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Dawn of Life [Always open to ALL]


The Rizan have a need for speed, it seems. Encouraged by the population improvement by going towards the familiar lightsource, the Rizan develop a more powerful flagella, allowing them to more rapidly accelerate and also achieve a more substantial top speed. While the energy cost of the flagella itself increases the amount of energy required to reproduce, the increased mobility both in pursuing prey and also in moving from point a to point b allows the Rizan to once again experience a net energy gain, but it seems with every step forward, the Rizan are forced to take another step back- the prey continue to move out of the niche, and while the Rizan are still stable, they still haven't yet reached a state of population growth yet.


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Mind: 3 [Nucleus]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 0 [Can feel nothing]


Chemoreception: 2 [Can detect the presence of particles and roughly identify from shape]


Photometabolism: 2 [Common reactions using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic cellular mobility]


-- Control: Protocytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Strengthened Flagella


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Digestion: Acidic Denaturation [Many non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Three):


Alpha) Stay still


Beta) Move randomly


Gamma-0) Pursue all detected cells


Gamma-1) Pursue small detected cells


Gamma-2) Pursue large detected cells


Gamma-3) Pursue similar detected cells


Delta-0) Avoid all detected cells


Delta-1) Avoid small detected cells


Delta-2) Avoid large detected cells


Delta-3) Avoid similar detected cells


Epsilon) Move closer to the light


Zeta) Move away from the light


Adaptation Choices:


A) Thicken chitin cell membrane layering


B) Adapt a thin layer of cilia


C) Thicken cytoskeletal bonds


D) Improve optical sensation


E) Specialize cell membrane for tactile sensation


F) Improve chemical sensation


G) Improve potential behavioral complexity


H) Improve photometabolism


I) Develop basic chemometabolism


J) Focus on increasing population


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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 6th. [unfortunately this will be the last update for today (for real this time), as I have a exam tomorrow. Sorry guys!]
 
[sorry for the late update. Exams.]


The Rizan, confounded by the sudden inexplicable lack of prey and their own declining population adapt a segmented submembranal organelle system, detecting pressure on the cell, allowing simply for the awareness of such pressure. There is a constant rippling pressure from far below, deep under the water. Anything else cannot be distinguished from this pressure. In effect, the adaptation is almost useless due to the constant pressure, and inability to distinguish the source. Were this not the case, this adaptation would also give the Rizan omnidirectional awareness, for knowing if something is touching an individual Rizan without having to refocus the eyespot.


In desperation, the Rizan begin hunting every species they encounter, even species that had previously been predators and take on erratic movements to get where they're trying to go. This unpredictable and ruthless behavior allows the Rizan to expand their pool of prey substantially, given that the only cells remaining in the area are large, amoeboid cells that float through the currents. While they're too large for the Rizan to engulf, the fledgling cells can use their acid to dissolve portions of the hunted cells membrane, sectioning off pieces to eat. They also continue to move closer to the lightsource, giving their rudimentary photometabolic organelle more opportunity for energy production. All-in-all, these changes allow the Rizan to not only stabilize their population once more, but return to a health rate of Population Growth.


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Mind: 3 [Nucleus]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


Tactile: 1 [Can feel pressure, but not distinguish force]


Chemoreception: 2 [Can detect the presence of particles and roughly identify from shape]


Photometabolism: 2 [Common reactions using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic cellular mobility]


-- Control: Protocytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Strengthened Flagella


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Digestion: Acidic Denaturation [Many non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Three):


Alpha) Stay still


Beta) Move randomly


Gamma-0) Pursue all detected cells


Gamma-1) Pursue small detected cells


Gamma-2) Pursue large detected cells


Gamma-3) Pursue similar detected cells


Delta-0) Avoid all detected cells


Delta-1) Avoid small detected cells


Delta-2) Avoid large detected cells


Delta-3) Avoid similar detected cells


Epsilon) Move closer to the light


Zeta) Move away from the light


Eta) Group Rizan cells together


Theta) Separate Rizan cells apart


Adaptation Choices:


A) Thicken chitin cell membrane layering


B) Adapt a thin layer of cilia


C) Thicken cytoskeletal bonds


D) Improve optical sensation


E) Improve tactile sensation


F) Improve chemical sensation


G) Improve potential behavioral complexity


H) Improve photometabolism


I) Develop basic chemometabolism


J) Focus on increasing population


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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 8th.
 
The Rizan surface, known only by the fact that going towards the light further is no longer possible, and liquid undulations frequently resubmerge the cellular Rizan. The media is rich with lifeforms, nearly all of them photometabolic and thickly grouped together. The few prey species that exist in this niche are extremely large and extremely dangerous, devouring huge chunks of photometabolic cells, and occasionally mixing in a few of the freshly arrived Rizan. The large cells seem to prefer the photometabolic cells for unknown reasons, for the moment.


