The Lives and Mishaps of Jackdaw’s Flight (gamelog + lore rambling)

Day 15 2020/11/02

LVLUP hunter2 & Talak +6

• Iiiiiiit’s Diorite’s turn to have distemper! Fortunately the cure from last round still has a use left so it’s no sweat, but man I almost had a heart attack at the notification he was sick. If he got influenza it is all fuckign over for this pack gdhfhdjf
• Found this beauty in the Grasslands and whoa, 243 stats at only 3y5m!! (49 across the board except 50 AGI and 46 WIS.) Trusting personality too, no wonder that was such an easy recruitment :D Welcome to the hunting team!
  • Also it’s a shame non-breeding males can’t breed because like… her and hunter3. Monochrome aesthetic what aesthetic, Them Brown.
• Seeing as that’s now 10 pack members including pups and now 9/9 slots are filled (this one female non-keeper glaucous i s2g) so new slot get! Also tempted to get onnne more cave, just to have somewhere Else for non-keepers to go. Normally they’d be unsorted but… the influenza….
• Turned tail on a markingless (far as I could see) glaucous while exploring :,) Alas… my selling luck has run dry…
• Anyway, hunting party went from 54 to 39% synergy. Oof, it sure did leave the green zone alright, but it’s still above 25% and they’re mostly only catching critters anyway. I’ll take it!
• Also, here’s that Wolvember doc :3c I’ll do today's later but first I have schoolwork and also YWHs.
• Talak leveled up but just for the record. This is how bad they got beaten up. You okay there, buddy?

Day 16 2020/11/03

LVLUP hunter4 +2–3, glaucous +8, hunter3 +5

• For an “obnoxious” wolf this guy was pretty passive, just quietly impressed by typical dominance displays. Plain, but kinda pretty in his own way? …albeit same base as Talak, whoops. IDK he’ll stick around 🤔
• Was gonna chase nbw!glaucous but the trade has a watcher?? Dangit, idk what that means but @whoever it is do you want her for free.... I have 10 adult spaces exactly and it’s a nice number tbh (50… puppy slots…), and also hid all slot upgrade boxes with css soooo

• BRO.
• IT WAS THE ONLY TRAIL AVAILABLE I’M HONESTLY PROUD OF MY DUMB PIXEL WOOFS
• HUNTER3 LEVELED UP AND ALSO GOT AN OPEN WOUND FOR HIS TROUBLES (HAD A SALVE NBD)
  
• ALSO FINISHES THE 5/5 HUNT SNAKE QUEST TODAY
• YEAHHHH BOI

• Anyway, screw it, price dropped significantly on current trade & tossed ashen nbw up there too. Named the fodder pup June, as dictated by FR’s generator, and she’ll be yeeted on adolescence. Since the pack’s mainstays are pretty much set in stone for now, I might start thinking of some reason behind the inevitable NBW comings-and-goings :thinking: Maybe they kinda just pass by the cave and that’s it?
• See, I run into this problem a lot on FR too: on one hand, I like shaping lore around gameplay, but on the other, that doesn’t tell me what anyone’s really doing. Maybe winter will be super eventful and kick my ass the monkey’s paw curls tighter BUT if not, the role system (and what vague lore I’ve thought of as-is) has dissuaded me from doing any sort of “pack purge,” aesthetic be damned. (I’m also not inclined to blow gold cones on wolves who are gonna die anyway but we’ll see.) And making up a bunch of intricate worldbuilding, while fun, isn’t how I like to Lore with my petsims; site events shape story, not the other way around, y’feel? IDEK but here is a tl;dr “game plan”

• …Huh, nbw!glaucous sold and got chased at some point after? Not sure why you’d do that but I’ll take the free SC.

/casually uses this to test code because I don't think anyone else is really paying attention anyway; recycling this post later

Boreas wolf design dump (context starts on page 5)

• Silverback (lead/“lord”)
  
• Mouse (Silverback’s daughter)
• Cedarbark (herbalist)
  

Day 17 2020/11/04

LVLUP hunter4 +4

• . . . You know, for the first ~couple times I had multiple days edited into one post, it’s because I had very little to report and/or I was throwing notes on my profile instead of here. Lately I’ve been combining days if it doesn’t meet an arbitrary standard of Long Enough. Jury’s still out on whether this is a good idea.
• Anyway, Wolvember got a couple updates that I didn’t mention sooner, and June has been chased as of this morning. Aaaand all the other fodder pups for sale are aging up soon, dangit >:V Might put out an open call on the forum or chat or something?
• Oh yeah, also apparently forgot to finish the damn snake quest yesterday. That was, uh, disappointing to check first thing.

