The fates of Hill- and Lakeclan.

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

You know that you won‘t live forever when your world is named New Game.

However, back to the start. Each chapter will have a different narrator.

 

The clan mourns the passing of their elders. Spring will start today.

Sorrelwing may still doubt my abilities as a healer, but I have always been the better scholar. The seasons largely follow a pattern.

Hillclan is still without Leader. Lakeclan is aging. I worry that too much young Blood will make them overly ambitious, overly eager to prove their standing.

….

Heatherstar, always bellicose, attacked the Camp. We lost a Queen and Skysight. Cloudpaw will never hunt again.

I would claim Heatherstar’s death the best for peace. If Lakeclan's new deputy wasn’t just as bad.

Bramblestar is sharpening patrols.

…

Bramblestar was the best choice for leader. Starclan knows he trained half of our warriors.

….

I still don’t know what to do with the prisoner. She has healed fully, but the camp is still being reinforced. Hornetclaw will deal with her. Surely, he would rather feed his kittens than a spy.

Even if my Sister is too kind to see that.

Cloudpaw is not taking her fate well.

Bramblestar has still not made her a warrior. I suspect he wishes that I take an apprentice, but this “pupil” is simply too daft.

…

Ebonystar declared herself Leader. I heard the she-cat killed a Fox on her own. Does Lakeclan have a liking for reckless leaders?

The gathering would soon turn awkward. Hornetclaw annouces her spy-pupil killed Cloudpaw.

Can one become Leader without having trained an apprentice?

…

Blizzardpaw is learning well. Though not as pragmatic as her father, she will make a fine Healer one day. 

[Jojo]

May I ask, what sort of rolls do you  use for camp attacks?

What rolls in general do you use, I am still fine tuning my warrior challenge so anything helps

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

5 hours ago, Jojo said:

May I ask, what sort of rolls do you  use for camp attacks?

What rolls in general do you use, I am still fine tuning my warrior challenge so anything helps

I roll for a number of cats to die, who is more likely to win and which rank the deaths may hit.

In the above, Lakeclan would have won, but Hillclan had way more warriors in Camp. So I modified for a costly victory.

Heatherstar was very old. She could have lived otherwise, but died in a blaze for her aspirations. The amount of deaths was relative to clan size, had Lakeclan rolled a loss, they would have lost an about equal amount of cats in absolute numbers.

Cloudpaw was horribly wounded because she was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Skysight wanted to be a hero and died protecting the nursery.

The Queen was the first cat to be ambushed. Lakeclan was out to steal kittens, not start an open fight. But Heatherstar is reckless and failed a stealth roll.

In short, I cheat and go for likelihood, not for the if and how. The console helps to add damage by Bearyena attack.

Not sure If you would like that, but it was somewhat necessary for story purposes.

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

Lakeclan was befallen by an unknown sickness.

My leader, Ebonystar, is left to rebuild her clan, fearing retaliation, fearing her facade of a strong clan to crack.

But those deaths were not the only pawprint left on our lives. I am the first of the new generation, the sun burning my pelt, the waves hurting my ears.

But immune. This is the price of the cure.

…

Adderstrike passed without naming a Healer’s apprentice.

Ebonystar, though, long thought barren, had Hazelkit. All in all, those were joyful news for the gathering.

If you forget that Hazelkit, only ostensibly not having the mutation, was the only survivor of the litter.

I just would have loved to meet Blizzardspirit. Surely she isn’t as grumpy as her mentor? What kind of name is Bluestream, anyway?

…

The kind to slip and drown, apparently.

Stagbelly made me fish all day. Why can’t I go hunting like Hazelpaw instead of dragging old, nagging cats out of the water?

…

Ebonystar refuses to give me or Snowheart a well-seeing apprentice. I know she wants Hazeljump to become Deputy one day, but she is too young to train another cat.

Besides, we have no Healer. Blizzardspirit is offering to train her.

Ebonystar will have to embrace her age and admit to a weakness. This isn't Hornetstar plotting to steal her only child!

If she wishes to mourn an old, imaginary Clan order, she isn’t fit to be Leader. 

...

Snowheart wants equity in the Clan.  But this, this kind of betrayal? How can they seek to abandon their former Mentor?
_ _ _

Stagbelly sends Hazeljump off with Hornetstar. Erminepelt remains silent.

Ebonystar is forced into banishment.

