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Leaffall
HERBS/PREY With clans overhunting and the cold beginning to set in, prey grows scarce | With most growing seasons ended, herbs are now very limited and rare
CLIMATE Days have begun to cool, carrying a brisk chill and the subtle threat of early snow
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DON'T FORGET TO READ THE RULEBOOK!
7.14.16 // Congratulations to Rabbitclaw for his promotion to ShadowClan deputy! Also, don't forget to post in the Activity Check!
6.15.16 // A bunch of lovely cosmetic updates to the site have been made (just look at those snazzy side-tables) and the WC has been lowered, for practical reasons, to 150. We also would love to welcome Stormhawk (void) as WindClan's new deputy!
6.7.16 // Rise Up's first gathering is underway! Don't miss the fun! You can find and start your own threads in the gathering board, found right in four trees! Be sure to read through the leader announcements!
5.25.16 // A big ol' CONGRATS to Cuckoopoppy, ShadowClan's medicine cat! He's a scruffy old fellow who sees a few more omens then normal (and perhaps a few curses) but I'm sure we'll all love him and his antics! Reminder that the SC and WC deputy positions are still available for audition!
5.15.16 // The May activity check has come to a close! A big thank you to everyone who participated! Unfortunately, the ShadowClan medicine cat rank is now open as well. The deadline for this rank, and the others available, is indefinite- so if you want it, go for it!
5.7.16 // Our first activity check is underway, and a new announcement has been posted! The new season is leaffall, and everyone should remember to age any characters made prior to 5/1/16 up two moons! Remember that two deputy positions and the guard position are still ripe for the taking.
5.7.16 // Did you know 99 Love Baloons is actually a song about the apopcalypse? Who knew!
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wakey wakey (Lionpaw)
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Post by applestar on May 7, 2016 9:53:43 GMT -6
[nospaces] eggs and 308 WORDS ■ lionpaw ■ time to train! bakey
Hanging beneath the hollow's outer lips the sun stretched lazily. It hadn't yet risen enough to spill light into camp, but its fingers scored the sky in blazes of yellow and gold. Applestar hadn't been all that excited to get out of bed and greet that sky. Sleeping actually sounded much better. His old bones loved the prospect of just staying in that plump nest of moss and feathers. He would have never left had it not been for his mate.
[break][break]His side still hurting from where Clovertail had prodded it, Applestar made his way towards where his young apprentice slept in the open-floorplan that was their camp. Although the large, fluffy tom had tried his best to be a stealthy ninja, sneaking from clump of grass to another or hiding behind the rump of a sleeping cat, the bumbling old man was anything but. After stepping on two too many tails he finally crouched before Lionpaw.
[break][break]A massive, ginger paw soared above her head, hovering carefully above the presumably sleeping cat. He made sure to tuck his broad body as close to the ground as he could, with his ears lay flat to either side and eyes wide as full moons. Then, holding his breath, he hastily poked at the apprentice's opposite side -his arm reaching easily over her- and then retracted his paw underneath him to hide the evidence. If she spun around to look at him he'd just stare at her with a perplexed look, as if saying 'who me? couldn't be!'
[break][break]Somewhere behind him Applestar could hear the yet-to-be-claimed deputy greeting the dawn patrol as it headed out of camp. His fur burned at the thought that one of them might have seen his antics, but he brushed the embarrassment away. This was his granddaughter! Of course he had every right to be silly.
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Post by lionpaw on May 7, 2016 12:24:48 GMT -6
I wanted to be stronger
I wanted to be everything for you! Rabbits! So many of them! They were everywhere!Lionpaw's body twisted this way and that, scrambling around the strange ground, flying after the darn critters as they hopped effortlessly away from her. At the very least, she wasn't getting tired of chasing them, and that was good. Very good. Most good in fact, that she barely noticed when something touched her. Wait. What? There was nothing there. Or was there? Huh?A small groan escaped Lionpaw as her dream folded in on itself in a swirling of black before she opened her eyes and blinked away the remnants of her rabbit-filled imaginings. Had she been kicked by one of her sleeping brothers again? Or maybe she'd snored herself awake. That was a more probable cause. Her litter mates usually we up long before she was, and she doubted one of them had snuggled up to her side in the middle of the night. Maybe she'd just rolled over onto a rock or something. That was probably it.Until she noticed that her grandfather was sitting barely a tail length away from her."Wh-HEY." Her entire body was flung into the air with a litheness that was exclusive to the wiry little apprentice age, twisting around to land on her paws, plumed tail puffed out even more. The whine that left her parted jaws was less than befitting a cat her age, but she pouted at him anyway. "Applestaaar! Don't do that!" Finally she calmed, shaking out her long pelt without bothering to groom (too time intensive) and she sprung up, suddenly realizing why he was there."WAIT. WHOA. Are we training today? For real?!" The squeak left her before she could contain it and she reared up to put her paws on his face to put herself a little higher up, peering up and around the camp. Maybe they were sparring? Were there other apprentices around? Ohhhh, she could totally get Leopardpaw back for eating that beetle she'd wanted the other day! OR maybe she could TOTALLY fight for the deputy rank. She was old enough, right? RIGHT. Remembering her dream, her imagination charged ahead. Maybe she'd catch a bunch of rabbits today! |
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Post by applestar on May 7, 2016 20:51:11 GMT -6
[nospaces] eggs and 290 WORDS ■ lionpaw ■ get out the boxing gloves bakey
The bubbly cotton ball that was his granddaughter resembled a burr rather more than a cat at the moment, and it had his carefully held mask of innocence shattering. He beamed at her, chortling happily while the young cat took hold of the situation and flung all her dreams into those few words. Applestar wondered to himself if he had been so gung-ho as she. The answer was likely yes. Oh to be young again!
