This isn't quite what the thread was intended for, because there is no possible way this could still be alive.
The Botryophis is an obligate parasite of the Tinsel Quillball. However, when the Tinsel Quillball went extinct, the Botryophis did not. It's still listed as living in Drake Steppe, and appears in the diet list of some upcoming submissions. Even if it could parasitize its ancestor's ancestor, which seems unlikely, its ancestor's ancestor doesn't live in Drake Steppe.
The Botryophis is an obligate parasite of the Tinsel Quillball. However, when the Tinsel Quillball went extinct, the Botryophis did not. It's still listed as living in Drake Steppe, and appears in the diet list of some upcoming submissions. Even if it could parasitize its ancestor's ancestor, which seems unlikely, its ancestor's ancestor doesn't live in Drake Steppe.
"Since the front pair of limbs are used to either dig up nutritious roots or to dig out nests,"
They don't use their limbs to pull up small flora like Sunstalks? I assumed they would, because they seem to have very small necks, if they have any neck at all. Do they only eat Sunstalks' tubers? If so, that would be useful to specify in the diet template.
"changing their sex if" Her sex if.
"determine that they would be a far better choice" She.
How would she determine this? Is it an automatic response to pheromones emitted by the leader declining over time? Or do female-hermaphrodite Dracalopes have conscious control of this, at least under certain conditions?
"to if an intruding male": "to that of an intruding male who has challenged him"
"will treat as" Will treat the.
It's pronounced "DRACK-uh-lope", right? I assumed it was a Dracula reference, not a "drake" (dragon) reference.
How big are the young when they emerge from the nests? This could be a useful detail for potential predatory fauna submissions.
Botryrophises should be extinct: they are obligate parasites, and their only listed host, the Tinsel Quillball, is listed as extinct on the wiki.
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This is a nonessential detail, but I wonder if they have preferences for which flora would be best for compost-heap nests? As a general rule, compost heaps heat up more from high-nitrogen materials, such as grass clippings or fresh weeds. It's possible they would prefer certain species for this task, or breed when the nitrogen levels of flora are highest. (Which is probably spring.)
A compost heap needs to get pretty big to generate heat, though the fact it's in a mound (assuming fairly tall walls) would probably help retain heat. Depending on the compost heap size, it might need relatively-tough leaves, twigs, or bark fragments to create air pockets to ensure decomposition doesn't slow down, which would reduce its heat. Air pockets would be particularly useful if the eggs don't have an in-built air supply. The easiest solution that doesn't require intelligence, monitoring, or particularly well-crafted instinct might be making a nest of sticks at the bottom, laying eggs in the interior on top of the nest, and then piling up a mixture of heat-generating and air pocket-preserving biomass on top.
Thorny Hedgelogs might do for providing twigs, although they are also thorny, and so might puncture the eggs. Purple Poison Shrub flower stalks might be better. (I did a quick check based on things in its diet; there may be things in its habitat it could use that are more suitable.)
Since these don't monitor the nest, unlike the Australian brushturkey (a famous example of compost-heap incubation), these would either need to have eggs very resilient to temperature and oxygen fluctuations, craft a very good nest the first time around, or just have quick-developing, fairly-resilient eggs which hatch before composting conditions become sub-par due to poor construction.
On an unrelated note...Purple Poison Shrubs are still around?! What?!
This is a nonessential detail, but I'm still curious: what causes the color of the fangs? Iron content, like in beaver teeth? Pheomelanin, like what makes hair red? Dietary components, such as pseudopurpurin or carotenoids? The natural color of dentin, in combination with some other factor of different material thicknesses in the fangs? Erythropoietic porphyria, which makes bones reddish? (Erythropoietic porphyria seems unlikely, since it's typically associated with sunlight sensitivity, and this lives in sunny environments. It also has significant areas of bare skin.)
They don't use their limbs to pull up small flora like Sunstalks? I assumed they would, because they seem to have very small necks, if they have any neck at all. Do they only eat Sunstalks' tubers? If so, that would be useful to specify in the diet template.
"changing their sex if" Her sex if.
"determine that they would be a far better choice" She.
