CYNEFIN

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GUIDEBOOK

POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 2:46:09 GMT -5

Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 2:46:09 GMT -5

general information

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WELCOME TO CYNEFIN!

This Guidebook was created in order to best provide you with the all of the information you could need to learn about about our game. Should you have any questions, feedback, or need help getting started, you can either DM a Staff member here on site or you can drop into our community discord to ask the staff team there or a fellow community member!

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GUIDEBOOK CONTENTS

➤ site genre, setting, and world concept
➤ activity checks & age ups
➤ site rules
➤ discord rules
➤ getting started + character creation
➤ clan creation
➤ tribe creation
➤ subarea creation
➤ mating & kits
➤ cynefin's story
➤ about the staff
➤ discord

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 3:19:12 GMT -5

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ABOUT THE SITE

+ GENRE

We are a warrior cats roleplay set in an alternate universe in which the events of the series have and do not exist. Our world is one of its own and only shares similar characteristics to that in the books.

+ SETTING

Think of our world as a "green space"; we have no specific location setting. cynefin is set in modern-day in the sense that humans have homes, electricity, work and go to school, drive cars and busses, build streets and bridges, etc. Twolegs are npcs and are regularly referenced in our game as their existence coexists with our characters, but where in the world our game is set doesn't matter much.

Our world is comprised of two differing regions that set our characters apart: The City which kittypets and twolegs inhabit, and The Wilds which the rest of our characters reside. Characters may call our world, "the valley" or any other similar common names as the world itself has no known name.

+    LIQUID TIME

Our site runs on a 1:1 ratio of time, meaning that one month in the game is equal to one month in real time. However, as our site runs on liquid time, it means that our characters can take on many threads at once rather than waiting for one to play out before jumping into the next. So long as your character's chronological timeline makes sense by the time each season comes to an end, you're welcome to have your character participate in as many threads as what makes reasonable sense to you and to them.

+    SEASONS AND WEATHER
If our game has no set specific regional location, what does that mean for the game's seasons and weather patterns?

Our world experiences all four seasons: Spring (New Leaf), Summer (Green Leaf), Fall (Leaf Fall) and Winter (Leaf Bare). Each season lasts for three months (moons) and goes through three phases to signal the stage of the season: Early (the beginning of the season), Full (the peak/middle of the season) and Late (the season's ending).

Our world has all types of weather patterns that can be experienced from torrential rain to blizzards to skyrocketing heat. We host events specific to each season that impact the whole world, with each region being impacted different based on the types of terrain; these events are to add fun and variation to the site but are optional to participate in.

+ OPEN WORLD CONCEPT

Our story is driven by you and your characters, meaning that our game is ever changing by the in-game development that happens because of our community's character choices. Characters are free to do as they please and travel wherever they want, for however long they want, whenever they want. They can create their own clans of live the life of a loner or turn to the life of a kittypet; we do not have a site shop, and instead encourage that characters carve out their own paths in life rather than buy an item to take action in their life.

+    WORD COUNT, CHARACTER CAP & SITE SHOP

We have none of these! We do not require a word count and encourage you to write however much you have time for or seems appropriate for a response. We also have no character cap; players are welcome to play as many characters as they believe they can keep up with. Additionally, we have no site shop: we want you and your characters to do as you please (within respectful limitations) and do not want to keep your characters from possibilities to rack up points to buy an item.

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 3:20:03 GMT -5

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ACTIVITY AND AGING

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ACTIVITY CHECKS

we have a single activity check every season, or once every three months

The activity check's purpose is so that staff can make routine character account updates and changes as needed and to keep our stats up to date; this is so we know how many characters are alive and deceased, what clans are being created or dismantled, and so we can plan events according to how many players there are and how many characters!

The activity check is simply that: a check, to see what us as staff need to do to make the best experience for you. These activity checks will be a small and simple form with a template for you to fill out so that we can use that to make the necessary or desired edits for the site. Activity checks do not require posting nor do we have any posting requirements for any type of character.

Any characters that are not accounted for by the end of the Activity Check are automatically marked as an 'Inactive' character. There are no ooc consequences for having characters go inactive, and inactive characters are simply considered generally around but not actively participating, or away from the world; these characters are not considered deceased.

Should your character be marked Inactive and you wish to reactivate them, simply post once with the account and then request for Staff to reactivate them in our Activation thread with the link to your character's newest post, or you can make this same request in our "update me" channel in our discord server.

