Cross Your Pretty Little Fingers

[Petrichor]

Ideas and thoughts... Well, I've always been fond of natural disasters taking place. Floods, earthquakes, perhaps a windstorm? I like the whole "there was a huge prey shortage in the past" thing, and generation-wars are fun to play out, even if they're not necessarily wars.

I wouldn't put the "Clan Cup" thing into play yet, until we've got a few people around who have cats in each Clan. Otherwise, people might not put cats in the dwindling Clans because they see it as hopeless to win the Clan Cup there. After a while? I think that would definitely be something AWESOME. Maybe assignments, when those come back, will be worth a bit more in terms of points?

I'm not sure that I should have many high-ranked members, but I might make a cat for ShadowClan if we really need someone.

I. Love. Plotting. Until we all work out which cats are staying, which cats we're getting rid of, and which cats are getting made, however, I'm a bit hesitant to do anything. I don't want to get caught up in hype for a plot that's never gonna happen.

We should definitely overhaul the rules, get rid of the SkyClan and BloodClan information and perhaps add more to the Clans that are still around. I've personally thought ThunderClan's war-centred reputation to be a little of an informed trait, so we might need to change the Clan or the description.

More history among the Clans! We might not have a war going on, but perhaps ThunderClan and RiverClan had a (relatively) recent war, from before Blizzardstar became leader, and tensions are still high, although the cats that made them have either died or moved on?

If we're still all up for the "prey shortage" thing, I think that ShadowClan should have been the most affected by it, causing them to try and stay out of the battle that went on for fear of losing the rest of their members, while WindClan either couldn't decide between the two sides or just didn't want any of that drama.

If you can't tell yet, I have no idea what I'm talking about, so feel free to slap me upside the head if I'm being dumb c:

[Sprout]

Firstly, I really love the Clan Cup idea. We could have different categories like most threads or best plots and give prizes for the people threading most in each clan or something. 

Secondly, as far as plot ideas go, all of the ones mentioned so far have been really great. If we need an idea for why prey is short, maybe there was a disease that only affected prey, but not the cats? 

OR maybe we could have something involving the medicine kitties. I feel like sometimes they don't get enough action. Maybe for some reason or another all of her herbs are either growing badly or not at all, and medicine cats are finding it difficult to treat their patients. Maybe the clans could be being punished for fighting so much, or something. I'm not sure, just churning out ideas here.

If needs be, I'm happy to pick up a high-ranking cat for either WindClan or ShadowClan; preferably WindClan, but whatever is needed. They're my two favorite clans anyway! :3

[FENRIS]

hmm, maybe tensions get high about the food deal cause riverclan has tons of food thanks to the fish and refuses to give any to the other clans who are clearly suffering? idk.

I have a meddie who can be placed anywhere, maybe somewhere with lacking pops?

yeah, like BL said meddies don't get much. maybe they all have the same kind of dream which is like the destruction of the clans or something and they band together to try and talk about this experience and try to get all the clans to work together??

[Phlox]

*waves* I'm up for bringing Miststar back! Especially if someone will do plot-things with her. She needs some nice plot-things.

I really like the idea we've got rolling. I think WindClan would try to take the part of mediating a situation between River and Thunder, probably unsuccessfully. Which could easily lead to inter-clan conflict over what action would be best.

And now I have to go write a ten page paper in the next two days so if you see me make me leave. :o

[Petrichor]

Mar 3, 2015 18:39:36 GMT -5 Phlox said:

*waves* I'm up for bringing Miststar back! Especially if someone will do plot-things with her. She needs some nice plot-things.

Ooooh, Miststar! I missed Miststar! Assuming she's "ruling" WindClan, I'll have a character there who I'm desperate to plot. If ShadowClan, I was planning on making a cat there eventually anyway~

Mar 3, 2015 18:39:36 GMT -5 Phlox said:

I really like the idea we've got rolling. I think WindClan would try to take the part of mediating a situation between River and Thunder, probably unsuccessfully. Which could easily lead to inter-clan conflict over what action would be best.

