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The Bleen is a bottom-feeder with sensitive barbels and pseudo-eyes running along its back. Its fins and body are bulky with stores of fat that keep it warm when it's cold and fed when food is scarce.

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The Bleam is a filter feeder with a big head and long sticky tendrils that it uses to attach itself to objects while feeding in order to conserve energy.

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The Plimp comes from a family of photosynthesizers but, in order to adapt to life in the deep ocean, generates most of its energy via chemosynthesis in bulbous "lanterns" along its stem. These lanterns are warm to the touch and glow faintly.

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The Pleamp is a thick-stemmed, scaley plant with large nut-like seeds that are carried away from it by the currents when it comes time for them to germinate.

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The Schut is a small, spikey creature with four legs, two arms, and one rear pseudo limb that it uses to attach itself to plants as it feeds. It has rough skin and two rudimentary eyes on stalks.

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The Schutta is a muscular burrower that feeds primarily on Pleamp nuts. It has two eye stalks and a motion-sensitive band that stays above the ground even when the Schutta is burrowing.

You may now begin evolving! Remember: artistic ability is NOT a prerequisite for participation!

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I'll start with a review of the Scut line! Species that were used at the start of a thread are highlighted with red lines.

These were the easiest picks to make since there were two lineages that clearly got the most love. There were a lot of dead-ends here that were easy to rule out: I'm never going to pick a line that hasn't diverged much from the starting species.

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Next, we have the Plimp line!

The lantern plimp was chosen because it was well adapted to the colder and darker waters of era 3, while the pleamp was chosen because it's a named food source for the schutta (which I had already selected to survive).

It broke my heart not to bring any of the floating plonpes forward into this era, but they just weren't as well adapted to the environment.

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Finally, we have the Bleem line.

The fatty Bleen was an obvious choice when going into a colder era, but the second pick was harder. In the end, I chose the Bleam over the poisonous Bleenta because it fills a more unique niche. We have another small sharp species, but we do not have another filter feeder!

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>>5510340
The Stalkbanded Schutto has shifted their eye stalks further down their body, no longer capping the large, bulbous motion-sensitive organ. This allows a greater range of detection from the rudimentary organ, though not necessarily better detection, while also allowing the Schutto to see what the fuck it's doing while burrowing. The eyestalks, however, are much weaker, and the Schutto relies on its motion detector more often.

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>>5510338
The Scut has developed an additional spike around its mouth. This hollow, hypodermic appendage allows the creature to pry open nuts or pierce plants more easily in order to suck out their nutrients. In the rare instances in which it is used for self defense, it has been ineffective in piercing shells, but does penetrate blubber more readily and is adept and siphoning blood.

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>>5510334
The Plamp has pivoted from hard-shelled nuts to softer, juicier berries, which carry the same distinct bioluminescent chemicals. The berries are simultaneously spare batteries and enticing snacks that attract hungry organisms to aid in spreading the seed far and wide. The berries float upwards when detached, germinate in the sun, and gradually sink back to the bottom. Though the berries float, they do not reach the surface-- only high enough to ride tides and collect sunlight.

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>>5510325
The Bleep's fins have rotated ninety degrees along its body, shifting to the sides rather than the top and bottom. The Bleep has also shifted some of its pseudo-eyes along its stomach, in roughly symmetrical fashion. This has allowed for greater mobility and maneuverability, as the Bleep can wiggleswim in a eel-like fashion, allowing it to move in any given direction. Faster than its Bleen brothers, it continues to bottom-feed for scraps, but also occasionally goes after still-living plant matter or Schutta and Schut eggs. It has no offensive capabilities to attack directly, and instead attempts to bait the mothers forward before outmaneuvering and swimming above and behind into their nest.

Note: perspective is hard and I'm bad at art, so try to imagine that the fins and body folds match up. Also, if you're good at art, please do more than imagine, and redraw accordingly. Thank you.