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AGING UP

Character accounts on Cynefin do not automatically adjust with time to account for age. Thus, at the beginning of each season, characters will need to be aged up three months. This can be done in the UserCP section of the Profile Editor with the age drop-down menu. Characters that enter the world in a Full Season will only need to age up by two months for their first Early Season, and characters that enter the world in a Late Season will only need to age up by one month for their first Early Season; thereafter will need to adhere to the age up every three months.

+ CHARACTER AGES

Characters cannot enter the world younger than six months of age without a guardian; characters younger with a guardian are decided on a case-by-case basis based on the character's situation, number of guardians and ages of guardians, decided on by staff.

The lifespan of our characters are up to 240 Months, which is the equivalent of 20 years of age. Once a character reaches that age, it will be time for players to start to think about and write an exit for the character before the next month begins.

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 4:38:05 GMT -5

Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 4:38:05 GMT -5

SITE rules

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Be kind. This should be common sense, but treat your fellow community members and staff team with kindness, empathy and respect.

Cynefin's community, including staff, are comprised primarily adults that come from all types of backgrounds as parents, students, employees, people just trying to make time for what we enjoy doing when we finally have down time. Our be kind rule is here as a reminder that even when we are really excited to be writing with someone or writing an exciting thread, our thread partners are also excited even when they can't show it by being around to post as often as others.

Staff do not tolerate bullying, hateful remarks or harassment in any form including but not limited to racism, homophobia, fatphobia, political flaming, etc. If you are experiencing bullying in any form from another community member or from a staff member, please contact us directly using our "player safety report" channel on discord. This will allow for staff to see your report but keeping you anonymous to the rest of the community so that only staff will, as well as yourself, will be able to view it.

Once we have seen it, we will react with a thumbs up to let you know as we discuss next steps as a team, and then we will reach out to you directly. If you do not use the discord, please send us a group dm here on the site using the messages portal. If your complaint is against a member of Staff, please reach out to a trusted member of Staff to alert either on Discord or through the board's DMs in order to voice your concerns.

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We do not allow for godmodding or powerplaying. This isn't Dragonball; your characters aren't invincible and you can't write for others to win.

Your characters should be complex and have flaws. They can't be the best at everything and win at everything all of the time, just like us; practice doesn't make perfect but it makes better. It is also against the rules to write other people's characters to control their actions, especially in combat. Unless someone gives you specific and/or clear agreement to assume something about their character, or to write their character, you can't write on their behalf.

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Remain within the site rating. Our site maturity level can be found by scrolling down on the sidebar, and we will remain at a 3-1-2.

The site rating describes what type of graphic content is permitted and at what levels they are permitted. Any and all content needs to adhere to these guidelines.

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LAST EDIT: Apr 29, 2023 9:33:07 GMT -5 by eden

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 5:04:40 GMT -5

Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 5:04:40 GMT -5

DISCORD rules

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We don't know a single soul who doesn't love trash-talking their own more villainous and dark characters, especially when engaged in shenanigans and hijinks. But please remember when talking about characters that are not your own: behind them is a player that has spent time, energy, thoughtfulness and effort into writing and developing them. While we all love to hate on our own characters, it is not okay to trash-talk other people's characters in the public discord channels. It's okay to not like the character or like what they're up to, but that doesn't make it okay to put it on blast for all to see.

You never know when that character's player may peak in and see you negatively sharing about their character when they're not engaged in the conversation, or when a new user is looking to join and sees us hating on other people's characters; that deters not only new members but also players from wanting to continue writing that character and engaging with others. remember to be kind and respectful about what you share about your opinions on other character's you don't write especially when discussing them while that character's player is not actively a part of the conversation. If you wouldn't like seeing it about your character on a random weekday when you have five minutes to look in on the discord while you're mid-engagement offline, then neither would that player's character.

What is okay to discuss: what your character's opinions are of another character. If your character doesn't like another, they don't have to, they can think or feel however they want to about others. The distinguishable point here is that it is the opinion of your character you're speaking about, rather than saying it from a personal standpoint.

Why does this make a difference? Because what your character is feeling or thinking is, or should be, separate from what you as a player are thinking and feeling. our characters are fictional, but our words are not, and trash-talking characters from a personal standpoint can harm other members in the community.

