Heya /tg/! I come bearing another idea for an Evo Game.
Rules (yes I know, they're copypasted from the Crystals Evo Game):
>Open an existing creature in paint or whatever and give it one evolutionary adjustment at the time
>don't forget to +1 the generation on the top right corner
>describe adjustment and upload new image
>every once in a while the environment will shake things up, some creatures will go extinct
>No silly stuff, those won't become cannon
>No creating new species out of thin air
>No 'catching up' and doing a bunch of evo's by yourself, every creature should go through multiple steps by multiple people
>Evolutions shouldn't be to drastic, but you shouldn't bitch about other players 'not being realistic' either
>Any one evolution can't 'jump' their habitat up more than one level, and even then it's an extraordinary kind of event. Going down, though, is much easier - at least until you go below the waterline. Then you get the restriction again.
And here's The Pit's environment. A vertical cylindrical shaft with a diameter of 14,000 km and 100,000 km deep, divided into 10 levels.
Our starter creatures start out at the boundary between the 3rd Level and the 4th.
Next, the description of the starter creatures.
>>46558848
First, we have the Nidh, a blind flatworm that uses two small nubs on one of its end to taste things, and two antennae on the other to detect vibrations in the water. It eats by using its entire bottom surface and digesting any organic matter and nutrients it could find.
>>46558896
Next we have the Chan, a small semitransparent bug that uses four rigid appendages to float on the surface of the water and to cling to the walls while wet. It is a herbivore, and primarily eats algae and the Muzz. Its two antennae can smell and taste both in air and water.
>>46558930
Then we have the Tang, a purely aquatic jellylike thing with a single tentacle it uses to strangle prey like Nidhs or Chans. It also uses the tentacle to smell and detect vibrations, and for locomotion, even though its bell could also be used for movement.
>>46558962
Lastly, we have the Muzz, a kind of moss that is home both underwater and out of water. Out of water, though, it tends to grow a few flexible tendrils to get more sunlight. Chans eat the Muzz to get some photosynthetic cells for themselves, but cannot survive purely on (stolen) photosynthesis alone. Not yet, anyways.
Now, go forth and fill The Pit with life!
>>46558896
Some of the Nidhs grow longer tails and one of the tail things has a bulb on it.
>>46559003
Muzz with greater numbers of tendrils begin to outnumber their few tendriled brothers
>>46559003
some muzz grow double thickness layer to them that is also full of chlorophyll, and darker liquid.
>>46559239
we have now witnessed the first splitting of the Muzz.
>>46558930
Their back legs gain stronger muscles and become longer, allowing them to jump several times their body length.
>>46559257
(making your muzz be Beta Chain if that's okay with you light-green brother)
>these multi-tendril muzz start growing a thick tendril that goes deeper into the water than the bottom most portion of the earlier versions of muzz.
>>46559159
Nidh evolve additional larger nubs that it can use to more quickly drag itself along the ground
>>46559304
Spore sacs form on the tendrils, and are launched off when chans jump onto the tendrils
>>46558962
Some Tang evolve cute little bubbles of slightly thinner bell membrane. This bubble stores gasses produced in the breakdown of prey in their bodies, and can be used to leisurely float at the surface of the water without expending energy swimming.
>>46559337
These nidh develop more of an impression in their middle bit and this can allow some of gen 0 muzz that fell off the walls of the pit into the impression on the nidh back and they now GROW THERE!
So you have this skin coloured cucumber with green living on its spine indent.
>>46558896
Some nidhs acquire a more refined muscle structure, allowing them to wiggle and turn in water for easier movement.
>>46559283
Chans develop rudimentary light detecting cells under their antennae, better allowing them to seek out muzz to eat
>>46559394
These alphaa chain muzz grow sacks connected to the longer and thicker submerged tendril, and these store a combination of waste and water to be mixed together, and when they fill they drop off as a potential food source to anything adapted to eat the substance.
After the two filled sacks fall off, there are two nubs that grow into full sacks to repeat the process as necessary.
>>46559436
Chans acquire a vibration sensing organ, allowing them to notice enemies more easily.
>>46559400
Tang evolve to have more tendrils with which to catch more prey
>>46559517
I was just creating the same exact thing, but you are the quicker one
>>46559554
Post it anyways, branching off is definitely okay.
>>46559480
The muzz gain the ability to emit extra waste out of its lower tendril, using as a defence mechanism to deture would be predators
>>46559595
Here it is.
>>46559517
Grows a larger crown, allowing it to peacefully eat it's food without risk of it being stolen by another Tang.
>>46559509
this variant of Chan grow small pouches above their back legs that are use to store valuables.
The antenna also change shape a bit and have some curves. These antenna have small nubs on the tips and can detect some wavelengths of colour, though mostly only yellow colours.
Some of these are attracted to caves that have glittery material in them, but are forced to only spend very short periods of time in them, due to food and water requirements and the pouches not being big enough for more than a little water and green stuff.
>>46558930
This type of chan has evovled slamm spider like "claws/legs" so it can further climb the walls to reach higher growing muzz. This has led to it's antennas chaging shape so they can "scan" the walls for food and danger. It's ability to climb however has led to it being slower when it is on the water
I LOVE CHAN, maybe...
