Post by bee on Apr 20, 2024 16:53:35 GMT -6
april 2024 [part 2]
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]We hope you all have been enjoying Whitewater’s new look! We are incredibly thankful to all of you who have helped spot bugs or errors…big changes like this are made so much easier with everyone’s help!
➤ As mentioned before, we will be having our next age-up this month, which brings us into the first moon of New-Leaf! Temperatures are still colder, especially at the beginning of the moon, but the valley will soon start to thaw out and come back to life!
For all characters accepted before 3/15, please update their age by one moon. If you made a character and they were accepted after 3/15, it is up to you whether or not you age them up. The only exception to this are accepted characters that are tied to a previously accepted character…they will need to be aged up regardless of acceptance time to keep their timelines matching! If you aren’t sure if you need to update your character’s age, please reach out to staff and we will help.
While updating your character’s ages, we also ask that you please update their bios to our updated bio format. This new format corrects some alignment issues caused by the new skin, and we now have three different color options to choose from! All three bio codes can be found in our Character Creation Guide.
Lastly, be sure to also update ages in your wanted ads as well. Once everything is updated, please respond to this thread. This will also serve as our activity check. Please respond by 4/30. If you are unable to update your ages, please post an away in our Discord or message staff privately about your absence! Members who do not reach out or reply to this thread will have their characters archived and may be removed from the site/discord. We would also like to ask that members who do not have a posted/accepted character also reply to this thread, just so we know whether or not you're interested in sticking around!
➤ For some in-character updates, Dappledfern’s of PrairieClan’s litter has been born! Her three kits can now be roleplayed. As a reminder, kits are ‘born’ at 2 moons old so that they can be played immediately. The Dapple litter will participate in age-ups starting Moon 3 of New-Leaf.
Berrykit of RidgeClan is now an apprentice! Congrats to our tiny troublemaker of RidgeClan!
Some senior apprentices in RidgeClan and MistClan are old enough to be made warriors. We do not require that apprentices become warriors right at 12 moons, but if it makes sense with your character’s development, feel free to request a graduation!
➤ Finally, we want to wish a very happy birthday to both Adrian and Erose! We hope both of your special days were wonderful!
[/PTab={tab-align:left;tab-background-color:transparent;background-color:transparent;}]➤ As mentioned before, we will be having our next age-up this month, which brings us into the first moon of New-Leaf! Temperatures are still colder, especially at the beginning of the moon, but the valley will soon start to thaw out and come back to life!
For all characters accepted before 3/15, please update their age by one moon. If you made a character and they were accepted after 3/15, it is up to you whether or not you age them up. The only exception to this are accepted characters that are tied to a previously accepted character…they will need to be aged up regardless of acceptance time to keep their timelines matching! If you aren’t sure if you need to update your character’s age, please reach out to staff and we will help.
While updating your character’s ages, we also ask that you please update their bios to our updated bio format. This new format corrects some alignment issues caused by the new skin, and we now have three different color options to choose from! All three bio codes can be found in our Character Creation Guide.
Lastly, be sure to also update ages in your wanted ads as well. Once everything is updated, please respond to this thread. This will also serve as our activity check. Please respond by 4/30. If you are unable to update your ages, please post an away in our Discord or message staff privately about your absence! Members who do not reach out or reply to this thread will have their characters archived and may be removed from the site/discord. We would also like to ask that members who do not have a posted/accepted character also reply to this thread, just so we know whether or not you're interested in sticking around!
➤ For some in-character updates, Dappledfern’s of PrairieClan’s litter has been born! Her three kits can now be roleplayed. As a reminder, kits are ‘born’ at 2 moons old so that they can be played immediately. The Dapple litter will participate in age-ups starting Moon 3 of New-Leaf.
Berrykit of RidgeClan is now an apprentice! Congrats to our tiny troublemaker of RidgeClan!
Some senior apprentices in RidgeClan and MistClan are old enough to be made warriors. We do not require that apprentices become warriors right at 12 moons, but if it makes sense with your character’s development, feel free to request a graduation!
➤ Finally, we want to wish a very happy birthday to both Adrian and Erose! We hope both of your special days were wonderful!
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FROZEN valley
]Despite the season officially changing, leaf-bare isn’t quite ready to release its grip on the valley. Early in the moon, the valley experiences one last freeze…the temperature reaches such an extreme overnight, in fact, that all bodies of water in the valley are frozen when the Clans wake up in the morning!
For our Frozen Valley event, all cats of the valley come together for a brief time of peace to experience the joy of bonding and playing together on the ice.
The Clans congregate by the frozen river near the Gathering Place, the three camps of the Kingdom join together by the frozen lake in the mountains, and the barn cats have their own private fun by the duck pond…which is also a new addition to the farm’s territory and roleplay boards!
Threads have been created in each of these three spots for cats of these major groups to spend some time together to mingle, play, and celebrate the quickly approaching warmer season.
The Clans at the Gathering Place.
The Kingdom at the Lake.
The Barn Cats & Loners at the Duck Pond.