Examples may include but are not limited to: talking about how much no one in the character's clan or family likes them or will accept them no matter what they say or do, talking about how unlikely it is for the character to progress or develop because of the character's recent choices that may be seen as bad, abnormal or taboo, speaking on behalf of another character that isn't yours about whether or not that character would like or dislike another character or their actions, saying that a character's partner(s) or kit(s) would never be liked by other characters, etc.

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When we are really interested in a conversation with another or a few other players, it can be easy to miss when someone else joins in to add something unrelated. Please be mindful that the user didn't share just to see it left there, they are also excited to talk and engage! It can sometimes be impossible to talk to everyone all at once and keep several different discussions going at once, but be mindful of the others who jump into the discord, even if they're sharing something off-topic from what you're speaking about. This can sometimes feel hurtful to users when they jump in to share something going on in their day or their life, and it's skipped over entirely by everyone actively in the discord. Even just engaging with a reaction or a hello can make a difference!

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The nsfw channel is a space for adults 18+ to discuss with and seek advice from other adults regarding mature topics in their lives, whether it be about parenting, breakups/divorce, work, sexual relationships with others, mental illnesses and triggers, share adult-themed memes, etc. Keep in mind, however, that some topics may still be sensitive to others, and thus even in the nsfw, if the topic seems overtly graphic/explicit, spoil your text by adding ||spoiler|| to the beginning and end of your text to cover it (it can be viewable by clicking what has been covered), and please mark any images with spoilers if they also include graphic/explicit themes.

Do not use the nsfw to share hateful remarks that are racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, etc. We do not allow that on site or on the discord. Do not use this space to share pornographic messages or images either, they will be removed and staff will contact you regarding this rule break. Should you be witness to someone breaking this rule, don't hesitate to report it to staff!

This channel is accessible at your own risk! it is made for 18+ adults and should you willing add the nsfw role to your account in order to access it without being 18+, staff will reach out to you regarding this and remove the role from your account if we know you are under 18+. We have done our best to change the security settings to keep this from happening, but should you still decide to engage without staff knowing, you are the one accountable for doing so.

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Please utilize the roles that you can opt-in and opt-out of in our roles channel. These roles will help to set your preferred pronouns, your timezone, and your tagging preferences among other things. By setting these options, this allows other people within the community to know how to best communicate with you.

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 6:06:55 GMT -5

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GETTING STARTED
& CHARACTER CREATION

+ GETTING STARTED

Cynefin runs on a 1:1 account to character ratio, meaning that every character needs to have their own account. Your first account will need to be your OOC Account, aka your Player Account, and you'll sign up with whatever username you like to go by.

+ REGISTERING YOUR FIRST CHARACTER

When registering your first character account, and every account after, you will need to register with the warrior name you would like your character to have (ie: fireheart, runningnose, yellowfang, etc.). This is because of how proboards works: once you have registered the account, the registration name can never be changed. The display name can be changed anytime thereafter in the UserCP.  Whether your character is starting off as a kittypet, a loner, or is born into a character created clan, all character accounts will need to be registered this way. Which leads us into...

+    REGISTERING A CHARACTER WITH A KITTYPET OR LONER NAME

Should you decide to start a new character as a kittypet or loner and have no idea whether or not in the future they will or won't join a clan, that is perfectly acceptable, and you may register them with any plain name you'd like to. However, you will still need to complete the name claim form in order to claim your character's name. Should they ever in the future decide to join a clan, you will need to change their display name to their new warrior name, but their warrior name will need to be one that has not been already claimed by another character in this case.

+    CHARACTER NAME CLAIM

As stated above, once a name has been registered on proboards, it cannot be changed. Thus, we have a character name claim thread which you will need to refer to in order to see if a specific name is available to be used.

+ CHARACTER AFFILIATION

Every character upon registering fits into one of three categories: a kittypet, a loner, or a clan cat. Clan cats can only be created if they are born into a clan that was developed on site. Any and all characters are allowed to have come from a clan in their history, but once they have touched our land, they are either a loner or they could have been adopted by a twoleg to become a kittypet. For that reason, once your character's account has been registered, you may either leave their display name as their registered name, or you may change it to any other name you'd like for them to be referred to by, whether that's mr. bob or spot as a kittypet, georgia or king as a loner, etc.

+    CHARACTER CREATION

Once you have decided on a character name and general background, the time has come to craft your character. All characters will need to fill out a character application using our character application template; all fields are required to be filled out including the image of your character.

