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Dawn of Life [Always open to ALL]

Develop stronger cytoskeletal bonds.


Develop better chemoreceptors.


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan
 
Develop stronger cytoskeletal bonds.


Develop better chemoreceptors.


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek potential Mates
 
With improved cytoskeletal bonds, the Rizan now have a fully functioning cytoskeleton, capable of flexible reshaping and maneuvering of the cell membrane. This improvement allows the recently developed Rizan proto-tail to perform much better on a large scale, giving the Rizan one of the fastest speeds in the niche, unmatched in speed by most all other creatures. This allows them to pursue and catch nearly all prey on a regular basis, not only offsetting the energy cost of maintaining an improved cytoskeleton but also giving them a net increase in reproduction potential. In addition, the Rizan develop improved chemoreceptors, giving them more sensitivity to particulates within the media, allowing for further range detection of particulate source directions. This immediately allows the Rizan to better hunt their prey. Overall, the Rizan are experiencing a Population Boom.


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Mind: 4 [Multinucleus - signal communication between Rizan cells]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 2 [Can feel pressure, can distinguish extremely strong from extremely weak, but hard to tell precisely]


Chemoreception: 3 [Can detect the presence of particles and mostly identify from shape from M distance]


Photometabolism: 3 [All common reactions and some energy storage using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic multicellular mobility]


-- Control: Cytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Prototypic Tail


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Energy:


-- Acidic Denaturation [Most non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


-- Digestive Enzymes [simplistic reaction-based enzymes for minimizing energy use]


-- Nutrient Access Pores [Embedded in membrane, used for transporting nutrients]


-- Intercellular Vascularization [intercellular pathways that link cells together]


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Four):


[Any <verb> + <modifier> + <noun> formulaic actions]


Adaptation Choices (Any TWO):


Examples: IMPROVE optics, DEVELOP chemometabolism


Any TWO Improvements, Your choice!


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Please use the tabs above, 'Out of Character' section for discussion. This section is used ONLY for updates and votes. Thanks!


This voting cycle will end on Tuesday, October 20th.
 
Develop cilia


Develop more complex behavior/thinking (make them smarter :P )


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek potential Mates


hunt together
 
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Develop cilia


Improve tactile sensation


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek Potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan
 
Improve Mind, Improve Tactile


(GOTTA TECH OUT THAT MIND, SCRUBS)


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek Potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan


(Can anyone fill me in real quick on all of the actions available?)
 
The Rizan develop motile cilia, capable of slightly enhancing their tactile sensation, but more-so enhancing their ability to finely maneuver and reposition in their current media. This enhanced mobility allows the Rizan to more effectively pursue their prey, and gives their proto-typical tails more functionality. With their newfound wealth of energy, the Rizan choose to enhance their behavioral complexity, taking the first big step towards multicellular coordination. This development is, in a sense, an up-scaled version of the nucleus, spanning between the entire organism and communicating through the existing intercellular pathways via ion gradients. This change is a notable one, and allows the Rizan to not only perform another behavior, but also to more intelligently perform the behaviors they can already perform.


In an unrelated span of time, however, the predator species that had previously lain back on the Rizan due to the acidic trickiness, has now fully realized the energy potential of the Rizan and started hunting them fully. The Rizan is now a Prey species. The highly evolved creatures hunting the Rizan take advantage of their sharp chitin walls to lacerate through and pass right by the acidic membrane of the Rizan before eating them, cell by cell, from the inside out. As a result of this heavy predation, the Rizan population begins to fall.


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Mind: 5 [Nerve Bundles]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 2 [Can feel pressure, can distinguish extremely strong from extremely weak, but hard to tell precisely]


Chemoreception: 3 [Can detect the presence of particles and mostly identify from shape from M distance]


Photometabolism: 3 [All common reactions and some energy storage using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic multicellular mobility]


-- Control: Cytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Prototypic Tail


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Energy:


-- Acidic Denaturation [Most non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


-- Digestive Enzymes [simplistic reaction-based enzymes for minimizing energy use]


-- Nutrient Access Pores [Embedded in membrane, used for transporting nutrients]


-- Intercellular Vascularization [intercellular pathways that link cells together]


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Five):


[Any <verb> + <modifier> + <noun> formulaic actions]


Adaptation Choices (Any TWO):


Examples: IMPROVE optics, DEVELOP chemometabolism -> do not include the RESULT of an improvement- that is for Biology to decide.


Any TWO Improvements, Your choice!


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Please use the tabs above, 'Out of Character' section for discussion. This section is used ONLY for updates and votes. Thanks!


This voting cycle will end on Thursday, October 22nd.
 
IMPROVE 'SPEED' (??????)


