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>>481190
Here is the Shulu, the 1st generation after the Mulu. It has adapted to prey by growing tough armor that wraps around it's squishy blue body.

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>>481190

From braffimat. With less food about due to the extinction, it sticks its feeders up higher to try and get what it can.

>>481190

From braffberg. Similar to those on the seabed, those on the surface try to gather what food they can by extending their feeders down to make long tendrils.

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>>481235
The Shulunu is the second generation of the Shulu. Their armour now more flexible as it is being segmented. Now they have a simple visuals with a singular eye.

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>>481302

First fuck up of the thread.

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>>481190

Before the grabbraf were predators who ate the cerar that ate the fruits of algae trees. Inevitably they ate some fruit with the cerar by accident. Now those cerar are gone, the grabbraf resort to eating the fruit on purpose. Their jaws become a beak shape more suitable to their new diet. Their whiskers move down to create a 'beard'.

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>>481190
reposting in image form for reference

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Generation 1

The branches of the coral extend, growing rapidly from the plentiful food in the fallout of the extinction event. Filtering the ocean currents, they also use their feelers to capture slow moving prey from time to time, digesting them on the end of their fronds.

>>481190
Could we get some very brief descriptions of these survivors-as-starters?

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Setting: he Fredanian Era comes to and end. The Comet Storm passes through the solar system, leaving Essari, and what remains of its life to pick up the pieces. And yet in spite of this, life will trudge on, and diversify once more. We leave the Fredanian Era at 82 million years of history, and as life starts again we enter the Triumphic Era. Much of the lands that were once fertile to life have been washed of life, with the exception of a few lucky species. The oceans have been purged of a great deal of life too, but what's left is now free to fill the niches that have been left.

The world's has been scarred, but new opportunities abound as the products of the comets that ended a majority of life briefly. The presence of new exposed minerals, strange materials, something else now lies in the waters in wait for the first organisms to discover.

--Organism Impact--
> Organisms can now become as large as the size 7 increment stated in my OP post.
> Iron, Crystal, and Magnesium are now available in deposits along the ocean floor.
> Our surviving clades have a one hour moratorium on evolving. Essentially, the microbes get first dibs.

--Planet Statistics--
Atmosphere: 73% Nitrogen, 9% Argon, 10% Oxygen, 2% Other Gases, 6% Carbon Dioxide
Moons: 2
Tidal Forces: Present; Regular
Currents: Present; Earth-like, humid
Average Global Temperature: 77°F (25°C)
Tectonics: Active
Volcanic Activity: Normal activity.
Weather Systems: Present; Semi-Tropical

'''Size increments'''
• Size 1: Sugar Ant (0.1 - 1 cm)
• Size 2: Bumblebee (1.01 - 2.5 cm)
• Size 3: Mosquitofish (2.5 - 5 cm)
• Size 4: Poison Dart Frog (5 - 10 cm)
• Size 5: Giant Water Bug (11 - 20 cm)
• Size 6: Birdwing Butterfly (21 - 35 cm)
• Size 7: Horseshoe Crab (35 - 70 cm)
• Size 8: Australian Trumpet Snail (71 - 100 cm)
• Size 9: Japanese Giant Salamander (100 - 150 cm)
• Size 10: Aldabra Giant Tortoise (150 - 200 cm)
• Size 11: Leatherback Sea Turtle (2.01 - 2.5 m)
• Size 12: Mekong Giant Catfish (2.5 - 3 m)
• Size 13: Giant Pacific Octopus (3 - 4 m)
• Size 14: Ocean Sunfish (4.1 - 4.6 m)
• Size 15: Tiger Shark (4.6 - 5.2 m)
• Size 16: White Sturgeon (5.2 - 5.8 m)
• Size 17: African Elephant (5.8 - 6.5 m)
• Size 18: Great White Shark (6.5 - 8 m)
• Size 19: Manta Ray (8.1 - 9 m)
• Size 20: Porites Coral Reef Colony (9 - 10.5 m)
• Size 21: Whale Shark (10.5 - 12 m)
• Size 22: Gigantosaurus (12 - 16 m)
• Size 23: Blue Whale (16.1 - 22 m)
• Size 24: Brachiosaurus (22.1 - 30 m)
• Size 25: Smaug, The Desolater (30m+)

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Generation 4

Surviving landed Steadfeesh grow darker as they lose access to some of the water that the moss once provided them with. They begin to store more oils and fats in specialized layers under their outer skin, insulating them more effectively against the lowered temperatures. Their communal nature becomes more essential to their survival, developing social behaviors such as circling their young when threatened by predators.

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>>481190

In a depopulated ocean, there's room for improvement.

Some algae had begun to produce a sort of repellant against herbivores, most of which died in the mass extinction. Instead this goo serves another purpose; algae that produce this become able to stick themselves to animals,such as the Scaled Brafs, and thus are less likely to be consumed by the few remaining

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>>481190
Generation 7.
The Shell Braf has evolved to become larger and to be entirely encased in its exoskeleton, along with its tail becoming trident shaped. Due to its increased weight, it has evolved its fin armor into primitive legs to drag itself across the ocean floor and larger mandibles to help chew prey.

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>>481190
As an attempt to survive the new ice cold waters, some Brafs now generate energy to warm up their bodies. In addition to warming up they move faster with their new back fins.

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>>481190
Generation 1

The lowering temperatures renders many feesh largely immobile, turning schools of once vibrant creatures into a new hybrid organism. Feeding on the fruit of others within the unit, Skreesh anchor themselves near large units of Braffimats, stretching up toward the sunlight at their tailing end. Where large quantities of Skreesh anchor together, the current stabilizes, allowing the flourishing of smaller organisms.

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>>481306
The Braffberg evolve larger tendrils, along with smaller ones connecting onto other tendrils. In addition, they now have serrated small spikes to tear flesh from those that get too near.

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>>481190

With many various of algea and even algnimals (what do you call a walking plant?) the Mulu start taking advantage of the abundance of food. Some attatch themselves to the feesh that still lives in the water and eat away. Such a behaviour requires stronger tendrils and more robust bodies and a more predatorial form of Mulu, the Prulu, becomes apparent. However, the damage the Prulu does to a feesh, even in groups, is often not enough to kill.

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>>481190
A mutation occurs in a Cerar that causes it to grow a second head so the two can work in coexistence a bite 2 prey at once if they are swimming close by.

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>>481367
Generation 2

Expanding their filtering potential, Algemone begins to fan out, ensuring the fullest possible surface space is available to their feelers as well. They are very touch sensitive, able to retract inward, and more importantly able to draw prey into the center of their fronds for more complete digestion. Their feelers are sharper and more nimble, closing around errant prey with vacuum like suction.

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>>481305
As a way to escape predators more easily, the Shulunu develop fins on their back and become the Shulununi

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>>481190
Generation 4

With the increased presence of water, some feesh descendants return to the sea, finding that their more powerful flippers make it easier to navigate the cold currents. Their former-tail flippers move toward the end of their tail once again, propelling them forward. They do not return to land, instead feeding on the aquatic feesh species and skreesh in place of grazing on moss.

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>>481190

With their prime habitat gone, those tripods that didn't went extinct had to adapt to new environments. With the fruits gone, the herbivorial longleg tripods change their diet a more basic, but nutrious, form: algae. Their mouths become more tubelike and centered on their front, nestled inbetween their front legs as their walk around and filter the water.

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>>481400
As a way to defend it's host, these algae develop spikes to protect itself and the organism it's riding on.

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>>481190
>>481508

Other tripods begin feasting on the skreesh. They grow taller in order to reach the tasty fruit and algeaish body they crave. However, they move slowly and carefully along the bottom.

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>>481288
the braffimat's stomach enlarges to cope with the increased filtration activity. Over generations this has enabled braffimat mobility to be increased, slowly undulating across the seafloor to more nutrient rich areas in great migrations.

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>>481288
A unique offshoot of the Braffimat, is the braffistalk. It is not mobile in the horizontal, but anchors itself to the sea floor, and grows ever upward, using its smooth muscles to aid it in swimming. As with all braffiforms, the moment it eats, it ceases movement and begins digesting, all attempts at mobility abandoned. Braffistalks will opportunistically eat small organisms like Shulus.

>>481306
Symbiotic braffbergs have stronger tendrils that enable linking up with other braffbergs. Truthfully this is more of a failed feeding attempt, but the larger form tends to attract a more diverse ecology that serves to nourish the gestalt braffbergs.

Colliding with land due to oceanic currents often results in the death of a large part of the colony, and ample feeding for land scavengers.

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>>481235
The Shulu have evolved into the Zulu, transforming its body into a shield covered in small fur for insulation. In addition, it has evolved three appendages, a spoon-like one for digging through the ocean floor, a feather-like one for propelling itself through the sea, and a club like one as defense.

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>>481744
second fuckup of the thread.

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>>481400
Generation 2

In other parts of the ocean, sticky algae begin to produce tough tissue that protects both itself and its host from harm. The bark-like wood tissue forms tough scales along its host, often tripods and Shulununi shells.

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We suffered a real loss today.