Character applications once finished should include [complete] in the title of your application, or should you need to come back to it, please put [wip] for work-in-progress in the title of your character application. Character applications may sit as incomplete for one full season/three months, and any applications that are incomplete after that time will be archived. Any incomplete and archived application may be retrieved to be continued upon request, and extensions will also be provided upon request.

Character applications are posted in our character creation board. If you are not in our discord server, you can use your character application post to ping a member of staff by using the @username to let us know your character application is ready for review. However, if you are in the discord server, you can post the link of your application in our "add me" channel.

+    APPLICATION REVIEW

Once a staff member is able to review your character, they will either mark it as approved, lock the thread and move it into our accepted characters board, or post that it needs review if information is missing, doesn't match the character's profile, or something in the application doesn't match the site's history and/or lore. Staff will reach out via dm on the site or dm on discord to let you know what has caused the application to not be immediately reviewed and what needs to be corrected.

Characters cannot enter the world until their application has been approved. Character profiles are also required to have all of their profile information filled out by the time the application is submitted for completion including but not limited to the character's age, gender, one-line sentence for appearance, personality, history, and their application link.

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CLAN CREATION

+ general rule

All characters on Cynefin have the opportunity to start their own clan. However, certain criteria must be met in order for a clan to be officially recognized in game and listed on site. A character can lead no more than one clan at a time, but players may have unlimited amount of clans their characters create or join.

+ CLAN SIZE

In order for a group of cats to band together into a clan, they must have no less than six characters, one of which must be the leader and another of which needs to be a medicine cat, and the remaining four may hold any other traditional clan rank (deputy, warrior, apprentice, elder or queen). All recruitment must be done via in-character development through threads.

+ CLAN NAMING

All clans should follow the same naming convention as the books, in that the clan name should end in 'clan' (ie iceclan, treeclan, forestclan, etc.,). Once a clan has been officialized, the leading character will be responsible for choosing the name of the clan that they feel is most representative of their clan. Cynefin does allow for a clan to be named after those in the books (thunderclan, windclan, riverclan, shadowclan & skyclan), but we do not allow for names including but not limited to: unicornclan, starclan, toasterclan, pajamaclan, etc. Clan names should reflect what is in a cat's naturalistic surroundings such as weather, flora and fauna, colors, etc.

Clans can be named after animals such as birdclan, wolfclan, lizardclan, fishclan, etc. However the stipulation with naming your clan after animals is this: the animal your character's clan is named after should reflect its namesake rather than just to be named after an animal. This is to prevent an overabundance of animal-named clans that have no connection to the clan. For example (these do not have to be the reasons for naming and is solely for example purposes only): birdclan may be named this because the cats live in the trees, wolfclan may be comprised of tight knit family members, lizardclan may be named for cats good at camouflaging in their territory, fishclan may be comprised of fast swimming cats, etc.

+ A LEADER'S NINE LIVES

Once a clan has been officialized, the clan's leader may take their pilgrimage to the Eastern Caves where the moonstone lies. The Eastern Caves are the only sacred, unclaimable territory in our valley. Leaders may go alone or they may bring no more than two members of their clan to venture on the journey with them. should the leader be accompanied by others in their clan, the traveling trio may have a thread for the trip there, a thread for the trip home, or both. If the leader is traveling alone, there will be no travel threads and the ceremony thread will take place immediately instead.

Once the leader has arrived to the moonstone, staff will create a starclan guided thread in which the ceremony of receiving nine lives will commence. If you play a leader character about to receive their nine lives and want specific characters from your character's history to be included, please submit this request to staff along with the names of the characters they want included, their relation to your character, and what your character hopes to receive from them during the ceremony.

+ CLAIMING TERRITORY

A clan should scout out a subarea to call their home, which will in part both be their camp and their territory as the subareas on their own are huge in scale. When the clan has decided on a subarea they wish to claim, the clan leader will submit the clan creation form for approval and list this territory as theirs. So long as the subarea is vacant, when the clan has been cleared for approval, the very first official clan thread will be their territory claiming thread. This thread should involve all of the characters involved in which they will declare their ownership of the territory.

