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Alien World Evolution: Landfall 2017-02-10 10:35:13 Post No. 1149085
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Alien World Evolution: Landfall
WheelieOP (ID: !KRD8.G7xWU)
2017-02-10 10:35:13
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Welcome back to Alien World, anons! When last we left off, a thriving coastal ecosystem was created. The thread is still up if you want to continue it: >>1136626
But things are changing in this young world; a new creature, the Emina (pictured) has evolved- though their larval form is water-bound, in maturity they take flight, feasting on microscopic airborne bacteria. Under the waves, the beds of Irakoweed, Seafruit, and Whip Irako spread far and wide; some eventually find themselves climbing up and up...until they eventually reach the land. Many die, but after thousands of years, some manage to take root on the beaches of Alien World.
Want to get evolving, but haven't before? It's easy!
Simply pick a creature you want to evolve, and modify its picture slightly, giving a brief explanation of what and why- While the 'rule of cool' still exists, evolving simply to evolve is not really in the spirit of the game. Post the new image as a .PNG!!!
>But Wheelie, I can't draw!
Neither can I, join the club :^)
Charts of existing organisms will follow shortly, as they still need a bit of work.
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>>1149085
First chart up, the Dheng line- primarily still scavengers and bottom-feeders.
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>>1149148
Next is the Idrai- insect-like grazers, some poisonous, some not.
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>>1149151
Next are the Irako, the plants. Some are venus flytraps gone wrong.
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>>1149158
The Quas- mostly sedentary coral analogs, some are octopus-like creatures now.
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>>1149163
The Rilva, who are still the apex predators of Alien World.
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>>1149166
And finally, a better picture of the Emina by itself.
As always, please let me know if I made a mistake!
>And to the anon who did the food webs last thread, you are a god.
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>>1149172
Aanndd here's the Emina.
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And so it begins.
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>>1149178
And so it begins :^) Who will reach land first? Tune in to find out!
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The Gossamer Idrai take adavantage of the oxygen rich air and extend their flight abilities use even more. They evolve lungs to gain oxygen faster, more efficiently, and without having to use energy to extract it from the water; while also gaining more areas to live far beyond the water. They also evolve the ability to eat the airborne bacteria, but must regularly eat the Bloating Ubi to remain in flight.
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>>1149184
Definitely not me, unless the rest of the squad takes a long route.
My motives are much more sinister, and mysterious even to myself.
>>1149085
>>1149163
With the richness of the oceans rising from increased volcanic activity, forests of Giant petrified quas erupt in short order.
Due to the increased energy storage, it is still able to support segments that rise above water and cannot filter effectively for themselves.
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>>1149230
Looks like we have a new shallow water habitat, the Quas Forests!
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>>1149233
Ayyy.
Normally I'd wait a little longer before working on a new post, but I gotta leave for a while so I'll leave this here.
This isn't really a full evolution anyway.
>>1149230
The abovewater segments of the Quas Forests allow a new trait to be revealed.
Whereas before the spores produced by quas would simply get caught in the flowing current and deposited elsewhere, the 'breathing' process of quas now shoots them far away through the air.
This causes quas to spread much more rapidly than before once it hits the forest stage.
[Trait revealed: Spore shooter]
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yay next thread!
A few of the charts are slightly off.
The Ribbon Idari are an Offshot of the clinger, inheriting their poison and claws.
While the Bloating ubi are an offshot of the regular surface ubi, and you forgot to add the Zubi, our infectious Idrai overtaking ubi
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>>1149510
Will fix, thanks. Get drawing, faggot :^)
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>>1149184
Mememe
While the fruits of the seafruit tend to stay at the seafloor, some are swept up on land, where they begin to grow and flourish in the carbon dioxide-rich environment and lack of natural predators. Its fruit became more red, and began growing more towards the top of the tree, a trait which would help later because it allowed the fruit to fully ripen before being eaten. At this point, the size of the new plant, called the Beachfruit, was roughly the same size as the Seafruit - 4-5 feet.
