>>18484092
Whoah, thanks! I feel the thread has a life of its own now.
Don't worry, I'll be moderating evolution and such here as well as the island thread.

Ya, I need someone to re-post the creatures, or simply create new sub sets, cuz i'm getting a duplicate image message from the last thread

just put a single dot in the corner of each one. 4 chan will take em.

here, ill post several, but im not typing out descriptions for all of them, so please refer to the previous thread

name that pokemon..i mean terrestrial creature!

apex predators

more, and one more...

done. all species uploaded to new thread. continue proliferation.

bump for players in other timezones.

God damnit /tg/. You made me fall in love with you again.

Meanwhile in the ocean:

Burroworems develop protective eye-membranes to cover their eyes to allow for easier burrowing. They adopt a new hunting pattern based on building small burrows and waiting inside for prey to pass by, then jetting out and snatching them.

For the sake of simplifying things, BladeWorems are now called the Slizer. So the BurroBladeWorem became BurroSlizer.

Also, last night I made a 1d4chan article on evolution games, planning to add a new page for each of the evolution games, with species detail and lineage trees and stuff like that in the future.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Evolution_Games

This would be the right time to say that I'll be having a 6-day vacation in around 12 hours from now, so there won't be any new threads for that time period + 1 or 2 days. Don't worry, I'll continue this in April, the creatures are growing on me.

These creatures are amazing. Why can't movies and other media make such creative creatures?

The LemUy have evolved simple polyps to aid in their mobility. The simple evolution serves them as legs, though motion is still achieved via fluid shifting inside their gelatinous membrane. A more significant event is that some of their spores are light enough to proliferate on the winds and attach to water molecules. to put it simply, the sky now has eerily illuminated clouds at night. this is beneficial to creatures normally active during the day with low light to protect themselves or hunt by. enjoy.

Goddamn why is everything back home so terrifying. Fuck it my rowgu are done with you protoforms.

I will monitor progress here to get ideas for their future evolutionary measures though.

Returning somewhat to it's Worem origins, the BuroSlizer's body loses it's spikes and vestigial legs, making it more streamlined, for more efficient tunnelling. It now relies entirely on it's water-jet propulsion to get around.

When the original Harpoon tongued flouz species began to disperse, as their food fled underground, the surviving populations had to adapt.

The Puff tongued Flouz lost the cartilage coverings of it's tongues as it began to feed on the detritus, undergrowth and moss. It's tongues developed sticky puffs at their ends to help them to grab food.

Their new diet required even bigger stomaches, which in turn made them heavier. Because of this, the back tentacles developed into secondary "legs", that the creature uses to support itself as it stuffs it's multi-chambered stomach full of food.

Although the was majority of the harpoon tongued flouz either died or moved to other diets, the ancestors of the Tunneling Flouz continued to pursue their glund prey.

Over time, they became even smaller and short lived creatures, and as they began moving underground, they started losing their social aspects too.

The Tunneling Flouz is a small, mole like creature, that uses it's spade like head and fangs to burrow through soil. Their resistiveness to the poisonous environment around them is greater, trough the improved ability to store away the toxins in their fatty tissues.

The Tunneling Flouz hunts glunds by piercing the walls of the outer tunnels of glund colonies and then waiting for a glund to pass by, so the Flouz can quickly impale it and drag it away with it's harpoon like tongues.

The phosphorescent patches on it's head have adapted to produce more intense light, so it can illuminate it's tunnels, distract predators, and most importantly, communicate with it's fellows.

>>18485870
Since the LemUy have developed airborne spores in the mainland, they're now available to evolve on the island.

>>18486011
Some of these burroslizers have found minerals not commonly found in the 'shallower' soil. However, these minerals aren't digestible by them... yet. It is up to players' imagination how the burroslizers would react to this.

Also, a side note about the walker flouz: they are now called hoppas. I think they're awesome, how they develop to primitive dino-like behavior.

Evolutionary chart of Hoppas, that includes their size comparison.

>>18486144
>>18486505

Oh fuck! I forgot to draw the phosphorescent patches on the Tuft tongued Flouz/Hoppa.

Note that they still poses them.

>>18486799

The correct version.

A discussion about Hoppa larvae in the island thread got me thinking. They're floaty enough to be carried by the wind, but they either die or grow too heavy to reach the archipelago... but what happens to the hoppa larvae that survived, but landed in the ocean?

>>18486811

Well, it seems that it is time for some evolution.

The hoppas presumably no longer poses the ability to breath in water, as they have been lad based creatures for a long time. I have just assumed that they developed rudimentary lungs when they first moved to the surface based lifestyle.

>>18486862

Added the sky trap and the winged evolutionary lines that split of from the floating Flouz.

The swimming hoppa is another split from the harpoon tongued hoppa, that started developing in the coastal region. As many of the larval forms of the hoppas landed in the sea, they slowly adapted to a more amphibian lifestyle, as the descendants of those who didn't drown in the sea passed on their traits.

The Swimming Hoppa is capable of swimming, although it is not exceptional at it.
It mostly preys on water bound creatures that come near the surface. The hoppa uses it's harpoon like tongues to swiftly impale small water critters and then consume them.

Their larvae are able swimmers however. Their air sacks start fading and the protective skin starts growing faster than on other hoppa species, guaranteeing that the winds wont drag them hopelessly far from the coast line, in where they spend their adulthood.

Because of this, the larvae are not fully developed when their air sacks become useless to them, thus when they fall from the skies they are quite helpless, on ground.
In water, they use the fin like organs on their side to propel themselves, along with their flattened back tentacles.

Their legs have lost most of their barbed hairs, in order to reduce the drag they cause.

Because winds blow towards the sea at night, the Swimming hoppers release their spawn only when the sun has already set. If their spawn landed on the ground, they would be easy prey for multitude of predators.

The Flash Hoppa evolved from the Running Hoppa.
It's phosphorescent patches developed in to powerful weapon against it's prey.
Groups of Flash runners would pursue a herd of Tuft tongued Hoppers and simultaneously flash their light emitting patches in varying and rapidly changing patterns, disorientating their prey. This allows the Runners to quickly and decisively separate the kill from the rest of the confused creatures.

bumbidity!

bumb

The Lemuy walk on two legs now, this allows them to see above their ground clinging spore fog and to better climb and maintain their client creatures. The lemuy ecology has confined to evolve, now some lemuy offshoots stay in plant phase and continue to grow instead of advancing to adult lemuy. The spores are hardier and now the photoluminesent lemuy feilds expand a few miles in each direction from their origonal caves, valleys, and low lake beds. The spores cannot survive a submurged environment so they will not be found near lakes, oceans, rivers, etc. A signfiicant note is that due to no predation on the LemUy, and their proliferation the oxygen content of this world has continued to steadily rise. The atmosphere is now 40% oxygen. (earth has 21%) animals will breath easier, have more energy, and be more mobile if they capitalize on this development.

After generations of living as a prey species for life under and above the water, a poisonous mutation quickly becomes widespread and within a few breeding cycles all filterworems are largely inedible. Through trial and error they develop a bright warning pattern to let potential predators know not to bother with them.

A pair of Flash Hoppas have managed to corner a herd of Tuft Hoppas to a cliff side overgrown with Yantar plants.
The herd tries desperately to intimidate their assailants, while the more cowardly ones flee the scene.

(work in progress, I will color the background later.)

>>18490962
Wow.

That is pretty amazing.

>>18490980

Thank you.
May I ask what do you think should be "background color" of this planet?
I mean that earth's back ground color is green because of all the plant-life, but I am not sure if I should go with that on this world.

>>18490962
amazing work. I'm currently not in a state to draw readily but.

a strain of hopper has developed into a larger size. This is its defense strategy towering over the older varieties and feeding on the upper leaves of plants. To compensate for the incressed mass it's developed its rear tentacles into a second set of tentacles into thicker sturdy limbs shifting its bulk around so that the main mass is horizontal to the ground.

>>18491039
The land on Earth as viewed from space is brown. I suggest a tan color here as well.

>>18491080
thats also from space. this is fairly close so, I'd say go with the colors used by the various artists.

>>18491073
Here, have this. I hope it is accurate.
I assumed that you talked about the Tuft Hoppas as they are already undergoing similar evolution regarding their rear tentacles.

>>18491306
perfect. can even use the tentacles to grasp for food to eat. Thank you anon!

Mevola has developed an acidic upper digestive tract to break down all possible material. Furthermore a ''stomach'' analog is grown to store more food due to increased size of animals on the mainland. Average size has gone up to 30 feet as a result.

>>18491306

Happy to help!
Hopefully other people will join soon however, as the different Hoppas are getting rather too numerous. The other lineages should have some attention too.

>>18491433

Damn monster plants!
Snatching and consuming everything around them!

a slug like creature that eats soft plants, easy prey but breed a lot to maintain a stable population

Gained long fillaments on their backs to detect changes in temperature that could indicate predators. Can detect sound waves, electric disturbances, and seismic abnormalities. They hide from predators once they have sensed them.

Chuflouz with more backwards air nozzles have higher survivability, being able to get away from ground predators. Their main tentacles split for more fine manipulation. In the air the gas giants are virtually unmatched.