• Anyway today was busy but here’s another neat NBW from the grasslands; not keeping but idk she could look Worse, let’s see how a sale does.

Day 18 2020/11/05

LVLUP Andesite +10

• Aaaaand finally cured glaucous’s influenza! Five days later :D

Day 19 2020/11/06

LVLUP pupsitter +5, glaucous & Diorite +9

• Talak got a second open wound, this time from an unsuccessful small hunt; immediately cured and now I need another salve, but fortunately I got a stockpile of those herbs.
• Relatedly, they’re at 17/35 HP at the time of writing, and RNG is not being kind to hunter2 either because she’s only got one (1) more. They both have more or less the same EXP (59 and 61% respectively) too, so it’ll be a while til the next level up. I s2g, if I have to use healing salves…
• Andesite and glaucous both officially outlevel Diorite (although he’s at 97% at the time of writing [edit: and leveled up later in the day, but still]). I am a frequent battler.
• I have officially lost track of the times I’ve gone for a battle in the grasslands with ~50% HP and got thoroughly curbstomped for it. Lore? Not lore?? IDK but this place doesn’t seem nearly as bountiful as the mountains, gotta expand the exploring horizons >:V

Day 20 2020/11/07 Had absolutely nothing to report :V Did Winter start today?

Day 21 2020/11/08

LVLUP hunter3 +6, hunter4 +5, hunter2 & Talak +7, Andesite +11

• Chased the freeloading NBWs since they were gonna leave due to neglect, whoops. Not that I really need to stock up on food, higher hunting failure rate be damned.
• In other news, been thinking of adding some auto-calculating food/use/SC chart to the spreadsheet because I want to feed my wolves most efficiently for the end-of-day raccoon reaping, and I’m not sure I’m doing it right 🤔 Generally, the bigger the food + more uses it has = the higher the payout, but it’s not always a 1 use:1SC ratio—and today I accidentally discovered a small carcass with 1 use still goes for 2SC, which I gotta remember when feeding pups.
• ALSO speaking of the spreadsheet, added a mutie tracker since the existing threads aren’t filling my data-collecting needs, and also I was curious about the mothers’ fertility levels. At the time of writing (up to Phobos & Deimos), most are decent???? With time I’m sure it’ll lean more towards lower ferts but dang.

• I continue to have no impulse control and befriended this fellow in the mountains. I Just Think The Markings Are Neat
• Anyway, topping off the night with some (half-)MSPaint doodles. Drew the squad >:3

Oops, guess pupsitter’s a keeper now. And I'll probably redraw hunter2 at some point because it’s awkwardly cropped and I’m not thrilled with the markings, but ah well.

Regardless, there may be a new addition tomorrow.... 👀

Day 22 2020/11/09 Nothing of note happened except updating hunter2’s icon.

Day23 2020/11/10

LVLUP glaucous +10, herbalist +8

• Sent a stud request for hunter2 because why not. Miiight breed Andesite and Diorite (or to an outside stud) when Diorite finally hits lvl10 or when aforementioned stud opens up, whichever comes first. And honestly, what the heck, why not glaucous too while we’re at it (tomorrow). I keep looking at the lethals and Wanting One and that is the only thing fueling my breeding interests right now.
  • Update: bred >:3
• In other news, excuse me, why is the porcupine so fucking morbid. I mean, I get all the prey images are dead n shit, but something about the angle and severed torso of this one is 8(

Day 24 2020/11/11

LVLUP hunter4 +6

• Aaand bred Diorite and glaucous! After two tries, third was successful.
• Chased that fodder pup; probably won’t pick up any new ones since the ones for sale right now don’t grow up ‘til after the new batch is born. Pupsitter’s gonna have a lot on her paws and deserves a dang break.
• Didn’t note the starting offer but got raccoon down to a measly 23SC left in daily trades, just selling leftover 2-days-left food, which is definitely the lowest ever. Winter has been so hard, you guys.
• hunter3 picked up fleas from a hunt. I have a cure but also I’m staring at this thread like 🤔
  • …Nah, nah, with my luck they’ll add multiple illnesses or something. I have surplus tobacco but would prefer not to blow it all on a completely preventable outbreak, so >yeets him a cure

