Posts by tamsin

Willowpaw guessed that experienced medicine cats could tell what problems their patients had right away, by the way they entered the den. An apprentice with a thorn in his paw didn't mind letting the entire Clan know about it, holding the affected paw high in the air and giving an exaggerated yowl with every step; a queen whose kit had a cough would carry them in with a look of concern that, most likely, far outweighed the actual seriousness of their son or daughter's condition; and a warrior bringing an injured comrade in from battle carried themselves with the air of restrained urgency that was necessary for war. She knew because she'd seen all of this before, repeatedly; in fact, she'd been through each herself.

Today, though, it wouldn't take a medicine cat to see what her problem was. Standing in the entrance of the den, her tail lay lifeless behind her, almost dragging against the earth, and her gaze was cast firmly downward as if it took a heroic effort to make eye contact. Despondency practically came off of her in waves.

"S-salixtwist? Grantedwishes?" Her voice was quiet and trembling - "can I talk to one of you?" - and the way she spoke resembled a shy kit facing a stranger.

"He wasn't sneaking up on you, silly," came the voice of a young she-cat, crouched in a patch of bush not far away. Willowpaw overheard their exchange while struggling to follow the movements of a gopher in the dense grasses, and was happy for an excuse to give up the failing hunt. She swiftly padded over, sitting down next to Blackpaw. "He just wants to know what you're up to. What were you doing, anyway? I could'a sworn I heard you mumbling to yourself."

"Oh... hi, Javertpaw," said Willowpaw, flatly. She was hoping to speak to an older, more experienced cat, and didn't bother to mask her disappointment. While she knew that age didn't always equal wisdom, it seemed her fellow apprentices were uniformly immature and she found it impossible to relate to them. Maybe a medicine cat's apprentice would be different... she didn't know.

Willowpaw brushed her disappointment off with a sigh. "Something is, actually, and I was hoping maybe you could help me." The pale tabby queen sat on the rim of an unoccupied nest, her tail resting neatly at the tips of her forepaws. "I've just been... down, lately, and I don't know why. I keep daydreaming about when I was a kit, when I was so eager and excited to become an apprentice, because I'm just not like that anymore. Keeping up with training, making friends... none of it, nothing seems worth the effort." She shook her head.

"It must be hard, being a medicine cat's apprentice... a lot harder than being a normal apprentice, I guess." Thinking about that, actually, made Willowpaw suddenly feel ridiculous (He has better things to do than talk to a pathetic little apprentice like me...) but she made herself take a deep breath and continue. "I was wondering... what motivates you? How do you push through when you don't want to work or train? I mean, surely you've got to have off-days like everyone else. Me, I don't seem to have anything BUT off-days lately..."

"We only wanted to know what you were doing. No one said you were doing anything wrong." Willowpaw was not a patient soul, and, as she was so fond of saying, did not suffer fools gladly. She looked from Vectorpaw to Catchingpaw through narrow eyes; the longer she was around them and their arrogance, the more she was filled with disdain. "Though... if you really were just sitting on a rock, how come you got all defensive about it?" Her tone was calm and sly - almost playful - but her words were driven by aggravation. She wanted to cut these two down to size.

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look at my profile. i'm having trouble changing all the text from black to the colour i want... i can't seem to figure out where in the HTML i do that. there are also those hideously ugly opaque black boxes which i want to get rid of, but don't know how... help please?

Nature is the most soothing thing the world could ever give me. Pay attention to the small details and it will save you a lot of grief.

Willowpaw was mystified. She didn't have even the most remote clue of what Forcepaw could of meant by that. Nature, she thought, was anything but soothing; it gave the world beautiful and lovely things like delicate spring flowers, glorious views, and birds with vibrant plumage, yes, but it also brought merciless predators, devastating storms, illness, death.

She was a hardened cynic of only eight moons, looking for empathy and understanding from an air-headed idealist who probably spent all their time daydreaming about herbs and stars. Well, duh, of course coming here was a terrible idea! Willowpaw wanted to wack herself for even thinking of it. It was impossible for anyone to talk their way out of their problems... why did she think she might be an exception?

"Oh, that's nice... I guess..." For a brief moment, she was overcome with nervous laughter. She vigorously shook her head, as if she could somehow shake all the awkwardness out of her being. "But I don't really think you can help me though. I mean, I'd probably be better off talking to my friends about it, right? They'd know me better, after all..." She quickly peered over her shoulder to the entrance of the den.

bummmmp.

sorry, i was kind of tired when i wrote that. i didn't explain the problem very well.