With the constant predation, the general trends is for the camouflaged to survive longer, increasing the number which survive.

More muscular underside allows them to escape predators more quickly.

The Sluglike cosina develop more sensitive eyes too see better during the night

Forgot picture and really keep F**king up

Mevola's mouth merges with the neck stalk. Furthermore its spores mutate, affecting all extant Mevola with the new mutation's

>>18491712
Pic...

Eye refines itself further. Mouth adapts to eat more calcified foodstuffs.

The added calcium to its diet causes the cosona to develop a simple shell cover

>>18491803
It's generally best if you wait until at least a couple other species go through an evolution before you do a certain species again.

>>18491946
The slug is pretty much behind all other creatures anyway atm won't be super powered by getting a defence

back legs become more muscular for a quick pounce when required, and eyes become more perceptive and detailed to allow for an unparalleled flicker-fusion rate (close to that of terrestrial hawks). They can now navigate any terrain more quickly and safely than any predator on their tier.

The filterworem's six gulping mouths grow even wider, nearly doubling the width of its head and leading to a larger, more robust population. As it does so, its warning pattern continues to become more elaborate.

>>18492080

Note that the red orbs at the sides of their heads aren't their eyes.
They are light emitting organs these creatures have had for a long time. The eyes are the purple orbs.

>>18492275

Slugs gain protrusions from the bottom of their body to pull them along the ground more quickly and allow them to eat vegetation from higher on the plant.

The bioluinescent-acid bleeding Frilla tree's have found their way through the power of flight to reach the mainland

With the new generations though, a root-system has proven unnecessary, and the Frilla have developed a massive limb-like trunk to replace it.

The gargantuan Mevola (actually an evolved tulip) develops stronger jaws. Now longer able to hide its monstrous nature, the lightning catching bulb atrophies, to compensate two conductive protrusion grow, directly connected to its capacitive brain goop.

>>18492080
but...their herbivores?

>>18492486
I love that these started out as the same plant!
How did it gain the ability to fly, and are they still massive?

>>18492555
their pouncing and improved eyes allow them to run from threats, not hunt things. "Pounce" was a bad word to choose, more like "leap." This was all avoidance.

>>18492572
The Mevola and Frilla, that is...

>>18492572
still massive, and whenever it grows too large, many buds split off and balloon due to a chemical reaction. They fly off for a few weeks, land, and start a new tree.

>>18492582
ah alright and actually that same muscle group probably would work well for kicking as well. Think a mule only squid shaped?

As the border between sea and sky becomes more and more breached, the filterworems encounter more and more fallen plants and other obstacles to their grazing. In response they evolve a slimy coating that allows them to stay moist and leave the water for short crawls across dry areas.

Alright, here is the hunt picture again with a little more color. It is not finished jet, but as I am starting to get sleepy, I will post this version in case this thread dies during my sleep.

>>18492841
That is pretty f*cking sweet.

>>18492841
WIN!

A splinter species emerges from the Tuft Hoppa population.
The Dancing Hoppa has developed it's social hierarchy further, and thus gained a signaling system based on their body language and colors in addition to the pheromones.

They are slightly larger than the Tuft Hoppas who still roam the land in their herds searching usable food from the undergrowth with their tongues.
The ancestors of the Dancing Hoppa moved to feast on the Lemou growths, which eventually caused the speciation event.

the slug gains photo-morphic patches on it's skin to change color and texture in different lights (darker bluish at night, and soil-colored in day).

>>18492865
>>18492872

Thanks!
I will continue on it tomorrow.
I plan on adding other species as well to the background, such as Chuflouz floating around and Frilla colonies in the ocean.

>>18492913

What is that abomination? Also does anyone have the Snuf evoloution thing?

>>18492987
the dominant species or a member of that order. No idea on the snuff.

It seems that the fluz has trough luck and advnatage become akin to our saurian species.

>>18492987

A Dancing Hoppa!
It dances with it's mates to make their social problems go away!
They dance the night away in the bio-luminescent light of the fields of Lemoy!

>>18493007

>It seems that the fluz has trough luck and advnatage become akin to our saurian species.
>It seems that the fluz has trough luck
>trough luck
>luck

Yes...luck.
Of course it never was my intention in the first place when I modified the flying gasbag to it's hopping variant. Never did I intend to grow it into an awesome family of octosauruses...

>>18492315
The beasts have begun to develop a way to call out to their fellow brothers, their gas bags once used to float, are now turned to music making. Sphincters along the dorsal length release the melodious sounds of whistlings rumblings and a several other calls to allow better communication.

>>18492987
>does anyone have the Snuf evoloution thing?

http://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/18456496

As it spends more time in the sun, the slimeworem loses the eyespots on its backside, relying instead on the increasingly sophisticated eyestalks sprouting between its six mouths. The eyespots along its underbelly remain as vestigial organs.

bumb

The Mevola shifts some of its parts around, While its tentacles become much thicker and stronger, they loose their defensive spikes.

With the success of one trunk and no roots, The Frilla Develops a tripod base, able to let it adapt to any variable both known or unkown.

With the loss of some of its symbiotic species, the Mainland Frilla are forced to adapt.

>>18493896

the lemuy have grown aheasive pads on their stumps to facilitate in climbing, as well as holding onto the larger creatures of the mainland while they groom and clean. no signficant spore development has happened.

The world's atmosphere has been changing Oxygen content has increased (roughly 45% compared to earths 21%), clouds are thicker and laden with luminescent spores adding a dim blue glow to the night sky. This has caused a low pressure zone to form all over, there are daily tropical depressions (storms right before a hurricane). Expect heavy humidity, occasional flooding, increased lightning strikes resulting in the occasional forest fire, and increased plant growth from the extra rain. The rain itself, at night has an off blue glow to it from the luminescent spores. Herbivores can capitalize on the rampant plant growth, and plants...now is your time to shine.

A marvel of evolution! The slug has grown a larger gullet to allow it to chew food longer, adding to it's nutrition. From this nutrition it has gained more muscular "legs" with calcified toes at the ends for traction. Their feeler bristles on their backs have become thicker and more ridged, like spines. Some remain to act as sensors.

>>18496051
Giggity...
Oh giggity.

Hehehe....

ALright. Lets get Frilla.


Thanks to the surge of electricity, and nutrients, the Frilla develop a conciousness, awareness, and become a sort of plant hybrid. This is represented by thick veiny stalks tracing the externals of the frilla, pulsing with lights that show signals passing through. When a forest fire starts, this can be noticably demonstrated by the hyperactive pulsing, and the super hydration of the plants themselves, to make the fires less capable of widespread destruction.

>>18496471
i respect your boldness but that was the limit of what can be done in this cycle for rapid jumps. i suspect mobility may be your aim.

>>18496471

Trees are the most advanced lifeforms. The other ones actually have brains!

the Lemuy are attracted by the Frillas light display. they move in droves into the frilla forest, and with them comes their strange spore ecology. there is now a greater level of nutrients in the area for herbivores, and the Lemuy tend to the Frilla, picking away parasites and dead components to feed on. The Lemuy themselves have evolved to climb the Frilla and their internal jelly has grown more gelatinous instead of viscous.

>>18496688
Nope. See the other thread.
Fuck mobility. Thats what mind control is for.

>>18496740
With the massive amounts of spores released, the Frilla develop its first idea, and begin forgin a path ahead. The first few spores are released from the frilla, simply little things that do little to nothing yet, more as an experiment than anything else.

>>18496918
((im down with some evolution, but dont make it so in 8 hours when people from the next time zone come back they have to contend with a mind control network, if its something passive like a fungal infection of the brain i'm down with it. when both threads start to autosage ill make new ones, and the new event...its gonna be epic.))

>>18496979
Mind control is a bit of a ways off.

Besides, the way things are going on the island are more like.... Reaper indoctrination.

The mainland? Its more like.... A sensory network.

The Frillas spore release has stimulated the Lemuy, they begin a new stage of rapid spore release and the forests of Frillas are thick with spore fog from both species. To facilitate rapid mobility in their new homes the Lemuy have developed simple cellular walls around their upper pseudopod that function in a similar manner to claws. These can be used to prune and groom the frillas for optimal care. The Lemuy continue to maintain other client creatures as well. Sadly, no brain still.

>>18496740
>>18496471
Woah woah, bipedal already and without a skeletal structure? I demand satisfaction!

The hell was I evolving a spine for?!

>>18497126
The lols?
And so you couldn't be called spineless?

>>18497126
Im going to stop evolving for tonight...i demand that you catch up. The Lemuy are giant Amoeba things from space. They achieved mobility via a more gelatinous internal structure (think ballistic jelly) and gaining a cellular wall (like bacteria) on their pseudopods (limbs). they still dont have a real brain. just instinct...now get to work! at least 3 new evolutions, i'm obsessed with your art.

>>18497150
Fair enough.

But tonight the rowgu waddle.

Oh boy! Lightning AND plant growth? You just made my day sir.