Day 25 2020/11/11 LVLUP Andesite +12, hunter3 +7

Day 26 2020/11/13 SPRING

LVLUP Diorite +10, Husk +2

• SO the pups grew up today and… I’d be lying if I said I only left room for one by mistake :,D I’ve been wanting difficulty and sometimes that means letting the RNG take one of your firstborns. Goodbye, Bone, and may you find greater purpose beyond the mountains!
  • loljk he totally saw all the incoming pups and was like “hm. I think my job here is done” and yeeted to get his own life, as wolves do. Whether it was a planned leave lore-wise remains to be seen.
• Today’s snake quest, defeating 2 small canids, took me to the Prairie for the first time. I have no idea why I keep limiting myself but yeah—maybe Diorite goes to search? is stricken by wanderlust after his son goes off to have grand adventures in the world? In any case, that-was-easy.mp3; one (1) coyote pack fight and quest done.
  • Ayyy, finally hit level 10!! that’s it no more battling we are done with battles forever now (unless they make it less RNG-based)
  • Diorite also got a massive Wisdom boon, dang. I’ll have to add a before/after here on desktop but it was definitely not his second-best stat before now. Not sure if any particular enemy is responsible but the lvlup stats alone are +6WIS, +1AGI/SMR/STR, +11 SPE, the latter of which was already his best.
  • Later day update: I like how I said “no more battling” and yet I keep wailing on every enemy around lvl5+ because I simply do not care anymore.
• Finally chased that NBW who wasn’t selling; F because Him Pretty but maybe he’ll be a nice surprised for someone :,3
• Anyway, welcome to the hunting team, Husk! Went from 94 to 74% proficiency, not bad; sometimes they can’t even catch small trails anyway >:V But critters seem consistent enough (not that I’ve been keeping track)—and apparently 3/4 are at 100% proficiency in their role, nice. (hunter4 is the exception at 77% but still, respectable.) The chasing stat average is actually Husk’s worst, but it’s a small margin and I’m sure she’ll catch up in no time.

• In Bone’s wake enters Ketchup Carcass! Not sure what I’ll have her do yet, but for starters she can help with pupsitting tomorrow.
• Oh huh, as of this update glaucous is now “Aloof” (fitting) and hunter3 is “Combative” (less fitting). … … We ignore onsite lore when it inconveniences us in this chili’s den.

• Got a fucking bobcat tail from the last round of exploring (back in the Mountains) tonight, lads. That sounds a bit… what do the kids call it… e x t r a. Sometimes you just shred the spine of your enemy for fun and easy stress relief.

Day 27 2020/11/14

LVLUP Husk +3

pup time

Andesite x Charcoal

♀ Ashen 239S

Bossy (Aggressive) / 3M White Urajiro | Black Limbs | Black Carnage

♂ Gray Darker 238S

Optimistic (Friendly) / 6M Black Unders | Black Back Heavy Patch | White Urajiro | Black Limbs | Black Carnage | White Toes

♂ Gray Darker 238S

Vulgar (Aggressive) / 3M Black Back Heavy Patch | Black Shoulders | Black Carnage

hunter2 x Fallow

♂ Quartz 247S

Dishonest (Stoic) / 5M Yellow Back Patch | Cream Marbled Unders | Dark Brown Tail Tip | Dark Brown Half Mask | White Blaze

♀ Magnolia 248S

Arrogant (Aggressive) / 5M White Underfur | Dark Brown Blanket Ticking | Honey Heavy Husky | Dark Brown Tail Tip | White Carnage

♂ Glaucous 245S

Conceited (Aggressive) / 4M Yellow Back Patch | Dark Brown Shoulder Patch | Dark Brown Half Mask | White Blaze

♂ Apricot 246S

Adventurous (Friendly) / 4M Honey Agouti | Cream Marbled Unders | Honey Heavy Husky | Dark Brown Half Mask

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• While I was coding that, hunters got back with illness: hunter4 got an open wound and hunter2 an infection. Lovely! Fortunately I got enough herbs to treat both and make new cures straightaway >:3
• . . . GDI had additional thoughts on the pups and the lore but got logged out and it was all wiped >:V TL;DR: Magnolia can stay (might replace her mom), everyone else is in the RNG’s hands (unless there’s interest in a sales thread). Lore-wise it’s because 1) the pack is becoming Known in the area → outsiders are increasingly like “oh cool lair, mind if we just steal/challenge you for it” (see: glaucous incidents?); 2) Diorite has been making a small reputation for himself outside the packlands and it ain’t pretty; and 3) there is simply not enough physical space in Cougar’s Maw to comfortably support another grown wolf. Perhaps a move is on the horizon…
• On the pupsitter protection… there is no favoritism in Ba Sing Se. In lore nothing is really different, she’s just kinda overloaded suddenly and It Just So Happens that magnolia, graydark6m, and apricot will almost definitely make it to adolescence :3c
• TL;DR I Will Cause Drama On Purpose

