If you're just joining us, welcome. This is a world-building/setting discussion of a planet called Fortune.

The game involves "evolving" various species of plants or animals. There is no win condition, so to speak, the goal is to create an interesting setting.

Various organisms are presented for the players in the form of images. The players can then change those organisms by editing the image and then posting it. A player can do one of two things with their new edited image. It can be posted as an evolution of the previous creature, meaning that the previous creature is now replaced by the new one; alternatively, the player can designate their new image as a newly emerged subspecies of the previous image, meaning the creatures in both images are now present on the world. This is called a split or a branch-off.

Once the edited image containing the creature is posted, and so long as no one raises any objections to it, the critter then becomes part of the developing "canon" of the game, and other players can edit and evolve it too. At various, arbitrary times, the GM (that's me) will respond with results of the adaptation, as well as introducing random effects in the world in the interest of "shaking things up". If you like, you could even include cause/effect and results in your post, if you like.

> (Continued...)

>>20675286
The better your justification and/or explanation for an evolution, the more we like it, so don't be afraid to go into great detail as to the ecological pressures that engendered such changes. This is by no means neccesary, but don't worry, we won't be tl;dr-ing anyone. Get as detailed as you like.
As a rule of thumb, go for small, subtle changes rather than big ones. Try not to "direct" the creatures towards some kind of end result (eg. I'm going to turn them into Pokemanz!), just let them become a sort of mish-mash created by everyone (eg. I imagine that the low temperatures would favor those creatures that possesed thick fur). Let the critters be a community effort, you know? If something feels cheesy or unrealistic to you, say so, we're all Anons here anyway, so enjoy the freedom to speak your mind. It'll engender discussion and help polish the world to a fine sheen (so to speak).

Now, while I encourage you all to be creative, there are a few things I'll just toss out from the get go.

Joke Creatures
> (Eg) This creature is so flexible, it can kiss it's own ass!

Fetish Fuel
> (Eg) These animals reproduce by rape.

Comic-Book Science
> (Eg) Fell from a meteor, exposed to cosmic rays.

Blatant Rip-Offs
> (Eg) Bikachu, the electromagnetic rodent is yellow becuase it eats the fruit of the Super Sayain plant, which produces orange fruits called Dragonballs.

There's plenty of leeway on the drawings, not everyone's an artist, we get that. But if you just gave a camel robotic wings and lazer vision? Well, somebody's gonna call you out. This *is* 4chan, after all. Write something that's readable and makes sense and there won't be any problems. Most creatures are accepted, so unless I say otherwise or someone objects, the lack of a response should be taken as approval.

> (Continued...)

>>20675318
If you want to know anymore, I've included my address in the e-mail field, or you can ask one of our players (I'm sure some of our regulars are lurking under the mask of Anonymous). They will likely be happy to answer your questions, assuming I don't get to them. We've also got a 1d4chan page, it includes a link to our previous threads. These are just there if you're curious, so don't feel like you need to read them to be able to play now. Relax, you don't.

> http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Fortune:_Evolution_Game

This is also where I'll post the scheduled dates (both month and day) for the next episode of the game. As soon as the current thread (Part 6-9) is over, the date for Part 6-10 will be posted at the top of the wiki page.

The whole thing is still a work in progress, so if you see something missing from the main article or subsections, don't be shy about lending a hand. This *is* only my downtime after all, and like most adults, I've only got so many hours in the day.

Lastly, do quote/link to the creature that you're evolving, if you're evolving critter A into critter B, then use that "quote" button and link the damn post, it makes it so much easier for me when I'm trying to follow the line of descent when time comes for the next game.

Well, I've rattled on long enough, so enough pussyfooting around, let's get this game started! As soon as I post the starting creatures, you can have at it!

rape is a viable reproduction method id say about 75% of mating on earth is rape

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Are the ravedragons still around?

>>20675354
A fact I learned after introducing that rule, but that's not the point. The point of it was to discourage creepy That Guys from coming in and making a mess of things (in more ways than one, I imagine. Eww).

Ain't nothing wrong with fapping, it's as natural as taking a shit. However, like taking a shit, there's a time and a place. This is neither, there are other threads, whole boards, even, for that sort of thing, not here.

