>>18557635
>more plants

In response to low light conditions, the Seekeed begins to grow much longer, broader leaves. What was once a series of sea-floor ferns becomes an alien forest of slow moving greenery, twisting and un-twisting ocean currents.
These become home to both prey seeking shelter, and predators seeking a place to hide.
The root becomes larger to store the additional energy. The skrimps continually eat small holes into the leaves.

>>18557768
Added a bit of shading.

>>18557795
The glub gain the ability to change their pigmentation to match their surroundings.

Using this ability while taking advantage of the Seekeed's growth provides them much needed saftey in which to grow.

>>18557768
With their food source more plentifully available, grazing Skrimp are able to grow to much larger proportions.

They are heavier, and have developed a much stronger exoskeleton to replace the defensive advantages of quick movement.

The Crub develops longer, more spindly legs to better ambush prey such as Skrimp and Glub. It hides by squatting down on the floor among the Seekeed, using its lure to attract prey, jumping up and latching onto something that comes near enough.

The Kwenom develop large funnels on their bodies that allow them to absorb more oxygen from their environment.

In turn, they become slightly less mobile.

They also develop miniscule claws that allow them to cling to rocky surfaces better.

The glub have evolved their camouflage even further, gaining the ability to change their pigmentation to a combination of colours as necessary, enabling them to mimic natural placements such as rocks and ice chunks with all the necessary shading.

Their fins have lengthened and strengthened to allow them to get away from those that still see through the camo and stay out of the reach of pesky Crub.

Crubs begin a burrowing behavior to better ambush prey. In so doing, the fast growing and light-seeking Seekeed begins to actually latch onto and grow into the Crubs. The two begin a new symbiotic relationship: The Crubs gain constant camoflouge, and the Seekeed gains a constant light source by way of the Crub's dingly ball.

This also allows the Crub to better ambush prey. It's nearly impossible to tell which Seekeed is attached to a Crub and which is not.

The glub have evolved a stronger jaw system to crunch into larger foes like the Crub.

Hem'fur evolves a probing snout that allows it to find and forage for food under the sea bed.

This mutation oddly resembles a suppressor and rail system for an M-4 carbine.

>>18558018
yes...yes...the plant is now mobile without any heinous plant mobility of its own. i am at half mast...some days i think i am a horrible GM, and other days a horrible man...poor fucking crub. it doesnt even know those roots are going to grow straight into its little brain and subvert it. this is EVOLUTION. THERE IS ONLY EVIL HERE. but perhaps here, in the icy pocket ocean, there is benevolence? THERE IS STILL HOPE.

>>18558027

It begins...

The Kwenom develop longer feeder tentacles to better reach for small prey from their now near-immobility.

>>18558027
>inb4 these things actually become guns and the Fwogs get firearms in the stone age.

The Hem'Fur diverge into two distinct species: some further explore the niche of a bottom-dwelling scavenger, their "suppressors" flattening out into a wide shovel. Their throats have adapted to expand to incredible diameter for ambushing fellow bottom-feeding creatures.

The second strain arises from a topographical anomaly: a latent charge in some portions of the upper fluid layers aids in the development of their "suppressors" into precision electrical emitters. Muscle blocs beneath their rails generate a current that can be sent along their mineral horn to stun even large prey.

The Ykex'ry develop stronger tails to swim faster to better their chances at catching prey. They have also grown larger from the larger amount of sealife.

The Kwenom develop venomous spikes along their tentacles to help them tackle even larger prey - it also provides a measure of defense from potential predators.

The Glub's jaws strengthen even further along with it's fins.

It now chomps into most things with relative ease, using it's sharp, protruding teeth to dig into prey like the soft shelled crub.

It has gained the ability to see into the infared spectrum, scanning the Seekeed beds for the heat signs betraying crub presence and ambushing the would be ambusher.

The Crub and the Seakeed are now...Kreub when feature together. They are co-dependent. For being as ill as i am i am surprisingly functional. See, I'm playing a little game of evolution in my own body. lets see who wins.

>>18558159
my bet is on the human

>>18558148
the Glub's flesh grows more pliable, flexible in it's way to expand with the Glub's gaping maw when open. It's stomach and oral fluids have also grown significantly more potent, breaking down a struggling foe in a mater of moments if their massive teeth do not finish the job.