Mevola experience lightning strikes at an unprecedented rate, as more than a few can overload their capacitor jelly and fry their tuberous brain mater. This has lead to some unusually quirky individuals to try something new... Uprooting themselves to get away from low pressure areas, they at first used all of their tendrils to drag themselves. Subsequent generations have specialized bottom 'limbs'' for locomotion, with the top ones still used to ensnare and incapacitate their prey with discharges of stored electricity. In response to electrical overload, the capacitor goo has become much more dense, allowing greater storage of energy. Photo receptors have relocated in response to the creatures new posture.

Also here's a nifty picture of the brain, virtually unchanged for a millions of years...

The frilla develop a method of reading light, so that communication between tree's is possible. Sometimes lighting interferes, thus the Frilla's 'language' is forced to become more and more complex.

>>18497239
Pic related. Its the spores, and bioluminosity.

Chufluoz has adapted to increasing numbers of their land-bound cousins, the hoppers by developing a crude eye stalk. However it only sees in the infrared spectrum, making the the luminescent organs of Hoppers and other flouz eminently visible. This diversification of the pallet, combined with greater O2 levels has caused a great overall increase in size, especially the gas chambers. Chuflouz are now capable of floating well above any lightning storms they might encounter

no love for the shield glund?

>>18497496
If you like it, write it!

Personally im more of a Frilla and Psionic fan. Frowgs are awesome to.

And the various multitude of Cthulu branches.

>>18497496
((lurkers...get to work or ill slay you! I have a goal, its to keep this thread's biodiversity going. if a creature isint being used, evolve it yourself. keep it restrained, no super powers or death lasers etc, or super massive evolutionary jumps. I hope to keep this thread going until the Indonesian gentleman gets back. That will require periodically creating a new thread as they autosage, but im prepared for that.))

world update:

The Proliferation of the plant species and intense sporing of the Frilla and Lemuy has brought Oxygen content of the atmosphere up to a dangerous 70%, creatures have room to become more aerobic and athletic. The days are warm and the food is plentiful for all.

The Frilla begin choking on the oxygen, and are forced to consume oxygen in some manner or another in an effort to reduce the overall amount. Nitrogen is among the many gasses they begin pumping out alongside their spores, in an effort to remake their world closer to what it was.

bump

>>18497496
>>18497794

The shield glud thrives with lack of attention from predators and plentiful food and oxygen.

They become larger and more muscular, their carapaces become stronger and layered with a semiconductor outerlayer. The grounding spike has grown beyond it's original purpose to double as a weapon to ward off predators with a bulb of hard shell containing a concentrated poison glad capable of stunning predators and outright killing smaller ones. It's jaws become more powerful and it's teeth grow wide and flat to help crush the plentiful plants around. Their brains grow slightly to help process the information gathered from their infrared sight

They have evolved a new trait of community, gathering together to birth their young in small groups of 7-12 and look after them until the carapaces of the young have fully come in.

A new sub species of Mevola appears, ones with greatly reduced size and strength (down to about 4 feet from 25-50), but a slightly increased brain to body mass ratio. These new Mevolites have much shorter life spans, and thus reproduce at a much greater rate. Spores are no longer parasitic, but are grow right out of the ground. The Mevolite live packs of anywhere from 5 to 25, and and are capable of taking down much larger prey with a combine electric discharge. However they all fear their behemoth of an ancestor, who is immune to their attacks, and regularly eats large packs of Mevolites

>>18498083
Their carapaces become stronger still to help keep out the elements and hungry predators. Their bodies grow larger as well.

Their brains grow and they begin to knock up Frilla, Leumy and other plantlife to collect their spores and carry them to selected areas to grow homes, food and areas they can hide in all in one go.

test post from mobile phone in train. Will post more when this gets through.

>>18498365
oh yea, the claws.

They gain claws to help them climb surfaces like larger frilla and root out the roots of smaller plantlife.

yes! Thanks for continuing, i preciate the tending, not gent. For next threads, try different biomes such as reef, abyss or tundra, the threads shouldn't be run in parallel but can happen at same ingame time. Also, pause when creatures reach tribal stage, there will be new mechanics for them.

ideas for base creatures in other biomes:
tundra: mevola, yantar, glund, early hoppa
abyss: gyrados bladeworem, brown flatworem, colony fus
reef: pre-land crabsluck, fast fus, any flatworem, any bladeworem. New plant for the reef themselves.

>>18498472
Can we have fast forewards to the tribal stage when a species is viable for "uplifting"? We'll leave their sapient forms to your discretion but it's kinda difficult to address when the actual stones and sticks stage happens. Even in spore it's sorta handwaived and just -happens-, and you're given the opportunity to modify the creature a little to be more suitable for humanoid living.

((Welcome back Indonesian gentleman, i was readying a super massive event in your absence. its called black dawn, over the course of a few generations a massive build up of oxygen has occured on the planet, the Lemuy have proliferated plantlife and kept things tidy ensuring a massive build up of food for all. truely a golden age. i had the goal of progressing to "ape" stage for everyone tommarow, after one or two more evolutions. Black dawn is as follows and goes across both this game and the islands, leading up to a semi unification in another thread. Feel free to negate it and say it didnt happen, or twist it to make it not so bad))

Prosperity, it was a golden age. The Lemyu tended the Frilla, the skies danced at night with the glow of the spore clouds, and the ground with luminescent vegetation and spore haze. The glud were hording for some unknown reason and the Mevola hunted and were hunted by worem and flouez, the slugs grazed absent mindedly. This was brought to an end by a superheated shock-wave that scorched the world. A series of volcanic eruptions across the globe spread enough carbon ash into the atmosphere to blot out the sun, then that perfect oxygen rich atmosphere ignited creating a global firestorm, the world was on fire...if only for a moment. In the following cycle food will be scarce, competition will be vicious and species will have to adapt to survive and make use of what little is left, but do not worry...a least some of all species survived, and while many vegetated areas were destroyed, the seeds sit in the charred earth waiting for the first rain....but that is for a brighter tomorrow.

The air is choked with ash, oxygen content has plummeted to 18%. The sunlight has been significantly dimmed, The spores have diminished to a fraction of their former abundance, but in the haze of ash one can still see a blue glow. Life will burn on. Seeds drift on seas of ash, and survivors gaze upward at an unfamiliar sky.
----
roll a d6
1-your species has been eradicated, go back two evolutions and proceed forward...consider it a chance to re imagine your creature.
2-The time have been tough, so have you. you grow larger, but much...much..dumber. think opie the retarded t-rex. say what you hunt.
3- you have had to change your diet to survive. reverse what you are now..omnivores...stay golden.
4. your adaptions to the new environment were minor but prevented extinction. feel good bro. minor beneficial evolution.
5. The weak were killed, the slow were killed, the foolish were killed. you are lighter weight, leaner, faster, and more cunning then before. Name your prey
6. This was the moment your kind waited for, the chance to dominate. You develop increased muscle mass, intellect, and size. You may not be the fastest, but when your the biggest and smartest, who wants to fight you. Name no prey...you hunt the world.
----

plants-roll a 1-6
1-you are dead. roll back a few species and reinvent yourself, the harsh climate change was too much
2-you survive and are carnivorous now to supplement your diet. name your new prey
3-You have become less plant and more animal. name your new prey
4-you developed a radical adaptation to survive in the new environment. (extensive use of soil nutrients and thermal energy for growth instead of light)
5-Develop some form of mobility. tumbleweed, crawl, blow on the wind, whatever.
6-Giant Growth spurt- the climate was perfect for you to tower above it all, you are as massive as a skyscraper...and as immobile, an ecology all to your own.
---
fliers- this one is a little brutal, but consider the calamity.
roll a 1-3
1-you were knocked out of the sky and your ability to fly is destroyed, crawl in the dirt.
2-You survived, but not unchanged, adapt to fly lower and breath ash laden air.
3. Hard times call for harder creatures. Become an aggressive predator, and name your favored prey.

rolled 5 = 5

SHOGUN GLUND DOES NOT FEAR YOUR CLAMITY

rolled 6 = 6

LUCK BE A GENEPOOL TONIGHT!

>>18499083
damn straight. I'll update Shieldglund in a bit if this is a cannon event.

rolled 1 = 1

>>18499094
>6

...

THE FROWMAGNON PROCEED TO MARCH TOWARD CIVILIZATION.

>>18499113
>1

If that mis-roll counted I'd be so pissed right now.

rolled 5 = 5

to roll put into the email field "dice+XdY" x is replaced with 1 and y with 6, remove the " ". all must roll, refer to my earlier post for why.

>>18499113

comin for your ass melova. Better hope you roll high.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18499118
your good. enjoy your apex status. I would love the blessing of the true Gentleman, but he seemed ok with my care of this thread in his previous absence, and this was in motion before he came back. so consider it cannon. besides, you evolved with me running it once before :P, though my reign is temporary until the real gentleman returns. i'm just here to stir the pot and ensure no eldritch death laser, and cyber powers.
>>18499096

rolled 1 = 1

I CALL TO THE DICE. GIVE ME POWER

>>18499145
Lovely.

The frowmagnon are grounded on the islands anyway until their millennium or so journey across the landbridge brings them back home to the mainland. I doubt they'll have changed much by then.

We'll probably be starting a new thread by then anyway. Have we archived everything up to the point?

rolled 6 = 6

>>18499020

>please don't die!

>>18499176

Aaaaaaaw YEEAAAAH!

