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tuxedohamm said:

To achieve what you want I would suggest definitely having twice as many water retention as you plan on providing in addition to something that would transfer water to the host creature. Remember though that creatures without water retention need their full body coated in water not just their insides.

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So instead of tendrils something along the lines of moisture glands?

Artropodia Marnessia : Milarqui
Added Genes: Complex Stomach x1, Hard Shell x1
Description: Artropodia Sufessia, although it did not look like it, was quite better at its job than what it seemed. Its eyes allowed it to hunt more efficiently, and its ability to retent water within its shell gave it the ability to come out of water for short amounts of time. The more varied diet this gave Sufessia slowly made more likely that those of them that mutated into developing a stomach that allowed them to better digest any kind of food they came onto. Through this stomach, they were also able to digest harder stuff, thus allowing them to use it some other way. When a A. Sufessia evolved and was able to use the calcium and others to harden its shell, it soon was clear that the hard-shell Sufessia would rule over its ancestors, giving birth to the Artropodia Marnessia.

OOC: I nearly gave it lungs so that it could be both in and out of water, but I thought it would be better to keep it for later.

Tux, do you have an ETA for when the creature list will be updated to the new era?

dont antagonise him noctus!

Swarmer Defensus: Terrance888
Evolved from: Swarmer
Genes (7): Eating Live Things x2, Crawling x1, Hard Shellx1, Claws x1, Vision Recognition X1, Pack Hunting x1
Description: Old Swarmers have already started developing a tough, basically dead, layer of skin to help them weather the poison of the Anthropodia. Population booms and busts also, for the first time, started encouraging more food specialization. As these traits- tough expendable skin and better digestion- are sharpened by fierce competition between packs, eventually the Swarmer Defensus formed. Their shells allowed, for the first time, to penetrate the Clanessia Kill Zone, and their better digestion finally leveled the playing field with the old Vampira Stomachus in that regard.

The change from the Swarmer to the Swarmer Defensus is much smaller than previous changes in the Clawstrum, despite the increased amount of genes changed. Even during the Cipherus era, old Alpha Swarmers would slowly grow extra stomachs and tougher still to help them survive as the Pack Leader. Soon, these pack leaders spread the genes which caused their success: The tough skin which allows them to gain experience without instant death, and the stomach which allowed them to survive lean times. Eventually, there came to be a pack consisted mostly of these Defendus. Their shell was equally matched with their tough claw, and thus, basically immune from the spikes of the Antropodia and the Claws of the Clawstrum or even the bite of the Vampirae, the Defendus spread throughout the oceans.

filli_noctus said:

Tux, do you have an ETA for when the creature list will be updated to the new era?

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I really won't have a good solid amount of time to do it until Monday afternoon/evening. At the moment, all I am doing is jumping on and off in short spurts to see what people have posted.

tuxedohamm said:

I really won't have a good solid amount of time to do it until Monday afternoon/evening. At the moment, all I am doing is jumping on and off in short spurts to see what people have posted.

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Sounds like a good timeline to me, thanks.

Tidal Skavoun : Abaddon
Evolved From: Kato Skavoun
Genes (4): Eating Dead Things x1, Mineral Eating x1, Digging x1, Water Retention x 1
Description: Ditching the depths*, the Tidal Skavoun is making the tentative steps out of the water. Able to dig downwards,it lives in burrows along the tide mark. Safe from predators, it can now consume any dead prey it comes across as well as supplement its diet by tapping into the sea floor's mineral resources for.

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Worm : Abaddon
Evolved From: Tidal Skavoun
Genes (4): Eating Plants x 1, Eating Dead Things x1, Mineral Eating x1, Digging x1, Water Retention x 2
Description: Its a worm, go figure.

Or; With increased water retention the Tital Skavoun makes a permanent move up onto the land. Their burrows are extensive and they now also enjoy chewing away on the underside of the abundant basic plant life.

Too boring!

Tendrilled Manipulator : Boundless
Evolved from: Tendrilled Passenger
Genes (5) : Plankton Eating x2, Phoresy x1, Parasitic Tendrils x1, Tentacles x1
Some of it Parasitic tendrils have become capable of movement. This allows the Tendrilled manipulator to reach out and pull food to its parasitic tendrils. As it host feeds, it can steal small bits.. so it doesn't need to paracitize its host so much. Even so, It also allows for its own locomotion should its host die. However, having a flailing parasitic monster on your head has actually proved to be invaluable to whichever floor crawler it hosts. Artropodia Nessia is especially receptive of this.

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Jetting Manipulator : Boundless
Evolved from: Tendrilled Manipulator
Genes (5) : Plankton Eating x2, Phoresy x1, Parasitic Tendrils x1, Tentacles x2, Jet Propulsion? x 1
The Manipulators tentacles are becoming stronger and more advanced, and it has also developed a behaviour of sucking in water, then blowing it out to propel it forward at speed. This added manoeuvrability means both it can avoid predation, but also gives it access to much more potential feeds. As an added boon it can now jet through the water, flailing its parasitic tendrils, catching plankton on the fly.

It seems my slimers (Coastal, Secundus, Stabilius) are doing awesome, Only plant life around other than Abaddons frozen slimer. Going to let Coastal Slimer to get all up and running on coast and increase its number before expanding it further. (Somebody could add 2x photosythesis to it tho).

