For those of you not familiar with evolution games, they work like this:
>The next three posts will include three starter creatures
>Fire up paint or the art program of your choice
>Make and post incremental changes/adaptations
>(give others time to do the same)
>Compete for survival and fill niches
As the game goes on, ecological events will change the landscape, forcing the species that are alive to adapt quickly or die.
We start in a warm, shallow, sea. The creatures of note are as follows:
The Pask, a swimming omnivore with psudo-eyes.
The Murm, a flexible burrower that lives in mud and silt.
The Reeto, a cylindrical filter feeder that goes where the currents take it.
The murms develop fine cilia around their mouths to help when foraging for organic matter in silts.
The Pask evolves better eyes
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Read the second sticky amigo.
Are evo games quests?
It's not a quest ami, it's a game.
/qst/ told me to come here
You poor fool
>/qst/ told him it's not a quest and to come here
>Veeky Forums tell him to go to /qst/
???
The Murm develops six muscular flaps to help push it through the muck.
The Reeto evolved poisonous spines
Some reeto become tougher and with a bigger focus on growing slowly and saving solar energy. Their bodies darken to reflect their new toughness, but also grow slower.
The pask evolves a stronger jaw in order to fill a more carnivorous niche due to may herbivores in it's environment.
The Pesk evolve thick rubbery lips to protect themselves from the stinging Reeto's ( ) poison.
I'm the poster of the first evolution, and due to the art being shit and the lips looking kinda similar to a tougher jaw, we can just bundle that into your drawing
Keep em separate. We have a carnivore and an herbivore here.
oh yeah I kinda missed that you could do that
Reeto A is evolcing capsaicin to repulse predators
The Reeto becomes wider and flatter to expose more of its surface area to the sun.
The Murm is evolving better eyes
The herbivorous Pesk develops insensitive nictitating membranes to protect its eyes from the Reeto's capsaicin while it feeds.
Some murm's develop their mouth cilia to be shorter and tougher, acting like a scraping wire brush. They use this tougher mouth parts to eat the strengthened reetos.
Pesk A has evolved stronger tail and a fin to hunt the larger murm in packs
It's a setting-building thread wearing the skin of a game.
Some Reeto develop long, hair-like structures angled downward into their mouths to direct food particles inward.
The blind murm spends more time in the muck and develops a similarly colored skin to camouflage itself from the predatorial Pesk.
The herbivorous Pask develops flesh pouches on its skin to store the capsaicin- co-opting the poisonous Reeto's defense mechanism for itself.
Murm A is migrating to the clearer and higher waters and so became green
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The predatory pesk evolves downward facing eyes to better scan the muck for the camouflaged murm
The Murm A has developed proto-legs
Some eyed murm develop longer more powerful fins for proper swimming. Their long cilia are now used for filter feeding.
predatory pesk evolves a cartilage armor plating under the skin to be more durable. This extra weight also adds muscle to the jaws, causing them to be more powerful.
The blind Murm's camouflage improves.
Reeto B evolve roots to stay in places of high sunlight and gain nutrients from the soil it is attached to.
The sighted murm develop larger jaws and more cilia to improve feeding.
The spicy reeto A develops shorter but more numerous hairlike spins. They provide better protection and allow it roll along the ocean floor freely.
Murm A is evolving lungs, becoming terrestial
predatory pesk develops camouflage of the sky on it's underside, conferring a similar advantage as the blind murm's camouflage, but in reverse.
man I'm dumb I forgot it's prey was blind, retcon, it evolved this for the sighted murm
And the herbivorous pesk.
predatory pesk splits into another type with lobed fins, in order to keep up with sighted murms
The terrestial Murm evolved a poisonous sting to hunt its preys.
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Mods said OP had to go to tg
Blind murm develop olfactory capabilities to better find their herbacious food and sense predators. They also develop thicker bristle-teeth.
The herbivorous Pask spreads the spicy Reeto's poison throughout more of its skin. Its colors change to indicate its spicy nature to predators.
