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Over the last thousands of year, <span class="mu-s">Under Hunters</span> almost got whipped off existence.
Their number thinning and thinning, the predators and the preys adapting faster than it, fate seemed to enclose them in the sands of oblivion like so many species.
Until a couple fortuitous changes to their reproductive system, that is.
Males have now 2 full-grown testicles at each time; 2 testicle seeds. The greatest innovation is that one is expelled when a young adult is well fed, instead of only death. The process remains taxing. If seeds remain, they will grow into a replacement testicle.
The grown testicles in the body are still expelled upon death.
Females Birth-pouch is more supple and rubbery, no longer tearing up on second birth-giving, nor (based on the 3 occurences) third birth-giving.
Number slowly rose since, from an all-time low of 95 individuals to a short-time maximum of 224. Still shy in regards of the ten of thousands that roamed the crack at the time of the evolution of the lard, still menaced, but most importantly still around.
However, two new threats emerged in the same timeframe : First, the <span class="mu-s">Meaty Fatties</span>.
An ambush predator squashing into cracks and waiting for its tactile hair upon claws to trigger. Not as deadly as Tripods, which can easily sneak on their new prey with their tentacles, they remain a new menace on your spec
Less important to your immediate survival, the Ivy Fatty started evolving a hard shell, protecting how-so-little from the tentacles of Tripods. The shell is frail in between the harder ridge. A couple youth Ivy Fatty can credit their survival of Meaty Fatty encounters to the shell.
Current Issue list (prioritized) :
- Choice paralysis
- Predation from Tripods
- Predation from Meaty Fatties
- Struggle to keep heat in when starved
- Quite low survivability of youth because of predation
- Occasionally losing against Depth Crawlers
- Dying fom confrontation with Ivy Fatties
- Can get stuck because of poor Vertical mobility
- no waste ejection (60 days)
- Ear membrane prone to tear
>How should the Under Hunter evolve?