• So while updating the lore doc, picked up a canine fang as another trophy, this time from a coyote. Methinks Diorite tore off a page from hunter3’s “releasing frustration through violence” book, albeit with very different targets.
• Aaaand doc updated! (Totally not writing that for easier CTRL+F purposes later.) Updated timeline, added more setting/culture detail, and went a lil more in-depth with the bios. I’m thinking pupsitter’s “do not worry children for i shall raise you with PURPOSE” attitude was an inspiration to Husk and a deterrent to Bone; the latter toyed with the idea of becoming an herbalist, but between decreased space and general dissatisfaction with his (lack of) place in the pack, he ultimately decided to leave. He told Husk first (good sibling relationship!), not sure about anyone else, but left without burning any bridges.
  
• Speaking of siblings, made hunter3+4 siblings. It doesn’t quiiite line up age-wise but it’s fine that’s what lore is for; it also gives me a quick excuse for not breeding them even though they’d make pretty pups.

• Finishing off the night with another one-off lore doc, this one with questions from a thread I’ve had bookmarked for a while >:3 The pack’s not quiiite established enough to thoroughly answer the worldbuilding ones, but the character development was fun!

Day 28 2020/11/15

LVLUP: Talak & hunter2 +8, Husk +4

• -looks at the glaucous x diorite pups- You Are All So Ugly/Plain… 2/3 greens, yet! If Carcass’ bright red hide hadn’t just arrived it’d probably be more of a shock; as-is, this might as well happen.
• Anyway, today’s quest involves killing two fucking bears, so it’s time to scope out the Coniferous Forest! …Although hm, now this thread has me wanting to check out the Desert for that sweet free HP. I never use salves as-is so!
• Defeated a bear in the forest (down to 3HP), switched to desert, got the encounter with boars running away from something and foolishly decided to check it out without consulting the guide. Instant cougar battle. Surprisingly got the first move but wasn’t able to chase and took -2HP retreating >:V Are those cougars or some other big cat in the mountains? This was the very first desert encounter and feels Important somehow.

• Made a visual base spreadsheet! Had more to say but then backspaced and lost everything asdjhdsgjskdgahsgjasdflksdf;;; OK FINE I’LL GO WORK ON THINGS
• Bear update: both were kermodes and higher than my level (11 and 17) and both were. easy. with a lucky foot but still. Got more EXP from the second than the whole snake quest, lol.

Day 29 2020/11/16

LVLUP hunter4 +7

• graydark 3m sell/chase came running back from his most recent adventure into the forest. When you ask him about the injury on his side, graydark 3m sell/chase reassures you that it's just a flesh wound. Oh no! graydark 3m sell/chase gained a small injury and suffered -5 HP
  • :,3
• Anyway, today’s quest: slay not two but three bears. COOL
• Ayyy, first one was quick: lvl13 black bear, trickier than yesterday’s but still got ‘em >:33 And got bear fangs for the trouble!
• Second bear: LEVEL 18 GRIZZLY, BITCH. Had full HP at the start (39) and only went down to 30, that was fucking easy >:D Not sure if it’s the lucky foot or the rng being weird or both or what but goddamn these are satisfying.
• Aaand got beaten up by the third bear encounter after arrogantly going for it at like half health, ah well. But when I heal, it is Over for the coniferous ursidae.
• Last bear ended up being a lvl11 kermode; risked not using a lucky foot (had max HP and >90% energy) and that was tricky. Dang.

• hunter2 picked up an open wound from a medium hunt (cured immediately), but they got the prey anyway. Seems like any time I go for a Small+ trail someone gets hurt—and it already happens plenty to one or two wolves on critter trails, too. The RNG continues to be an enigma.
• Eyyy, herbalist hit 100% proficiency crafting another open wound salve (not for that, just to have onhand for next round)! So it takes about a month, maybe less :O I thiink diagnosis was free a lil while before this but didn’t keep track, and I don’t know if this really changes anything else, but Yeah! Cool.