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deepsea vents are a good place to start

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Are these guys still around?

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>>20675374
That they are.

5-6 feet long, carnivore, cold-blooded, egg-laying fish. Males have a bio-luminescent frill that they display in order to impress females. Like peacocks, it's the most fabulous guys that attract the ladies.

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>>20675413
Should you wish to evolve some creatures around a part of the Abyss that has undersea vents I have no problem with that, go nuts!

>>20675437
I hadn't originally planned on it, but why not? I'll add them in.

2-3 foot long carnivore. Hunts in packs. Possesses the ability to hone in on bio-electrical signals similar to a sharks. Cold blooded egg laying fish.

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>>20675444
A mutation occurs in Raveshark genes creating an animal which senses its surroundings using a weak electric field. Said electricity is created in an abdominal organ. The mutation after reproduction dilutes the gene pool, creating a new subspecies of rave shark, favored by natural selection in a dark world.

>>20675516
Anymore creatures to evolve?

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>>20675559
Yes, I'm working on them now.

(Ignore the filename typo.)
These soft-bodies creatures slither along on the sea floor picking up detritus that falls from above. Morsels from bodies picked clean by predators above, other animals' waste, that sort of thing. They also scavenge on the chance they find a full-blown carcass rotting away in the depths. For now their eyes remain, though they aren't very useful in the dark.

Hey Fortune, I'm still around. I'll stick to anonymous posting for most of this thread, but I promise I'll be more active than the last couple of threads at least. I don't have any specific ideas for the Abyss, but hopefully that'll just make it even funner.

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Soft-bodies invertabrate, like it's cousin the Rock Slug.
Cold-blooded bloodsucker. Attaches to a creature with tentacles, sucking said tentacles dry. Once they real appendages wither away, the Tentaleech replaces them, using its own victim's tentacles to hide itself away.

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>>20675604
It's all good, Stooge. Threads 404, it happens. I think I just caught everyone in the middle of a work day or something, that's all.

2-3 ft. long. Descendants of the Sand Squid of the shallows regions. Cold-blooded soft-bodied invertebrate. Unlike Earth squid, no ink sacs or suckers on their tentacles. Carnivorous. Their bright sand-brown colour would normally be a hazard, but in this lightless realm, it's not much of a big deal. The purple cone with the pink fronds on the "top" of their head/body is a sensory organ, it's a holdover from ancient days. It can sense the direction/current of the water. Perhaps this structure will find new use in the dark spaces of the trenches?

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>>20675610
The Tentaleech evolves a stinger like mouth apparatus, which enhances it's bloodsucking capabilities.

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>>20675701
Due to a mutation, the Tentaleech develops a third tentacle, which turns out to be more adaptive than the set of two, so it spreads through the population.

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While their ancestors were much, much, larger, these carnivorous, cold-blooded, mammal-like reptiles are now only 5-7 ft. long, 10 at absolute most. There simply isn't enough food down in the trenches to fuel the sizes seen in specimens further up, especially since this variety of Aquabeast experienced a fortunate bout of atavism that resulted in water-breathing gills, meaning the beast need not come up for air like it's full-sized cousins.

Carnivorous, egg-laying, with horns, an armoured top akin to a turtle's might shell, and heat-retaining fur that is slick and smooth (much like a penguin's feathers), the Aquabeast is but one of a proud lineage of ruthelss survivors. Their frog-like tongues ensure that if a creature wants to run (er... swim) they're going to have be faster than greased lightning to escape. Of course, such an efficient predator will no doubt engender some interesting adaptations in its prey.

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>>20675610

An offshoot of the original Tentaleech discovers the advantages of a herbivorous lifestyle; its mouth loses its gripping teeth in favour of suction-cup muscles to hoover algae off of rocks.

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>>20675586
The rockslug evolves longer gills, to help it's metabolism in the cold, dark depths.

>>20675899
See >>20675265
> no plant-life
Sorry, brah.

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>>20675664
Deepsquid soon evolves bright sacks of flesh in order to easily lure smaller (and bigger) preys to himself.
First time trying

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>>20675899
The Tentaleech evolves a better "eye". This organs main task is to watch for other creatures fluorescent lights, so that the parasite may locate its prey more efficiently.