They develop a ridge on top of their bodies that sucks in water and shoots it out unto their top fin, which tilts and turns to direct their resulting burst of speed like a rudder. This setup allows the Glub to shoot forward at an unprecedented speed to ambush their foes.

and of course, I forget the pic

Skrimps have grown massive with the plentiful Seekeed and the added protein from the occasional Crub eaten with its plant symbiont as a whole. Their armor plating is more defined, and their fins are developing stronger, more complex joints and musculature to compensate for the weight.

>>18558223
forgot how tiny original pic was since I have been working zoomed in.

The Kwenom have developed small graspers at the end of their long tentacles, which guide their food towards the gaping maws at their center.

They are still largely immobile, preferring to sit near the entrances to small underwater caverns, circling them while they wait for passing prey, filtering plankton from the water when food is scarce.

I sleep now. best wishes to the rabid evolution. develop a further symbiosis with another creature like the crab/kelp.hyper oxygenated turbo shrimp (just saying.)

>>18558027
Yeah there's no way I'm going to consider this a canon post. If Gentelman has any sense in the matter he won't acknowledge something -this- silly.

If this is he intent though, what the hell no.

In other news, the Ykex'ry develops a fine set of snout whiskers to root out small prey items hiding in the ocean sands.

>>18558325
To further clarify. Fish that'll turn into functional firearms?

Do not want.

>>18558325
I am interested to see where >>18558114 goes, though, as a more "realistic" evolutionary step.

I'm thinking this is a perfect time to start with a proper size comparison so people know where they are.

Tried a mock up of the starting creatures, hope it's about right.

Of course this doesn't have to be used, but it does have the added benefit of only having to update your creature size instead of a huge chain.

>>18558337
I will not allow that to happen. If the fish develops some way of periodically spewing out a dart of calcified something or another, fine. Part of the fun of these games is recovering from the sillyness. If the creature can go onto become functional i think it will be fine, besides look at this>>18558114 I think everythings gonna be ok. if not, this game allows extinction :) now i sleep. true to my word, ive made no new life here. its hard to resist. but i like what you guys do better.

I sage this stupid thread and all your animals are now extinct. good riddance.

Life as a colony has benefited the Kwenom, and they have begun to embrace life as a collective. Their claws have become rootlike anchors, embedding them where their larva sets foot first. While some set out to produce new colonies, many will swim to other established colonies as a larva and anchor themselves as new members as they progress to adulthood.

The glub strengthens it's jaws and fins, making them more resilient and more flexible respectively.

It's bones grow stronger and it grows more ridges that suck in water to act as propulsion systems around it's fins, using them to give it a speed of motion at a range unmatched by others in it's class.

It slowly stalks up on foes using it's camoflague abilities to keep itself hidden and then dashes at the prey with great speed, clamping down on it with it's powerful jaw muscles and attempting to rend vital areas. They are willing stalk wounded prey for long periods if they escape.

I like where this is going.

Why the hell is everyone's solution to everything turning into "GET REALLY HUGE"?

>>18558537
hey it worked for the dinos-
ok well that was different

>>18558537

Wait your gonna tell me that bigger is not better?

>>18558545

It is when everything suddenly starts growing three times its original size without any buildup.

>>18558537

"Everyone's solution to everything".

>Implying it's not just one guy fucking with everyone elses creations.

>>18558451
The glub grow a hard point on their forehead...forebodything to assist with cutting through the water.

They begin to vomit up small amounts of stomach acid on foes they attack, damaging them further and making them easier to track if they escape.
A glub vomiting on you is usually a death sentence as glub from far and wide will flock to the scent.

>>18558575
With the great flocking of Glub caused by the use of the stomach fluid weapon, the Glub have begun to work together for bigger payoffs.

They can frequently be seen moving in groups of 3-8 when they have recently fed.
You don't see hungry Glub until it's too late.

They have evolved their hardpoints to include a great amount of electrical receptors/emitters to help sense and confuse prey, including other Glub.

>>18558590
The glub's brain grows slightly to process all the new information it is receiving.