How would she determine this? Is it an automatic response to pheromones emitted by the leader declining over time? Or do female-hermaphrodite Dracalopes have conscious control of this, at least under certain conditions?
"to if an intruding male": "to that of an intruding male who has challenged him"
"will treat as" Will treat the.
It's pronounced "DRACK-uh-lope", right? I assumed it was a Dracula reference, not a "drake" (dragon) reference.
How big are the young when they emerge from the nests? This could be a useful detail for potential predatory fauna submissions.
Botryrophises should be extinct: they are obligate parasites, and their only listed host, the Tinsel Quillball, is listed as extinct on the wiki.
Nonessential Details
This is a nonessential detail, but I wonder if they have preferences for which flora would be best for compost-heap nests? As a general rule, compost heaps heat up more from high-nitrogen materials, such as grass clippings or fresh weeds. It's possible they would prefer certain species for this task, or breed when the nitrogen levels of flora are highest. (Which is probably spring.)
A compost heap needs to get pretty big to generate heat, though the fact it's in a mound (assuming fairly tall walls) would probably help retain heat. Depending on the compost heap size, it might need relatively-tough leaves, twigs, or bark fragments to create air pockets to ensure decomposition doesn't slow down, which would reduce its heat. Air pockets would be particularly useful if the eggs don't have an in-built air supply. The easiest solution that doesn't require intelligence, monitoring, or particularly well-crafted instinct might be making a nest of sticks at the bottom, laying eggs in the interior on top of the nest, and then piling up a mixture of heat-generating and air pocket-preserving biomass on top.
Thorny Hedgelogs might do for providing twigs, although they are also thorny, and so might puncture the eggs. Purple Poison Shrub flower stalks might be better. (I did a quick check based on things in its diet; there may be things in its habitat it could use that are more suitable.)
Since these don't monitor the nest, unlike the Australian brushturkey (a famous example of compost-heap incubation), these would either need to have eggs very resilient to temperature and oxygen fluctuations, craft a very good nest the first time around, or just have quick-developing, fairly-resilient eggs which hatch before composting conditions become sub-par due to poor construction.
On an unrelated note...Purple Poison Shrubs are still around?! What?!
This is a nonessential detail, but I'm still curious: what causes the color of the fangs? Iron content, like in beaver teeth? Pheomelanin, like what makes hair red? Dietary components, such as pseudopurpurin or carotenoids? The natural color of dentin, in combination with some other factor of different material thicknesses in the fangs? Erythropoietic porphyria, which makes bones reddish? (Erythropoietic porphyria seems unlikely, since it's typically associated with sunlight sensitivity, and this lives in sunny environments. It also has significant areas of bare skin.)
"Regarding the smell of feces" means "about the smell of feces". I was using alternative phrasing while pointing it out. Is there confusion between the words "around" and "about"?
I like its colorful, gangly, bobbleheaded look.
"their outline." Its outline.
does the line along the neck, tail, and belly simply demarcate changes in coloration in those areas, or does it suggest actual wrinkles or creases? The fact the golden color extends below the wavy line on its belly suggests it's an actual crease, particularly because the crase is unevenly aligne with the neck underside's coloration.
"victim" These are predatory fauna, not murderers. "Prey" is appropriate.
What is the function of those lines on the spikes? Does it suggest the spike structure spills over the midline of the back, and it defines distance, like putting a line over the top part of a snout with a front-on view of a long-snouted animal? Is it an actual stripe?
"its more[...]ancestors" This mixes up pronouns.
"Pursuit.The". Minor spacing error.
"their face" "their eyes" "their body weight" Pronoun error. Since this recurs so much, I recommend inspecting "their" and "its" in your descriptions, at least until I set up a grammar guide.
"their edge" Their edges, you mean?
Hello, Rhinobot. I haven't seen you in a while.
"their outline." Its outline.
does the line along the neck, tail, and belly simply demarcate changes in coloration in those areas, or does it suggest actual wrinkles or creases? The fact the golden color extends below the wavy line on its belly suggests it's an actual crease, particularly because the crase is unevenly aligne with the neck underside's coloration.
"victim" These are predatory fauna, not murderers. "Prey" is appropriate.
