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  1. accurate. Another reason why I love winter
    4 points
  2. I love birds! Birds are cool! (wait...) That is why I want more birds in the game. All we have right now are bluebirds, which are mean, and dodomingoes, which are cute but annoying. (That doesn't mean that none of the birds I am about to suggest are annoying however...) Considering that the jungle is practically devoid of fauna, and landscapes in general lacking in birds, I thought that colorful food sources flying from the treetops would be awesome to see! These may be harder to implement than the bluebirds though, because these birds will have to have both a 'perching' position and a 'flying' position. ANYway, here are some ideas that I have for different bird species. Most were inspired by North American bird species because those are what I know, but interpret them however you want. Let me know what you think! 1. The Roven, inspired by ravens and robins. The males are black and red, very protective of their territory and their mate. If you happen across 2 rovens fighting, stick around because one may kill the other, leaving you with free food! These birds are a bit smaller than bluebirds. When a nicheling attacks a female roven, it will call to attract a male roven, which will deal 1 damage to said nicheling. Like the Mocking Finch, these birds can sit in trees or fly around. Males are usually found in the air, but a female with a mate will usually be found collecting grass on the ground and then building a nest in a treetop, in a nest with eggs that hatch after 2 days. After another 2 days, the birds will leave the nest to become adult rovens. They are found in swamp and grassland biomes and drop 8 food. The eggs are worth 1 food point each. In order for a nicheling to kill it in one hit, it must have at least 3 strength. Stats: +2 eyesight, +1 hearing, +1 smelling, +2 flying, +2 speed, +1 collecting, +1 digging, +1 insect collecting, +1 strength, 2. The Mocking Warbler. Inspired by the Tropical Mockingbird and Prothonotary Warbler. Okay, this one is kind of annoying. It is slightly smaller than the rovens and it steals berries and roots. But this bird is best known for its deceptive calls. It can replicate any in-game sound effect, which can lure or scare away different entities, including prey, bearyenas, and wanderers, depending on the sound. Its regular call is a series of reedy, high pitched chirps. They are often found perching in a tree or pecking at the ground. Flying nichelings can attack it while it is sitting in the tree or when it is in the air, like a bluebird. Nichelings who cannot fly can attack it when it is on the ground, but they are harder to catch. It gives 5 food. It takes a nicheling with 2 or more strength to kill it in one hit. It is found in the grassland, jungle, and swamp biomes. Stats: +2 eyesight, +1 hearing, +1 smelling, +3 flying, +2 speed, +1 collecting, +1 digging, +1 insect collecting, (can gain other bonus stats such as attractiveness or strong voice depending on mocking call used) 3. The Wrush. Inspired by wrens and thrushes. A tiny, quick and shy bird that is slow on the ground but rarely found down there. He is usually found hiding in trees and occasionally will flitter to nearby trees and collecting the nuts and seeds from the tree. They are found in the grassland biome, and the forest biome if that gets added (the other birds above would be found in the forest too). They drop 3 food. Nichelings must have at least one point of strength to kill it in one hit. Stats: +2 eyesight, +1 hearing, +1 smelling, +4 flying, +1 speed, +1 collecting, +1 digging, +1 insect collecting 4. Pearons! A peafowl and great blue heron mix. They are found wading along the the shores of the jungle and grassland, and all throughout the swamp biome, where they are most common. Their long heron necks allow them to eat snails off of mangrove trees from the ground. They are also exceptional fishers, which is why they are so often found by the shore. Males have a showy display to attract females, who will then seek out a nest by the shore to lay her eggs, like the dodomingo. Females sitting on eggs will get defensive if you try to approach them, and after giving a warning screech, will give you a sharp peck! They live 10 days and drop 8 food when killed. Their eggs are worth 2 food each. Stats: + eyesight, +1 hearing, +1 smelling, +2 flying, +1 speed, +1 collecting, +4 fishing, +2 strength 5. Owgles. A nocturnal creature that makes its moves at night, like the predators. They are very stealthy with their quiet wings, and have exceptional eyesight. Every night they come out and grab a nearby rabbil, stagmole, or unprotected baby nicheling, and then retreat back into their hidden tree. They live in forests, or grasslands and mountain biomes with more than a few trees, so you have to scout out and find them. They live for 20 days and drop 10 food when killed. Stats: +4 eyesight, +1 hearing, +1 smelling, +5 flying, +2 strength I'm also thinking about a savanna-specific bird, that lives on a cactus! And super colorful tropical jungle birds! That's it for now! If you have any other great ideas for species of birds, please share! Forest biome! Go upvote it if you haven't already!
