Round 8 (
Round 7;
Round 9)
Event: I’ll wait till turn ten before unleashing hell, be sure you’re ready
stealthstylelSignal Agents: 4 = 4 | Worse than expected
Description: This species has developed agent receptors on its cell membrane as well as agents that bind to them. Basically, this allows different cells to talk to each other and to stop individual members from breaking off from the colony, effectively creating a single, albeit large, organism. The problem with this, however, was that the survival of this species was based almost entirely on those few cells that managed to break off and find food. The rest of the colony has absolutely no way of moving about (no flagellum anymore), and the randomly contracting cells don’t do much other than spend precious ATP. To make matters even worse, even if this cell could move, it would have no way of absorbing the food—this species’ ancestors swam around injecting everything in their path with a toxic agent that caused the membrane to rupture and the compounds could then be easily absorbed through the membrane, but now that this is a static, multicellular organism, it no longer has the necessary degree of precision to strike something with its pili. I give this species two turns max unless a miracle happens (or a super evolution).
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Predatory Pilus
Fully Multicellular
Muscles (randomly contract; cells differentiate with a 50-50 chance)
Conservation Status:
EN
bigyihsuanLow-pressure tolerance: 2 + 2 = 4 | Worse than expected
Description: This species has developed the ability to tolerate low pressures by modifying its membrane. Unfortunately, this species lives in a very-very high pressure environment, or it lived there. Because it kept exploding this species was forced to migrate to the top of the ocean where there was not a lot of food—the only species living there is on the verge of extinction. On the bright side, if you drive redwatt’s species extinct you will get a prize!
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Flagellum
Lysosomes
Phagocytosis
Cellular eye
Conservation Status:
EN
mitoboxPhloem: 3 = 3 | No effect
Description: Dang, this sucks; I was looking forward to writing your phloem description.
Past Adaptations:
Vacuole
Thermoplast
Mitochondrial lysosomes
Cell wall
Multicellular (no signal agents)
Conservation Status:
NT
atroxChemotaxis: 1 + 2 = 3 | No effect
Description: This species has not changed from its previous generations.
Past Adaptations:
Cilia
Vacuoles
Mitochondria
Fully multicellular
Lysosomes
Phagocytosis
Conservation Status:
NT
deandactylSignal Agents: 4 = 4 | Worse than expected
Description: This species has developed signal agents that allow for cell-to-cell communication, although the messages sent do not carry a whole lot of information at the moment. Nonetheless, with a newly opened niche (guess who opened it, looks at stealthstyle) this species has officially become the apex predator, capable of catching all and eating all but the fastest cells.
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Cillia
Phagocytosis
Lysosomes
Fully Multicellular
Conservation Status:
LC
redwatt50Reflect solar radiation: 4 + 2 + 2 = 8 | Super evolution!
Description: This species has managed to develop a protein that is integrated into its cell membrane that reflects almost all (expect green) solar radiation as well as any excess heat that is caused by lying in the sun all day. This has caused this species to look a dark purple color that covers parts of the ocean (with no signal agents, the cells in the colony often split apart from themselves by the waves). Sadly, this adaptation has not led this species to recovery as it is hunted to near extinction by an excellent predator that outnumbers it almost 10 to 1.
Past Adaptations:
Chloroplast
Mitochondria
Binding proteins (no signal agents)
Less dense
Low pressure tolerance
Conservation Status:
CR
zer100Cilia: 3 + 2 + 2 =7 | Better than expected
Description: This species has developed cilia that allow it to slowly move across the sea floor. This has given its population a huge boost, but sadly the niche this species wants to take over is already occupied by a bigger and in many ways more adapted predator.
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Vacuoles
Lysosomes
Phagocytosis
Multicellular (no signal agents)
Conservation Status:
EN (recovering)
theredtardisMulticellular: 4 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 9 | Better than expected (Gave you a +1 for being truthful)
Description: This species has developed both a binding protein and a signal agent that makes this species a true multicellular creature. However, like many others in the past, this species has had to forsake its flagellum, which had been its only form of movement. But this was not what drove this species extinct—this species died because it had a messed up enzyme that caused it membrane to EXPLODE, and it did absolutely nothing to fix it.
Past Adaptations:
Mitochondria
Phagocytosis
Lysosomes
Conservation Status:
EX (sorry about that, pick any species to branch off of, luckily there are plenty who made the exact same votes you did.)
Note how most of the players have the exact same adaptations. Also, did none of you notice that what happened to zer100 after he voted to become multicellular? You literally, did the exact same thing this turn.
Quests! or achievement, call them what you will. The first person to complete one of the things below gets to choose from:
1. 3 extra votes, usable at any time, utilizes normal dice rolling rules
2. One extra vote that is guaranteed a super evolution
3. The ability to make an extra vote on another players’ species (could be good or bad)
This is done to encourage friendly competition and an evolutionary arms race. Anyway, here they are:
First person to reach the land. To do this one will need to have low pressure tolerance, desiccation resistance, and some way to exchange gasses with the environment.
First person to get 5 senses. e.g. Sight, smell, touch, electroreception, magnetoreception, etc…
First person to purposefully drive another player extinct Could be as a result of over-exploitation or purposefully evolving to kill them.