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[BlackPaladin99]

meh, hindsight 20/20

[Magmacube_tr]

If Bales hasn't acted when I wake up, I will skip him.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

• Fanfin flatfish: Evolve a sandy coloration used as camouflage
• Fanfin flatfish: Evolve to burrow into the sand and wait for prey to pass above it, then ambush it
• Fanfin flatfish: Evolve three long antennae that grow from the top of the head, which poke out of the sand and detect vibrations in water produced by prey

[Crystalizedmire]

Do the creatures with eyes even have colour cones?

[Magmacube_tr]

Do the creatures with eyes even have colour cones?

Nope!

[Crystalizedmire]

So these guys are developing camo colours for nothing?

[TricMagic]

Sunspots all the way down. Forenoon, anyway.

[Magmacube_tr]

TURN 9


Events

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Strength: 26 (SERIOUSLY!!! What am I supposed to do with a power level of 1!?) (Minor Event)
Timeframe: 18 (...You've got to be kidding me!) (4 Turns)
Temperament: 1 (Why is this a thing?! Alright, ummmmm...) (Awful Stuff)

Asymptomatic viral outbreak: 4 Turns Left

The entire lake is now beset by an omni-infectious virus that does absolutely nothing to the animals it infects. The fact that no animals have immune systems yet makes it clear how harmless it is.

Mouthbleeder Quillworm is extinct.


Actions

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FiveBalesOfHay
    1)Sandy coloration: 3
    2)Sand burrowing: 3
    3)Mechanoreceptive antennae: 2

Crystalizedmire
    1)Mandibles for Evergrowing Quillpede: 4
    SS)Speciate Evergrowing Quillpede:
       A)Exoskeleton: 4+1=5
       B)Paralytic venom legs and move to carnivory: 2+1=3
    2)Increased regenerative abilities for Lasting Quillworm: 3+1=4
    3)Circulatory system for Eggseeking Quillworm: 5

TricMagic
    1)Liver for Signalling Starwing: 2+1=3
    2)Speciate Signalling Starwing:
       A)Excretory system: 3
       B)Ammonia-absorbing moss growth on the back: 2
    3)Speciate 1A:
       A)Longer, shaper proboscis to eat more prey: 2+1=3
       B)Silt filled stomach to more efficently digest plants, lean herbivore: 5
    SS)Herbivory and benthic habits for 1B: 2

BlackPaladin99
    1)Larger size: 5
    2)Improve circulatory system: 3+1=4
    3)Feeler antennae: 1+1=2
    SS)Supporting Action 3: 5

Aeranthos
    1)Endoskeleton: 3
    2)Liver to filter ammonia into waste pellets: 5
    3)Sunspots to three eyes on above and sides of the mouth: 2+1=3
    SS)Bottom quills to eight legs: 2+1=3

The Biomes

The Mountain Lake | Freshwater Lake | (13 species in total)

Spoiler: Local Species (click to show/hide)

Summary: An carnivorous animal about a meter long covered in white skin, with a long, roundish body with two dark depressions on its front that are above a long, calcium hollow harpoon, with a ring of pinkish frills surrounding its base. It has three pairs of large, flat protrusion on its sides that act as fins and sails to pick up currents. It is dotted with many microscopic, benign cysts of bioluminescent symbiotic bacteria that gives it a slightly glittery apparance. It periodically flashes and releases a film of glowing matter onto the lake bed that stimulates bacteria growth. It coordinates the fertiliser releases with others through the flashing. It actively targets prey, large or small, stabbing them with its harpoon mouth and taking them apart.
Nervous System: It has a nervous system commaded by a simple ganglion.
Senses: It has a binocular pair of cup eyes on its body, which allows it to see shapes and distance.
Locomotion: Swimming like manta rays with 6 propeller fins and current surfing. It possesses muscles and an endoskeleton connected to the proboscis with a central cage for organs and places for the fin muscles to attach. A small dorsal ridge on its back helps with steering to some degree.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis with an internal lining of muscles to chew, which leads to a digestive tract with a simple stomach and intestine.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System:It has closed circulatory system with a three chambered heart, the first two pump blood in and out of the third, larger and flat chamber that's right underneath the gills. A liver filters ammonia from the bloodstream and processes it, and its kidneys dispose of it.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. Larger males fertilise the small number of eggs that females lay inside of them by linking their proboscii together. The young emerge as miniature adults.
Habitat: The water collumn.