>>18499176
>6

ohboyherewego.jpg

The dice are with us tonight.
>mfw my predator gets a higher roll than me
SON OF A -

>>18499214
YOUR CARAPACES WILL MAKE GLORIOUS ARMOR FOR THE FROWSAPIENS OF THE FUTURE. WE WILL SPARE YOU AS LIVESTOCK.

>mfw when I'm probably going to get my shit wrecked immediately after this after being so full of myself before frowmagnons even discover fire.

>>18499160
AH FUCK.

decimated by the apocalypse only the cave dwelling LemUy survived. Though they had no true brain, anyone looking at them could not help but know they felt something resembling sadness. Their cultivated world, so perfect...they would never have any idea their hyper oxygenation of the planet aided in its incineration.

the Lemuy are now just the Lem. They have been disgraced. They are slow, ponderous and very curious about the world having just emerged from their cave.

rolled 5 = 5

>>18499176

The cataclysmic events of the firestorm brought devastation to the more specialized Hoppa species. The nomadic Hoppa had been the underdog in the Hoppa family, it didn't have the numbers of the Tuft Hoppas, the size of the Great Hoppas and Big tuft Hoppas or the speed and fangs of the Flash Hoppas.
But perhaps for this very reason, when the world collapsed around them, the Nomadic Hoppas were the ones to seize the day.

They had always been the smartest breed of Hoppas, and now when the resources were scarce, this ingenuity of them allowed them to recover their losses very swiftly.

Their social hierarchy developed even further, as definite societal roles started emerging for individuals. To compensate this growing complexity, their communication system also started using their bioluminicent patches.
Partly because of this, their eyesight also developed further.

During this whole time, their brains had been slowly developing, but this catastrophe was the needed catalyst to boost them to a primitive sentience.
Their tentacles developed for handling objects better. The forward facing ones developed gecko like paws at their ends, while the backward facing ones gained hard bumbs on their underside at their tips, to make them better at grabbing things.

The Tribal Hoppa lives in small moving communities, only settling down to raise their young. Although Hoppas are asexual, some Tribal Hoppas take a motherly role by guarding the young of the whole tribe, while the others either scavenge or hunt for food.

>>18499020

rolled 4 = 4

>>18499306

Fuck! I forgot the dice!

rolled 5 = 5

>>18499313

The Great Hoppa endures!
Now with a bigger peak!

rolled 3 = 3

long have the ground glund slumbered in the depths...

rolled 4 = 4

>>18499020

Rollan for Flash Hoppas

>>18499380

The Flash Hoppas survived through the cataclysm because of multiple extremely minor alterations.
They became slightly smarter, in order to better pursue the scarce prey. Their sociality also increased, leading to improved pheromone glands. The feather like additions to their back tentacles work as signaling flags for their pack mates as they hunt.

The frowmagnon make their slow journey back to the mainland across the landbridge. They learn to crudely cultivate the frilla plants and trees they endear so much and spread their growth all across the landmass. They use its vines and tendrils to clumsily bind together bandoliers and baskets to hold various supplies and trinkets. Cold seasons slow their progress and encourage them to settle in cavernous formations where many family groups commune and trade, hibernating all the while until conditions improve.

The shield glund /thrive/. The calamity is hard, but they learn to make the best of it.

Their carapaces grow still stronger, their brains more powerful, their stature more MIGHTY.
Their internal organs become better, ensuring they get the best of any meal, their poison now enough to even give large prey pause. They begin to store electric charges in their shells, harvested from the melova they eat and electrical discharges from the environment itself, to add to their defensive arsenal for any predator foolish enough to attack them while charged.

Along with their great size they have attained speed as well, making great lumbering strides, starting slow but becoming deceptively quick.

Side tentacles grow larger and stronger helping with movement. sensory tentacles develop further allowing to detect slightest vibrations. Also, Boomers now prefer charred/cooked prey.

rolled 4 = 4

>>18499373
the great cataclysm has made the soil and minerals the glund feasted on for generations uneatable. Now at night thousand of the comparatively tiny ground glund swarm from their deep underground nests. These expeditionary forces are composed of all classes of glund except the majestic queen. They are primarily made of mighty soilder glund these large forces use pheramons to comunicate and with their masterful sense of smell they find and swarm upon prey, their poisonous bites and acidic slime quickly incapacitating most creatures thanks to sheer numbers. But what proportion of the underhive are these raiding partys, and are the many hives united in the deep by great tunnels? only time will tell

>>18499439
Wouldn't volcanic soil be -rich- in minerals?

That is... I don't know how well glunds handle all dat delicious ash.

rolled 4 = 4

>>18499451
their primary food mineral had a strange reaction to the firestorm and has become unpalatable to the ground glund. Now they require flesh now, they tear their victims into pieces and take them to their lairs to be eaten.

The Tribal Hoppas continue to develop.
The paws in their forward facing tentacles become more finger like, while the back tentacles gain muscle mass to further allow the Hoppas to carry stuff with them.

The Tribal Hoppas have learned how to harness to killing power of a simple rock. The Hoppas started quickly developing primitive rock tools and weapons, such as spears.
They use these weapons both for hunting and for defending their tribe against predators and other hostile tribes competing for the same resources.

rolled 2 = 2

>>18499020

Rollan for the Dancing Hoppa!

(Gotta update dem Hoppas!)

>>18499451
OBVIOUSLY SHIELDGLUND ARE THE SUPERIOR STRAIN

i approve of the event. But before we continue to ape and tribal stage, the next threads should be expanding the diversity on the other biomes. This is so the growing tribes can get a wide range of diet, and possible contact with other sentients developing on those places.

>>18499422
The electric unity between the frilla of the isles and the frowmagnons ancestors are ever prevalent even now. They channel electrical bursts into their bare strikes and fling bolts as if were as simple as batting an eyelash. (that is if they had them)

They craft simple staves of frilla limbs and bark coiled with vine matter, channeling their electric impulses along them to great effect. These organic stun batons prove effective but frail as eventually the plant matter dries up within weeks and dies, along with it the conductive tissues. Crafting such weapons of various lengths and shapes becomes a common trade alongside cultivation and weaving for warfare against opposing tribes and prey in the hunt. The phalanges in their mitts become more finer and articulate to manipulate such materials.

>>18499469

As the Lemoy fields burned so did the majority of the Dancing hoppas.
Those that survived were forced to compete for the ever dwindling resources, both with each other and with other Hoppa species.
This led to an increasingly aggressive behavior towards everything.
The color patterns became warnings, the pheromones and biolominicent lights signals of hate. The Screaming Hoppa gets its name from the booming shriek it emits from it's bowels to ward of anything that it perceives as entering it's territory.

To support this ever aggressive attitude, the Screaming Hoppa has grown in size. They are obnoxious omnivores, they can and will eat anything. They often steal other creatures kills, by simply forcing the smaller creature to move away or get dismembered.
Their tongues lost their tuft tipped heads, and instead developed harsh, sandpaper like ends, that allow the Hoppa to lick every scrap of food to their maws.

The Lem exit their caves, diminished but driven to repair damage. The spore count slowly increases but the adult lem no longer produce oxygen, so the spores can only hope to very slowly repair the ecology. The ash is still thick in the sky, but in time the clouds begin to glow again though now it is a ruddy orange like the embers of a fire, the sun barely shines still. Plant life can survive off of this light at a diminished rate. The Lem travel in packs searching for plant life and come across The shield Glund and The frowmagnon first. The begin dooing what they do best, scavenging to survive. They clean the Glund and Frowmagnon for parasites and detritus to get sustenance. Time will tell if they are brutally killed by the worlds new populace, and as they spread who will they meet next?

We seriously need a map, so I made this simple mock up to help us visualize the know world.
Unofficial of course as long as IG either doesn't approve it or make one himself.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18499020

Rollan for tuft hoppas!

>>18499525
The frowmagnon treat the Lem as one would a pet or a negligible pest. Their gelantious and gummy nature proves unappetizing as a prey item compared to the glund hordes and many primitive sea forms. Lem quite literally follow in the footsteps of the Frowmagnon.

>>18499541
THE HOPPAS HAVE BEEN FORSAKEN

Well I think my next advancement would be community so I'll pause until IG or NG give some updates on that. Next thread will kick shit up a notch.

>>18499541

As the Tuft Hoppas were omnivorous, the cataclysm only reduced their populations temporarily. All the dead stuff in the undergrowth were quickly consumed by the Hoppas, though their population size still remained only a portion of their glory days.
With the increased competition, predation and scarcity of food the Tuft Hoppas are somewhat smaller than their ancestors to reduce need for food and increase their speed.

These smaller and more agile herds of Hoppas are scattered all around the continent, as they have adopted more nomadic lifestyle.

>>18499533
That looks about right. I'd estimate the frowmagnons are on the cusp of reaching the mouth into the mainland by now via the land bridge, or already there.

not bad, but i had an idea for a continental drift to happen which would split the pangaea into 3 landmasses. So the current tribal upgrades are happening in a continent.

>>18499570
wish i could join in but i suck shit at drawing and dont have the time. im enjoying watching!

>>18499546
What?
Tuft Hoppas were omnivores, and still are. They are hardly even affected.