    3 points
  3. Yes, I finally jumped on the bandwagon. I want to improve my art and are currently doing it by drawing a certain animal/ theme every week. (This week/ last week was cat time). So tomorrow I'll start my Nicheling week. Only 5 slots are currently open. I'll let you guys know when I have more time/ space for more requests. You don't need to have a picture of your Nicheling, of course you'll have to describe their genes if you don't have one. If you want to include a quick personality description you can do that to, but I won't make promises to follow it ^^ (just take it as inspiration). The pieces also may vary, depending on if I have time for a detailed background or not. 1. mr.j.williams 2. Larouxia 3. SilverTheNicheling 4. Renio2490 5. bostonlobstah My art examples from a few months (and longer) ago:
    3 points
  4. Ahhh this challenge looks incredible - I'd love to give it a try in the future! *o* Would you mind if I documented my attempt in video form?
    3 points
  5. I love the huge divide between niche players and nimbatus players, its like seeing a rare animal in the wild with their "hydraulic thrusters!!1!!1!!! friction!!!111!1!" talk and then theres the niche players who are just like: "this nicheling looks cute lets make it a country for it to rule and do some art of it and enter it into a beauty contest" I have huge respect for you all who play nimbatus as much as I do niche, like niche has some science-y parts that require some though but nimbatus is just a blur of engineering things to me
    3 points
  6. Please note that 'Chasma' comes from Chasmaporthetes, the species that this head is based on. Unlocked Via: Iceberg, Inviting a creature with this gene in (Savannah/Whale Island Only) +1 Speed (As It is Aerodynamic), +1 Cracking (Hyenas -of which a Chasmaporthetes is- can crack bone), +2 Smelling (All Heads, with the exception of a few, have this) Examples with Black/White (Grey) Fur W/ Black Dots, White/Red (Pink) Fur W/ Grey Stripes, and Red Fur W/ Grey Mask.
    3 points
  7. Thanks guys. I am really looking forward to this. @Renio2490 wasn't there a pic of prince in the racoon gaze post? @bostonlobstah are you sure you want me to do expressions? That could end really badly XD (apart from angry I don't think I ever tried giving Nichelings proper epxressions (of course I'll try my best)) @Skysplash8 I'll keep you in mind for next time, maybe I can fit Meringue in somewhere. I wanted to draw him some day anyway (he has really become famous ^^)
    3 points
  8. I'M LATE NOOO well I guess save a spot for Meringue for next time
    3 points
  9. Daylight savings time: yes when you get an extra hour of sleep, no no no NOOOO when you lose an hour of sleep
    3 points
  10. I remember when I first when to the mountain biome, I thought my flying nichelings would be able to perch on the pine trees...but they can't? I think that perching on pine trees would be a nice addition to the game, because.....why not? And my owlges would need somewhere to sit too! I also agree with the suggestion below, except I think that all winged creatures should be able to perch on smelly fruit trees! ...And last but not least, the Jungle Trees. Yes, I know you can perch on the side branch thingies, but wouldn't it be SO COOL to have a bunch of nests on the TOP of the tree, since the branches extend out so far! And if it's an ape tree, you'll find an ape up in the tree, and he will start attacking and come down on the next turn.