What is the function of those lines on the spikes? Does it suggest the spike structure spills over the midline of the back, and it defines distance, like putting a line over the top part of a snout with a front-on view of a long-snouted animal? Is it an actual stripe?
"its more[...]ancestors" This mixes up pronouns.
"Pursuit.The". Minor spacing error.
"their face" "their eyes" "their body weight" Pronoun error. Since this recurs so much, I recommend inspecting "their" and "its" in your descriptions, at least until I set up a grammar guide.
"their edge" Their edges, you mean?
Hello, Rhinobot. I haven't seen you in a while.
" as well as not caring around the smell of feces" "not caring around" would suggest that it is incapable of caring when in proximity to the smell of feces. "Not caring about" suggests it does not have concerns regarding the smell of the feces.
If it doesn't have a wide body, I wonder why it has such big whiskers. It seems to use its smell, vision, and hearing to find food, not its whiskers, which would be the most obvious reason to have big whiskers than than evaluating narrow spaces.
If it doesn't have a wide body, I wonder why it has such big whiskers. It seems to use its smell, vision, and hearing to find food, not its whiskers, which would be the most obvious reason to have big whiskers than than evaluating narrow spaces.
"as well as not caring around the smell of feces" remains.
I'm still not sure whether its tail is a different color from the rest of its body.
The big claws, and posture of said claws, sort of resembles my Dundigger art. We may have used similar animals for inspiration. I think I used an aardvark for inspiration.
It has very long whiskers. In cats, the whiskers correspond to the width of its body. Do Harndsum Prickleshrews have wide bodies?
I like the nose-shape variation and seemingly hunched-over posture. Does it have a hump or skeletal hunch, or is that just extra-long quills?
How did you come up with the name for the organism?
I'm still not sure whether its tail is a different color from the rest of its body.
The big claws, and posture of said claws, sort of resembles my Dundigger art. We may have used similar animals for inspiration. I think I used an aardvark for inspiration.
It has very long whiskers. In cats, the whiskers correspond to the width of its body. Do Harndsum Prickleshrews have wide bodies?
I like the nose-shape variation and seemingly hunched-over posture. Does it have a hump or skeletal hunch, or is that just extra-long quills?
How did you come up with the name for the organism?
"instead being utilized for foraging" This feels like a run-on sentence.
Does it have reddish-gray fur on pink skin, or is the base of its tail a different color from the rest of its body?
"is in their favor". This is a singular-they problem.
"Undergroundies" Undergroundis.
"well not caring around the smell of feces": "As well as not caring about the smell of feces."
I wonder if not caring about the smell of feces has any behavioral or biological after-effects? Will a young Harndsum Prickleshrew mistake feces for Dungshell Fraboos and eat the feces? I wonder how many parasites and diseases, if any, can spead through this habit...
"isnt" isn't.
What compels the young in ideal habitats to strike out on their own? The ned to find mates?
I know that some parts of its diet are big and fairly meaty (e.g., Grovecrystal Kruggs), but I wonder whether all of its habitats contain enough food year-round to support them living there all the time. This is especially true when some of these habitats seem to have no species yet (barring genus group species, which could constrict the sizes and numbers of "insects" available in those habitats. Some of the habitats also seem that they wouldn't be particularly high in insect-equivalent biomass even if fully populated.
Does it have reddish-gray fur on pink skin, or is the base of its tail a different color from the rest of its body?
"is in their favor". This is a singular-they problem.
"Undergroundies" Undergroundis.
"well not caring around the smell of feces": "As well as not caring about the smell of feces."
I wonder if not caring about the smell of feces has any behavioral or biological after-effects? Will a young Harndsum Prickleshrew mistake feces for Dungshell Fraboos and eat the feces? I wonder how many parasites and diseases, if any, can spead through this habit...
"isnt" isn't.
What compels the young in ideal habitats to strike out on their own? The ned to find mates?
I know that some parts of its diet are big and fairly meaty (e.g., Grovecrystal Kruggs), but I wonder whether all of its habitats contain enough food year-round to support them living there all the time. This is especially true when some of these habitats seem to have no species yet (barring genus group species, which could constrict the sizes and numbers of "insects" available in those habitats. Some of the habitats also seem that they wouldn't be particularly high in insect-equivalent biomass even if fully populated.
