Major Plot Ideas

Okay guys!

So, Lost and I have taken away everything discussed here and had a chat about what’s realistic and practical for the time being.

THUNDER/RIVER - After talking with Alee, it’s been agreed that right now Rowanstar does not want to take back sunningrocks, and it would make little sense now that Oakclaw has just become leader and would want to prove himself capable in that role. However, we have agreed that we need something to stir up the tension for the two clans and cement that in place for future attempts on taking them. I’ll be starting up a separate thread for discussion on a Thunder/River skirmish and further discussion on the border.

SHADOW/WIND – We have decided to push ahead and do something involving dogs for the further extend of this border, given it’s been mentioned a few times that doing something with dogs would be something fun to do, and it gives us a different dynamic from other tensions to explore. As with the Thunder/River discussion, I’ll be starting a new thread to further explain what has been discussed and to continue discussion on it.

SHADOW/THUNDER – This won’t be an overwhelming thing, however, we are going to do something small between these two. There is going to be an increased presence of twolegs in ThunderClan, leading to a lack of prey, and an influx of prey in ShadowClan. While this won’t lead to fights or clan-wide disagreements, it will lead to tension and accusations, and can act as a driving force for future reasons to attempt to take sunningrocks, and the presence of the dogs. At this stage there won’t be a discussion up for this part of the plot, however there will be some random encounters started in ThunderClan territory with twolegs to start this element rolling. At a later date there will be a smaller arrangement for a conflict at the border, not a fight, but sharing strong words, but this won’t happen till after our first gathering.



Regarding some of the other topics that have come up.

mark, we don’t think that an illness would really make sense in this situation for WindClan. If they’re likely to take out anyone, it’s cats going into their senior moons and those that are young, so to have wiped out the opposite of that doesn’t quite seem logical at this stage. We’d very much like your input on the dog plot though, given Aspenshade will be picking up where we’ll be having it that Morningstar stopped.

NPCs – We agree that there will need to be some use of them in order to get a whole-clan experience in places, however we do want to try and minimise, where we can, on use of clan cat NPCs. There’s a lot of potential for the characters we currently have, and we’d much prefer to see their growth in smaller events, over NPC use. If we get started and there proves a need for them, then we can go down that line, however for now we do have characters around that it would be great to see in a variety of situations.

NATURAL DISASTERS – This may very well be a track we go down in the future! For now, however, we’ve got things planned to stir up the clans, so these have gone on the backburner a bit. However, if it’s something people are interested in we can always revisit it when a clan or two start to slow down.

ALL CLANS – Regarding anything involving all the clans either fighting against each other or all coming together, at this stage it’s not something as staff we’re interested in. We’ve got a lot of tension to stir up, and without seeing how things play out planning anything that big has the potential to end all issues and lead to nothing happening at all. So, right now, it’s not something we want to consider. However, like with other ideas, it’s something we can come back to later.

MEDICINE CATS - We agree that medicine cats should have some role in the politics and decisions of their clan, however, don't forget above all else medicine cats serve StarClan and are without borders. While all our medicine cats are pretty much for their own clan and that's that, the reality is that they aren't bound by the same rules as the rest of the clans, and are working on a different level that does involve helping each other and sharing resources. Just something to keep in mind.



We’re gonna wrap up this thread here, however, if you think of a plot that might be interesting or any ideas of ways to take anything we have been talking about, feel free to post it up in this board and we can have a discussion about it, or PM staff and we’ll have a think! However, do keep in mind given Lost’s away, ideas at the moment will be delayed until she gets back.