>plants win, as it should be
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>>1149526
Posted an old version again, here's the newest one (old one had some shit I forgot to fill in)
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To take advantage of the coral forests, the horned idrai, a offshoot, gather their tentacles together and coat them with some type of hardening substance. These "Horns" are used to break parts off the coral forest.
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The substances do come of eventually, though, and need to be redone every so often.
>>1149589
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>>1149589
Harumph, trifling herbivores.
You dare strike the flesh of the Quas? Your entire family lines shall be slaughtered!
(yay interactivity)
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From time to time parts of the Herako carpets get washed on to the shore.
And with them the clinger Idrai, an offshot of that species eventually adapted to their new environment. Growing longer "claws" to walk on, and a bellows like lung on its back.
Also their tentacles get surrounded for the most part in chitin for better use on land. They serve as their primary sensory organ, since their water adapted olfactory sense is only marginally usefull in an gas environment.
They still eat fruit and seed, but with the lack of the Herako around they loose the ability to use their poison. (Since its derived from Herako seeds.)
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>>1149676
I dub this the 'Skittering Idrai' (unless you come up with something else)
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Also someone said that the shelled dengh wasn't getting much love so here goes. Doesn't look as nice as the other one but hey I tried
The shelled dengh evolved further, developing eight crude legs to help it cling to the seafloor and eat its favorite meal, quas. Its forearms, having already developed quite a bit, grew into pincers to further chomp away at its prey.
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>>1149693
Pic
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>>1149293
It takes quite some time for the Quas to be able to survive outside the seas due to it's heavy reliance on environmental filtration, but eventually a strain of Fatty Quas manages to survive long enough to germinate on land in very damp earth or earth nearby a water source.
The [Hapahazard Growth] causes it to stick closer to the ground in a hard carpet, with most of the real growth happening belowground as it sucks up the nearby minerals.
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>>1149696
Neat!
Also derp I forgot to fill in the water...ah well
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>>1149709
Got you covered :^)
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I'll do an eminemina too.
Now that the Beachfruit has come aboard, the emina grew a needle-like proboscis, similar to that of a mosquito, so that it could suck up the delightfully sweet juices of the beachfruit, which it used as sustenance. It also gained antennae and eyes, which it would need to see without bumping into everything. At this time, the emina was king of the skies.
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>>1149293
The horned idrai coming to prominence make way for a mutation of the Giant Petrified Quas to become more common.
This mutation has the quas forests storing inconvenient and toxic materials in their fatty flesh before being expunged. Normally this is not a problem, but when ruptured it is bad news for predators, though the quas itself will simply store the released material elsewhere if it returns to it.
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>>1149705
The creeper quas begins storing energy in larger amounts, that help it out outlast other strains during dry periods in growth.
This manifests in the form of a soft fleshy area in underground portions that are developed enough to accommodate it.
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beachfruit is such a ridiculous evolution, non-canon niggas
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Btw, the quas chart is incorrect. The 'Porus' quas is actually a straight shot from base quas and the Giant Petrified quas is a derivative of fatty, just like 'Chute'.
No big problem there just clarification.
Guess everybody died.
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>>1150514
wanna fite m8
>>1149166
Someone said the reef rilva also wasn't getting love so I'll do something with it. Though the reef rilva could no longer eat the harder quas clumps and the softer clumps were either dying out or had defense mechanisms such as biting mouths or poisonous fruit, the long-nosed reef rilva turned back to hunting shelled denghs and other bottom-feeders. Its long beak was incredibly useful with piercing the shelled denghs' hard carapaces, but it was a bit slow against the legged versions of the shelled dengh that could skitter across the ocean floor with ease. So, the long-nosed rilva's many flagellae were replaced by three large ones that could move with ease. The long-nosed reef rilvas' tentacles also mimicked the quas's tentacles, meaning that it could sneak up on its prey easier as well.
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Let's make the jelucid more pretty.
