Stenoceras

## Stenoceras ostrasomus

Latest Mutations: Lose Notochord, Beak

Stenoceras ostrasomus evolved from Leptotheca indens and is a herbivorous 'cephalopod' that cruises through the upper 50m of the temperate ocean grazing on algae with its hard beak, almost invulnerable living in its hard shell. Another difference from its ancestor is that it has no notochord.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Filter-Feeder

Diet: Algae

Size: 5cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 165 x 5/100 = 8.3NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 8.3 x 0.25 = 2.1NP per round (Needs to intake 2.1/0.7 = 3NP per round)/ 8.3 x 0.8 = 6.6NP

Characteristics: Adjustable Buoyancy. Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Intolerant of more than 50m deep. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5. Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5. Evolution 1. Filtration 2. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with cirri and put in beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front is the many thread-bearing cirri covered in suckers, followed by the circular mouth beneath a beak and chemoreceptors. It has a conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a narrow siphuncle. Blood vessels run all throughout the body and in these vessels is an antifreeze (xylomannan fatty acid and polysaccharide). It has a saccate metanephridium. It has sex-appropriate gonads. It has muscles across the body. It has a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning.

Castes/Phases: Sexes.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Beak (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +3 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater). Cirri w/ threads and suckers (7NP, +2 Filtration, +1 Viscosity).

Internal Features: Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Closed Circulatory System w/ Dorsal Vessel (17NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination, +Stimulus Response). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation).

Temporal Range: R. 221 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Tartarus

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Leptotheca indens

Classification: Leptothecainae (sf), Collodopodusidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Stenoceras australis

Latest Mutations: Bigger

Among the other Stenoceras, is this slightly larger species. It is a grazing cephalopod with a beak for prizing of algae and a conical shell for protection. It lives in the upper 50m of the temperate ocean around southern Tartarus.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Herbivore

Diet: Any fresh vegetation it can get.

Size: 7.5cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 169 x 7.5/100 = 12.7NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 12.7 x 0.25 = 3.2NP per round (Needs to intake 3.2/0.65 = 4.9NP per round)/ 12.7 x 0.7 = 8.9NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Plants, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 70% off). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri w/ threads (7NP, +1.5 Filtration, +1 Viscosity). Beak (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +3 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Closed Circulatory System w/ Dorsal Vessel (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 230 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Tartarus Coast

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Stenoceras ostrasomus

Classification:

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## Stenoceras ostrofolis

Latest Mutations: Bigger

Among the other Stenoceras, is this slightly larger species. It is a grazing cephalopod with a beak for prizing of algae and a conical shell for protection. It lives in the upper 50m of the temperate ocean around southern Tartarus.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Subpolar Temperate Ocean, Polar Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Herbivore

Diet: Any fresh vegetation it can get.

Size: 15cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 169 x 15/100 = 25.4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 25.4 x 0.25 = 6.3NP per round (Needs to intake 6.35/0.65 = 9.8NP per round)/ 25.4 x 0.7 = 17.8NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Plants, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 70% off). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri w/ threads (7NP, +1.5 Filtration, +1 Viscosity). Beak (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +3 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Closed Circulatory System w/ Dorsal Vessel (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 239 - Present (Atrobocean Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Tartarus Coast

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Stenoceras australis

Classification: Stenocerasinae (sf), Leptothecaidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Stenoceras venator**

Latest Mutations: Bigger, Carnivorous, Stronger Beak

This larger Stenoceras has become a predator, with a stronger beak for tackling defenses like scales. It only lives on the seafloor. It lives in the upper 50m of the temperate ocean around southern Tartarus.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 23cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 169 x 23/100 = 38.9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 38.9 x 0.25 = 9.7NP per round (Needs to intake 9.7/0.65 = 14.9NP per round)/ 38.9 x 0.7 = 27.3NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Meat, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 2. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 70% off). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri w/ threads (7NP, +1.5 Filtration, +1 Viscosity). Beak (5NP, +2 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +3 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Closed Circulatory System w/ Dorsal Vessel (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 253 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Tartarus Coast

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Stenoceras ostrofolis

Classification: Stenocerasinae (sf), Leptothecaidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Stenoceras edouardi**

