[plot]

[LYNX ♥]

intro.

mass flooding is happening within the valley, which not only causes the lake to envelop much of the territories, but causes streams and ponds to overflow as well, devouring what the clans have always known as their home. while many fight to stay and wait out the flood, the prey is gone and so are the hunting grounds. the camps are sodden and ruined. the water is stagnant and dirty anyway, and it's taking far too long to recede. the clans can't afford to wait it out! there's only one option: escape.

all four clans make a run for it, working together to flee the only home they've ever known. they make several stops along the way, perils creating seemingly impossible obstacles and so on, but eventually, they make it to their new home. along the way, though, new relationships have been forged, many have died, and the lines between clans have been drastically blurred. it is when they reach what they believe should be their new home that they realize nothing can ever be the same, and to honor this the one enormous clan they have become must reform into new clans.

this time there will be only three clans, with new names and territories to represent what they once were and to acknowledge their former glory. but now is the time to turn a new leaf, and to discover what a new start has to offer.

part I.

in celestialclan, silence. no one has seen hallowstar in over a moon, and paranoia is beginning to run rampant within the clan without their leader-figure to instruct them. thus far, they've been holding their own, but when the torrential rain begins, chaos ensues. the plethora of tributaries and streams trickling through the territory are beginning to turn into monster-like serpents, consuming all that get in their way as they grow into rivers and devour the lush forests around them.

meanwhile, tempestclan has a situation on their paws no easier to deal with, as the rain feeds the lake, and the lake, in return, grows greedy. the camp has been devoured, and the cats have had to flee to high ground. unfortunately, it seems as though the entirety of their low, marshy terrain has been soaked through, rendering it unlivable. desperate for reasonable living conditions they begin to encroach upon the other clan's territories, but even there they find little to work with.

the rolling hills of zephyrclan, while suitable still to wait out the mass flooding within, have collected enough excess water between the powerful rivers now coursing through the land to the swelling lake to make finding prey impossible. while many are fighting to wait out the water, they grow weaker each day with the threat of tempestclan sneaking up behind them and the utter lack of food to energize them.

vertigoclan, the highest and driest of the clans, suffer only from one real problem- the other clans. the other three are desperate, clawing their way up vertigoclan's rocky slopes in search of food and shelter, and while many insist upon helping, there is only so many resources to go around.

in these conditions, the clans cannot go on. and, after taking refuge in vertigoclan's territory for several days, it is decided at once that escape is the only option.

part II.

this is where you come in. the clans have undergone a short timeskip in which most of the flooding has occurred. the clans have gone from peace and happiness as we knew it while roleplaying before the timeskip to the situations shown above afterwards. after the timeskip, all the clans will have found themselves in vertigoclan's territory, awaiting the decision to escape into the unknown beyond the valley.

there are several preplanned steps along the journey. each of these steps will have its own board in which anyone can roleplay. these boards will be introduced a few at a time. as the journey progresses, the older boards will no longer be open for roleplaying, although unfinished threads may continue there. when all the threads in a board have been finished and the clans have moved past that location, the board will be deleted, and a new one will be opened to roleplay in.

along the way, random events will occur in roleplay threads in order to pose at the 'obstacles' that the clan cats must face.

when the clans reach their new homes another timeskip will happen in which vague borders will be decided.

thank you! if you have any questions please pm me.

newcomers.

whoa whoa wait! I just joined and I like the site but I dont know what's going on! where are the clans? what are their names? help!

just to catch you up: there were once four clans in a vast, thriving valley. they were called celestialclan, tempestclan, zephyrclan, and vertigoclan. however, as you have probably read above, the valley has flooded! the clans have no choice but to leave their homes. for both in-character and out-of-character reasons, we have decided that four clans are just too many to handle, so when the clans reach their new homes, they will reform into not four, but three clans, called hollowclan, timberclan, and shoreclan. if you have further questions just ask!