[break][break]The gentle touch of her small paws on his face only had the grandfather's heart beating with adoration. Only Lionpaw could get away with using the proud cat as a footstool. Skies, she could probably get away with murder as long as the tom was leader.
[break][break]Unable to resist the temptation Applestar took the opportunity to nip at her toes. If she began to fall he'd be quick to try to right her, but he doubted she'd loose her balance. What a spry little thing she was after all!
[break][break]Finally, the leader pulled himself up into a more orderly fashion and shook out his pelt. "For really real." He offered her a playful wink. "I'm thinkin' you're old enough for some defensive training, yeah? Big girl like you?"
[break][break]Perhaps it was a bit too soon to be focusing on fighting, but with The Alliance pushing their borders and two clans out for the count it seemed imperative that his cats trained for battle as soon as possible. Who knew when WindClan would be next? Perhaps they should even begin to train their kits in the art of defense... The thought had him scratching a place on his chin absently, considering a more proactive stance on the situation. He'd have to talk to his senior warriors.
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Post by lionpaw on May 11, 2016 16:42:21 GMT -6
I wanted to be stronger
I wanted to be everything for you! The gentle nipping at her toes didn't phase her and she simply went about gazing around, ears flicking about eagerly. When he shifted under her she sat back, looking everywhere except for him. There were quite a few cats about, returning from hunting, or maybe patrols? Either way there were enough of them for her eyes to burn into each. Who was she gonna fight? Maybe Darkstorm? Ooooh, she was a tough one, but she could totally take her! Or Silverwhisker! He was SUPER quick, but - Oh! Defensive training? Her mind went silent for a moment until - YEAH!! That was JUST as good! She be the best defensive-ist EVER.The idea of the Alliance was still far from her mind. It was more of a queen's tale to her than anything, and it didn't once occur to her that her Clan could potentially be on the brink of an all out war. She knew what was happening with the refugees in their camp, but, it wasn't a tangible thing to her. She was still too young to grasp the real danger of the situation. Just that some weird smelly cats needed to crash here for a while, yeah?Oh well! "Yeah! Yeah! Who'm I gonna fight?!" She squeaked, taking a brief moment to stretch herself out, kneading at the ground lazily before smacking her butt down on the ground. "I can take 'em!" |
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Post by applestar on May 19, 2016 22:21:00 GMT -6
[nospaces] eggs and bakey
Who indeedy. At this very question Applestar seemed to grow in magnitude. He pulled his broad shoulders back, pulled his neck straighter, and generally made a show of looking as impenetrable as possible. The ginger tabby then looked at his apprentice with an obvious glint in those dew yellow eyes. “Ya’ll be defending against the biggest, the baddest, an’ the coolest cat this side of the Thunderpath.” He bellowed in a deep, resonating tone. It was really quite impressive, or so he thought.
[break][break]Leaning in now the leader let his voice drop substantially. “They’re the best set a claws we got, if I do say so myself.” There was a conspiring melody to his mew hinting to his hidden agenda. “Can’t be getting soft on them, ya hear? They’ll eat you up faster than a rabbit in leafbare.” He smiled at this with a devilish grin.
[break][break]Satisfied that she was properly scared and/or excited Applestar closed what little gap was left between them before suddenly, and not-too-roughly, shoving her shoulder with a large paw. His goal was to surprise the much smaller Lionpaw and knock her to her side. Successful or not he’d spring to his feet (as fast as an old man can move) and hurry further into a more open section of camp.
[break][break]Once they were surrounded with a good bit of space Applestar would crouch low while flicking his plump tail left and right in playful agitation. “Get me if ya can!”
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Post by lionpaw on May 26, 2016 12:47:50 GMT -6
I wanted to be stronger I wanted to be everything for you! Golden eyes widened as her grandfather expanded before her, taking up her entire field of view as he puffed out magnificently. Whoa. Would she be able to do that someday? Maybe she'd get JUST as big as him. Then she could scare the CRAP out of Leopard and Tiger! Plus, that stance looked preeeeeetty sturdy.