Glub gangs begin to lay more intelligent ambushes and traps, employing chases into kill zones and various other ambushing tactics kept efficient by the use of brief electrical signals sent to one another,

(and imma stop here for now to let other people catch up and surpass)
(Remember anybody can jump in and continue the strain if you so desire, or break off a new strain of an existing creature. Come on in and be creative /tg/)
[minor edit]

>>18558749

I totally would you know, if i had any artistic talent. So im going to continue watching over this thread while watching star troopers dance in a new star wars game...

bumb

>>18558407
Lol what a shitty person

bump

Some Hem'Fur are forced by increasing competition to live in the lower depths of the ocean, where the fine particles of sand and soil muck up their internal parts. Due to this, a slow process of restructuring their body to be more reliable in adverse conditions, though less capable of rapid and precise movement. They make up for this with more powerful musculature which ensures that any hits they do land on their prey are more punishing. Their colouration also changes to better blend in with the sea floor.

Redrew the Kreub.

bumpity

bump

Heya, back from vacation. But caught the usual nemesis when I was away: FLU. or at least I think it is. But no worries, this is awesome! Well, the gunfish notwithstanding, but still. Looking at the initial creatures, they could be descendants of the original three (Fus, Sluck, Worem), and that is good!

>>18566321
Yay IG is back. Get better soon man.

>>18566321
Good to see you again man, go eat as much as you get keep down and then sleep until you can't sleep anymore.

bamp

>>18566321
You returned! Feel free to take this thread. but untill then..BEGIN THE PAIN.
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The Pocket ocean, a bubble, a dense dome of ice in the tundra with a liquid core. A biosphere isolated from the outside world, its evolution unique. Sadly nature destroys indiscriminately and without care. a super massive geothermal vent opened up within the bubble. Temperature and pressure rise gradually, the weak will die.
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roll a 1d6
1-extinction. feels bad bro.
2-decimation- you are fucked up, but alive. lets see if you survive. become a weak symbiotic version of yourself. you will need to find a host creature to attach to.
3-diminished- survive off of the nutrients from the geothermal vent, you have lost the ability to predate. (filter feeding)
4- Survival-adapt to the heat, and pressure: armor, spear horn, or feelers.
5- Flourish- evolve one: armor, or squid like jets
6-Dominate- The decimation has lead to your rise. Grow Advanced senses, and a noticeable increase in all your abilities.

rolled 3 = 3

>>18568443

rolled 4 = 4

Just watch, it's gonna be a six.

rolled 6 = 6

>>18568443

>>18568615
Grows armor for the lulz.

Drawings will be incoming

>>18568443
>inb4 my first truly bad evo roll
rollan for Glub

rolled 2 = 2

>>18568699
yeeeeep
definately rollan
that's what's happenin here

>>18568712
yep

>>18568603
The Krueb begins filter feeding as a result of the volcanic activity. It develops a lower center of gravity, and due to the radical shift in diet, its color shifts towards blue. Perhaps it now has cobalt in its diet?

Falc...pic related. the glub will bounce back from this. we all get shit rolls sometimes. they are still alive, as a symbiotes...think of the possibilities....look at that one creature that eats the fishes tongue and lives inside its mouth as its new tongue...but with teeth now. or worse.

>>18568443
Ooh. This gets interesting.
May I add that this part of ocean is slowly getting deeper? Of course, the vents are protruding from the arctic ocean, but the ocean floor's kinda... sinking. Lower. Maybe tectonic activity causes this.
(the beginnings of an abyss)

>>18568615
>>18568651

The leafy body of the Seekeed becomes slightly more rigid and much tougher, more like a polypropylene in texture than normal plant matter. As such, it no longer twists around as easily in the ocean currents and remains straight. It also becomes incredibly difficult to 'chew'.

Additionally, it seems to discolor oddly at the edges...

>>18558325
>>18568712
The glub do not react well to the change in environment.
They do not react well at all.
They are confused and slowly die out, the ones that remain mere shadows of their former selves.

They are forced to follow around the Ykex'ry and eat what they do not along with anything stuck to them. They move in small groups of 3, fiercely defending their chosen Ykex'ry from predators or other Glub with no homes.