    2 points
  11. First off I'd like to say that this challenge has made me hate defender bears even more, while my love for the peaceful bear has grown (he's still really creepy though). We start off with adorable little Mitalen. We are also really lucky, since we have a berry bush right next to us! We pick a lot of berries, then Mitalen decides to search for a mate. And we find Vannu. Mitalen and Vannu mate. I'm happy that it works despite his bad fertility. We have found a really nice place with lots of food! We find another wanderer, Raolur. He's absolutely adorable and I want to have scorpion tale, so he gets invited. He even discovers a permanent nest. Mitalen gives birth to her baby. It's a girl. Uh-oh. We find another wanderer who we take in. We plan on using him as a meat shield. Also, someone got murdered. I think it was Vannu? Even more fun: We search the spiky bodied wanderer, since we need a new meat shield. Here she is: Please don't kill us, defender bear. Also, say hi to Mitalen and Raolur's baby boy. Great, another one. Our meat shield has died, but a new one has arrived! Also, passively aggressive defender bears. Both kids and the meatshield die, Mitalen gives birth to her third baby who has his mom's horns. Another defender bear appears, but he doesn't seem to have a problem with us. New pack member and potential meat shield! Hi Koriis. Mitalen gives birth to Milyra. She has an adorable pattern! Koriis gives birth to Elre. Sadly, she doesn't have her moms body nor her colour. Gaaah, more bearyenas. They killed Raolur, who sacrificed himself. Koriis gets killed, Milyra as well, the clan runs towards the right. Mitalen adopts little baby Elre, and hides in the grasses to give birth to Raresi. Her now adult son has fled even further. A dumb rogue male mates with Mitalen.We are still on the run and try to stay close to the peaceful bear. Elre has joined Nokir and they discover and invite Talurrao. Mitalen gives birth to her rogue child, with the bearyena lurking in the background. A derpsnouted female wanderer is around, but we don't invite her. Mitalen dies, her daughter Raresi tries to save her baby brother, but he only has one movement and gets killed. She finds a baby named Kolen and decides to adopt her and care for her.Meanwhile, Elre has grown up and wanders of to start a family with the yellow wanderer Talurrao. But she gets impregnated by a rogue male first. She gives birth to her rogue son Kirro. Raresi gets impregnated by a rogue male too, while she and Kolen travel back to the original camp. Elre gives birth to her second baby, this time with her actual mate. Rifiel is cute, though I am wondering where the cracker jaw came from. So, remember the derp snouted baby wanderer that we didn't invite? She actually turned up at Nokir's place (Mitalen's only surviving son) we invited her and when she grew up the two mated. Now, a new, absolutely gorgeous, wanderer has arrived. Isneme has both nimble fingers and claw, not to mention her beautiful pattern, eyecolour and horns. Naturally, she gets invited as well. She also mates with Nokir. Meanwhile, Raresi gives birth to her rogue baby. He's not that bad, so we decide to keep him. Nokir's first baby gets born. Lurtadon is frickin adorable (I love long snouts) and his ram horns are a nice surprise, not to mention his pretty fur. Elre's family makes their way towards the main camp. Kolen becomes an adult and mates with...Nokir! A bearyena appears and murders Talurrao (Elre's yellow wanderer mate). Elre who is still pregnant runs away, while her kids try to do the same. The bearyena murders baby Rifiel, while her brother manages to get away. Elre gives birth to another cracker jaw baby whom she names Raodon. Meanwhile our beautiful Isneme gives birth to gorgeous Relen. Absolute chaos ensues at the other half of the camp. The bearyena runs after my beautiful yellow ram horn baby Lurtadon. A defender bear follows him, but is useless so far. Three rogue males have spanned. Nokir jumps next to his son and gets killed instead of him. The defender bear finally catches up with the bearyena. The bearyena get's himself stunned and the defender bear decides that this doesn't interest him anymore. Kolen gives birth to her gorgeous son Kirvan. As you can see on the right side of the picture, another bearyena has appeared right next to Elre's remaining family. We build a nursery and two babies get born. Anamiel looks nothing at all like her brother, as she has her mom's derp snout, the same black fur and a water body out of nowhere. He could be from Mitalen. The other baby, Nekoly, is again a rogue male baby. On the other side, the bearyena has killed Elre and her cracker jaw son, leaving only her first born rogue male kid alive. Kolen finds the pack a new male. Donkannu has terrible fertility, but a claw and ram horns. Lareis gets born, just as beautiful as her mother. I'm honestly really surprised that I managed to survive until now. I think one of my favourite things about this challenge is that you're never really save. Bearyenas can always appear and kill you. The other thing is that so many babies die. I think this makes the gameplay way more realistic. Also, how the hell did I manage to never get a sickly baby that died right after being born?
    2 points
  12. OKAY WHAT THE HELL. IM SAT HERE, STAYING UP KINDA LATE (12:50 MAYBE) AND IM WATCHING A TEN MINUTE LONG YOUTUBE VIDEO.WHEN ITS OVER I LOOK TO THE CLOCK. ITS TWO AM. I JUST PULLED OF SOME KIND OF TIME TRAVEL. I AM JESUS.
