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Welcome to 2023!! Congrats to everyone on making it through the holiday craziness. I’m so glad Whitewater is standing strong for the new year and I’m excited to see what 2023 will bring to us all!

Due to the busyness of the last month, this will just be a quick mid-month update and we will not be having a time skip for January. Instead, we will have another update up on February 1st that will have our next age-up as well as our next round of OTMs! We already have our next batch picked, but don’t forget to nominate members/threads/characters if you think they deserve the honor! All winners receive an opportunity to use a special restricted suffix for their cats.

As we mentioned last month, we have partnered with Halo of Ashes as a sister site. In case you missed the announcement, we have created a sister Discord for members of each site to share the battle cats love. This Discord is not required to join, but we will be hosting sister game and movie nights. Hopefully this helps us all welcome some new friendships into our lives for the new year!

Last month, we saw the start of a tense border meeting between a patrol from both MistClan and RidgeClan who crossed paths at the border. We look forward to seeing the result of this meeting! Will Mushroomstar be able to talk the situation down, or will the passionate youngsters bring out their claws?

We want to give an opportunity for PrairieClan and MistClan to also have a border meeting (sorry MistClan...). We will be encouraging three cats from each Clan to sign up for these patrols. Please reply to this thread if you have a MistClan or PrairieClan cat that you would like to participate in this border meeting. 

Our last update is hopefully something to look forward to...February will bring our first on-site Gathering, the first played interaction between all three Clans! To provide some excitement and encourage character interactions (especially between those who may not interact otherwise), we will be hosting an event to pair off characters. If you want your character to participate, post their name(s) here and staff will randomly pair attending characters together to thread at the Gathering. You and your paired off characters will be encouraged to thread at the Gathering…whether to talk or argue, befriend or antagonize, or perhaps even to find the start of a new romance (February is the month of love, after all!)...the result will be up to you all! Staff will provide some possible plotting points to help get you started.

You can enter as many characters as you would like, as long as you can balance a thread with each! Due to the setting being the Gathering, this event is limited to only Clan cats. If we receive an odd number of cats, we will have a group with three!

Of course, you will not be limited to only threading with your paired partner! Threads located at the Gathering Place will be able to be started throughout the month of February.

To summarize...
No activity check or aging this month. 
If you are interested in your MistClan or PrairieClan cat to be apart of a border patrol conflict, please post their name(s) below. 
If you want to submit your character to participate in our Gathering event to be randomly paired off for a thread, please post their name(s) below. 

Enjoy the rest of January!