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>>481190
The braffisack evolved from the braffimat. A secondary digestive track processes material that is normally inedible such as cellulose. Bacterial extensivly break down the material over a long period of time. As a braffisack grows in age, so too does its digestive bag, filling with more gas and more bacterial activity. The braffisack will eventually float on the surface of the water, lazily filtering whatever detritus floats to the top. Gas escaping from its waste tube allows it limited forward propulsion, while sounding something like a bagpipe in its death throws, not that this matters as no creature can hear it yet. One the gas is expended, it will sink again.

A braffisack that does not expend gas will eventually hemorrhage or explode.

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>>481575
The Shulununi have gained an extra set of fins for increased mobility and become the Shulni

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>>481190
Gen 1

With the increase in predators, the Bzol evolves to hide itself. With the increase in water movement, the Bzol evolves to protect itself. It grows a translucent shell over translucent flesh, to hide from the sight of those that hunt it, and protect itself from the teeth of those that find it.

This creature, the first of a new evolutionary line, is known as the Noobzol.

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>>481849
As the Noobzol grows larger, so too do its needs. Evolution favors those Noobzol who can feed themselves, and so over time, the Noobzol grows sharp, grasping pedipalps, appendages made to rip apart the braffimat and feed the voracios Noobzol.

What had once been a secondary pair of pedipals becomes larger, thicker, stronger. These second limbs let the Noobzol move rapidly, pulling itself swiftly along the ocean floor, in search of safety from predators and food from Braffimats.

By this time, the second-generation Noobzol is a full magnitude of size larger than the original Bzol, with the average adult specimen measuring a full three centimeters of length.

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>>481491
The Heated Braf now becomes hotter, it's pincers too become hot enough to melt through flesh if in contact too long. It also grows 2 more fins to move faster.

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>>481190
*excuse the typo

The symbiotic fruiting algae survived the hostile climate in large part thanks to its bond with the braf. It makes fruit, fruit sinks, attracts life, life consumes, excretes dies, braf feeds. Braf feeds, algae feeds, in turn the braf also feeds of the algae.

The Algae is almost like a fungiform, many small components growing into a larger stalk and cap, spreading out over the surface of the water like a deflated umbrella. The larger surface area not only allows for more photosynthesis, but greater heat absorption. While not important to the plant, the braf colony can enjoy a higher degree of metabolic activity and from that, digestion and reproduction.

The greater the braff support mound, the larger the host algae colony can grow, thanks in part to structural support and fertilizer nourishment.

<all braffs pretty much live on top of their own dead, and shit>

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>>481436
The Shell Braf increases in size, growing a larger tail, more legs and longer mandibles. In addition, its armor near its head has become more flexible to allow greater movement. However, its fins have atrophied, now using its tail to swim in the ocean depths.

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>>481508
Generation 2

Skreesh develop longer bodies per unit, fusing individuals together into a single longer strand that can attach to other strands. These tangles flourish in cold shallows where coral isn't present.

>>481871
Gen 3

In order to better find its food and evade its predators, the Noobzol gains four light-sensitive organs on its head, allowing it to move away from anything else that moves, and feed only on that which does not. In the depths of the ocean, however, there is no light for it to 'see' by. Two rows of electrical sensors now line its shell, glowing faintly in the dark as a byproduct of their functions.

Additionally, in order to adapt to the cold, the Noobzol must find heat. Living on the ocean floor, however, heat is hard to find, so it improvises. The Noobzol gains inflatable bladders that it can fill with waste gasses from its own feeding, allowing it to float to the surface and fall back to the ocean floor at will.

This third-generation Noobzol once more undergoes a drastic increase in size, its more advanced body easily able to feed all 15 centimeters of length.

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>>481943
Goddammit. Picture.

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>>481621
>>481694

Due to the limited food supply, some tripods become cannibalistic. these cannibalistic tripods grow faster, and are stronger than their vegetarian or even omnivorous contemporaries. Eventually a new species of Mimic Tripods evolve. They will blend in with the herds of tripods, and will carefully mimic all normal behavior, including a false feeding. While initiating what would normally be a mating embrace, is when the Mimic feeds on its unfortunate partner.

Mimics are still cannibalistic, and during their own mating, the partners will often fatally feed on each other leading to one or both creatures death.

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>>481552
The Derar evolve to become flatter, have large pincers and even gain fins to glide around the ocean.

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>>481754
Generation 3

Algaecytes with a bark-like shell develop tendrils that link them to their host, feeding on non-essential detritus. Their hosts become somewhat numb where they infest, if they had a tactile awareness previously, and the algaecytes digest and absorb tiny amounts of their host's body, especially calcified or hardened elements that they transform into new bark coating.

>>482005
It also now has an eye.

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>>481878
Due to a mutation, some Hot Braf have managed to evolve to produce an odd liquid which lowers the temperature of those injected and cause their muscles to cramp into a frozen like state. If in contact for too long, internal liquids can start to freeze.

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>>481392
Generation 5

Steadfeesh develop a more structured internal anatomy, with musculature, cartilage and vascular systems emerging separately. Aiding in the support of their larger size, their cartilage develops a woody coating, making them tougher as well. Steadfeesh from this generation lose their tail entirely.

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>>481878
>>482017
While others produce an acidic liquid, causing flesh to melt

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>>481190
The brafhemoth is just an offshot of the shelled braff. While larger the brafhemoth is actually better at swimming than its smaller cousins. It feeds on brafsacks, smaller braffs, and even braffbergs. It is however a slow breeder, egg layer, and poor parent.

While carnivorous, it is not overly aggressive, simply swimming and eating whatever it may.

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>>481554
The Algemone trap is fragile, and larger creatures often damage it in their attempted escape.

fragile sacks full of digestive fluid rupture against the creatures, often suffocating or damaging their gills.

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>>481598
Generation 5

We did it, folks. The Dolpheesh sun by skimming along just beneath the surface of the ocean, using their own momentum and movement to keep themselves from cooling in the lower temperatures. With a thicker, leathery hide for insulation, these aquatic plantimals feed on skreesh tangles and clean themselves of sticky algae by breaching on the surface of the sea. Maintaining their social/communal nature, they travel in pods, and respond to predation by circling around to headbutt any foe that has singled out one of the pod. They reproduce more slowly, producing a fleshy seed upon crosspollination that results in a baby dolpheesh.

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>>481925
>>482017
>>482031
Others instead have their heat producing organs replaced with electric producing ones, causing shocks to flesh. They can also produce tiny soundwaves with their pincers.

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>>481808
The Shulni now has armor all over it's blue fleshy body. Now being at a decent size, they still feed on whatever is smaller than them, including their own weak offspring.

>>482017
>>482031
>>482095
Also, these organs and liquids cease function when the Braf is ingested or killed.

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>>481190
A heavy lack of mutation along with the extinction have left the Cerar in a pitiful spot, being easy pickings for predators to eat. Their desperate way of survival was to group up into a massive ball. This method proved to be successful, as the Cerar eventually evolved to utilize their flesh in unison, their muscle and organs capable of melting to combine with others or change into new organs depending on the situation.

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>>482070
Nature is fickle, cruel at times, and even in moments of humor it is reflected as parody. The Trappheesh is one such creature. Closely resembling the Dolpheesh, it is very poor at photosynthesis, and supplements with meat from smaller creatures, trapping and digesting them in its maw.

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Generation 2

In the depths, some Cerar developed electrically sensitive organs in lieu of vision. Fortunately, this niche awareness enables them to prey upon the Storm Braf, >>482095

Able to process its current and detect them, they have almost no competition for this prey.

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>>482261
Generation 3

Continuing to develop its electrical sensitivity and processing, the Shockerar's electrical organs begin to store electrical energy beneath its skin along its sides. It gains a sort of radar from this development, jump-starting its nerves' functioning. The front two organs gain a basic visual capability, while the rear two organs ground it, discharging shocks radially when unwanted company gets too close.

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>>482102
A wide variety of food animals forces the Shulianu to develop a more articulate mouth organ, with tentacles that help break down food and hold on to writhing prey. Their fins become more powerful as they grow in size, enabling them to swim much more swiftly as well.

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>>482255
A symbiotic relationship with the >>482014
wooded algaecyte produces a stiff, bark-like plating along their lower side and around their mouth. The wooden growths around the lip of their mouth organ enables them to devour larger prey, slowly chewing apart creatures they throttle to death. Their flippers feature hardened edges as well, making them stiffer - but better weapons for stunning and killing food.

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>>481878
The Blazing Braf now has drill to impale and melt flesh along with heat sensing capabilities on the side of their bodies. (( The large red glands. ))

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>>481190
A branch of mulu develop a more advanced ovary, allowing each individual to produce more offspring.

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>>481190
Some Primitive Mulu have evolved a jaw and lure combination and become ambush predators.

>>481552
Derar connection fattens and evolves 3 simple eyes

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>>482530

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>>482501
These mulu develop a slightly wider, 2-way digestive tract, allowing for the deposition of digested matter away from their mouth and allowing them to ingest more forms of nutrition to support the increased nutrient demand from egg production.

>>481305
Shulunu with its flexible armor, eye and long tendrils begin to take a role as a semi stationary filter/scavenger. Shulunu actively grab at near by moving object this behavior means it is not unusual to see Shulunu grabbing other Shulunu wrestling with the winner keeping its territory.

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>>482571

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>>482412
the trapfish who are most gluttenous thrive well, gorging themselves into torpor. An elastic food cavity allows them to swallow prey whole, while a lining of internal Algaecytes grind biological matter into a coarse puree that is easily digestible.

