex animal that comes in many forms which support the greater whole. It forms entire ecosystems upon itself alone. Kelp-like, towering, nourishing Orchards which terraform and grow stalks of fruit and embryoes for the others to eat and spawn from. Small, cheap and unassuming Assassins to kill select targets and overwhelm by sheer numbers. The flat, frilly and circular Gardeners to maintain its very own habitat. Numerous, gaseous and prehensile Air Balloons to reach onto the sky and land. Hardshelled, noxious and sharpended Soldiers to form armies that cut, impale, slash and defend, with the large, powerful and imposing Floating Hubs for them to dock and move around with security, and to sail afar to safekeep a sample of the collective. Semi-autonomous, amphibious and flightful Scouts to observe and project force onto the dry grounds. Fatty and filling Meat Slime to eat and sate onself and others, though it is usually infested with a hedonistic parasite. And finally, The King of All Slime, the large and powerful, self-aware, seldom hatched minds to rule them all. It is capable of designing its environment and eco-engineer to a remarkable degree thanks to its sapience.

An animal that is an obligate parasite, with many long, muscular, skin penetrating feeding tendrils that end in keratin hooks, a developed brain and an acid resistant, hardened shell of flesh. They jet around by pushing water off their gills, and have a sense of smell to detect things around. They are somehow resilient to unfavourable conditions, and can survive alone for a short amount of time. They anchor themselves to their hosts via their tendrils, using a moderate electric shock from their electric gland to stun and control the movements of the host to burrow in it and direct it to better feeding grounds. They also secrete a chemical cocktail to boost the hosts strenght, which also acts like a dopamine boost, a chemical lobotomy and a pacifier to make the host perfectly obedient to its will. It does this with very little electric footprint, making it unobvious to predators. They reproduce via budding much smaller Turnips, that are ejected via the host coughing them up.

An apex predatorial, true amphibious, sophont animal the size of a beachball with many long, hyperflexible, very muscular, skin penetrating, paralysing, sludgiboo-repellant venom-coated tendrils that also function as legs on land, a brain comparable to that of a genius modern human, an efficent, closed circulatory system, a carnivorous digestive tract with a set of sharp teeth and a very tough, calcified, isolative, very heavy shell. It's body is very regenerative. They swiftly jet around and launch up by pushing water off a powerful water siphon, and breathe by another, smaller siphon lined with water-retaining gills, which can also function on land for very long periods. They have a sense of smell and electrolocation, along with movement-based, frog-like eyes, and a sense of echolocation to detect things around. They anchor themselves to their prey via their tendrils, using a powerful electric shock to stun it, then using the tendrils to tear it into pieces. Between their eyes is a short stalk that ends in a bioluminescent organ that they use to communicate. They can also use their electricity to send simple silent messages. They reproduce in two ways. First is much like flatworms, with the duels and all, using a single specialised tendril as a weapon. The second happens when they die. A clump of stem cells consume the dead body and create a copy of the deceased. They do animal husbandry and make various items from iron by smelting limonite, and sometimes bronze with the sparse copper and

Ecosystem effects: -10 population to all other animals. Each turn.

A herbivorous, soft-bodied animal the size of a medium-small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a ring of keratin teeth around its mouth that shears seagrass. It can inflate itself into a ball to straighten out its spikes, turning itself into a spiky ball. It is covered in a thin layer of slime that allows it to blend in with Kō-Äh growths. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It is a semi-eusocial creature that always moves in groups, with some being born as sterile, self-sacrificial, explosive drones. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A herbivorous, soft-bodied animal the size of a medium-small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a ring of keratin teeth around its mouth that shears seagrass. It can inflate itself into a ball to straighten out its spikes, turning itself into a spiky ball. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It is a semi-eusocial creature that always moves in groups, with some being born as sterile, self-sacrificial, explosive drones that spread a virus that neuter other animals. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

An aquatic animal the size of a large lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. It is a domestic farm animal uses by the shellfolk, with various breeds for meat and eggs. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females drop their eggs off their ovipositor.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a very large fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a set of keratin baleen in its mouth that it uses to rake algea. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of fins. It grows all throught life at a fast pace, eventually growing too large to live. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, long, herbivorous digestive canal with gut flora that runs through it. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its piscine body and fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A filterfeeding animal the size of a fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes, fish ears, and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its piscine body and fins. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

A mostly herbivorous, opportunistically omnivorous animal the size and shape of a 3 meter long, round seal, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, skeleton, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of lungs that connect to a blowhole at the top of the head, a pair of fish-like eyes and a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle, connected to a simple brain, a robust, beaked jaw, and a omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its three pairs of paddless. Females' parental drive extends to the young of others, which causes them to stick together in herds up to hundreds. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its young via milk from its belly teats.

An omnivorous, photosynthetic animal the size and shape of a titanic, round fish, with spiny hardened skin with saggy blubber underneath, a skeleton, open, immunised, circulatory system that both self-oxygenates from its sharp toothed mouth and esophagus, a pair of fish-like eyes, a tiny chemoreceptive third one in the middle and a set of long whiskers, all connected to a large, photographic brain, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it. It has a swim bladder along with a set of muscles that control its fins. Under its throat is a gland that neutralises poisons. It has an incredibly slow metabolism, and can live for millenia. It has a perfect flat, soft skinned back that grows algea, which supports a whole ecosystem of symbiotes and sustains it with photosynthesis during its decades long slumbers. It reproduces by internally hatching eggs that must be fertilised, and feeds its thousand young via milk from its thousand belly teats for short while, before leaving off into the abbys again. It has an insanely long reproductive cycle, maybe once in 50 years time.

What remains and has become of the Kō-Äh colony ship. A group of mindless, feral masses of Meat Slime that herbivores love to eat. It reproduces by making more of itself.

The Giants Back | Algea Growth Biome | (2/2 species)

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An ambush  predatory, aquatic animal the size of a medium lizard, with hardened skin, four pairs of stubby legs, many long spines, a pair of front claws, open circulatory system connected to a flail of gills and a single lung, and a suction-powered, omnivorous digestive canal that runs through it, with two eyes near the mouth and a brain behind them, all encompassed by a skeleton. Its soft tissues output the same electric signals algea growths does, which allows it to hide in its algea plots unseen. It instinctively cultivates large beds of algea to lure prey. Both sexes has a specialised spine on their head. Males inject the females with sperm, and females lay their eggs on the algea beds.

Ecosystem Effects: -15 population to all animals.

An algea grazing animal the size of a small fish, with spiny hardened skin, open, immunised circulatory system, a pair of fish-like eyes and a simple brain, and a suction-powered, herbivorous digestive canal that runs through it. There is a set of keratin baleen in its mouth that it uses to rake algea. It has a swim bladder and a simple lung that breathes air, along with a set of muscles that control its many pairs of hooked fins, which it uses to cling to the giants back. It reproduces by laying eggs that must be fertilised.

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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.