Evolution Game

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It's evolved cilia!
Sensory perception is super cool.

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Since there are so many Goorams in the water, that most of sunlight is absorbed in the first few meters at the most growded paces, Goorams start sticking together, forming thin fibers so that seacurrents can carry them around easier, possbily carrying them to less growded place.

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>>404122
It now has simple eyes. They don't detect color, shape, or anything like that. They merely detect light.

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>>404122
As the sea gets more and more growded fith Goorams and Gooram Fibirs, Gooramah develops a way to reduce the growdedness around itself. Its cell can now morph and twist. Now whenever any other plankton touches it, it enculfs it. It doesn eat it, it just starves it of sunlight until it dies and then releases it.

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>>404114
Some gooram evolve an internal chamber which they fill with hydrogen, after isolating it from the water using photosynthetic reactions. This hydrogen chamber allows them to rise to the surface of the water and thus gain the most light.

We all know where these are going.

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>>404141
Gooramah developed a way to merge the membrane around the enculfed Goorams so that outer layer becomes whole and the encapsulated gooram is digested and assimilated.

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>>404143
Improved the picture.

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>>404143
Buoyant Gooram develops a dedicated vacuole to hold the hydrogen it produces.

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>>404127
Gooram Fibir has evolved a response to tough times. When sunlight becomes scarce, it forms a grex - a slimy loose blob of Gooram Fibir closely packed together.

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>>404153
Corrected the colours.

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>>404122
Gooramah has evolved into Gooramah Syncytium. It developed a syncytium mutation where sometimes the usual splitting fails. Half the time the individual parts split and other times, the individual parts fail to split in two. This mutation in neither good neither bad for them since they can produce plenty of offsping before they burst.

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>>404146
Gooramah Amob evolved into Gooramah Amobah.

It streamlined its plankton eating process and started to depend on it. It lost its photosynthesising organelles as a result.

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>>404178
Buoyants stick together to form clusters and stay afloat like a blanket. they share nutrients and stuff

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It developed flagella to catch nutrients from the water

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>a booth on a babylonian woodcut distributing bazaar made me look up how evolution works

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>>404437
>you didn't already know how evolution works

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>>404132
>>404240
Some Gooramah Eyes are integrated into Gooramah Amobah. Now it knows what direction light is at. Thus it will not move too deep where there is no edible gooramah.

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>>404132
As a result of worsening conditions at the edge of the pool of water (increased viscosity, reduced light penetration) some Gooramahs have evolved motile cilia in addition to their sensory ones.
This has allowed them to slowly move towards light sources detected by their simple eyes resulting in better photosynthetic output and thus better survivability.
The pigmentation has changed in their eyes but the nature of them is still only photosensitive in nature.

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>>404279
Gooram Cluster mutated its cell division method. No longer will a cell be split into two individuals per say, instead, the old cell retains its hydrogen and the child cell has to start producing hydrogen itself.

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>>404177
As Gooram Cluster starts to block too much sunlight, Gooram Fibir that form Gooram Grux at the time of need mutated to forma a tall stalk that sticks out of water. That stalk releases spores that wind carries to further away areas that might not be so growded.

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>>404533
resulting in a core of older cells with a lot of H2 with younger cells forming something like tentacles aournd it. tentacles break off and form their own cluster after growing too big

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I should have paid attention in biology

I want to join in but have no idea what's going on

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>>405549
Take this creature.
>>404114
And then start browsing wikipedia about cells and cell evolution. Then try to figure out a logical next step towards a cool organism.

You can start with this page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cells

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>>404240
Gooramah Amob has evolved into Amoban.

Due to the lessening amount of edible Goorum under the Gooram Clusters, Amobans form blobs to increase their surface area.

>>405664
now the arms race begins.

also, i thought this would be in the ozean and not a small puddle of mud.

>>405783
what do you mean?

>>405825
you make it sound like the clusters dominate most of the water surface. so is the place of action a pond or something?

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>>405854
its ocean
just someareas of the ocean are covered with the Goorum Clusters. Sorta like pic related.

>>405903
wouldn't one lightning burn the whole thing down? i want these fuckers flying to the moon in the next 200 million years, what do?

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>>405069
Some Gooram Cluster begin chemical reactions that strip the hydrogen they contain of their electron, emitting hydrogen ions into the surrounding water which causes the area around the Gooram Cluster to become slightly acidic

>>405955
keep evolving the creatures
when I as GM deem that this thread has gone on for long enough, I will make a massive extinction event where most of the creatures die. I will then create a new thread and then I will choose a couple of random organisms from this thread to continue as the survivors of the acopalypse. Then we continue evolving stuff, which by then will be much more developed than organisms in this thread.

After a few threads, an intelligent life should develop. After that, who knows, perhaps we could hold a Civilization Quest thread in our new world. And eventually we could develop space travel. And perhaps we could continue to colonize planets and later even perhaps stars, fighting alien empires.

But before, this Game Thread must last long enough.