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>>482070
Generation 6

Gaining more predatory tendencies, some Dolpheesh grow increasingly larger, with more articulate mouths and fangs to tear into less vegetarian meal options. They also sport stabilizing fins on their tail to increase their thrust, making them very swift in short spurts when threatened or chasing prey.

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>>481878
>>482017
>>482031
>>482095
Due to inbreeding between the four species, it eventually resulted in a mutant. Despite this massive mutation, it was not only still capable of breeding, but even somewhat thrived and over time it evolved to become less fucked up genetically, evolving in size, along with a pair of primitive legs and heat-sensitive, cold-sensitive, electric-sensitive and toxin-sensitive? glands located upon the middle and bottom of its neck.

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>>481694
Generation 5

Developing jointed claws on the ends of their legs, skreesh eating tripods find it easier to climb up into the strands of their food, feasting in relative safety. With six developing eyes, they learn to recognize their own kind, and affix the leaves of skreesh tangles to themselves in order to better blend in among the canopy.

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>>482534
Deral develop a rear fin of hardened tissue, made up of what appear to be five discs.
Judging by how small they are compared to everything else, these are quite low on the food chain. They flap their fin underneath themselves to dart backwards out of danger. Most of the time, they crawl around with their mouth-pincers. Their main food source is microbial mats on the sea floor.

>>482501
gen 2
>>482542
gen 3

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>>482296
Generation 4

Cerar that feed on storm braf begin to branch out into the other subspecies, enduring heated periods of battle before being able to successfully feed. Their bodies grow tougher, marked by scars that tell the tale of their hunts, and as time passes they become immune to the braf's toxins, cold and heat - though it is still only their shocks that they use against them.

These dervish cerar have shifted their spiralling mandibles into their mouths, rotating teeth perfect for grinding flesh to a malleable pulp. Their eyes are better designed to see in the low light, with special sensors that allow them to view prey in the infrared spectrum to hunt hot and cold brafs.

National Geographic could make an hour long special about the rivalry between a hunting dervish cerar and a hydra braf.

>>482637

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>>481925
The Shell Braf has grown larger in size, becoming fully encased in its shell. Its mandibles and tail have also grown longer, being used for catching prey. In addition, due to an abundance of iron at the bottom of the ocean, the Shell Braf has evolved to take advantage of it by having a hardier shell near the head and at its mandibles to more easily crush prey.

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>>481871
A new, parasitic branch of Noobzol emerges. Much smaller than its non-parasitic counterpart, the Parabzol latches on to largers creatures like the Shulni and Mulu and feeds upon their blood. Normally, up to 15 individuals can be found on an infected creature, although higher numbers are not unheard of. The Parabzol's abdomen is very flexible and can store blood up to three times the Parabzol's size.

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>>482720
Deral Fins increase in size and evolve front fins and longer tail fins to keep their explosive escape speed. Male Deral have also developed a claw mouth waving dance to attract mates. The Increase in size means that the Deral have a mixed diet of Microbial mats and Harvesting from small Algae traps .

>>482807
The Braf Needing better locomotion has evolved longer Legs to pull it off the sea floor the back set have become flippers that assist with any attempt at swimming. The back Flippers also help the Braf bury its eggs in a small nest.

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>>482896

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The seas have rebounded from the extinction event, yet the primal algae feesh has remained largely static - until now. With new predators and bigger creatures competing for resources, Feesh adapt to become smaller, travelling in smaller schools as well.

Their fruits become richer with the new nutrients infused in the oceans, and sweeter to encourage animals that would prey on them to go for their berries instead.

They get more of their energy from photosynthesis than ever before to avoid competition. Though their swimming is slower, they develop a bitter taste in their fronds, deterring predators.

Also, they have four eyes.

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>>482371
Shulnianu Fins merge into one large fin with skin covering the gaps. Shulnian as a result become Significantly faster.

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>>481943
>>481948
Gen 4

Growing over to twice as large as their precursors with an average size of 35cm, the new Floatzols have thick shells and a long series of gas-bladders, ensuring they can stay up on the surface of the sea, where they feed on the new berryfeesh's fruits.

The new set of limbs is designed for grasping, holding the berryfeesh in place while their pedipalps carefully harvest the fruit. It is not uncommon, in fact, for a floatzol to 'claim' a berryfeesh or two for life, carrying them around everywhere with itself to ensure a fresh supply of food - and using its superior size and speed to protect the far more vulnerable feesh while keeping them close enough to the surface that they can still photosynthesize to grow more fruit for it.

Living so close to the surface, the crawler-limbs evolve into paddle-limbs for locomotion and the bioluminescent rows of electrical sensors fade away, giving way to more advanced light-sensitive eye-spots.

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>>482911
>>482922

Beginning to form a symbiotic relationship with floating Bzols, Berryfeesh expand their tendrils, using them to ferry along with the larger creatures that help protect and sun them in exchange for harvesting their fruit. Their nervous system begins to develop from this position of increased safety, gaining heightened awareness through their visual cortex. Their sense of smell increases as well, and they warn the Bzols to which they are attached of nearby predators by pulsing their tendrils.

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>>482036
The energy needs of the Brafhemoth push for a return to aggression. A plate in the middle of the Brafhemoth's back begins to develop into a dorsal fin to help stabilize them and allow for faster turning. The Brafhemoth also shifts towards a slightly taller and narrower shape, allowing it more horizontal flexibility.
Gen 2.

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>>482859
The Parabzol develops a gland which secretes a cocktail of paralyzing chemicals which block the nerves of its host in the bitten area and prevent the host from feeling pain from bites there. This decreases the chances of being discovered and eaten by the host, making it a safe area for continuous feeding.

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Due to the mass extinction event, many Fruited Brafimat stalks were left displaced, washed onto the shorelines of the landmasses, and amazingly, in the nutrient rich moss beds, they grew. Overtime, the majority that washed ashore had formed a symbiosis with >>482014
as well. Shielding the Brafimat from predators, and further protecting the plant. Now, a single Small Braffious Fruit Tree can reach the size of 70 cm.

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The harsh conditions, were a true test to the algae moss, forcing it to be able to store more water, and survive in colder, more barren areas. Furthermore, the massive amount of death has made the soil properly fertilized, encouraging growth up to size of 3-5 cm. All of these conditions have now made it possible for these primitive grasses to grow in places before impossible, mountains, hills, rocky craglands, plains far away from water. Areas once barren, are now filled with hardy grasses.

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>>482922
>>482953
Gen 5

As they now have a supply of Berryfeesh literally riding on them to provide them with food, Floatzols are able to massively increase in size, with the average adult specimen now measuring between 65 and 70cm.

As they no longer need to move as far or as fast to find more food, their paddle-limbs start to regress, becoming a second pair of manipulator limbs in order to better tend to their growing gardens of Berryfeesh.

With their increased size and slower speed, their shell becomes even thicker, no longer able to be translucent, and as they live at the surface of the sea, their skin darkens to help protect them from the sun's rays, while also drawing in more heat to store for the night-times.

As they float and bob on the surface of the sea, these creatures are now called "Buoyzols"

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>>483049
The majority of Brafimats, now completely reliant on the Small Braffious Fruit Tree for photosynthesis, lose their photosynthetic abilities completely, and in turn, become more animal like. Donning bark shells, courtesy of the tree they are apart of, they leave at night to feed on grasses, moss, and other various sources of food and return to the tree for shelter, and fruit, by the morning. This has caused them to lose their light coloration, as it aids in camouflage at night. Furthermore, the Braffibarks are much more social than the Braffimats, living in simple colonies as defenders of the Small Braffious Fruit Trees they call home.

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>>482953
>>483072
Thriving, the Berrysly's relative security and abundance of food helps them begin to further develop in awareness. Their sense of sight sharpens as they drift through the sea, and their olfactory organs allow them to smell even minute traces of chemicals in the surrounding water. They guide their lumbering Buizols carefully toward richer seas.

Their tendrils gain increased sensitivity, covered in raw nerves that allow basic neuroelectrical signals to course down their length. In colony gardens atop Buizol, they begin to use these to signal to one another, reaching out to intertwine their tendrils with others to unify their signals to the host.

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>>482953

Unfortunately, not all Buizol live forever. When some have died and washed ashore, their marooned Berryfeesh passengers were able to adapt to a more sedentary life on shore. Developing a stalk to hold up their main sensory organs, these Frondly begin to sprout by pushing their tendrils into the surface levels of fertile soil as proto roots.

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>>482785

Bloody battles aside, the Dervish has grown in size and ferocity to become one of the apex predators of the ocean. Sporting a new pair of organs near its mouth to release stored electricity into its prey, it stuns most unsuspecting creatures into submission before devouring them with its incredibly hardy tusks. With two new pectoral fins, it is faster than before, although its body is stiffer and not as agile. They begin to prey upon the enormous Buizol, finding them delicious and full of smaller snacks - the Berrysly.

(Also when they shock the Buizol there's a chance it explodes, so that's pretty nifty)

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>>483496
>>481549

Some Prulu, Prulurs, specialize on the eggs/fruits of the Berrysly, using enhanced tendrils to capture free-floating berries and eating away. One fruit is enough to sustain a Prulur for a long time.