(hope I'm doing this right)

>>18568816
yes, a thousand times yes. This world was created by you, i only stepped in to GM so it kept spinning while you were gone. Add anything you want, take the helm, co-run, or observe and input. After the pocket ocean is concluded the show is all yours for sure, i wont be making any more Evo threads unless requested. Doesn't mean i wont be participating though...dear fuck no. The moment you let the Lem exist i dug into the threads of this planet, you let me incinerate the atmosphere, that's love right there. we have something. Oh by the way, with all of the threads i took care of, the events mirror each other a little, not everything is the same but it at least makes reference to the ecological disasters/ changes that happen. what is happening now is about black dawn time, that way when the species come fourth they will all be at about the same tech level.

>>18568932
perfectly. its roleplay, you have a new role. make it yours. then make yourself lord with it. in time those purple eels will be but the heralds of the tide of death, unwittingly steering a swarm of death fanatically devoted to murdering any organism that gets near their host. never give up Falc. Take this in any direction you want, that was just inspiration. caretaker, murder machine, parasitic symbiote with some benefit to the host. all you. anything you can imagine.

I AM BECOME DEATH, EATER OF WORLDS

Crubs have become total fucking ballers. They evolve a much harder, chitinous shell, move two legs to the rear for better support and balance, get an additional glowing dingly, and last but not least a large, serrated appendage for RIPPING AND TEARING.

Crubs eat ERRYBODY now. They don't even give no fucks.

>>18569141
I liked it so much, I put a photoshop filter on it.

...Monitoring the thread.... Waiting for Gentlemen to start up tribal....

rolled 1 = 1

Skrimproll

>>18569141
Fixed claw.

>>18569474
The Skrimp, tied down by their heavy exoskeletons and dependance on now unreachable Seekeed and Kreubs, have faded into history with the geothermal event.

Good night, sweet Skrimp

>>18569474
OOF

rolled 1 = 1

Let's see how the Hem'Fur fare

rolled 1 = 1

>>18569515
Their dependance on their seafloor hunting grounds has shattered the food chain below the Hem'Fur. With their energy-expensive bodies and need to move constantly to breathe, their exertion is simply too much for their diet to handle.

The ocean

What a deadly place.

>>18569515
the fates did not like the gunfish

>>18569315
Eh, Tribal would start as soon as we've gone through the biomes at least once.
So far:
-island
-tundra
-abyss
-ocean
-plains (mainland)
needs to be done:
-desert
-mountain
-jungle
-freshwater
And then Tribal modo, where it'll be some kind of civ-builder lite or something like that.

rolled 6 = 6

Rolling for Kwenom's survival

you know...ive never killed a player. and this, this end of the skrimp, and the hemfur...it feels like it. and it feels bad bro. Skrimp guy! Hem'Fur guy. Dont go quietly into the night, you can now evolve one of the other races...It brings sadness to my eyes for that to be the end of this beautiful music....though, the cruelty of the abyss apparently reaches even to me. Evolve on...

rolled 1 = 1

Ykex'ry: what comes next?

In the overworld the volcanic activity ravaged the surface. Here, in the pocket..things were different. the sea floor sunk again, and biology took a strange turn. Plants now had more light then before, but from strange glowing algae. The pressure got worse the deeper a life form went, but the closer you are to the thermal vents the more nutrients from the blood of the planet are available. the only option is to go into the abyss.
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things are going to get fucked up. You who are left, survived. This one is a bonus round to prepare you for the horrors to come.
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Roll for each table following the rules, if its the same, exaggerate it as it stacks.

1d6 gain attack- up to you how to interpret
1- slashing
2-clubbing
3-stabbing
4-crushing
5-poison
6-thermal

2d6 gain defensive trait
1-omnivision (360 sight)
2-bioluminesence
3-armor plating
4-spike plating
5-Scale plating
6-electical charge

1d6 mobility
1-Squid "jets"
2-Skrimp tail
3-Legs
4-Flippers
5-Hooks
6-Single muscle "foot" (like a slug)

Evolve OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

(and kill everything)

>>18570164
no
NO
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo

My precious symbiotic relationship

>>18570164
...we carry on. this one is pure hard mode. i will never again offer an annihilation mode....grab an existing species and use this event to make your own again. I KNOW...YOU WILL CARRY ON.

