- number of cats fifty-one | twenty-seven ♂ | twenty-four ♀ |servings needed nine
next moonpool oct. 9th | injuries n/a | kittings poppyhaze now
- after flintpaw and peckerpaw were given their names, mentors, and places in the apprentice's den, aspenwish had, admittedly, been looking forward to going out to hunt and patrol alongside her clanmates. when she came into the clan as a pregnant queen, she had watched for moons as cats came to and from the moor. cyanslash and falconflight would barrel into the nursery some evenings, pelts fluffed out and whiskers trembling with excitement. of course aspenwish loved her kits and wished that they would be kits forever, but reality didn't allow for that. they would grow up into fine warriors, she knew, with wonderful mentors to guide them.
besides, as their kits grew up, the queens she spent many moons with in the nursery returned to their duties as well to provide for the clan. sunnywhisker had gone first, though she seemed the most reluctant. as many of them had suspected, sunnywhisker's smaller size made it hard for her to keep up with the lithe and practiced warriors. her shorter legs simply couldn't grant her the same speed as snakespots or cyanslash. all the same, she couldn't be faulted for trying her best. cyanslash even reported that she became useful for flushing out rabbit dens.
then it was piperskip and aspenwish's turn. that left only sweetecho, mothtail, and poppyhaze in the nursery. poppyhaze's belly grew more round each time aspenwish saw her, and sweetecho had her paws full with her kits. mothtail took charge of ivystripe's remaining kits, along with the kit sootstone brought in, and her own boulderkit.
the breeze ruffled aspenwish's fur when she led her small patrol from the camp, and she basked in the chilled air of leafbare. freedom from the nursery filled her chest, cut off only when minnowjump chimed his first complaint, "it's too cold already, my paws are going to freeze off."
sure enough, mulestomp snorted his assent and trotted past aspenwish. the tabby flicked his tail impatiently, turning back only when aspenwish continued with her steady pace. "hey, aspenwish," the new warrior called out, minnowjump charging after him. "maybe we should split up? cover more ground or somethin', you know?"
aspenwish sighed, resenting the way her breath clouded the air. when cyanslash put her on patrol with the pair of new warriors, she feared that they would wind up in some lick of trouble. the gut feeling became a pit in her stomach, but she nodded once. "i'll head over to that dip, we can meet up when we've caught something?" she suggested, but it was too late. already the pair took off, minnowjump taking the lead and mulestomp chasing after them.
aspenwish had just managed to lose a rabbit when a yowl split the air. running on instinct, aspenwish ran in the direction of the sound, having recognized mulestomp's voice. there, she found the young toms bristled and facing a pair of haggard-looking warriors. the first was a sand-colored tom, whose ribs showed through his pelt.
"i was sent by starclan to find your leader," the tom hissed, taking a step forward. minnowjump growled viciously, his tail lashing.
"sounds like something a traitor would say," mulestomp cut in.
the other stranger was a skinny molly with tabby markings and golden eyes. "why would he lie?" she asked, and her eyes flickered to aspenwish. "we hoped your clan would know how to rein in apprentices," she said, nodding to mulestomp and minnowjump, who balked at her statement.
aspenwish approached the cats, flicking her ears at the quickclan toms. "why do you think they're lying? if they evoke starclan, surely we are not to deny them a hearing," she said. she imagined her own sons acting out in such a way, and was grateful for their mentors. surely she could trust snakespots and nightfall to make flintpaw and peckerpaw respectable. without waiting for the young warriors to speak again, aspenwish turned to the strangers. the molly flicked her tail as if finally interested in speaking without bristling fur, though the tom remained in a defensive stance. "what are your names?" aspenwish asked.
"hawkrise," the molly answered, tipping her head up. when the tom remained still, her whiskers twitched when she spoke again, "his name is dune. starclan called him to your quickclan. your leader requested a warrior, and here he stands." she spoke in clipped sentences, and her eyes kept flicking back to minnowjump and mulestomp. "admittedly, we thought we would be more welcome here."