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>>481900
finding the symbiotic fruiting algae a great place to eat algae, the herbivorial longleg tripod makes his home on top of them

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>>483559

However, with a digestion system that is still really basic compared to most other species around it, some large Prulurs are able to completely "swallow" a Berrysly fruit without bursting. This frees up their tendrils, allowing a creature now much larger then their Prulu cousins to swim away from danger despite being filled to the brim. The Berrysly fruits are even visibly through the thin "skin" of the Prulurer. The digestion of the fruit is still very slow, to the point where some of the Berrysly young are able to hatch before they are eaten.

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>>482574
>>482571
>>481400
As a way to lure in more prey, the bottom Shulunu allow the sticky algae to grow on them, camouflaging them while bring in prey.

They are now the Aulu.

>>483592
Looks like a cock

>>483601
;3

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>>483496
>>483072

In response to the varying environmental feedback, including the helpful pollination that >>483587
Prulurer provide, the tendrils of the organism begin to form one more efficient tactile sensory organ, branching off at the ends to form a network with the others of their species. The pulses they can transmit along their tendrils make them flash and flicker with brief emissions of light, like a brain in an MRI. Their bodies begin to grow, only the most useful photosynthetic organs remaining to streamline them, able to reorganize themselves when it is time to breed and pollinate to diversify each Buizol garden.

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>>483072
>>483636
Gen 6

Due to increased predation from Dervishes, natural selection begins to favor Buizels with larger gas-sacs and lighter gasses filling them, as they are capable of inflating themselves to actually leap out of the water to avoid the Dervishes. Over time, almost all Buizel have longer bodies and much larger gas-sacs, filled with lighter-than-air gasses to let them float in the sky, bearing themselves and their symbiotic Berrysly colonies into the skies.

>>483592
The Aulu now have combined with the algae living on them. They feed off the algae nutrients by absorbing it through their shells. They now have become flatter and the algae sprouted a leaf to catch more of the sunlight.

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>>483690
In addition, they form clusters.

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While some of their cousins become fulltime skreesheaters >>482698
other tripods follow the plants up on land. They are able to survive as some of them develop a harder exoskeleton due to increased protein intake as they feed on >>483501 and occasionally >>483070 in relative safety. This exoskeleton protects them from weather, radiation and other dangers but they still spend most of their time in water where they also reproduce.

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>>481320

Bearded grabraf get hairier, though still hairiest at the beard. More importantly, they develop a new organ on either side of their body which is capable of hearing things.

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>>481190

The muloct has more tentacles than a standard mulu.

>>481722

Braffistalks get taller and more stationary. As they get swept by currents easily, they develop muscular anchors at their base that they dig into the sand and mud they live on. Being more stationary, they can be less fussy for food, so gain a more robust digestive system with multiple stomachs to break down tougher materials.

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>>483726

Fug.

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>>481534

Pairs of tendrils connect not just to each other but to other tendrils. Combined with the barbs they are developing they become little fishing trawlers, catching small organisms that swim beneath they as they drift about on the ocean surface.

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>>482426
The Blazing Braf now has evolved legs to move fast on the floor and eat bottom dwelling critters of the ocean so they can avoid being devoured by the larger creatures.

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>>483703

Now they can hear, the grabrafs also begin to make sounds, hooting to call for mates.

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>>481751
Braffbergs come and go, sink, beach, or cluster. however from the endless generations of clonal death a new breed emerged, which was oddly hospitable to other species.

Braffbergs attract various algaes, which in turn attract various species, who also attract more species. Quickly a even a small braffberg will become a thriving ecosystem in its own right.

these small islands pile up along the coasts, but out in the open waters, some truly massive specimens have grown, evolved and adapted. now too large to properly die when they are beached on the coast, due to a large network still trailing into the ocean, braffbergs are beginning to take over the beaches.

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>>483496
>>483587

However, in some cases the newborn (seeded?) Berrysly survive in the Prulurer that ate its fruit. The Prulurer provides basic nutrition to it by eating algae and fruits as usual as well as a safe home inside the digestive system, while the Berrysly provides a boost in energy through its photosynthesis and bodily excreations creating an early symbiosis. These Minislys keep most juvenile characteristics and aren't able to survive outside their host.

>>484111

Forgot to mention that the Prulurerst becomes more transluscent as the Minislys demand sunlight for their photosynthesis.

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>>483710

Muloct's tendrils shift position, and the pair closest to the mouth become shorter and thicker. They live in shallow waters amongst corals, braffimats and skreeshtangles, but also out in the open ocean in braffberg communities.

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>>483636
>>483644

As their hosts take to emerging from the sea, Buizefeesh require a sturdier anchor to hold them in place, lest the fall off and sink into the mouths of predators below. Their tendrils become a more structured organ that holds them in place, rippling with the signals that they transmit to the rest of the garden and their Buizol.

Their 'tail' grows slightly more ambulatory as well, shifting from side to side to help counterbalance their host in strong winds.

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>>483888

Over time the grabraf's cries become more complex, and they sing to compete for mates and to warn each other of danger. Their sound sensors slowly migrate from their sides to either side of the beak.

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>>483566
Washing onto land with beached braffbergs, some tripods begin to migrate inland, evolving vibration-sensors on their antennae to alert them to approaching bearded grabafs, steadfeesh and other moving creatures. They operate when it cools at dusk, hiding away during the day in dark, damp places. They return to the shore to reproduce among braffbergs.

>>484267
(the bristles on their body and tail are also vibration and sound sensitive)

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>>482896
>>482897
The Shell Braf, due to competition from the Hydra Braf and Dervish, has evolved to become even larger. In addition, its tail has grown larger and more maneuverable to more easily stab prey, along with stronger claws. It has also evolved a thicker layer of iron to encase its entire body, protecting it from shocks, heat, cold and corrosion. This Braf is also known as the Iron Shell Braf.

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Due to evolution favoring the stealthy, the Braffibark lose their back antennae entirely, giving predators an even harder time identifying them. Furthermore, their front antennae have lowered, helping prevent them from alerting a predator of their presence with their bright coloration. Due to the ample food, and somewhat lack of nocturnal predators, their senses increase, a pair of small light sensitive pseudo-eyes form on the front of them, alerting them of when it is safe to go out from their Braffious Fruit Trees and scavenge.
In addition to this, their bark shells grow larger, further protecting them from predators.

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>>483644
Some Buizol, lacking the instinct to care for the Buizefeesh on their hides, lose their gardens due to neglect. They return to the sea, becoming more predatory, using their vantage point above the waves to spot food before diving in at high speeds by jettisoning some of their buoyant gasses. Once they have secured their prey, they begin to eat while their digestive system fills them with buoyant gas once again, rising above the waves to begin the hunt anew.

They develop specialized fin plates that allow them to break the surface of the water without losing momentum, and rear fin plates to stabilize them during the discharge of gasses. These plates sport hollow channels that make them very light, trailing saltwater when they emerge from the waves after a kill.

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As the Braffibark's survival rate increases, so does the likely hood that they don't return to the Braffious Fruit Trees. These outcasts, thriving in the relative safety of the night, develop harder shells with a calcified coating, furthermore, their bodies streamline allowing their shell to further cover their soft underbellies. They develop better sight, now able to detect movement in addition to light. And following the trend of the Braffibarks, their antennae sprout lower on their face, and grow to a smaller size, turning essentially into whiskers.
As everything begins favoring these lonely brafs, they increase in size, growing to three times the size of the tree living Braffibarks.

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The Brock's whiskers gradually develop into filter feeding mouths, making their previous form of eating fairly useless. As a result, their skin calcifies, giving them an exo-skeleton. Their eyes continue to develop, further suiting their nocturnal feeding habits. They grow completely light sensitive. Allowing them to see perfectly at night, and somewhat impaired during the day. Lacking many predators, combined with their sturdiness, and the plentiful amount of food to feed off of, they continue to grow in size.

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Due to their very sedentary lifestyles, Moss commonly grows on the shells of the Mossy Brock. This moss helps aid in camouflaging the Mossy Brock during the day, helping prevent predetation while they rest. Due to higher survival rates, they grow even larger, ironically helping aid in their stealth. Their lack of movement during the day, and rock-like appearance, make many organisms believe the Mossy Brocks are simply stones.

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Over time, many Mossy Brocks lose their filter feeding mouths, retaining only one strong tube-like proboscis. This change has turned them omnivorous, feeding on smaller creatures and plants their strong digestive systems able to handle anything the land currently offers. Furthermore, they form a symbiosis with >>483501. The Frondly, acting much like they did in the sea, commonly sprout on the backs of the Mossy Brock, and attach themselves via their tendrils. This greatly increases both creatures survival rates, as the Frondly enhances the Mossy Brock's senses exponentially. While, the Frondly is secure on the large, imposing Brock's back. All of these conditions have led to the Mossy Brock developing into the largest creature on land currently, growing up to 70 cm. in size. Truly, these sturdy giants are Brocks no longer. Now, they are Broulders.

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>>481937
>>481642

Spiny algae begin to thrive in the waters where skreesh tangles grow, and attach to the stalks of their algae cousins. They are sheltered among the broader leaves of the skreesh, and in turn protect the skreesh tangles from an element of predation, while giving smaller life forms even more habitable nooks and crannies.

