Post by webster52402 on Jun 13, 2010 4:00:02 GMT
At long last, Anabasis is prepared. You all know the rules, now enjoy the fruits of my and my beloved's work: You have the latter to thank for the brilliant interactive map that is below.
swfcabin.com/open/1276396873
Creature Templates:
Name: Gnarl Root
Creator: None
Genes: Fungal Consumption x1, Water Retention x2, Spores x1
Description: A hardy, albeit unextraordinary fungus, the gnarl root is designed solely to exploit living on the shores to feast on the dying bodies of other organisms. It has a tightly bound, watertight skin that surrounds little white tangled groups of fungus, which clump together in small colonies.
Name: Verdant Algae
Creator: None
Genes: Photosynthesis x1, Green Color x1, Clumping Growth x1, Fast Reproduction x1
Description: A simple clumping green algae, this was the world's first plant and while plain, is largely responsible for our oxygen atmosphere and the ability to house life. Usually found at home on rock beds near the shores and covering moist stones that line the beaches of the continents and islands.
Name: Dull Algae
Creator: None
Genes: Photosynthesis x2, Pressure Resistance x1, Rock Adherence x1
Description: While not as common as its Verdant counterpart, this dull brown Algae lives in the deeper waters that the shallow-dwelling Algae cannot tolerate. It is often found sticking to the walls of trenches, or in particularly high-pressure valleys between underwater ridges. However, since it feeds off of photosynthesis like the Verdant Algae, it is incapable of living in the deepest parts of the trenches, where sunlight is scarce.
Name: Mouth Worm
Creator: None
Genes: Tube Body x1, Wriggling Motion x1, Filter Feeding x1, Fission Reproduction x1
Description: A simple, swimming feeder, the Mouth Worm lives until it is swelled to nearly twice its initial size, then splits along its middle in a process called fission to produce two offspring. Without any sort of respectable skin, the body of the Mouth Worm is mostly contained in a clear, water-based tube that is not unlike a cell wall. This of course makes it very fragile. Its filtration feeding is a simple one at best, consisting of a basic rounded mouth, and a small 'pouch' where scattered bits of dead algae/fungus will gather and decompose, feeding the Worm.
Name: Shell Feeder
Creator: None
Genes: Filter Feeding x1, Chitinous Shell x1, Swimming Sex Cells x1, Tentacle-Arm x1
Description: A simple, relatively stationary organism, the Shell Feeder filter feeds under the protection of its chitin shell until it is old enough to release its load of swimming sex cells, the effort of which causes it to die. It shell - naturally composed of sediment-like nutrients excreted from a blob-like pinkish body - is a deep black color. Beneath this shell, there is a simple mouth and 'pouch' very much like the Mouth Worm's, where filtered food digests.
Name: Cylinder Sponge
Creator: None
Genes: Filter Feeding x1, Budding x1, Large Size x1, Porous Body x1
Description: Tall, orange sponges that feed by filtering from the waves. They proliferate by budding at the nodes that affix them to the ground, slowly spreading outward. Occasionally you will see them gathered around underwater ridges, where the currents that surround them help feed massive colonies of sponges.
Name: Shallow Fan
Creator: None
Genes: Rubbery Stalk x1, Filter Feeding x1, Feathery Growths x1, Budding x1
Description: Gently blowing fans, these simple organisms sprout from the same node as their parent, and filter out essential nutrients with a unique feathery growth system. Though the fans themselves stand only a few inches tall even at the peaks of their lives, their 'fans' are nearly as long as the stalk itself, resulting in a curious waving effect when colonies of these fans are gathered. These are about as close to an underwater 'forest' as one gets this early in the planet's development.
Name: Algae Gut
Creator: None
Genes: Mouth Opening x1, Scraping Plate x1, Budding x1, Fast Reproduction x1
Description: Free-rolling organisms that scrape a tough, sandpaper-like plate against the bottom of the sea to free up bits of algae to consume. Reproduce by budding rapidly to counteract their short lifespans. These creatures, like the mouth worms, lack a skin, leaving them transparent and colorless. the only bit of color that an Algae Gut has, is their scraping plate, which is black like the Feeders' shells, being composed of roughly the same material.
Name: Branch Stalk
Creator: None
Genes: Branching Growth x1, Polyp Formation x1, Swimming Sex Cells x1, Filter Feeding x1
Description: Simple coral growths whose sex cells form polyps from which grow the new branches. Slow to grow, these creatures are the most long lived on the planet currently. However, they are also the rarest: These corals - which take on brilliant colors of the entirety of the spectrum, decided upon by the soil/rock's minerals they are on - are found only in certain parts of the world: Namely, in sheltered bays where there is plentiful filtration food. Here, they form up intricate coral reefs, sometimes extending several feet in height.
Name: Filter Tube
Creator: None
Genes: Filter Feeding x1, Horizontal Tubes x1, Stalks x1, Strong Stalks x1
Description: A tall growing, rare organism, the Filter Tube grows a unique horizontal tube through which flowing seawater is captured and nutrients are extracted. Several bud from the same node, continually replacing each other. These tubes are held on long stalks that hold the filter tube almost a foot off the ground: The tallest organism in the world, save for a Branch Stalk 'wall'. The tubes themselves are a light orange like the Cylinder Sponge, thought he stalks hold a Branch Stalk quality in that their color is decided by the minerals of the soil.