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A *very* distant cousin to Rock Slugs, these creatures are little more than fleshy sacs with trailing, wispy tentacles, laced with toxins and bacteria. They are about 2-3 ft. in diameter, though some species can reach up 5 or even 7 feet in diameter. Their life cycle is a rather complicated process that involves the offspring getting eaten by a raveshark, living in its digestive tract, then being defecated out. After this rather ignominious childhood, the young start growing into their full size.

>>20675913
Ah, he's got you there, Anon. Sorry. That said, I'm sure there is plenty of plankton, even at this depth. Perhaps the Tentaleech becomes a filter-feeder of some sort? Sifting through the currents for delicious zooplankton to nom?

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>>20675906
The rockslug develops a new sensory organ, for better chemical cue sampling. With this organ, the rock slug may sense its rotting meal from a much longer distance than before.

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>>20675899
>>20675913
>>20676022

The strain of Tentaleech quickly abandons its newly discovered vegetarianism once it realises there are no plants.
Instead, it maintains the suction cups and re-purposes its now defunkt tentacles into filter-feeding fins.

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>>20675992
The Tentaleech further evolves its eye, which becomes more compound like. The overall light detection abilities increase, helping the Tentaleech to spot its flourescent pray from a long distance away.

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>>20675539
The Raveshark develops a second electric organ, giving it too settings- low electricity and high electricity. They use the lower setting to detect prey, and the higher setting to stun it.

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>>20676088

More fins means more food means more energy means more Tentaleech (and more fins).
Also, their eyes atrophy greatly; with no reason to move around so much any more, they rely less and less on having senses, for now.

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>>20676063
The rockslug prefers the rotting corpses more than the detritus sower from below. With its chemical receptors the creature finds cues of decomposing meat in the water. However, this can be misleading, and some rockslugs meet their fate at deepsea vents by being cooked alive. However some do escape this fate, and come back with some hitchhikers. A strain of facultative chemosynthetic bacteria have colonized their gills.

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>>20675944

The Deepsquid evolves a new eye, one that has a more mirrored retina and more light-sensitivity, while becoming colorblind, as with most dark-dwelling, dark-visioned creatures.

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Last critter, for now, Fortunates. Then it shall be off to feasting (what mere mortals call "dinner").

The Nenimee is an *ancient* breed, a sedentary long-lost relative to the Deepsquids. It's a filter feeder that dines on microscopic organisms, like plankton, that drift upon the current. Since such organisms are especially numerous around the warmth of undersea vents, these creatures are especially common in those areas.

Of course, these cold-blooded, soft-bodied invertebrates are not confined solely to such areas. A Nenimee is happy as long as its got a rock to latch onto.

For eons, the Nenimee had it rather easy, though now the Abyss is much more crowded than it once was, and these immobile creatures are falling to the predations of the newly arrived fish that now swim in waters it once shared with little else. Whether by camouflage, armour, or some other mechanism, this sitting duck has got to get evolvin', and fast!

Note the grey patch in the center. While the Nenimee's ancestor's had a central eye (as its Deepsquid kin still does), such a structure was superflous in the lightless Abyss, so it atrophied, and the creature is now blind.

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>>20676022
With competition for getting eaten, what a bizzare idea, grow stronger and stronger, Stingers begin evolving different kind of body coloring in simple shapes and forms in order to easily lure raveshark to their "prey".

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>>20676152
The parasitic Tentaleech's eye becomes more complex and between the ocellus, stronger chemo receptors emerge.

>>20675539
>>20676207
I'm sorry, man, but if I don't mention this now, I'm going to be butthurt all night about it. Evolution doesn't work this way, man. Evolution modifies what is already there. You don't just wake up with a whole new set of organs.

Sorry to be so anal about this, but if I understand Fortune right, he/she/fuck-if-I-know wants to stay true to science as much as possible.

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>>20676210
>Missed the last update number, caught up here.

It turns out sucking water is much easier than sucking yourself onto a rock and, almost by accident, the Finleech discovers it can direct the flow of delicious water using its suction cups.
An up-turned mouth part can suck in water, which is then blown through a vent at the top of the Finleech, at the root of its fins for efficient filtering.

