Turn Nine [FloodClan]
Difficulty Level: 1
Expected Drama Rolls: 1
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1 Extra Recruit Attempt
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Your cat's base coat is Tortoiseshell with Spotting and Birdcatcher. It's magic is Arcane.
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Your cat's base coat is Cinnamon with Lacing. It's magic is Air. Their extra traits are Claw Edits, Dark Sclera, and Whiskers
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Mousepaw and Ratpaw have reached their 12th moon. They are welcomed as full fledged warriors of the clan, earning the names Mousefrost and Ratscorch.
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17. Ambushed! Another crew has cornered your soldiers and has attacked! Flip a coin. If heads, most of them manage to escape; exalt one random cat. If tails, two random cats fall during the escape and must be exalted.
Tails.
Reedfoot and Heatherbite get attacked - Heatherbite loses a life.
[cw cat death and injury, grief, trauma/ptsd symptoms]
Instead of SparkClan, it's BlazeClan this time. They can never seem to catch a break.
They strike quick, seemingly heading for the apprentice den. While Heatherbite's reaction time is still lightning quick, she's on the other side of the camp with Specklebranch when the reckless attack occurs.
Reedfoot is the only one close enough, and engages with the group of cats by himself to protect the fear-stricken Shellpaw and Berrypaw. He fights valiantly, but goes down before Heatherbite can reach his side. Her vision becomes blinded with rage and she hurls herself into the mass of cats too, falling the same way he did but having clanmates to cover her back while she lost her life. She briefly sees Reedfoot in StarClan, shell-shocked as he tries to come to grasps with what has happened, before her spirit gets whisked back to the land of the living. In the time it has taken for her to come back, her colony has cleaned up without her.
Brightstar mourns relentlessly. She mourns the fact that they were together so short, and he didn't even leave her with a litter. She spends many a day sleeping in her den, leaving the duties of running camp to her new deputy.
And of course, who else could she choose to fill the role of deputy but her beloved friend since the beginning, Heatherbite?
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10. Backstabbing. Choose a cat at random who is not the leader. Exalt them. Bye.
Deerpaw was randomly selected. If you are not happy with a young kit being exalted, Cindersky was rolled as an alternate option.
The deaths keep coming and coming. Dogs set loose in the forest rampage through their camp, and while they manage to beat them back, Deerpaw ends up seperated from the others and being circled by the pack. As one lunges in for the kill on the Air storkie, his mentor dives in the way with the intent of sacrificing himself for his apprentice.
Cindersky perishes, and Deerpaw is left with immense trauma and survivor's guilt.
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14. Where's the money at? Some money went missing from the King's vault, and now heads are going to roll. Take two cats of your choice and send them on a mission. Roll a d20. If they roll 15 or higher, they manage to find something to replace it and are spared. If they roll lower, flip a coin; one of them is exalted.
"You can't
do this!" Heatherbite protests, stalking in circles around the inside of Brightstar's den. She's been through this before, and the situation drags back the memories as raw as ever. "You
know what happened last time!" She begs, fighting back the screams of a young lightning mage that force their way to the front of her mind.
Brightstar's eyes are steely. The death of her mate has left her a husk of what she once was. Heatherbite knows this, as she's become the only person the Lunar molly talks to anymore, and she has always been transparent about her problems.
"I should choose Ratscorch and Mousefrost," The ginger and white cat mews, entertaining the sick idea for a moment. "This can be their orientation into adulthood."
"No!" Heatherbite protests. Her claws dig trenches in the dirt as she wheels to face her. "They're so young. Please." She begs.
Their eyes lock, and Heatherbite notices a kind of emptiness in her leader's eyes that she had never noticed before. Her white eyes seem to have taken on a gray tint, as if they're fading.
Snowtuft and Specklebranch are chosen for the mission.
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