>>406008
is the plan to keep it strictly science based or will their be fantasy elements such as magic (it might be fun to mess around with minor magical evolutions, such as large masses of cells being able to slightly alter the current to get more sunlight ect. and other very minor powers like that until we reach intelligent life)? either way it'd be cool if their were powerful relics or the like on the planet (could explain the advanced rate of evolution, would provide plot hooks and rewards to exploration), and perhaps you as GM could introduce un-evolvable predators for this stage (with similar complexity to the creatures evolved thus far), it'd give players an active problem to try and evolve to overcome rather than just evolving random stuff and trying to dominate all the other evolve-able offshoots, just suggestions though

>>406063
you have given me food for thought
I will ponder over it, and we will see what happens in the next thread. Until then lets keep it scientific

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>>405962
Amobeel
Most of Amoban's cilies grow together to form something like fins, take a look at an eel as reference. some clilies grow longer and are able to grab small gooram clusters and pull them away from the acidic water.

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>>404114
In response to pressure from the world's first predators, some Gooram evolve six long, sturdy, rigid, deep-anchored spines which, when fully-grown, harm and obstruct any attackers.

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>>406434
spines evolve into tube-like needels. they pierce prey and predator alike and suck out their sweet intestines

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>>405962
Clusters form silica shells at their bottom in order to protect them from their own acid. acid is now poured from small openings in the shell (glands or something).

>>406164
I'd rather we kept to our original lineage instead of introducing new, unrelated ones.

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>>405962
Some of the Gooram Clusters living in more crowded areas evolve a process which they perform at regular intervals, in which they fill one of their older, more hydrogen-filled, lighter goorams near the top of the cluster with a layer of glycerol.
Then the cluster releases the seed-gooram from its attachments to the rest of the goorams, and - hopefully - it is caught by the wind and carried far away. When it lands, it uses the glycerol to quickly reproduce more regular goorams and form a new cluster.

>>409290
and sounds like popping a pimple

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>>409008
Spines gain durable barbs on the ends of the spines to easily stick to the host.

Don't let this thread die

This is great. I'm sad I can't join in because I'm on my phone.

>>413207
I'm on a phone too, just seeing if what I do is ok.

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>>413085
eating stuff successfully, spined gooram develops six tentacles with barbed spines, shoots everything and pulls in close. like a harpoon. also, six short barbed ones with the obvious straw for sucking the life outta it's prey.

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>>409108
In response to the development of the harpoon Gooram, some of the Gooram clusters begin to produce more hydrogen ions using their internal supply of hydrogen, this causes their acid to grow more acidic and reduces the buoyancy of the Gooram, these new Gooram are known Corroding Gooram due to their (relatively) powerful acid

>>413354
Because of their relatively small size, the Harpoon gooram use their harpoons not only to attach themselves to their hosts, but to reproduce, to gather in groups, on and coat pieces of floating matter.

The harpoons easily transfer genetic material to another Harpoon gooram continuing to diversify their genetics.

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>>413502
Forgot to post image

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>>405069
Sheltered areas of ocean between basal gooram clusters, which do not produce acid, attract or trap goorams of various species.

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>>413512
Because of the suceltibility for desiese, the Harpoon gooram developed a thin membrane arround the surface and a thick mucus coating to protect it from desiese and to allow it to desolve some materials it clings to such as decaying gooram and some plant material.

>>413624
There is no plant material

>>413665
My bad, just limit it to decaying plant matter and any debris near land. Is this even close to land?

>>413692
Decaying gooram, I'm retarted.

>>413692
this is all deep sea currently

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>>413624
The Harpoon appendages mutated to form a tail, the tail acts as an easier transportation method and the longer barbs allow for an easier attachment to a host or peice of bebris.

(Are there any types of land or rock in general, or is there nothing in any direction aside from water.)

>>414103
As far as we know no.

>>414103
As a need to find a host is a lot harder since some gooram are harmful to the leech, it has developed 2 sets of simple eyes that can detect light and a complex eye that can detect movement

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>>414834
Again, forgot the file

>>414837
you need two eyes to see 3 dimensional and movement

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>>409108
in another part of the ozean clusters follow another path and can't be considered a cluster of cells anymore (neither could gen 3 i think). putting their different abilities to different use.
>hydrogen is now stored in an organ above their center for maximum stability
>acid is stored in an organ close to the bottom. that organ has an extra layer of silica shell
>organ is also used for waste
>spills it, if needed
>arms close, if sun goes down or the tulip is gettin hurled around too much
>mandatory silica shell

>>406202
Amobeel develops a beak for gnawing the clusters' shells. Their tentacles grow much longer and develop barbs. they already had eyes sins two evolutions ago, just forgot them in gen 1.

also, parma sage when?

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>>415858
gosh darn

>>415858
Already. Quests on /qst/ usually get at least three days after hitting autosage before they fall of the board, though. The oldest thread on the board right now hit autosage on the 22nd.

This is pretty interesting, don't let this die

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>>414837
New sub-species, The long nosed Leech goorams frontal spikes have specialized into a pair of long hollow tubes used for harassing more heavily armored species, the tubes are durable enough to slip into small gaps drinking in nutrient rich bodily tissues while the tale has grown more developed to allow the long nosed leech gooram to swarm around more sluggish prey harassing them over the course of days gradually drinking in nutrients at regular intervals.

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>>415859
body grows shorter and more streamlined, tentacles grow bigger in comparison to the body. water is pumped through gills and pressed out of the orifices near the beak, resulting in backwards acceleration. tentacles can be used to guid the stream of water, wich makes it pretty agile. eyes moved to the side, because of the needed round view.