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Inspiration (edited by nindroidzane) // prompt suggestion

What makes this cat stay up late?

Ends April 9th, 11:59 PM CDT

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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Cat Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Rank:[/b]
[b]Clan:[/b] (Please link)
[b]Age:[/b] (1 year or above)
[b]Prompt:[/b]

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Name: Patches
Gender: Tom
Rank: Factory Cat
Clan: The Factory
Description: Solid black with high white and black eyes
Age: About 5 years
Edits: [C] Min. fur, no pupil; [UC] unnatural eye color
Owner: Sha the Sheep

[Shiver Hohojiro]

Username: Sha the Sheep
Cat Name: Patches
Gender: tom
Rank: Factory Cat
Clan: The Factory
Age: About 5 years
Prompt:
When Patches was but a normal housecat, his owner used to watch a lot of videos on the computer, over the speakers and without headphones, usually in the evening and the early hours of the night. Of course, his owner also had a fairly reasonable bedtime, so it wasn't the noise of the videos that kept Patches up, no. But Patches was always a fairly affectionate cat, always loved to be around his human. And since his human liked watching videos on youtube, well, so did Patches.

Well. Maybe he didn't always like the videos, but he did like to sit on his owner's lap and stare at the screen, or lounge on his desk and get scritches behind his ears and on his back and yes, sometimes even his tummy. But this meant that he was often... exposed to things, things no cat should ever have to be exposed to or comprehend.

And this is how Patches found out about hit game for the Sega Dreamcast, Seaman.

It haunted him like nothing else. He lay awake at night long after his human shut off the computer and had curled up in bed, sound asleep and totally unaffected by the horrors. Seaman was eternal. Seaman could always be there. Seaman knew everything about him, and what he didn't know, he would learn through asking his god forsaken questions. Patches would be compelled to answer by the strange and unearthly force that was Seaman, unable to stop himself. But this is not what he feared about the strange creature most.

He feared that, once Seaman found out everything it could about him, it would turn Patches into a Seaman as well.

But that is surely unrealistic, only the stuff of nightmares, right?

...Right?

[miraphoenix]

Username: miraphoenix
Cat Name: Sculpinfin
Gender: Agender [they/them]
Rank: Warrior
Clan: Havenclan
Age: 29 moons
Prompt: Sculpinfin likes to stay up late telling their clanmates wonderful and weird facts about fish! They've been late for patrol... At least twice? Because of this.

[quirky;]

Username: quirky;
Cat Name: Floundering Tarpon
Gender: Agender
Rank: Village Fishercat
Clan: The Principality
Age: 50 moons
Prompt: Was I a fish in a past life? Would that explain my love of the water? Or my constant need to make popping noises with my mouth and swallow pebbles? Hmmm...And if I'm the village Fishercat, then am I betraying my own kind? Should I pursue another career, or keep on catching my brother and sister carps? Maybe I should go vegetarian...I wonder how algae tastes..

[LiLi041]

Username: LiLi041
Cat Name: Finn
Gender: Male
Rank: Fisher
Clan: Lissidom
Age: 14 moons
Prompt: Finn's a rare insomniac. At night, he can't sleep, especially when there's noise from snoring around him. He has to sneak down to the river to try to sleep, with the comforting gurgles of the water making a pretty lullaby.

But... by the time he manages to flop over to the river himself, the sun has risen and his clanmates start a search for him.

It's dangerous by the river, after all.

[Mythz]

Username: Mythz
Cat Name: barramundi
Gender: tom
Rank: guard
Clan: xx
Age: 34 moons
Prompt:

"Hey! Barra!" Jackal's familiar low voice penetrated Barra's sleeplike-state. His eyes flickered open and he yawned, body tired. The two young cats had been best friends for a long time.
"What, Jack?" He grumbled, turning over and stretching out on his back, legs up in the air.
"Follow me!" Jack replied, nudging Barramundi gently on the shoulder before trotting outside. Grumbling slightly, Barra got to his paws and followed after him.

"Where are we going?" Barra queried, paws dragging slightly.
"Just shut up and follow me. It'll be worth the missed sleep, I promise."

The two walked shoulder-to-shoulder, heading out towards Sanddollar Shore.
After a bit of walking, they reached the edge of one of the cliff faces, and Jackal sat down, staring out at the ocean.
Barra paused and sat down as well, letting out a yawn. "Why'd you bring be out here just to sit down?"
Jack grinned and gestured to the ocean. "Look."
Barra followed Jack's line of sight and his eyes widened.
The water was flowing with bioluminescence, the moon rested low on the horizon, and the southern lights fluttered across the sky.
It was beautiful.

And that is what started the weekly, sometimes nightly, tradition. Although many moons have passed, and other responsibilities have since been passed on to both cats as they reached adulthood, they still take the trip to watch the stars at night.

[StormSerpent]

Username: StormSerpent
Cat Name: gwen
Gender: female
Rank: college student
Clan: https://toyhou.se/stormserpent/characte ... er:2746337
Age: 20
Prompt:
"Omg! So I heard from Beth, that she heard from Jake that his cousin's mother in law heard from her sister that she heard a rumor, bowties are like totally coming back in style! Ikr, that's like so 17 seasons ago, I like, burned all of mine! Yah, we should totes go shopping together tomorrow, before the prices go up, it's gonna be like so fab!" This sort of this goes on all night long, to the great annoyance of her roommate, who is trying to sleep.

[DisappearingAct]

Username: δρεπάνι
Cat Name: Pupfish
Gender: Male
Rank: Scout
Clan: The Badlands
Age: 27 moons
Prompt: He knows they're out there, somewhere. The Mysterious Lights. He saw them in the sky one night and could immediately tell they were different than normal starlight. Upon closer inspection, the lights seemed to be attached to some sort of large, metallic body that was circular in shape. A bird perhaps? He'd never seen birds hover in the air like that though. As he was trying to fathom just what sort of creature it could be, it suddenly shot westwards across the sky, faster than any falcon he'd ever seen, and in the time it took him to blink, it had vanished without a trace.

Ever since then, he's spent his nights searching for those mysterious lights and they have shown up a handful of times since then. He's tried showing them to his clanmates, but they usually get too bored or tired to stay up long into the night to keep watching with him. It doesn't help that they don't take him seriously and clearly don't believe him. They tell him he's crazy, but he's not crazy. He's seen them with his own keen eyes! And he knows that they want something. He's not sure what it is, but he knows he should keep an eye out for them because it would be foolish to assume they want to be friends.

He knows they're coming. You've got to believe him! And if the clan isn't prepared for their arrival, it could very well spell the end for them. He's seen the signs they've left behind! The clan must prepare, otherwise they're doomed! DOOMED!

[I Like Bees]

Username: Sha the Sheep
Cat Name: Patches
Gender: tom
Rank: Factory Cat
Clan: The Factory
Age: About 5 years
Prompt:
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Congrats!

I'd also like to award a RU to δρεπάνι !