Here we have the Greater Jelucid family. This is the first incident of color variation within a single species, as there are three primary greater jelucids - the Great Blue Jelucid, the Great Purple Jelucid, and perhaps the most feared, the Great Pale Jelucid. In addition to growing longer, the tentacles on its top grew to help defend against predators and on its bottom many small strands grew to ensnare prey. It is around this time that the jelucids gained their signature poison-barbed tentacles, which it uses to paralyze and kill unfortunate fish and other creatures. While the Great Blue and Great Purple Jelucid prefers to just sit and wait for prey to get caught in its tentacles, the Great Pale Jelucid actively seeks out its prey.
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During their growth, many young Veltar find themselves washed ashore along with their host Herako, as they hatch from the plant they are unable to survive, save for a few poisonous ones as they have the ability of photosynthesis as a food supplement.
The large poisonous Veltar soon find themselves stranded on land, far away from their breeding and hunting grounds. They struggle to move forward with their weak flagella and now useless Jets.
Some develop more , stubbier and harder flagella to at least somewhat move around.
Using the nearby beachfruit as their new breeding grounds.
Others simply seed into the ground, where they are stuck, making all attempts at movement pointless.
Here, the Veltar line splits into 2 new species yet again.
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>>1151177
Gonna need a picture of that, anon.
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>>1151177
This is the first new Species - the Veltar Inferior - more commonly referred to as Beach Veltar
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>>1151177
And this is the second new species - the Veltar Immobili (not moving Veltar) - commonly referred to as Veltar Plant.
The Veltar plant - since it can't move - made it's flagella Larger to be used as leaves so it gains more nutrients through photosynthesis.
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>>1151203
For anyone intending to evolve the veltar plant line
please keep in mind, this thing is not just a plant, it's also a fungus, it has something of a brain.
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Posting Evo charts then going to bed. Event tomorrow possibly.
First up, the Dheng
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>>1151366
Next the Idrai
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>>1151366
Later op
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>>1151369
Irako
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>>1151372
Quas
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>>1151375
Rilva
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>>1151377
And finally the Emina.
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>>1151370
later. Hopefully more people visit :^)
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>>1149225
I have made a picture for that one,
and modified it a little further.
It slowly changes bodyform for a more stable baloon-flight.
And two of the mouth tentacles have grown stronger to drag itself along the ground when flying low, lacking any form of propulsion in the air.
>>1149225
the rest is mostly from this post.
Their net structures developing into Fan like structures to catch the airborne bacteria, and their "water-wings" developing into a casing of the lungs, they open and close to suck in air for breathing.
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>>1151388 Yo OP, first post
Some of the herako (got a little confused, I mean the circular one) carpets float closer to surface and find the air frendlier and richer than before. The rings capitalize on this and the sunlight by enlarging their surface, and in the process they get thicker and larger.
They also provide shade for the creatures below hiding them to predators who rely on sight.
No idea on the name, was thinking something like Lotuko (from lotus leafs) or Thick Herako. Open to suggestions.
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>>1151494
Also the Ubi Bonus infested version.
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>>1149696
Due to it's new carapace the Denghus Calyculus can no longer acquire oxygen through it's skin, and as such develops a pair of external gills on it's feelers. The feelers still retain their sensory abilities though.
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>>1149696
Some Dengh become mostly sessile, using their feet as suckers to attach to rocks and using their long claws to snatch floating detritus,
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>>1151118
The Lesser Blue Jelucid is slightly more active than its ancestor; although it doesn't hunt for prey per se, it uses its bell to swim towards sensations that correlate to other organisms.
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>>1151118
The Greater Pal Jelucid is an even more active predator, growing much larger and developing simple compound eyes to sense prey. It strikes out with dozens of barbed poison tentacles, killing most organisms in seconds
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I think it's EVENT TIME, don't you?
The populations of both species of Emina, the Clinger Idrai, and the Creeper Quas explode, as they have no natural predators. Consequently, the populations of surface plants face extinction.