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Slimer Leafius: Northen Wolf
Evolved from: Slimer Stabilius
Added genes (2+1): Photosynthesis x2, thallus x1
Genes (5): Eating Dead Things x1, Photosynthesis x2, Clonal Colony x1, Holdfasts x1
Description: The Slimer Stabilius colonies have managed to fix themselves firmly to seabed. Stable access to food source(s) and being fixed to the ground, has made slimer stabilius weaker in terms of expansion if compared to Slimer Secondus. This weakness,together with floating plants covering up much of the sunlight, has forced Slimer Stabilius to find new, alternative, ways how to get more energy. Slimer Stabilius has evolved a method of expanding via spreading loose leaf-like structure towards the sunlight. Tho Slimer Leafiuses "leaves" are not very strong, they do gain access to more sunlight thanks to floating and spinning upwards. Improved access to sunligh has greatly improved the Photosythesis capacity of Slimer Leafius when compared to Slimer Stabilius, who does not enjoy luxury of growing large "leaf like" mass and stable (fixed) location.


Should be slimer Stabilius

Creature List is now updated. If you find a mistake, let me know. (I still find mistakes in previous eras' creatures while updating).

Will the gene list be updated next?

Boundless said:

Will the gene list be updated next?

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I really should get around to that at some point.

I have decided making a worm is boring, so I have adjusted my evolution.. a nice idea for a NPC perhaps...

Hydrator : filli_noctus
Evolved from: Condenser
Genes (7) : Plankton Eating x2, Phoresy x1, Parasitic Tendrils x1, Water Retention x2, Moisture Glands x1
Description: The Hydrator, like its' predecessor, is a symbiotic creature with the ability to supply water to sea creatures not suited to shore life. Although it does not possess anything that can be described as a circulatory system it is able to channel internal fluids through narrow capillaries to lower its' surface temperature through the Venturi effect causing more moisture to be captured on the condensing structures. In addition glands around the Hydrators' 'foot' secrete water over the host, moisturising the host far more efficiently than the primitive channels of the Condenser.

Also, calling it a worm is a bit silly- while it might be similar, outright imitating an earth creature seems to go against the purpose of this NES, and even if you have a worm-like creature, it would likely have dramatically different internal anatomy.

Cutter : Terrance888
Evolved from: Stabber
Genes (5) : Eating Dead Things x1, Flesh Eating x1, Crawling x1, Claws x1, Eyes X1
Description: (Short)- The Cutter took advantage of their longer reach by developing vision. This allows them to life the veil both on prey hiding by staying still and on other predator's clumsy attacks. They are named cutters because the way they start using their claws for much more sophisticated combat maneuvers.

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Polar cutter : (Spaceman98)
Evolved from: (Cutter)
Gene added: Cold resistant
Gene removed:
Description; As the cutter population collapsed, some wandered to the polar regions, where there was no competition. Their they found a land free of predators, and, at least for those who could withstand the cold, full of weak, defenseless prey.

Also, since I added only one gene, can I create another one with one gene added?
If so:

Thermus Minara : Eltain
Evolved from: Thermal Miner
Genes (2): Mineral Eating x1, Cold Resistance x1
Description: In a fashion similar to its ancestor the Thermal Miner and its cousin the Tidal Skavoun, the Thermus Minara skipped the Deep Sea Scene(TM) and took a beeline for the glorious sunless underwater beaches of the Arctic Poles.

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Shell: (Spaceman98)
Evolved from: (Thermus Minara)
Gene added: Shell
Gene removed: Cold Resistance
Description; Until the polar cutter appeared, the Thermus Minara had no predators, allowing its numbers to explode. Some of these ended up in warmer waters, where most died. Some however had harder skins. These survived enough to evolve hard outer shells for themselves, allowing them to survive against the complex predators of costal waters.

Spaceman, if you can't do that, I will. Once we hear back from Tux.

already asked. you cant.

Vampira Natator: Omega
Evolved From: Vampira Lapsus
Genes: +2 Swimming
Description: Vampira Natator's "wings" have grown out to be much, much, larger. Gliding across the water, the fishes in the seas now must the bottom, for a Vampira wmight be underneath, waiting to strike.

(Bad, but pressed for time right now)

Tailus Smellus : erez87
Evolved from: Tailus
Gene (5): Plankton Eating x1, Drifting x1, Swimming x2, Chemical Reception x1
Description: Tailus communities have continued to thrive during the first age. On the second era swimming become a larger part of the Tailus and while drifting was still used for energy saving reasons the new invention of a sense of smell made swimming that much greater. Now a Tailus could recognize its way and aim at plankton by chemically sensing it, and in some case also sensing predators to escape. Chemical sense was a highly important tool for the thriving of the Tailus Smellus all over the seas.

Tailus Jagus : erez87
Evolved from: Tailus Smellus
Gene added (You may only add 1 gene + any bonus): Meat eating x1, Jaws x1
Gene removed (optional, you may remove up to 1 gene): Drifting
Description: No longer a creature that drifts with the seas, the Jagus now uses only his direct swimming abilities to move around. Its smell sense now also collects new targets. Powerful muscles evolved around the Jagus mouth, able to shut down quickly and hold onto prey. Oh yes, It now feeds on anything that swims around and doesn't have a defense mechanism, which is nearly everything in the open seas and the coastal areas. The Jagus still feeds on plankton when it is rich, but will turn on other creatures and its own kind to feed on meat when the opportunity arrives.