HAHAHAHAAAA! THE HOPPA SUPREMACY CAN NOT BE CHALLENGED BY EVEN NATURE ITSELF!

Seriously though, I have just had dam good rolls. I was prepared to kill of all of them if the dice gods so dictated.

>>18499559
>>18499442

the island is where the frogmen came from, but there is much left there..so very much. Go there, ROLL! DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES! EVOLVE! THRIVE!

Mr. Indonesian Gentleman, this is your show, im just here screaming and throwing fuel on the fire. Lay down your plans and i will make sure when you are unavailable that the dream carries on.

Motivated fags. archive these threads on the 1d4chan Evo Quest. Search for Evolution. Also on Sup /tg/ eventually ill get motivated and make a nice flow chart of the evolved creatures...ill also let you know in one of aether's games i was a monster. the picture attached is not cannon, it is what happens when something goes wrong...terribly...terribly..fucking wrong, on the moon. good night. sleep tight. don't let the YuMel bite...that things a YuMel. started as a cute little jelly.

Changes in metabolism allow Boomers to move much faster, which also changes their coloration. A new tentacle to vent gases is formed. It's intricate design makes it possible to mix violently reacting gases just as they are expelled, giving Boomers a new weapon and a means to cook it's meals.

>>18499589
>>18499589

>mfw the explosive gasbags are now speedy AND they have fucking flame throwers.

rolled 5 = 5

>>18499020

Rollan for the Tunneling Hoppas!

>>18499604
>>18499604
DAMMIT ARE YOU SERIOUS

>>18499570
Would this work better?

>>18499607

THERE ARE NO BREAK IN THE HOPPA TRAIN!

>>18499623

*BREAKS

Dam... Now I just made myself look like an idiot.

>>18499629

FUCK!
*BRAKES

HOLY FUCKING DOUBLE GRAMMARFAILURE BATMAN!

>>18499623
>>18499629
>break
>breaks
>in
There are no BRAKES ON the hoppa train
ftfy

The Lem continue to integrate themselves into the ecology where they can. Their sporing in this environment produces poorer results for beneficial uses. Instead of lush feilds of moss, their spores create puddles of glowing slime, oozing from rock faces and sticking to the ground. The living sporesamoebas of the slime excrete a mild acid breaking down the volcanic ash that cakes the world, coverting it into soil quicker then would be normal, it will still be a long...slimy process. The Lem themselves have evolved several organelles dedicated to sporing, as well as reaching a state similar to their more evolved ancestors. Their claws are a potent defensive mechanism. They move with an odd bouncing stretching motion that is a crude parody of walking, giving them the illusion of constantly stalking something.

>>18499629
>>18499623
>>18499634
I lol'd, no worries man it's cool!

>>18499690
Evo thread is best thread

>>18499604

For eons, the Tunneling Hoppa had preyed on the wormlike Glunds, but when the glunds moved to a more predatory diet, a deadly game of mice began inside the dark tunnels of their burrows.

The Tunneling Hoppas were the first creatures the Glunds consumed, those that survived were forced to become even faster and nimbler creatures. They started hunting swiftly, doing hit and run attacks on the unaware glunds, quickly using their empowered tongues to impale their bodies before dragging them away.

The main advantage the Hoppas have over the glunds is their bioluminescence that allows them to see inside the tunnels. As it uses great amounts of energy however, they need to feed very often.

The Tunneling Hoppa's rear tentacles have developed glands that allow them to produce strands of silk like substance, which they use to lay warning lines at their nests and to reinforce their tunnels.

The Tunneling Hoppa has laid eggs for a long time now, as they rarely enter the surface. They use their silk to attach soil and other debris on them, in order to camouflage their scent.

rolled 1 = 1

>>18499024

Rollan for the fang fliers

>>18499765

Fang fliers are now dead i presume?

rolled 2 = 2

>>18499024

Rollan for the Sky Trap things!

NO LONGER SHALL THE FLYING OVERLORDS DARKEN OUR DAYS

>>18499777

The Chutflouz somehow survive the catastrophe.
They adapt to the ash laden air by developing filtering organs for air intakes.

rolled 5 = 5

>>18499020

Rollan for the Swimming Hoppa!

>>18499801

Truly the Hoppas are blessed by the Dice Gods!

>>18499801
>>18499805

>>18499833

>>18499801

The swimming hoppa becomes much more agile in the water. It's back tentacles flatten even more, and become more powerful flipper like appendages, while the ancestral gasbag in it's abdomen develops in to an primitive air bladder, allowing the creature to dive longer periods and control it's swimming better.

Is that all of them? has the hoppa hot streak ended?

>roid rage hoppas everywhere

How do I even cope with this short of crapping my as-of-yet-not-invented pants.

>>18500018

Actually, there are still one species of Hoppas, the Big Tuft Hoppa, left, but as I didn't really come up with it, I don't dare to touch it.
The same reason why I have focused on the Hoppas almost exclusively.
Though I do thing that species like Wecks should get some attention, but I am not sure if I should star messing with other people's plans.

>>18500031
Speaking of plants, it seems that basically every plant species is somewhat sentient and what not. Are there any mundane plants even around. The only one I can think of is Yantar.
The Frillas and Mevolas are very animalistic right now.

bumb.

>>18500093
I'd imagine big tuft hoppas died out, not unlike the large animals of our world becoming a relic of the past they wouldn't be able to survive with so little food.

>>18500947

Yeah, but we mostly decided this with rolling though.
Because of this, the giant gas filled balloon creatures somehow survived when the skies burst into flames while their smaller more maneuverable cousins all died.

Random chance and all that plays a big role in evolution, but I still am somewhat grieved about the loss of the winged Flouz.

rolled 2 = 2

>>18491306
well lets see then

>>18501039
finally a hopper with a lower roll

rolled 4 = 4

>>18501048
The mega hoppa has in a fit of evolutionary brilliance regained one of the oldest abilities of it's ilk. It's become an omnivore. Roaming across the land filling the niche of cattle and bear and eatting whatever is in sight.

>>18501048

Heh, the hoppers have been sort of stealing the show on the main continent. I am quite amused how the catastrophe only barely scratched them. Well, that is what you get for deciding things like this with dices.

Seriously though, we need more variety in the creatures. More plants, more offshoots of species. The only thing I might criticize this brilliant evo-quest about is the fact that there is too little speciation going on.
Instead of splitting off and forming new species and lineages, the majority of species seem to only further improve themselves.
This leads to a problem if the species dies out, thus completely removing the whole lineage from the game, if it doesn't have sub species and other variations living elsewhere.

This is of course just minor nitpicking though. These threads are fantastic. They remind me of a long running similar evolution game that was held on one spore fansite. It was fucking glorious. It was called Sagan-4 or something alike.

>>18501117
Yea.
I would split off but I'm having enough trouble with my limited art skills already. Was hoping some other people would jump in and make a split like was done in the original thread,

>>18501069

And presumably bigger and dumber, as we are following this roll chart:
>>18499020

Your development puts it actually in extremely similar evolutionary niche as the Great Hoppa.
>>18499344
They are both omnivorous and large hoppas, who roam the land eating anything they can.
Is the Mega Hoppa social by the way? I assume it is as it's ancestors were.

The Great Hoppa is solitary.

>>18501152

I might help.
I haven't drawn this much for a long time, and a change from all the hoppas would be refreshing.

>>18501167
I'd say so. Most likely they are slowly moving herds that just move along the main continent eating everything in sight, pulling down low flying beasts and catching anything to slow to get out of the way

>>18501174
whooooo

Probably gonna split off Poisonshielders and Shock shielders

A splinter species emerges from the Shield Glund.
Although the majority of the Shield Glunds use the electric charges they contain for defense, the ancestors of the Charge Glund discovered that the electric discharge was exceptional at stunning small prey.
They began actively hunting creatures of varying sizes, even young Hoppas who steered too close to them. (I assume that the Glunds are still relatively small, seeing that their closest relative is a burrowing worm like thing, if I am wrong then disregard this.)

As their carnivorous appetite grew their diet on Melova withered, until they eventually only fed on it in order to recharge their electric powers.
Their carapaces ability to store these charges was further increased, and the highly conductive minerals the volcanic activity brought to the surface only served to further improve this.

Their horns merged in to one, extremely conductive horn they use to channel their electric charges towards their prey. Their tails also grew, now serving a twin purpose of both finishing of stunned prey with toxins, and collecting static electricity from the environment and sorting it to their carapace.

>>18501265
>>18501325

Oh, I hope you don't mind the split I made.
I should have red your post before posting the Charge Glund, in case you wanted to do sometime similar yourself. I don't want to mes up your plans.

>>18501344
nope, this is motherfugin brilliant and I mind nothing at all.
Please continue.

>>18501376

Question though.
What size are these things?

We could really use a general size chart anyways.

>>18501394
Yea we really could use a general size chart. I've refrained from giving actual sizes because I don't know the relation to other creatures, but in my mind's eye they have reached, through focused size advancement and efficient digestion, about 3 feet long and ...2 1/2 high on average?

which makes them a little shorter than your average hopper if I'm reading this picture correctly.>>18492841

I made this pic and adjusted the sizes of the creatures to be what I think they are in relation to each other.
If something needs to be corrected inform me.
Note that the Tuft Hoppa is about one meter tall.