These provided threads are where you can roleplay your characters and their interactions/response to the merriment! These threads will have no expected post order...feel free to pop in once to insert your character or have some back-and-forth with other cats! If you wish for a more private interaction between characters, separate threads can be made at these locations.
[/PTab={tab-align:left;tab-background-color:transparent;background-color:transparent;}]For our Frozen Valley event, all cats of the valley come together for a brief time of peace to experience the joy of bonding and playing together on the ice.
The Clans congregate by the frozen river near the Gathering Place, the three camps of the Kingdom join together by the frozen lake in the mountains, and the barn cats have their own private fun by the duck pond…which is also a new addition to the farm’s territory and roleplay boards!
Threads have been created in each of these three spots for cats of these major groups to spend some time together to mingle, play, and celebrate the quickly approaching warmer season.
The Clans at the Gathering Place.
The Kingdom at the Lake.
The Barn Cats & Loners at the Duck Pond.
These provided threads are where you can roleplay your characters and their interactions/response to the merriment! These threads will have no expected post order...feel free to pop in once to insert your character or have some back-and-forth with other cats! If you wish for a more private interaction between characters, separate threads can be made at these locations.
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OTMs
]For our last site update, we want to recognize our next batch of OTMs! If at any point you feel a particular member, character, or thread is deserving of being recognized, please reach out to staff with nominations! As a reminder, all recognized members (and the players of recognized characters and thread participants) are rewarded the use of a special suffix! If a player is recognized in multiple categories, they will only be rewarded one special suffix.
A new addition to our recognitions is our Featured Adopt! This may update more frequently to highlight some of the incredible adopts we have on Whitewater. As with our OTMs, members can reach out to staff to request an adopt to be featured. If someone claims and creates a bio for a featured adopt, they will be rewarded the use of a special suffix!
MEMBER OTM ♦ Tor is an undeniable powerhouse of Whitewater. From his incredible characters, irresistible wanted ads, and gorgeous coding from templates to our custom site skin, we are so lucky and grateful to have him as a member of our community. He is always eager to plot and form connections for his cast of colorful characters and never turns down plotting opportunities, and we look forward to the inevitable next WIP!
CHARACTER OTM ♦ What better way to celebrate RidgeClan's tiny terror graduating to apprenticehood? Berrypaw is the younger sibling of deputy Toadfeather and warrior Lavendergaze and her antics from kithood have been delightful to witness. We look forward to seeing what trouble she continues to get into during her apprenticeship and we are also keeping an eager eye on her developing friendship with fellow-troublemaker Avenspaw!
THREAD OTM ♦ Our Valentine's Day event was intended to give characters new possibilities of developing relationships, and while many leaned towards positive bonding, we were delighted to see Littlehawk of the Kingdom and Ravenheart of RidgeClan develop a new hateship towards each other. In the Eye of a Hurricane sees these two meet along the border of their respective groups and it doesn't take long for harsh words to be exchanged, fueled by the actions of Wolfstar during RidgeClan's past which continues to impact the valley even now.
FEATURED ADOPT ♦ For our first featured adopt, we want to highlight the plot role of the ex-oracle! This character served as RidgeClan's oracle before and during the holy war, but was forced to step down when the role was abolished. This character was a strong supporter of Wolfstar's vision and helped give momentum to his movement, though the reason behind their actions is ultimately up to their player. This character is not intended to rise back to their previous role, but with Clanmate Lavendergaze receiving signs of becoming the new Oracle, the possibility for tension and drama is endless!
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MEMBER OTM ♦ Tor is an undeniable powerhouse of Whitewater. From his incredible characters, irresistible wanted ads, and gorgeous coding from templates to our custom site skin, we are so lucky and grateful to have him as a member of our community. He is always eager to plot and form connections for his cast of colorful characters and never turns down plotting opportunities, and we look forward to the inevitable next WIP!
CHARACTER OTM ♦ What better way to celebrate RidgeClan's tiny terror graduating to apprenticehood? Berrypaw is the younger sibling of deputy Toadfeather and warrior Lavendergaze and her antics from kithood have been delightful to witness. We look forward to seeing what trouble she continues to get into during her apprenticeship and we are also keeping an eager eye on her developing friendship with fellow-troublemaker Avenspaw!
THREAD OTM ♦ Our Valentine's Day event was intended to give characters new possibilities of developing relationships, and while many leaned towards positive bonding, we were delighted to see Littlehawk of the Kingdom and Ravenheart of RidgeClan develop a new hateship towards each other. In the Eye of a Hurricane sees these two meet along the border of their respective groups and it doesn't take long for harsh words to be exchanged, fueled by the actions of Wolfstar during RidgeClan's past which continues to impact the valley even now.
FEATURED ADOPT ♦ For our first featured adopt, we want to highlight the plot role of the ex-oracle! This character served as RidgeClan's oracle before and during the holy war, but was forced to step down when the role was abolished. This character was a strong supporter of Wolfstar's vision and helped give momentum to his movement, though the reason behind their actions is ultimately up to their player. This character is not intended to rise back to their previous role, but with Clanmate Lavendergaze receiving signs of becoming the new Oracle, the possibility for tension and drama is endless!
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wouldn't that be the coolest thing ever