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Description
Pgastrode - Small soft-bodied worm. Uses a weak matter transmission ability to ingest humus from loam and decaying leaf matter. Must remain moist to survive, using loose leaf cover also as protection.

Solide - Larger and more aggressive than pgastrode, solide has developed a rudimentary foot wedge which it uses in conjunction with its coiling body to bury itself in the soil. It remains buried, using transmission to feed on detritus close to the surface, and moves only when it has exhausted locally available nutrients.

Leaflitter - Native to higher altitudes than the closely-related solide, the seemingly vulnerable leaflitter's skin has become more permeable to allow some absorption of minerals and water directly through the skin. Due to this, it remains buried nearly half a meter year-round as a protection against the elements. Due to sparsity of food, its matter-transmission ability has nearly doubled in strength and range, allowing it to break down the tougher high-altitude plants and lichen.

Glasstrowel - Digs through earth just below permafrost with a hardened facial trowel. A thick leathery coat and insulating layer of blubber protect it against the cold. It absorbs some water & minerals through crude specialized pores along its lateral line. Surprisingly active despite its cold environment, it uses matter transmission almost constantly to obtain the necessary nutrients from the vegetation above.

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Obsidian Glasstrowel - Obsidian glasstrowels have moved above ground, unable to procure food from sparse vegetation with limited mobility. Growing to a much larger size, it withers vegetation in its path, draining any available plant of all nutrient and making the environment nearly unsuitable for any other life form. Aided by thick blubber to protect it from the cold, it occasionally forays into water to consume hard to reach kelp or aquatic weeds, but is a poor swimmer.

Icedelver - Icedelvers are found mainly in arctic seas and feed primarily on kelp. They spend nearly all of their lives underwater, never surfacing to breathe. Slow though agile swimmers and largely restricted to water, they are still small enough to move clumsily on land in a snakelike fashion. Kelp is apparently difficult for them to ingest and they become territorial of local kelp beds.

Poisonlace - Feeds on rot and decaying leaf matter on on the forest floor by matter transmission. Ingests a toxic fungus with the leaves and secretes most of the poison through its skin, but also largely lethargic as a result of the toxicity. Hides in tree roots during the day & ventures out at night to keep other poisonlaces out of its territory.

Snotty Peel - Snotty peels have developed a taste for meat which supplements their vegetable diet and allows them to become more agile. They especially predate the closely-related poisonlaces and retain poisonous qualities. In addition, they are better able to excrete the poison through their outer membrane using a kind of mucus covering which also helps keep them moist when not buried in leaves. Prowling their territory more boldly, they occasionally foray into the trees but climbing is slightly difficult. Yellow banding has expanded to cover nearly all of its upper body, making the more appealing & eye-catching red less of an invitation to predators.

Leafy Peel - Faster and more vicious than the snotty peel, leafy peels are a closely-related derivation and have evolved small tines that allow them a better ambulatory grip both on ground an in trees. The poisonous mucous layer over the skin has become more concentrated in areas , slick on the bottom and gummy in spots, allowing fallen foliage to stick to it while retaining mobility. They also have a series of fleshy growths that act as camouflage together with coloration. These growths are shed regularly, similar to foliage, and change coloration with the season to match adhering fallen leaves.

Treacle Snake - Swarthy and aggressive, the treacle snake, though closely derived from the leafy peel, has adapted several of its tines into striking claws to assist in bringing down fast prey. It is significantly larger and better armored than the leafy peel, having developed a layer of dermal armor deriving from hardened layers of fleshy growth and accumulated bark with it adheres to itself with a gummy secretion that hardens quickly on contact with air.

Pocket Snake - A forest predator derived from treacle snake stock, pocket snakes have evolved a small basket-like pouch on top of their head, structured from interlocking leafy armor plates. They use this to carry and store meat for a short time, enabling them to subsist totally on meat even when it is hard to find. As a result, they can put on bursts of speed when chasing prey. The rotting meat on their heads also attracts opportunists which the pocket snake eats also, when it can catch them. It primarily is found on the ground though will on rare occasions act as an ambush predator.

Gumsponge - Though dangerous enough animals in their own right, gumsponges spend most of their adult life in shallow torpor, relying primarily on body armor to defend them. They form colonies and can often be found growing interlinked, plantlike, forming small thickets of dense keratin-like mass that becomes a safe-haven for their more mobile and self-sufficient young. Hard to awaken, short of physically harming them, gumsponges will react violently to predators, though they have reverted to a herbivorous lifestyle. Vegetation grows more easily within sheltered clusters of gumsponges, forming a kind of proto-agriculture on which the gumsponges subsist. Seasonally, they will become active and migrate, revealing their wormlike body structure.

Spiny Cushion - Almost totally immobile, spiny cushions thick armor plates become porous along their outer surface, encouraging drought-resistant plants, mosses, and lichens to grow on its surface in a thin covering. Their arm spines serve mainly to ward off small browsers and birds that would eat their vegetable coverings, and will wave occasionally as if in wind. They extend their snakelike tail below ground, keeping their body as cool as possible.

Polarstern - A mesopelagic creature largely confined to arctic regions, Polarstern's main differentiation from Icedelver is a dietary conversion to mostly of plankton and the occasional floating kelp mass. Territorial and solitary, it spends much of its time floating near the surface, using matter transmission to slowly clear the water around it of organic matter, moving on only when it has exhausted local resources. This creature has also been known to eat mud and even to corrode metal surfaces.

Bettawhale - An extremely aggressive creature, bettawhales have an elongated facial crest which is used for ramming. Due to a more streamlined body shape and more powerful fins, it can swim more quickly and charge more effectively.