"get's it's name" Gets its name.
"radio active" Radioactive.
"However the surrounding underground aquifer": this would sound more fluent with a comma after "however".
The description is sparse. Can you add some details about the ecological effects of a radioactive aquifer? In real life, some trees have roots deep enough to tap into underground aquifers. Depending on the geology and depth of the natural reactors, it may be possible trees could pick up radioactive groundwater. It seems the deepest roots in the world, the roots of the shepherd's tree, can go 70 meters deep. (https://www.rutgers.edu/news/deep-roots-plants-driven-soil-hydrology) However, for this particular habitat, it seems improbable any roots could go that deep.
This might provide interesting opportunities for microbes or even microscopic fauna.
I'll have to go over this later, but for now, some cursory feedback.
"mangles" You meant "mangals", as in mangrove swamps.
Do Squaphaneers travel fast enough, or have slow enough digestive transit times, to plausibly spread qupe trees and fuzzweeds?
"mangles" You meant "mangals", as in mangrove swamps.
Do Squaphaneers travel fast enough, or have slow enough digestive transit times, to plausibly spread qupe trees and fuzzweeds?
| QUOTE (Cube67 @ Aug 19 2022, 10:27 AM) |
| this is just that thing from The Eternal Cylinder |
For reference, the Trebhum species are the player-character species of the video game The Eternal Cylinder.
There are some similarities, but I wouldn't say it's just "that thing from The Eternal Cylinder". It's a bipedal, tailless blob with an eye and a long trunk, but there are substantial differences.
There's no need to be sorry. I myself delayed working on this for months, due to various factors.
Shouldn't there be more trees and shrub-like flora in a forest? Admittedly, this is far from a rainforest. Adding two more trees and two more small flora should be sufficient to convey it's a forest. I also recommend adding some texturing to the black sand, like grain texturing or Hydromancerx-style soil blotching, adjusted or the horizon. I'm not sure if I could imitate your lineart style, but I could add shading and texturing.
Shouldn't there be more trees and shrub-like flora in a forest? Admittedly, this is far from a rainforest. Adding two more trees and two more small flora should be sufficient to convey it's a forest. I also recommend adding some texturing to the black sand, like grain texturing or Hydromancerx-style soil blotching, adjusted or the horizon. I'm not sure if I could imitate your lineart style, but I could add shading and texturing.
I'll have to get back to the other things later.
"is not very effective in the air compared to in the water"
Judging by a quick Wikipedia check of electroreception and echidnas (one of the few terrestrial species that use electroreception), this ability might work if it's in contact with very moist soil, or very humid air. The most plausible way this could reliably occur at relatively long-range would be if an electrical signal of some sort was sent through the trunk or feet and into very moist soil. (I am assuming each Squaphaneer is not touching or very close to each other)
| QUOTE |
| it will prove to be a persistent obstacle to dorite's upcoming grass-like orbion. |
Would it help if I created some kind of disease, parasite, or pest to weaken the grass-like orbion and allow for potential coexistence, or would that be too much metagaming at this point? I do recall a comparable, real-life ecological example of seaweed in rock pools with mollusk predators where one fast-growing species would quickly outcompete the others in predator-free environment. Only when predators are around can the full diversity be maintained.
"it's ancestor"
"hollowed out" Hollowed-out.
"webbed much like" there should be a comma after "webbed".
"their tail", "their plumage", "their territory" Using "their" in the singular is such a common mistake in submissions that I'll have to add that to a common-mistakes guide, if I haven't already. I haven't edited that file in a while.
"they are to females" This is mildly confusing, since preceding sentences don't explicitly mention it's the males who display. It could be worth mentioning: after all, in a few species, such as in phalaropes, it's the females that make mating displays and show mating season-related aggression.
"roar. But sometimes". I know your descriptions tend to be choppy, but starting a sentence with "but" makes using a comma here particularly recommended.
"The Vonnegut Quillmow are"
Does "Quillmow" have an unusual plural? (Come to think of it, it might be handy to have an unusual-plural page on the wiki. For example, the Tusovendis, a purpleflora species, also has a nonstandard plural.)