>>18501586
Looks legit to me

Well I am sort of out of ideas right now, but I might as well bumb this thread. Maybe get other people to play too.

The glund that resided near the volcanoes take advantage of their new biomes, switching their colour to blend in with the ash mounds. Their carapaces grow a bit more flexible and the spikes open up and become shorter, becoming spouts for the Ashglund to release clouds of smoke and ash to deter predators and to assist in camoflague.

They lose their poisonus glands and instead gain filters and a second set of lungs to give them clean air to breathe and power their smoke cloud abilities.

Finally their skin and carapaces change for camoflauge and to better resist the heat in the environs.

They become smaller overall because of shortage of fauna in these areas and have to turn to eating smaller glund decendants and tunneling Flouz to supplement their diet.(omnivores)

rolled 2 = 2

>>18501779
Neat!
>>18499024
I really think that we need more plantlife around here, so I guess I'll roll for Yantar.

rolled 4 = 4

Rolling for the slugs

>>18501880
The slugs develop two extra pairs off legs to move faster and climb/dig

>>18501952

added the slugs

>>18501838

After the volcanic apocalypse, and it's massive effects on climate, pure water became scarce.
The rivers and lakes were polluted by the acidic fallout of the eruptions.
In their desperate search for water, many creatures sought out the small water pools that had gathered in the cup like leaves of the Yantar plant.

Of course, this water was also deadly, but because Yantars were already very capable of handling same kinds of toxic hazards, they simply filtered the water they needed from their pools while leaving the toxins there.
Because of this, the pools quickly became concentrated with the toxins, thus making the water inside them much more contaminated than the water from other sources.

Many creatures who drank this deadly liquid died very quickly, as the liquid mixture of volcanic ash, sulphuric acids and heavy metal pollutants scrambled their insides.

These dead released nutrients to the soil, and thus empowered the Yantar.
Over time, the Yantar developed alluring scents to attract creatures to their pools, and as the toxic fallout began to fade, they replaced the deadly substances with venoms of their own. They also developed a fast growing system of surface roots that quickly grew over any dead creature in their vicinity, so that no scavenger could claim the plant's price.

The Death cup Yantar relies manly on photosynthesis, it's deadly nature works only to give it an competing edge over the other plant life.

>>18502042
a few varieties however, work in the opposite direction loaded their fleshy leaves with toxins by leeching it from the water, and letting species survive off their water reserves. The dung left by these creatures provides a fair amount of nutrition that allows it to survive and reproduce easily enough.

no apparently physical change.

>>18499773 - your species has to roll back a few generations, so de-evolved them. look the Lem. the rolled a 1. just role play suffering, weakness, then survival. find a new niche. dont go away completely, well miss you!
>>18500093
Competing for the same ecological niche is great. Declare your predation on one another and evolve from there!

If a creature hasn't been touched for more then a day, someone needs to pick it up, roll for it, and evolve it so it can carry on. if the creator comes back and doesn't like it, he or she can make a new roll and create a subset based off their creature. win win either way, more progress or more biodiversity.

some predators.

Predators? prey? who knows. get to work /tg/ get to rollin.

various species have migrated from across the world. roll for them, evolve them. if the origonal creatures come back, they can create subspecies from their creations so more bio diversity. get to rolling, research your species. see this thread.

research here >>18482230

rolled 1 = 1

Lesse what happens to the giant spire colonies of the Adoni

Though I was under the assumption the islands would still be separate from the mainland?

>>18501921
Slugs develop a hard spiky armor

>>18502371
black dawn changed that. volcanic island chain/ land bridges. see attempts at the map. remember rolling a 1 just means rolling backwards 2 evolutions. keep the spires though. become a prey creature, dont just go away.

The events of black dawn hit the giant spires of the Adoni in ruins. The only adoni left are the flydoni and those Adoni who remained sheltered underneath barely living Frilla trees.

When the flying frilla came to the mainland so did these small community insects. On reaching the mainland they discover new poisons and as a result become more poisonous. They struggle to develop more colonies again. Who knows where these more poisonous Adoni offshoots will end up.

An evolutionary change is that the seers have developed even larger sensory organs to help find new frilla trees. Though they have begun to find Toxic-Yantar spore clouds as well.

While the soldier class has begun to develop plates and gain even more muscle mass on its front legs.

>>18502443

Oh well I made the post with letting the spires crumble. Evolutionary dead ends and all that. The adoni shall rise again! Somehow!

some slug cos become slender and use their mouth to burrow into creatures body then hook themselves inside becoming a worm like parisite

As the competition for the same evolutionary niche between the Great Hoppas and the Mega Hoppas intensifies, the Great Hoppas are forced to adapt. The herds of Mega Hoppas prove to be much better suited for eating everything they come across, as their massive herds grant them almost unparalleled protection, and thus the freedom to eat anything they find.

Because of this, the more solitary Great Hoppas were left with only scraps and bits in the herd's wake. Their hunger drove them to increased aggression and within few generations, they started actively hunting other Hoppas, such as their main competitors.

The two massive Hoppas are quite evenly matched is strength, but the rear legs of the Mega Hoppas give them greater speed and they have much better eyesight than the Great Hoppas do. Because of these factors, the Great Hoppas could not hope to run down their prey, nor could they approach them easily without being spotted.

This led to the Great Hoppas become nocturnal predators. In the darkness of the night, the Mega Hoppa's eyesight couldn't protect them, allowing the Great Hoppas to approach them freely.

The Stalking Hoppa uses it's strengthened tentacles constrict it's prey while it shreds it's victim with it's massive crushing jaws.
The attacks are swift, decisive and brutal. They are often over before the herd is even properly aware of the threat, and when the presence of the Stalker is noticed, it is already dragging a dead Hoppa away.

Their are now two different types of cos the slug cos and parasite cos:
The slug cos now add an extra toe for improved balance and grip

>>18502221
The Calix Yantar develops sweet smelling pedals to differentiate itself from it's more deadly cousin. It also develops warning coloration on the underside of it's leaves to keep creatures from nibbling them.

A third split in the species is a cos devourer. It's adapted mouth and biology allow it to eat from the Lemuy fields as well as feast on adult Lemuy themselves. They are more aggressive and territorial while feasting on these gentle aliens.

To better defend its brethren a larger caste of Adoni has slowly been selected. The soldier caste now has huge plates(compared to its size) and its bony poison protection plate has become more of a helmet. The other soldiers are still there but the tank caste can hold its own against much large threats giving its brethren time to escape, or swarm the threat.

10:100 for tanks
25:100 for soldiers
15:100 for seers
50:100 for worker/gatherer/trailer layers

Rough populations for any given group of 100 Adoni. They are slowly creating trade routes between still grounded frilla trees, death yantar, and hrass.

>>18502739
due to energy constrictions some frilla are now simply huddling down alongside calix yantar plants. Forcing a sort of micro island of life admidst the ash wastes. These Frilla sap away some water but, also provide a certain amount of protection in the form of adoni colonies

>>18499020

Goddamn... I go away for a while, and every one gets delusions of grader. Oh well

Rollan for lil Mevolites!

>>18503038

Try again?

rolled 2, 5 = 7

>>18503049
Found my problem, I durped...
Here: 1st ones for Mevolites
2nd for Mevola

rolled 3, 2 = 5

Over a few generation, the lumbering 40foot ex-tulip death machines overall body plan has changed little, however subtle changes in their brain layout has caused an increase in spatial awareness and memory skills, able to stalk their prey and memorize their daily habits. The decrease in weight and increase of an elastic molecule in their bottom tendrils allow them to be nearly silent, and run at a speed only matched by a few hoppa species. Being plant matter no carnivorous species actively hunt them. Being immune to the electrical attacks of the Fromaggon, they consider them a fine delicacy, and while hunting them is dangerous, night raids of the Frilla trees are not uncommon.

New brain= instead of a bull elephant on perpetual must, think a bloodthirsty dolphin, in an electric plant theropod's body.

With Frilla trees growing near Calix Yantar the Adoni have begun to truly create homes for themselves. They cultivate the Yantar to grow on the poisonous frilla. This lures weak animals to the Calix where the Frillas poison can weaken them enough for the adoni to bring them down. Slowly but surely the adoni are creating spires and collecting resources from their home plants. The adoni increase their brain power during this period of cultivation.

The parasite cos Grow in size and no longer invade internally but attach and drain blood like a large leech and improve eyes to spot new hosts
They are now like large leech/snakes and attach with mouth then wrap onto the host.

I hope no-one minds if I ad a little more variety to the plant life around the planet.

These are all rather mundane and generic plants.

1. Thunder stalk.
A distant relative to the Mevolas which never took the path to sentience. It has thick and thorny leaves that grown in a shell like pattern that protects the plant against damage. against damage. It also has an extremely limited ability to channel electricity, mostly to it's thorns on its leaves, giving it's defense some extra punch. It's long stalks also give it it's name, as they often catch lightning strikes.

