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W hen Prakash and his team reach Monterey, a red tide caused by billions of plankton has turned the water so dark that it looks like obsidian. Crouching in the sheltered harbor of the Monterey marina beside a sailboat christened Diablito, Prakash slides his arm elbow deep into the water and draws up a length of fishing line. This time, the trap is intact. I n Prakash’s lab, located in the leafy bioengineering quad at Stanford University, he and his graduate students, postdocs, and lab technicians are less concerned with figuring out where Trichoplax fits into the story of animal evolution than how it manages to live such a full life—creeping along the ocean floor, sensing its surroundings, eating algae—with such minimal equipment. “Where does behavior come from in a system that doesn’t have neurons?” he asks. He’s also interested in the shape-shifting animal’s basic physical properties: “Is it a liquid? Is it a solid? Is it something in the middle?” A coven consists of three hags so that any arguments between two hags can be settled by the third. If more than three hags ever come together, as might happen if two covens come into conflict, the result is usually chaos. Shared Spellcasting.While all three members of a hag coven are within 30 feet of one another, they can each cast the following spells from the wizard’s spell list but must share the spell slots among themselves: There’s much more to learn about Trichoplax’s movements, however, Smith notes. The molecules that cause the animal’s cilia to pause work far too slowly to control Trichoplax’s fastest movements, she says. “If you watch movies of the animal gliding on its cilia, you see that the animal can change directions really rapidly, within seconds or less than seconds.”

Ultimately, Prakash hopes to understand how Trichoplax can survive the violent forces of its own mutinous body—as well as harsh environments like the rugged California coast, where a six-foot wave can pummel tiny ocean creatures with the force that a 1,000-mph wind would have on a human being. The test took place in one of Prakash’s recent inventions, a Ferris wheel–inspired contraption he calls the Gravity Machine. Composed of a thin plastic wheel full of water, the Gravity Machine rotates vertically in front of a powerful microscope, acting as an aquatic treadmill for microorganisms. Even in the narrow disk, which is less than half an inch wide, Trichoplax is so small that finding it with the naked eye is like searching for a dust mote in a gymnasium. Party members might also happen upon a pixie that is helping an injured animal, hosting a tiny faerie ball, or simply serving as a messenger for one of the faerie courts. As enthusiastic and kind-hearted creatures,a pixie can be more of an annoyance than a threat.When hags must work together, they form covens, in spite of their selfish natures. A coven is made up of hags of any type, all of whom are equals within the group. However, each of the hags continues to desire more personal power. When the team leaves for the lab, I retreat to my dorm room at the Monterey hostel, defeated. I am not hardcore enough to hunt wild Trichoplax, I think. I take a nap. At 11:32 p.m., my phone lights up. It’s a video text showing Zhong and Soto Montoya huddled around the microscope, looking buoyant. Zhong has found a Trichoplax. “That’s it, 110 percent,” Prakash says. “It’s beautiful, beautiful!” On a computer screen that shows the display from the microscope, Trichoplax looks like a glowing, pulsing orb surrounded by cosmic protoplasm. Soto Montoya finds a second, bigger animal. They sign off and keep scanning each slide, one by one, until 4 a.m.

Night hag: Once creatures of the Feywild, night hags were exiled to Hades. These creatures befoul all good things, turning love into obsession and generosity to selfishness. Although there’s still a fair amount of uncertainty about how the earliest animals are related to each other, recent genomic-sequencing studies suggest that placozoans were not the common ancestor to all living animals, and that either sponges or comb jellies came first, David Gold, a paleobiologist at UC Davis, says. Although Trichoplax comes from an older lineage than most animal groups alive today, “there are a few groups that appear to be older,” he notes. Please be awarethat this is more of a sandbox simulator demonstrating basic machine learningthan a real game.There are no achievements or player rewards. Even if a creature of yours reaches 100% fitness, you don't win anything except for (hopefully) lots of excitement and joy. The tasks include running, jumping, climbing and flying. Can you build the ultimate creature that is good at all of the tasks?A D&D party might encounter a hag after investigating a case of missing babies or afterdiscovering a town that has been torn apart by gossip, false accusations, or even nightmares.A solitary green hag or sea hag can be the primary villain for a 1st- or 2nd-level adventure. Covens can holdsignificant sway over the common people in their domains, whether that is by fear or misplaced trust. A party thatis upfront about their desire to take down a coven could be exiled or find that otherwise friendly non-player characters will come to the coven's defense, such as by acting as a humanoid shield. For this reason, taking down a coven could involve politics and moral quandaries. Hags can really shine — er, glower — in combat. A sea hag’s Death Glare is terrifyingly powerful against low-level adventurers. It forces a frightenedcreature to make a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or drop to 0 hit points on the spot. Shifting through the party's camp as fast as the wind, they tied the shoe strings of the heaviest character together. Then one of the feys took a dagger from the camp to distract the guard, so the other quiskling can move all important adventuring gear in the guard's bag. For elegant finish they took a beautiful ring from one of the sorcerers (the party's ring of jumping, gifted to them by two rogue kids) and braided the hair of two characters. Later that morning, I reconvene with the team. Prakash’s cold has gotten worse, and Soto Montoya and Zhong are swaying with exhaustion. Still, they sit down, pull the remaining slides out of the seawater bath, and start looking for more animals.

The Feywild represents the intrinsic power of nature: its wildness and beauty, its chaos and unscrupulous dangers. Denizens of the Plane of Faerie can be equally imposing. Even the weakestamong them can create dimensional rifts. The strongest collect knowledge and power over their long lives and don’t part with any of it for free. Use joints, bones and muscles to build creatures that are only limited by your imagination. Watch how the combination of a neural network and a genetic algorithm can enable your creatures to "learn" and improve at their given tasks all on their own. Poor Trichoplax. It doesn’t know how to swim,” Prakash said. “This is going to be the shortest paper ever.” Dusk hag: This type of hag might share its prophetic visionsfor a price, but such informationwill likely lead to suffering rather than good fortune.Mistresses of misery, hags harp on primal fears and covet misfortune. The flavor of anguish they strive to create depends on the type of hag: In my opinion, fey creatures are usually either really, really, REALLY evil or pretty much just temperamental pranksters. They also are often portrayed as very elemental creatures, so pretty much just look at a regular type of Fey you might find in a specific situation and change as much as possible as far as possible and make a story to go along with it. Night hags, however, are strongest when they're aware of their enemies. They can enter the Ethereal Planeto inflict nightmares on a creature, lowering their hit point maximum and depriving them of the benefits of a long rest. Using hags in your game



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