Post by Fate Admin on Jun 10, 2014 18:41:46 GMT -5
Catmint was even harder to find than usual after the harsh past leaf-bare and the medicine cats were hardly prepared for the outbreak of greencough that took so many this leaf-bare, even though it was relatively mild in comparison to the last. The outbreak grew so bad that the Clans refrained from attending not only the mid leaf-bare Gathering, but the late leaf-bare Gathering as well, and the medicine cats could not afford to visit the Moon Tree and leave their sick Clanmates without their skills. Many died and even the five great leaders were overcome by the sickness, each of them losing one of their lives.
With the melting of the snow and the warm winds of newleaf, the return of prey, so too did health return and the sickness faded out. The early newleaf Gathering came about and the Clans all attended. The leaders discussed the outbreak of greencough and the worry of what may have happened had they been so unlucky as to have lost their medicine cats to the sickness. More would have died and they would have been left with no one to help care for the sick that remained or pass on the knowledge to another. It was decided that there should always be two fully trained medicine cats and that they should train an apprentice together before either of them could retire.
Lionstar also proposed a new tradition to all the Clans. He suggested that they should Gather together for one day in newleaf to celebrate the survival of all five Clans through leaf-bare and to give their apprentices a chance to compete and test their skills against cats different from them, rivals from other Clans, to celebrate their differences. The idea was discussed at length, for of course Ravenstar was initially opposed to the idea and the other leaders were uncertain. Hawkstar was the first to agree and eventually the others came around as well, each for their own reasons. The new gathering was to be called the Apprentice Games and it would be held in mid newleaf, on the day after the new moon. The Clans would gather at StarClan’s Claws at sunhigh after morning patrols had been completed.
So that’s what’s happened/is currently happening in character! I wanted to make sure to write this up for everyone so you have some ideas to get started as to what to reference happening in the recent past and etc. With that done, we’re moving on to some OOC explanations and news and etc.
A new high rank! Well, not entirely NEW just, another, but still. Medicine cats that don’t have apprentices currently (Ivypaw and Littletimber) should be on the lookout for one. Ivypaw isn’t technically old enough to take one on yet by our rules (at least 25 moons), but Butterfly is still free to ask around/hold auditions for her future apprentice which she will be able to take with the NEXT season change.
The Apprentice Games! I’ll be putting up a sign-up for people that want their apprentices to participate. In this sign-up will be more details about how it will work.
Season Change! We’re jumping ahead on season, so instead of leaf-bare it is now newleaf. With that everyone’s cats have aged 3 moons (I’ve changed all the ages accordingly in the FateDex, but some cats might be missing from it). All apprentice training threads have been waived, so if you have an apprentice that’s 12+ moons with the seasons change and doesn’t have their required threads done, don’t worry about it and feel free to change them to warriors. If you want to play them as apprentices for a bit longer, you may, as there WAS just a greencough outbreak so they very well may have gotten sick and not been able to train properly for some time, and therefore have to be held back. However, any apprentice older than 13 moons will NOT be allowed to participate in the Apprentice Games as it WILL be assumed in that particular thread that they have been made into warriors by then, so don’t let the Games be a deciding factor in if you make them warriors or not! Besides apprentices being made warriors, we should also have some kits being made into apprentices, so if you have one start looking for someone to mentor them!
The greencough outbreak. All leaders are required to have lost one life during the outbreak. Most of the cats people are giving up and killing off will be assumed to have died of greencough (unless their owner specifies otherwise).
NightClan needs a new Deputy! Fuzzy has given up Roughthroat and killed him off so NightClan is looking for a new deputy! PM me if you’re interested and link me to the cat you’re wanting to have as deputy, there won’t be any official auditions thread or anything, keeping this one simple. The only requirement is they must be a tom!
New Staff! Welcome Laci to the staff. She will be our first ever Mod Apprentice, which is a fancy title for ‘trial mod’ xD. Based on her performance as a mod over the next month or two she will either be promoted to a full mod or taken off staff and someone else that applied for the staff position will be given a chance to fill the role. However, she is still STAFF so please treat her as such! Staff are also going to be getting a monthly salary of 25 Prey, it’s not a lot but it’s better than nothing at all!
The Pride plot will not be starting up until greenleaf so I won’t be typing up a big explanation for it for a while, but in summary for you new members who have NO idea what I’m talking about, the Pride is going to be a group of she-cat rogues that move into the mountains and start stealing she-kits from the Clans to indoctrinate to their way of life. They are all tom-hating for one reason or another and basically want to live in a warrior Amazon she-cats rule and toms serve sort of world xD
And now that all that has been gone through, everyone that has sent me their PMs telling me which cats you are getting rid of and how are free to begin RPing again (if you were required to do this because you had too many cats, anyway). If you have not gotten your cat count down to acceptable levels by the new rules yet and PM’d me about them, you will not be allowed to RP until you have. Please also alert me to any name changes (for apprentices who are becoming warriors).
If you have any questions or I forgot to cover something, please let me know!
With the melting of the snow and the warm winds of newleaf, the return of prey, so too did health return and the sickness faded out. The early newleaf Gathering came about and the Clans all attended. The leaders discussed the outbreak of greencough and the worry of what may have happened had they been so unlucky as to have lost their medicine cats to the sickness. More would have died and they would have been left with no one to help care for the sick that remained or pass on the knowledge to another. It was decided that there should always be two fully trained medicine cats and that they should train an apprentice together before either of them could retire.
