Secrets of the Clans

Adoption

• Adoption is of course an option a well! To qualify for a rolled adopted litter you must complete the following requirements.

  • Complete six 'kit' focused threads with a monarch.​

  • Fill out a litter form as normal; but without any genetics information! Unless!

    • Unless you have irp cats willing to surrogate a litter! This must be approved by all players involved explicitly. Surrogates do not gain the rolemodel blessing, nor a kit cooldown unless they take on a guardianship/parental role in the kits lives! Please specify when posting the litter form!​

    • All cats playing a parental / guardian role in the kit's lives take on the cooldown and also the temporary role model blessing!

    • All other rules regarding kits apply! If anything needs to be clarified please don't hesitate to ask staff!

Flings

• Follows the same guidelines and cool downs for rolling planned litters.

• Must complete 2 romance threads. These cannot then be reused for future litter requests

• Fill out Fling Request Form found in #litter-requests , then a member of staff will roll a 1d3 or 1d6 in #litter-requests.

  • If a 1 is rolled, a litter is to be expected!

  • An in clan fling has a higher chance of success! 1/3 ; This is a 33% chance of success.

  • An out of clan fling has a lower change of success! 1/6 ; This is roughly a 16% chance!

• To retry, 2 more romance threads must be completed and a 2 week cool down must be waited out.

• NOTE: Planned litters will always take precedent over fling litters, especially when a lack of available mentors and players occurs. We will always do our best as staff to keep kits and apprentices rotating, but the timing of litters might have to be staggered to ensure everyone gets a chance at starting a family.

Age and Cooldowns

• All characters must be 20 moons minimum. The relationship must abide by the relationship guide above.

• There is a 6 month IRL cool down between litters for each specific cat involved, whether biological parent, adoptive parent or surrogate. Each cat may have three litters in their lifetime IRP, before roleplay litters do not count towards this total. The cool down begins on the day of birth.

• If you already have a character who has had kits during the course of the RP (Not backstory), that parent character must complete 3 threads with each kit before you can request a new litter with another of your characters.

  • ​As long as all other requirements are met a player may have an in clan litter without meeting the reqs for their cross clan kits.
    !! They must make the required posts with their cross clan litter before any of their other characters can have a cross clan litter again !!​

  • NOTE: These threads do not have to be completed during kithood, but you will not be able to submit new litter requests until they are done. (Births will not count towards those 3 threads. A thread is 3 posts per character.)

• A player may only have 1 character with a litter in the nursery at any given time.

• To have another litter between a couple with kits, both roleplayers need to have completed 3 threads with each kit and completed 4 additional romance threads before becoming eligible, assuming all other criteria have been met by all parties.

• Should you remove a parent character from your character line up before their 6 month cool down is complete, you as a member will assume the rest of the cool down and will not be able to submit another request until those 6 months are up— regardless of whether or not your removed character’s kits are apprenticed.

• Same-sex couples or couples otherwise unable to produce biological kits may find an existing cat for a surrogate parent. Otherwise, it will be assumed that a surrogate was found who resembles the cat in the couple they are surrogating for.

Kitting

• When a couple decides they are ready to have kits, a form must be submitted to the staff team to roll a litter. 

  • This is located on our Discord under the channel #litter-requests! It also has the requirements for the couple to complete before they are allowed to apply for kits.

• A pairing must have completed 6 threads that fulfill the following requirements.

  • One of the focuses of the thread must be Romance, which will count as one of the two thread focuses (so you can have Romance and one skill as the focus). Threads that started before 4/24/21 do not need this if the other requirements are met.

  • The thread must be one-on-one, or if you're being polyamorous, must consist of only cats who are courting. Threads can be split between the participant of polyamorous relationships. EX: In a partnership of 3, doing 2 threads altogether and 2 threads between each pair would be an acceptable splitting of threads. Ask moderators for clarification!

  •  Each character must post a minimum of three times.

• Monarchs are pregnant for two real-life weeks before the kits are born. 

  • During this time, the character may visit a Healer to see how many kits there are. Pregnant cats should refrain from strenuous activities and leaving camp alone. Hunting and patrolling is still allowed, but sparring and climbing are not good ideas. When it is time for the kits to be born, one of the parents should make a roleplay post announcing that the birth has taken place. Once this is done, a staff member will post with the results of the litter roll.

• The parents then have a week to adopt out the kits by whatever means they wish.

  • Players of the parents may not adopt a kit, to prevent situations of players roleplaying with themselves. We recommend giving some time for everyone who is interested to apply, as kit adopts tend to be very popular.

  • Players can only have one character under the age of 15 moons at any given time. Unless the player has a 15 moon old or younger cat, and gains a kitten by donating for a wildcat slot and discussing it with their clan mods.

• A week after their birth, the kits will be aged up to one moon and will be playable by their adopters! 

  • If any kits are not adopted out by a week after their birth, they will be poofed, as if they had never been rolled.

What's a Litter Roll?

• Litter rolls are based on real-life cat genetics. You are not required to know anything about genetics, a staff member can work with the parents to figure out what they need to be rolled as! Coat type, coat color/pattern, and eye color are determined this way. 

• The roll will also determine the size, health, and starting skills of each kitten. It will also give you a short sentence about the kitten’s behavior as a baby to help inspire the creation of their personality!

• Kittens have a possibility of being rolled with certain congenital differences or disabilities - the chance for these is higher if the parents are over 60 moons. There are also rare chances for interesting neutral conditions such as chimerism!

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