>>18570168
This.. is my only chance
COMON GLUB

rolled 6 = 6

>>18569474
>>18569515
>>18570164

The pocket ocean becomes desolate after the occurrence. Here's how the score stands:

The Ykex'ry enter their final days
The Hem'Fur have become a mere memory
The Glub cling to the shadows of the dying Ykex'ry
Crubs flourish, and become top predators
Skrimp evolved too slow to keep up, and bid the world farewell
Seekeeds have grown tougher to deal with the harsh new environment
Kwenoms have advanced, but to what degree is still to be seen

rolled 5, 6, 3, 6 = 20

>_>

rolled 3, 2, 6, 6 = 17

rolling for the Kwenom

godspeed, little urchins

>>18570226
>poison
>armour
>electrical charge
>a foot

whatisthisidontevenunderstandwhatshappening.jpg

rolled 2, 1, 5 = 8

ROLLAN FOR CRUBS

>>18570522
>clubbing
>omnivision
>hooks

intelestinggg

>>18570527
Dongle is now both a lightsource and an eye, in addition to eyes all the way around the body.
Sickle claw grows bigger in order to hook onto things.
Gained club arm.

>>18570625
deep ocean...
why always so scary

>>18570637
A reminder why IRL nature is always more frightening than fiction. Well, sometimes.
>>18570018

rolled 1 = 1

>>18568443
Rollan for Hem'Fur

Yeah I'm pretty much joking, not canon etc. etc.

>>18571706
NOOOOOOOOO
FUCK

>mfw Hem'Fur have become extinct twice

welp, that about settles it.
Nature does not like gunfish

>>18571710
once again fate proves that it fucking hates the gunfish

>>18571770
>>18571719
They fear us.
Hear that, gunfish? It's afraid!

rolled 1, 3, 2, 5 = 11

rolling for Krueb

The Krueb Develop hook like claws to grasp down and two slashing claws to fight of competition for vents a spikier shell and some lights to allow them to see better and for winning mates.

>>18571706
Welp, settles it. Guns are unnatural, and so are creatures shaped like them.

In the meantime, the sudden drop in ocean floor depth has caused the ice bubble's isolation to be broken, and for a while the denizens of the bubble gets visitors. Flatworems and plankton drift into the nutrient-rich water, and in turn they serve as food for the bubble denizens.
Also, the geothermal vent has attracted some extremophile bacterias. They're using chemosynthesis... and may become food.

>>18570625
>>18570522

...you get back there and you roll that second attribute dice sir. or so help me, the world will become so much worse...

>>18570251
they are going to look like...imagine with me...color change to indicate poison, tough armored shell, with crackling electricity, and a flat bottom part like a snail to move...yep. snail shell, or conch shell, with tentacles spilling out, and snail bottom. electrical and poisonous. make it happen..someone, anyone. or imagine it yourself.

finally. Glub, Seekeed....ROLL, glub now is your chance to break free.

seekeed...ive seen players interpret things in interesting ways, i have faith you will be able to adapt these tables to your organism.

rolled 1 = 1

>>18572569
Oh geeze I didn't even notice that one was 2d6. I'll rectify that immediately with an additional die roll!

Kwenom. here, i made a guideline of what it would probably look like now after your rolls. for the love of god, someone redraw this piece of shit. im not exactly super good.

>>18574074
360 sight again...hmm...

>>18574074
>>18574208
JESUSCHRISTHOWTERRIFYING

rolled 1, 2, 2, 5 = 10

Rolling for Seekeed.

>>18574286
Slashing, 2x Bioluminesence, Hooks

fucking...

I WILL NOT LET THIS THREAD DIE

HAVE MUSIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpMNXEY_tio&context=C43c9b78ADvjVQa1PpcFMW6u9-Un3SHhQkTIAjY6lRLh1
LpulvK6Y=

The Seekeed develops purple, bladed edges capable of cutting through all but the toughest of carapaces. It now thrashes its body towards sensed movement in order to fend off those that would attempt to consume it.

In addition, the Seekeed seem to have picked up a microscopic bio luminescent life-form inside of its body, causing its veins to glow.

Two hook-like protrusions have grown up along side the main body to defend it and move it closer towards volcanic vents should it be moved away.