>>46559810
>slamm
My god how fucked up can my spelling be today. I ment "some"
>>46559434
Gains a mouth. Can devour most creatures whole, eats corpses or creatures smaller than it. Sometimes may even partake in cannibalism.
>>46559958
A variant of Scavenger Nidh develop a three bands with different colours.
This chain stick together in close schools of Nidh and if there were to be a big predator they would delta split and flee in all directions, making sure most of them survive to reproduce and shieet.
>>46560657
Why those colors though, their predators will see them easier and their prey will run away faster too
Mating?
>>46560749
you can create a reason for scavenger nidh to develop the same colours as the French flag and be coward race...
I will go with a tentative "the colouration helped them know their allies, and also when they are in a school of nidh it completely confuses predators who have capability of colour vision."
>>46560767
>>46560749
>>46560657
hint: no creature has evolved eyes yet.
>>46560813
they still have a colour change to the French flag.
Evolution doesn't have to have logic :D
Anyway, time to make dem eyes...
>>46560657
similar to the jew-chans, FrenchSneks develop rudimentary eye stalks that are capable of differentiating between black and white and blue and red.
>>46560657
this is Gen 3
>>46560860
this is Gen 4
>>46559810
The Chan develops a dark, hardened exoskeleton to reduce the new vulnerability it has, making it even slower in water than but much better at defending itself from predators
>>46560953
to be clear, it's still semitransparent, it's just trying to look inside it is more like a tinted window now
>>46559509
Gains a Proboscus it can use to suck out the fluids of corpses and living creatures. These Chans grow larger and stronger than herbivorous Chans.
>>46560953
The climber chan has evolved small tiny hairs on it's antennas in order to further feel and sense both food and danger at a faster and more efficent way. It has also develpoed a new form of reproduction system. It breaks down many smaller bacteria and sustinace in order to form clusters of eggs that it will lay in Muzz's near the water edge.
>>46559958
the non french Nidh develop crawlers that allow it to climb the walls in search of prey, which they can now see in black and white! They grow slightly larger to support the brain needed to process the visual info.
it's just gonna evolve into pepe, guys.
>>46559627
Some Caped Tangs absorb chlorophyll from eaten Chans. Additional nutrients supply makes them larger and slower, clinging to the water margin for sunlight.
Air sacks are used for balance. Tentacles are rarely used for locomotion, become weak and thing, yet long, and also possess chlorophyll cells.
>>46561730
got any evidence to back that up?
EVENT TIME!
A shift in the planet's tilt causes The Pit to be (almost) directly illuminated by sunlight during noon, although it only lasts for an hour in the 4th Level. Those who photosynthesize will have more sunlight, and will cause a population boom.
But, with more numbers, also come problems relating to competition. Not to mention the predators now get plentiful prey!
How will the critters evolve their way out of this?
The muzztendrils widen and they can absorb more
light.
>>46561808
>planet
>100,000km x 14,000km tube
More like BaNanotech habitable open cylinder, that keeps volatiles with centrifugal force at the "bottom" by spinning along two axes.
>>46559627
Enlarging its nervous center to allow a crude sphincter organ, the Squirter Tang can now take in water, and expel it to chase prey and even leap short distances out of the surface for surprise attacks.
>>46561960
What if it's actually a Dyson sphere of considerable magnitude, filled up with detritus?
The Tritang develope harder endings on their tentacles which allows them to hunt.
>>46562087
Gen III
>>46561808
A new colonial breed of Verde-Tang appears - Carpets. They have also become 100% autotrophs.
Increase in solar radiation brought population boom, with Verde Tangs trying to evade each others for insolated surface space. Often Verdes would entangle in each others' moving tentacles and die from ripping one another or becoming easy prey. Some, however, fused by their tentacles (due to as yet very primitive and compatible structures and genetics) into a colonial organism.
Such carpets lost their air sacks and tentacles. Tentacles became both a circulatory organ to share nutrients and a primitive neural net to collect and analyse sensory data. It can store much info, but it is "wasted" on synchronising colony feeding and reacting (swim-swim-swim away) to external irritants
Chans and squirter Tangs would sometimes harass such carpets, Chans bleeding carpets to death while squirters would rip them accidentally while plunging above or diving. Hence remaining carpets hardened and multiplied their vestigal tentacles into hard (yet not solid) cilias that can move somewhat.
Cilias move when colony tries to swim a bit away from the edge (where Muzzleafs "steal" sunlight) or when triggered by another lifeform approaching or touching. It can't kill another species but can irritate them enough not to become totally harmless food-thing.
>>46561086
Preffered features of the Carnivorous Chan are exaggerated over many years, causing their proboscus to become larger, their bodies beefier and back legs longer, stronger.
>>46562252
Gen 4, forgot to change it.
>>46561262
Climber Chan has gained additional limbs that allow it to climb more efficiently, it has almost lost the ability to swim, however.
>>46562242
Some of the cilias group together and harden, becoming thorns that aid the Tang in avoiding harmalso, this was an animal, now it's a plant, evolution my ass
>>46561878
Some muzz start to excrete droplets of yellow sticky liquid with a strong smell and grow bright flower-like sprouts. Unfortunate chans that touch the liquid become glued.
