Warrior Cats of the Forest
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Isolation Plot Planning
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We can continue the Plot Planning discussion here.
If you haven’t already, be certain to read over the last few pages of the old plot planning thread. As a very brief summary, some plots points being discussed are a potential fire in DawnClan and/or NightClanners contaminating the river, two-legs poisoning rats and causing sickness in NightClan, and how we should use the coming gathering (May 13-15th) to move the clan more towards isolation.
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**Idea**
Prey in the forests has began to simply vanish, the smell of death seemed to dance through the air in a taunting way. The warriors come back without food, everyone is hungry. Fights begin to break out over the smallest of scraps of food. One day during a hunt, warriors from each clan discover prey. However, there is something off about this prey. It gives out a noxious smell, anyone would know not to eat it, everything seems to fall downhill from there.
Stage one of the virus: Itchy pelt, forgetting of names. Fights break out
Stage two: Memory loss, skin becoming red underneath the fur, fur falls out. Cats become angry and fight more often.
Stage three: Urge to fight and attack
Stage four: Death.
~The clans get into a lot more fights and a lot more disagreements
~The virus could start with one clan. A cat eats some of the poisoned prey, they attack a cat and it is transmitted through blood. Then fights on the boarder cause it to spread to other clans. At the gathering a large fight can break out and cause a lot of blood spill (Echostar can help with that) that'll cause the virus to spread quicker.
~The medicine cats find a cure for this virus before to many deaths happen but it sure does weaken each clan.
Prey in the forests has began to simply vanish, the smell of death seemed to dance through the air in a taunting way. The warriors come back without food, everyone is hungry. Fights begin to break out over the smallest of scraps of food. One day during a hunt, warriors from each clan discover prey. However, there is something off about this prey. It gives out a noxious smell, anyone would know not to eat it, everything seems to fall downhill from there.
Stage one of the virus: Itchy pelt, forgetting of names. Fights break out
Stage two: Memory loss, skin becoming red underneath the fur, fur falls out. Cats become angry and fight more often.
Stage three: Urge to fight and attack
Stage four: Death.
~The clans get into a lot more fights and a lot more disagreements
~The virus could start with one clan. A cat eats some of the poisoned prey, they attack a cat and it is transmitted through blood. Then fights on the boarder cause it to spread to other clans. At the gathering a large fight can break out and cause a lot of blood spill (Echostar can help with that) that'll cause the virus to spread quicker.
~The medicine cats find a cure for this virus before to many deaths happen but it sure does weaken each clan.
A part of me wants to do the research to actually find a research and or article about what happens to cats during these situations. I'd like to have a more realistic approach, I don't know about everyone else though. JD be willing to look information up if others would like me to. Also, if the prey vanished and was also toxic, we would have to kill off alot of cats and if it came to that, I'm pretty sure leaders would move to an area with more prey before their entire clan starves or dies from sickness. When fighting and it spreads by blood, we have to remember that they would most likely have to injest it , so biting feel enough would be one of the only ways they could track the disease.
@Wolfie: Seeing as we're trying to move towards isolation right now, I believe we should be having an excess of healthy prey available in each territory. Otherwise, we're forcing the cats to consider hunting in other territories, or outright asking their neighbours for help. This would defeat the purpose of the isolation.
Perhaps the sickness idea could be used at a later point in time.
Perhaps the sickness idea could be used at a later point in time.
Spicy, the idea with NightClan having poisoned prey would be that the cats wouldn't know what was causing it, only a few cats would suddenly get sick, not quite enough to threaten the entire clan.
I know that, but if we are doing a sickness plot, then I don't believe that only a few cats would get sick and that's all. Rat poison by Two-legs would be the best bet, but wouldn't the cats notice the behavior of the rat before they killed it?