    2 points
  13. (tries to keep self from screaming) Of course! You can also change some things if you want, like shortening the adult lifespans or something. You can of course start on a different island and travel wherever you want, though personally I'd have a rule like 'no breeding on easy islands' so you can't stay out for danger for too long 🙂
    2 points
  14. all of my youtube videos!! make sure to like comment and subscribe!!! jk please dont I hate most of my videos
    2 points
  15. oof this brings back memories.. from about 4-10 I basically had an eternal cold, with varying levels of severity lmao. come to think of it I haven't gotten too sick in a while but sometimes I get so ill from colds, you know when they get so bad you literally can feel how weak you are on the inside? yeah its like that. the bad part is most the time ill feel fine, get home, sit down for a bit and the second I eat, bam. ill. then I just do everything I had to do and go to bed I hope you get better!! ❤️
    2 points
  16. I have named the Platopus Smoke and the Batty boy Franky. The whims have decided to have Smoke be the Patriarch. Tribe size goes down to 8. Ladybug starved to death. Rade died of his illness. Lurer has been born. He is Smokes younger brother, and quite adorable! He looks a lot like his father, but with better paws. Kuta has died of his illness. We only have 6 nichelings and Talonisi is the only female left. She decided to mate with Roki a crippled, Scorpion tail wanderer we just invited in. Roki recieves White Pattern from the whims and Nimble Fingers from me. The good news is its a girl, unfortunately baby Star is half crippled, and did not get the Nimble fingers or Scorpion tail. We really need food, so its time to start colecting. Nico has died of starvation. Roki has invited in a female Teen with scorpion tail and Wing! Her name is DeeDee. Might need to mate her with everyone soon. Roki mates with her as soon as she comes age. DeeDee recieves Digging Paw from the Whims and Purr Snout from me. Couple of things just happened. First we have this Beautiful, Pink Peacock Tailed Boy. The son of Deedee and Roki. Roki died of old age right as he was born. I need a name for him. @bostonlobstah Do you have any names for PINK Peacock boys? Moving on, a nasty red rouge attacked DeeDee right as she was gunna mate with Smoke, who was just attacked by a Beareyna. Need to have and banish this rouge baby fast cause we don't have room for more now. Also, Lurer and his half sister Star have become mates. Lurer gets Purr Snout from the whims and Nimble fingers from me, Star gets No Melanism from the Whims and Nimble Fingers from me.
    2 points
  17. in my playlist, in the Greatest Showman one... just watch it you'll get it. I could watch that playlist all day lol
    2 points
  18. It once snowed so much in Austria that you could savely climb the roofs. My mother had a near attack and dad couldn't stop laughing. It was awesome...
    2 points
  19. https://prehistoric-fauna.com/Chasmaporthetes This is Chasma! As you can see, it is much leaner and aerodynamic than Dinocrocuta.
    2 points
  20. My Prince, of course. I couldn't find Prince's picture but use Lilytuft's drawing of him.
    2 points
  21. I have played niche for a very very long time and I loved it since I started playing it! I love it so much! I love how this game has grown keep it up!
    2 points
  22. A lot of mine died of old age ^^
    2 points
  23. I was just about to ask: oh you have the time change in your country too? In Germany we 'lost' an hour and are now having the summer time. Though they are currently discussing to abolish the time change
    2 points
  24. Don't let the video title mislead you. Just watch. I always watch this when I feel down
    2 points
  25. No matter how much you try to run from them, they are immortal and they will hunt your girls down to no end
    2 points
  26. so lets just pretend I never typed this ok it took me a record time of 10 minutes to realise that the clocks probably went forward. this is why I barely ever stay up late, im gonnna go to bed now cause im tired af
    2 points
  27. I'm trying it (but not posting it on the forums). I came up with great names for my creatures. if you don't know, it's some weird folk song.
    2 points
  28. I was thinking that there should be a key binding menu. It would be up in the corner of the screen, and it would allow you to see what all your key binds are and what they are connected to. The most important feature would be that they would allow you to change multiple key bindings at once. Right now, if you want to change a key within a complicated logic circuit, you have to sift through all the logic blocks to find all the places that the key exists. This can create a lot of glitches. Also, if a creation has a massive amount of thrusters, you have to manually change every single thruster, or delete them all and start again.
