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Post by ponz on Nov 26, 2020 20:37:13 GMT -8
POST 020. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- the tournament selection ceremony is held, and the ten combatants (adder, canary, fennel, honeybee, jaggedscar, lightning, lynx, owl, raccoon, shadow) prepare to battle.
- snapshots of the battlers competing (honeybee and jaggedscar seem to be performing the best). some of the cats reveal their motives for winning, while others are simply there to have fun. hawk cheers for her brother, hoping that a win will let him be a knight alongside her. stag frets as fennel battles, warring with himself over whether to keep an eye on his son or find otter's fang to warn him.
- aster gives her signal. rabbit, koi, and mountain find their positions, while hare ushers in other members of the guild through back passageways. aster stalks towards the throne room, cocky and assured of her followers' obeying her plans. young coal, lurking outside because he wants to be with his family, attempts to stop her. young coal attempts to stop her, but she kills him without a second thought and continues on her way.
- in the throne room, embers seizes up suddenly, and collapses. his family watches in a panic while he is overwhelmed with horrible visions. otter, his suspicions realized, leaves the throne room immediately to find aster. he fights her off and (presumably) kills her, but not before she assures him of the kingdom's imminent destruction. otter does not have time to mourn their friendship.
- the guild's members begin attacking innocent bystanders. meanwhile, rabbit turns on the guild and rushes to stop aster. raccoon and canary win the tournament by default, being the last cats to notice the action. it is hard to tell who perishes in the bloodshed. koi runs away before the dust settles, taking spider with her. turtle refuses to come. not long after, rabbit forces hare to flee for his own safety.
- after the traitors have been apprehended, a shaken young frost insists a fair trial must be held. since her father is still ill, she takes over and ranks up the three squires whose ceremonies were due (owl, wasp, firefly).
- morning's dew approaches lily after the death of his apprentice, unable to live with the guilt, and pleads with her to let him become a cleric.
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Post by ponz on Dec 8, 2020 9:55:10 GMT -8
POST 021. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- young coal's funeral is held. a still-recovering embers contemplates his failures as a parent. snow offers what reassurance she can, while morning seeks comfort with lily and moth
- the trial of traitors is held. mountain and rabbit both give their cases. ultimately, otter rules that rabbit may stay and that mountain must be exiled. the royal guard escorts her from the territory, while rabbit is kept under close watch. raccoon feels betrayed by his former mentor. turtle grieves for her family.
- otter and frost collaborate to rank up fogkit to fogpaw. jaggedscar becomes his mentor, as requested by berrypelt. fogpaw's siblings, unaware of the atmosphere, chatter excitedly about when they will become squires.
- opal finds hansel and gretel, two wandering rogues who have also been tracking the guild.
- young coal explores the afterlife, discovering how it works. the many spirits welcome him with open arms, but they seem to be shielding him from something...
- flame turns away a wounded aster's petal, seething. he begins to plan.
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Post by ponz on Dec 21, 2020 11:45:29 GMT -8
POST 022. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- river goes to ember and confesses her early knowledge of the guild, breaking down in her former mentor's embrace. he reassures her that she is not to blame for what happened.
- blizzard (howler) welcomes silkpaw into the kingdom, thankful she is alive. cardinal and lynx, who helped her escape the guild, congratulate themselves on a job well done, but both toms worry about what may happen after the guild regroups and attacks again.
- ivory and light check up on frost, who is still rattled from what happened to her father. she frets about her own future thanks to her connection to the first. snow and otter each blame themselves for coal.
- opal distances themselves from aspen, believing the prince needs time to process and to remain close with his family, as well as to cut off the strange feelings he has been inspiring in them as of late. they do so by spending time with raven. as the two wander around, raven complains about his chronic leg injury and receives advice from a scarce rabbit, who is still confined to camp. both raven and opal scamper off, but they are surprised to find her advice effective.
- turtle spends her first moon without her family in a daze. adder and stag discuss their own families, pitying turtle, while stag in particular considers extending an olive branch.
- morning continuously zones out in the cleric's den, overwhelmed with grief. moth and lily give him space.
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Post by ponz on Jan 4, 2021 21:34:55 GMT -8
POST 023. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- the first sends a new royal guardsman, grizzly, to protect embers.
- frost finds raccoon and canary to congratulate them for their performances in the tournament. as a reward, raccoon receives the royal family's blessing to court birch. canary asks only for bragging rights.
- jaggedscar laments his loss of connection to starclan, mistakenly believing it to be the result of the kittens he has had, and turns to berrypelt for guidance on raising a family.
- morning's choice of coping mechanism, taking on three kittens, worries his fellow clerics.
- aspen visits the bell for the first time in several months. he does not ring it, instead reflecting on his complex feelings about opal. birch finds him there and says nothing, simply lying besides him comfortingly.
- stag approaches turtle about adopting her. turtle is initially hesitant, but when anise and fennel offer reassurances, she accepts and is welcomed into the family.
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Post by ponz on Jan 13, 2021 18:51:17 GMT -8
POST 024. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- jackdaw, shade, pale, and leaf become squires. desdemona is incredibly excited.