2. Pozen.
An ancient plant species that has changed very little from it's ancestors. A distant relative to the Frillas. It is a common plant in the undergrowth and it has over time developed the ability to rapidly "digest" detritus for extra nutrients. It is somewhat poisonous.

3. Chalice Yatar.
A yatar plant that has only one gigantic mug like leaf, that it uses to gather massive amounts of water in. It also serves as a trap to any would be water thieves, as they can easily fall inside the leaf, in which they will be slowly digested. Typical in more arid environments in where the plants cant spare any water they can get. The Chalice Yatar's leaf's insides are covered in long fussy hairs that catch any water that might vaporise away.

4.The stalk plant.
Common and unremarkable plant with one poisonous cup like leaf and hard bark. Grow in large bamboo like forests.

5. The Great Pozen.
This Pozen variant lives in moister areas. It has augmented it's photosynthesis capabilities by allowing masses of algae to live in micro-chambers that have formed inside it's massive cup like leafs. The Pozen collects water and deters predators with it's poisons while the algae produce energy.

The adoni on their travels have begun to gather pozen to their hometrees. The pozen are used to break up the many corpses that gather underneath the combined poisons of the frilla trees and adoni. This has created pozen gardens so to speak underneath frilla trees with adoni colonies.

rolled 6 = 6

Rolling for frilla

The catastrophe was not kind to the little mevolites, once possessing an emergent intelligence unmatched on the mainland, They now use much of their brain power tho power their larger bodies, now about 8feet tall and 12feet long, They run in packs of about 6 to16 taking down all species of hoppa, large or small, with a combined electric bite.

>>18503460
Pic....

6-Giant Growth spurt- the climate was perfect for you to tower above it all, you are as massive as a skyscraper...and as immobile, an ecology all to your own.


Well shit.
The Massive Frilla are equaly as intelligent as their size permits, now capable of light shows beyond Parallel. Thriving in the hot enviornment, with nutrients delivered directly through both ashe, and air, the Frilla Grow. Height is no consequence, and soon the Tripodal Frilla reach heights almost equal to large hills or small mountains. An ecology unto themselves, the genus of various Frilla combine. Spores everywhere, light shows, and the subtle whispers of the minds, The frilla have become the Apex of all they desired.

Yet they still desire more.

((Picture shows size comparason with Chutflouz, the largest being on the world.... Second Largest now.))

>>18503516
Picture.... I always forget it.

>>18501952
THIS HAPPENS.

The frowmagnon face many large predators on the mainland. In their hardships they learned that the hoppa and mevola still fear one thing.

Fire.

At first they would risk getting close to the still active lava flows from the new world's painful rebirth, lighting great bonfires and braziers out of frilla tinder to create barriers and "fences" to ward and corral them. They eventually spurned their own flames with their electric sparks.

Through this they would dominate and tame a few species of Hoppa.

The tunnelers for their silk and irrigation of the frilla.

The boomers for their weaponization and as adept guard animals.

And the great thundering mammoth-like hoppa as mounts and livestock.

This would be an arduous process to perfect as fear would be forgoed in favor of nurture, and nuture in favor of kinship.

The frowmagnon push onward.

>>18503521

>inb4 Lovecraftian poison tree mind control everywhere.

>>18503516
Awwww shit.

Does that mean the frowmagnon have mobile tree cities now.

>>18503548

If we want to retain any sense of realism those things won't be able to move.
You know why.

>>18503548
Not mobile anymore. Merely massive ones.

Extremely massive.
I swear, I wanted mobile, it gave me huge.

Pic related on Frilla tree's.

Due to their size? They age very, very, very slowly.

>>18503566
Maybe their sapling stage is mobile before grounding itself permenantly?

Just image, frowmagnon protecting the migrating frilla sapling herds and guiding them to their new planting grounds.

It's almost poetic. The frilla protected their ancestors and they do the same in turn.

Bring a tear to my neckbeard.

The parasite cos start using venom and become more like carnivorous by using lethal venom and then tunnelling into corpses they prey on all larger creatures due to not being noticed until too late

>>18503599
Im liking the idea, and it still leaves me with paths of evolution....

One or two evolutions of other creatures and then Ill evolve it once more.

>>18503537
Touche.

>>18501586
Added Mevola, and Mevolites

Btw are any of the creatures hot blooded yet?

rolled 4 = 4

>>18499020
Rollan for stalcks, cuz they need some lovan'

rolled 3 = 3

Emerging from the island the Stalcks are thriving, grazing on all forms of plant life, and especially enjoying the poisonous kind. Their bright coloring, and stores of poisons neck guts make them unlikely to be preyed upon and have become rather numerous.

rolled 3 = 3

For flydonis

due to the changes the flydonis are now herbivores consuming The stalk plant's poisonous flowers the flydonis are now bitter to eat as a deterrent (mouth parts are only suitible to eat toxic plants by breaking them down with enzymes

The Tribal Hoppas have continued to develop.
A major breakthrough happened when they discovered that they were able to communicate with other hoppa species with relative clarity, due the fact that all hoppa species rely heavily on their pheromones for communication, which haven't changed much over the eons.
This isn't really a new thing min you. The hoppas have always communicated across species with their pheromones. What is new is the fact that the Tribal Hoppas understood how they could use it to their advantage.

Many tribes have managed to gather groups of many of the more social Hoppa species such as Tuft Hoppas and Flash Hoppas around them with these pheromones. With their inherent understanding of this scent based communication and their ingenuity they have managed to transfer simple ideas to their distant relatives, and through this, they have managed to form almost symbiotic alliances with these creatures.
The Tuft Hoppas and Flash Hoppas aren't domesticated. They simply have understood that by staying around the Tribal Hoppas and following their commands they are going to get food and protection.

(field too long. Continuing in the next post.

>>18503967


This revolutionized the Tribal lifestyle. They are now even more nomadic than ever before, often moving with their Tuft Hoppa allies and Flash Hoppa guardians in search of food and water. A new animistic pseudo religion has started to form in the tribes, along with the rise of the "herders" or "communers" who are shamanic elders responsible for the pheromone communication with the other Hoppa species.

Thus far, these kinds of alliances have been most stable with thealready smart and social hoppas such as Flash Hoppas and Tuft Hoppas. The natural aggressiveness and territoriality of the Screaming Hoppas have have made attempted communications with them hard, as they are seemingly unable of understanding even simple ideas, as their rage blots their mind.
The larger hoppas see the Tribals as prey, so there have bee few successful communes with them, although the Tribal legends tell tales of a brave communer who managed to tame a Stalking Hoppa and drive out the vicious Mevolites from their hidden valley.

Pic related. It is a Tribal Hoppa, or Nad'lun as they call themselves carrying a scent staff while herding a group of other hoppas.
The scent staff are almost religious artifacts. They are past down from the tribe's shaman to the next one in a rite of passage. It contains the removed pheromone bladders of multiple different Hoppa species, allowing the wielder to utilize a greater range of scents when communing with the Hoppas.

Unable to spread as far or as wide as the Frilla wish, a juvenile form of seedlings, each the size of a Mega Hoppa, and capable of movement, is formed. With Herding patterns, they grow for a few years before settling down for a major growth-spurt. This gives them the time to explore and gain new experience not found in their racial memory.

They are perfectly suited to serve as mounts for Frowgs, and due to their natural state require little to no nutrients while being Hardy and tough beasts.

>>18504000
Trips too. Nice.

Also, I am horrid at drawing, so if someone else wants to create the youth of the frilla, go ahead. THis is general guidelines.

A set of Chuflouz have split off. Having lived amongst the tops of the frilla, some have developed sucker/filter mouths in place of their sky trap. Not yet able to feed on the poisonous Frilla, it has begun to feed on the ecosystem of other plants around it. Spending so much time amoungs the trees, purple skinned Chuflouz are more apt to survive.

>>18504059

Hoppa fag here! I am on it!

added flydonis and leech cos

>>18504059

Here you go!

Cultural update!

The frowmagnon have been slowly signing roles to the most adept of their families, creating a sort of matriarchy ruled by the family's dominant female. The dominant male adheres to a chieftain role. Artisans, farmers, and warriors span the 50-60 strong mass families. They hold a spiritual adherence to the Frilla, ingesting their bio-luminiscent saps and smoking their spores and leaves to enter euphoric states. In reality they temporarily render their minds to a drone-like state, able to understand the frillamind's desires through electrical impulses like their ancestors could. Vague as these frilla-induced hallucinations are, they give something for the frowmagnon to fight and thrive for.

(Their equipment is made out of a combination of glund shells, hoppa beaks, silk and mollusk bone, and frilla matter, dyes are derived from everything to blood, frilla pigments, and minerals)

>>18504446

Have the frowmagnon encountered the Tribal Hoppas jet?

Bladeworms need to be reintroduced!

Bladeworms are now fliers, like a flying piranha, with a length of about eight foot, they prey on everything in large swarms, but especially roaming Chuflouz

pic...>>18504473

Remember to stop development when you reach tribal stage guys. We will be diversifying in next thread and then whenever we get the new rules for tribal stage we can proceed.