At the suggestion of training with him she felt her ears press forward eagerly, whiskers spread out in interest. Oooooh! She hadn't even thought of that! If it had been anyone else, they might have been a little intimidated by this cat towering over them, Lionpaw was undaunted. This was her grandfather, after all. He'd never hurt her - not intentionally anyway. He was leader, yeah, and he was huge. But he was a big softy when it came to her, and while she didn't take advantage of that (except in extreme situations like when she wanted something) she knew better than to be afraid of him.
"Yeah? Well mine are gonna be JUST as good!" She chirped back with a small tail lash, and was about to demonstrate her awesome talent, but his heavy foot shoved her to the ground.A small 'oof' left her parted jaws but she sprung back up to her paws in a heartbeat, bounding after him as he moved into a larger area. She watched him carefully when he crouched and she couldn't help but let out a purr, wiggling her back end before shooting over to him and trying to land a rather uncoordinated smack to his nose. That was totally the right way to make an enemy fall over, right? Little nose boop? Totally. Totally. Or maybe some ear chewing? |
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Post by applestar on May 30, 2016 21:20:02 GMT -6
[nospaces] eggs and 260 WORDS ■ lionpaw ■ keepin it realz bakey He happily let the nose-boop hit. The blow wasn’t all that hard and it didn’t do much other than to make him smile fondly. It was hard not to be happy with whatever the fuzz-ball did, even if it didn’t necessarily prepare her for battle. Maybe that’s why it was discouraged for kin to train kin, oops. Applestar fought to hide his doting grin while silently promising to try to be a bit tougher, for her sake.
[break][break]“Still a’standing! Got’ta try harder ‘en that!” Again he resumed an attack crouch, hoping to somehow simulate what an enemy’s gruff position might be when facing a kit. But the very thought of such a situation drew his mind blank. Attack a kit? How? Sure, she was an apprentice, but she was mighty young. No clan cat would do serious damaged on her.
[break][break]But The Alliance were no clan cats. They would kill her.
[break][break]Now the old tom had a little more fuel in his belly, he used it to make himself appear a bit more… attackery. Ears pinned back, teeth were pulled into full view, the hackles on his back and tail spiked at odd angles. A low, menacing hiss resounded in the clearing. “I’m not ya’ grandtom. I’m an enemy loner, a vagabond filth tryin’ to get in’ta the nursery to steal kits. You got to stop me now, alright?” A large, but slow, paw clawed the air in front of her as if trying to ward away the young cat. It was fully intended to miss, to scare her off.
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Post by lionpaw on Jun 25, 2016 22:12:58 GMT -6
I wanted to be stronger I wanted to be everything for you! Even if he hid his grin, that telltale warmth was in his eyes and Lionpaw felt her chest swell juuuust a touch. Yeah. She was gonna be great. Maybe even the best. Yeah. Totally the best. She could picture it, mighty Lionstar, standing before the clan... heck, even all the clans when they were at a gathering! Maybe Applestar knew that. Maybe that's why he'd decided to teach her? Her snotball brothers were cool too, she supposed, but she was awesome. The awesomest. When her grandfather changed his stance and called back to her she blinked. She had seen him pull this face maybe once before, and his sudden switch had surprised her. His face was... scary. Well, almost. She wasn't scared. Nope. Unnerved, maybe, yeah, but not frightened like some little mouse. But, the fur on her tail poofed out just a touch and she eyed his bared teeth. She didn't like this, seeing Applestar do a complete one-eighty was pretty startling. When he spoke she felt her ears flatten against her skull, but felt a bit of a smile cross her face. This was just like make-believe with Leopard and Tiger! "Not on my watch, ya filthy crowfood!" She hissed back, though threatening, she was not. She mimicked his stance (or at the very least tried her best, but still ended up looking like an angry cotton ball) and her stubby tail flicked a bit, eyes wide and locked on him. She didn't really know how to feign or distract, but she did do a few quick hops to see if she could trick him into following her pattern. She wasn't the best at this. Finally she crouched and tried to keep her butt wiggle in check before pouncing forward to smack at one of his paws. Paws had claws right? Could cats still use them if they had hurt paws? | 316 WORDS | | TAGGED | | Gonna getcha |
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Post by applestar on Jun 29, 2016 13:10:35 GMT -6
[nospaces] eggs and 182 WORDS ■ lionpaw ■ keepin it realz bakey Yellow eyes followed his granddaughter’s movements with curiosity barely concealed by his fake-attacker persona. Her hops were certainly cute enough to make just about anyone want to stop their attack, but they probably weren’t going to stop an Alliance cat. And then she struck, hitting his right fore-paw with more strength than he gave her credit for. But it still wasn’t enough.
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Now it was his turn, and the massive ginger tabby used the attacked paw in an attempt to simply and, possibly even effortless, brush her aside. Hopefully Lionpaw would bounce away from the move, but there was a chance she trusted him too much to take their training battle with any grain of seriousness. Either way, he’d let her have a moment to compose herself before saying, “I’ll give ya a hint. Since you’re still just a wee little thing try to go for me eyes and ears. Best route is up the back. Get on, and hold on.” He waited a heartbeat for his words to sink in before again trying to just push her out of the way.
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