The skreesh grow enormously in the colder coastal waters of the world, and some begin to thrive in the cool shade of braffberg-dominated seas.

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As the Mossy Broulders rose to their spot in the ecosystem, the Braffibarks weren't stagnating, rather they themselves were evolving too. Developing beaks to further feed on fruits and other various plant-matter. Much like the Brocks they too developed an exo-skeleton, however unlike the Brocks, they retained their barky appearance, which is better suited for protecting them while they rest on Small Braffious Fruit Trees. Furthermore, due to the increase in survivability their eyes develop even further than the Brock's, seeing light, color, and motion.

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>>482866
Taking these in two directions.

First, Greater Deral. The positions of four fin sections shift into positions that support actual swimming. Internally, a neurological development: Where the two nerve cords merge behind the eyes a third brain forms, taking over most function from the other two except sensory processing. They are nearly twice as long as their predecessor. Their diet shifts away from microbial colonies to the flora and pseudoflora of the sea.
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And the lesster. Their bodies grow wide and flat. They have shrunk back down to their previous size. They have adopted a camouflaged appearance. If threatened, they speed off, now more likely stirring up sediment from the sea floor.

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No longer able to stick together as easily to the Braffious Fruit Trees, the Braffibarks develop suction cup like apendages to aid them. Furthermore, their antennae merge together into one large antenna, with a large, gland on the end of it, used for storing the chemical adhesive they secrete on their feet.

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The gland at the end of their antennae turns translucent, and the chemicals within now have a new purpose, Bio-luminescence. Although, it is counter-productive to their stealth, it aids the social implications aid the Braffibark immensely. Braffibarks are now able to communicate to eachother using flickers of light, signalling simple messages to other members of their colony. Such as "Danger", "Food", and "Mate".

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Their bark covered inhabitants glowing, the Small Braffious Fruit Tree shines brightly throughout the night. Allowing it to photosynthesize constantly, produce more fruit and as a result, spread further across the world.

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>>483501
With more competition for sunlight, some Frondly reach for the skies with the help of >>482014

The support of the bark structure helps them stretch tall above the grasses, developing spiny growths around their base to deter grazing animals from nibbling on them. What was once a bitter taste they developed as a survival mechanism is apparently very umami to many animals and plantimals on land.

Their eyes shrink as the need for them begins to wane, and their mobility is greatly lessened as they anchor themselves in fertile soil with thick tendril roots. They are still capable of some movement, largely the shaking of their stalk, which they do to cast off fruit when they are ripe, and those who are able to fling their fruit further will in time begin to dominate. They are also able to wave their upper leaves into better positions to catch sunlight or startle creatures attempting to feed on them.

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>>484933
The Lesser Derals arm mouths evolve whiskers and grow longer. This helps when it digs around and kicks up sand so it can sense food without sight

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>>484933
Deral Eyes become bigger and Deral evolve simple ears this allows them to locate prey better and prevent them form being sunk up on. These sense changes have resulted in a change in the mating habits of the Deral. The male has markings on its fins and engages in a dance that appeals to the females eyes. The Males accompany this with clicking of the jaw in a sort of song and if the female is pleased she will click back.

>>485173
I was going to say that the bit about "prey" doesn't seem right since they're herbivores, but then I remembered the mobile plants.

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>>483592
The Aulu foot spirits to become three feet this helps them to have a good grip when strong currents come and to clamber over rocky areas.

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>>481849
Absorbing mineral deposits on the sea floor, some noobzol develop a crystalline shell that help protect its vulnerable innards. With this armor to help its development, it begins to grow in size.

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>>485227
Their crystalline encasings are so effective at insulating them and keeping them alive that they develop additional deposits along their body segments. These common varieties of quartz and beryl are relatively heavy, and they grow in size to better move beneath the sea currents, inching along as they gather more detritus and crystal rich deposits.

To deter predators from going for their exposed face, they develop a spike of the same material pointed forward. Their skin is less translucent now, taking on the hue of the minerals it has ingested. They vary in color depending on prevalent materials, from emerald green to ruby red.

To anyone here who is not yet aware
>>/tg/48849785
>>/tg/48858733
>>/tg/48858816

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>>482002
with the other tripods able to pick out the mimics, it wasn't long before they started to starve. The biggest, and most aggressive mimics survive by running down and grappling their prey into submission. The appearance of mating remains while feeding, but this is anything but consensual.

Forced Cuddling Tripod, aka, still "Lover Tripod"

>>485334
Messed that up. Forgot it took three >'s.
>>>/tg/48849785
>>>/tg/48858733
>>>/tg/48858816

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>>485337
>>485338
I ask for no forgiveness.

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Finally, after a 24 hour lull, I have completed the updated Phylogeny Chart, featuring the 110+ creations you guys have already made.

There might be a few details I either missed or just forgot to add. Regardless, now that this is finished I can finally update the setting tomorrow morning.

Thank you for your patience, and I'll see you guys tomorrow.

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>>485296
Needing to travel further from their spawning to locate the necessary minerals to maintain their shell, Greater Spotted Jewols develop six paddle-like fins that help them cover more distance. Their sensitive body regresses nearly entirely into their protective jewelled coating, and from within their crystalline matrix a set of light-sensitive basic eyes emerges. Though their vision is blurry, they can make out contrast against the light shining down from above, and begin resting in shallower waters to avoid being snuck up on from below.

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>>482542
Gen 3. These heavier mulu begin to live at the seafloor, feeding on bottom skreesh, braffimass, and detritus. Said Mulu develop a light-sensitive bulb at the top of one of their tendrils and the beginnings of a finlike skirt form at their sides, improving their speed.

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>>483644
>>484191
Gen 7

Buizefeesh require water to thrive, and so Buizols must periodically submerge themselves underwater to refresh their Buizefeesh colonies, opening them up to predation from Dervishes.

In response to this, some specimens begin to develop feeding tubes, probosci that dangle several feet down from their mouth, letting them draw up water and extrude it via specialized ducts on the feesh segment of their shell. These new creatures are able to spend all of their time floating peacefully in the sky, and as such take on the name Skyzols.

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>>483048
Parabzol start gathering around single bitten areas and feed there, creating a commune of Parabzols around each bite. Through their needle-like fangs coated with paralyzing chemicals, they inject their eggs with each feeding, effectively turning the wound into a breeding ground.

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>>484189

The development of eyes. Also, their body begins to segment somewhat, and their tentacles begin to be used more like legs on the seafloor.

>>484201

Some grabraf gain denser hairs until they eventually develop a fur coat. This keeps them warm in colder climates. As well as on algae trees at sea, some begin to colonise the branches and canopies of larger land based plants as well.

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>>485695

I'm not very good at this whole attaching pictures thing.

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>>484358
Brilzol become surprisingly effective hunters, with their specialized fin plates shifting in position. The rear plates move higher on their body, while their front fin plates grow longer and sturdier. Their eyes develop sensitivity to an expanded spectrum, allowing them to detect prey by their heat signatures below the water.

Some brave Brilzol begin to target their cousin creatures, impaling them on their sharp fins to release their buoyant gasses and leaving them as sitting ducks for the feeding.

>>485586
(i think these are actually gen8?)

>>485742
Nah, they're gen7. I just screwed up the filename of >>483644, it should've read "Buizol Gen 6" not Gen 7

>>484358
actually gen7

>>485733
actually gen8

sorry for confusion

What do I need to do to join in, OP?

>>485842
Just grab a picture, make a simple edit to it in MS Paint, and post the picture with an explanation of the change and what evolutionary pressure caused the change.

Don't forget to include size and generation, either in the pic or in the explanation.

>>485842

Just remember that eventually your dreams will be crushed in a mass extinction event.

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>>485695
>>485699

Being masters of the art of making noises (by the standards of this world), the grabraf develop better and better hearing. By making high frequency clicking sounds they create a sonar sense and can 'see' their surroundings.

>>485847
That's all? Wouldn't it be too simple to survive?

>>485879
Oh, sure. Until we hit another mass extinction event.

>>486011
so much death

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>>485337
The "land" (braffberg) based tripods are a semi amphibious group, able to swim from braffberg to braffberg, and even to close shores.

Of this group are the sucessors to the lover tripod.

The cuddling tripod no longer mimics mating behavior while eating, but does embrace its victims in a crushing grasp while feeding. The carapace of the tripod has become calloused and thick. It is quite adept at surviving abuse

The Bull tripod is a larger and more powerful predator than its predecessors.

The Dwarf tripod neither has a beard nor digs for minerals. Instead it is just a small tripod. They hunt in packs though, and are social.

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>>485686
The legs become stronger and fewer, to move even more effectiv on the sea floor.

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>>486038
And more death to come.

World Setting/World Event

The Early Triumphic Era that was left with only a handful of survivng organisms of the previous extinction had become the perfect opportunity for life to hit the accelerator on Essari. In just 20 million years, life had completely bounced back, flourishing across the world. While the planet may now be cooler than its tropical past, this has only allowed for life to adapt and take on new and strange forms. In some cases life has evolved so fast in some organisms, that their predecessors even find themselves unable to compete and slowly fading from the world.