Latest Mutations: Bigger, Stronger Beak, High Salinity Tolerance

This is a predatory cephalopod that lives in the tropical ocean off the west coast of Tartarus. It has a stronger beak than it's predecessor which means it can hunt even animals with a chitin exoskeleton.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Tropical Ocean (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 46cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 169 x 46/100 = 77.8NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 77.8 x 0.25 = 19.4NP per round (Needs to intake 19.4/0.65 = 29.8NP per round)/ 77.8 x 0.7 = 54.6NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 2 (see clearly 5m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Meat, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 3. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 70% off). Stamina 5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). UV Resistance 2. Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigmentation (2NP, +2 UV Resistance). Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri w/ threads (7NP, +1.5 Filtration, +1 Viscosity). Beak (5NP, +3 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +3 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +2 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Closed Circulatory System w/ Dorsal Vessel (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 264 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Western Tartarus

Lifespan: 1 year

Predecessor: Stenoceras venator

Classification: Stenocerasinae (sf), Leptothecaidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle

## **Stenoceras albus**

Latest Mutations: 4 = high capacity gills, 4 = sight, 1 = skin pigments that darken when exposed to light, so I have countershading weather sideways it upright, or even upsidedown

This Stenoceras has inherited a pigment problem that has left it pigmentless. This makes it a pure white colour and also leaves it without protection from UV light, a problem in the shallow water it inhabits. However, it does have more efficient gills than other Stenoceras and better eyesight.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean (Upper 50m)

Niche: Benthic Predator

Diet: Any fresh meat it can get.

Size: 23cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 167 x 23/100 = 38.4NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 38.4 x 0.25 = 9.6NP per round (Needs to intake 9.6/0.65 = 6.2NP per round)/ 38.4 x 0.75 = 28.8NP

Abilities: Anti-Freeze. Exothermic. Inflexible. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Solid Excretion. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 3 (detects chemicals 50m from mouth). Sight 3 (see clearly 50m on either side, monocular vision).

Stats: Buoyancy 0.5 (Adjustable). Coordination 2. Desiccation Resistance 1. Digestion 1.5 (100% Meat, Digests 65%). Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 2. Pierce Strength 2. Respiration 3.5 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration, 75% off). Stamina 5.5. Strength 1. Support 2. Swim Agility 0. Swim Speed 0. Toughness 0 (3 - Shell). Viscosity 1. Walk Speed -0.5.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Attack with beak. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the four thread and sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Shell (11NP, +3 Toughness, +1 Desiccation Resistance, +2 Support, -1 Buoyancy, -1 Swim Speed, -1 Swim Agility, -1 Walk Speed, +Inflexible, -Wriggling). Skin (3NP, +1 Immunity, +Barrier Immunity, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri w/ threads (7NP, +1.5 Filtration, +1 Viscosity). Beak (5NP, +2 Pierce Strength, -1 Filtration). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2NP, +3 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (11NP, +3 Sight, +Monocular Vision). Swivelling Hyponome (7NP, +1 Swim Agility, +0.5 Swim Speed, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, -Ram Ventilation, +Hyponome Boosting, +Only Works Underwater).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (1NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (4NP, +1.5 Respiration, +1.5 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation, +Only Works Underwater). Phragmocone (4NP, +1.5 Buoyancy, +Adjustable Buoyancy, +Intolerant of more than 50m deep). Closed Circulatory System w/ Dorsal Vessel (21NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Anti-Freeze Compound (2NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (11NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (7NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (7NP, +1 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (19NP, +1.5 Meat Digestion, +1.5 Veg Protein Digestion, +1 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (20NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 264 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Eastern Tartarus Coast

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Stenoceras venator

Classification: Stenocerasinae (sf), Leptothecaidae (f)

Discoverer: Deathwake

## **Stenoceras glabus**

Latest Mutations: Lose Threads, Stalks Can Be Retracted

As a herbivore, Stenoceras glabus had no need for the threads on it's tentacles that belie the filter-feeding past of this dynasty, which it has now lost. The cephalopod can also retract it's eyestalks into the protective conical shell.

Among the other Stenoceras, is this slightly larger species. It is a grazing cephalopod with a beak for prizing of algae and a conical shell for protection. It lives in the upper 50m of the temperate ocean around southern Tartarus.

Status: Unlisted

Habitat: Temperate Ocean

Niche: Benthic Herbivore

Diet: Any fresh vegetation it can get.