BEHOLD SEEKEED, IT THIRSTS FOR YOUR DEATH.
SEAKEED MUSIC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxOLSWJLeyo&feature=related

rolled 2, 3, 1, 4 = 10

Falc, if you dont like these rolls, roll again and mine will be a splinter species of glub.

rolled 5, 5, 6, 6 = 22

The Glub was weak. It recovers now as a species, first struck down during the boiler, then again when its host was eradicated. Rage is a hell of an survival trail, and the Glub have it in spades. Now they also have a hard armored shell, powerful fleshy flippers replacing their flimsy fins, and the instinct to swim full speed into their oppoents with their tank like body to crush their skulls.

rolled 5, 6, 2, 6 = 19

The pocket ocean was open to the world, if only thru cracks in its icy shell. Now the pocket ocean was open to the blood of the world. In deepest parts of the trench where the geothermal vents pumped their nutrients into the water the ground ripped and sunk. Deeper and deeper, did the pit form until it struck magma, water created a layer of super pressurized steam on the magma that could not rise up due to the weight of the water crushing down on it. The ocean has a new light. Orange and ruddy, threatening constantly. The strange new chemicals that spilled into the depths of the abyss stimulate the creatures, a natural amphetamine it drives them to rage.
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this one is free form. evolve as you see fit, make little leaps as much as you want.

*checks in*
Oh, stuff has been happening.
I guess I should have said that I would be gone for a bit.
I'll do the other glub in a bit
Yay dual glub,

>>18575397
(this started out a lot better in my head)

The Glub undergo several drastic changes before settling, their biology unsure how to adapt to the rapidly changing world.

Their flippers fuse and become more muscular, allowing for extremely silent swimming even if it causes a loss in instant maneuverability.
They develop a vicious contact poison, a callback to their old vomiting tactics, supercharged with electricity to shock and debilitate. They develop a hard shell to store all the delicate organs required to do generate these compounds.
Their primitive brain under the hardpoint in their skull develops a bit more, more able to decipher the information from it's infrared vision and electrical sensing in good time.
They begin to recognize foes and odds of winning and use their colour changing abilities to assist their chances. They broadcast violent bright colours to those that are stronger, and fade into the background to stalk weaker foes, silently falling upon them and smothering them in poison and stunning current.

They move deeper into the abyss in groups of 5-7 regaining some of their old skill with communication.
And there, they wait, periodically gliding to the upper reigons to whittle down a crub or tear down some plantlife.

The Crub grows ever stranger, gaining an additional segment per leg, plus one additional set of legs for better mobility.
Its several eyes become much more complex, the stalk in particular becoming capable of seeing into the infrared spectrum in order to better find both thermal vents and prey.

Its main hook-claw becomes flexible and whip-like, and trades the jagged, serrated edge for a single edge running the length of the limb segment.

>>18576130
damn nature u scary

A kraub subspecies becomes more mobile and starts using a large fin to move and guide themselves they swallow any small forms of nutrients

bumpcombo
grabbin a shower and then coming back to evolve

yeaaaaa, I got nothin.

calling in back up artists, Frowgguy? you still here? we need you to run the Glub for a while if Falc is spent on them. And someone else needs to pickup slack on the Seekeed. Also, if i can get these drawings in asap we can start the next event:genocide. the abyss is a cruel place. only one species is walking out alive. if you love your creations battle for them.

>>18580351
I think were all ready to move on to tribal.

Ive kinda lost interest for a little (in the non tribal stuff). Just been working the frilla on paper while these threads are run.

Grows straighter fins and camoflauge.

>>18580496
Very well. Falc. anon crab guy(s?) it is time to finish the abyss.
you guys pick the species you want most to progress to tribal stage. I have faith. from there, ill offer some random traits for the new tribal and a story for you.
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The abyss aka boiler became more and more hostile to life, the extremophiles that lived on the geothermal vents started to go higher and higher away from the rising magma pool, and as the magma pool rose the pressure keeping it in check fell. The creatures have a limited time to progress to where they can evacuate their watery cage. The only way out is thru each other. whatever comes out of the abyss better be about as fucking metal as pic related.

fuck...a surviving hem'fur...alright bro. Your in the running against the survivors. SURVIVORS. ATTENTION. draw your creature as it would be in the tribal stage before any armor or gear. RAGE. RAGE AND HATE. SHOW IT TO ME.

With the amphetamines in the water cranking evolutionary drive into overload, the Seekeed and their symbiotic microorganism colonies have formed an immutable bond. In exchange for allowing the glowing bacteria to flow through their fluid channels and operate their forms like horrifying puppets, the Seekeed are granted mobility. The host body provides a home for the bacterial colony, as well as a defense in the form of their poison-producing leaf cells. Modified colonies act as light-sensing "eyes," and a pitcher mouth is engineered from its root ball, now used only for the storage of nutrients taken from its prey.