Volcanic activity and the movement of the landmasses has brought to the surface of the land the first freshwater rivers. They carve their way through the land, connecting to valleys, and eventually the ocean itself. Over the millions of years, the water that feeds into these valleys forms the first bodies of freshwater. Further inland, the new "Grass" >>483070 has begun overtaking the land that algea moss once dominated alone. This and other pioneering land plants have built the foundation for the first stable terrestrial ecosystem, as even more oxygen is added to the atmosphere.

In the warm coasts and tropical seas, coral reefs have also returned, with a handful of coral species and sessile Branomes helping to rebuild these ecosystems. Their vibrant colors conceal the arms race that Braf, Mulu, and Bzol descendent have been waging against one another in these tropical seas.

In the open ocean, Braffbergs >>483903 have begun to conglomerated, forming massive colonies, with some even rivaling the young continents of Essari. These colonies that sit in the motionless regions of the ocean have in turn become their own ecosystems, being buoyant enough to support even the Braffious Fruit Trees >>485028, and provide a home for dozens of other organisms.
Underneath and near these braffbergs. Dervish Cerar >>483528 and Hydra Braf >>482637 compete for dominance as the apex predator of the all the ocean.

The cooler waters near the poles have become devoid of coral reefs populations of the last era. And yet in their place a sessile descendent of the algafeesh have become the Kelp-like forests >>484850 that also provided food and shelter for many species that live in these colder habitats. It is here too that we see the first advanced adaptations to the cold, such as the Warm Braf >>483761 that now lurk the on the seafloor on the arctic waters.

--Organism Impact--
> Iron, Crystal, and Magnesium deposits will remain available for another 12 hours.
> Freshwater, and Braffberg ecosystems are now a thing. Take advantage of this.
> Organisms can now become as large as the size 9 increment as stated here >>481390

--Planet Statistics--
Atmosphere: 73% Nitrogen, 8% Argon, 11% Oxygen, 3% Other Gases, 5% Carbon Dioxide
Moons: 2
Tidal Forces: Present; Regular
Currents: Present; Earth-like, humid
Average Global Temperature: 73°F (23°C)
Tectonics: Active
Volcanic Activity: Normal activity.
Weather Systems: Tropical in Tropics; Cool Temperate in the Arctic regions.

I will also add two things here for you guys.
1. Here's the discord link for the EvoGame. I know I posted in the past, but that link has likely expired so here's another one. https://discord.gg/y6xHa
2. I will probably declare a minor extinction in the next few hour or so just to get rid of organisms who haven't been touched very much, or those that are so far down their generational ladder, they wouldn't realistically exist anymore.

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>>486265
>>486281
The Muloct now evolves for life in the first rivers.
They grow in size and there body gets a shell, they are now called Muloctarn

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Algae, carried downstream from the seas, manage to survive in the freshwater environment, and with a lack of freshwater herbivores, they thrive, overtaking many ponds, lakes, and streams.

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Many grasses begin taking root in the nutrient rich freshwater soil, and as a result, grow exponentially larger than their land based counterparts. Occasionally, they break through the Algae covered water in more shallow portions of the water.

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>>486339
The Muloctam shell has evolved into a full chitin exoskeleton for better protection against predators.

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Many Broulders develop gas-filled glands, giving them some bouyancy. As a result, they float on the algae covered ponds of Essari, sucking up plant-life with modified vacuum like proboscis.

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>>486415
To reach the sunlight in a more effective way some algae now forms air filled bubble colonys.

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>>486521
Some of the bubbles now fill with light gas instead of air.
This allows the bubble colonys to fly, which makes the hard to reach for predators and always in a good position for sunlight.
The bubbles are between 2 and 15 centimeter in diameter and can float as high as 500m.
To fill the bubble with gas some algae in the colony form a specialized thicker region in the membrane which "pumps" helium inside and all other atoms outside.
The individual algae still procreate vie cell division and the bubble colony does something quite similar, when it reaches a certain size it just splits into two smaller bubbles.

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>>484297
The Shell Braf has evolved its once trident tail to a singular one, utilizing a large spring in order to shoot out and stab through prey. It has also evolved to use Magnesium on the sides, as the force generates enough heat to ignite the magnesium, causing small explosions that propel the harpoon-like tail at higher speeds, along with blinding its prey. This evolution has allowed them to prey more easily on Buizol.

can iz create a land dweller?

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>>481803
>braffisac's are rapidly surpassed by their evolved cousins, and are gradually going extinct. The new braffisacks are very mobile, in part to their gas drive system.

The Braffatee is a floating creature, its tendrils serve as weak anchors/ weights to the ground, and also search for food.

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>>481190
some kind of sea dweller, somehow, managed to become a four legged omnivorous, based on eating little bugs and grass/fruits, they survive by the sheer use of numbers

>>486823
also known as genericalis

>>486825
>>486823
Sorry to tell you, but everything has to be an edit of a previous creature in evogames.

>>486843
OK

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>>486823
the hairy braffipod is an omniverous offshoot of the very slothful braffimat. Cold weather and scarce food favored the more mobile creatures. In their aquatic environment they developed a thick matting of hair that traps in micro air bubbles and keeps them somewhat warm. During the seasons they grow and shed this coat over their entire body as seen with the previous picture....which forgot a tentacle.

The braffipod has little pseudopods for feet that get it around in conjunction with its more powerful tentacles.

Braffipods have a complex fat storage mechanism.

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>>481288
the oceanflood dwelling braffimats begin to densly populate low light and trench areas. There is not much room for photosynthesis here, and mobility is beneficial to survival. A complex stomach takes form, that holds food, waste, and a blood analogue. The braffimats will cycle this slurry through their body and use the stomachs as a sort of foot to move across the ocean floor. the movement aids in digestion and helps to expel waste from their bodies.

When distressed, injured, or ill, a braffimat will rapidly empty the contents of its stomachs, sometimes to its own fatality.

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>>483903
Braffbergs continue to be a unique entity. The individual braffimass creatures now long derived from the humble braffimat have gained the ability to store fat, and this has begun to supplant floating on their own waste. In turn, more and more of the old braffforms die off, forcing the algae to migrate topside to gain the full benefit of sunlight.

Internally, some braffiforms will gestate into more specialized forms, for the good of the colony, becoming numerous stomachs, which in turn pump life giving nutrients to the other members.

This new braffiberg is more thinly spread than its ancestral form, but covers a larger portion of the planet, resembling a biofilm on the macroscale.

>>486948
it should be of note, that the braffibergs covering the ocean will cause local plantlife under them to starve for sunlight. they are pricks like that.

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>>482989
size 9.

an offshoot of the braffhemoth is the Braffemoths; they move in great schools, powerful wings propel them through the water as they feed on other schooling creatures.

>>486923
>>486823

Gonna have to step in and say, these two creations are declined from the phylogeny.

Sorry guys.

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>>485173
Two new populations branch off from the Greater Deral.

First, the River Deral. Over numerous generations, they've become more and more resistant to the loss of bodily salinity in fresh water. Moving from the seas, into the brackish water of river estuaries, and finally into the rivers and connected lakes. They're still mostly herbivores, feeding on freshwater algae (>>486415) and grass (>>486451). Their color changes to blend in with the new environment.

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Back in the ocean, the second species to branch off finds a food source in the highly abundant Braffbergs (>>486948). This allows the species to undergo a massive growth-spurt, doubling in length. Their coloration also changes, being more difficult to see from above and below. Taken inspiration from Earth's sharks.

Both possess a primitive backbone.

--World Event--
Coming into the Mid Triumphic Era, the world experience two major shifts.

The first is a shift in weather, since while the world has been gradually cooling, the greenhouse-like atmosphere, mostly in part due to the heavy Argon, and Carbon Dioxide that make up about an eighth of the atmosphere. This, compounded by a brief period of increased solar activity creates a series of storm systems, that are able to persists for centuries. These weather systems, bring storms, and rainfall to regions of land and sea that have previously never experienced such turbulent weather systems. Fortunately, these storms do not impact braffberg colonies, and on land, the precipation opens up the last regions of barren land for life to expand into.

The second shift is a sort of biological breakdown. Life has had time to rapidly expand and diversify, but the lack of niches for each individual species, and an increase in competition for food, and habitat makes life increasing difficult for many ancient organisms that now have to compete with larger, and more adapted organisms. Over the a few millennia, these older, redundant organisms are unfortunately outcompeted into extinction.

In short, we now have a large monsoon-like weather system circling around the globe. Since its slow moving and massive in size (about a sixth of the planetary surface), the rainfall persists for months at a time, causing flash flooding, but also making the soil loamy for new life.

Biological/Ecologically, a bunch of organisms are wiped out simply, because they are outcompete by other larger and more specialized organisms that take over their previous niches. (And totally not because I'm trying to clear some unused critters.)

The following organisms are now extinct.
>>481235
>>481288
>>481305
>>481302
>>481320
>>481367
>>481400
>>481392
>>481436
>>481491
>>481508
>>481534
>>481549
>>481552
>>481554
>>481575
>>481621
>>481722
>>481745
>>481744
>>481849
>>481871
>>481878
>>481943
>>482002
>>482036
>>482261
>>482501
>>482542
>>482412
>>482785
>>482637
>>482720
>>482859
>>482911
>>482953
>>483049
>>483104
>>483566
>>483710
>>484317

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>>485456
Forgive me.

Localized branching adaptations of the greater jewol see them favoring specific crystalline types, manifesting in various ways as they react to the exact areas in which those are found.