Summary: A small, flat animal that resembles a squished tadpole with a horizantal fin. It has a main body that is 10 centimeters in length. It is colored a pale, dusty yellow. It has three small composite eyes above its mouth. It has three long, inflexible antennae around its mouth. It burrows into the sand with just its antennae above, then waits for prey.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, composite eyes on its head. Sense of water movement from three long, inflexible antennae around its mouth.
Locomotion: Muscle-based propulsion through a single horizontal tail fin.
Digestive System: It has a very wide, circular mouth with sharp ring of keratin teeth, that leads to a simple internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division. Many indidivuals do not survive their first split, as the tissues are no longer mostly self-sustaining
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A flat animal reminiscent of a lancelet. It has a main body that is 40 centimeters in length along with a wide, flatter extension the back that acts as a tail fin. It has three large composite eyes above its round, toothy mouth and a pair of soft, sensitive tendrils on its sides. It actively seeks smaller animals and tries to shallow them whole.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Full-color, triocular sight through three large composite eyes on its head. Limited mechanoreception through feeler tendrils at the sides of the mouth.
Locomotion: Muscle-based propulsion through its single horizontal tail fin.
Digestive System: It has a very wide, circular mouth with sharp ring of keratin teeth, that leads to a simple internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system powered by two hearts at either side of its body.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually, with female, male, and le sexes. Tiny and underdeveloped haploid males are spawned by les and carried as ready-to-hatch eggs under its body. When it is time to reproduce, the le lays its eggs, which immidiately hatch and fertilise the females, which lay eggs that hatch into les and females in a 1/5 ratio, respectively.
Habitat: The water collumn, and occasionally lake floor.

Summary: An animal about 80 centimeters long covered in white skin, with a long, roundish body with two dark depressions on its front that are above a calcified straw, with a ring of pinkish frills surrounding its base. It has three pairs of large, flat protrusion on its sides that act as fins and sails to pick up currents. It is dotted with many microscopic, benign cysts of bioluminescent symbiotic bacteria that gives it a slightly glittery apparance. It perodically flashes and releases a film of glowing matter onto the lake bed that stimulates bacteria growth. It coordinates the fertiliser releases with others through the flashing. It actively targets prey, stabbing them with its probocis, and it eats watergrass and algea by grinding them in its stomach.
Nervous System: It has a nervous system commaded by a simple ganglion.
Senses: It has a binocular pair of cup eyes on its body, which allows it to see shapes and distance.
Locomotion: Swimming like manta rays with 6 propeller fins and current surfing. It possesses muscles and an endoskeleton connected to the proboscis with a central cage for organs and places for the fin muscles to attach. A small dorsal ridge on its back helps with steering to some degree.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis with an internal lining of muscles to chew, which leads to a digestive tract with a large, dirt-filled stomach and then an intestine.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System:It has closed circulatory system with a three chambered heart, the first two pump blood in and out of the third, larger and flat chamber that's right underneath the gills. A liver filters ammonia from the bloodstream and processes it, and its kidneys dispose of it.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. Larger males fertilise the small number of eggs that females lay inside of them by linking their proboscii together. The young emerge as miniature adults.
Habitat: The water collumn.

Summary: A segmented, cylindrical animal with many long, hydraulic insectoid legs. It is covered in leathery skin and puffed up by long quills. It has no determinable maximum length, always growing new segments and legs which eventually become too many for its circulatory system to support, leading to weak blood flow and ammonia build up. It has a set of hairs around its mandibles that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues. It's legs have a small canal inside that injects paralytic venom into prey, which it then eats alive.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Locomotion: Walking across the lakebed with a dozens of long, spider-like hydraulic legs.
Digestive System: It has a pair of mandibles, and a two-ended digestive canal of indeterminate length in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on the sides of each of its segments that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart. It eventually becomes unable to support the length of the body.
Reproductive System: A few of the quills that surround it can be used to fertilise others of its species. After fertilisation, the mother lays a few hundred eggs that hatch into highly neotenic larvae that resemble the ancestral worm. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor, near the coasts.

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Summary: A small, slightly pear-shaped, flatworm-like animal 25 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three small composite eyes above its tentacled mouth that are surrounded by three transparent domes individually. It is pale yellow in coloration and has stripes of darker yellow. It stays on the shallow waters, seeking clusters of algea. It is mind-numbingly slow.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, enclosed, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a wide, circular mouth surrounded by numerous prehensile tendrils that rake in algea. The mouth leads to a relatively long, clustered internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has a series of internal tubes that connect to the gills with a membrane.
Reproductive System: It periodically clusters into large groups and releases clouds of unisexual gametes that combine with those of others.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