    1 point
  29. I suggest borrowing a few features from real life microchips to make Nimbatus logic smaller and more straightforward. Take it from the people who have to build it in real life, they know how to keep things simple. Output Enable - Nearly every real chip and sensor more complex than a NAND gate has at least one "OE" pin. Why? It's so convenient! Imagine two proximity sensors on the same key, how to choose which one gets listened to? In Nimbatus that needs three gates - two AND gates plus an inverter. With real devices, you'd just turn one sensor off. Inverted Outputs - I'm not the first to ask for this and I know why -- half my logic is inverters! There's no logic simplification for A&!B. I always wish I had inverted outputs for: Proximity sensors Direction indicators Toggle switches Speedometers Altitude Indicators Impulse Drivers Fuel Tanks Actually -- anything and everything with outputs, no exceptions Complementary Outputs - Just an 'invert this output' checkbox isn't enough. All too often we need both outputs simultaneously. You see this all the time in real microchips. Look up "flip flop". Inverted Inputs - Given complementary outputs, there's extremely few places inverted inputs are still be needed, but the adjustable-strength engine is one. I can never get that thing working quite right. I'd ask for separate invert/not invert checkboxes for the throttle up and throttle down options. Either that, or more consistent behavior when both inputs are activated. Heck, how about both? And now, a few basic parts I'd suggest adding. I want to keep them simple. I don't want to replace all the stuff people are building, just let them build things with fewer parts and especially, build things they couldn't before. Monostable Multivibrator - A "triggered impulse driver' which delivers only one pulse per activation. Jumper/Bus - A buffer that drives many output keys together. What for? "When you see the whites of the enemy's eyes, FIRE ALL ENGINES!" R/S Flip Flip - Similar to the on/off switch, with complementary outputs and more consistent behavior. It's the one and only piece of logic needed for a basic 2-engine, 2-sensor wall follower! And now, more esoteric things I know won't make it in the game but I'm hopeful for anyway because they're impractical to build right now: Priority Encoder - Suppose you have two sets of input, a direction indicator A B for 'move towards enemy' and a pair of proximity indicators C D for 'goodness the edge of the ring looks rather close'. They control the same steering engines D E. You can't use output enable for this, because you can't ignore the edge sensor when the bell tolls for thee. The logic is something awkward like E=((A|B)&A)|(!(A|B)&C), F=((A|B)&B)|(!(A|B)&D), 9 gates, 7-8 if you cheat. Even if it was a 2x3 part I'd save space. Binary Counter - Toggle-switches aren't good enough, a counter made from those causes glitches. A real, synchronous, one-part counter of just 2 or 3 bits would save a lot of hair-pull. Binary 1-of-4 Decoder - To use with the binary counter. It'd replace the "stop lights" I build from delay lines and xor gates. What for? Imagine this sequence: Charge pulse engine attached to dynamite. Decouple dynamite. Fire pulse engine. Detonate. Master-Slave Flip Flop - Kind of like a switch which can only change the instant its 'enable' input is activated. The thorniest glitches sometimes require these to solve them. They're a basic part in digital electronics, but want a ridiculous number of gates to make - at least nine per bit. Nine. Not to mention how slow they'd be built from basic parts, they'd take a handful of game ticks to respond.
    1 point
  30. I'm waiting for a Canadian bird... Let me just read it first.
    1 point
  31. I have forgotten about Grass clearer and Joku-Muu, so I'm going to roleplay with them soon...
    1 point
  32. Oh sorry, i didn't notice it is hard to look underneath the water
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  33. I bet that's hard to not have anyone who can get up and do stuff for everyone else lmao,, I for one love my family getting ill because im always the one to get ill first and they are all like "get up its not that bad!! you have to go to school!" and then they get ill and make the biggest deal about it
    1 point
  34. And @Goggles-kun, I did take Advil. Even though my mother wants me to take Graval because 'It works better'. I'M NOT TAKING GRAVAL, MOM.
    1 point
  35. Then try and restrict your movement to just restroom breaks?
    1 point
  36. When Daylight Savings Time comes around I get very lethargic and stuff
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  37. My dog is just like that and my nose too.
    1 point
  38. my playlist. Ends with a 24/7 livestream of kittens.
