AUDITIONS SHALL CLOSE NOVEMBER 7TH! ALL AUDITIONS BEYOND THE 6TH WILL NOT BE COUNTED.
Our roleplay is not yet openly recruiting, but we do need a leader. As some know I already tend to the H550 role play and it's reopening, so while I am doing the map/site/discord work and helping with the organization of Blackthorn, I simply will not have the time to lead it's clan.
Before we officially open and get going,
we need a leader for our WillowClan. It's opposing clan, the wildling cats of BoarClan, is lead by RustedRaven.Let me tell you about WillowClan, it's sister clan, provide screenshots of it's camp, and a bit about our role play and then we'll get to it's leader's application, which you may submit down below.
WillowClan is a WindClan meets ThunderClan group, with lean but sleek cats who hold pride in their unity and strength and have adapted to their partially forested, partially grassland home. Their clan dwells closer to more two-leg places and they tend to be more accepting of kittypets than their sister clan, BoarClan is. The Clan will canonically be a little more populated and less elusive than BoarClan, but both have equal strength. Their skills mainly include the ability to climb, run, and remain hidden even in the open. They tend to have more herbs available to them due to the two leg gardens, and so BoarClan often makes trades with them for their herb stock. WillowClanners tend to come off as a little pompous in their own way, believing that BoarClanners are "mucky" and "dirty" and "wild." Of course each WillowClanner is allowed their own personality traits, this is just the most common and encouraged theme among the clan.
WillowClan's "special tradition" is an evening of story telling, both StarClan legends and simple made up stories from the mouths of kittens.
Despite living so near water, they turn their noses up at fish and wrinkle their noses at the smell of a fishy BoarClanner. They are not swimmers, but runners and climbers.
Their sister clan (whom we have a leader for, but I will tell you about them just so you can know their potential antagonists) lives across Blackthorn's Lake, in the more forested regions. BoarClanners often have a ruffled and wild look to them, and while they do accept outsiders, they tend to force kittypets to train longer and harder. They often have spars and insist that each cat is large and strong. This determination of pure strength makes up for their slightly smaller numbers in comparison to WillowClan.
Some of their territory is grassy, but they only hunt there in dire times. BoarClanners tend to fish and hunt in the undergrowth of their streams instead.
Their "special tradition" is a night of sparring competitions, with the medicine cat serving as a sort of referee. The clan is active way into the night, and sometimes their yowls keep WillowClan up from all the way across the lake, an issue that is often brought up during gatherings.
As you can see, we already have quite an interesting pair to RP with that will make some fun mini-plots all in it's own. However, we do have a unique but not too hard to follow plot involving a curse, a dastardly secret shared between the two clans, and the forbidden worship of the Stars... we plan for our plot to remain a secret until it is revealed through the roleplaying of our future members, so unfortunately that's all we can give you for now!
Here's some screenshots of the camp you'll be set in. It is set in a small patch of woods among their primarily grassy territory, with little puddles and willow trees surrounding it. The tall and wild weeds and grasses make it a difficult area for twolegs to access, even if they dwell nearby.
The map is going to be large, with mini maps attached to it. It will come in a lag adjusted, light version for slower computers, but it already shouldn't be too hard to load as it will have mostly default objects retextured by yours truly to look pretty and realistic. It also features meshes from the talented Cattails, and a few others that will be fully credited in the map's download, of course.
So if the role play concept interests you, let me go over the expectations of your role and provide you, finally, with the application!
EXPECTATIONS/GUIDELINES
- You will be expected to follow our role play rules and guidelines and keep up to date with information, updates, lore, etc. Your name will end with star, people will default bring questions to you upon joining your clan. You should be familiar with the RP and able to answer such questions in a timely, appropriate, and "professional" fashion.
- You will be expected to be a role model for the community. You will lose your rank if you have to be reminded of the RP rules more than once, if you curse too much, are too inappropriate, or generally not helpful to new members needing help.
- You will be expected to have decent activity. I've always felt a twinge of guilt having to de-rank someone of their position because of activity they can't help. But unfortunately, even if you can't help it, it's still inactivity and it still holds the entire community back. The role play will often depend on your presence, so you must keep that in mind. We'd like a leader who can be on to help recruit and role play a few times a week with excused absences that aren't too often (going on vacation or taking a week hiatus is obviously going to be fine, we're more concerned with consecutive inactivity or unreliability.)
- You will be expected to help recruit for your clan. We will help you recruit for the first month or two until everything is settled, but after that we'll expect that you're used to it and can get up and recruit without being asked or needing help.
- You will be sought to for opinions or ideas, but to be quite honest we're quite happy with the direction of the plot and such and won't need too much more help with it. If you are hoping to join Blackthorn to heavily mold it, I will be entirely honest in that it's basic concepts are already rather fleshed out. We merely need a leader, a helper to get us up and ready. You will help us initiate our super unique, super dramatic and fun plot events that we have in store, though!
- You will be expected to moderate your clan upon it's opening and report instances that required your interference, any sort of issues will be in a report log and such. Another mod will be paired with you to help, of course, but you'll still be a vast leadership role in the clan.
- On a final note, you may bring in a friend to play your deputy or your medicine cat but they likely will not be a moderator and may not be able to part of the early joining. We can discuss your deputy and medicine cat affairs upon your application being picked.
I'd like to thank anyone who applies or is interested beforehand. It's always a struggle for me to hold auditions, because I hate choosing just one person. Unfortunately though, we can only have one leader, and please note you may not be picked but we may keep you in mind for a moderator or other clan high rank later on. You not being picked doesn't say anything about your character or your audition. Thank you <3
AT LONG LAST, THE APPLICATION. YOU MAY PM IT TO ME HERE ON THE FORUM, OR SUBMIT BELOW! THANK YOU, BE SURE TO FILL OUT ALL THREE PARTS!
PART ONE, CHARACTER:
Feralheart user/s:
Character name:
Please describe your character's physical appearance, a reference image, maybe screenshots of them:
Please describe your character's personality:
Character's upbringing, if you have one fleshed out:
Please provide an RP sample with your character, you can make it as lengthy as you please:
PART TWO, QUESTIONS:
Did you read the provided expectations? Do you have questions regarding any of them that you'd like clarified?
Although it's not required, do you have any experience in leading or being a moderator of a group or community?
Do you understand your character will sometimes need to be directed and used for plot advancement?
Do you understand that you will be in charge of a new and growing clan, that you'll eventually be asked to recruit for it without help?
Do you understand you will be expected to intervene and provide counsel on issues that occur OOCly, to call out rulebreaking as soon as you see it, and provide reports on what corrective actions you took?
Do you understand you will be asked to direct events for your clan, and said events will depend on you showing up and your activity?
Do you understand that even if it's understandable, staff may derank you for activity if it means it's for the betterment of the roleplay and clan?
PART THREE, "QUIZ" QUESTIONS
(there's really no wrong answers to these but we'd like to see where your moderating style is at. don't stress yaself.)
1. Someone joins and their character is exceeding the size capacity and limit we have assigned for all characters. They refuse to shrink down and insist on being a frost giant cat. What do you tell them? Should you make an exception?
2. Someone in the clan is making everyone uncomfortable by having a character constantly seek romance and a mate. What course of action would you take for this mate-seeker?
3. Two users have a public argument in the in game group chat, it seems rather serious. What kind of things would you say to shut them down? What would you do if one kept egging the other on?
4. What course of action would you take if you saw someone recruiting for a role play that seemed to have blatantly stolen themes and ideas from Blackthorn?