Posted 2021-02-23 07:02:52 (edited)
Day 126 2021/02/23 
LVLUP mel +3 +4
- Summertiiiime and the mountain’s foggy, can’t find a wolf for the life of me; Andesite’s puppies finally weaned, got half a mind to make the quest snake meat; yeah, I’m, out of rhymes, but look at this daily, six freakin’ hunts today.
- That’s actually fine with me tbh. Before this I s2g it was like three battle quests in a row; mustelids, bears, wolves. All terrible and patience-testing; at least hunting is passive >:V
- Infection on Liesl from a scout, cured as always. Phew, almost thought that was influenza; I still need to stock up on Rainforest herbs. (We are gonna be in so much trouble if someone catches flu or distemper after Diorite kicks the bucket and before the map is rescouted :D)
- Hmm, took a gander at my space and I’m 90% sure the snow pup and Vord (new project pup) growing up are going to cause Space Problems again. glaucous is dying next (big RIP, the original Jackdaws continue to bite the dust…) but then there’s a ~20-day gap before the next oldies hit death age. For all intents and purposes, Drucks and Cycles are redundant now that I have a female with two white shaded, but tbh I kinda wanna keep them around because Low Gens Useful.
- Basically there is a non-small chance that breeding projects are going to take over my space in the near future, what with those two being pretty young, but ~we’ll see~. (Has the hypothetical drinking game for that phrase killed anyone yet?)
- In any case, I’m cool with that; other projects and priorities have eclipsed Wolvden for the time being on the creativity and free time fronts, and the forced downsize over time could make for some interesting lore if/when I impose that gosh dang death roll in tandem. Gotta love long-term goals!
- Incidentally, tight space also means I haven’t bought or recruited any new wolves in 50000 years, which is for the best.
- Meanwhile, a couple unrelated notes: Firstly, looks like the stat minimum is indeed not a thing for rescouts, cool! And second, glaucous’ son is up for grabs again >:o Not complaining, just offering some unsolicited shilling because I don’t have the space to take him back myself. (His sister, meanwhile, is already expecting pups! Neat.)
- later night edit: Aaaand he’s gone!
Crap, I hope my little shout-out didn’t directly affect that. I don’t care if you buy my wolves and resell them, I just need spaaace
- Speaking of space and pups, I am absolutely not breeding Zephyr or Husk until they’re old enough to die before the pups (F), but they ain’t getting any younger either so I gotta keep an eye on that. Worse comes to worse I shill out for an elk heart or two, but I’d Prefer Not To. (Gah, when I get more on top of things, I gotta reopen those YWHs >:V Cones are exchanged for goods and services.)
- ALSO speaking of not being on top of things, flails in lore. Okay you know what, I’m gonna go do a quick thing and then update the timeline, because I wanna see what the snow lad has ~experienced~. I have absolutely no idea what to do for his lore but have I mentioned I’m considering a personality change? The 113WIS is nice but the second-highest stat average is for a finisher, by a mere 1.5 points behind, and Hawk’s Eyes could use one now. Then again, so will $thePartyThatStillDoesn’tHaveAFuckignName when glaucous dies. Decisions, decisions.
- Oh yeah, also,
slightly delayed shoutout to another lore tracker I caught up on recently >;3 Having separately-formatted posts for The Lore™ is genius, as is having a nice all-in-one dedicated space for character summaries. Also, morally grey characters, getcher morally dubious maybe-future-harems here!
- Stray thought: I kinda love the idea of there being some kind of Mysterious Legend surrounding $melaBean, at least within the region; something something looks “burned,” mythic fire associations, black wolves are less common the further north you go—but whether he’s heard of the legends or not, the Jackdaws haven’t. So at some point Liesl’s chatting with an outsider, maybe a Boreas acquaintance, and they’re like “you met a pitch black wolf? like 500%??” “no he had blue eyes—” “DUDE” and that’s now the Jackdaws belatedly realized they inadvertently recruited a living legend.
- But the value of albinistic/melanistic wolves has taken a nosedive, and that’s reflected in the stories too; once his coat be so rare, then boom. Player interference.
- Players are not a Thing in my lore, I am not dragging meta storytelling fuckery to haha funney wolf site (stuff like Husk and Bone existing, and ig Andesite’s customization until/unless I come up with an in-story reason for that, is handwaved if anything), BUT I also have that tongue-in-cheek aspect of Suddenly Population that Talak alluded to way back when. No one’s keeping track of the exponential global wolf family tree, correlation =/= causation, but what I’m getting at here is that mela’s heard scattered whispers of ~ooh mysterious black wolf up north~, went there himself, and then was like “H????” when absolutely no one, including the Jackdaws, really made note of it.
- I am pairing him with Moulin and no one can stop me. I just think the dynamic would be funny: golden boy raised to think he’s some kind of Hot Shite Chosen One but for increasingly unclear purposes (although he’s liking life with the Jackdaws plenty, even if things could be rough with Carcass depending how much the latter projects his Brother Complex onto the kid), and dark lad who was theoretically something special once upon a time but is increasingly finding that myth was yesterday’s news. Born in the wrong century, smh.
