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A'ight. Let's see how it turns out in later threads. Now that I've engaged my brain, I've realised it's rather stupid to be complaining when we don't know what it's at all like yet.

Yeah, it took me till now to realize we haven't even gotten past type of being.

Oh well, at least we had fun... well I did.

Aye, arguments can always be funl.

I voted lizard, though I'd be cool with an insect or aquatic life form.

Rochey wrote:Aye, arguments can always be funl.

I'm a fun guy. Reason I voted for the fungi

I just realized I was arguing for no reason. My vote was for the fungal portion.
Oh well.

Rochey - excellent point about the environmental pressures on the intelligence of predators vs. prey. However, carrion creatures/scavengers tend to develop along much the same lines - caracara falcons show much the same intelligence as kestrels, for example. If we are already positing the idea of a highly mobile fungus, why wouldn't environemental pressures to "feed" (I know it's not the proper term for a fungus) engender the same advancement as Earth has engendered in the turkey vulture or Egyptian vulture?

As to form, I was thinking of something like Lovecraft's Elder Things, although perhaps without the wings (which Elder Things are already described as being at least partly fungal-like.)

Aye, fungal creatures would make greater sense than plant creatures, given that the ability to migrate to new food sources would come in handy.
From that, sensory organs could develop, along with some way of communicating with other members of its species, to start a sort of mass-migration towards the new food source. Also, it would make more sense for a fungus to move at speed than a plant.

I suppsoe the next thread should be whether we're going for a plant or fungus.

And yeah, the Elder Things are pretty....interesting.

Rochey wrote:Aye, fungal creatures would make greater sense than plant creatures, given that the ability to migrate to new food sources would come in handy.
From that, sensory organs could develop, along with some way of communicating with other members of its species, to start a sort of mass-migration towards the new food source. Also, it would make more sense for a fungus to move at speed than a plant.

I suppsoe the next thread should be whether we're going for a plant or fungus.

And yeah, the Elder Things are pretty....interesting.

I was going to divide the option on how they gather nutrients. Through decay, photosynthesis, consuming, and what not. And if decaying won then they'd be a fungi.

I think everyone who voted that wants them to be fungal and not plant anyway.

Geez, they are gonna look like Toadstool from Mario!

A mod please lock this thread