>>5510334
It has grown slightly longer brown-thingies
maybe its trying to develop a valve system though some of itss stems(?) to slurp up some of the sweet succulent seawater to eat tiny plankton to make up for any ice blocked light deficit

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>>5510766
GAH fuck forgor image

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anybody here? no? ok ill evolve the uh Schutto
behold, the Long Schutto

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>>5510331
The Bleam has evolved long, thin tentacles that provide it with some sense directly in front of it, and also help to propel it through the water. On the end of each tentacle is a thicker part that can more easily stick to surfaces, if it ever needs to drag itself.

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>>5514891
the bleams thin tentacles grow stronger to anchor it firmly as it inches forwards

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>>5510340
Some individuals there diet became so extremely reliant on one food source that they started having trouble digesting anything else not agreeing with there system falling into a race of optimizing to eat these nuts as fast as possible before they sprout,
these heavy limbs forced there body to optimize towards moving in one direction with cephalization and even more bilateral symmetry

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>>5510334
simply shrinking all its surfaces and encased in insulating half dead tissue around the chemosynthesis organ taking up all the waste heat/light even channeling it into its roots to melt ice in waves along with limited motion making it "crawl" into the surface of the ice firmly latching them on even if its fragile and can break off the root itself, and heating up its leaves so they do not freeze

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>>5514907
add more little hairs.
they might turn into electro-receptors later

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>>5510611
bigger wings makes each beat slower as it can scoop more water making there movements faster with less movement

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>>5510325
Bean have started shifting towards Carangiform swimming creating thrust by rapidly moving the posterior third of the body the fatty cheeks on the side of its "head" helps directing the body towards food along with bending of the body, grappling on with stronger curved barbels with limited range of movement that grapple onto the food

>>5514885
It helps if you link to the post you're evolving from!
(>>5510598)

Do you guys mind if I play along?
I've been holding back from evolving anything myself so that you wouldn't think I have a bias in what survives, but it's been so slow this thread...

>>5516430
Go buckwild fella is my vote

>>5516430
go man, go!

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>>5514885
The Long Schutto has grown some hairs on it, to help it keep warm in the cold.

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>>5518102
>Schutto
The fuzzy Schutto grows thicker hair in some places.

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>>5510601
The Scut gets better at poking and slurping, focusing more on getting sap from soft plant tissues and blood from soft animals.

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>>5515594
The Bleam's front tendrils get better at gripping

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>>5516039
The Bleep's pseudo-eyes grow more sensitive and accurate, and another develops closer to the front in order to help the Bleep navigate during its new faster movements.

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>>5516045
A band of electroreceptors along the front of the Blean's head allows it to sense pray in the dark or underground

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>>5510768
Mmm, plankton pumps get extra protein

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>>5518574
The Electro Blean becomes fluorescent on its fins, becoming the Glowing Electro Blean.

Sorry i have not been doing anything currently away visiting people on my day off

>>5521102
Hey buddy don't even worry about it, evo games can go slow and that's chill

going to do evo stuff but you qm do you have the first thread i managed to save the second thread onto the archive

>>5525091
Nah man, sorry, I assumed it wouldn't be needed since I was putting the images into trees and there wasn't a "story" to follow like other quests. Should I archive this one?

>>5525179
we do it at like page 10 or 9 normally r when the qm declared the thread has ended

>>5525210
Okay cool I'll do that this time

>>5518592
All this thing needs now is zombies to shoot.
Plankton vs Anthropods spin-off when?

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>>5518548
Mendax Quadpod Unicorn Slurpscut repurposed further spikes into pseudo limbs latching onto the plant alternating with the other pair to inch forward in coporation with the legs and arms, but also allows it to keep hold of the stalk and arch its back stabbing outwards with its defensive spikes, even if the feeding tube tends to get stuck due to its angle

>>5525728
Be the change you want to see in the world, my man

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>>5525965
Right this fucking instant, boss.