    1 point
  39. Please note that this is just a rough idea and does not have to follow everything exactly to a T. I'm not good with balancing out lifespan, food worth and the like, but thought it was something to work with. I'd love to see some more critters in the savannahs. Both for dinner and for danger. I think a Zebeeste would be an interesting creature to add to the savannahs. They appear to look like a cross of a Zebra and a Wildebeeste. The Zebeeste is a herd herbivore. They spawn in numbers 1-4. They live about 30-50 days each. They are worth 10-20 pieces of food each. They have a defense of 1, an attack of 3, and collecting of 1. They attack only in circumstances similar to the walrus deer. The Zebeeste prefers to graze on regrowing grass. They are hunted by carnivorous animals seen on the Savannah. They move each time a nichling moves. The herd moves together in generally the same direction following each other. Its possible they might try and trample a baby nichling if they're attacked within a tile of a one gemmed nichling.
    1 point
  40. I'm gonna move this to the niche Discussion and Feedback. Anything about Niche can go there
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  41. While playing this challenge, not ONE of my creatures has died of old age. They've all been killed in some way or another. Mostly bearyenas.
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  42. Koko. Later renamed to Kokoa Nightstar. Black pattern, Black C mask. Tip-eared baby approaching the scariest nicheling. There wasn't even a root near. This one. No reason Purrsnot army A tail full of hearts Too big, white paws. Wandering albino. Found him a friend Tiny bandit. But the cutest of them all was no doubt Midnight The least cute was this half demon baby. Black eyed purrsnot + savannah horns = max creep factor. That half-smile... Naturally, she became leader
    1 point
  43. I personally am not a huge fan of the idea but a similar post can be found here:
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  44. Waterpaw is killed by a bearyena, but Stagstar takes in a wanderer male named Dawnginger. Dawnginger is handsome and strong. He becomes a good friend of Stagstar. The two befriend a suprisingly strong female named Beavertalon. She is unaware of her strength, for she is very timid and submissive. She becomes more relaxed, however. and becomes more open. Stagstar dies of old age, and Dawnginger becomes Dawnstar. The clan later encounters Lightlightning, a redundantly named tom with an awkward personality and a persistent heart. The clan also takes in Arcticpaw, a jolly she-cat. Arcticpaw grows up into Arcticrain and becomes the mate of Lightlightning. They announce they will be having a kit.
    1 point
  45. That's what I had to do! FINALLY
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  46. The bearyena has started to consider this small nicheling as a mate option. I need to go to sleep it's 3.40 AM
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  47. The child, named HawkEye, begins to grow. And with his growth comes his first flight. He stretches his wings and give them a couple of test flaps. He looks to Minerva. "Good. Now go try to fly over to Honey." Hawkeye hops up on top of the bunny hill and then leaps off, pumping his wings and catching about two feet of air before crashing down in front of his uncle. "Very nice. Maybe tomorrow Minerva can teach you how to land before teaching you how to fly." Minerva rolls her eyes at her son. "It's not like this is something any of know how to do. I really am trying my best. Goddess of Wisdom and all that." The next few days are spent teaching Hawkeye how to fly. One day Minerva sits atop the bunny burrow. She catches a scent in the air she does not recognize. Something is very, very wrong. Before she has a chance to react, a massive bearyena emerges from the grasses and bites her on the shoulder. Screaming out, Claw and Dotte come running to her side, attacking the creature. Dotte's powerful poison fangs quickly render the beast still, and the two are able to finish it off and tend to Minerva's wounds. She looks at her children in horror. "I thought I was going to die" Dotte notices a shift in the brush behind the creature, though when she goes to check there is nothing there but a line of bear prints. She notices that there are actually two sets, and one leads away from the camp. Later on Minerva walks by the waters edge, still traumatized by how close she came to dying. If not for her family, she would have never been able to take on this creature alone. If it had found her in those first four moons on the island when she was all alone, she never would have had the strength to take it down. While lost in her thoughts she hears an annoyed groan come the water. She looks up to see a nicheling in the water, slapping her paws against the water. "What....are you doing?" The creature takes no time to look back at her, simply continues to slap her paw against the water. "I'm fishing. Duh." Minerva nods lightly, looking towards the fish and then back towards the nicheling. "And, how exactly is that working out for you?" She looks back at her in utter annoyance "Not very well." After convincing the creature to come out of the water, the two have a more proper face to face chat. "I'm Minerva. I am.....I...I'm the mother of the clan that lives here." She states, deciding that stating her Goddess status might not have been the best introduction. "I'm Rey." Minerva smiles at her, and after some back and forth, convinces her to come back to camp with her. Over the next few moons, the two become very close friends. All is peaceful until one afternoon. Honey is picking berries by the edge of camp as he always does, when the second bear pounces from the brush, taking out the older nicheling in one easy hit. Kite, being the closest by, runs in and quickly kills the bear, though he's unable to save Honey. With this being her first child to die of causes other than old age, Minerva is in intense grief. She nests down by the berry bushes that Honey had tended to since he was a child, and rests there for days on end. With no sign in her improving anytime soon, Hawkeye, now an adult, takes over for the clan. He awakes one morning to find his chest gems have become a beautiful blue. Minerva looks at them in absolute awe. "Mine used to be that color...when I lived in the sky. The Gods have chosen you Hawkeye. When you join them, it will be as a God." Dotte and Poke grow older now. Resting together at the berry bushes by Minerva. The two are slowly surrounded by the whole clan, with the exception of Kite, who passed just two nights before. They all tell stories from childhood, from their children's childhood, for their hopes of the future. It is a happy night, marked by a sad occasion. The two have joined the Heaven of Souls by morning. And for the first time, there is a happy grief, because their loved ones were ready to go. CeeCee, who has never truly felt connected to the clan due to the fact she was born on the same day as the great Hawkeye, one day meets a wanderer in the forest, the two fall in love instantly, and run off together into the grass. It is the last CeeCee is seen, and though Claw chases after her, Minerva tells him that if she feels that is her destiny, then she must follow it. He's too old to be chasing her through the brush anyway. Claw agrees and decides to let her go, saddened he could not say goodbye to his daughter. Claw passes soon after, ready to join his mate and his best friend in the Heaven of Souls. He sits by Minerva's side his last night and tells her how thankful he is that she let them both stay. "You both made excellent mates for my daughter. And you brought two children into the clan, one who became a God, and one who is taking life into her own paws and starting a clan of her own. To have turned you away would have been the end of us." Claw smiles and the two sleep. She wakes and he is gone. Within a few days she stumbles upon a rustle in the brush, a creature's head pops through the grass. "I will admit that I am very, very lost." Minerva smiles at him. "Well, this is the home for lost nichelings. You've come to the right place." His name is Rokirta, an older tom with a very oddly pink fur. Minerva feels a slight attraction to him but he seems to be taking more notice to the nicheling perched atop the tree. "does he...how...does he have wings??" With a shake of her head, Minerva explains everything to Rokirta, in as plain terms as she can. By the next moon Rokirta and Minerva have become mates. One night she speaks to Rey. "I will admit, I was worried that you would have fallen for him" Rey gives her a sad smile in return. "Oh Minerva, it was not him that stole my heart." Minerva, confused by this but not wanting to pry, left her to sleep. Come the next rain Minerva falls pregnant with Rokirta's child, giving birth to a fire red kit. She names her Lavata, for her powerful pelt coloring. As Lavata grows up, the others in the clan grow older. First passes Rokirta, who was of old age when he arrived to begin with, then Rey, who passes curled up to her best friend, and finally Hawkeye. He comes down from his tree to sit by Minerva. "Will I join the Gods tonight?" She nods to him "Will I see my parents?" She gives him a gentle look "Eventually, but first you will have to learn many things about being a God. Don't end up like me, getting pushed back to earth." She gives him a gentle nudge. He smiles, curling his wings over himself and falling into a sleep. "Goodbye Hawkeye. I will see you soon." Minerva can feel the rain coming. As she had become pregnant before Rokirta's passing, she fixes up her nest. Lavata comes to her with one of Hawkeye's feathers she found below his tree. Minerva smiles and slips it in between two entwined twigs. That night she settles. And with the patter of rain beginning to hit her fur, her child is born. To be continued.
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  48. It would be more realistic, if a creature could actually get a crippled paw in battle or a scar that gives them a distasteful appereance, perhaps even loose an eye. The chance could be higher if much damage is dealt at one time. That would make the whole thing more interesting and you would have to be more careful.
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