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Description
Pgastrode - Small soft-bodied worm. Uses a weak matter transmission ability to ingest humus from loam and decaying leaf matter. Must remain moist to survive, using loose leaf cover also as protection.

Solide - Larger and more aggressive than pgastrode, solide has developed a rudimentary foot wedge which it uses in conjunction with its coiling body to bury itself in the soil. It remains buried, using transmission to feed on detritus close to the surface, and moves only when it has exhausted locally available nutrients.

Leaflitter - Native to higher altitudes than the closely-related solide, the seemingly vulnerable leaflitter's skin has become more permeable to allow some absorption of minerals and water directly through the skin. Due to this, it remains buried nearly half a meter year-round as a protection against the elements. Due to sparsity of food, its matter-transmission ability has nearly doubled in strength and range, allowing it to break down the tougher high-altitude plants and lichen.

Glasstrowel - Digs through earth just below permafrost with a hardened facial trowel. A thick leathery coat and insulating layer of blubber protect it against the cold. It absorbs some water & minerals through crude specialized pores along its lateral line. Surprisingly active despite its cold environment, it uses matter transmission almost constantly to obtain the necessary nutrients from the vegetation above.

Updated:
Obsidian Glasstrowel - Obsidian glasstrowels have moved above ground, unable to procure food from sparse vegetation with limited mobility. Growing to a much larger size, it withers vegetation in its path, draining any available plant of all nutrient and making the environment nearly unsuitable for any other life form. Aided by thick blubber to protect it from the cold, it occasionally forays into water to consume hard to reach kelp or aquatic weeds, but is a poor swimmer.

Icedelver - Icedelvers are found mainly in arctic seas and feed primarily on kelp. They spend nearly all of their lives underwater, never surfacing to breathe. Slow though agile swimmers and largely restricted to water, they are still small enough to move clumsily on land in a snakelike fashion. Kelp is apparently difficult for them to ingest and they become territorial of local kelp beds.

Poisonlace - Feeds on rot and decaying leaf matter on on the forest floor by matter transmission. Ingests a toxic fungus with the leaves and secretes most of the poison through its skin, but also largely lethargic as a result of the toxicity. Hides in tree roots during the day & ventures out at night to keep other poisonlaces out of its territory.

Snotty Peel - Snotty peels have developed a taste for meat which supplements their vegetable diet and allows them to become more agile. They especially predate the closely-related poisonlaces and retain poisonous qualities. In addition, they are better able to excrete the poison through their outer membrane using a kind of mucus covering which also helps keep them moist when not buried in leaves. Prowling their territory more boldly, they occasionally foray into the trees but climbing is slightly difficult. Yellow banding has expanded to cover nearly all of its upper body, making the more appealing & eye-catching red less of an invitation to predators.

Leafy Peel - Faster and more vicious than the snotty peel, leafy peels are a closely-related derivation and have evolved small tines that allow them a better ambulatory grip both on ground an in trees. The poisonous mucous layer over the skin has become more concentrated in areas , slick on the bottom and gummy in spots, allowing fallen foliage to stick to it while retaining mobility. They also have a series of fleshy growths that act as camouflage together with coloration. These growths are shed regularly, similar to foliage, and change coloration with the season to match adhering fallen leaves.

Treacle Snake - Swarthy and aggressive, the treacle snake, though closely derived from the leafy peel, has adapted several of its tines into striking claws to assist in bringing down fast prey. It is significantly larger and better armored than the leafy peel, having developed a layer of dermal armor deriving from hardened layers of fleshy growth and accumulated bark with it adheres to itself with a gummy secretion that hardens quickly on contact with air.

Pocket Snake - A forest predator derived from treacle snake stock, pocket snakes have evolved a small basket-like pouch on top of their head, structured from interlocking leafy armor plates. They use this to carry and store meat for a short time, enabling them to subsist totally on meat even when it is hard to find. As a result, they can put on bursts of speed when chasing prey. The rotting meat on their heads also attracts opportunists which the pocket snake eats also, when it can catch them. It primarily is found on the ground though will on rare occasions act as an ambush predator.

Gumsponge - Though dangerous enough animals in their own right, gumsponges spend most of their adult life in shallow torpor, relying primarily on body armor to defend them. They form colonies and can often be found growing interlinked, plantlike, forming small thickets of dense keratin-like mass that becomes a safe-haven for their more mobile and self-sufficient young. Hard to awaken, short of physically harming them, gumsponges will react violently to predators, though they have reverted to a herbivorous lifestyle. Vegetation grows more easily within sheltered clusters of gumsponges, forming a kind of proto-agriculture on which the gumsponges subsist. Seasonally, they will become active and migrate, revealing their wormlike body structure.

Spiny Cushion - Almost totally immobile, spiny cushions thick armor plates become porous along their outer surface, encouraging drought-resistant plants, mosses, and lichens to grow on its surface in a thin covering. Their arm spines serve mainly to ward off small browsers and birds that would eat their vegetable coverings, and will wave occasionally as if in wind. They extend their snakelike tail below ground, keeping their body as cool as possible.

Polarstern - A mesopelagic creature largely confined to arctic regions, Polarstern's main differentiation from Icedelver is a dietary conversion to mostly of plankton and the occasional floating kelp mass. Territorial and solitary, it spends much of its time floating near the surface, using matter transmission to slowly clear the water around it of organic matter, moving on only when it has exhausted local resources. This creature has also been known to eat mud and even to corrode metal surfaces.

Bettawhale - An extremely aggressive creature, bettawhales have an elongated facial crest which is used for ramming. Due to a more streamlined body shape and more powerful fins, it can swim more quickly and charge more effectively.

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Playing Compevo against ! [link] & [link] Anyone can join in .. we've just had another player start! There are also challenges that you can start, and 1 standing challenge open, I believe.

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