Summary: A segmented, cylindrical animal with many long, hydraulic insectoid legs. It is covered in tough exoskeletal plates and puffed up by long quills. It has no determinable maximum length, always growing new segments and legs which eventually become too many for its circulatory system to support, leading to weak blood flow and ammonia build up. It has a set of hairs around its mandibles that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues. Bases of its quills have tiny chambers with harpoons that fire and inject mildly necrotic venom when disturbed.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Locomotion: Walking across the lakebed with a dozens of long, spider-like hydraulic legs.
Digestive System: It has a pair of mandibles, and a two-ended digestive canal of indeterminate length in which it absorbs nutrients through.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on the sides of each of its segments that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart. It eventually becomes unable to support the length of the body.
Reproductive System: A few of the quills that surround it can be used to fertilise others of its species. After fertilisation, the mother lays a few hundred eggs that hatch into highly neotenic larvae that resemble the ancestral worm. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor, near the coasts.

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Summary: A 30 centimeter long, leathery tendril covered by a fur of long quills which stay down when not in use. It has a set of hairs around its mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues. When disturbed by predators, the quills puff up, and activate the tiny chambers at their bases with harpoons that fire and inject mildly necrotic venom.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has 8 small, primitive eyes on its back that allows it to percieve shapes and shadows.
Locomotion: Inching across the lakebed on a thousand stiff hairs through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a wide, spade-shaped mouth lined with flat calcium teeth, which leads to a digestive canal that digests and absorbs nutrients.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a closed circulatory system with a two chambered heart.
Reproductive System: A few of the quills that surround it can be used to fertilise others of its species. After fertilisation, the mother lays a few hundred eggs that hatch into highly neotenic larvae that resemble the ancestral worm. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor, around the sandy coastal areas where lake meadows are.

Summary: A small, noticably pear-shaped, flatworm-like animal 15 centimeters in length, mostly made of unspecialised cells expect for three small composite eyes above its tentacled mouth that are surrounded by three transparent domes individually. It is pale yellow in coloration and has stripes of darker yellow. It stays on the shallow waters, seeking seaweed to weakly gnaw at without muscles.
Nervous System: Small brain located under its eyes.
Senses: Limited sight through three primitive, enclosed, composite eyes on its head.
Locomotion: Cellular movements.
Digestive System: It has a wide, circular mouth filled with large, round calcium teeth, surrounded by numerous prehensile tendrils that rake in algea. The mouth leads to a long, clustered internal canal.
Respiratory System: It has a pair of openings inside its mouth that lead to gill chambers.
Cardiovascular System: It has a series of internal tubes that connect to the gills with a membrane.
Reproductive System: It periodically clusters into large groups and releases clouds of unisexual gametes that combine with those of others.
Habitat: The lake floor, found only in shallow, coastal waters.

Summary: An animal about 60 centimeters long covered in white skin, with a long, roundish body with two dark depressions on its front that are above a calcified straw, with a ring of pinkish frills surrounding its base. It has three pairs of large, flat protrusion on its sides that act as fins and sails to pick up currents. It is dotted with many microscopic, benign cysts of bioluminescent symbiotic bacteria that gives it a slightly glittery apparance, along with a dense growth of algea enmeshed into its back skin. It periodically flashes and releases a film of glowing matter onto the lake bed that stimulates bacteria growth. It coordinates the fertiliser releases with others through the flashing. It spends most of its time laying down on the lake floor, conserving energy as it is a poor digestor.
Nervous System: It has a nervous system commaded by a simple ganglion.
Senses: It has a binocular pair of cup eyes on its body, which allows it to see shapes and distance.
Locomotion: Swimming like manta rays with 6 propeller fins and current surfing. It possesses muscles and an endoskeleton connected to the proboscis with a central cage for organs and places for the fin muscles to attach. A small dorsal ridge on its back helps with steering to some degree.
Digestive System: It has a long, calcified proboscis with an internal lining of muscles to chew, which leads to a digestive tract with a simple stomach and intestine.
Respiratory System: There are frills around the base of its proboscis that act as gills surfaces.
Cardiovascular System:It has closed circulatory system with a three chambered heart, the first two pump blood in and out of the third, larger and flat chamber that's right underneath the gills. A liver filters ammonia from the bloodstream and processes it.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. Larger males fertilise the small number of eggs that females lay inside of them by linking their proboscii together. The young emerge as miniature adults.
Habitat: The lake floor, around lake meadows.