Day 30 2020/11/17

LVLUP Husk +5, glaucous  +11

• Today’s quest: two birds. Immediately got beat up by a same-level goose, and got an infection for the trouble. Have a cure but GAH.
  • Update: ended up being a couple golden eagles in the desert, nothing notable. Mbleh.
• The unprotected pups have >85% survival chances. Fucked up tbh. Remind me to set up a sales post later today.
• Talak got another open wound from a (successful!) large hunt. Wondering if people complaining about the wound rate are just going after big prey a lot because the whole party got beat up from that :,D
• Oh holy shit, had a pre-cure den tab open and that actually whittled their HP down to 0. Didn’t notice before today (with Diorite and now Talak) that medicine restored half HP. Based on hunter2’s HP it looked like she miiight’ve hit 0 yesterday, too? Damn. No wonder people are desperate for meds and their wolves keep dying.
• Maybe if I really want to suffer/challenge myself some time I’ll do some self-imposed 0HP = insta-death rule, applying it to Diorite too wherein some packmate is randomly killed as tribute in his place. I mean, I don’t want to suffer, but also that would be really cool tbh.... Shame we can’t have side accounts, man.

Day 31 2020/11/18

• quartz sell/chase decided to go off and play with a nearby pack's pups without alerting any pack adults. He returns a few hours later, whimpering and with a rather large bite wound on his rump. He claims it was innocent roughhousing, but the nearby pack's adults didn't seem to care for his presence. The wound will heal, but quartz sell/chase shouldn't leave the pack without a responsible elder wolf by his side. Oh no! quartz sell/chase gained a small injury and suffered -2 HP
  • Child please… But huh, guess we have neighbors?
• Real talk though, all the pups have >90% survival chances. All on their own. It just happened. Pupsitter’s back at 100% proficiency, to boot, from the whole three (3) pups I want to sell, and Carcass hasn’t done squat. God???
  

Day 32 2020/11/19

LVLUP hunter3 +8, Andesite +13, Diorite +11

• Welp, all the pups but glaucous’ got weaned today and they all have 100% survival chances, including the ones without a sitter. Fuckign,,,
  • Pupsitter Wins by doing Absolutely Nothing
• In other news, since noting the prices, I’ve been feeding the pack exclusively beaver and medium/large prey. I still haven’t had to dig into stores past ~3 days’ expiration. DIFFICULTY WHERE,,,

• Oh huh, it’s summer. Did that start today?
• Updated the lore doc again; thinking I should put the notable timeline events in yet another got dang spreadsheet, and have a short paragraph or two in this one describing what went down. This would also have the advantage of sorting things by day, in case I ever feel like doing math and breaking down irl days → in-world timeframe. It may not be as high-octane survival mode as I was hoping, but there’s still always something going on.
• In other news, seeing as Carcass is doing a whole lotta nothing as pupsitter, might make her the next herbalist? Andesite’s WIS/SMR is better but I kinda just want to keep her a scout, especially if that stuff about needing 101+ for the hardest biomes is true. Regardless, Carcass isn’t going anywhere any time soon, and I gotta be way more picky with pack replacements from here on >:V
  

• Anyway, more lore brainstorming: After Husk’s fairly sheltered upbringing (and considering the sheer number of pups born this spring), she asks pupsitter to allow the new generation some breathing room as they grow. Realistically the pups aren’t doing anything while they’re still being weaned, so to stretch the timeline a bit: soon as they’re able, they’re out and about.
  • Iiiii am admittedly not taking care of any but the Chosen Three, and plan on chasing the ones who don’t sell in a couple days, so there’s definitely room for drama. Maybe now that there are Confirmed neighbors, that can stir some conflict and maybe even force the pack to move? EXODUS.
• Meanwhile, herbalist has juuust over 2 weeks to “live,” and then the year 7–8 Uncertainty™ begins. Might just let her retire (informally; the RNG can take her) at year 7, especially to get Carcass working in her place; she’s disappointed Husk wasn’t interested in taking her place, but Carcass seems promising.
• Oh, another bonus challenge thing I was thinking of self-imposing: no buying cures, unless it’s an emergency (Diorite getting influenza or something)—and even then I might risk a party wipe, depending on attachment and/or how many SC I can blow on replacements. Something something the knowledge of the herb trading network dies with herbalist because she doesn’t trust Carcass enough with it, and/or didn’t get a chance to formally introduce him*?
  • I keep thinking Carcass is male so you know what? Trans rights.
    

• Also on the topic of self-imposed challenges: I am prepared to blow my entire savings on getting Actually Monochrome (or Cool ig, base-wise) packmates next round, either Tier II or TI with stunning markings, with bonus points for >250 base stats. From there I can work on breeding a new generation, making a Legacy like the Cool Kids and whatnot. (Maaaybe by then males will be breedable, too?) For now, though, I don’t really care to breed the wolves I have except in a lethal gambit like last round, but for lore reasons I’m not just gonna replace them out of nowhere either. ~We shall see~

• Tweaked the stat spreadsheet to show ages in years and months, instead of an awkward year decimal, because I love to suffer over math and procrastinate. Might apply it to the “visitor log” (sold/chased wolves) too, although it’s honestly not that important since they’re gone, the data’s gone, they’re however old/young I want them to be now.