Oooh, that sounds great! Meanwhile ShadowClan's so weakened by the illness/disaster/famine that they couldn't lift a claw to help if they tried. So there are cats who wanted to go to war and are mad that WindClan tried to step in; cats who wanted an all-Clan war and was mad that WindClan wasn't hostile, too; cats who didn't want war and are mad at ShadowClan for not doing anything; and the other cats who just want the whole thing to be wiped from history. Oh, and those are just the cats who were alive at the time. This doesn't count the "newfangled" generation that doesn't know anything about the war or famine or any of that! Ah, the drama~! Sounds great!

[Sprout]

I'm so excited for all the potential drama of this idea we've got going, it's going to be really easy to start threads between kitties with differing opinions etc. Maybe we could have a few cats trying to exploit this tension between the clans? Like, to throw them into a full-on war? Battle-hungry warriors or manic rogues with strange adaptions or something? Or should we just stick to the basics in order to get the site back on it's feet? Probably the latter.

I wouldn't mind re-making Palecloud (with a few tweaks) if a clan needs a meddie, or a deputy (again, if needed). Or neither, if we just need warriors. Whatever's needed :3

[Mistress Tatl.]

Okay all, I'm back now. On spring break. I'd like to volunteer myself to hold a high position. Perhaps Medicine cat of Windclan or Riverclan. I'll be deleting all of my other characters, though. I graduate at the end of May so I'll be pretty busy till then. For now, though, I'm on Spring Break. And I'll probably be able to get on once a week at least (I hope!).

Question: Are we still doing the cats with crazy abilities (like gils for Riverclan)?


Suggestion: How about a cap on the number of characters? Maybe eight characters per person? To be sure that everyone will stay active. And perhaps you're allowed to make two original characters, but all of your other characters must be adopted? To kind of keep the idea that the clans are basically huge families of cats xD So like, if I made a cat who had a brother who was a warrior, a sister who was an apprentice, and a parent who was an elder, I could put all those family members up for adoption and someone else could adopt them.

[Mistress Tatl.]

I would like to add that I'm pretty good at coding cool character sheets and whatnot, if you'd like me to do anything like that. Just give me some colors to work with and I'll make something.

[FENRIS]

yeah, were still doing the adaptations, it keeps us unique from other sites.

i actually really like that idea, especially because i really dont see much adopting being done. having huge families might even develop plots and stuff :OO eight for a cap also seems doable, gives you 2 per clan or whatever.

(ill probs pm you at some point to get character sheets for my two lmao)

[Mistress Tatl.]

Okay. Awesome to the adaptations. I thought we were but I was just checking.

The character limit could always be changed if anyone thinks it should be more or less, too, but generally I think it helps players actually play together.

Also, perhaps we should keep a list of Starclan/Dark Forest/etc cats? People could submit cats that dies in their history or characters that they kill off on the site. The list would include the cat's name, a brief physical description (simple color and build sort of thing, and anything particularly significant to that individual), and a brief personality description (including any mannerisms and basic "sassy" "timid" etc sort of personality), and the age that cat passed at. Then leaders, med cats, etc, could use them when needed. Perhaps staff members could take charge of playing those characters when needed. That way our ancestral cats would stay relatively solid and cohesive too.

(Also, totally feel free, Bliz xD)

[Sprout]

I really love the idea of the cap of number of cats that are original characters or adopted, I think that will open up so many more opportunities for plots and threads, and will more accurately portray the ideas of clans as giant interconnected families. I think 8 is a good number, however I know I definitely won't be making that many characters to begin with haha. 

The idea of keeping a character list of passed over cats is also hella neat and would be very useful for leaders and medics. Are we going to continue doing a similar thing in clans, in order to fill in blank spaces in threads etc? Like that was a thing, right?

And are any of the adaptations being modified? I think they're all pretty developed as are, but just in case anyone has any amazing ideas to add. 