+ CLAN CREATION REQUIREMENTS

➤ Clan Name
➤ Clan Primary Skill
➤ Clan Main Hex Color #
➤ Clan Secondary Hex Color #
➤ Clan Territory
➤ Clan's Motto, Motive, Goal or Focus
➤ Three+ Subarea Exploration Threads
➤ Three+ Recruitment Threads of Clan Members
➤ Clan Members & Their Ranks (include the players of each character)

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Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 7:10:40 GMT -5

TRIBE CREATION

+ TRIBE SIZE

Tribes are usually smaller groups of cats between 3-5 that have struck up together; characters must be recruited through in-character development through threads. They consist of the a singular high rank that is both the tribe's medicine cat and leader known as the 'Healer', Prey-Hunters, Cave-Guards, To-Be's, Kit-Mother's, Elder's, and Kits. However, for the sake of our game, tribes do not need to have any specific ranks assigned to their members aside from the Healer rank.

+ ABOUT TRIBES

Tribes may come together for number of reasons such as having a single goal and once that purpose has been met, they may dissolve. Others may come together to create a solid foundation for a clan. Tribe leaders do not have the ability to attain nine lives as tribes are not officially recognized as a clan, and tribes may not officially claim territory. Tribes have the unique ability to travel from place to place and occupy an area without putting down roots and settling as clans do. Because of this, they may occupy and even patrol their subarea they live in, but that leaves them and their territory vulnerable to clans, other tribes and rogues alike to chase them out.

As tribes are not as structured as clans, the members of a tribe may share the weight by doing a number of things to support the tribe, they may have individual responsibilities they may contribute such as being Prey-Hunters or Cave-Guards, or they may be paired or grouped for specific tasks in the same way a clan rank might together, or they may be paired or grouped for tasks on an as-needed basis. Tribes may grow to any number they wish in the same way that clans can, but growing too high in number without being able to establish an official home or true borders, this can leave them at a disadvantage.

+ TRIBE NAMING

Tribes should follow the naming convention, "tribe of ____ ____". The name of the tribe may be selected together as a group or specifically by the tribe leader. The name of the tribe should either reflect that of the group or of their natural surroundings (ie: the tribe of rushing water, the tribe of gentle winds, the tribe of fierce hearts, the tribe of flying feathers, etc.,). It is up to the tribe leader/healer to choose their to-be (or in warrior clan equivalent, their apprentice), but this to-be is specially selected to be trained to follow in the tribe leader's steps and become the next Healer once the current Healer dies.

+ UPGRADING TO A CLAN

For a tribe to upgrade to a clan, a tribe must have recruited enough cats to have the six characters needed to make a clan and request an upgrade alongside the thread links of the recruitment threads that brought the tribe to six members. On top of their required one subarea exploration thread, they must gain an additional two exploration threads if remaining in the same territory they have been occupying, or three total exploration threads if settling in a new place.

+ TRIBE CREATION REQUIREMENTS

➤ Tribe Name
➤ Tribe Leader/Healer
➤ Recruited Tribe Members (at least 2-4)
➤ Links to Recruitment Threads
➤ Tribe's Primary Hex Color #
➤ Tribe's Motto, Motive, Goal or Focus
➤ Tribe's Territory (if wandering, put n/a)
➤ One subarea exploration thread (if wandering, put n/a)

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Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 7:25:56 GMT -5

SUBAREA CREATION

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WHAT IS A SUBAREA?

Subareas are smaller in size than that of a parent territory, and largely makeup the general parent territory. Think of it as what a city is to a state! Our map is massive and has a diverse amount of regions, thus it is likely that our characters may in fact stumble across an unknown place that wasn't originally on the map.

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DISCOVERING A SUBAREA

A character must, through in-character threads, happen upon this subarea that is being discovered if they wish to add it to the map as an officially recognized subarea. Just because a new subarea is discovered does not give that character ownership of that subarea right away, it must separately be claimed. The discovery threads should include information about the subarea such as the type of flora and fauna that can be discovered, the typical climate of the area, and any other information that would be important to know about the area. to have it officially recognized, a minimum of three exploration threads must be completed, and the player whose character is leading these expeditions must complete the 'new subarea discovery' claim thread.

+ SUBAREA CREATION REQUIREMENTS

➤ Subarea Name
➤ Parent Territory the Subarea Belongs To
➤ Links to three exploration threads
➤ Description of the Subarea
➤ Subarea Image for Site Display

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MATING REQUIREMENTS

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PREGNANT QUEENS

Cynefin does not allow for cats to enter into the world already pregnant. All pregnancies must occur between two registered, active characters on site.