• Anyway. Andesite picked up fleas from discovering the tundra. How those little suckers survive in the cold is beyond me, annually. Cured immediately and gotta make a new cure.
• Promptly followed by the same diagnosis from hunter4! >:V Took a while to regain energy but that got cured too. I think from now on it’s just gonna be safe to assume there are same-day cures unless otherwise noted.
  

• Hit level 11 beating on a coniferous forest timber wolf pack, nice.
• Meanwhile:

• . . . WELP.
  

Day 31 2020/11/20

LVLUP herbalist +9

• In no particular order (busy day today): glaucous also picked up fleas, this round from prairie rescouting! Absently sent out another hunt and hunter2’s back down to 0HP! …That’s it actually. Lemme go make a cure >:Vc
• Lore-wise I’m gonna say hunter2 broke a leg or something, although now no one’s hunting at all.... It’d make sense lore-wise to swap in Carcass, although the synergy nerf is gonna suck. —Although wait, isn’t stalking WIS/SMR? That could kill two birds with one stone then: train up stats before officially becoming herbalist, while hunter2 slowly heals from the rollover boons. OK COOL answered my own question!
• Synergy went from 91 to 69%, and moment of silence for hunter2’s proficiency. I could use a salve or four but eh, I’ll take the mini challenge.

• Noticed herbalist was in heat… her last one.... #hashtagFuckIt, someone got puppy fever with all the youth in the cave, sent out a stud request :^D This needs to not become regular but maybe I’ll do it with high-stat wolves?

Day 32 2020/11/21

LVLUP pupsitter +6, Carcass +2, Husk +6

• EVENTFUL MORNING, LADS:

Puppy Injury

One of your scouts could barely contain their amusement whilst giving their daily report to you. Apparently, khaki sell/chase got a little too cocky and thought she was "leader of the bees". She ended up getting coated in bee stings after trying to steal some honey from her "loyal subjects". Oh no! khaki sell/chase gained a small injury and suffered -2 HP 

Puppy Death

While patrolling your territory, you notice a treachery of ravens circling nearby. You rush over in their direction, hoping for an easy meal, but instead find the corpse of a familiar pup. Judging by the scent, you determine that it is none other than quartz sell/chase, who went missing very recently. At least you now have closure. To see your wolf's records, visit your Dynasty.

• F.... “queen of the bees” is great though, almost makes me want to keep the others around just to see what kinds of messages there are. Anyway
• Meanwhile, hunter4 picked up an infection from last night’s hunt; insta-cured as usual.
• But yeah, I’ll update the sales post, craft the med, and maybe commence The Great Chasening later. Also thinking that would be a great catalyst for the pack to move; after recurring pressures from outside packs, culminating in the pup death in a wide open place, the Maw is clearly no longer safe. And herbalist is pregnant and hunter4’s still recovering from a broken leg, fun! :D

Day 33 2020/11/22 (ayyy nice numbers)

LVLUP Carcass +3

• snow sell/chase was too eager while feasting last night. He swallowed a sharp bone and ended up choking. No one was able to save him, and he unfortunately passed away. To see your wolf's records, visit your Dynasty.
  • GOD. WHAT A WAY TO GO
• Finally set up trades for the remaining pups so they have a slight chance of not just rotting away. Also temporarily changed the quarantine cave (socially distanced ravine) to “yeet” so I don’t have to keep skipping past the rejects while feeding/playing with everyone.

• asdgjsdhgsdjgksdhgsfd F I N A L L Y did some work I’ve been putting off, I will get back to YWHs tomorrow or so help me. For now though, just wanted to mention that the magnolia pup found a good home :D Now I have no choice but to shell out or hope a pup is pretty when herbalist dies and I need to replace her!
• But seriously, I’m happy, and while I don’t expect the other pups to sell I gotta be more proactive about selling any future rounds. The chances of them actually being bought & kept are small, given the market is flooded, but on the off chance they are…

• Anyway, last note: got the “very vulgar wolf” encounter for the first time and the art is lovely. Also, I’ve basically been living in the desert lately; coniferous forest is disappointing and all the HP encounters are lovely. It doesn’t work with monochrome camouflage stuff but I‘ll definitely consider moving here when Diorite kicks it, because it’s super useful to have unlocked.