The "it's ancestor" error is still there.
"one year of age and are fully grown at 2". Why swap out number forms twice in the same sentence? I recommnend using longhand for both for such small numbers.
"hollowed out" Hollowed-out.
"webbed much like" there should be a comma after "webbed".
"their tail", "their plumage", "their territory" Using "their" in the singular is such a common mistake in submissions that I'll have to add that to a common-mistakes guide, if I haven't already. I haven't edited that file in a while.
"they are to females" This is mildly confusing, since preceding sentences don't explicitly mention it's the males who display. It could be worth mentioning: after all, in a few species, such as in phalaropes, it's the females that make mating displays and show mating season-related aggression.
"roar. But sometimes". I know your descriptions tend to be choppy, but starting a sentence with "but" makes using a comma here particularly recommended.
"The Vonnegut Quillmow are"
Does "Quillmow" have an unusual plural? (Come to think of it, it might be handy to have an unusual-plural page on the wiki. For example, the Tusovendis, a purpleflora species, also has a nonstandard plural.)
The "it's ancestor" error is still there.
"one year of age and are fully grown at 2". Why swap out number forms twice in the same sentence? I recommnend using longhand for both for such small numbers.
The description seems sparse for a genus group...although I could just be used to Beta genus groups.
Can you add more detail?
Can you add more detail?
You'll need to capitalize things in the template. For example: "unknown" should be capitalized, as well as the respiration methods.
If the details ar different for different life stages, you should separate them using colons. (":")
If Ramul Subtropical Woodland Archipelago is the last habitat listed, you should remove the comma.
"Visospatial" should be "visuospatial". When in doubt over obscure terminology, try checking the spelling over a search engine.
"more analogues": More analogous.
"of their single eye" This is grammatically unclear. It's like the Grey Sisters of Greek Mythology: three old women with only a single eye between them, or "their single eye".
"vibration then travel": Vibration then travels.
"pressure sensitive": Pressure-sensitive.
"lignin rich": Lignin-rich.
"psudo-cartilage": pseudo-cartilage.
"hold their breath" this is grammatically unclear.
The musculature of its legs is unclear. If it's covered in a thick layer of fat, that might justify its baggy look, but given its subtropical environment, such thick fat on a probable ecothterm seems unlikely. Depending on the exact latitude, though, the winters might be cold enough for long enough for fat to be useful, at least on its extremities, although that does bring up the question of how it avoids cold damage to its trunk, too.
Its toes seem so deeply cleft as to appear like klipspringer hooves. Surely you can erase a little of the dividing line at the top?
What adaptations allow them to survive in both fresh and saltwater? Do they have salt-excreting glands? Kidneys adapted to filter out excess sodium?
How sensitive are these electrosensitive pits? It would surely be difficult to pick up on these signals outside of the water, so it would be worth specifying.
A diagram of the newly-developed ear would help in understanding the organism, but it's not required.
If the details ar different for different life stages, you should separate them using colons. (":")
If Ramul Subtropical Woodland Archipelago is the last habitat listed, you should remove the comma.
"Visospatial" should be "visuospatial". When in doubt over obscure terminology, try checking the spelling over a search engine.
"more analogues": More analogous.
"of their single eye" This is grammatically unclear. It's like the Grey Sisters of Greek Mythology: three old women with only a single eye between them, or "their single eye".
"vibration then travel": Vibration then travels.
"pressure sensitive": Pressure-sensitive.
"lignin rich": Lignin-rich.
"psudo-cartilage": pseudo-cartilage.
"hold their breath" this is grammatically unclear.
The musculature of its legs is unclear. If it's covered in a thick layer of fat, that might justify its baggy look, but given its subtropical environment, such thick fat on a probable ecothterm seems unlikely. Depending on the exact latitude, though, the winters might be cold enough for long enough for fat to be useful, at least on its extremities, although that does bring up the question of how it avoids cold damage to its trunk, too.
Its toes seem so deeply cleft as to appear like klipspringer hooves. Surely you can erase a little of the dividing line at the top?
