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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 4, 2017 17:41:37 GMT -5
This is the planning and discussion page for anything related to the roleplay of YarrowClan, JuniperClan, LilyClan, and ?Clan. That includes main plots, subplots, character plots, characters and their progression, individual events, and so on. Or, if you just wanna chit-chat about the rp and not really plan anything, that's fine. I would request that you keep off-topic chatter to a minimum, but some short discussions here and there which aren't related to the Clans is fine.
If you have any ideas for plots, please suggest them here. If it's something major, that will affect most cats in multiple or all Clans, we will collectively vote on it. Otherwise, it only need approval from the Clan owners. If it is a subplot but you are looking for other participants, I might agree to list the plot on this page. This does not include searches for relationships- that should be listed either on the joining page, and/or occur in the roleplay (as in the case of most rivalries, friendships, or romances forbidden and otherwise; unless, of course, your cat needs a mate now for backstory purposes or kits).
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 4, 2017 18:52:11 GMT -5
TERRITORY A temperate area nestled in the bend of a river. A twoleg walking path extends over part of the river, with a walking trail that forms the border between YarrowClan and JuniperClan. East of the river is a marshy area, which is home to LilyClan, and just south of that, straddling a branch of the river, is the home of ?Clan.
PLOTS Once, there was only one Clan in the forest, a large Clan with no name (since, with only one, they need not differentiate themselves). It was very different from the Clans we know now, but it still followed a rudimentary version of the warrior code, and some of the ranks were the same. However, this Clan had no deputy, and eventually it came to pass that the leader of the Clan died with no obvious successor. Thus, the prominent and ambitious members of the Clans all claimed their right to lead, and in turn divided the Clan's loyalties between them. With conflict came bloodshed, and before long, separate groups had been chased out or left, settling in the surrounding areas. Determined to reunite the Clan under one leader- and each group certain that the leader would be theirs- the groups continued to fight for many moons. Though they began to realize that reuniting would be impossible, the Clans refused to accept this, and still fought among themselves, refusing to truly become their own Clans under the false hope that the one Clan would come to be again.
Eventually, the members of each Clan started to become weak and sick, some even succumbing to the mysterious illness, which medicine cats could not identify. Now, the Clans' hostility began to abate, and desperate to find a cure to the sickness, they even began to work together, medicine cats sharing tips and knowledge in an attempt to find the cure. Moons passed and cats died, but no herb seemed to work. All hope seemed lost, until StarClan came in a dream to all the medicine cats. They told them that only working together completely, sharing not only knowledge but herbs, could they find the cure. The medicine cats, awoke, and decided that they would each find an herb which was unique to their territory. They and the rest of their Clans would meet on the next full moon night with as much of their respective herbs as they could carry, and there they would mix the cure. The following full moon, the Clans met again to share news of the cure's status, which had miraculously worked. In honor of the cure that saved them and brought them together, they agreed to meet every full moon from then on in peace. Furthermore, each Clan took on the name of the herb they contributed to the cure, as a badge of honor for the part they played. And finally, the rank of deputy was added and the warrior code amended, so that the problems that caused the original Clan to split would never again occur. And thus, the modern Clans were born.
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Oct 5, 2017 12:31:37 GMT -5
I'd love to help, but unfortunately, I can't be on a whole lot at the moment, so I'll be poofy. I also have plans later in the day tomorrow. Besides that, I'm usually active and I've ran a few Clans before. If you'd have me, I'd love to help.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 12:52:14 GMT -5
Sure, that would be great! I have no issue with you being poofy, I can be quite poofy myself most days so I completely understand XD I'm usually busy, I just happened to have gotten yesterday, today, and tomorrow off work and with literally nothing else to do (as it stands at least).
So... first things first, I guess, would be to at least start shaping the territory past what I already have (basically, that it's temperate and I would like there to be a river somewhere). Currently, I'm actually thinking that it might be interesting if all of the territories sat in a riverbend... that is, that the river forms a sort of partial loop or horseshoe shape, and the Clans' territories are within that horseshoe. I'm also considering there possibly being a walking bridge somewhere along the river, with a twoleg walking/hiking path that goes through the forest, possibly forming a border between two or more of the Clans.