[Jojo]

1 hour ago, RandomWanderer said:

I roll for a number of cats to die, who is more likely to win and which rank the deaths may hit.

In the above, Lakeclan would have won, but Hillclan had way more warriors in Camp. So I modified for a costly victory.

Heatherstar was very old. She could have lived otherwise, but died in a blaze for her aspirations. The amount of deaths was relative to clan size, had Lakeclan rolled a loss, they would have lost an about equal amount of cats in absolute numbers.

Cloudpaw was horribly wounded because she was in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Skysight wanted to be a hero and died protecting the nursery.

The Queen was the first cat to be ambushed. Lakeclan was out to steal kittens, not start an open fight. But Heatherstar is reckless and failed a stealth roll.

In short, I cheat and go for likelyhood, not for the if and how. The console helps to add damage by Bearyena attack.

Not sure If you would like that, but it was somewhat necessary for story purposes.

Thanks,  I figure something out, I didn't even know that you could add damage through the console, that sounds super usefull! Currently I am just drowning my 'dead' Nichelings, this sounds better

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

She hates him. This charming, handsome  brutish warrior.

Most of all, Spottedsongs big, blue eyes that the Queen eyes her with daily 

Hornetstar and dying, suspicious elders she could deal with.

But not Blizzardspirit's wish to train his daughter. Blossomkit, named after the rain on the first day of Summer.
One may say many things about Hornetstar, but he was always supportive of his children -- and grandchildren.

As a leader should be.

...

Paleskip would be the next in line by her Clans standards. A beautiful and wise Queen, devoted and solemn.

She is surprised to learn that he made Geysirblow deputy. Very reluctlantly, as she is his daughter.

His daughter.

---

Lakeclan has changed so much. She had avoided the last two gatherings out of homesickness, but with Blossompaw in training and Hornetstar dead, it is time to leave.

No one would know that she had taken a fancy to Oakshade.

--

For a few weeks, at least.

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

For anyone still reading, the next chapter will have more action.

-- Lakeclan wants to claim more territory. 

- And will find a new way to gain immunity.

-- Tension is Hillclan, conflicts of motive and unsure leadership.

-.Blizzardspirit spent too much time with a certain cat...

--- A prophecy and revelation about their ancestors.

--- Larger time skips.

--- Hopefully, more diverse looking characters since the kinks have been bred out.

 

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

“So, what’s it like, being endlessly stuck on Patrolduty with Paleskip?”

“Oh I, wouldn`t know. What`s it like, hearing endless rants on Starclan?”

“…”

“Blossompaw?”

“Don’t tell anyone, but I think Hazeljump brought sickness into the Clan.”

“What?”

“Just – just think about it. Countless elders dropping dead, on the same day a-“
“Cats don’t just live for set number of moons and drop dead. Besides --”
“Why would white fur and strange eyes protect a cat from—”
“And how would you know what does and does not—"

“Blossompaw! Stop arguing with your brother!”

“How is this my—”

Blizzardspirit collapses.

 ...

“According to Stagbelly, Icestar was the first known infected.

Icestar may have been the first White one. Born two generations before the phenomenon, she and her most trusted Warriors were the first to pass.

Our Healer, Adderstrike, despite being in close contact, was never infected. “

“And neither were you, yet, this is where we are.”

“Do you blame me for what happened?”

“I blame Hornetstar for his usual secrecy, Ebonystar for letting it come to this and my own lack of insight. You were too young.”

---

“However, HillClan lost two Elders … and Oakshade, this night.“

“Those under my care, then. What about Spottedsong's kits? Paleskip?”

“You did not tell me how Lakeclan is faring.”

“Has this much distrust festered? Lakeclan is… Hummingrain lost one of her kits today. It usually hits the young ones.”

“Usually?”

“… Cats, like Snowheart… Symptoms gradually worsen. We do not have many elders.”

“He is your deputy”

“Yes.”

[Goggles-kun]

10 minutes ago, RandomWanderer said:

“How is this my—”

 

Blizzardspirit collapses.

This is so sad Blossompaw play the Niche theme song

[Spacestar TheThundersuncat]

Strange sightings by the water.

A body found in HillClan territory.

And Googles-kun is mocking my story-telling
ever advancing Lakeclan patrols. They passed the border again, today. Their scent is stale, but undeniably present. 

Nightstar wants it identified.