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>>20676252
The bacterial infection spreads in those rockslugs which spend more time near the vents, thanks to a not so sophisticated chemo receptor variant.

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>>20676272
In order to act faster than most horrors of the sea, Deep Squid's "purple cone" literally blooms and evolves into most sensitive, sensory organ with ability to feel moving prey before it can even be seen.

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>>20676402
A symbiotic relationship has formed between the rockslug and the chemo synthesizing bacteria. The slug develops longer gills, to support more bacteria. It still feeds on detritus and corpses, however the nutrition from the occasional chemo synthesis help it a lot.

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>>20676329
To support it's better sensory capabilities, the neural tissue of the Tentaleech increases, and with it the overall body size.

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>>20675794
The Aquabeasts armour plates smooth down, loosing many of their spikes and becoming more streamlined to let it conserve more energy while swimming and grow to adult size on a more meagre diet.

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>>20676285
the nenimee begins to change, first it's body loses any pigment in it's skin, and it's "eye" begins to gain a reflective coating

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>>20676485
Thanks to the symbiotic relationship, this rock slug variant experiences a huge boost in body size. Behavior changes too, the slugs spend more and more time near the vents, to feed their symbiotic bacteria but they still go for the occasional corpse.

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>>20676568
The parasitic tentaleech fuses its three tentacles, to form a longer tentacle. This helps it to swim better, and gives the host longer appendages.

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This is turning into one of my favorite episodes/sessions yet... Keep it up, Fortunates! Especially you, chemoreceptors guy. The fact that I'm going to have to look up what the fuck that even means excites me. SCIENCE!!!

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>>20676685
The Ventslug becomes more and more relied on its symbiotic bacteria. To accomodate more, it increases the area of its gills, forming a complex mantle. The first gene transfer appears, the red colored protein complexes help to control oxygen levels near the bacteria.

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>>20676770
The Tentaleech develops a form of 360 degree vision and olfactory system. This cannot be used for complex images, but it is very useful in determining movement and bio-luminescence. Thanks to this, the Tentaleech may sense the imminent danger to its host, and make a leave before being eaten alive.

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The Deepsquid evolves two pairs of small claws to grip onto rocks and prey better, as well as to help keep it inside the holes it hides in to evade predators.

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>>20676644
The neminee turns a dark red to best fade it's heat and light signature, it also begins to release chemicals into it's former eye when being preyed upon, creating a bright, pulsing light that hopefully draws it's predator's predators.

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>>20676963
The mass and the increased metabolism forces the tentaleech to evolve. New strains appear.
The Chompacle solves the problem by consuming large chunks of the host meat and drinking its blood tanks to its new oral apparatus.

>>20676372
>Picture-less fluff update.

Finleech reproduce by a coral-like system of periodic, simultaneous bursts of sperm and eggs, it's a very hit-and-miss method of reproduction and naturally Finleech are few and far between.
However, due to lack of movement and efficient consumption, if they were to grow in a decent area for food, individuals can live for decades and reach the size of some trees.

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>>20676963
The Tentalor is the Chompacle's sister taxon, emerging from the ranks of the old Tentaleech strans. The Tentalor uses a different approach, it starts to bond with its hosts metabolism, and occasionaly it releases hormones into the bloodstream when it senses danger. This may help the host to survive intra or inter species relations.

>>20677061
>>20677065
>>20677097
>>20677179

I don't know what's gotten into you folks, but keep it up! Your creative sides are on fire tonight!

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>>20676900
Being big and tasty, has its drawbacks. Some Ventslugs start to place Neminee on their backs for camouflage.

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>>20677097
>>20676372
Some of the Finleeches abandon their suckers for gripping all together. Becoming free swimming creatures that blindly move through the ocean using the simple"jet" they've evolved, sucking water in the front and expelling it out the back across their feeding fins and propelling them forward.

>>20677065
The Chompacle finally leaves its sessile parasitic lifestyle, and becomes a lamprey like parasite instead. Its mouth apparatus becomes more prominent to accommodate for this new lifestyle.

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>>20677350
Sorry, it is getting late.

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>>20677179
The Tentalor develops 2 additional sensory arrays, making it a better sentinel. If it detects the light patterns of the hosts food when the host is hungry it may increase the feeling of hunger for better exploration of the area.