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>>1152007
The surface plants which they feed on*
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ill post later guys, super busy today
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With it's new habitat vanishing, the Beach Veltar adapts yet again.
It's muscle bulges have become smaller and increased in number, now every flagella has it's own muscle bugle for more precise and independent movement.
Additionally, the semi-soft stubby flagella , have become fully fledged hard stubs , functioning as the first ever Legs developed on a creature.
These beach veltar are no longer poisonous, and have slightly better eyes to pursue the life of a Predator yet again.
The Beach Veltar predate on Clinger Idrai and use the Creeper Quas as their new habitats, infesting their bodies with their seed to reproduce.
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>>1152049
Skittering, I meant Skittering Idrai.
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>>1151494
Next time anon, save as PNG.
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From the waters emerged a new landfaring species, the Land Dengh. It developed a system of breathing similar to the emina where oxygen would be absorbed through pores in its body. Its primary diet is the Creeper Quas's fleshy interior. The land dengh would often make burrows in the Creeper Quas, using its powerful horned mandibles and strong claws to gradually chomp through it. Visual changes include the further development of its claws and front mandibles and a longer abdomen.
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>>1152547
This is a land version of the shelled dengh, if it wasn't immediately obvious.
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>>1152547
Looks like the Beach Veltar are going to face a problem to their homes...
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Hi everyone this is my OC evolved creature he is stronger than sonic nuckles tsils and shadow combined.
Bio: Likes being posted on faggoty threads on /qst/ - queer
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>>1152572
Hmm, didn't see that. Well there's plenty of creeper quas to go around and the land dheng prefers to burrow inside and eat the fleshy part rather than stay on the surface where the beach veltar live.
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>>1152606
Not many people here. I blame the weekend.
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>>1152606
(I've been lurking but I still can't figure out if it's just chill to add to anything anywhere or what)
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>>1152612
Just make it make sense (Not 'X grows wings cause Kewl', make it 'X grows wings cause food up there.)
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>>1152622
Also holy shit, 'Kewl' is recognized by Grammarly.
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Wrong, beachfruit don't exist anon, its ruled out
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>>1153029
By who, exactly?
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>>1153029
Why exactly do you hate beachfruit? It's literally just a seafruit plant on land.
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>>1153029
Anyway you'll hate this one too.
>>1149526
The Beachfruit developed two adaptations that made it more survivable. The first is bad tasting seeds. While the Beachfruit Emina snacked on the juices of the beachfruit leaving the fruit mostly intact, the clinger idrai would eat the whole fruit, seeds included. The bad-tasting seeds made it so even though the fruit was eaten, the plant could still reproduce. (no difference in the plant itself so no picture needed)
Another adaptation was the hardening of the stem of the beachfruit, making it harder for the clinger idrai to latch onto. This had the consequence of making the beachfruit plant MUCH taller, up to 30 feet tall. The fruits of the new beachfruit, called the Kokofruit Palm, grew thick shells which would float into the ocean, wash up on new shores, and grow from there.
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>>1153112
Splitting this from Beachfruit, which is still getting its ass kicked by the herbivores.
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>>1152007
The creeper quas explodes.
Literally.
A mutation causes the creeping quas to be unable to take out as much energy as it stores, and though this slows down its growth in the early stages, it soon causes shocking transformations.
After accumulating enough energy the creeper heart will explode, sending spores and fragments of quas flying hundreds of meters away. The sturdy quas is able to survive and recuperate, and the ruptured chemical storage allows what fragments that do fly away to have an extremely enriched start, causing them to take root on soil with almost any level of hyration.
This mutation allows creeper quas to expand further away from the coasts, covering the land.
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>>1153228
Life, is an explosion.
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>>1153228
>tfw the Veltar and Land Dheng home is a literal bomb.
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>>1153236
pls no take over the earth with fucking coral, we're trying to make an ecosystem so Wheelie can use it for his campaign
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>>1153267
This is totally a flourishing ecosystem, and I'd show you if this emina evo im trying would just stop looking so shit.