- —I will resume that train of thought in a sec but hey man what the fuck, from a Tundra encounter:
- You follow the hare into its burrow and find a lot of unsettling things, like hare feet, hare skulls... What happened here? Who knows. You grab something and quickly run away before the hare jumps at your throat.
- Watership Down: Wolvden edition, coming to a random encounter near you!
- Okay Anyway, n.b. on the “pairing:” I am not actually doing that onsite because first of all, I don’t necessarily mean it in a #bromo way, and second that’ll be a Problem if I ever want to breed either of them (before melabean can become breeding male, at least; no, I am not shelling out 20 h-cking gold cones to replace Diorite early, that pricetag is absurd). By “pairing” I mean I Just Think The Parallels Are Neat, and I want them to fight and/or commiserate over it.
- Melabean’s personality is a big ol’ question mark right now, which is not helped in the slightest by his personality being neutral. I had half a mind to make him responsible for the caribou incident before noticing that (also something something Dark Wolf Evil is yawn, Hallow tried that already and he turned into a fucking loser (affectionate), we can do better), but it also means he didn’t intervene until specifically called on either. Do we have another “passivity is my personality” bastard? >:V
- Although, if we consider that and the tidbit about vaguely believing he was supposed to be special/important and then realizing He Is Not, the neutrality could be very, very enforced; god forbid he gives anyone the wrong impression. HMMM much to think about
- TIL the less than symbol might break the post unless you type it as < in the code editor. Amazing. Also my repeated attempts to make that monospaced like actual code kept breaking it. Wolvden has a functional editor.
- Anyway, here I am thinking it hasn’t been that long since the last timeline update, aaaaand it has not been touched since the 5th 😬 Prioritizing other things, but at what cost.
- “I don’t plan on killing anyone else off early” [insert title card] Drove And Hallow Got Killed Off Early. Not necessarily too early since Hallow hit the death roll age on the day and Drove was a mere day behind, but still.
- I do not think I phrased that whole thing on Glaucous and Lichen well, so as a rephrase/refresher: Basically, glaucous had a soft spot for Wickfen and Lichen because they both joined the Jackdaws in the context of being an outsider. The fact they were both fairly timid at the time is a coincidence. glaucous has always been aloof, so she wasn’t projecting any puphood loneliness—it stems from her being seen as an outsider now/in Y5 Autumn, and relating to the feeling of being mistrusted/out of place. That said, after the pack realizes it’s kinda shitty of them to still be wary of Glaucous when they’ve let both Hallow and Lichen in without much incident, their acceptance in turn makes Glaucous feel more comfortable and welcome. At some point she brings in a couple orphaned pups, and while they don’t stick around, it’s a sign of character development in comparison to her earlier litter, about whom she cared very little.
- Basically, she’s still the Token Stoic, but everyone else (in the aggregate) is cooler about that being Her Thing and not some sign she has ulterior motives or hates them all or something. It’s about damn time, and to be fair it’s required some actual Effort on her part too (joining the hunting party with Lichen), but eyy better late than never.
- …I already went over the “melabean is responsible except when I decide he isn’t” idea, huh. I have the memory span of a gnat.
This thread must be fun to binge. - Alrighty anyway there, timeline updated. Both the doc-only version and the site, plus some updated notes on the gargantuan wolf roundup page \o/ I sure do have a couple obituaries to write. More than two, actually, since there’s a minor backlog. Not tonight. "OTL
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- Okay, I edited in a little sub-note about the wolf sale, but for the record, once again with passion: I do not care if you resell and/or chase a wolf I sold. I keep an eye on wolves who’ve passed my den just for the heck of it, because it amuses me, but I’m not gonna be upset if some pixels get yeeted to the void. It’s nice if they make it to forever homes, but I don’t expect that! Make a profit, breed then chase, idgaf we gud.
- It’s possible this “disclaimer” is wholly unnecessary, but I know based on my $dragonsite days that this can be, uh, contentious :V Like, I don’t vibe with picking up a $virtualPet who’s explicitly been marked not to yeet with intentions of yeeting them, but reselling? yeeting after a while anyway because you changed your mind? Go for it, dude; the $pet is yours, and the previous owner forefeit all right to have a say over its fate the second they made the listing. “I don’t vibe” = “I think it’s a jerk move, but not like, harassment-worthy.”
- God, the longer I go on the more this sounds like I had some kind of Altercation. I swear on Diorite’s life I didn’t. I just lurk around $petsite salt blogs too often for my own dang good sometimes :U
- UNRELATED to all that, I know I do little shout-outs on this thread occasionally, sometimes by name and sometimes vaguely (ex. mystery bumpers, surprise gifts when that was going on). As a rule of thumb I don’t name names unless the association is like, a Findable Public Thing (hi, Nelthyen!), but as with everything else on this thread most of the time I just throw up a note or two and go. SO that said:
- If for literally any reason you do not want to be mentioned here, in any way shape or form, shoot me a PM and I’ll make a (private, ofc) note! If you’ve read this far you know it’s not like I’m in the habit of randomly talking about people anyway, but still. Boundaries Good™
- anyway ok enough wolf shenanigans for the night, it just wouldn’t be a normal thread page without at least one behemoth of a reply. see ya on page 9 ✌️
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