(GOTTA GO FAST BEFORE YOU FUCKING DIEEEEE)


Improve self defense capabilities


(Changing to fit with other's decisions. FOR GREAT JUSTICE)


Run away from predators


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek Potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan
 
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Develop Epidermal Layer


Develop outer Chitin Layer


Stay in large groups for protection to gank predators.


If alone, flee to a group.


Flee from identifiable predators.
 
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Develop Epidermal Layer


Develop Outer Chitin Layer


Run away from predators


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek Potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan
 
Develop Epidermal Layer


Develop Outer Chitin Layer


Run away from predators


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek Potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan
 
Run away from predators


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek Potential Mates


Hunt with other Rizan


Develop keratin "spikes" for greater defense against these "parasites" (eating something from the inside out is a parasite D:)


develop epidermal layer
 
In this development cycle, the Rizan take their biggest step yet in specializing the cells that make up their multicellular nature, creating a single-cell layering on the surface of their body. These cells are the only ones exposed to the external environment, and specialize themselves, focusing the chitin development within the Rizan multicellular body onto the newly formed epidermal layer, creating a highly protective coating without straining energy development too much. These changes slow down the rate of predation immensely, as the Chitin heavy species that had previously been preying on the Rizan find themselves incapable of fully piercing the tough Rizan hide without multiple specimens working together. While simple in theory, the Rizan flee immediately when encountering the predators, thereby escaping almost any chance of predation. With nearly all sources of predation avoided for the time being, and energy requirements reduced slightly, the Rizan population skyrockets.


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Mind: 5 [Nerve Bundles]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 2 [Can feel pressure, can distinguish extremely strong from extremely weak, but hard to tell precisely]


Chemoreception: 3 [Can detect the presence of particles and mostly identify from shape from M distance]


Photometabolism: 3 [All common reactions and some energy storage using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic multicellular mobility]


-- Control: Cytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Prototypic Tail


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Epidermal Chitin Cell Layer


Energy:


-- Acidic Denaturation [Most non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


-- Digestive Enzymes [simplistic reaction-based enzymes for minimizing energy use]


-- Nutrient Access Pores [Embedded in membrane, used for transporting nutrients]


-- Intercellular Vascularization [intercellular pathways that link cells together]


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Five):


[Any <verb> + <modifier> + <noun> formulaic actions]


Adaptation Choices (Any THREE): Golden Update! - The actions of last generation allow the Rizan an extra Adaptation!


Examples: IMPROVE optics, DEVELOP chemometabolism -> do not include the RESULT of an improvement- that is for Biology to decide.


Any THREE Improvements, Your choice!


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Please use the tabs above, 'Out of Character' section for discussion. This section is used ONLY for updates and votes. Thanks!


This voting cycle will end on Saturday, October 24th.
 
Develop Scaled Chitin


Develop gastrovascular cavity


Improve tactile sensation


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek out potential mate


Hunt with other Rizan


Run away from predators
 
Develop Scaled Chitin


Develop gastrovascular cavity


Improve tactile sensation


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek out potential mate


Hunt with other Rizan


Run away from predators
 
Develop Scaled Chitin


Develop gastrovascular cavity


Improve tactile sensation


Go after all prey


Stay near sunlight


Seek out potential mate


Hunt with other Rizan


Run away from predators
 
Improve tactile sensation


Improve mobility


Improve optical sensation


hunt all prey


hunt with other Rizan


go away from sunlight


seek potential mates


(i don't know what else to do?)
 
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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Five):


Hunt with other Rizan


Stay away from sunlight


Seek mates


Hunt all prey


Run from predators


Adaptation Choices (Any THREE): Golden Update! - The actions of last generation allow the Rizan an extra Adaptation!


Improve Mind


Improve optics


Develop offensive spikes to improve offensive capibility
 
The Rizan develop scaled chitin to complement their recently developed epidermal layer, specializing the membrane production of epidermal cells to produce additional chitin which then layers ontop, slight overlaps producing a scaled pattern that seriously reinforces the defensive capability of the Rizan. While the advanced offensive chitin of the predatory species can still pierce the freshly-developed chitin defenses, it still makes things more difficult for the predatory creatures. The Rizan also improve their tactile sensation, transporting the surface signals sensed by the epidermal layer into the internal nerve bundles, allowing the multicellular Rizan to better distinguish both direction and force. As a third, special improvement triggered by their overwhelming and temporary population boom, the Rizan are able to develop a specialized area within the multicellular Rizan for digestive purposes, a gastrovascular cavity, which allows the Rizan to better concentrate the energy and resources spent on digestion, improving the energy produced and decreasing the energy spent.


Between all the different senses of the Rizan, there is an abrupt environmental change. The flow of inorganic particles from below, which had previously been a constant, has come to a stop almost entirely. The temperature of the surrounding media, more easily sensed from their newly improved tactile senses, decreases drastically. From above, the light source dims.