Other than that, is there any particular territory type you're partial to? Water-based, forest, meadow, etc.?
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 12:56:30 GMT -5
Oh, hi! Yeah, I don't blame you for not wanting to take on another Clan XD If it weren't for the fact that all of the other Clans I'd started recently immediately fizzled out, I wouldn't be instigating this one XD I feel as though simple Clans are the current fad, though, so I'm confident this set will be a bit more successful....
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Oct 5, 2017 13:02:16 GMT -5
I actually like that a lot. I prefer forest and thick undergrowth, but I don't mind having water-y elements to it. I just don't like a lot of open space. If we do a twoleg bridge, we could have a small greenleaf twolegplace nearby. That'd give us seasonal options for small plots.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 13:04:32 GMT -5
Yeah I mean with very rare exceptions I don't like "fantasy" Clans with powers or wings or any of that stuff. But by simple I mean like, no extreme plots or environments or anything. Just very basic, almost cliche Clans. Which is precisely what I'm going for here XD I mean, not for them to be super cliche, but for them to just be kind of... easy-going. No weird lore or convoluted storylines or anything like that, something you can pretty much just jump right into. Not that there's anything wrong with more complex Clans, at the moment I'm just in the mood for something that... doesn't require a lot of thought, I suppose XD if that makes any sense.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 13:06:10 GMT -5
I actually like that a lot. I prefer forest and thick undergrowth, but I don't mind having water-y elements to it. I just don't like a lot of open space. If we do a twoleg bridge, we could have a small greenleaf twolegplace nearby. That'd give us seasonal options for small plots. Sure, that could work! Maybe a couple of small picnic areas or something along the river? And yeah I was thinking for the forest Clans (because I'm sure at least two of them will be forest based) that one could have a younger, more open forest, while the other could be a denser and more tangled, older forest. You could certainly take the latter of the two ideas, if you're partial.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 13:14:55 GMT -5
Hm.... new idea as well. Maybe on the other side of the river is a twolegplace? Just a small one, like a neighborhood or something, nothing major. That would mean twolegs, plus dogs, would be a very frequent problem, not to mention kittypets. Or if we wanted there to be a bit more space between the Clans and the twolegplace, we could put it a bit farther up or downriver. I like the idea of it being upriver in that case, since you could have small plots where, for example, some kind of twoleg garbage came down the river and got a cat sick, or something like that.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 13:23:50 GMT -5
Well the creatures would probably be pretty much the standard that you see in any Warriors story- foxes, badgers, hawks; various prey like squirrels, mice, rabbits, and voles, and so on. You could possibly throw in some more North American species as well, or those you don't normally see in Warriors but which could exist in the area, like boars, bears, raccoons, deer, coyotes, etc. Some of those could theoretically make good names; something like DeerClan, BearClan, BoarClan, FoxClan, etc. Some, like fox, are common prefixes, but others like deer or bear are less common, and I doubt we can get away with giving all the Clans names that aren't common prefixes; still, the majority wouldn't be a bad deal. Of course, this is running with the assumption all the Clans will have names of a similar theme.
Another idea I had had that I thought might be fun for Clan names was colors XD so you could have like YellowClan, GreenClan, BlueClan, and so on. They would be less descriptive, I suppose, than having names that were plants, animals, or something from the environment... but it could still be fun, and unique, and the colors could still reflect the Clan in some way.
