Gustclan
Number of Cats: 15
|8F|7M|
Food Consumption: 4
Visit to Moonpool: It’s been more than a week since the last Moonpool visit
“Heronstar, we smelt dogs and twolegs by the lake shore, and in the Western woods.”
“Humans." Harrierpelt corrected Chubtail, from his position in the medicine cat den, calling out to where the nursery was, and Heronstar had been as the deputy came in to report on the patrol. Chubtail slightly rolled his eyes. “If we can have a proper name for their bridges, we can definitely have a proper name for them. You may have also noticed that birds have twolegs too? Should we not call all birds twolegs if we call humans twolegs? And you may have noticed that they do have four legs, just two are withered and short, so they must struggle on just their two back legs; they should be witheredlegs if anything.”
“But it is our tradition to call them twolegs, Harrierpelt, you can’t just change every word you don’t like.” Chubtail called back.
“Tradition should not be the sole reason for something.”
Heronstar flicked her tail, impatiently, waiting for her deputy and medicine cat to stop debating over trivial matters. Honestly, she sided with Harrierpelt on this, although both terms seemed reasonable, and him randomly interrupting rather vital matters for a terminology debate was unhelpful.
“Alright. Our territory is easily large enough for us to be able to avoid them as long as we take good care to stay away from their normal routes. I suggest we have a watch high up- preferably on the closer of the two peaks of the hills- who can quickly return to warn us if any humans, twolegs, whatever term you use-" She gave Harrierpelt a bit of a pointed look- yes it’s fine to question words, but don’t belittle things of actual import “-are approaching our camp. For the mean time, I don’t want any cats not yet warriors to approach the western woods or the lakeshore. I suggest the apprentices are all trained fairly near camp.
“There’s no reason that we cannot still have hunting patrols and border patrols, but only cats who are not going to charge out the twolegs or humans, and risk us getting evicted by them should go anywhere near those areas. Further, only cats able to run and quickly recall to us what happened should go.”
She would have gone herself to scout out what was going on, if it weren’t for her pregnancy. She had 9 lives, she could spare one on keeping her clan safe from the dogs.
“If any cat sees a dog, they are to climb up a tree immediately if they cannot reasonably get to camp before it catches up with them, but more importantly do not go near the dogs under any circumstances. Then we won’t need special measures about how to avoid their fangs. If you cannot escape one that’s noticed you, and it is not attacking you, leave it be, so you don’t make it want to attack you.”
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“Hey, Shellpaw!” Called Droserapaw, bounding up to his brother as he practiced his running skills within camp. Shellpaw kept running, in short bursts of high speed around the courtyard area. Or, high speed for him. He wasn’t that good at running quickly yet, and kept stumbling over or around things. “Did you know twolegs can turn their legs into weird yellow things?”
“Nuh-uh.” Shellpaw panted out, having stumbled over a large rock seconds before.
“Well, they can. There were a load of them- one big twoleg, and a load of his kits- I didn’t realise twolegs could have so many, I always thought they only had one or two before- all out on the water with big sticks with giant duck feet on the end. They were all turning around in the water.”
“Right. Maybe Harrierpelt’s right that we shouldn’t call them twolegs if sometimes they don’t even have any legs?”
Droserapaw shook his head at that assessment. Changing their terms would just confuse other clans needlessly when they went to gatherings, or needed allies, so he dismissed that thought of his brother’s. “We don’t see them swim very much, because they’re awful at it, really. Their tails point forwards as well as backwards, and they have the giant duck feet instead of fins themselves. And some of them had conjoined tails, made of something green and shiny, and each of them had half of a stick-with-duck-feet., and those ones all had their tails ripped open, so I could see all the bones in them.”
Shellpaw stumbled at his next sprint and almost catapulted himself into a flowerpatch. “And how’d’ya work that out? Didn’t mum say we’re not meant to go very far out of camp?”