Amethyst crusted jewol find their favored gem just about anywhere, as quartz is plentiful and often just beneath the surface. Their bodies remain static inside their shell, protecting them against a variety of setbacks. Their two lesser eyes fuse to become one greater eye, developing into their dominant sense.

Sapphire crusted jewol find their favored stone deep beneath the sea, and forego most visual awareness. Only one eye remains, the nerves that once went to other eyes transitioning into tactile sensors beneath their face. Their faces emerge from their shell, allowing them to sense vibrations in the water and ground around them.

Ruby crusted jewol attempt to ease the burden of competition for resources by preying on small organisms. Their mouth emerges, developing into a proboscis that can rapidly suck small creatures in to be devoured. The eyes on either side of their face begin to fuse, granting them exceptional dimensional awareness.

Citrine crusted jewol begin to feed upon braffimat detritus, burrowing into the stomachs of larger braffs and gorging themselves until they can't move. This turns out to be a plentiful food source, however they reproduce more slowly to ensure they have enough minerals to successfully produce a shell.

Emerald crusted jewol find that their chosen gem gives them excellent camouflage, and they migrate closer to land, nestled among the kelp forests and coral. They tend to cluster nearer the equator, adjusted toward the warmer weather.

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>>485586
Gen 8

In response to predation by their Brilzol cousins (>>485733), Skyzols begin to incorporate rocks into their diet, absorbing and breaking down the iron deposits into a thicker, harder, and admittedly heavier shell. In order to maintain their buoyancy, Skyzols grow much larger, easily reaching over twice their length, at one and a half meters. The neural root system of the Buizfeesh on their backs leads to a flat, bowl-like depression in the center of their back, to assist their symbiotic passengers in staying on.

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>>484191
>>487763

Flourishing in the sky, with no competition for sunlight and a now-endless supply of water and minerals, Sproutlings begin to increase in size, developing additional structures to help them waddle from one side of their host's carapace to the other.

The rocks that Skyzol harvest contain quantities of magnesium that allow them to process energy in a brand new way, making them more active both neurologically and physically.

They retain their tendril-production in their early stages, but discover that the conditions aboard their Skyzol maintain their networks even once their connection is broken. Sproutlings begin to connect and disconnect from the tendril network as need arises, signalling their gaseous ride to enemies they spot as their eyes continue to develop.

The appearance of floating algae bubbles causes them great alarm until they realize that they are harmless. They often guide their Skyzol to float next to and into them, finding a strange sense of something they cannot identify as amusement in the gentle brush of algae against their fronds. Also, they eat the algae, which provides them with even more minerals.

They've almost doubled in size, able to fit up to a fifteen Sproutlings per Skyzol.

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>>485093
Frondly begin to grow taller as they spread inland, no longer limited in their water consumption. Following rivers to freshwater lakes, their roots don't need to delve much further than the topsoil. In addition to siphoning water through their roots, they can lean forward to drink, although with more and more bark algae growing around the base of their stalks, this begins to grow difficult. Their leaves actually grow more articulated and mobile, the best way for them to spread their seed by gently lobbing their ripened berries as far toward fertile soil as they can reach. Some fall among the spiky grasses at their base, and taller Frondly carefully move out of the way so that sun can reach their offspring.

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>>485456
Rarest of all, the Brilliant Jewol dwarfs its cousins. With a shell of crystallized carbon, this Jewol has developed undulating fins to help carry it up estuaries into riverbeds where it feeds on the abundant algae growths. Trudging along through the muck, when its glittering shell is revealed it dazzles in the light.

This Jewol has developed two extended vibration-sensitive antennae to help it keep track of its surroundings, and in tune with its four eyes, it hides at the first sign of trouble. It is able to fully withdraw itself into its shell, curling into a nigh-impenetrable ball of sharp edges and diamond-hard shell.

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>>486476
The Muloctam go through an evolutionary split.
Some of them develop more efficient mouths, to hunt better and consume prey faster. These are called Mulocar.
Other Muloctam enter an symbiosis with algae. They store the algae in little cells right under there transparent exoskeleton, supplying them with everything they need and protection.
In exchange the algae share the products of there photosynthesis with there host. These Muloctam also become land born because there they have more sunlight at there disposal.
This new subspecies is called Mulocpho.

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>>485686

The ends of the limbs split. For the front ones this gives them little arms with which to manipulate obstacles and food. For the legs this makes climbing and gripping easier.

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>>485874

Now that they can communicate much more effectively, the grabrafs begin to develop socially, living in large flocks and reacting as a group to threats to confuse and intimidate predators.

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>>483761
as the Warm Braf start making it to land they lose there harden shell due to pressure change

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>>488705
now that the Bafe are on land there is no need for fins and they slow they Bafe down over time many lose there fins

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>>483070
Developing more complex structures as they absorb more fertile nutrients, grass begins to segment and they evolve additional bladed leaves. To deter predation, they sport a structure at the tip of their stalk that contains irritant pheromones. These pheromones also signal pollination, leading to enormous clouds of spores being released at once from fields of bristlegrass, allowing them to colonize and regrow rapidly where braffious fruit trees and inland frondly don't block the sun.

unfortunately, their irritant being at the tip of their stalk is of little consequence to smaller herbivores, like the braffibark.

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>>488705
Some Bafe migrate closer to the polar regions, hunting amid kelp beds in the shallow waters there. The tripods and algae are plentiful, and this variety begins to sun itself on the beach in a semi-amphibious manner. Their fins change color to better blend in to the kelp around them, sneaking up on prey.

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>>488918
Absorbing nutrients from their new varieties of prey, the kelp-faring Mudbraf darkens in color, helping it absorb more heat from the sun to supplement its own internally-generated temperature. They spend more time on land, but must return to the water to hunt and feed, beginning to process aerial oxygen so long as they remain damp.

>>488984
...also their mandibles shortened, no longer needing intricate mouths to capture prey. Their mandibles are stronger, with the concentrated musculature powering their mouth to chew tougher food, including some of the land-based life forms they begin to prey on.

the whole reason i started playing with this was to fix the mouth and then i forgot to fix the mouth with flavortext woops

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>>483695
>>486281

The landlord tripods, only facing predation when in the water, manage to move inwards as they evolve the ability to survive in freshwater. With grass >>483070 abundant and predation almost non-existant, the freshwater landlord tripods grow in both size and numbers as they spread across the continents where they have access to both food and fresh water. They are still dependant on water for reproduction, but this takes place almost entirely in fresh water, in small lakes or in rivers. Their sensitive antennaes identify both food and water as well as hazards and buddies, both by touch and by vibrations through the air. With their mouths still attatched high above the ground, they have to bend down in order to graze. However, they find the >>487818 annoying enough to avoid eating them, most of the time.


(Some details on their reproduction. The black hole at the end of their bodies is actually "seed canal" in males and "egg tubes" in females. The females spray their eggs with some force into the water where their eggs attach themselves to rocks. The males then spray their seed into the water, hoping that their lovejuice will impregnate as many eggs as possible.)

>>488787
this is gen 6 sorry

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>>483695
>>489083

Other landlord tripods stick with the salt water. Some begin to wade along the shoreline, eating any plantmatter that is washed up or just floats by. Their bodies become more streamlined, their legs jutting out more for increased stability.

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>>488787
>>485028
due too the fact they lack camouflage the bafs make tunnels at the base of Braffious fruit tree, only coming out too grab some fruit to eat

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>>483528
since many of their prey died, the dervish needed food, and many migrated to the rivers, where they developed a less colorful body, a better mouth for their kinda of alimentation, since right now they are the supreme predator of the rivers

>>489147
also known as river greater devirfish

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>>486705
The Shell Braf has evolved to become far more larger than before. In addition, its eyes have merged together for a more clearer vision, and its harpoon like tail has grown to become more aerodynamic (In the ocean?).

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>>486339
some of shittiest muloctarns tried to run out of rivers, since they were being rekt in the water , those that managed to reach the ground and survive the atmosphere needed to adapt , becaus they got rekt on earth as well, they had to be subject to eat fruits and grass , thus becoming herbivores , they soon adapted their mouths to this kind of food, they also grew an eye more to better perception of the environment , they are very fast , the fastest alive since all they do is run from their predators

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>>487906
With river predation becoming a thing, many Muloctam begin to spend more time sunning on the shore, only returning to the water to drink or dampen their algae. Their legs shorten and bodies fatten as they rest among the mossy riversides, developing more agile mouthpieces to absorb fresh water. These mulophytes are most active at dawn and dusk, when their predators are less likely to detect their heat signature or see their speckled mossy exoskeletons drifting through the shallows.

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>>489583
here's a simplified/pixilated version

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>>486415
>>489583

Some strains of algae respond ...aggressively to their symbionts, requiring more and more protein and mineral intake until they completely dominate their hosts. Absorbing the tissue of the Mulophyte to fuel their own growth, they produce tangled fibrous tissue to dissolve and digest every last morsel before bursting through the eye socket to release spores into the river and nearby Mulophytes. The process of infection is ....not very pleasant, to say the least, with affected Mulophytes thrashing helplessly on the riverbanks until the parasitic algae is done with their meal, sometimes twitching even after death when the algae blindly triggers their motor functions.