>>5526030
Thanks, this fucks

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>>5519458
The Blean's fluorescent strips become able to change color, this is used for communication and attracting mates. As a consequence, the Blean's simple eyes become better at differentiating colors

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>>5518567
The Bleep have developed venomous barbs along their tendrils, which allow them to stun predators and protective egg-guarding parents.

>>5518548
Scut develop larger, stronger hindpincers, allowing them to grab and subdue prospective prey to siphon away their delicious juices. It also allows for a better grip on plant stalks.

>>5510605
Plamps have encased their stalks in sturdier, bark-like material previously only covering their bulbs. This retains heat and makes them more difficult to penetrate.

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>>5526720
Whoops

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>>5526724

any evo ideas i can draw for (you)

>>5530146
I dunno, but the Pleamp is deeply unloved in this thread and deserves an evo or two

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>>5526727
The Plamp develops shells that cover their glowing berries, only opening then the berries are fully mature and ready to be spread

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>>5526726
More pincers for gripping onto their much larger pray

>>5530396
well they seem well defended atleast the only plant with a hard seed or well having seeds

>>5530450
actually this is starting to remind me of hallucinogenia with those leg pincers and back spikes

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>>5510336
Parasitism gives nothing in the relationship, while not directly harming the host does indirectly harm by limiting energy that could be used for reproduction, so with there limited genetic toolbox without recessive genetics to pull upon pressure for a thicker skin cam natural resulting in a thicker skinned layered stem and bigger leafs ontop to collect more energy as well just a small bit more energy is the difference between life and death

>>5530396
just give me some plant traits you find or make up just random shit

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>>5530518
The thicker skin allows Pleamps that wash up on the edge of the water as seeds to grow outwards onto land. This protects them from creatures that would eat them, at least at low tide.

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>>5518574
body symmetry is quite strong in the blean genome resulting in some adaptations just being rehasing of other things this has turned to a advantage with the development of a lateral line and shorter fins on the underside to be closer to the bottom

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Hello everyone; we're halfway through the thread, which means it's time for a Big Tank Forecast!

Life in the oceans of the big tank will continue to get COLDER, DARKER, and SALTIER as the ice caps cover more of the surface. The six species best adapted to cope with these environmental factors are the most likely to survive into the next thread- Keep this in mind when evolving!

I just noticed my ID is different because I'm on vacation. Don't worry; I'm still me!

Here: an updated FORECAST image with a sneaky preview of the following thread's tank without any critters in it

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>>5537347

>>5537349
damn thats ice cold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

man. with these cold fronts, i think its time to to start living on the ice.

>>5541940
atleast living out in the sun and playing at the now rising beach but like damn its a steep fucking hill to reach flat ground

>>5542040
Just pretend it's not my man; the Tank is just a simplified image

>>5542040
i know what you mean but
>steep hill to reach flat ground
is a hilarious sentance

>>5542800
Works both ways up or throwing down.
Any ideas what i should draw.
Also qm dont need to redraw everything seems like extra work

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>>5526071
hunting is plentiful of ground and dirt dwellers so no need to go after plimp or plamp dewlling scut as often.
that does explain how the sack does not get punctured, but the how and why it does not, the sack is a sort of "shed" layer like a half independent layer or colony of its own cells forming a bubble around the body filled with a mix of gas and fluids that naturally filters oxygen in by osmosis from gas exhalations leaving the bubble, other then that it forms insulation of sorts against the cold saving its heat this does come with some downsides of drag and fragility........ but damn that sack and color communication is attractive just watch how it sensually obscures the profile how the internal color flecks just dance defying simple surface geometry.

other then sexual selection and insulation not having water rushing over its surface cool as much it gives natural buoyancy making it more energy efficient and generally makes it look bigger

>>5543620
It IS extra work, but it cleans up the inconsistencies in everyone's art styles and lets me make sure things are simplified and easier to add to, so I think it's worth it.