Insofar as the predatory behavior of the Rizan themselves, the Rizan group together in large swarms, keeping some distance between them still but always remaining near their own particular groups, and engulfing swathes of the photometabolic prey cells. The Rizan also improve their tactile sensation even moreso, now able to note that the constant bubbling pressure from beneath is very weak- and the other, sudden and random pressures, are now understood to be strong media currents.


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Mind: 3 [Nucleus]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


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


Chemoreception: 2 [Can detect the presence of particles and roughly identify from shape]


Photometabolism: 2 [Common reactions using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic cellular mobility]


-- Control: Protocytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Strengthened Flagella


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Digestion: Acidic Denaturation [Many non-complex compounds can now be denatured]


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Three):


Alpha) Stay still


Beta) Move randomly


Gamma-0) Pursue all detected cells


Gamma-1) Pursue small detected cells


Gamma-2) Pursue large detected cells


Gamma-3) Pursue similar detected cells


Delta-0) Avoid all detected cells


Delta-1) Avoid small detected cells


Delta-2) Avoid large detected cells


Delta-3) Avoid similar detected cells


Epsilon) Move closer to the light


Zeta) Move away from the light


Eta) Group Rizan cells together further


Theta) Separate Rizan cells apart again


Adaptation Choices:


A) Thicken chitin cell membrane layering


B) Adapt a thin layer of cilia


C) Thicken cytoskeletal bonds


D) Improve optical sensation


E) Improve tactile sensation


F) Improve chemical sensation


G) Improve potential behavioral complexity


H) Improve photometabolism


I) Develop basic chemometabolism


J) Focus on increasing population


K) Develop membrane-embedded nutrient access pores


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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 10th.
 
In support of more efficient energy distribution, collection, and usage throughout the species, the Rizan develop membrane-embedded nutrient pores that are capable of both taking in and putting out nutrients. This allows them to more efficiently absorb nutrients of disabled prey.


They choose to pursue all prey still and group together in an even tighter formation, forming a pseudo-colony of cells, capable even of transferring energy as needed to the cells located in the center of the formation, but due to the loose nature of the 'pseudo' the cells rotate their positions, so cells in the center of the colony frequently reposition to the outside as the colony moves.


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Mind: 3 [Nucleus]


Optical: 3 [spheroid eyespot]


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


Chemoreception: 2 [Can detect the presence of particles and roughly identify from shape]


Photometabolism: 2 [Common reactions using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic cellular mobility]


-- Control: Protocytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Strengthened Flagella


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Digestion:


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


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


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Three):


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


ex: Pursue ALL prey, Move TOWARDS Light, etc


Adaptation Choices:


A) Thicken chitin cell membrane layering


B) Adapt a thin layer of cilia


C) Thicken cytoskeletal bonds


D) Improve optical sensation


E) Improve tactile sensation


F) Improve chemical sensation


G) Improve potential behavioral complexity


H) Improve photometabolism


I) Develop basic chemometabolism


J) Focus on increasing population


K) Develop basic permanent junctions between colony cells


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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 11th [Multivote Day!].
 
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The Rizan continue to adapt their behavioral complexity capacity in the face of new, unusual challenges that face them near the surface. Internally, the cells organelles remain the same, but as part of the surface of their nucleus and, through specialized channels on the membrane of the cells themselves, ion signalling allows a Rizan individual to signal their status to neighboring Rizan cells, giving the tight-nit colonies of cells the ability to react according to information that other cells within the colony have access to, without necessarily having that same information available to them.


This change, combined with their behavioral choice to hunt as a colony, allows the Rizan to better hunt, digest, and distribute acquired resources throughout the multitude of colonies floating near the surface. This rise to strength has not gone unnoticed by the predatory species located in the niche. While they had previously only been targeting the large, photometabolic cells that the Rizan prey on, the increased predation has caused a moderate amount of scarcity for these cells, and the predators start targeting the Rizan as well.


The population is still stable. The predators have thick, laceration-style chitin layering all around their membrane that can both cut through the membrane of a Rizan cell while seeming impervious to the Rizan's acidic defenses.


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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: 2 [Can detect the presence of particles and roughly identify from shape]


Photometabolism: 2 [Common reactions using radiation energy]


Mobility: [basic cellular mobility]


-- Control: Protocytoskeleton


-- Propulsion: Strengthened Flagella


Offense: Acidic Spray [Linked with digestion systems]


Defense:


-- Acidic Cell Membrane [Linked with digestion systems]


-- Chitin Cell Layering


Digestion:


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


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


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Behavioral Choices (Combine any Four):


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


Adaptation Choices:


A) Thicken chitin cell membrane layering


B) Adapt a thin layer of cilia


C) Thicken cytoskeletal bonds


D) Improve optical sensation


E) Improve tactile sensation


F) Improve chemical sensation


G) Improve potential behavioral complexity


H) Improve photometabolism


I) Develop basic chemometabolism


J) Focus on increasing population


K) Develop basic permanent junctions between colony cells


L) Player suggest? Remember to limit to ONE improvement. (This is a test addition, if things get too "unrealistic" or out of hand I'll drop this, but I thought it was worth a shot.)


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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 11th [Multivote Day!].
 
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