But, names are more of a discussion for later. We can toss around ideas for now, but it's probably best to name the Clans when we have a better idea of what they are.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 5, 2017 17:49:50 GMT -5
A very general potential layout for the territories? The map is obviously very unfinished and undefined but it was intended mostly to just demonstrate the general layout of what I'm currently envisioning. Most of it's self-explanatory, besides perhaps some of the territory layout. To explain:
The territories are set up with the potential for all 6 Clan slots to be taken, labeled with territories 1-6, with the exception of "Territory 2.1," which is just a part of Territory 2 in the 6-Clan scenario, and Territory 4.5. You may notice in the latter scenario that there is a white border and gray border; the white border is with the 6-Clan scenario (thus, 4.5 being a part of 5), while the gray is for a number of Clans less than that (thus, 4.5 being a part of 4). The idea is that the fewer the Clans, the more territories get combined... if there are four Clans, for example, the sections would merge something like: Territories 1 + 2.1; Territories 2 + 3; Territories 5 + 6; and Territories 4 + 4.5. For an uneven number of Clans, the merging would really have to be decided based on the precise number. Either way, I hope it's not too confusing XD let me know if you like the layout overall, and tell me any other ideas you might have for it. For the moment, I'm not worrying about specific landmarks or anything, just the overall shape.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 6, 2017 12:19:31 GMT -5
Bump?
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 6, 2017 17:24:17 GMT -5
Yeah 6 Clans is on the off chance that a whole lot of people show interest... which is incredibly unlikely. It's more of a maximum cap than a goal. Really I'm going for 4, which is ideal, with 3 being the minimum and 5 being a faint possibility.
As for setting them apart, I figure that will be done more by the Clan owners. Like I said, the map is more of a layout than actual geography, so once we have an idea of the Clans and a general idea of where they'd like to be located, I'll add in things like meadows, more terrain variation, and that sort of thing. I would go into more detail with mine at least but since I don't have a huge preference on terrain type I'm sort of waiting to see what gets "left over" XD as for the map itself.... the territory lines really were more of a theory or guess than anything, they can really change as much as we want. I was mostly just trying to figure out a theoretic way to fit in the maximum and minimum numbers of Clans.
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Oct 8, 2017 14:47:30 GMT -5
I'm so sorry I haven't been on. Some stuff has come up, but I'm still interested. I hope to be on soon today.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 8, 2017 14:50:13 GMT -5
Oh hai you're alive XD don't worry about it, cr@p happens. The only thing I'm disappointed about is the fact that literally no one else has shown any interest in the meantime lmao rip.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 8, 2017 15:26:52 GMT -5
So I got bored and made a couple more rough maps because... yolo I guess lmao. This time I only went with the assumption the assumption that there would be four Clans period and didn't bother with possibilities for other numbers. I also updated the original one to just have the four Clans. Not sure which layout I like best atm.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 9, 2017 10:41:47 GMT -5
Bumperoni? :/
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Post by Nami on Oct 9, 2017 13:18:02 GMT -5
can i take clan 3?
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 9, 2017 13:33:00 GMT -5
Well... it doesn't look like you have all that much experience making Clans, and looking through your roleplay posts I'm not quite sure you're as literate of a user as I was looking for to run the Clans. So for the moment, I'd have to say no on claiming one, but you're more than welcome to help plan them, and join once they're completed!
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Post by Nami on Oct 9, 2017 13:37:57 GMT -5
thanks!
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Oct 9, 2017 14:56:47 GMT -5
I think I like the first map, but then again it's similar to the original one. I also like how they vary in size, it'll give a lot of potential for plots.
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 9, 2017 15:57:49 GMT -5
Yeah currently I like the first and last one best, I think. And yeah I mean if you make them all exactly the same it looks a bit less real, I feel like... plus the differences in size as well as geography (even though the latter isn't yet especially distinct yet) is part of what makes each Clan have to function slightly differently, and thus be unique.
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Oct 9, 2017 16:20:53 GMT -5
I'm perfectly fine with whichever you choose. :3 I can also ask a friend if she'd like to help out.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2017 16:36:54 GMT -5
Hello, I'm interested in helping out if ya want. I want to add that if there are any grammar or misspelling in my posts it's due to dyslexia. Even though I have dyslexia I wouldn't mind tips or pointers to help me get better at grammar, punctuation, and spelling :3
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Post by Aphelyon on Oct 9, 2017 17:07:47 GMT -5
Awesome, I'm glad to have you! Don't worry about a few errors- everyone makes them, and you have a pretty good excuse for spelling errors XD
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