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The Ditch; the unknown might just lie right beneath your feet~
Topic Started: Sep 6 2015, 12:36 PM (2,810 Views)
Adman
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Totally not lamna
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Somewhere, in some time...

Not too far from where you live..

On the side of that one road that you travel on every day..

Lies the ditch.

It might seem unassuming (and indeed it really is quite bland), but what lies inside it are lifeforms unlike any on earth.

Separated from the rest of the world since a really long time ago, the ditch harbors very creepy and crawly creatures and pumpkin things that would scare the pants off of even an adult human.

This is no ordinary ditch.

No.

This is.

The Ditch
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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LittleLazyLass
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Proud quilt in a bag

But what about the house hippos?
totally not British, b-baka!
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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Space Oddity

They are in a HOUSE

This is the Ditch
Flashlights, nightmares, sudden explosions.

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Have you not heard of the ditch hippo subspecies?
totally not British, b-baka!
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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I once saw a pod of Ditch-orca ("D'cthorca") as a lad, seining prawns from the ditch with their prawn-seiners.
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| Eden | Terra Metropolis | Life of the Sylvan Islands |


Other Spec Evo

| Sheatheria | Serina | The Last Dinosaur

A Wholesome and Good Thing

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Mysterious tundra-dwelling humanoid
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I'm just gonna run with it.

What of the Ditch's top predators? How do they survive in The Ditch when there is such fierce competition?
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Birbs

"you are about to try that on a species that clawed its way to the top of a 4 billion year deep corpse pile of evolution. one that has committed the genocide you are contemplating several times already. they are the pinnacle of intelligence-based survival techniques and outnumber you 7 billion to 1" - humans vs machine
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nani the fuck
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Ditch allosaurus because why the fuck not.

Dys, Darwin's Inferno: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5949354/1/



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All will be revealed in time...

There might be giant wall crabs, and living on them, tinier dinosaurs.

Stay tuned.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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Entity
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...I will wait...
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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LittleLazyLass
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Proud quilt in a bag

are there ditches inside the ditch?
totally not British, b-baka!
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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do the mammals have feathers
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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Are there monkeys in the ditch? Can they fly? Do they eat the DINERSORES? Do the DINNERSEARS eat them?
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Unnamed No K-Pg project: coming whenever, maybe never. I got ideas tho.
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Neotenous
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Adaman
Sep 11 2015, 02:22 PM

There might be giant wall crabs, and living on them, tinier dinosaurs.
But do the dinosaurs have microscopic mutant turtles living on them?
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As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
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Sayornis
Sep 11 2015, 08:53 PM
Adaman
Sep 11 2015, 02:22 PM

There might be giant wall crabs, and living on them, tinier dinosaurs.
But do the dinosaurs have microscopic mutant turtles living on them?
Are said turtles also in a state of perpetual adolescence?
~Projects~

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~Mark Witton, Pterosaurs (Chapter 3, page 18)


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pfft, DK making a project

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I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs?

~Komodo, Zebra's sent back in time (4/1/13)
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DK1000
Sep 12 2015, 08:31 AM
Sayornis
Sep 11 2015, 08:53 PM
Adaman
Sep 11 2015, 02:22 PM

There might be giant wall crabs, and living on them, tinier dinosaurs.
But do the dinosaurs have microscopic mutant turtles living on them?
Are said turtles also in a state of perpetual adolescence?
Are the turtles trained in ninjutsu?
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Unnamed No K-Pg project: coming whenever, maybe never. I got ideas tho.
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Skellymans

Spooky shit right there dude

If one were to somehow end up in The Ditch (be it by way of frog, floating tuba, or your normal subway), they would recognize the white scuttling shapes on the ditch walls. These, are skellymans.

Skellymans, also known as skellybones, skeletons, bonz, or simply "AHHHH", are a unique lifeform endemic to the underground environment of the ditch. They vary widely in size, shape, behavior, and political orientation, ranging from just under a centimeter in the dusty species, to well over 43 meters in some of the really "spoopy" species. Skellymans eat just about anything, from other skellymans, to frogs, small scaly dinosaurs (a tragedy, I know), glitter powder, the wayward multituberculate and breadsticks from pizza hut.

Because the ditch is so large and narrow, it has the space to harbor all the spooky and original 151 skellyman species. Though all of them are varied, there are four major varieties.

The human-like ones- These, due to some extreme convergent evolution, have bodies and facial features that greatly resemble that of the human skeleton. The human-like skellymans are the most omnivorous out of all extant skellymans, using their gracile fingers to pick off algae and incredibly skittish birds off their ledges. They are mainly whitish in color, though certain species exhibit greenish bioluminescence all over their bodies.

The pumpkin-like varieties- Pumpkin-like skellymans are renowned for being more squat than other skellymans, being almost circular or ovaloid in shape. They scuttle around with multitudes of small green legs, and capture prey by attracting them with biolights inside their large mouths. Pumpkin-like skellymans are usually orange, though they also come in shades of verdant green, robin's egg blue, and ivory (those ivory pumpkins are called skulls).

Those centipede-like things- These centipede-like things have multitudes of hairy legs and prominent tusk-like mandibles and fangs, used for slicing up other centipede-like things and any leg or foot that falls down from above. They are really long, having a body that looks much like a spinal cord, save for the numerous tiny legs. Unlike other skellymans, these come in all colors of the rainbow, and are some of the few skellymans to exceed 20 meters in length, and are really left-wing (when it comes to politics).


The ones that swim- Ok, they really don't swim per se, but these skellymans have lost almost all the hallmarks required for something to be a skellyman, having a ribbon-like body made of sinew and the tears of children, a moa skull-like head, and four pairs of fully functional azhdarchid-like wings. They flit around the narrow ditch, calling for mother or the pizza man in search of their next meal, which pretty much sounds like a fight between two trashy people. This is scary for some, hilarious for others. The ones that swim always come in shades of obscenely bright pink and navy blue, no exceptions.


Nobody really knows how skellymans came about, nor does anybody on the surface really care. However, some think that they came from eurypteryids that somehow got lodged inside the ditch, and evolved into the lifeforms that exist there today. New evidence, however, is pointing at a supernatural mammalian origin, which states that they were created billions of years ago, by an otherworldly demon, and then forgotten because they're just a bunch of bones. This hypothesis is accepted by the vast majority of scientists today.


Yes, this is still gonna be a thing.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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