What adaptations allow them to survive in both fresh and saltwater? Do they have salt-excreting glands? Kidneys adapted to filter out excess sodium?
How sensitive are these electrosensitive pits? It would surely be difficult to pick up on these signals outside of the water, so it would be worth specifying.
A diagram of the newly-developed ear would help in understanding the organism, but it's not required.
Would a retroactively-inserted small landmark island be a compromise? Or would it not matter, because sea level rise over time make it sink beneath the waves anyway?
" it's ancestor" Its ancestor.
Its quills seem to grow on its lower back and thighs, as well.
"anything once.Like it's ancestor" There's a spacing error, and an "it's" confusion.
"dig up food or break open rotten logs for food." This repeats "food" twice in the same sentence, which is awkward.
"Even xeno-bee" That isn't hyphenated.
"much like a polar bear" Did you mean "polar bear's", as in "polar bear's feet"?
A spine shape? What is that?
"predators such as the Sparkleshrog," There should be a comma after "predators".
There's surely more. I'll have to come back later.
| QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Aug 16 2022, 09:08 PM) | ||||||
Hm, I heard about this, but how could I translate it for this? Would the half gamete offspring be only males and they can only reproduce sexually? |
That seems plausible. The only plausible asexual option I can presently think of for the half-gamete males would be androgenesis, which would be impractical in this situation of deep-sea scarcity of gametes.
EDIT: Disgustedorite's option of parthenogenesis could also work. Parthenogenesis seems fairly common in nature.
| QUOTE (OviraptorFan @ Aug 16 2022, 08:03 PM) | ||
Hm, alright I see your point. Any ideas on how I could potentially fix this? |
Male ants are produced from unfertilized eggs, and therefore have only half the chromosome number of female ants. That could be a solution. The phenomenon is called thelytokous parthenogenesis. (Relevant linkRelevant link)
Papisjorn (Vinumcrustus acerbus)
Creator: Coolsteph
Ancestor: Saltjorn
Habitat: Fermi Marsh, Fermi Temperate Mangal
Size: 80 cm Tall
Diet: Photosynthesis
Respiration: Unknown
Thermoregulation: Ectothermy (Flora)
Support: Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Reproduction: Asexual (Fruiting Structures, Seeds)
Unlike their ancestors, Papisjorns live in the marsh, where water is in abundance. They have less need to reduce water loss by transpiration, and large fauna are not so desperate to crack it open for water. Consequently, it can afford to make its shell less opaque, and structurally weaker. Photosynthesis is concentrated in lenses in its shell, but all of its tissues, exempting the shell and roots, can perform photosynthesis. Like Chitjorns in general, Papisjorns are resilient to various poor conditions. They resist drought, heat, and high salinity, and can grow on infertile soil, although their maximum sizes are smaller in less favorable conditions.
Shell
Adult Papisjorns are deeply cleft, like an exaggeration of the cleft in the rind of a pumpkin, forming a somewhat clover leaf-like shape from above. In younger specimens, the clefts are subtler, like a pumpkin. In the stembuds, there are no visible clefts.
The shell is a strong but lightweight chitinous network, mineralized with calcium crystals, and has similar material properties to the pincers of lobsters. The "turrets" contain slightly more calcium to reinforce them, as they are more accessible to herbivores.The opaqueness of the shell varies with the seasons: it gradually becomes slightly more opaque in the heat of summer.
The shell has a faint pattern of fissures, forming diamond-like shapes. Occasionally, it has deep fissures or scars at the base. Tiny pores, less than 1 mm in diameter, dot the upper sides of the segments, within the tiny fissures. Excess water, sodium, or alcohol may leave through these pores; fauna with a keen sense of smell may detect Papisjorns from afar by detecting odor cues from these pores.
Jornwine
Beneath the shell, Papisjorns have soft, slightly mucilaginous, spongy greenish tissue, like a cooked button mushroom covered in okra mucilage. It loosely resembles the fungus-flesh common to crystalflora, if a different color. A few Papisjorn metabolites are also similar to those characteristic of crystalflora. However, despite their polygonal shells and common greenish shell colors, the Chitjorn lineage actually has no relation to crystalflora, with no closer ancestor than the ancestor of all life on Sagan 4, and so Papisjorns' similarity is nothing more than a particularly odd case of convergent evolution, like Earth's kelp (a kind of brown algae, not in the plant kingdom) looking similar to certain land plants (descended from green algae).