>>18504446
>>18504463

Additional question. How do frowmagnon communicate with each other. Vocally?
Because the tribal hoppas or Nad'lun as they call themselves language is based heavily on scent, bio-luminescence and body-language, only involving few chips and whistles that the can emit.
Because of this, they can communicate with other hoppa species, but the language barrier between the Nad'lun and the Frowmagnon tribes might be so wide that it will make communication extremely hard.

>>18504517

Noted. The Tribal Hoppas basically have only stone age tech anyways, and their lifestyle doesn't support really major innovations anyways.

Mevola have become more slender, changes in brain pattern have caused a split. The main line still roams plains and preys on hoppas, and tribal hoppas, and frogmen at night, However some have developed an advanced cerebellum and have taken to the trees, including the upper parts of frilla trees. Their long tendrils are perfectly suited for flipping themselves through the vines and branches. Theses Mevola now actualy take care of their young after they sprout, their spores now able to burrow into the bark of trees. Large families have now gathered up on the tops of frilla trees. Occasionally they come down in force to cull the frogmen, although this takes a tole on both sides, keeping their numbers in check.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18499020

Let us continue with biodiversity shall we?
Rollan for wecks

The paracos has evolved a warm blooded system as well as a fur coat (if anyone can draw better than me imagine a snake with fur antennae and a serrated sucker mouth) they now scavenge and eat dead animals

>>18504463
Xenophobic. They acknowledge them as Hoppa that are intelligent, and that worries them. If any conflict happens it's totally territorial and out of fear.

>>18504517
Noted. Unfortunately I'll have to respond to anything the other players do to me so they'll have to effectively leave me for the remainder of the era.

>>18504521
Their communication is based on electrical impulses through hand contact, bodily illumination, and vocalization. They form rudimentary words and ideas associated with clicks, croaks, chirps, and grumbles. Written language is nearly non-existent. The symbols that adorn their attires and items are abstract at best but they vary so much between tribe families that it's meaningless from one tribe to another.

>>18504616
Note, that I'm mostly using you to evolve... And so that maybe we can be each others boogymen. So maybe we can leave this as a status-quo and work on glunds or stalcks or bladeworms or something?

The adoni have more or less reached their tribal state. The large non-massive frilla trees have created a symbiotic relationship between the Calix Yantar, Pozen, and Adoni. The adoni have massive colonies in their spires coming front the bases of the Frilla. A communal understanding has been formed among the many colonies. They trade hrass, domesticated stelvacs, and ever deadlier poisons.

>>18504616

Their society is somewhat more developed than the tribal hoppa's one. Though neither the hoppas have a written language, even the concept of artistic paintings is lost to them.

The tribal hoppas are naturally rather curious, but that attitude has been thrown in to a decline as the growing shamanic faith spreads among the tribes. More and more of the Nad'lun tribes adopt the nomadic herder lifestyle, which unfortunately does not encourage technological development.

Their semi religion is varied across the tribes, but it has certain common elements everywhere. Elements such as the belief that all the Hoppas are actually the same people, and that there is an universal "wind of spirit" that unifies all the hoppas. This idea comes from the fact that the pheromones are carried often long distances trough the wind, thus carrying information as well.
They also believe that the Hoppa herds they follow will provide for them everything they need. They are slowly becoming more and more dogmatic and withdrawn from the word.

The frowmagnon and their domesticated hoppas may cause tensions between the species as some of the Nad'lun literally believe that the frowmagnon have enslaved their people, though they are far too unorganized and dispersed to form any sort of credible threat.

Paracos now develop small appendages to manoeuvre better

>>18503521
The Shield glund see this shit and go "Oh, ill just live in there'

They bully their way into the area and burrow into the bark, making expeditions to the top and bottom for food and raids for food. Their claws warp to allow for better climbing and their carapaces and skin thicken further to account for the pressure and temperature differences at all heights.

>>18504565

As the cataclysm shocked the world, the Wesck swarms found themselves in food shortage. As the skies burned, they could not venture out for hunts. And when they finally could, they found a world devoid of the abundance of life, of prey they had been accustomed to.

The wast majority of them died, as the swarms were unable to support such high populations without fresh prey. But without the numbers, they were powerless against the larger creatures. They were forced to scavenge the land for scraps of food, and the most stable one they found were the plants.
The plants could not run away, they could not fight back, and thus the some of the dwindling wescks swarms began feeding on them.

Because their bodies weren't used to toxins they were forced to adapt. The hard shelled guardian wescks developed complex stomaches that allowed them to filter or neutralize the majority of toxins, and refine the plant material to an edible form.

They regurgitate this processed plant matter for the rest of the swarm to feed on. They have also developed larger mouthparts and claws to ease the handling of hard plant matter.

The paracos develop a more rat like jaw and now dig burrows with front claws with small back legs for balance They eat all available food sources.

The AshGlund add heat to their arsenal. Their old poison glands warp and begin to produce chemicals yet again, this time a burning acid formed from their own chemical secretions and the filtered impurities from the air..

They grow larger and slower to accommodate the presence of the new glands and change their pigmentation again to discourage predators fast enough to catch them and strong enough to break their shells.

They begin to dig homes for their birthing communities in stone and ash.

>>18504931

Like many other creatures, the Herbivorous wescks find their new home in the massive Frilla trees. They use their hard claws and fangs to burrow deep inside the tree, safe from harm, only flying out so they may carry their armored kin to feast on the poisonous plants. The flying drones stand on guard while these living refineries stock up, and when they are full, they are swiftly carried back to the nest, so they may process and regurgitate the precious food for the swarm.

Paracos start developing a greasy fur covering which protects against chemicals they now hunt in packs they are the size of dogs but have extremely strong jaws and use tactics to bring down larger pray, main targets at the moment are ash glunds which have high mineral and protein content needed for large litters, they target the legs to let others get to its softer belly.

upgraded picture still shoddy but best I could do

>>18504684
Sure why not.

>>18504871
The glund's exposure to the chemical environments of the frilla trees cause unexpected hormonal changes.

Meet the rage glund. With enormous frontal horns capable of piercing another glund's carapace, these bullheadd glund territorially headbutt each other from great heights, knocking each other off for territory.

Frowmagnon attempts to domesticate these as another herd animal proved futile and were only fit for hunting game like their relatives. Their horns contain a most potent poison secretion that instills fever and hormonal abnormality in its victim. The hoppa tribals and frowmagnon both come to roughly describing it as a "screaming plague." Victims have a high mortality rate with their best hope for survival to be quarantined and pray they're not dead in the morning.

What should the frilla trees that the adoni cultivate be called? I'm drawing a blank for a name for them. They're more or less a separate species at this point.

>>18505443

Hive frilla?
Seeing as that the adoni hives basically grow around them.

>>18505443
frillabodes?

frillavillas?

frilladonics?

shrimptowns?

URGENT UPDATE ON THE HOPPAS!

Due to some sort of thought failure, I described the hoppas as asexuals, when I meant that they possessed both genders. They are Hermaphrodites!

if they were asexuals, nothing about their social aspects would make any sense at all, nor would their rapid evolution.
The hoppas are capable of both inseminating themselves as well as breeding with other hoppas. This has applied since the very first hopping flouz.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. This is what you get when I don't get enough sleep, occasional glitches in brains.

Hrtofra
Just go with it for the Adonis hive frilla.

Also hmm.... Time for frilla to evolvulate again!


And my thanks to you Hoppa Fag! Your work for the seedlings was awesome.

With the newfound mentality of true symbiotic relationship, the seedling Frilla will only grow when the Frowgs need them to. This has led to larger herds, and an advance in language between Frowgs and Frilla, entirely made of bioluminescent flashes, spore hallucinogens that actually contain thoughts, ideas, and reasoning, and the budding psionic relation between the Frilla seedlings and their Frowg riders.

bumpity bump

Methinks were about ready for tribal stage.

THE GREAT HIGHLANDER HAS SPOKEN.

New thread time I guess. Time for tundra creatures.

also I think this is autosaging...

As the adoni continue to grow with their HiveFrillas their population begins to skyrocket. The ground near the fairly large trees (not skyscrapers like their cousins) is thick with adoni sucrrying about on their business. To this end the adoni have begun to grow terraces in their home trees. On these more spires and plants are cultivated.

The Calix Yantar no longer have any reason to have large blooming flowers. The adoni workers have adopted the yantar's alluring sent as their trailer markers. This has the added benefit of bringing in prey from far away.

The pozen fields are growing and providing secondary food sources, and homes for adoni as the spires grow ever larger. The 4 species grow and live in relative piece.

Some of the other HiveFrilla have more toxic frilla plants, hrass cultivation, or even tamed stelvacs. These goods are traded across the adoni's pathways to make each hivefrilla that much stronger.

Have all the threads been archived?

Archive the thread!

Also, why does so much happen when I am still at school or PT? Its like people just post when Im not around, just to spite me!

just kidding, mostly.

>>18506120
Everything past this post got lost in the archived thread guys. FYI.

>>18506932
Well im posting my tribal Mevola picture, I'll type up the fluff for it next thread.

>>18507151
Bah!

https://boards.4chan.org/tg/res/18507183 go here!, we are auto saging! bring your creatures. i will be making a repository of your latest creations where viable. Evolve, Conquer. Make new creatures...Dear god Indonesian Gentleman...help me....help...meeee...