"and you are," aspenwish corrected. she controlled herself from sending a look to the younger warriors; she was not their mother and it was not her responsibility to chastise them. "please, allow me. i will take you to redstar."
finally, dune spoke, and his withering gaze was sent towards mulestomp, "that would be nice."
redstar was absent when aspenwish led the way down the sloped path into the camp. snakespots and peckerpaw lounged in the middle of the clearing, grooming their fur after a long training session, when the patrol approached them. the tom's eyes scanned the pair of foreign cats, and peckerpaw rose to his paws to greet his mother, only to pause when snakespots took a protective stance in front of his apprentice.
before anyone had the chance to speak up, dune stepped forward. with a curt dip of his head, his green eyes scanned snakespots' body. "you are not redstar," he decided, though his teeth flashed when he smiled, "your fur is not red."
"this is snakespots," aspenwish cut in, earning a slow nod from the older warrior. then, she addressed his directly, "is redstar here?"
peckerkit peeked out from behind his mentor's legs to speak. "redstar left on a patrol."
dune took a step closer, hawkrise and the rest of the cats watching when he crouched down so that he was on eye-level with the small apprentice. "what's your name?" he asked, offering another smile, this time softer.
after a pause, peckerpaw glanced from dune to his mother and mentor. snakespots looked to aspenwish, who nodded encouragingly to her son. "go ahead, it's alright," she said.
i'm peckerpaw," he said. the slight breeze in the air ruffled the kitten-soft fur that remained around his ears and neck.
dune nodded once, "pleased to meet you, peckerpaw. my name is dune." with that, he straightened up again and looked to aspenwish. "he's your son?" he asked, nodding again when she agreed.
"aspenwish!" a call came from the higher portion of the camp when cyanslash emerged from the nursery, alpinemask and falconflight in tow. with what seemed to be only a few quick bounds down the path, cyanslash met the patrol, his eyes flicking between hawkrise and dune. "it seems you found someone," he observed as falconflight came to a halt behind his right shoulder, alpinemask picking his way carefully down the slope. "i'm cyanslash, redstar's deputy. redstar just left, but i doubt his patrol will have gone far. i can send a cat to fetch him for you?" he offered, and snakespots straightened up.
still, dune shook his head. "i don't believe that is necessary. hawkrise and i," he said, indicating the young molly, "have traveled a long way. we can rest and wait for him. there is no urgency."
"of course," cyanslash said, then looked to peckerpaw. "peckerpaw here can get your freshkill to eat while you wait. the moor has a habit of making travelers hungry." it only took a flick of cyanslash's ear for peckerpaw to dash across the camp.
in the meantime, hawkrise stepped forward and dipped her head. "thank you."
in the following days, quickclan welcomed the pair of strangers into their ranks and dune took on the name of duneserpent. altogether, the clan had returned to its easy rhythm while the queens lounged in the nursery to look after their kits or anticipate the new arrivals. when oakseed poked his head into the nursery one windy day, sweetecho smiled broadly at her friend and waved him in. several of her kits tussled deeper in the cave while cardinalkit and rainykit slept at her belly.
"you haven't been here enough," she chastised when oakseed took a seat at her side. the larger tom bet his head to give the kits an appraising sniff, and his subsequent laugh stirred rainykit's soft fur.
"i know, i'm sorry," oakseed murmured when he straightened up and touched his nose to sweetecho's. "but who would have guessed that redstar would give me an apprentice?" he laughed again, and cardinalkit swiped a paw in his dreams.
sweetecho hushed the small tom, unable to hide her tender smile. though he wasn't her own, she came to love him as if he was. "you deserve it. after everything you've done. and you're a good warrior."
"not too bad for a kittypet, huh?" oakseed answered. already, it felt as if those days were long behind him, even if it had only been a matter of moons. he clearly remembered when he first saw his own humans' neighbors carry a pretty tabby into their home. within a matter of minutes, he watched her fly to the window and try to claw her way out. within a matter of moons, a large red tom brought a bunch of muscled and scarred cats to save the pretty molly. during that time, oakseed managed to talk to sweetecho through the mesh screen of the window and kept her company during her captivity whenever his twolegs let him into the garden. when redstar came to rescue sweetecho, oakseed made the choice to follow his new friend into the wilderness, and he had no regrets.