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Summary: Arthropoid animal covered in leathery skin and puffed up by short, hooked quills, with a pronounced, raised front. It has an oblong body 20 centimeters in length with 8 short, insectoid legs. It has a set of long hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: It can see shapes and shadows around and above itself using its three eyes on the sides and above its mouth. Primitive mechanoreception through long whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with 8 short insectoid legs. The quills and legs are connected to an internal body support chasis which muscles connect to.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through. Food is mechanically and chemically processed inside of a large, tough, acidic foregut before being digested.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has an open circulatory system operated by a muscle valve within the center of the body. An organ connected to it and the digestive system filters ammonia into pellets and dispenses them out of the end of the digestive tract.
Reproductive System: It reproduces sexually. When two individuals meet, they exchange sperm packets that they then use to fertilise themselves with. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A small, leathery worm covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It has a set of long hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has strong regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing entire sections of its body, and survive up to half of its mass gone. It is a long-living animal due to this, and splitting is not so crippling as a result.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through long whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has a series of small dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with many small hooked quills through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through. Food is mashed inside of a foregut before being digested.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has no cardiovascular system.
Reproductive System: It has no reproductive system. It reproduces through division.
Habitat: The lake floor.

Summary: A leathery worm 12 centimeters in length, covered and puffed up by short, hooked quills. It has a set of hairs around its circular mouth that allows it to detect the presence of food from further away and small holes in its sides that open and close rythmically. It has mildy regenerative abilities, making it capable of regrowing its tissues. This species has a strong aversion to light and only comes out at night, using its ten equally sized sunspots to determine time.
Nervous System: It's has a network mechanoreceptive cells that are concentrated around its whiskers and quills, controlled by a centralised decision-making ganglion.
Senses: Primitive mechanoreception through whiskers around the mouth. It can hear, touch and sense pressure by picking up the vibrations and friction on its quills. It has 10, large dark spots on its back that allows it to detect light and dark, and detect moving shadows.
Locomotion: Crawling and climbing on the lake floor with many small hooked quills through muscle power.
Digestive System: It has a two-ended digestive canal in which it absorbs nutrients through. Food is mashed inside of a foregut before being digested.
Respiratory System: It has a series of tiny respiratory spiracles on its sides that lead to wider internal cavities that absord oxygen from the water.
Cardiovascular System: It has a decentralised circulatory system with multiple small hearts.
Reproductive System: It periodically lays eggs, and fertilises those that it encounters. It will eat any fertilised eggs it stumbles upon. All individuals are hemaphrodites.
Habitat: The lake floor.

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Cladogram

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[Leonardo8]

This looks interesting, i would like to join. Can i pick any species i want to start my own clade?

[Magmacube_tr]

This looks interesting, i would like to join. Can i pick any species i want to start my own clade?

Any currently extant species will suffice. You will branch out into a new species, not take over anything.

[Aeranthos]

Alright, let's see what we can do with this.

  Creeping Stumper
                             1: Hijack the new element (the virus) into acting as a protective internal mechanism (Immune system essentially, though it might become something else later...)
                             2: Use the insectoid legs as a skeleton for a fleshy covering.
                             3: Condense most of the quills into an armored covering, so that the flesh is protected, though leave a few to dissuade attackers and continue sensing the surroundings.
                           SS: Increase the efficiency of the internal cavities used to absorb oxygen from the water.

[Crystalizedmire]

Strength: 26 (SERIOUSLY!!! What am I supposed to do with a power level of 1!?) (Minor Event)
Timeframe: 18 (...You've got to be kidding me!) (4 Turns)
Temperament: 1 (Why is this a thing?! Alright, ummmmm...) (Awful Stuff)

I mean, you did make the rules.
1. Stingleg Quillpede evolves venom immunity
2. Armored Quillpede speciates:
    a. Memory storage
    b. Compound eyes
SS speciate Puffing Harpoonworm:
    a. Colour cones in the eyes
    b. Flattening the quills into spadelike structures, use the new quills to swim around
3. speciate Regenerative Quillworm:
    a. More regenerative capabilities
    b. Memory storage

[TricMagic]

Skewer Starwing develops color cones to better pick out objects and prey.
Scrounger Starwing develops.. An immune system? As protection to better eat dead and rotting things.
Carpet Starwing adds silt to it's stomach to help digestion, copying the Scrounger's method.
SS Roll: Improve Carpet Starwing camouflage further, having seagrass grow atop it's flatter back.

[FiveBalesOfHay]

• Burrower Flatfish: Evolve more powerful muscles in tail to more quickly leap from the sand
• Dometeeth Flatworm: Evolve muscles in mouth
• Dometeeth Flatworm: Grow four paddles on the sides of the body that can be used for locomotion

[BlackPaladin99]

Moustached Finfish:

1) Improve respiratory system

2) Improve brain complexity

3) (SS supported) Evolve dual purpose defensive/offensive spines.