>>5544078
ahhh.. then i hope i am not giving you too much work with wacky changes

How is the survivors currently looking? Will it be more then six?

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Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>5518592
The Plump(?) has burrowed the bulb deep under the sand. As the the result, the core grew over time and began producing more heat, warming up the nearby area a little. The chemosynthesis changed over time, now producing a fluorescent substance that "powers" the plant.
t. >>5526030
I have a PhD in flora and plants, don't even question how any of this works.

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>>5518541
schutto just keeps getting fuzzier and larger a case of sea gigantism for the reason of more less surface to mass ratio making keeping warm easier basking around exothermic plamp/plump plants burying half there body inside the silt to soak up heat.
oh also the "fur"just happens to also form bristles over its mouth cavity helping keeping food in after being pushed in by its frontal toothed limbs

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>>5526713
>its so so cold
internal liquids has to become more inefficient to not freeze it balances out as cold waters can hold a much greater amount of oxygen but the cold still effects the metabolism quite harshly so its a dance to keep in some sensible middleground to not fall into a possible endless torpor as a chunk of organic ice waiting hundred of years to melt again if it does not shatter from the ice shifting and cracking.
but bonus this fella is looking sharp ramming into prey to tear into it in coordination with its stinging tendrils

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>>5530450
this is a chonker keeping more heat stored even if climbing is a bit harder but good thing water means being possible to keep near perfect neutral buoyancy

>>5548549
No, my plan is to only have six starters for each thread- two from each of the original lines. This is to keep me from going overboard on starters because I think a bunch of them look cool.

I can't promise that I won't break my own rule, but I'm going to try to stick with it.

>>5550577
i would break it just too keep distant branches alive one of the most things is seeing how unlike each other they have evolved.
also i would do exceptions just on plants to expand the ecosystem as they are the literal core or backbone of it opening more places for herbivores and thus predators

>>5550577
>>5550665
Maybe put any extra "distant" branches into one post and announce they are dead until proven otherwise (so they might reappear if they are needed in the future).

>>5550749
>>5549807
funny if its a species like this just surviving a deepfreeze for who knows how long just the caveman in icecube joke

>>5550749
Nessie situation where she is just a pleasiosaur family trapped in a lake or Sasquatch a human relative

>>5550749
This is a great idea; I just might

ill also throw my hat into "ill draw it for you" ring

>>5551498
I fully support this offer, but you should also have more faith in your own ideas anon

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>>5551507
i have faith i just dont feel like it yet. in the meantime have one of my ideas
The Tlump.
As a deterrent device, it has developed a very dilute toxin that it can emit into the surrounding seawater
it doesnt do much harm, but can deter anything trying to eat it

and if plant based toxin is too advanced, we might have to back a few steps.

>>5551498
>>5551522
DAMN NICE SQUIRTER good idea.
its like a aquaformer if it effects properties of the water

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>>5518559
well this is insane moving by the method of sling shoot the extension of the body just contracting slowly building up tension until it just lets go suddenly shooting the body forewards as it lays down its young, oh also redundant legs so it always can attack itself or rip itself of in the case of the lelgs freezing stuck

YO QM LETS NOT FORGET TO ARCHIVE THIS THREAD

>>5553434
Don't worry Anon I did it when we were on page 9

yo qm, maybe we should do era 4 now, we got some good evolution in this thread but i dont think we do much more

>>5555352
Ah just continuing on from this and doing the event in the middle of the thread somewhere?

>>5555598
yes

we have slowed down a bunch and are getting shoved to the end of the thread list

>>5555352
I'm working on it!
Lots of hard choices this time

>>5556092
so hard its taking 10 hours?

>>5556528
Well, I was also getting my dick sucked

Relax my man, people weren't bursting with evo ideas, you can wait a day for era 4. I promise I haven't forgotten about you guys.

>>5556528
you should know this is going at super speed for evothreads usually it takes months