[Phlox]

Tatl has good ideas I approve. *intense thumbs up* Though I think the two non-adopt characters could maybe not include characters you make specifically for a neat plot idea as well, since they're almost like adopts except the idea is developed by more than one person.

[Mistress Tatl.]

Maybe you could submit approval for extra original characters? You file an application including the plot idea they're necessary for and any other cats involved. Or if one of the people has original characters left under their belt, they could always make one cat and put the other characters up for adoption. When making a bio you should be required to submit a list of your current characters, and include the link to the adoption thread. Perhaps on occasion we could hold sitewide contests to win an extra character to the limit or a third original character? That might help too. But if we provide too many ways around an original character limit, it will almost be like not having it in the first place. It's usually better to find an adoptable you can mild to your needs. Side note: We should encourage people to remain general about characters in ther cat's histories unless it's necessary to the story. That way adoptables will be more open to interpretation and creativity. Like if i say "my character had a sister" but never name the sister or describe her outside of her relationship with my character, there's a lot more for the adoptor to play with.

I think a sitewide open thread tracker is a good idea too. Or at least abthread tracker board where people can post their own thread trackers for other people to look through.

[FENRIS]

hmm, maybe we could bring the karma back? and you earn points for doing assignments and the word thing i mentioned before?? we could have other goodies besides another character spot too, maybe they can get points to make a cat with an unusual eye colour or a special (reasonable) adaptation or a special fur design, idk. and if something gets too common like tabbies or male cats or apprentices they can be no longer available unless you have points to buy one??

mass effect 3 has this thing for online multiplayer where you can get new guns and mods and species to play as by buying these packs with 5 random things in it and the more expensive the pack the better the goodies i think thatd be super rad to implement too like we do a random number generator and generate packs and people ask for a certain pack and get 5 random things or 2 random things idk itd be hella lemme tell you

and ooo, maybe admins get together and make a special cat that we can auction off too or raffle or something, idk i really like the idea of prizes they just add to the roleplay experience

[Mistress Tatl.]

I definitely like the karma aspect, too. And those are all pretty rad things to auction off. Perhaps someone could compile a list of possible things to buy with karma/win in contests? Then they can be sorted by "level" in a sense (like odd colored eyes might cost 50 karma but a third original character would cost 500). Maybe each new member gets one low-level upgrade (like odd eye colors or markings) free? If you want, I can compile the list myself and everyone can PM me things that should be on it, then I could post it here? It could include items too that might be unusual for cats to find. I like the idea of the packs too. Maybe they're chosen at random, and how much you spend determines what level items might be included.

Raffles/auctions are fun too! They could be held during special events (holidays or site anniversaries or whatever). You could even raffle/auction major site-wide plot positions (like you get to make the character or choose one of your own characters to have a special prophecy). I think raffles generally work better and tend to be a bit more fair. Perhaps there could be requirements to join, like: must have posted in so many threads, must have been active for so long, must have so many active characters, etc? Then everyone can choose a 2 digit number and someone can roll dice or something for the result xD. The only problem with raffles and auctions is that typically whoever is running it can't take part (or it seems unfair, even if it's not). Perhaps the admins could take turns actually running them, so that the admins not participating can take part? Same for competitions.

Also, I'd like to discuss the assignments. I like the idea, but I think it's a bit extreme for everyone to have to post assignments/in assignments with each of their characters every time. It's not that I dislike it, but it can be draining to have to post with eight characters xD. Perhaps it could be that you have to post with at least half of your characters, rounding up for odd character amounts? I think that would make it more manageable for everyone, but that might be just me.

Aside from that, are we going to be keeping the individual account for every character thing? If we do, everyone should have an OOC account as well, where they keep there character count in their signature, and either list their characters with links to the bios or a link to a character list thread. Just so that everything is easily accessible for the admins when it comes to keeping track of each member's character counts and whatnot. Members should also be required to list any purchased items/special character upgrades somewhere with their listed characters. I don't know if I'm going overboard here. Just let me know if I am.