Despite all of these occurrences however, the Rizan stay strong and continue to flourish. Their various improvements allow them to weather these changes with minimal penalty.


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Mind: 5 [Nerve Bundles]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 3 [Can feel pressure, can distinguish direction and a decent range of variance]


Chemoreception: 3 [Can detect the presence of particles and mostly identify from shape from M distance]


Photometabolism: 3 [All common reactions and some energy storage using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic multicellular mobility]


-- Control: Cytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Prototypic Tail


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Epidermal Chitin Cell Layer


-- Scaled Chitin


Energy:


-- Acidic Denaturation [Most non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


-- Digestive Enzymes [simplistic reaction-based enzymes for minimizing energy use]


-- Nutrient Access Pores [Embedded in membrane, used for transporting nutrients]


-- Intercellular Vascularization [intercellular pathways that link cells together]


-- Gastrovascular Cavity


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Five):


[Any <verb> + <modifier> + <noun> formulaic actions]


Adaptation Choices (Any TWO):


Examples: IMPROVE optics, DEVELOP chemometabolism -> do not include the RESULT of an improvement- that is for Biology to decide.


Any TWO Improvements, Your choice!


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Please use the tabs above, 'Out of Character' section for discussion. This section is used ONLY for updates and votes. Thanks!


This voting cycle will end on Sunday, October 25th.
 
Behavioral Choices (Combine any Five):


Hunt with other Rizan


Seek mates


Hunt all prey


Stay away from predators


Adaptation Choices (Any TWO):


Develop new Energy production method


Improve Mind
 
Develope more complex central nervous center


Develop basic musculature


Hunt all prey


Seek mates


Run away from predators


Seek warmness


Hunt with other rizan
 
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Develop/improve energy storage (Develop fat (?) )


Develop basic musculature


Hunt all prey


Seek mates


Stay away from predators


Seek warmness


Run away from predators
 
Bobisdead123 said:
Develop/improve energy storage (Develop fat (?) )
Develop basic musculature


Hunt all prey


Seek mates


Stay away from predators


Seek warmness


Run away from predators
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(I believe basic energy storage for primitive cells was glycogen, which they use to this day in petty much all animal life.)
 
The Rizan, growing rapidly from their recent beneficial evolutionary adaptations, pursue the coveted improvements of the mind, giving them further potential mastery of the way their interact with the world around them. They choose to pursue warmth through the growing cold, following a sliver of a current and leaving behind their old niche. Over eons they travel, eventually reaching warmer media and thriving in their new environment. The warmth comes with a cost, however. There are many species gathered here, all seeming to follow the same rationale as the Rizan. Some of the predators are magnitudes larger than the Rizan themselves, multicellular monstrosities capable of devouring several Rizan at once. For now, however, these creatures avoid the Rizan as prey. The harsh scaled epidermal layer combined with the acidic internals make the Rizan an unsavory meal.


Even besides this, the Rizan have developed proto-musculature in the form of linked cells, stressed to their limits and capable of contracting to produce motion. These "muscles" are weak, but provide much more propulsion than most of the species in the new niche, and allow the Rizan easy pickings of the many smaller species. Between this and the warmer environment, the Rizan population continues to grow!


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Mind: 6 [Nerve Network]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 3 [Can feel pressure, can distinguish direction and a decent range of variance]


Chemoreception: 3 [Can detect the presence of particles and mostly identify from shape from M distance]


Photometabolism: 3 [All common reactions and some energy storage using radiation energy]


Mobility: [Multicellular mobility]


-- Control: Stressed Tissue Cells


-- Propulsion: Tail


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Epidermal Chitin Cell Layer


-- Scaled Chitin


Energy:


-- Acidic Denaturation [Most non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


-- Digestive Enzymes [simplistic reaction-based enzymes for minimizing energy use]


-- Nutrient Access Pores [Embedded in membrane, used for transporting nutrients]


-- Intercellular Vascularization [intercellular pathways that link cells together]


-- Gastrovascular Cavity


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Six):


[Any <verb> + <modifier> + <noun> formulaic actions]


Adaptation Choices (Any TWO):


Examples: IMPROVE optics, DEVELOP chemometabolism -> do not include the RESULT of an improvement- that is for Biology to decide.


Any TWO Improvements, Your choice!


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Please use the tabs above, 'Out of Character' section for discussion. This section is used ONLY for updates and votes. Thanks!


This voting cycle will end on Tuesday, October 27th.
 
Behavioral Choices (Combine any Six):


Hunt Prey


Hunt with other Rizan


Find mates


Stay in darkness


Adaptation Choices (Any TWO):


Improve Tactile


Improve optical
 
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