Posts by devinsheart

Okay, so I've spent an unnatural amount of time on this site today, mostly due to the fact that I was so shocked to find several role playing games that are actually tempting to me (and this site was the root of the phenomenon). Before today, I'd never so much as heard of Warrior Cats, so you might be able to see my dilemma, considering that I'd really like to be able to play here.

Somewhere, while I was exploring, I found a reference to a thread that was supposed to help out people like me (I can no longer find that reference), but the link was dead. I think it might have been one of many that I've found that referred back to the original proboards site.

I'm frustrated, since there is so much information here and it is almost impossible to take it all in. I'm feeling massively lost.

I'd love to play, but I wouldn't have the first clue where to start, since I don't have the background of the books to get me moving (at least until I can get back to the book store. I was just there today, so it could be a week).

Does anyone have any advice, or should I just look for something else? I've been aching to RP for a while but until today hadn't run into any groups that seemed interesting (and now there are SEVERAL. Too little time!).

Anyway... As long as I can get some information, I'll be changing my display name (since SMF allows that). Thanks for any help. I hope I'm not too much of a bother :(

I can't find the dead link any more... It might just be because it's gotten so late (going on two o'clock now, and I'm wired anyway). There were several though in one of the boards. I could dig around tomorrow and no doubt find them. I think it was in a guide.

As far as the clans, that's one of the places that I'm most confused. I've looked here and on other sites and I'm still utterly lost. It could be the fact that I have a head for detail and when it comes to creating characters I tend to go a bit overboard -- hubby says it's a good thing, I tend to wonder, since my plots sometimes fall flat because of mis-placed focus. Oh, well.

HA! I found it! I finally found a clan guide on here! Wow, now I don't feel half as bright as I did yesterday.

Also, I would like to play a serval. I'm not sure that this would be possible, since it seems the general trend is for domestic cats. I don't suppose the argument that I want to own a serval one day really applies. I can always substitute a Savannah, but I'd love to be able to play the real thing! :)

ETA: Yay! If I could get guides I wouldn't have to bug anybody so much.

I know it's tough when boards get big -- I've modded huge non-RP boards before and information easily gets lost. Good news is when it's non-RP it's easily reposted, but it gets too messy on one of these :)

Thanks Groovystar!

Yes, that helps. I also just found the wiki because, go figure, I wasn't looking for it earlier. I'm rolling my eyes at myself now.

Now that that's settled, I will try to do a bio tomorrow. I wound up spending so much time on this site this evening that I'm up way past my bedtime lol

Thanks for the information! I'll be back tomorrow to fix some things up. Hopefully I have all the information that I need, but I figure that somebody will correct me if I don't ;)

ETA: I'll just tack questions onto this thread later instead of starting a new one/s if that's alright. If not, let me know :)

That's fine. I can always start in one place and add another cat later on, when the time comes. I'm comfortable both with making a bio and adopting, so I'll come up with something, I'm sure. Still struggling to find quite *all* of the necessary information, but I'll get there, or just keep fixing bio until I get it right.

Any restrictions on torts (she-cats)? I ran into a couple of sites today that did have restrictions on torties. Not sure that's my second choice, but I'd hate to make it and then wind up finding out there was a restriction.

Real quick, before I actually go to bed: If I'm the last poster and the thread sinks, and if I have another question, can I bump? Posts here aren't counted, but I don't know if that still counts as a double-post (which I hate to do anyway, in case it isn't already obvious lol).

Okay, awesome. Now I'm frustrated because I can't find the cat that I want. I know it exists because I've owned one (tortie ragdoll) but not being able to find photo documentation is very frustrating. Oh, well. Off to feed the sugar gliders (and hopefully not let them out of the cate tonight, since that drove the kitties insane) and go to bed.

I'll be back tomorrow to work on bio :)

ETA: Where can I find the list of restrictions just so I can be sure to pass the bio on the first go?

Cat's Name: Sure

Note: Sure got her name when her father once remarked that she was so "sure" of herself. Since her twoleg family never gave her a name, she stuck with it when she was adopted by an old woman, and then when she escaped from the indoors.

Cat's Age: 4 Moons
Gender: She-cat
Alliance: Loner, former kittypet -- would probably like to join a pseudoclan IC at a later date, but I feel a a roleplayer that play will flow better for me starting out (with little knowledge of Warriors) if I handle this IC
Position: Kit
Appearance: Sure is a Russian Blue, and as such she has the typical thick, blue-gray fur of her breed. Her eyes are a wide yellow with green around the pupils. Her face is narrow and her body has a long, sleek look to it, though she isn't underfed. There is a small scar over her right eye from a spat with her littermate Jess while they were both still kittypets. Her paw pads are a bit too soft for outdoor living. She still has a narrow, jeweled collar that was put on her by a child in the family with which she lived, and which wasn't removed before she went into the wild.
Personality: Sure is shy around twolegs as a result of her history (see below) and is a bit wary of other cats. She is young still and only recently has been thrust into the life of a stray. She isn't confident yet and tends to prefer to observe.