"you're hardly a kittypet anymore," sweetecho said, her gentle voice breaking through his thoughts.
for a moment, oakseed regarded the kits at her belly and then shrugged. "maybe, maybe not. though it's weird to think that these kits have wild blood in them. true warriors." silence stretched between them when they both looked down at the tiny kits. across the nursery, mothtail snored softly and poppyhaze groomed her fur. the black queen's belly was swollen, her kits due any day. "he looks a lot like redstar," oakseed murmured thoughtfully after a moment.
"i thought so too," sweetecho hummed. in his sleep, cardinalkit's head tipped back and his small flank rose and fell.
oakseed raised his eyes back to his friend, curiosity spiking. "where did he say that he found him?" he asked, whiskers twitching.
sweetecho didn't tear her eyes away from the young kit. "he said he found him on the border," she murmured. when cardinalkit shifted, as if suddenly aware of the attention even in his sleep, sweetecho tutted and dipped her head to lick his ears. "do you think it's strange that he found him?" sweetecho asked suddenly, bringing her eyes up from the kit to oakseed. in the moment, oakseed sat back on his haunches and his gaze snapped to poppyhaze, who had shifted so that she rested on her belly, her eyes shut as if asleep.
"i mean - not necessarily," oakseed answered after little deliberation. "it's not like we don't find kits here sometimes. ivystripe found twitepaw, sootstone found daffodilkit," he said. then, "do you think it's strange?"
"i don't know," sweetecho answered without hesitation. "i know you're right, he's not the first lost kit, and he won't be the last but... i can't shake this feeling in my gut." suddenly, she shook her head. further in the cave, fleeingkit's voice echoed and she purred to herself. "i think i'm just tired. this lost has been keeping me up," she said, and oakseed nodded slowly.
"right," he said, "of course. i'll see if any of the other warriors might be able to take them to play in the camp, if you'd like." even as he said this, sweetecho's eyes met his own. though they said otherwise, it seemed clear that they had other thoughts abut where cardinalkit came from.
"tumblejaw! tumblejaw!" from across the camp, the cries of the oldest kits in the nursery carried through the air to where the former deputy sat and stared into the dirt beneath his claws. ever since hollowkit disappeared, most of the clan came to accept tumblejaw as a recluse. on occasion, redstar could convince tumblejaw to join a patrol, though the tom spent majority of his time in his nest. this, however, didn't stop marshkit and darterkit from dashing across the clearing and skidding to a halt a breath away from the warrior. "sweetecho says we can play with the apprentices and the younger kits when they get back from training!" marshkit gushed happily.
tumblejaw couldn't fight the smile that grew on his face. despite everything he had lost, his daughter's energy made him feel warmth and life, as if the past moons hadn't taken everything from him. after leaving the nursery, piperskip gave sweetecho leave to watch the pair of kits. it seemed that marshkit and darterkit grew out of the nest and had taken to playing different games with any warrior they found lounging in the middle of the day.