- a sickly simon is found on the border. morning takes care of him while lily and moth barrage him with questions.
- otter is begrudgingly adopted by little kit of rusas, who was discovered alone on the border.
- grizzly does their job. she begins to befriend snow.
- maisie grieves her lost litter despite the kindness shown to her. a gentle jaggedscar invites her to help care for his kittens and they strike up a friendship.
- frost gets a break from her leadership lessons and spends time with light and ivory. she admits that she is frightened by the first and has had worrying dreams about something on the horizon.
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Post by ponz on Jan 27, 2021 12:06:40 GMT -8
POST 025. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- a border skirmish with the guild. butterfly, wasp, and lynx are taken captive. daisynose disappears in the action. ladybird, cynthia, and evening manage to escape and find shelter in other clans. only young jackdaw can flee in time to raise the warning.
- adder flies into a rage at the assumed death of his son. grizzly, doing her job to protect the kingdom, talks him down and guards his other kittens so he can sleep.
- an exhausted embers snaps at the first about the guild. the first begrudgingly answers some questions.
- hansel and gretel argue about what should be done
- morning and simon go meet the kittens
- the three new knights (turtle, anise, fennel) are crowned, but the ceremony feels hollow in light of recent events
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Post by ponz on Feb 2, 2021 8:22:20 GMT -8
POST 026. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- the three heirs are made knights, and kit of pebbles becomes a squire with ginger as her mentor.
- cardinal is confused and grieving after the disappearance of his mate and cynthia. he dedicates himself to investigating the guild alongside hansel, gretel, and river's melody. jackdaw listens in, still feeling guilty about her failure to protect the other kingdom cats in the attack.
- jaggedscar kitten angst 2: electric boogaloo.
- simon and morning coach moth before she takes her cleric's assessment.
- raccoon officially begins to court birch. aspen watches on in amusement.
- desdemona and opal become friends.
- lynx, wasp, and butterfly suffer under the guild's clutches, lynx does his best to protect the younger two knights.
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Post by ponz on Feb 10, 2021 14:43:27 GMT -8
POST 027. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- frost sees the ghost of sunshine, who warns her about the first. sunshine disappears before frost can ask any questions.
- berrypelt, worrying about squire pebble, "adopts" her into the family fold. fog, pale, shade, and leaf are a little overbearing in their welcomes, but pebble appreciates the gesture.
- hawk and owl talk about laurelclan, and realize that their memories of the past have become fuzzy. the timid ginger approaches them to talk about escaping their pasts.
- raven and silkpaw are paired up for a patrol, and get to know each other.
- kit of rusas harasses his dad guardian, otter, about how excited he is to become a squire in the next moon or so. maisie gently bullies otter into indulging rusas' fantasies.
- cloud sneaks into where rabbit is quartered to speak with her. she tearfully spills her backstory to the stoic prisoner, but is caught off guard when rabbit listens and offers legitimate advice. a tentative friendship is born.
- lily and morning promote moth to a full cleric. mink, the one patient present, daydreams about starting a family with river.
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Post by ponz on Feb 18, 2021 9:27:05 GMT -8
POST 028. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- within the guild, flame and scorch get into a violent argument. lynx frets over a traumatized wasp . butterfly has already given in.
- embers promotes eight bantlings into squires. two of jaggedscar's kits choose to take on clan-inspired names after their father.
- stag does his best to be a good father to all three of his kits. turtle confronts her abandonment issues.
- raven and silkpaw share great friend chemistry.
- ivory and light worry about their family, while frost stresses about making the upcoming tournament as perfect as possible for her kingdom. aspen tries to soothe their nerves with stories of his own childhood, but only succeeds in uncovering repressed feelings.
- maisie takes in a strange kitten she finds on the border.
- rabbit is finally allowed some freedom from duties, though she must remain within castle bounds. cloud speaks with her until a desperate cardinal arrives with questions.
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Post by ponz on Feb 24, 2021 18:43:35 GMT -8
POST 029. ● ♕ ● .WRITING WIP
- hansel interrogates rabbit about the guild, with river there to glean information as well. rabbit offers as much as she can, surprising both other cats with her genuine willingness to help the kingdom in spite of her treatment.
- fogpaw and young jackdaw become knights. frost and ember collaborate on the ceremony. fogpaw's family delights in celebrating, even allowing a quiet ivory to join in, while jackdaw is surprised to see cardinal approach and congratulate her.
- some of the young squires discuss the upcoming tournament, excited to experience the event for the first time.
- firefly comforts a distressed adder, and encourages him to pursue what makes him happy.
- opal revisits the citadell bell, wistfully dreaming of times spent with aspen. they stumbles across desdemona, who is relaxing in the rafters, and share the story of the bell's magic. both ring it, and when opal's chime takes on a longing note, desdemona encourages them to seek what it is that they desire most.
- lily reorganizes the herb stores while morning is out with simon. she mulls over her time in the kingdom, and chats with moth about starting an herb garden.
- lynx and wasp, alone after butterfly's misguided sacrifice, overhear the guild discussing plans of an attack. they collaborate on an escape plan.
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