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Fungal / Plant won week one.

Week two we'll vote on how the species will digest nutrients. This will decide if it is more fungus or plant. As it is now it has cell walls and that's about all that has been decided.

Your options
Decay- The main way fungus takes in nutrients on our world. Spouting on decaying flesh or vegetation to absorb nutrients.
Photosynthesis- Main way a plant takes in today.
Eating- This includes drinking. Through a hole of some kind. We're going to assume roots will not be used but the creature might have a trunk like root that it can move to be decided in the future.
Skin- Similiar to how a slug takes in. This closely resembles decay but allows faster consumption but less control over what is consumed.
Passive Intake- Like a sea creature that sits in place and allows water to flow through it to carry food to each cell. This is very inefficient and like the skin intake no choice on what is fed to the creature. However a space aged race could have feeding tanks they could climb into, open their pours and be fed that way.

You are allowed two votes. Revoting is allowed.

Things it cannot do because it lost the other categories:
Absorption of electricity (I'm thinking only a rock like race could do that)
Parasitic- It'll be too big and complex for a parasite method.


If you guys can think of any other choices let me know.

Posting from iphone.

I vote passive and skin. I invisage them getting food energy by laying on a mattress of decaying stuff and absorbing it through their skin. This gives them st sleep like function since they would need to do it for several hours a day.

I vote decay, envisioning a similar thing to Teaos (lying on a bed of nutrients).

Rochey wrote:I vote decay, envisioning a similar thing to Teaos...

Are you calling Teaos a fungus?

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Rochey wrote:I vote decay, envisioning a similar thing to Teaos...

Are you calling Teaos a fungus?

HAHAHAHA!

Let me make sure people understand the difference between decay and the others. Passive intake is water. Skin is chemicals. Decay is well decaying junk that is absorbed the same way fungus absorbs things.

I went for decay and eating - not an alimentary canal like we have, for sure, but an additional active mechanism to seek and bring in nutrition. Sort of like a supercharged, once-in-a-while adjunct to the primary method of feeding on decay.

I'm thinking along the same lines as Mikey, I went with Decay as a primary source, and photosynthisis. the two kind of balence eachother since if it's a dark day, decay works better, suns out use photosyntisis.

I went with Mikey's choices... for the same reasons too.

I avoided photosynthesis, because it can require a long period of stationary inactivity. Plus, I'm leaning toward the "fungus" option and photosynthesis is just too plant-like.

why does photosynthisis require immobility?

I was thinking that the phytosynthisis would gel more with a fungus than consumption would.
but to each their own.