A simple plant is invaded by alien bacterium, and becomes a scarecrow with a protein swarm acting as chemical hivemind. The Mandrake Seekeed are born.

>>18580904
could be our first tribal plant.
hem'fur fish, Glub, Krub, Kraub species. show me your proto tribals! if you no longer give a fuck and just hunger for the real tribal game, let me know you are stepping out of the compettion/ just observing. ill be checking back in about 8 hours or sooner. now that Indonesian man is back, its time to hurry.

>Make it more metal!
>b-but-
>MORE METAL! TURN IT UP TO 11!

The Crub become the Cruelb.

Fleshy, highly toxic tentacles burst forth from the hard, chitinous shell of the beast. The eyestalk bursts into flames, and can direct them by focusing its vision. It grows two great horns to better aim this new power.

It hunts by stunning with its firey Eye of Pain, inflicting not only burns, but a lash of psionic energy that communicates only suffering.
The Cruelb then drags the stunned and shivering thing off with its tentacles, the neurotoxin of which lights up every pain detecting nerve it possibly can. Most creatures usually die just from the sheer sensory overload. It then brings it back to the tribe to be devoured wholesale. If threatened, it may also use its legs to pierce an attacker.

As a society, the Cruelb prefer to remain as a web of nearby individuals. They have neighbors, but those neighbors only interact when they need to, and their social interactions are often brief and to the point.
The exception to this solitude is when dealing with other intelligent species. Every member Cruelb tribe will bring as many numbers to bare as possible when interacting with even one intelligent outsider passes through. If less than three Cruelb are available, they will attempt to skitter away and hide rather than fight or communicate.
When communicating, the Cruelb will attempt to surround the creature and stare at it. Since the vast majority of other species do not understand the native language of complex blinking the Cruelb choose to use with each other, they will for the sake of outsiders, communicate psionically. This is incredibly disconcerting when an entire tribe is doing so.

>>18582103
The Cruelb reproduce much like fish, with the female seeking a suitably damp location, laying her eggs, and then leaves awaiting a male to come by the scent and fertilize them.
The tentacles of the Cruelb are incredibly sensitive, and require constant cleaning, as they are in fact a part of the innards of the Cruelb that breaks through during a molting phase. As such, the Cruelb are unsuited to the desert, and dehydrate very quickly. Instead, the Cruelb prefer damp caves, swamps, beaches, and forests (in that order) wherever possible. Despite having the appearance of arachnids, they do not spin webs - however they do inadvertently make webs of viscous slime wherever they live.

That's it. That's as metal as I can make these guys.

>>18582108
...thats pretty fucking metal. !!!! FUCK!!!! OK BITCHES, theres the bar, now go smash it and beat the other species to death with it. Hem'Fur, Glub, Seaweed crab. YOU ARE UP. The abyss is shaking, ready to fucking explode any day now.

>>18580904
Further developing Seekeed lore:

The bacteria within the Seekeed host shells, henceforth referred to as the Mandrake Bacterium, has become a supercolony entity through its accelerated evolution. The billions of trillions of organisms contained within one host act together through chemical communication systems as something similar to a body-wide nervous brain. This biological computer can understand complex patterns and has shown to demonstrate forethought and planning to a degree that puts it on par with Earth's great apes.

The host body's barbels act as a grasping mechanism, protruding from the pitcher mouth in a radial arrangement of four. While the grasping tendrils do most of the fine work, the two pectoral fronds and large tail-like frond act as both propulsion and weapon. The tips of each frond contain special cells that produce a paralytic toxin exuded through the blades of the host's rigid, hooklike frond terminus. This toxin is most commonly used to subdue larger prey so that the colony's slow digestive process can take the time it needs to absorb the prey.

As a species, they tend to group together in small pods of seven to ten host bodies. While they do have some degree of social hierarchy, pods are usually affiliated by shared territory and convenience of group hunting only. As beings who reproduce through an asexual seed dispersal, they have no familial ties or concept of biological relation to one another.