SO...

cheetah's profile customisation guide says that to change the text colour in my profile, i have to look for sections of code like this -
color: #000000;
font-weight: normal;
- and then change the hex code to the colour i want. but... i only found two sections of the profile HTML like this, and only in two places of my profile did the text colour change (the news table, and the bolded areas in my account info box.)

how do i change the text colour on the rest of my profile?

also, how can i change the colour of the black boxes on my profile, like the one that says "There are no comments. Would you like to add first?"

ty.

try going to ultimate profile and checking the box that says "Only clanmates can view my Ultimate Profile". i'm not sure if that will work but it's my best guess.

hi nighty :3

it's cool! i'm not actually that big into warrior cats, or, not since i was waaay younger, but i was needing a more active rpg than the ones i normally go to. so i decided this one was worth a try. i'll be making another character soon, probably a loner or a kittypet, if you want to roleplay w/ me.

extreme meow: i'm actually already an advanced player... or at least i think i am... but that's still good advice. there's nothing like learning from the people you admire if you want to get better at something, especially something creative, and roleplaying/writing is no exception! ;o

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Amityfell first learned to hunt at night when she was a young apprentice. It was an unusual and mostly useless skill, one she didn't pick up because her mentor had asked her to but because she just liked doing it better this way. When her friends discovered than she had been sneaking out at night she was met with concern and suspicion - being a young, lithe she-cat, most of them secretly believed she was meeting with a tom from another Clan - and when she told them she was only hunting, their anxiety turned to bafflement. Why? Isn't it easier to hunt in the day? or Why? You'll be too tired to go out and train properly the next morning? or simply Why?

And she told them. I just like it more this way. When they asked her why she liked it more that way, she only shook her head helplessly because that question was too personal to answer.

Mostly, though, it was because she just wanted to be alone.

And so she was alone tonight, slipping out of the the camp when the last of the sun was out of the sky and speeding towards the river, unbothered by pointless small talk that would be regurgitated by her Clanmates as if they were robins feeding their young if she was on patrol. She didn't care about how nice the weather was, or how the prey was running lately, and she didn't want to tell some random senior warrior about how her day was, and right now, she didn't have to. She could focus all of her attention on hunting, completely alone...

Or, at least she thought so. Amityfell missed Mysticillusions, masked in the shadows of the shore, and tumbled right over him and onto the ground. "StarClan's sake!" She pushed herself to her feet and smoothed out her fur, annoyed. "I thought you were dead! What are you even doing out here?"

anybody know? i really need help w/ this.

ok... i'd like to say something about the advanced boards.

they're not advanced.

they're "advanced" by name only.... full of people who can barely put a sentence together. i've seen people complain about this before and the response from the mods is always the same: "well, you have to REPORT the people who aren't advanced!" well, that's not really happening, is it? it just seems like a cheap excuse for the mods not to do their job, you know, moderating the site, to make sure people aren't posting where they're not supposed to.

or they'll say: "if people can post in the advanced boards they'll be motivated to become better writers". again, i don't see that happening. it's another theory that didn't pan out in reality. if people were motivated to be better writers, then they'd actually try to be better writers, not just write at the same level as they do in the free-for-all boards.

i want so badly to find an active RPG that also makes room for the more advanced roleplayers and i thought i found one in this site... turns out that's not the case. i have to be honest, it looks to me like this site's philosophy is quantity over quality: set the bar for membership as low as possible so there are as many members as possible, never mind if that makes for the most enjoyable and enriching experience or not. that's too often the case with these big RPGs and it's just really disappointing.

this site is one of the most diverse roleplays i've ever been on and if the staff were a little less lax it COULD be great, but right now i feel like it's a wasted opportunity. sorry. just how i feel about it.

Willowpaw stared at Rocketpaw, wearing an emotionless expression that barely concealed the agitation stewing underneath. "No, they don't need help, actually, thanks." If she was writing this, then the word 'help' would be in quotation marks. She never had any respect for the wannabe-medicine-apprentice kits, who she saw as being self-deluded and so entitled to the busy medicine cats' time that they never noticed what an annoyance they could be.

She turned to Forcepaw and Salixtwist, and flicked her tail towards the older medicine cat. "I'm just a bit depressed, that's all. I'm afraid it's nothing you two can help with," she replied, helplessly shaking her head. "I'm sorry if I've wasted your time."

ok, thank you.

for willowpaw.

this is for any mentor who's up for a real challenge. she's very opinionated, does not work well with others, is hard to persuade and generally views everyone else around her as a complete, incompetent idiot. so while she comes off as arrogant and unfriendly, she's also rather lonely and pessimistic and unhappy about her life. a good mentor for her wouldn't just teach her how to hunt and fight, they'd have to teach her how to lighten up a bit too.

semi-advanced and up, please.

"Actually, no," shrugged Amityfell, who then began smoothing out the ruffles in her pelt. Speaking through mouth-fulls of fur, she continued, "I was going out to hunt, and you were just lying there. Sleeping alone in the woods at night is incredibly stupid. What would you do if I were an owl or a hungry fox? You'd have no way to protect yourself." She paused to get a good look at him, peering over her own shoulder through mischievous copper eyes. "How do you even 'accidentally' fall asleep out here, anyway? What were you up to?"

rereading my first post, and i can see it's definitely needlessly aggressive. sorry (going on the internet while annoyed = bad idea), will try to be more civil from here on out. you people all seem nice and you don't deserve having surly newbies snapping at you.

i haven't looked very hard, admittedly. these are just my first impressions. it's hard to find cool people to roleplay with when you're just starting out, as you probably know, so i appreciate the offers.

wolfin - i haven't been reporting, no. i feel a bit intrusive going into threads i'm not a part of to call in the mods :x should i?