Day 34 2020/11/23

• TFW my first thought after rollover was “holy shit no one died”
• ashen sell/chase and another pup got into an argument about the last piece of meat last night. While ashen sell/chase has a few new bites, it seems she was the victor of the brawl. Strong pup! Oh no! ashen sell/chase gained a small injury and suffered -1 HP
  • askfhsjfhsjdghjkl all these updates about food would make you think the pack is starving. The reject pups are starving but This Ain’t About Them
• Anyway, when I see rollover and it’s not morning I Know I’m Up Too Late, but eyy hit >5kSC from exploring! brb gonna blow a fifth of it on a background for herbalist
• [scrolls through behindthename instead] MYRTLE. SHE👏FINALLY👏HAS👏A👏NAME👏👏👏 I liked Mel, Mira(bella), and straight-up Mullein too; you can thank that first glaucous who sold, Mirabella, for the sound preference (and maybe herbalist parallel, although I swear that part wasn’t intentional). I actually ended up with a big list of names but most of them sound too human-y; Myrtle sounds old-fashioned, kinda quirky, and happens to be a bush, so it’ll work!
  • Also scrolled by the name Mica(h) which I like; if she has a keeper pup I’ll use it then.

• Nested Myrtle (that’s gonna take some getting used to, she’s still “herbalist (herbalist)“ in my head), and impulse-bought her art! Look at it, I love it. There’s just Something about knowing her time’s running out that makes me want to spoil her :,3 reject pups suffer in the distance
• Anyway, I’m thinking tomorrow’s gonna be nice and eventful: Myrtle’s pups are due, and the remaining pups have 40/55% survival chances. Something something death life rebirth whatever. I’m on the fence about how much weight I want to give the pup deaths in-lore; it’s definitely an unpleasant surprise for everyone involved, but also Husk and Bone did have notably uneventful upbringings. Pup death is more ~realistic~ anyway. (Never mind that the adults almost inevitably living to old age is uh, less so, but we’ll see how that plays out I guess.)

• After hopping around lore blogs a bit: the quest snake. Yeah, shit, guess I should explain Diorite’s spontaneous urge to beat up bears (and other creatures). It’d also give more Purpose to his wanderings, at least as far as he’s concerned; he hasn’t had much in the way of guidance since that long-ago dream of Tala, but then: bam. Dream snek.
• Why would he listen to a random snake urging him to commit acts of violence? Better question: why wouldn’t he? Diorite’s always had that “quirk” after all, and hunter3’s “killing as an outlet” thing serves him just swell. (Side thought: what the hell is he so perpetually annoyed by, anyway? Where did these siblings come from.) At glaucous’ suggestion, he even takes his ventures further into the desert—further from anyone who’d be track him down, connect him to his pack.
• Honestly I kinda just gave Diorite the ~sometimes he murders~ thing as a handwave for explore battles, and I do not want to do some ~he’s been Secretly Evil the whole time~ thing, but. still. hunter3 is aggressive in the hunt, sure, but he does that to avoid going feral on (or at least snapping at) anyone he cares about. It’s like a vigorous workout session: he gives it his all in short bursts so he can relax the rest of the time. But for Diorite? No sense. No rhyme or reason. Maybe he just made up the damn snake to have an excuse.
• Hmm. I think I’m gonna rewind a bit to try and get to the bottom of this tendency: its first and most prominent (maybe only?) appearance among packmates so far, recruiting hunter2. “Dune” came up earlier on FR’s RNG and it’s still stuck in my head so what the heck, it fits; I like the way it sounds like “doom.” More Team Hulk than Stalker but w/e her personality is bold and brash, and “Sandstorm” is a warrior cat, SO.
• NO WAIT ok a browse of desert words → adjacent warrior cat prefixes brought me to hare brought me to Leveret which sounds really cool. Does it fit hunter2? Not really. But consider: hunter3/4 (and their now-gone sibling) as the three hares? I’ve never heard of those before today but it’d make for a cool lil name trio, and would doubly make sense because I found them all in the Grasslands. (Wood names were another thought, but like, forest.) Drove and Leveret?
• OH. OHH. DROVE, LEVERET, AND JACKRABBIT. THEY HEARD “JACKDAW’S PEAK” AND HAD A MOMENT. (Behold, my incredible ADD-driven focus, whiplashing from hunter2 to these three in three bullet points flat.) MORE NAMES GET. I’m gonna feel kinda awkward now if that nbw gets picked up but oh well, lore is mine regardless.
• And suddenly Andesite picked up an infection from scouting, grand :D Insta-healed but I’ll take that as a cue to move further character development to a new doc for the night.
• . . .wait what nooo did I not note when the amber chased!nbw showed up?? Crap, maybe it’s on the timeline, but that uses wolf links so I can’t easily see who’s who without ID cross-referencing (if I haven’t removed those links altogether) 🙃 Eh, I’ll give it a check anyway (multitasking sucks on mobile), and worse comes to worse I’ll kinda just skim over what the rest of the pack was up to when all three were around.
• NO. NO WAIT OK THE USERLOG IS A GODSEND note to self, update the ages and NBW descriptions and all that later using userlog data, it’ll save me a lot of trouble later. (Maybe add “date joined/left” columns to the spreadsheet? It’s no timeline but it’ll do.) Jackrabbit joined on the 9th (>“nothing of note happened” my memory is the Best) and was “finally” chased on the 13th. Ok. Okay. Cool. Anyway,