NOTE
Anyone who gives me a name for the planet that this takes place on, I will give a 'Gene Bonus' to. Subject to my own discretion of course, but I wanted to offer you all the opportunity to name where you'll be creating your little beings' lives...
swfcabin.com/open/1276396873
Creature Templates:
Name: Gnarl Root
Creator: None
Genes: Fungal Consumption x1, Water Retention x2, Spores x1
Description: A hardy, albeit unextraordinary fungus, the gnarl root is designed solely to exploit living on the shores to feast on the dying bodies of other organisms. It has a tightly bound, watertight skin that surrounds little white tangled groups of fungus, which clump together in small colonies.
Name: Verdant Algae
Creator: None
Genes: Photosynthesis x1, Green Color x1, Clumping Growth x1, Fast Reproduction x1
Description: A simple clumping green algae, this was the world's first plant and while plain, is largely responsible for our oxygen atmosphere and the ability to house life. Usually found at home on rock beds near the shores and covering moist stones that line the beaches of the continents and islands.
Name: Dull Algae
Creator: None
Genes: Photosynthesis x2, Pressure Resistance x1, Rock Adherence x1
Description: While not as common as its Verdant counterpart, this dull brown Algae lives in the deeper waters that the shallow-dwelling Algae cannot tolerate. It is often found sticking to the walls of trenches, or in particularly high-pressure valleys between underwater ridges. However, since it feeds off of photosynthesis like the Verdant Algae, it is incapable of living in the deepest parts of the trenches, where sunlight is scarce.
Name: Mouth Worm
Creator: None
Genes: Tube Body x1, Wriggling Motion x1, Filter Feeding x1, Fission Reproduction x1
Description: A simple, swimming feeder, the Mouth Worm lives until it is swelled to nearly twice its initial size, then splits along its middle in a process called fission to produce two offspring. Without any sort of respectable skin, the body of the Mouth Worm is mostly contained in a clear, water-based tube that is not unlike a cell wall. This of course makes it very fragile. Its filtration feeding is a simple one at best, consisting of a basic rounded mouth, and a small 'pouch' where scattered bits of dead algae/fungus will gather and decompose, feeding the Worm.
Name: Shell Feeder
Creator: None
Genes: Filter Feeding x1, Chitinous Shell x1, Swimming Sex Cells x1, Tentacle-Arm x1
Description: A simple, relatively stationary organism, the Shell Feeder filter feeds under the protection of its chitin shell until it is old enough to release its load of swimming sex cells, the effort of which causes it to die. It shell - naturally composed of sediment-like nutrients excreted from a blob-like pinkish body - is a deep black color. Beneath this shell, there is a simple mouth and 'pouch' very much like the Mouth Worm's, where filtered food digests.
Name: Cylinder Sponge
Creator: None
Genes: Filter Feeding x1, Budding x1, Large Size x1, Porous Body x1
Description: Tall, orange sponges that feed by filtering from the waves. They proliferate by budding at the nodes that affix them to the ground, slowly spreading outward. Occasionally you will see them gathered around underwater ridges, where the currents that surround them help feed massive colonies of sponges.
Name: Shallow Fan
Creator: None
Genes: Rubbery Stalk x1, Filter Feeding x1, Feathery Growths x1, Budding x1
Description: Gently blowing fans, these simple organisms sprout from the same node as their parent, and filter out essential nutrients with a unique feathery growth system. Though the fans themselves stand only a few inches tall even at the peaks of their lives, their 'fans' are nearly as long as the stalk itself, resulting in a curious waving effect when colonies of these fans are gathered. These are about as close to an underwater 'forest' as one gets this early in the planet's development.
Name: Algae Gut
Creator: None
Genes: Mouth Opening x1, Scraping Plate x1, Budding x1, Fast Reproduction x1
Description: Free-rolling organisms that scrape a tough, sandpaper-like plate against the bottom of the sea to free up bits of algae to consume. Reproduce by budding rapidly to counteract their short lifespans. These creatures, like the mouth worms, lack a skin, leaving them transparent and colorless. the only bit of color that an Algae Gut has, is their scraping plate, which is black like the Feeders' shells, being composed of roughly the same material.
Name: Branch Stalk
Creator: None
Genes: Branching Growth x1, Polyp Formation x1, Swimming Sex Cells x1, Filter Feeding x1
Description: Simple coral growths whose sex cells form polyps from which grow the new branches. Slow to grow, these creatures are the most long lived on the planet currently. However, they are also the rarest: These corals - which take on brilliant colors of the entirety of the spectrum, decided upon by the soil/rock's minerals they are on - are found only in certain parts of the world: Namely, in sheltered bays where there is plentiful filtration food. Here, they form up intricate coral reefs, sometimes extending several feet in height.
Name: Filter Tube
Creator: None
Genes: Filter Feeding x1, Horizontal Tubes x1, Stalks x1, Strong Stalks x1
Description: A tall growing, rare organism, the Filter Tube grows a unique horizontal tube through which flowing seawater is captured and nutrients are extracted. Several bud from the same node, continually replacing each other. These tubes are held on long stalks that hold the filter tube almost a foot off the ground: The tallest organism in the world, save for a Branch Stalk 'wall'. The tubes themselves are a light orange like the Cylinder Sponge, thought he stalks hold a Branch Stalk quality in that their color is decided by the minerals of the soil.
NOTE
Anyone who gives me a name for the planet that this takes place on, I will give a 'Gene Bonus' to. Subject to my own discretion of course, but I wanted to offer you all the opportunity to name where you'll be creating your little beings' lives...