Size: 7.5cm (length - front to back)

Nutritional Need: 132.5 x 7.5/100 = 9.9NP

Food / Oxygen Requirement: 9.9 x 0.25 = 2.5NP per round (Needs to intake 2.5/0.7 = 3.6NP per round)/ 9.9 x 0.8 = 7.9NP

Abilities: Air Space. Anti-Freeze. Buoyancy. Exothermic. Large-Body Circulation. Liquid Excretion. Low Pressure Tolerance. Medium UV Resistance. Osmoconformer (Quite High Salinity). Permeable Skin. Subzero Metabolism.

Perception: Chemoreception 1.5. Sight 1.

Stats: Coordination 2. Digestion 1 (100% Plants, 70%). Desiccation Resistance 0.5. Dexterity 0.5. Evolution 1. Filtration 1.5. Immunity 1. Pierce Strength 1. Respiration 3 (Cutaneous Respiration, Stationary Respiration). Stamina 4.7. Strength 0.5. Support 0.5. Swim Agility -0.5. Swim Agility 0.3. Swim Speed 0.5. Toughness 3. Tunnelling 0.5. Walk Agility -0.5. Walk Speed 0.

Intelligence / Behaviour: 1. Hungry > Search for food. 2. Food > Filter with cirri. 3. Tired > Rest. 4. Pain > Swim away. 5. Maturity > Reproduce.

External Features: At the front are the four sucker-bearing cirri, followed by the beak over the mouth and chemoreceptors. It has a thick, conical shell on the back, made of calcite. This is secreted by the mantle, which is a layer on the skin. The skin contains red melanin pigmentation. A pair of camera eyes that focus by moving the lens but have a blind spot, sit on retractable stalks through holes in the shell. At the back of the shell is a hyponome, capable of swivelling.

Internal Features: Each cell contains lysozymes and piezolytes. The hyponome pumps water into the mantle cavity, which contains the six pairs of gills and the phragmocone with a wide siphuncle. The body has a circuit of blood vessels pumped by a dorsal vessel which pass the gills and saccate metanephridium, containing anti-freeze threitol sugar alcohol. It has gonads in the lower part of the body and muscles across the body. There is a stomach attached to the coiled intestine. From the ganglia in the head is a single, ventral nerve cord with nerves running off.

Reproduction: Sexual Reproduction. External Fertilization. 1,000 eggs per spawning. Tougher Eggs.

Castes/Phases: Sexes almost identical.

Locomotion: Active (20NP). Hyponome Boosting.

External Features: Medium Pigments (2.5NP, +Medium UV Resistance). Shell (10NP, +3 Toughness, +0.5 Desiccation Resistance, +0.5 Support, -0.5 Swim Speed, -0.5 Swim Agility, -0.5 Walk Speed, -0.5 Walk Agility). Skin (5NP, +0.5 Immunity, +1 Respiration, +0.5 Stamina, +Cutaneous Respiration, +Permeable Skin). Cirri (5NP, +0.5 Filtration, +0.5 Dexterity). Beak (5NP, +1 Pierce Strength). Mouth (0NP, +1 Filtration). Chemoreceptors (2.5NP, +1.5 Chemoreception). Camera Eye (5NP, +1 Sight). Swivelling Hyponome (5NP, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.3 Swim Agility, +1 Respiration, +0.2 Stamina, +Stationary Respiration, +Hyponome Boosting).

Internal Features: Lysozymes (2.5NP, +Subzero Metabolism). Piezolytes (2.5NP, +Low Pressure Tolerance). Gills (5NP, +1 Respiration, +1 Stamina, +Ram Ventilation). Phragmocone (5NP, +Buoyancy, +Air Space). Closed Circulatory System (10NP, +2 Stamina, +Large-Body Circulation). Dorsal Vessel (5NP, +1 Stamina). Anti-Freeze Compound (2.5NP, +Anti-Freeze). Nephridium (5NP, +Liquid Excretion). Gonads (5NP, +1 Evolution, +Sexual Reproduction, +Sexes, +External Fertilisation). Muscular System (10NP, +0.5 Strength, +0.5 Walk Speed, +0.5 Swim Speed, +0.5 Tunnelling, +Wriggling). Monogastric Digestive System (10NP, +1 Meat Digestion, +1 Veg Digestion, +0.5 Immunity, +Solid Excretion). Centralised Nervous System (10NP, +2 Coordination).

Temporal Range: R. 271 - Present (Samadaran Stage of the Oliverian)

Distribution: Southern Hemisphere

Lifespan: 2 years

Predecessor: Stenoceras australis

Classification: Stenocerasinae (sf), Leptothecaidae (f)

Discoverer: StealthStyle