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>>1153061
because it's such a sudden evolution with no inbetween, and is not even "alien". its just a fucking tree, its not creative.
But the evolution, it just jumped to a tree from a small ocean plant
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>>1153331
Even if it is such a sudden evolution, you can't just rule it to not exist. You're not OP.
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>>1149176
>>1153228
The treacherous airspace allows a strain of emina that was doomed to extinction to flourish.
Their six wings are smaller than the base strain, but allow them much more agility, giving them the ability to live among the exploding heart creepers with less chance of being killed in an explosion.
The exposed soft flesh then serves as an excellent fuel source, causing their numbers to skyrocket in short periods of time. These two factors combined [dangerous environment] [accelerated breeding] allow them to secure a spot in the foodchain where none existed before despite their inferior maximum speed.
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>>1153394
Still looks like butt, if any art anon feels like giving it a tune up that'd be great.
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>>1153112
The normal Beachfruit end up having to go the extra mile because even though the seeds taste horrible, some of the Idrai will still eat them. The Beachfruit begin to make an incredibly toxic poison and store it in their seeds, with only a small amount per seed. This small amount is still enough to kill a Clinger Idrai. The poison doesn't in any way affect the fruit, only the seeds.
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>>1153394
The race to good fortune among emma strains becomes more fierce, and the faster mutations slowly begin to take the lead.
A new strain rises to dominance, though only by the width of a hair.
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>>1153757
>>1153394
A second mutation makes itself known and shoots a strain to a more dominant position.
This mutation allowed the five spotted humming emma greater cognitive abilities. Though the difference is small, it allows the strain to avoid extinction by operating around their faster brethren.
Thats it for me for now
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>>1153228
The Exploding Quas spreads its territory far and wide- the Beach Veltar and Land Dheng, as well as the plants, better adapt fast.
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>>1153816
Hopefully your exploding Quas don't kill my game...
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The Veltar plant as it has become unable to move, it developed a drastically different body-shape.
Becoming thinner and it's centre and top for it's head and body to bend , regaining a significant amount of movement ability.
Having been driven to near extinction, earlier, they now find themselves in a more than favorable environment.
In an effort to find food, they have been continuously seeding further inland, as they require little water.
On their way, they dropped the poison and instead grew red specks to attract animals mistaking them for fruit. Which the Veltar plant then kills with it's acidic seed.
Now that they have begun seeding in the newly formed fields of exploding Quas however, they found the perfect hunting ground.
As Quas as immobile just like them, the Veltar plant developed a more sophisticated mouth structure.
It's pincers develop into a primitive sort of beak, that has not quite grown together yet.
Having the ability to twist, turn and bend itself, the Veltar plant seeds itself where it can find the most exploding Quas and then begins to eat it alive for the Veltar's entire life-span.
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>>1154331
Doh ho ho, any perceptive individual should be able to handle it.
This is only a problem for mindless beasts.
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>>1154390
You mean like having an aggressive plant that predates on the things for it's entire life, and follows it wherever it spreads?
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>>1154399
Something like that, though they'd die when exploding as long as their reproductive cycle is shorter than the explosion rate (and their spawn can survive it) it's an excellent parasitic relationship.
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>>1154425
I missed some punctuation there, but I think you get the gist.
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>>1154436
Well I'd assume their reproduction is faster, after all they're plants. and small ones at that.
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>>1154425
and survival isn't much of an issue either, since they grow underground.
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The Beach Veltar grows longer and more muscular legs, that instead of growing , grow downward, elevating the main body by the length of it's legs.
These legs have become far more complex than that of any other organism, in many ways they are almost as advanced as the main body itself.
These legs boast a complex muscular structure to both support their own weight, and that of the Veltar, and also giving it a decent amount of speed.
Claws at the end of their legs give it a more stable footing.