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>>20676628
the aquabeast continues to become more streamlined, with a paddlelike tail allowing for greater speed and maneuverability for the same amount of work

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>>20677252
The ventslug looses its long eye stalks. It just doesn't really fit on the bigger frame, and it is more safe to keep them close.

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>>20677023

Utilizing more of the new bony material it can grow, the Deepsquid evolves a rasping tongue, capable of grinding through tough hide and some armor, expanding its potential prey choices.

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>>20677368
The Chompacle evolves a longer tail, which is a must have for its free swimming state. It grows a primitive fin too.

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>>20677461
The Tentalor develops a new tpye of neuron, which helps to connect it to the neural network of the host. Through evolution the Tentalor, and its host become more and more neurally synchronized.

>>20677556
>>20677644
>>20677758
Sorry, it is like 4 am here, had fun evolving these three. See you next time.

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>>20677608

The Deepsquid's sensory organ evolves, now allowing it greater input, as well as additional oxygen absorption from the cold, oxygen-poor environment, which increases motor capability, making it less sedentary.

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>>20677552
Wow speckling took far longer than expected, this will be my last creature for the night.

Small infared absorbing speckles start appearing on the aquabeasts while this seems like ineffective camouflage on such a large animal in good lighting conditions, it renders it near invisible in the dimly lit and thermal lighting of the trenches.

>>20677875
Deepsquid confirmed for 80's hair metal guitarist.

Man I'm the guy that gave the slugs some love and sent them off on their leeching, complicated life cycling, jelly fish coraling ways, and I'm so proud of your guys q.q It's beautiful

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>>20678283

The Deepsquid evolves a strange new appendage, the Flying V, and proceeds to cause screaming throngs of Nenimees to throw their bras on stage.

>>20678366
It is rather beautiful, isn't it?

>>20678505
You just made my night. Anonymous delivers.

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>>20676207
a larger shock organ is housed in the stomach, growing in the fat layer. The fatter the shark, the more successful the predator. this is a feature that attracts fit mates to each other.

>>20679956
Thanks, ng, think you could post your MSPaint Tutorial here for posterity? I'm sure there are some who'd find it edifying.

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>>20679146

Glad you like it.

>>20677875

The Deepsquid, ever searching for new prey with its new boundless energy, evolves a set of Jacobson's Organ-like orifices on two of its free tentacles to search crevasses for likely eats.

Well, Fortunates, it's time for bed, Keep the thread bumped for me and I shall return in the morning. Hopefully the thread remains when I awaken.

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>>20675516

im going to be honest. i have no idea what the fuck i just did. but it seems to have become serpentine.

>>20680603
a writhing pack of piranha-like snakes? i think you've created my worst nightmare, namefag.

>>20680603
You... gave it a beard.

bumpan

SHABADOOBIE POST TO BUMPAN

>captcha: embarrassed Doopeak

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Hey guys. First time poster. Here goes.

>>20679956

As the shock organ of the Abyssal Raveshark evolves so does their ability to sense electrical pulses in the water. This soon leads to the development of bands of emitters protruding from the skin of the Raveshark along the primary fins and tail. Each band of emitters is able to release electrical pulses of varying strength resulting in simple communication between the sharks. With this increased communication comes an increased ease of locating a mate.

This mutation replaces the current Abyssal Raveshark.

Hallelujah, the thread lives! If only I had time to participate today!

>>20683781
You're off to a great start, welcome, hope you enjoy!

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>>20677290

Aimlessly drifting is all well and good when you're a massive plankton-hoover, but what do you do when there's no plankton around? You go find more.
The redundant central fin of the Finleech has become sensitive to chemical stimuli produced by mass quantites of plankton and gives the Finleech a fighting chance at locating food.
They steer by shutting off the jets on one side of their "mouth", a cumbersome method of turning with a very large turning circle, though in the great distances they travel it does the job.

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>>20678182
Its good for prey to be unable to see you, but how will you find a mate? Aquabeasts evolve to resolve this, and another issue

The horns on the sides of their faces now sweep backwards, creating less drag, and serving an important purpose. They can now be vibrated, putting out low frequency sounds that travel for miles, allowing Aquabeasts to communicate, and let members of the other gender know where they are

Are we allowed to go way back to split something before another mutation happened?