Some terrestrial murms change to fill a large herbivore niche, some cilia helping to keep balance on land and detect things in the dark. Other cilia flattened and grew tougher, allowing it to chew plants well
Terrestial Murm A is becoming smarter
Some rooted Reeto B connect together in groups of five to seven, forming small interconnected patches.
the camouflage pesk grows longer so that they can move with more agility
Terrestial Murm A get scales for a better protection.
Terrestrial Murm gains a covering on its head to protect its brain
An offshoot of the blind murm becomes smaller and lives fully within the root systems of the interconnected Reetos- feeding off them.
Herbivore Murm evolves to slither rather than walk, to better avoid their other murm predators.
Maybe for suitably far evolved species could gain a different same.
I'm thinking blind murms and all the land murms in particular.
[spoilers] Frankly, I'm not sure the land murms know how this game is supposed to work [/spoiler]
Thankfully it's on land so it doesn't have much of an effect on the rest of us.
I did the brain case and made the herbivore a snake, they seem more for fun than accuracy
How do you see the game being supposed to work?
You are just jealous of our place as the kings of the earth, water shitters.
T Murm A get a far longer tail for a better use of its stinger.
It evolved to live on land when literally nothing else is on land. That doesn't strike you as odd?
Reeto C evolves chloroplast cysts in it's body, developed from it's aglae diet. This allows it to grow quicker and regenerate damage from grazing herbivores.
How are they against the rules?
yeah I definitely agree, thats why I didn't put something on land, because it would have to start as an herbivore. (Assuming plants were up their.)
Maybe we really are water shitters because we can't be predators without prey?
>Compete for survival and fill niches
The sighted murm's back flippers merge into one wide fin so it can move more quickly and escape the Pesk.
No, there are no plants because the plant-predecessor is still living in the sea. The only multicellular life is what's presented in the thread.
is an herbivore though.
I am aware, but it was made after the carnivore
Good point
The long pesk evolves an even stronger and longer tail, along with a set of fins for more maneuverability.
Reeto C develops to be taller and more robust for greater access to the faster moving water columns. It also develops a large number of cilia inside it's bell for straining the water.
So what now? they must be retconned?
fug
Grouped Reeto start growing more condensed and up onto the shores
When land plants evolve we'll just pretend they evolved first and same with herbivore murms before carnivore.
Just ignore them I guess. It's not like they interacted with anything to begin with.
the way we know this belongs on Veeky Forums and not /qst/ is that op isn't stepping in to do shit about shit
Fuzzy spicy reeto develop longer more rigid barbs without poison to assist in rolling and defense.
But it's mean.
Some blind murm develop hard, beaklike mouths from their collected bristles so they can eat both clumps of Reeto B and the smaller blind murm that live inside.
TMA is evolving an even bigger brain to become more social
It's meaner to ignore everyone else.
The small murm follows its home/food onto the shore, its front flippers becoming larger and more scoop like to better push aside the dryer muck.
The sighted murm develops an even more powerful tail, fusing with it's middle fins.
To combat it's prey's hardened beak as a defensive measure the pesk developed further armor along it's body.
This is a much better (proto) land murm.
Benefiting from the greater plant growth overall, the spicy pask develops a larger mouth and an longer body.
in response to being eaten by short murms moss reeto develops seed pods that are held above what the murm can reach
The key is to try to do everything in response to another creature's development!
Lobe finned predatory pesk can't compete in open water with their larger camouflaged cousins, and so take to living in the shallows hunting both species of blind murm. They have lost their main body fin but their lobes are more developed for scooting across the bottom or even crawling.
The pesk evolves a longer mouth to better grab the sighted murms slippery and agile body
the lobe finned predatory pesk gains more feet like lobe fins to eat short murms when they're vulnerable on land.
The small murm develops lungs and a thicker, tougher, body in order to survive the new environment.
They also develop more extensive camouflage to hide from their new predators.
to better find reeto the small murm developed eyes, and thermal sensors in order to stay by the coast but avoid the lobe finned pesk.
in response to the new terrestrial forms of murm, lobe finned pesk, gain lungs as well, become better adapted to walking, and lose some fins. They still need to lay their eggs in water however
Due to new herbivores moss reeto develops protective bark and more roots in order to move further into the land, where less murm live.