Lionstar also proposed a new tradition to all the Clans. He suggested that they should Gather together for one day in newleaf to celebrate the survival of all five Clans through leaf-bare and to give their apprentices a chance to compete and test their skills against cats different from them, rivals from other Clans, to celebrate their differences. The idea was discussed at length, for of course Ravenstar was initially opposed to the idea and the other leaders were uncertain. Hawkstar was the first to agree and eventually the others came around as well, each for their own reasons. The new gathering was to be called the Apprentice Games and it would be held in mid newleaf, on the day after the new moon. The Clans would gather at StarClan’s Claws at sunhigh after morning patrols had been completed.
- All apprentices between 6 and 9 moons old could compete in a hunting competition, each hunting in their own territory of course. They would bring the prey they caught to StarClan’s Claws to be watched over by their mentors until the competition was over. The apprentice or apprentices that caught the most prey by dusk would receive the honor of first pick of all the freshkill.
- All apprentices that were at least 10 moons old could compete in a battle competition held at StarClan’s Claws. There would of course to be no fighting with unsheathed claws. They would present themselves and find an opponent and whoever won would find another, and another, while the ones that lost would be disqualified. The battles would be carefully watched by the mentors of the competing apprentices. The last apprentice standing would receive their warrior name right there and then in front of all the Clans for their show of battle prowess, defeating all challengers, and be able to choose their freshkill after the hunting competition winners had chosen theirs.
- After the competitions had ended and the winners announced, all the cats would gather around to choose prey from the freshkill that had been caught during the hunting competition and share tongues as the sun set. Any leftover prey would be taken back to each respective camp at the end of the day.
Needless to say, all the apprentices are quite excited about the upcoming first ever Apprentice Games.
So that’s what’s happened/is currently happening in character! I wanted to make sure to write this up for everyone so you have some ideas to get started as to what to reference happening in the recent past and etc. With that done, we’re moving on to some OOC explanations and news and etc.
A new high rank! Well, not entirely NEW just, another, but still. Medicine cats that don’t have apprentices currently (Ivypaw and Littletimber) should be on the lookout for one. Ivypaw isn’t technically old enough to take one on yet by our rules (at least 25 moons), but Butterfly is still free to ask around/hold auditions for her future apprentice which she will be able to take with the NEXT season change.
The Apprentice Games! I’ll be putting up a sign-up for people that want their apprentices to participate. In this sign-up will be more details about how it will work.
Season Change! We’re jumping ahead on season, so instead of leaf-bare it is now newleaf. With that everyone’s cats have aged 3 moons (I’ve changed all the ages accordingly in the FateDex, but some cats might be missing from it). All apprentice training threads have been waived, so if you have an apprentice that’s 12+ moons with the seasons change and doesn’t have their required threads done, don’t worry about it and feel free to change them to warriors. If you want to play them as apprentices for a bit longer, you may, as there WAS just a greencough outbreak so they very well may have gotten sick and not been able to train properly for some time, and therefore have to be held back. However, any apprentice older than 13 moons will NOT be allowed to participate in the Apprentice Games as it WILL be assumed in that particular thread that they have been made into warriors by then, so don’t let the Games be a deciding factor in if you make them warriors or not! Besides apprentices being made warriors, we should also have some kits being made into apprentices, so if you have one start looking for someone to mentor them!
The greencough outbreak. All leaders are required to have lost one life during the outbreak. Most of the cats people are giving up and killing off will be assumed to have died of greencough (unless their owner specifies otherwise).
NightClan needs a new Deputy! Fuzzy has given up Roughthroat and killed him off so NightClan is looking for a new deputy! PM me if you’re interested and link me to the cat you’re wanting to have as deputy, there won’t be any official auditions thread or anything, keeping this one simple. The only requirement is they must be a tom!
New Staff! Welcome Laci to the staff. She will be our first ever Mod Apprentice, which is a fancy title for ‘trial mod’ xD. Based on her performance as a mod over the next month or two she will either be promoted to a full mod or taken off staff and someone else that applied for the staff position will be given a chance to fill the role. However, she is still STAFF so please treat her as such! Staff are also going to be getting a monthly salary of 25 Prey, it’s not a lot but it’s better than nothing at all!
The Pride plot will not be starting up until greenleaf so I won’t be typing up a big explanation for it for a while, but in summary for you new members who have NO idea what I’m talking about, the Pride is going to be a group of she-cat rogues that move into the mountains and start stealing she-kits from the Clans to indoctrinate to their way of life. They are all tom-hating for one reason or another and basically want to live in a warrior Amazon she-cats rule and toms serve sort of world xD
And now that all that has been gone through, everyone that has sent me their PMs telling me which cats you are getting rid of and how are free to begin RPing again (if you were required to do this because you had too many cats, anyway). If you have not gotten your cat count down to acceptable levels by the new rules yet and PM’d me about them, you will not be allowed to RP until you have. Please also alert me to any name changes (for apprentices who are becoming warriors).
If you have any questions or I forgot to cover something, please let me know!