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Facing new competition, the Broulders grow new, water-faring apendages, allowing them to paddle themselves rather slowly through the freshwater ponds and lakes of Essari. Once again becoming the dominant herbivore, they grow larger, becoming able to support larger passengers on their backs such as the Small Braffious Fruit Trees, and Landlord Tripods, who accidentally lay their eggs on the Broulder's back while they rest during the day. Unfortunately, preyed upon by the Tripods, the Frondly who usually inhabit the Broulder's back gradually stop doing so.

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thanks to living on the land, the body of the muloctarn developed better legs to be even faster and also increase it's mobility across the pastures/beachs he lives, he also developed a complex system of food storage at his mouth
well, now he's known as muloct

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Many Big Bro-ulders, deciding to opt out of the competition they're facing in the water, take to the sky, developing bigger gas glands, they float with ease, paddling through the air and eating >>486549 bringing their passengers along for the ride. Only coming back down to breed in the freshwater below.

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>>489583
Faced with the new threat of ->>>489834 but also out of practicality, a lot of Mulophyte enter a permanent symbioses with there algae, an endo-symbiosis.
Algae are now integrated into the Mulophyte cells and parts of their DNA are stored in the Mulophytes cell cores.
When a young Mulophite comes out of his egg he already has algae integrated into his cells, so no new algae have to be consumed.
This prevents infection with Mycealgae but is also generally beneficial.
To be able to use more sunlight the Mulophytes also grow larger.

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Like their floating cousins, many other Broulders opt out of aquatic life and go back onto land. Developing stronger legs, they crawl back onto the lands of Essari, their proboscis develops even further, becoming larger and turning into a rather long trunk, capable of sucking up the grasses and various other plants below them.

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The majority of Big Bro-ulders remain in the freshwater bodies of Essari. Of them, quite a few lose their gas-glands and instead, repurpose them to store oxygen, allowing them to dive under the water to feast upon the nutrient rich grasses below. In order to stay completely submerged much longer, they develop a snorkel-like tube, attached to their proboscis to aid in collecting oxygen. Now, many of the ponds and lakes of Essari are filled with what appears to be miniature moving islands, the only thing remaining above water being the very top of their rocky shells, still inhabited by many smaller organisms.

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>>482583
>>482631
the trapfeesh abandons its short lived symbiosis with wooded algae in favor of developing its own hardened edges. This protects it from large creatures swallowing it whole.

Meanwhile the howlfin develops an elongated beak which it uses to punch through the thinnest areas of braffbergs. Unsuspecting creatures will be dragged down into the water.

The knifefeesh is an offshoot of the howlfin, but with a more eellike method of locomotion, and better developed sonar.

Hey, discord link is expired. Could we get a fresh one? Never had this problem with IRC.

>>490658
Sure can. New link below
https://discord.gg/Fznur

As a note to everyone else here, I'm working on the latest phylogeny chart and and world map now. The order of events will be as follows.

> Tomorrow with the release of the updated world map will mark the start of the Late Triumphic Era.
> I will post at least one more random event/world event tomorrow.
> At a random point between now and next 12 hours I'll give the warning indicator for the extinction event.
> When I post the actual extinction event context tomorrow, that will mark the end of the Triumphic Era.

>>490695
hey OP since you are working on that update, may I make a small suggestion?

Listing a mandatory evolutionary antagonism. Long story short, who is eating who, and the resulting evolutionary arms race to avoid getting eaten, or aid in eating those who are avoiding.

Sort of like the generations/ size options.

>>490796
I really do love this idea, and it is actually something I've really wanted to implement into this particular EvoGame

That said, I am largely limited in what I can produce and produce well, and what you would be asking for is essentially a food web.

That is an awesome illustration/concept to display, but that is WAY too much for me to do on top of everything else. Hate to say it really, but I can only functionally do the World Map and Phylogeny Charts at this time.

If someone else wanted to step in and make a Food Web though, like you've suggested, I am more than open to it.

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Alright, here's the updated Phylogeny chart. Probably gonna have to split up the next one because of how massive these are getting in terms of filesize.

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>>490985
>>490831
Ah Man, I didnt mean for you to do anything beyond add in a new entry requirement for each image.

Beyond that it is up to the players to add in flavor text and tell the story.

Something along the lines of

Gen: XX
Size: XX
Prey: (this this and this, or specialzied into eating just this)
Scavengers are assumed to eat only carrion, and should adapt as such
Omnivores still have favored food, even if its specifically "creatures smaller than themselves" list a few, tell a story.
Herbivores may eat the alge, or perhaps adapt to eat the defenseless and slow moving braffbergs, etc.

As for predators, players can read whats eating their creature, which can result in some charming trolling.

tl/dr: You have no work to do other than to declare it as a new requirement that a creature list what the hell it eats.

Also watch out for those crystals. they can really wreck havoc on an ecosystem.

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>>486948
Braffbergs continue to refine themselves through destructive testing, aka, evolution.

Braffimats who excrete waste up into the algae are rewarded with more nutrients, and risk less starvation, inversely they also have a harder time reproducing as their pollyps cannot get through the mass, and only those braffimats on the edges or underwater were able to reproduce. However their young are often easy food for hungry predators such as...everything.

Survival favored smaller and smaller pollyps eventually giving rise to small clusters of cells in the form of spores. this evolved in parallel with the algae sporing. During reproduction cycles the spores can be a health hazard, if not outright fatal to local residents of the braffberg. Their deaths are not in vein though, as they serve to feed the mass.

A major loss to the braffimat was the storage of waste in large iceberg like structures. Their excrement is a viscous oil passed upward into the algae now, and no longer suitable for flotation. All floation is now maintained due to being less dense than water.The braffimat has become much thinner and widely distributed. Strong storms can rip chunks of the mass apart and disperse it.

More specialized braffiforms of the braffberg form feeding tendrils, and other pseudo organs.

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>>486962
the Brafhemoths flexible wings hide an atavistic secret. A boney endoskelton. Like their ancient cousins, they posess limited manipulation over their individual bone prongs. These are used to cling to the underside of braffbergs in order to maximize energy conservation, and keep an eye out for prey.

Braffhemoths tend to prey on >>487236 who are ill suited to defeating their armored body, and willingly come to feed on the braffberg.

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>>491049
From these countless spores comes braffigrass. Braffigrass is somewhat stunted on the dry land, and is of no direct competition to the existing grass forms, but is also distributed further in land, surviving off the fresh water pools and rain. Most herbivores are unable to eat braffigrass without ill effect due to its fleshy nature.

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>>488191

The main limbs of the grabraf split, giving them three fingers on each, making them much more mobile and stable.

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>>488184

A hive system begins to develop, with specialised types. At first, they only split into queens and workers, with the large queens being kept safe in a nest and being much larger than the workers.

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>>491034
>>490831

That's a really neat idea.

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>>490067
To protect itself from predators the Muloct develops spikes on its back.

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>>484113

As their Minisly is able to produce enough energy through photosynthesis to sustain both creatures some Prulurerst adopt a more sessile behaviour by attatching itself to rocks close to the shoreline. The Prulurerst and the Minisly are interconnected from birth through the Prulu digestive system and they cannot seperate without both dying. The Prulu. provides a good and safe environment for the Minisly to live in and the Minisly provides carbohydrates. Other necessary nutrients is still filtered for.

These Mostly Stationary Prulurerst are most often found in large clusters, their fat bodies bobbing along with the currents.

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>>491185
An off-shoot of the Muloct (Mulocot?), the Muloctail went down the path of increased speed & agility instead of the spikes of its sister species. It developed toe-like extremities on its legs and a tail supported by internal bone-like chitinous pieces beneath the skin. Together these changes increases the Muloctail's mobility & balance, allowing for faster running about.

First time posting, are two changes too much or are multiple changes allowed as long as the creature is not too far from the previous generation?

>>491295

Welcome! Generally it's alright with more than one minor change, as long as it is still gradual and realistic.

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World Setting/World Event

The Torrental Storm that circled the planet of Essari on and over the tens of thousands of years. When the storm finally ends, the world is returned to its seemingly peaceful state, with even more freshwater and fertile lands that give way to the further expansion of life on land and the braffbergs.

And with this we now enter the Late Triumphic Era as the world begins to change once more.

More to come in a later post, due to a busy schedule today. Enjoy the new map.

>>491339
Huh, guess 4chan forgot to put my trip on. Oh well.

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>>488850
As the Bristlegrass becomes more adapted to the inland climate its roots becomes larger and more capable of absorbing moisture from lower layers of the top soil. To further deter predation it develops coloured petals on the top of its stalk, surrounded by the irritant structures. These petals serves as a warning to all potential predators.

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>>491065

Grabrafs gain longer fingers to better grab things. Their flocks live wherever plants are big enough to keep them off the ground.

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>>491065

Others stop living up high and their flocks stay on the ground as landrafs. Huge flocks live in more open areas. Although small and not at all aggressive, they communicate dangers effectively within the flock and can run fast.

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Probably last post for me today.

>>491295
The Muloctail's sensory organs become larger, developing into two large beady black "eyes". Thanks to this the Muloctail is now capable of seeing more of the colour spectrum. This has started an sexually driven evolutionary arms-race within the species, where more colourful muloctails are preferred. There are many different colours of muloctail within in the population, but currently the red-pink ones are in the majority.