These claws are made from dead cells, that together, form a hard wooden structure. They grow extremely slow, but indefinitely.
As the Veltar as a largely muscleless being, cannot quite support these muscular legs on it's own, and so along the entire length of the legs, a tube of cells forms inside, that is filled with all the minerals it's digestive system can't handle, and would normally clog up it's organs, leading to death, forming a tough crystalline structure reminiscent of bones.
This development significantly increases it's lifespan, however not as much as one would expect, as the young must be able to hunt already, it takes longer for the Beach Veltar to grow in it's initial seed stage, accumulating minerals such as iron, chalk and salt, to form these important Leg-crystals early.
(second pair of legs not shown, because top-down view)
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>>1154563
>that instead of growing...
sideways, I meant to add "sideways" to that.
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Bumping- may need a Landfall part 2, seeing as there's only been a few species coming to land. Also the Exploding Quas is spreading fast- soon there won't be any open soil, just Quas.
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>>1155230
actually OP, the Veltar plant keeps the population in check, seeing as they graze them off constantly, and follow them whereever they seed
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>>1155247
Well, nevermind then :^) Still, not enough creatures to justify a new biome yet.
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Honestly, I love how this Evo has become an arms race between plants.
I mean the Quas are corals, so like a plant/rock hybrid thing.
And then you have all the descendants of the Veltar - which are like Plant/Fungus/Animal hybrid.
Actually you know what?
Since every form of life has some sort of classification , but my creatures fall into 3 of those at the same time, I'll just make a new classification of lifeform for them
I dub the entire concept of a Plant/Fungus hybrid that behaves and develops like a regular Animal, from here on "Veltarid"
Obviously starting at the earliest common ancestor : The Veltar.
A plant with muscles and fungal organs.
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>>1155230
I'd bring up more species, but I don't want this to be some weird world shaped only by my own mental image.
Managing Quas (Petrified and Creeper variants) and Emma (humming variants) right now, but I won't go over doing two at a time.
Right now I've slowed down because im waiting for the rest of the world to catch up with the various changes the plants have made.
Still, I'll post in the morning if nothing else happens. We'll see where this leads.
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>>1155329
Hoping it picks up again!
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Did one for the Land based species.
Hope this helps to speed the thread up a little.
Report mistakes as always.
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The Gossamer Idrai, change their diet, from airborne bacteria to the emina, who are plentiful and for now a untapped food source.
The Fans are now covered with sticky digestive substance, similar to sundew.
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With the fruits getting less tasty or poisonous, the Skittering Idrai, beginn to eat the plantmatter itself instead of the fruits.
They develop powerful mandibles, that allows the idrai to eat into the plant, hollowing out small caverns inside for them to live in.
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>>1155438
Great work Anon.
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>>1153228
>>1154372
>>1153394
Increased predation servers to cull the weaker variants of exploding quas, leaving only the strongest and most robust strains over time.
The dominant strain grows much faster in general, and explodes less frequently due to less energy being stored, though the stores will still violently decompress if ruptured, engaging the cycle early.
This variant has grown seeds with a hard core around which a thin but strong fleshy exterior fans out. The hard core can survive the terrors of explosion with ease, while the surrounding fan keeps it in the air for extended periods allowing it to spread further and further away, carried on the winds.
Sometimes these seeds can float for hours in the sky before landing, opening them to being consumed by flying creatures. Those that complete this harrowing journey however are well suited to quickly becoming another patch of creeping quas.
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>>1156038
The first time I forget a picture.
I was gonna put some stuff about the creeping quas lifecycle, but I don't really think it's necessary.
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The humming Emma begin to show differences between the sexes.
The male Hummer grows a slimmer abdomen and a bright red crest to attract the attention of mates from far away. While the female Hummer has much larger rear wings that allow for increased grace in flight, accomplishing smooth loops and turns where the male has more jerky movements.
The female will find a male and make herself known before the chase begins.
The chase between them is always in the favor of the female who allows the male to catch up if he is worthy, and leaves him in the dust if not.