Absolutely

rolled 71 = 71

>>20683544

Lupachi magic, touch to go!
Lupachi magic, touch to go!

UNICORN!...Please!

Gorramit, I am screencapping that "are you a wizard?" shot...

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>>20675444
Another linage of abyssal ravedragons take a different approach to finding prey. Their eye adapts to the dark, becoming larger and more sensitive.

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>>20677644

The chompacle becomes more streamlined in order to swim faster. The new fins also make it more agile in water.

ARE YOU NOT PLEASED?! up next, blindness, social dynamics, and salt crystals.

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>>20680603
This guy right here. I like him.

This creature, now known as the Shadesnake, loses some of its rear fins, becoming more streamlined, so that its new strategy of ambush isn't, litterally, dragged down by those fins

>>20686648
Fuck yeah Nad, that Chompacle looks really great.

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>>20677758
The Tentalor evolves a new way of feeding itself, by advancing the symbiotic relationship further with its host. After replacing a host's tentacle, and the establishment of the neural interface, the Tentalor looses its feeding needle, instead it develops an organ, which functions as a placenta like structure, feeding the creature directly from the bloodstream and ensuring better chemical synchronization.

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>>20686648
I am a happy GM. Hooray.

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>>20680056
Choosing to wait, instead of searching and attacking their prey, few Deepsquids began evolving different kind of features to follow their new life style of hiding beneath the bottom of the sea, inside small caves or around dull, huge rocks. Such changes split the new organism of Pentmollusk from it’s, now, cousin – Deepsquid. The color of their skin became duller and much darker, allowing mollusks to hide and blend among the terrain. Tentacles grew longer and much thinner than such of Deepsquid, in order to make them a fast and deadly trap.

Fortune bump

Another bump. I'm going to bed after this, do try to keep it bumped for me, Fortunates, good night.

Bump.

I will bump again, can't draw because I'm curently at work.

If evo does not happen...i will. each one of these creatures has untapped potential.

Another bump.

>>20695056
Please do, all these bumps and no evolution is rather embarrassing. Heads up, Fortunates, I'll be gone all this weekend. Since I'm on the West Hemisphere, today's Wednesday, for point of reference.

>>20676372
>>20677097
>>20684935
Text only update.

Not all of the Finleeches took to mobility. Some of them, taking advantage of the feasts near undersea vents, decided to stay immobile. When their parents died, the young found that growing to great sizes was achievable, due to the sediment, enriched by mummy 'n daddy's corpses. Talk about a dedicated parent, right?

Anyway, the Finleeches of this lineage become as trees, a secluded grove in the dark, a forest of night at the bottom of the sea.

Figured this planet could do with a weird, alien, ecosystem.

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>>20684935

Redraw and slight name change to differeniate the Finlych from its rooted cousins.

>>20698205
actually i was just gonna end up callin' 'em leech-trees or fin-trees, but that name looks cool too. makes it seem more exotic.

>>20698251

Finlychs are the floating ones, not the trees.

>>20698300
I know, what I meant was that you didn't need to change the name or anything, but seeing as you did, I like the name you came up with better.

>>20698409

Ah, gotcha. Couldn't hurt to change the trees as well though, considering they're no longer leeches either.

>>20698409
>>20698437
Whatever name either of you comes up with is fine by me.

>>20698251
>>20698437
>>20700127
I'm going with fin trees.

>>20700498
Works for me. We're still, here Fortunates.

>>20703545
You know what its time for fortune? AN EVENT

>>20703805
Oh my!

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>>20704115
You don't want that... you really don't. Moooohwahahaha!

bumb

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>>20687447
>>20686477
>>20683781

the electrical abyssal raveshark has gotten a little more streamlined, and fatty. Schooling with other Stun tunas it will surround larger prey or even schools of shade snakes and stun them to death.

The abyssal rave shark has continued to stubbornly hold onto eyes, developing a strong sense of sight in the dark. it looks so darn cute too, and part of its skull is used for ramming other creatures into unconsciousness.

The shadesnake has developed a keen sense of "hearing" or vibrational sense.

