>>5427544>>5427556>>5427557>>5427561>>5427562>>5427565>>5427569>>5427619>>5427626>>5427627The Flounder Feeders have grown massively, nearly doubling in size with a commensurate increase of muscle mass and blubber. Unluckily, their hearts have failed to keep the pace despite a streamlining of their shape and are overworked to keep their bulk afloat. Once again, heart failure is endemic and for all but the healthiest and scrawniest few, an inevitable cause of death. This newfound size increases their strength at little cost in agility due to buoyancy of their blubber, but the Flounder Feeder’s internal organs haven’t yet caught up and the exterior shell takes twice as long to mineralize. Their size requires far more nutrition but their omnivorous diet and (still-minor) radiotrophic cartilage lessens what would otherwise be a hellish impact. Altogether, the Flounder Feeder population decreases and is once again an endangered species.
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