“…I was just practicing climbing. Ma said we’re meant to have a look-out at all times until the twolegs and their dogs are gone, and I know none of them are gonna be able to reach me half way up the cliff. And besides, the one way to get an apprentice to do something reliably is to tell them not to do it, right? Like you telling me to stop trying to look after you, to stop you getting hurt!”
Shellpaw shot him a glare, but unfortunately for him, a cat who regularly flinches at basic physical contact was not particularly intimidating even with his best efforts.
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Heronstar waited in her nest, in the nursery, waiting for when the kits actually started to come. Moraine had come in to try to keep her company for a few moments until Chubtail returned. She kept kneading the bedding around her, trying to perfect the shape of it for when they came, to make sure they’d be warm and- more importantly- unlikely to fall out of the nest.
Moraine sat nervously by one side, a short way off. Harrierpelt was trying to organise herbs for what he would need quickly accessible once the kits started coming. Moraine had been tasked with fetching him when he was needed.
Heronstar groaned, and fidgeted again. “Do you have any distractions? Yes, what was it about your name and …glaciers, was it?”
Moraine was somewhat nervous of this. “Yes. They were huge, enormous, and their shells could scrape entire mountains away. They could spray huge streams of water out of their throats, leaving lakes high up in the mountains where they wouldn’t otherwise be found. They laid out lines of rocks - moraines- as worship to their deities. They came in swarms, each swarm in a single shell, like bees, and they’d would swallow any cat who got too close. They’d charge towards good cat territory, to hunt. The gaps in the shells housed their mouths, and they’d use their long tongues to pull in cats who strayed too close to the gaps. They were so fast, that no cat ever saw them come out to grab one, but you could hear their screams as they landed in the beasts’ maws. They were so fast, even, that a whole shell hasn’t been seen in generations, but all cats know well enough to not go out looking for them, lest they be consumed themselves.”
Heronstar was staring at Moraine in something close to terror as moraine finished her description. “You are sure that they are nowhere near here? That they cannot get far enough out of their shells, and their home territory, to reach us?”
“I think it has been a long time since any glaciers lived near here, Heronstar. But glaciers do not like to descend from mountains- our ancestors cause their shells to disintegrate and fall away, and their very bodies to evaporate when they leave the mountains, as a form of protection. I doubt they can get here.”
Heronstar looked only slightly more reassured. “Remind me to never put you in charge of kit minding.”
[Myrtleclaw and Droserapaw, Argusheart and Shellpaw, Pearstone and Sparrowpaw and Boulderdash and Nettlepaw go training close to camp]
[Osierfang, Lobeliafur and Moraine go hunting close to camp]
[Heronstar and Harrierpelt stay in camp to prepare for the kits coming]
[Chubtail and Bugleclaw sit as look outs for dogs and twolegs close to camp]
[Gustclan consumes 1 mouse and 1 hare – 4 portions]
Leader:
Heronstar | 58 | Female
Lives: ★★★★★★★★★
↪ Point long-furred molly with blue eyes
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Deputy:
★ Chubtail | 54 | Male
↪ Brown tabby tom with white patches and yellow eyes
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Medicine Cat: (1)
★ Harrierpelt | 33 | Male
↪ Long-furred dark-grey tom with amber eyes
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Warriors: (7)
★ Boulderdash | 49 | Female
↪ Slender grey tabby molly with green eyes
↪ Scar on shoulder and chipped ear
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★ Myrtleclaw | 45 | Male
↪ Long furred pale grey tabby tom with golden eyes
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★ Pearstone “Poirroche” | 32 | Male