Mandrakes prefer to life in aquatic or amphibious environs, ranging from warm shallow seas, to mangrove swamps, to the cold, dark abyss from whence they came.

The kreub become snake like and now have grasping hands they also can breath above ground the seakeed becomes like a cloak out side of the water They also now have grasping hands for actions They aren't the strongest but they have developed a higher brain capacity and now have the ability to judge and manage situations. (crap at drawing

>>18582302
>>18582364
Seek'kre- (if you both like this im gonna go for it and merge your two creations into something epic, it just sat there and sang to me.) The seakeed has always existed on the Kreub. during the time of intense biological changes the Kreub benefited massively from the bacterial puppeteering colony in the Seakeed Mandrake Strain. It was this hybridized creature. The flexability of the mandrake with the mental capacity of the Seakeed. Each creature must struggle to establish its identity as it develops while the various minds vie for control of the body. A fully Developed Seek'kre's mind is actually made up of the 3 different entities that compose its body, collapsed into one perfect merger. This flexibility and intelligence allowed them to withstand the onslaught that is the Cruelb.
((redraw this shit to your hearts content,i too, am no amazing artist.)) now we wait on the Hem'fur and Glub. They have till tomorrow, then we vie for rights to progress to the tribal status.

>>18582586

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Somebody do the silent assassin, camouflaging, electricity using, poison fanged Glumb thing por favor.

I am sadly tapped out on Evo's for now.

>>18585448
all good man. im burned out too. im gonna see this one to the end, then get it archived so IndoGent can use em.

>>18582586
As the guy who made the Cruelb, that is fucking badass.

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Photosynthesis

>>18582586

Here, have this.
That creature just looked so awesome I had to draw it.

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Suddenly... CORRUPTION

>>18582586
As Mandrake's artist, I am SO FOR THIS.

>>18588427
As the drawer of the Seek'kre i gotta say. fucking awesome, great job.
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Glub, Kwenom, failed to make it to the tribal stage of evolution. The Cruelb and now Seek'kre now vie for progressing to tribal stage. The Seek'kre are already at a functional form for tribal stage. The Cruelb are there story wise. I'm going to throw out a proposition for the Cruelb's next stage. its not the best and i know it can do better then what I'm offering maybe something completely different then that, i don't know. the concept is too bad ass to pass up.

Uhh, testing, testing.
Turns out some of the archived threads are missing entire images, some of which I need for the tribal stage. Would someone kindly post these pictures for me, please:
-the world map an anon drew up, with 3 continents
-latest non-tundra Frowgmagnon pic
-latest tundra Frowgmanon pic
-latest sentient Hoppa pic

Thanks very much.

the last frowg.

the last lemuy

powerful resource beasts. Ramel and cidex

>>18592567
>>18592555
>>18592538
Thanks man! Got the purple (non-tundra) frowg-mens, and the tribal Hoppas?

Indonesian Gentleman. Please enjoy the host of beasts created. They come from many minds, with many hands on them. I can only recommend that the Seek'keed and the Cruelb survive to tribal stage. They are unique.

and with that...Thread end. we wait for the tribal stage. we wait for war.

>>18592597
i don't have the tribal hoppas. :( i hope someone else does.

>>18592710
>>18592690
Hmm, it seems that the foolz archives have the threads with the complete pics. I'll dredge them today, and expect something tomorrow. Something... tribal.

>>18592736
Whoooooo

Hoppa guy here.
I am afraid that I can't participate in the tribal thread. I'll be visiting my relatives for these next few days.
Keep being awesome though. These threads are brilliant.

>>18593595

Note that I have been drawing stuff for that stage however.
A shame really that I can't join the rest of you.
Here is a pic I've been working on.

>>18593954
>>18588427
are you the same guy? if not, do either of you have a website that you display your art at? if not...fucking make one.

>>18594077

Yeah, I am the same dude.
And no, I do not have a site to display my stuff.

Frowg guy here. I'll reassume the frowgs. I might leave the tundra offshoot to someone else. The frowgmagnon have sorta plateaued and at this point any bodily evolutions would be likely revolving around adapting to civil life, muscle/skeletal structures and the like. Maybe the gradual shrinking of their fat tail or a new purpose on it? I pondered on this for some time.

>>18594284
Yeah, Tribal stage evolutions will be minor like that.

Tribal Stage IS HERE!
>>18595526