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MATING

We have no breeding season on site. All characters are welcome to have kits at any point in the year with no advantage or disadvantage based on season. Characters may mate to have kits twice within a year (ie: if a character gives birth in Early Greenleaf, they will be eligible to breed to have kits within Early Leafbare).

Cynefin does not require that sexual partners be romantic partners or classify themselves as mates, any character on cynefin is welcome to become a parent if they choose so long as they find a partner to conceive with.

+    PREGNANCY DURATION

On Cynefin, pregnancies last a duration of one season, or the equivalent of three months. For example, if a character became pregnant in Full Newleaf, they will be giving birth in Full Greenleaf.

Pregnant characters have one month following the designated birthing date to post the birth thread for the kits, and should the month pass without a birth thread, staff will contact the parent players to determine the kits outcome based on factors such as: parent player activity, whether the kits have players ready to write them, whether there is a chaperone of some kind who can guardian the kits, the desired outcomes of the parent players, etc. this will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

+    INTERSEX & TRANS MATING

Cynefin allows for trans and intersex characters, however only characters that have afab reproductive organs may reproduce including intersex characters. Intersex characters wishing to apply for litter approval will still need to register as either the dam or sire for the litter, and need a registered, active character to assist in conception and be registered as the opposite partner (ie if your intersex character applies for a litter as a dam, their partner would then be the sire. if your intersex character applies for a litter as a sire, their partner would then be the dam).

Intersex characters and trans characters may reproduce together, trans characters may reproduce together, and intersex characters may reproduce together; the importance here is that regardless of the sex or gender of the parents, when applying for a litter, one parent must be designated as the dam and one as the sire, but how this works is entirely up to you as the player, the player of your character's sexual partner, and of course the in game development of the relationship between your characters.

+    FADE-TO-BLACK

When two or more characters find themselves ready to participate in the act of mating, the thread must include a fade-to-black, or also commonly called a 'time skip', in the thread. We do not allow for sexually graphic/explicit content to be written here on the board. Should this be something that interests you in writing, it must be taken either to dms or off-screen but it cannot be played out in threads.

+    MATING REQUIREMENTS

Characters must be active on site for the entirety of at least one season (three moons/months) and have a total of at least three posts, in order to be eligible for conception. These requirements must be met before the conception thread takes place. The conceiving character's sexual partner must also have met these requirements before the conception thread takes place. These requirements are in place in order to establish a character on site to discourage parent characters from disappearing after conception and birth, and prevent character's from joining and conceiving within their first thread.

+    APPLYING FOR KITS

When your character has mated with another in the hopes to conceive kits, so long as all players involved in the breeding thread agree for the outcome to result in kits, then you can begin the process of applying for kits! One player whose character involved in the breeding thread should be designated as the one who will post to apply for kits.

To apply, head to the Litter Application thread, copy-paste the form provided in the application, paste it into a response, and fill out the application information (this is best done in the 'preview' tab). You can alert us that you've posted in the litter app thread by sending all head admins a group dm on site, or by posting in the "update me" channel on our discord with the link to the litter application thread. Staff will then publicly roll the results for the litter in our "mating rolls" channel on discord.

+    MATING ROLLS

When rolling for litters, staff rolls for the following information:

➤ litter size (1-6)
➤ sexes at birth of each kit
➤ which kit belongs to which sire if multi-father litter

The rest of the kit's information will be up to the parent players including general appearance (eye color, fur color, breed, etc), optional face-claim, optional personality, and optional name. Players of parent characters are welcome to allow interested adopting parties to be responsible for, or give in their adoption application, choosing the faceclaim, personality and names of the kits. However players of parent characters are also welcome to choose all of this information as set-in-stone where interested adopting parties will have to abide by what the parent players choose.

When parent players have made these decisions, one player involved will need to post a thread in our Litters Board with all of the filled out information about their kits that can be found in the 'Kit Info Needed for Litters' section of the litter application thread.

+    KITS AS ADOPTABLES

Interested parties of kits will post directly in the listing thread that was posted by the parent players. Players of parent characters may ask for whatever they like as a form of application from interested adopting parties such as a roleplay sample, a playlist or moodboard reflecting the character, a personality rewrite (taking what the parents have written or left open and doing a detailed revision based on their own hopes/insights into the kit they want to play), ideas for plots or developments of relationships, as well as any blend of these or other ideas.