↪ Long-furred white tom with slightly grey tail and green eyes
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★ Osierfang | 20 | Female
↪ Gold-brown tabby molly with green eyes
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★ Bugleclaw | 51 | Male
↪ Large, long-furred black tom with hazel eyes
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★ Lobeliafur | 16 | Female
↪ White-furred molly with brown eyes
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★ Moraine on Steep Slope “Moraine” | 27 | Female
↪ Golden-brown tabby molly with big green eyes
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★ Name | Age | Gender
↪ Description
carrying
Apprentices: (4)
★ Shellpaw | 12 | Male
↪ White tom with grey point and blue eyes
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★ Droserapaw | 12 | Male
↪ Tabby cinnamon tom with blue eyes
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★ Sparrowpaw | 6 | Female
↪ Pale grey tabby molly with hazel eyes
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★ Nettlepaw | 6 | Female
↪ Pale grey tabby molly with blue eyes
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★ Name | Age | Gender
↪ Description
Queens: (2)
★ Heronstar | 58 | Female | •••
↪ Point long-furred molly with blue eyes
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★ Argusheart | 50 | Female | •
↪ Chocolate/Dark tortoiseshell molly with pale green eyes
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★ Name | Age | Gender | •
↪ Description
carrying
Kits:
★ Name | Age | Gender
↪ Description
carrying
Elders:
★ Name | Age | Gender
↪ Description
carrying
Ally Clans:
Clan Name | Username
Clan Name | Username
Enemy Clans
Clan Name | Username
Clan Name | Username
Borders
North East | Mostly Lake | Forestclan | Simonpet
North West | Mostly Lake | Clan Name | Username
East | Road + Stream | Clan Name | Username
South | Road | Wrenclan | Raven Walker
West | Hills | Clan Name | Username
Medicine Store
Borage Leaves (1) | Brings down fevers, improves milk
Burdock Root (2) | Helps cure rat bites (infection, pain)
Catmint (1) | Remedy for green/whitecough
Celandine (1) | Soothes damaged eyes.
Cobweb (1) | Slow bleeding. Binds broken bones.
Comfrey (1) | Repairs broken bones, sooths wounds.
Helps wrenched claws. Eases itches, inflammation and
stiffness. Helps burns.
Daisy Leaf (1) | Eases aching joints, travelling herb
Feverfew (2) | Reduces body temperature, heals aches
and pains, esp. headaches.
Goldenrod (1) | Helps heal wounds
Honey (1) | Soothes infections, helps damaged throats
and swallowing, soothes coughing, gives energy.
Horestail (1) | Treats infections and stops bleeding.
Lungwort (2) | Cures yellowcough
Ragwort (1) | Reduces joint ache, keeps up strength
Sorrel(1) | For travelling, increases appetite
Tansy (1) | Cures coughs, cure wounds and poisons.
Stops cats from getting greencough. Soothes throats
Thyme (1) | Helps nervousness, anxiety and shock
Watermint (1) | Reduces bellyache
Fresh-Kill Pile:
Frogs | x2 | 1 serving
Mice | x1 | 1 serving
Squirrels | x2 | 2 servings
Rabbits | x2 | 2 servings
Big Fish | x2 | 3 servings
Hares | x1 | 3 servings
Total | 24 | 6 moons’ worth
Mentors:
All: Climb, Fish and/or Hunt
Warrior: Fight, Track
Med Cat: Herb Identification, Heal, Stealth
+Detective: Observe, Investigate, Stealth
+Deputy, from Leader: Diplomacy, Orate, Stategise
Optional skills (2(+)): Advance skill (above), Agility,
Basic Heal (warrior), Diplomacy, Fight, Fish, Herb
identification, Hunt, Interpret Prophecy, Investigate,
Observe, Orate, Run, Stalk, Stealth, Strategise,
Swim, Track
Myrtleclaw | Droserapaw | 6
Fight, Track, Fish, Climb, Swim, Stalk,
Argusheart* | Shellpaw | 6
Hunt, Track, Fish, Fight, Swim, Climb,
Boulderdash | Nettlepaw | 0
NA
Pearstone | Sparrowpaw | 0
NA
Mentor | Apprentice | No. of training sessions
Moves
Deceased Cats:
Elmkitfang | Died shortly after birth
Cat Name | Cause of Death
Family:
★ Heronstar and Chubtail ★
Shellpaw and Droserapaw;
Kits coming
★ Boulderdash and Harrierpelt [Myrtleclaw] ★
Elmkit, Sparrowpaw and Nettlepaw
★Argusheart and Bugleclaw ★
Kits Coming
★ Name and Name ★
Kits