wip oof
[ consumption ]
quickclan eats 2 hares and a bird
quickclan has surpassed 50 cats. an extra patrol and minnows have been added
[ moonpool ]
redstar requests a cat of any rank
[ hunting ]
1. kindleflare, treespirit, flurrywind, and hawkrise
2. blizzardrush, rookwatcher, berrypad, and patchwing
3. sunnywhisker, loonlight, duskflower, and brightcreek
4. duneserpent, minnowjump, mulestomp, aspenwish
[ border patrol ]
1. redstar, sootstone, tumblejaw, piperskip, and tallpeak
[ herb hunting ]
gullfeather and alpinemask
[ kitting ]
poppyhaze is kitting. the father is sparrowcall
[ mates ]
gullfeather tries for kits with paleflick of hurricaneclan
[ training ]
twitepaw attempts fighting again
sproutpaw, cherrypaw, and mintpaw train in swimming
flintpaw, peckerpaw, oriolepaw, and dustpaw train in hunting
gorsepaw tries to learn how to care for elders again
[ other ]
notes to mod: here
quickclan eats 2 hares and a bird
quickclan has surpassed 50 cats. an extra patrol and minnows have been added
[ moonpool ]
redstar requests a cat of any rank
[ hunting ]
1. kindleflare, treespirit, flurrywind, and hawkrise
2. blizzardrush, rookwatcher, berrypad, and patchwing
3. sunnywhisker, loonlight, duskflower, and brightcreek
4. duneserpent, minnowjump, mulestomp, aspenwish
[ border patrol ]
1. redstar, sootstone, tumblejaw, piperskip, and tallpeak
[ herb hunting ]
gullfeather and alpinemask
[ kitting ]
poppyhaze is kitting. the father is sparrowcall
[ mates ]
gullfeather tries for kits with paleflick of hurricaneclan
[ training ]
twitepaw attempts fighting again
sproutpaw, cherrypaw, and mintpaw train in swimming
flintpaw, peckerpaw, oriolepaw, and dustpaw train in hunting
gorsepaw tries to learn how to care for elders again
[ other ]
notes to mod: here
- leader
redstar | 43 moons | ♂ | ☼
★★★★★★★★★
deputy
cyanslash | 32 moons | ♂ | ☼
medicine cat
alpinemask | 37 moons | ♂ | ☼
gullfeather | 29 moons | ♀ | ☼
medicine cat apprentice
gorsepaw | 18 moons | ♂ | ☼
warriors
rookwatcher | 78 moons | ♂ | ☼
sparrowcall | 67 moons | ♂ | ☼ (left)
sootstone | 60 moons | ♂ | ☼
duskflower | 53 moons | ♀ | ☼
snakespots | 49 moons | ♂ | ☼
sunnywhisker | 46 moons | ♀ | ☼
tallpeak | 44 moons | ♀ | ☼
piperskip | 41 moons | ♀ | ☼
tumblejaw | 39 moons | ♂ | ☼
blizzardrush | 39 moons | ♂ | ☼
brackenrose | 38 moons | ♀ | ☼
falconflight | 37 moons | ♂ | ☼
flurrywind | 37 moons | ♂ | ☼
splashfall | 36 moons | ♂ | ☼
aspenwish | 35 moons | ♀ | ☼
nightfall | 34 moons | ♂ | ☼
kindleflare | 29 moons | ♀ | ☼
oakseed | 25 moons | ♂ | ☼
duneserpent | 24 moons | ♂ | ☼
loonlight | 23 moons | ♀ | ☼
hawkrise | 20 moons | ♀ | ☼
patchwing | 20 moons | ♀ | ☼
treespirit | 19 moons | ♂ | ☼
berrypad | 18 moons | ♀ | ☼
brightcreek | 17 moons | ♀ | ☼
minnowjump | 14 moons | ♂ | ☼
mulestomp | 14 moons | ♂ | ☼
name | age | gender | [url=link]☼[/url]
apprentices
twitepaw | 10 moons | ♀ | ☼
sproutpaw | 9 moons | ♂ | ☼
mintpaw | 9 moons | ♀ | ☼
cherrypaw | 9 moons | ♀ | ☼
flintpaw | 7 moons | ♂ | ☼
peckerpaw | 7 moons | ♂ | ☼
oriolepaw | 7 moons | ♂ | ☼
dustpaw | 7 moons | ♂ | ☼
name | age | gender | [url=link]☼[/url]
queens
poppyhaze | 63 moons | ♀ | ☼ (right)
mothtail | 51 moons | ♀ | ☼
sweetecho | 41 moons | ♀ | ☼
name | age | gender | [url=link]☼[/url]
kits
marshkit | 4 moons | ♀ | ☼