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>>1156125
>>1153816
The five spotted emma grows more intelligent and vicious, preying on anything that it can.
In the breeding cycle it will sometimes rub its body upon the quas that grows below it, acquiring some of its colour which it uses to fool the female humming emma into allowing it to breed.
Though its agility is nowhere near the male humming emma, by attracting it with the prized fleshy bits of quas or veltar it can be deemed worthy, at least temporarily.
In this way their numbers flourish alongside the humming emma.
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>>1156054
Wait, what do these guys do for food? I get that the marine ones are basically coral filter feeders, but there can't be enough food in the air, especially not if they have enough energy to be exploding all over the place.
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>>1156497
Guess I do need to do the outline then.
The creep burrows into the soil just like a normal plant and sucks up required minerals and such from the soil. The evolution that allows that came way back when they were still an underwater strain, with the suction force.
The excess energy heart is something that occurs once it's mature that allows them to store energy and last through periods of low energy without dying. That was back in the creepheart stage.
The exploding creep came later and the exploding effect only happens over a long period if they have abundant resources. Normal life cycle involves them shooting out seeds/spores (from the shooter evolution) that fly a couple meters away, or get carried away by the currents for underwater variants.
If it gets enough energy to explode it can throw things much much further, but this is a side effect of a bad(?) mutation not some built for life cycle end game. It can survive the explosion due to it's hardy nature and use the remnant chemicals to recover.
While the seeds and quas pieces that get thrown to the ends of the earth likely mostly die off due to the actual life cycle interruption, the ones that get lucky and get some of the exploded heart with them can survive and flourish, growing past the baby stage with increased rapidity regardless of the richness of the actual surroundings.
This is not a fast process, these evolutions take place over hundreds of thousands of years (usually in these games), so even if only 0.001% of the explosions created extra spread elsewhere it would soon cover any given landmass(which is why OP ruled that).
Combined with it's already low level of competition and consumption we have the current situation of creep dominance.
The veltar follows the creep which allows them to spread further than where they normally would be able to, and the other creatures that actually eat quas and/or veltar follow suit. I imagine this is causing inner landmass expansion way earlier than would otherwise be possible, which is neat as the only other food options on land are beach fruit right now.
TL;DR they act like normal plants and suck food from the ground, they store energy like cactus's and so can grow in places other plants find difficult. Veltar follow quas -> predators follow both
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>>1156038
The Veltar plant gradually evolved to eat less of the Quas main body, and rather go for the Cores, as these provide an abundance in nutrients.
To get these nutrients, the primitive beak of the Veltar is simply not enough, as busting the Cores will harm the plant itself.
The strains with tougher beaks survive more often and soon, the Beaked Veltar develops in the Quas fields.
With their thick, wooden beaks they can bust open the Cores of the Quas without suffering any damage, effectively bringing their spread to a halt.
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Unfortunately, this seems to be on its last legs. Maybe I'll start another one later.
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>>1159401
Ah well.
I tried to post yesterday but I got a mistaken identity ban that took a couple hours to be resolved.
See ya OP, hope your game goes okay.
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>>1159401
Lotus-anon here.
Sorry OP, been phone-drawing and couldn't do otherwise. Next time I'll see if I can.
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Boi, this game died quickly.
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>>1159659
Falcon? Are you the Falc from some evogames that ran years ago?
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>>1166008
Nevermind. Saw that you answered that in the last thread. YOU ARE INDEED SHOGUN GLUND'S CREATOR.I've been hoping I'd run into you at some point. Would you mind contacting me in the other evogame's discord or tgchan's IRC?
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Might as well whip something up while I'm here.
>>140743
A mutation occurs in a surviving population of Rivla Quas. They no longer grow clumped together. These quas bud off single-polyp pods that grow as that same single polyp. In addition, the polyps of these quas are actually larger than their colonial cousins.
Let's call the Solo Quas for now.
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Is there a new thread or something?
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