New Plot Vote

The Spring Season has come upon Thrill. The winter's snow beginning to melt and blend into what once was the frozen soil at our paws. In these transition days most areas are muddy, an effort to track through and difficult to chase down your currently eyed meal.

The Spring season is a time for transition, births of all species are gracing the land. Flowers blooming and trees beginning to regrow their leaves. The melting snow mixing in with the once frozen soil creating a mess of thick mud. For a while it would be hard to get around, and making it easy for other creatures to track you down, or be tracked down. In this time of changing beauty it’s also a time of great tension. Helpless young depending on their parents to survive. Commonly feasted upon prey group up tightly around the young, or hide deep down in the holes of their choosing. Pack wolves have the strength of their families to depend on. Lone couples depend on each other, the male stepping out to be sure plenty of food is provided to his mate while she nurses the pups. Lone females carry the greatest risk of loosing her pups, having to leaving them to fend for themselves for hours at a time to find herself food. Lone males have it easy, they carry on their normal duties, some even having pups but taking no hand in caring for them.

Each of us believe this spring is going to be like any other spring, a routine work out of collecting food and babysitting. Taking each chance we have to sneak away from our responsibilities to laze in the sun beside the blooming flowers. How wrong we would be.

This Spring began at normal, but quickly dropped off into disaster. As the suns rays hit the mountain top, it does to good of a job. The unsettled snow shook in place, a great avalanche shaking the mountains. Several tons of snow tumble down into the heart of our lands, trees snapping under the pressure. The snow would consume the entire north side, making it unlivable until the snow would come to melt, much later on within the season.

If this tragedy wasn’t enough we’ve been graced with the presence of humans. Humans wanting to track and study our kind, our habits and how often we breed. They come in from the East, boats pulling up against the shore of Driftwood Beach. Like wildfire over dry grass they spread over the River of Rillebrand, many camps set up around there. Children dancing between the trees. They pursue into the Emerald Forest in search for our kind. They do however manage to snatch up a few of us, tagging us under our pelts with trackers. Making us walking targets to our fellow pack wolves and live tracking signals. The grasslands are a muddy pit of firm growing grasses and flowers. Though it is the quieter set of land at this time, it is one of the most dangerous, making wolves easily spot able during the day. Yet makes a fun playground in the dead of night, youngsters popping out to play the game of chance, of bravery.

With the arrival of the humans this forces the packs out of their comfort zones, and into lesser lands, colliding with other packs in an effort to survive better than the others. Size and force will do nothing for wolves in this struggle, the process of strategy and working together would be the best option for survival. Alpha’s are sent in a frenzy as they try to reestablish a set line of territory within their temporary home. The dangerous movements within the Silent Ravine becoming one of the safest places to hide and guard young pups. Something that becomes a much needed concern. The Sunny Lakeside rested as one of the most unaffected places within the lands, but a place that carries on small game. A group of elf grazing the lands, lurking in and out of the trees. Some of these elk became quite large, a large male enough to feed a pack for a few days. It was a great accomplishment if taken down properly.

While the packs pulling in the ranges of the South, loners and exiled wolves have been pushed into the Sweet Oasis, lone wolves thrive in this community, small prey easily catch-able.

Things that this plot would imply.

• The North, The East categories would be closed. - Any current running threads with them can be archives to be picked up at a later time, or can be relocated into the allowed categories.
  
• A collection of wolves who will volunteer to be captured and tagged. - These wolves, if in a pack, that pack Alpha will have to decided if they are to keep the other or be tracked. - Nobody is to know right away what has happened to them/that they were tagged/that they can be tracked. Its something that will be learned over the course of time.
  
• The large elk in the trees of the Sunny Lakeside are mod controlled. Specific threads will be posted to allow packs to team up, or wolves to take a chance at snagging a meal for their pack. It will viewed kind of as a game, the results will be produced at random through a system determined by the effort put into the hunt by each pack/loner. Only in these threads will the elk be visible and up to grabs. - During this time either an alliance with another pack, or fighting with another pack will happen. (IC fighting will be allowed within these threads and be judged by the modding figure.)
  
• If any pups are born within this change, they have a lesser chance of survival, taking into consideration of the stressful environments the female wolves are current living in, and the harshness of food collection to keep them going.
  
• Scouts will be need, wolves (preferably from each pack) Will be granted a thread of interacting with the humans (which will be modded). They will not go to attack and kill, they will go to try and learn, find out why and what they were doing their. These wolves are to report back to their packs in meetings that are gathered around them, to present the information they had found out about.
  
• Liquid time will remain in effect - but there will be some mandatory threads that will help carry on the plot. E.x - Elk hunting; Scouting; Tagged Wolves; Pack Meetings; The Conversation of two packs leaders.