Once a player has been selected for each kit being adopted out, the litter thread will be locked and archived in our ic archives board. parent players are welcome to request the thread be re-opened should an adopter fall through for any of the kits until the kits are seven months old. once they reach that age, the thread will remain locked and a new adoption thread will need to be made under the standard Adoptions board.

Players are also welcome to choose for litters to be miscarried or stillborn, as well as have disabilities (whether chronic, temporary, physical, mental, or fatal) and in this case do still need to fill out the litter application with that information. Should that be the case, no rolls will be done by staff and no kits will come from the conception.

+    MATING AGE RESTRICTION

Characters are eligible to mate and successfully conceive no younger than 16 moons of age. We do not allow for this rule to be broken under any circumstances. Characters of any ages may mate should both characters and both players be consenting, but they cannot be any younger than 16 moons of age to mate with another character.

+    RESTRICTIONS

Cynefin does not allow for incestual relationships whatsoever, nor does staff allow for sexual, romantic, emotional, mental or verbal grooming practices between characters. These conditions are not allowed on site whether both players and characters are consenting or not, we not allow for either of these concepts on site.

+ KIT AGING ACCELERATION

Our characters age like we do, by getting older by one month, each month so that at the beginning of every season, our characters have aged up by three months. However, we have an exception for newborn kits to expedite the time it takes for them to be "apprentice" age by doubling the time it takes for them to age. Once a kit is born, it will age up by two months of age every month, so that by the time three months have passed, they will have reached the age of six months. from there on out, they will age as the rest of characters do.

mizo.

LAST EDIT: Apr 29, 2023 9:35:51 GMT -5 by eden

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 9:21:24 GMT -5

Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 9:21:24 GMT -5

CYNEFIN'S STORY

+

WHAT IS HAZELSTAR WARRIORS (HSW)?

Hazelstar Warriors! Long ago in 2010, a non-traditional clans warrior roleplay was created by Inglis comprising of forestclan, waterclan, lightclan and darkclan. In 2011, Eden joined and in 2012 became admin. In 2013, more staff were added including our current staff members Feathy and Rochelley. Hazelstar Warriors saw many plots over the years including incorporating the dark forest, bringing a tribe into the forest which later became skyclan, the creation of fearclan from rogue cats, and more. But in 2017, staff decided after its seven year run that it was time to close the site.

+

CYNEFIN'S STORY

Three years later in 2020, Eden rounded the former team together to launch a continuation of their old community which Inglis, Feathy and Rochelley all joined. Later that year, version 1 of cynefin was finally launched. The site had a successful launch, however as covid grew more rampant it impacted both the community and staff in their ability to write or maintain the board, and thus version 1 was closed at the end of 2020.

The staff wanted to eventually bring the project back and throughout 2021 and 2022, the site behind the scenes oversaw many renovations and changes in order to best find a fresh and new concept and look that would be best to launch in the future. Progress began to get more and more rampant and finally the grand re-opening was launched on January 21st of 2023, both for the member base that had held on since version 1's opening, and to bring new faces into a decade old community.

+ WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR HSW CHARACTERS?

When Hazelstar Warriors closed, it ended with a wildfire than ran rampant through the forest and chased out the clans.

Cynefin is a brand new slate with a completely different premise. In that way, your character is welcome to have a direct continuation of their story from their time on hsw, or you're welcome to bring them in as a brand new character with no hsw history whatsoever. You're welcome to choose whatever seems most fitting for each of your characters, and of course, create absolutely brand-spanking-new ones just starting out for the first time ever on our site! We hope this provides not only endless opportunities for your character here, but also for you, the player.

If you have/had a character from Hazelstar Warriors that you would like to bring back either with a fresh start or as a continuation, please let staff know if you need any help finding their old information. During the close of hsw, we stored every character whose information was on the site in secret hidden pages on the site and in a massive google doc, and we are more than happy to help you source that information for their return. ❤

mizo.