Between the shell and the softer interior tissue is a light green liquid, or "jornwine", with the consistency of blood. It has a bitter, fermented flavor, and contains 0.8% to 1.6% alcohol. The alcohol is generated by the softer interior portion of the Papisjorn fermenting a portion of the sugars it gains from photosynthesis, and it works as an effective distasteful element or poison for most herbivores. The taste of jornwine is reminiscent of wine, but salty. If a fauna tries to crack open a Papisjorn to eat its insides, it is difficult to avoid getting a mouthful of the distasteful jornwine. Within hours, the flora increases production of coagulating substances in the jornwine, increasing the rate at which the jornwine gradually seal over cracks or injuries in the flora and forms a sort of scab. The scab resembles the hardened tree resin gemstone copal, but with the color of nephrite. The surrounding shell eventually grows over the resulting scab. Small organisms, such as smaller Minikruggs, can be caught in the jornwine, dying within it or leaving behind legs or feet in their rush to escape. Over months to years, depending on the scope of the injuries, the scab material and any trapped organisms within is eventually broken down and reabsorbed using enzymes, until the injury is fully healed.
Fragments of hardened jornwine are a weak intoxicant if finely mashed and moistened, and can keep stable for up to two and a half years if kept in a dry, cool environment.
Fruit
Papisjorns make segmented, somewhat starfruit-like fruiting structures, which are greatly modified lenses with attached outgrowths of photosynthetic tissue. The fruits of the papisjorn taste remarkably like starfruit, with similar calcium oxalate overdose risks in large quantities. The fruit resists decomposition and remains edible for most fruit-eating organisms for 7-8 days at room temperature. Like many fruits, they can ferment if overripe to accumulate alcoholic compounds. Papisjorns' fruits have an odd, mushroom-like texture.
Within the fruits are dark blue “stembuds”, clonal structures similar to Gumjorn stembuds, but far smaller, with virtually no air pockets. The stembuds’ shells of calcified chitin make them hard like pebbles. It is often annoying for large organisms to eat these fruits, due to the hard shell and rock-like stembud-seeds. Unlike their relatives’ stembuds, Papisjorn stembuds are dense and do not float. While resistant to brackish conditions, being dunked in the full salinity of the ocean for more than an hour and a half at a time kills them, and so they cannot travel across seas like a coconut. Nonetheless, the species has managed to spread widely across a fairly wide range, especially with no competition in its niche.
"Overtime" Over time. This is a common error. Is there a way to underline this in word-processing documents to remind you to check them?
"critter" That's rather informal.
"when its" When it's.
" ballooned" using "ballooned" twice looks awkward, particularly since the word seems silly.
"he Umbrajet will spring into action, using their methane" This uses the singular "they", which is incorrect here.
"critter" That's rather informal.
"when its" When it's.
" ballooned" using "ballooned" twice looks awkward, particularly since the word seems silly.
"he Umbrajet will spring into action, using their methane" This uses the singular "they", which is incorrect here.
What an adorable dog-fox thing. I like its purple coloration and horns, as well as its fringed forelimbs.
I should go over this later, but, a quick typo correction first: the spelling is "MinnosparrowMinnosparrow".
I should go over this later, but, a quick typo correction first: the spelling is "MinnosparrowMinnosparrow".
| QUOTE (colddigger @ Aug 14 2022, 08:00 PM) |
| A seedling would be very small. But maybe that's more to bother with them it's worth for the diet aspect |
Whether it's worthwhile to eat might depend on its relative nutrition or palatability. In real life, younger plants, or new growth in general, tends to be tastier, most likely due to fewer defensive compounds. They might contain higher concentrations of nutrients, judging by the nutrient concentrations of "microgreens" (e.g., kale, lettuce) and one U.S. federal report. (Sample sentence: 'Young and expanding tissues generally are believedto contain higher concentrations of nutrients because these tissues require more resources to support their rapid growth(Mattson 1980; Harper 1989).")
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