darterkit | 4 moons | ♂ | ☼
cardinalkit | 3 moons | ♂ | ☼
fleetingkit | 3 moons | ♂ | ☼
owletkit | 3 moons | ♀ | ☼
webkit | 3 moons | ♂ | ☼
rainykit | 3 moons | ♀ | ☼
heatkit | 3 moons | ♂ | ☼
boulderkit | 2 moon | ♂ | ☼
daffodilkit | 1 moons | ♀ | ☼
name | age | gender | [url=link]☼[/url]
elders
name | age | gender | [url=link]☼[/url]
name | age | gender | [url=link]☼[/url]
- ally clans
clan | user
clan | user
enemy clans
clan | user
clan | user
borders
north | hazeclan | nightwolf950
east | clan | user
south | clan | user
west | quartzclan | miles morales
medicine store
borage leaves | x1 for fevers, tight chests, bad bellies; also
produces milk for queens
bright-eye | x1 cures coughs when used with loveage
burnet | x1 traveling herb to keep up strength
catchweed | x1 stops poultices from being rubbed off
catmint | x2 treatment of whitecough and/or greencough
chervil | x1 treatment of wounds, kittings, and infections
cobwebs | x1 bind broken bones and stop bleeding
coltsfoot | x1 eases cracked and/or sore pads, eases breathing,
and treats kittencough
dock leaves | x1 soothes scratches, sore pads, and wounds
fennel | x1 helps pain in the hips
feverfew | x1 treatment of fevers, chills, and headaches
goldenrod | x1 used to treat wounds
juniper berries | x1 soothes bellyaches, strengthens, calms,
and eases troubled breathing
lavender | x2 cures fever/chills; hides scent of death
marigold | x1 used for infections, bleeding, and inflammation
parsley | x1 cures bellyaches; stops milk production
poppy seeds | x2 soothes shock, distress, and eases pain
ragwort | x1 used to soothe aching joints and give strength
tansy | x1 cures coughs, soothes throats, and can be used on
wounds
wild garlic | x1 draws out poison in rat bites and prevents
infections
willow bark | x1 eases pain
yarrow | x1 extracts poison from wounds, induces vomiting
herb | usage
fresh-kill pile
minnow | x0 | 1 serving
mouse | x2 | 1 servings
rabbit | x6 | 2 servings
small fish | x5 | 2 servings
hare | x5 | 3 servings
big fish | x5 | 3 servings
bird | x3 | 3 servings
total | 63 servings
mentors
splashfall | twitepaw | 2
fish, hunt, move, move
brackenrose | sproutpaw | 2
hunt, fight, move, move
cyanslash | cherrypaw | 2
hunt, fight, move, move
sparrowcall | mintpaw | 2
hunt, fight, move, move
nightfall | flintpaw | 0
move, move, move, move
snakespots | peckerpaw | 0
move, move, move, move
falconflight | oriolepaw | 0
move, move, move, move
oakseed | dustpaw | 0
move, move, move, move
gullfeather | gorsepaw | 3
identification, usage, queen care, move
mentor | apprentice | 0
move, move, move, move
deceased
ivystripe | 34 moons | died during kitting
cat | cause of death
families
duskflower + ♂ = patchwing
sunnywhisker + ♂ = sproutpaw, mintpaw, cherrypaw
cyanslash + falconflight = twitepaw (adopted)
aspenwish + ♂ = flintpaw, peckerpaw
piperskip + ♂ = grasspaw (graveclan), oriolepaw, dustpaw
ivystripe + tumblejaw = hollowkit (graveclan), marshkit, darterkit
sweetecho + redstar = fleetingkit, owletkit, webkit, rainykit,
heatkit
redhawk (floodclan) + redstar = cardinalkit, vanillapaw (floodclan),
kestrelpaw (floodclan), rowankit, russetkit, windkit
poppyhaze + sparrowcall = expecting
mothtail + ♂ = boulderkit
mushu (floodclan) + sootstone = juniperkit (floodclan), daffodilkit
♀ + ♂ =