LAST EDIT: Apr 29, 2023 9:36:19 GMT -5 by eden

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POSTED ON Apr 29, 2023 9:26:12 GMT -5

Post by eden on Apr 29, 2023 9:26:12 GMT -5

STAFF

eden , head admin

TIMEZONE
EST

PRONOUNS
she/her/they/them

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ eden#4707

ABOUT EDEN
i am 25 years old, and live on the southeast coast with my husband (tobias, our resident site coder) and our two cats Vladimir and Atlas. i'm currently in college for a bachelor of arts in history degree, and am hoping to eventually land a career as a historian and research analyst. i also hope to be a published author eventually in fantasy/fiction literature. i love reading and writing, listening to music, watching anime especially attack on titan, and trying new foods.

fave warriors saga: the prophecies begin

jellyfish princess @ adox

rochelley, head admin

TIMEZONE
CST

PRONOUNS
she/her/hers

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ rochelley#2730

ABOUT ROCHELLEY
Hi all! I'm Rochelle, one of the admins of Cynefin. I love gaming on my pc/switch, reading (mostly fantasy and romance), and watching crime docs and court proceedings, with a dash of fantasy/sci-fi shows mixed in. Feel free to hit me up if you need anything, or just want to chat and hang out!

fave warriors saga: power of three

jellyfish princess @ adox

karuna , junior staff

TIMEZONE
EDT

PRONOUNS
she/they

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ karuna#0645

ABOUT KARUNA
Hiya! I'm Karuna! I am 20 years old and have been roleplaying for around 7-8 years. I currently work as a kennel tech for a boarding kennel, but I plan to try to save up for college so I can get a veterinary degree! I love seeing everyone's furbabies, I have two of my own, a German shepherd lab mix named Chloe and a Siamese cat named Abigail. Be sure to look for me around, I can be pretty chatty so don't be afraid to say hi!

fave warriors saga: THE PROPHECIES BEGIN

jellyfish princess @ adox

isio , junior staff

TIMEZONE
EST

PRONOUNS
she/her/hers

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ MissKitten#7124

ABOUT ISIO
Currently I work at universal while I wait for an opportunity in a vet clinic. Warriors jumpstarted my journey into writing and worldbuilding, something I love to do and couldn't live without. I like video games, especially ones where it is a building survival game, such as Ark, Raft, The Forest, etc. Though I do enjoy different games as well. My favorite color is purple, like the really dark purple and my favorite number is seven. I have two cats, Slate and Marble and both are needy little furballs.

fave warriors saga: DAWN OF THE CLANS

jellyfish princess @ adox

jORDAN, MODERATOR

TIMEZONE
EST

PRONOUNS
they/them

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ AirJordanz#0044

ABOUT JORDAN
I'm a college student living with a radical brain soup of various conditions. I love to draw, write, and game. Whenever possible, I try to do things "different" than others in those areas. I also mod my games into oblivion and own two cats, Carley and Champ.

fave warriors saga: THE PROPHECIES BEGIN

jellyfish princess @ adox

amber, moderator

TIMEZONE
EST

PRONOUNS
she/her

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ Amber the CANADIAN (she/her)#9194

ABOUT AMBER
hiya! I'm just your neighborhood canadian here! currently don't know what I'm doing with my life, but I'm trying my best! my fav past times are eating and cuddling with my cats and honestly that's good enough for me!

fave warriors saga: THE FOURTH APPRENTICE

jellyfish princess @ adox

invisii, moderator

TIMEZONE
MST

PRONOUNS
they/she

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ Invisii#6097

ABOUT INVISII
Hi! I'm Visii, I'm 22 and recently graduated with an undergraduate degree. I am currently working as a graphic designer in the aerospace industry, and I love space! In my free-time, I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons and video games, watch anime (FMA:B is my favorite), and hang out with my cat Sourdough.

fave warriors saga: the new prophecy

jellyfish princess @ adox

tobias , resident coder

TIMEZONE
EST

PRONOUNS
he/him

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
site dm

ABOUT TOBIAS
I am the resident site coder. My wife is Eden, and we live together with our two cats. I really just help when needed with coding fixes or if the site breaks. I love anime, Mexican food and EDM.

fave warriors saga: the prophecies begin

jellyfish princess @ adox

jokister , resident staff [on leave]

TIMEZONE
CST

PRONOUNS
any

BEST METHOD OF CONTACT
discord DM @ jokister#0222

ABOUT JOKISTER
My name is Joki, I'm 22 years old, I go by any pronouns. I've been role-playing for a few years now, my dms are always opened for anything.

fave warriors saga: MAPLESHADE'S REVENGE

jellyfish princess @ adox

feathy , resident staff [on leave]