Sure is slow to forgive, and prefers the company of only small groups of cats. She will bond strongly with very few, but will treat those she loves with a ferocious tenderness. Sure is anxious to defend what she believes is right, and is eager to grow into a warrior. Sure has some suppressed anxiety related to her history as a kittypet.
History: Sure is a former kittypet. She was born in the comfort and luxury of a twoleg home, but her birth and that of her two littermates was entirely unexpected. Their parents were never supposed to breed, and the kits were deemed to be "inferior" as quality pets. The twolegs were entirely unable to see the beauty of Sure and her two siblings (Jess, a she-cat, and Gus, a tom). While the little girl in the house pampered the three kits, the grown ups had other plans.

The three siblings were sent to new homes when they were a tender six weeks old. Their removal from the home ripped their family apart, and they would never see one another again. Sure was "adopted" by an old woman who already had eight cats before her. Even so young, the kit was miserable, and when she saw an opening (during a delivery of groceries) she made her run for it.

Sure, however, was never able to find the little girl she had loved so much. In spite of her strong feline instincts she just had been too young, still needing her mother.

Roleplay Sample:

Sure sat back on her haunches, her shoulders very slightly raised up in an unconscious gesture of self-protection. Her body was still, and her golden eyes scanned back and forth as she gazed at the assembled cats. She was young, and the life she'd seen was not the life which she would come to know. These cats were strange to her, but everything within her being wanted to be one of them. If she could become one with them she would no longer be so completely and utterly alone in the world, and with them, she might be able to figure out what she'd been missing for so very long.

Sure's tail thumbed irritably against the ground, and she turned her regal head to the side in an expression of disgust -- disgust with herself for being so shy. A little growl passed through her throat and she stood, trotting toward where the other young cats were playing. Holding her head up with a cockiness she didn't feel, she moved into their midst and stood among them, her eyebrows raised just slightly. "Sure, sure," she said, and nodded her head to the others.

(Okay,so admittedly that makes it necessary for Sure to join a thread -- so, in another example...)

Sure laid in the grass near an ancient tree, the shade cooling the ground. Her ears stood at constant attention as she listened to the sounds around her, for the scurrying of small animals or the sounds of birds nearby -- prey. She wasn't accustomed to hunting, as it was something entirely new to her, but she'd done well for herself so far. It would be better for her, she knew, if she was a member of one of the clans she'd heard tell of. It was her misfortune, she realized now, to be born in a twoleg home.

Rising, the kit moved with her head and tail low. It wasn't prey she was stalking... She was looking for other cats, the type of cats who might be able to show her the ropes and teach her what it meant to live wild. She could learn to like this, she thought!

Comments/Other: I hope that's good. I tend to be a bit on the prolific side and posts can get fairly long -- I'm an experienced roleplayer but I love description. Odd I didn't put much description of the cat herself in this, but I will get there! Thanks for your consideration!)

Okay, I've done a bio and gone ahead and posted it. I'm pretty sure it's adequate but still think I could have done better (always do). I made a Russican Blue. I found it interesting because my husband and I used to live in an area where there were a TON of strays and ferals around (everywhere) and there were three or four purebred Russian Blues among them. We used to "gossip" about how they could have come to be stray, and actually adopted one (vet said he was pure).

Unfortunately he escaped the house for his freedom not long after we got him and we couldn't get him to come back. He's the father of three of our cats (LONG story, but there was some error on the part of the shelter that told us mom was spayed. Everybody is neutered now). I'm fascinated by the concept of stray/feral purebred cats, because I know it happens.

BTW, Persians are one of my favorite breeds. I've never seen a better personality from a cat than from Persians. Hubby doesn't like the look of the traditional Persian face and refuses to believe in doll-faces. He doesn't think they exist lol

I just made a bio, and I thought I'd introduce myself.

First of all, I'm the crazy person who knew nothing about Warriors until she decided to apply last night. Yes. That's me. I'll take a curtain call later.

I LOVE cats. We are the proud "fur-parents" to four of them. Whisper is at least part Ragdoll (his mother was either full or half doll) and the other three are half Russian Blue and half... Well, mixed breed. Their mother escaped the house not long after they were born and was adopted by our next door neighbors. We let them keep her since at that point we felt we already had too many cats and she wasn't fitting in well in our home (she rejected the kittens).

Our cats are all beautiful and I love them bunches. Whisper is a bit neurotic (or possibly psychotic) but Monster, Keeper and Sister are all great kitties. I also have a daughter and a husband (who is not a cat person). Oh, and let's not forget the critters: Two sugar gliders named Widget and Wotzit.

I'm an experienced role player but have never played an animal (straight up -- I've done anthro roleplay). I'm looking forward to playing with you! I've just applied for "Sure" a Russian Blue kit. :)

You know the joke about the cat named "bad kitty, bad kitty!?" That's kind of what I was going for.

I can just take out the name history, since I like the name in either case. Does that work?