Day 35 2020/11/24

LVLUP Carcass +3 (yesterday, whoops)

all according to keikaku (keikaku means plan)

Puppy Injury

graydark 3m sell/chase came running back from his most recent adventure into the forest. When you ask him about the injury on his side, graydark 3m sell/chase reassures you that it's just a flesh wound. Oh no! graydark 3m sell/chase gained a small injury and suffered -5 HP

Puppy Death

Another pack member reported that glaucous sell/chase passed away today. It appears that he never fully recovered from an unnoticed injury. Perhaps it should have been treated with more care and attention. To see your wolf's records, visit your Dynasty.

• Same message for graydark, boring message for glaucous, boo >:V I am indeed rating the Negligence Messages now apparently what about it
• Two of Myrtle’s pups came out cute, though! Preview forthcoming on desktop. The other two however are gray and kinda boring, those two I’ll sell.
• Also, the snake quest today is two more fucking bears. Back to the conifers it is, then!
• Oh dang, with 3/4 of Myrtle’s pups selected, pupsitter actually can’t give 100% to the new kids. hunter2 still only has 16/37HP so guess who’s becoming a temporary pupsitter
  • Oof, even that’s not enough. Welp, just gotta hope that the boosts rack up and it’s 100% in a rollover or two! Maybe I’ll drop the price on the older two, shuffle the thread to prioritize the pretties.
  • No wait nvm, shuffled ‘em around: hunter2 is looking after the older pups now, who already have a high (100%?) survival chance, and pupsitter’s got the new three in the upper 90s. Nice.
• Anyway, updated the lore doc again, mostly with new names but also additional backstory on Bone and the lepus trio. Timeline stuff can wait til the summer ends wait no that’s tomorrow brb again
• Alright now it’s properly updated. Also huh, despite all that talk about the land being dangerous and the pack maybe moving, they, uh, haven’t. IRL that’s because it’s been a crazy couple weeks (and month in general and also semester and year and); in-lore, I guess it wouldn’t be feasible because, early into the season, hunter2 got injured and Myrtle got pregnant. Not the best conditions to travel in, and the pack wouldn’t leave either behind. Sucks to be the pups, though.
  
• Speaking of pups… (in a similar format as the sales thread to make my life easier:)

Trusting Dust ♀

290 stats Wisdom & Smarts highest
3 markings Black Shepherd 36% | Black Trim 79% | Black Back Heavy Patch 52%

Charming Black ♂

292 stats Wisdom & Smarts highest
2 markings Black SHepherd 42% | White Dilution 43%

Precise Gray ♀

297 stats Wisdom & Smarts highest
3 markings White Dilution 43% | Black Back Heavy Patch 50% | White Back Heavy Patch 52%

Trusting Gray Lighter ♂

291 stats Wisdom & Smarts highest
0 markings

• SO YEAH THEM’S THE KIDS. …aw crap, now I don’t know if I want the herbalist to be Carcass or the secondborn. I kinda want to keep him regardless :'D I guess… hunter2 is also getting old….
• Orrrr the pack can actually do that fuckign move and I buy some new heckin space. Man, I really did just have to get a monochrome male who looks a lot like his mother.

• Anyway, first bear fight (after ages, geez): lvl12 kermode, didn’t use a lucky foot, mostly bit it to death and more perilous than it should have been after a few missed latches.

• Them…. (hunter2’s is from the 9th but might as well post it here anyway)

• ^Now That’s What I Call Satisfying™!

• Bear fight 2/2: level 11 black bear, used a lucky foot, much smoother ride >:3