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>>20685906

Larger, faster, more powerful. The Aquabeast is descendent of the demolisher lineage. This means it stores ATP in its fat, and has "burst" energy for long periods of time. The vascular system of the creature has essentially a thin gravy for blood, a mixture of plasma, blood cells, and cholesterol. The cholesterol is kept into micro beads by a special enzyme, then serves to trap oxygen. This means the creature has a massive reserve of 02 at its disposal. Thick and simple blood vessels allow it to operate at an incredibly high blood pressure. Not terribly smart or graceful, it evolves towards becoming an apex solitary predator. tl/dr - the rape sub has no reverse thrust.

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>>20676317
>>20677556

I think now all the creatures have gotten some love that were left behind.


The vent slug exposes its mouth. its been there all along. honest. but now it will cling to rocks better, and slurp away with its quad cups. might even take the occasional chunk of meat off some carrion.

The stinger has developed a more complex series of...stingers...to...sting..with. they are quite attractive to smaller fish, looking like a safe haven.

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>>20707030
With the rapid growth of population, every single stinger tries to stay competent in never ending challenge for surviving and some, soon, develop the ability to produce luciferin. Rising from the bottom, literally, those creatures are now able to mix their new chemical with oxygen to sustain light, glowing like no other creature in the Abyss.

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>>20706864
Proving its title as the "predator among predators", new specie of Demolisher soon evolves an even bigger back flipper, razor sharp bones shoving themselves through the beasts' flesh, allowing him to gorge and kill predators that were once "on his tail".

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>>20706614
The small horn of Abyssal Raveshark grows bigger yet become even duller, allowing it to taunt, ramp and stun their preys more effectively.

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>>20706614
the stun tuna's tail gets stubbier and thicker.

>>20706614
> dem eyes
Ohmuhgawd, you gaiz, I can see foreverrrrr!

Stun Tuna? I like it.

>>20707815
Hmm, what advantage does the stubbier tail provide? Does that let it swim faster? (I'm genuinely asking, I'm no icthyologist.)

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>>20677061
Nenimee soon evolves few primitive examples of prickly cacti-like spikes around its eye to sting its predators. It's not much, but it's a start.

>>20707748
someone needs to stick some squid jets on that sucker and call it a day. jellyfish to octopus.

>>20707961
Do it.

>>20707815
I'll attempt to come up with some fluff for the change.

With a shorter body comes a more concentrated blast of electricity. As the Demolisher Aqua Beast becomes a more prominent predator shorter Stun Tuna are able to defend themselves more effectively, leading to a bias towards shorter more compact bodies within the breeding population.

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My first go at this I hope its not bad.

>>20707030

Since becoming bigger and more colorful the Vent Slug is a much bigger target for predators, it has started to develop thick scales along its back for defense.

>>20708572
It's not bad at all. Welcome, Anon, hope you enjoy your stay.

>>20708320
Interesting. By the way, the name Demolisher comes from one of the Aquabeast's ancestors, a land-dwelling predator that thrived during Fortune's ToS Era.

Can't submit pics since I'm on my phone, but a bump so this'll be here when I get back home.

>>20708606
I'm new here, so I was wondering...why don't you evolve those creatures too? Or you are only to start and obveserve then? Curiosity.

>>20709715
The OP usually just watches and gives the occasional event in these type of threads.

>>20709715
Because this isn't my world, it's yours. The players'. I feel that the role of GM and the role of players is inherently separate. Consider it a design/game philosophy.

Less esoterically, much of the fun for me is just seeing what crazy stuff people come up with.

>>20708572

The Vent Slug's massive size makes it difficult to crawl around. It begins to use it mouths to drag it around, growing its "gums" into separate appendages, eventually culminating in a number of legs developed from its large outer jaw.

A cluster of vents will often house a large herd of Slugs, moving around their "pasture" and grazing on whatever plankton and detritus they can find, like strange, alien cattle. They do not go far from the vents, gaining much of their nutrition from their symbiotic bacteria - however, when a significant food source like an entire corpse appears, it is not uncommon to see countless Vent Slugs swarm around it, picking it apart in a matter of minutes. They will use their extreme environment to stay safe from predators, drawing closer to the vents when approached.

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>>20712853
Derp

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>>20706614
The Shadowsnake gains larger tail fins, to make better use of every stroke of its tail