I really do love birds! Unfortunately my husband doesn't, and sugar gliders and birds of any kind are a BAD combination. Since the gliders could feasibly outlive the cats, it's important that we take their needs into consideration. It's one of the reasons that we got them: they live a long time for small pets.

It's funny, they think the cats are their pet pets!

I'm sorry you can't have a cat yourself... I'm allergic too, but not very badly. Keeper is a killer, since he sheds so much and is high dander. We're dealing with some skin issues at the moment, because when we moved into our house there were a lot of fleas. We're still fighting the dermatitis even though the fleas are gone. Thankfully Whisper's the only one still affected and I think his problem is obsessive grooming (remember, he is psychotic lol).

I accidentally let Widget out the other day. The cats went ballistic. I kept scaring her off every time I told Monster to back off. He's the most curious, though not the best hunter of the lo :)

I do have a question actually. My bio is [url=http://warriorcatsrpg.com/index.php/topic,62312.0.html]here[/url]. I'm not really sure where to start with the role play, since Sure is a loner *and* new to being a loner. Any suggestions? I'd like to start a new thread, I think.

I'm all for noses in cats! Personality is the determining factor for me, regardless of what the cat looks like. As I said, I would love one day to own a Serval. I've heard great things about them, and cougars. I guess I'm a weirdo who loves exotics. It will never happen, but it's great to dream, isn't it?

Okay, so now I'm a bit stuck. I don't know where to get started! I would like to start a new thread instead of stepping on anybody's toes, but I'm not really sure *where* I should do it. Local loner?

ETA: I found some more broken links in the bio guide. I managed to find what I was looking for (yay!) but I had to go about it in a round about way.

ETA 2: One more, sorry. Can I/should I put the link to the cat bio in my signature if I'm not going to use a signature picture?

I am kind of, I guess you'd say, a stickler for "rules." In order for RP to work for me, certain conventions have to be in place. The lack of liquid time here totally rocks, for example.

So I'd like to start organically, with no relationships yet, and build from there. A kind of "getting to know you" situation, if that's possible.

It's entirely workable that area cats would know about Sure, but most likely she wouldn't *know* any of them (know they exist, but not know them personally). I hope I'm making sense. I'd like to begin at the beginning.

I am definitely *not* planning on doing that. I want to play more than one cat (I can probably handle up to five, but I don't want to push it), but I want to establish Sure first, and I don't want to wind up having her involved with anybody from her past. I think I actually implied that in the bio :)

Sure had given up on ever finding the little girl who had, with tender hands, put the jeweled collar around her neck. The tag had always been useless, but it had been removed when the old lady had "adopted" her anyway. She'd been close to twolegs, scavanging for scraps when she could find them or when a kind twolegs put them out for the cats who would congregate. She always waited until the others were finished before she ate, and it had been quite some time since she'd been full up.

Now the kit wandered. She wasn't certain where she was going, but as she knew that it would take her far away from the twoleg place. She didn't want to see them again, the females with their broomsticks chasing the stray cats of their porches, or the males who threatened and hollared. She couldn't understand the words they said, but she knew what their tone meant.

Sure moved with her head and tail both low, for all appearances a cat who was either slinking in disgrace of stalking some prey. Her blue-gray ears swiveled at the slighest noise, and her head came up, alert when she perceived that she had heared the approach of another. She was unaccustomed to using her senses, and the tip of her tail twitched in disgust with herself. She was young and inexperienced, but she wasn't stupid. Her instincts would do her well.

Fed up and exhausted, Sure dropped into a sitting position on the earth spot where she'd stopped. She couldn't go any further. Someone would have to find her.

Oh, yeah, that won't be a problem. I love to write character histories but I wouldn't have even thought to backwrite a character into something. It won't be a problem.

I prefer the play to be entirely organic whenever possible, so Sure is looking to meet some new cats she's never met before -- and I assume she's not met *any* cats outside of her family and some of the strays that hang around twolegs.

No problem! I tend to be a natural link checker. If I find any more, I'll let you know. It's more work than one person can really do by themselves, so it's always good to have somebody on hand who's willing to report the broken ones :)

I posted, Thalia! The link is in my signature, though I think I need to make it a bit bigger lol

I will probably have that problem at some point in the future. I've had some games in the past where I had WAY too many characters. Smaller games though, so it was even more overwhelming! lol

The link to the bio is also in my sig if that helps. I'm going tot ry to make it bigger but I can't remember the code :(

Sure didn't start at the sound from another the other young cat, but her shoulders drew up, tensing as she turned her yellow-eyed gaze on the other she-cat. Her ears pricked and her tail wrapped around her rump protectively, curling over her feet. She gave a small nod of her head in acknowledgement.

"Yes," Sure meowed after too-long a pause. "It's... Beautiful." She paused for a long time, thinking of her own, and then a little rumble came from her chest. "It's not like..." she started. "It's different," she concluded, the end of her tail giving a little flick.

What you did works!

I'm still feeling my way with the char a little bit so if there are any inconsistencies, that's why. That, and of course I am learning WarriorCats as I go lol