What if at the next gathering, the clans only bring about 25 warriors/apprentices. They all sit separate from each other, a little path almost forming in between each clan. They refuse to talk to each other and they refuse to be near each other. Echostar could bring the "Troublemakers" of her clan and that could cause a disagreement or the other leaders could start bickering about the dead cats and who started the fights. They could get so angry that a fight lashes out. When the fight calms down a bit, any of the leaders could say that they won't be attending any further clan meetings or anything that revolves with being together. The clan could then walk out of the gathering. This makes the gathering become silent as they now realize how bad tensions were. They leaders left decide they should leave. Then it goes downhill from there. The cats are ordered to have no interactions with the cats from other clans, if caught they are severely punished or banished.
So that's my idea.
So that's my idea.
I could see a fire happening in Dawnclan, but what woudl cause it? It makes sense in Nightclan because they live in an abandoned twoleg house and who knows what still works in it, right? Sorry if I'm off completely. Maybe the ashes from the fire could contaminate the water, which puts Dawnclan in danger. That would contaminate fish in Dawnclan territory, leading to poisoning. If Nightclan does become poisoned and a bit weakened, then could one clan that's very territory wanting try to attack Nightclan for territory. This could maybe increase hostility between the clans?
Well some twolegs could start to camp near the Dawnclan border and one night a coal could still be burning after a camp fire, then it spreads across the Dawnclan border. Oh and perhaps if the fire spreads to other clans, fallen trees from the fire could fall into rivers which would mess up the erosion cycle thing and cause large quantities of mud to pack against fallen tree limbs and such to block off major water supplies and contaminate whatever water does trickle from the block streams/rivers but leave a few small creeks untouched...or something
I like the idea of something poisoning the water, but I don't think ashes would be best. Two-legs could do something but I'm not sure what. Dawnclan to me seems less likely to a fire though, seeming as they have the more moist habitat. A drought maybe? That could do something.
This may not be the most helpful, but Seraphgaze could kill, maim, or take Blackpine captive at the Gathering. Seraphgaze alone does a good job to build tensions. This might help with isolation, and it also might help carry on the NightClan's revenge on DawnClan. Whether that revenge be fire or contamination.
I like the fire idea, though it can be rather complex due to the fact we are dealing with, well, felines. If we went with starting a fire, it would have to be pretty small, and just enough to warn the DawnClanners.
Ooh, wait, what if some NightClanners used the fire as a distraction while some more snuck around to contaminate the river? That way we can satisfy both options and make it a little more interesting.
I like the fire idea, though it can be rather complex due to the fact we are dealing with, well, felines. If we went with starting a fire, it would have to be pretty small, and just enough to warn the DawnClanners.
Ooh, wait, what if some NightClanners used the fire as a distraction while some more snuck around to contaminate the river? That way we can satisfy both options and make it a little more interesting.
Assuming we're going with Twin's idea, how would the NightClan cats contaminate the river? Would they use ashes (from the fire, although I think it'd be difficult to transport) or maybe crowfood?
Trash, ashes, anything that would make the river an unhealthy place for the fish and the cats.
Sounds like a nice idea Twin. I'd go with that, and i presume NightClan would happily contaminate the river.
Hm, I don't know if the NightClanners could move quite enough normal trash to make a dent on what pollution is already in the river, given that it's already near a large city. How would they do it?
Steal a bulldozer!
But, more realistically, they could just find some old plastic bags that some two-legs had left on the streets or thrown out in trash cans and fill them with garbage. Or, now that I mention trash cans, they could just push a bunch of already full trash cans to the river and dump them out. If they had a couple cats helping, they could probably be strong enough to get atleast a couple there if they weren't filled with bricks or something like that.
But, more realistically, they could just find some old plastic bags that some two-legs had left on the streets or thrown out in trash cans and fill them with garbage. Or, now that I mention trash cans, they could just push a bunch of already full trash cans to the river and dump them out. If they had a couple cats helping, they could probably be strong enough to get atleast a couple there if they weren't filled with bricks or something like that.
I'd have to agree with Ember. If the cats were to contaminate the river, the fire wouldn't nearly be enough for them to make a dent in the polution. The only thing I could think of is killing cats, letting them decay, and dropping them in the river. However, they would need alot.
But if we're using large bodies of trash/etc. to contaminate the river, wouldn't the DawnClan cats see it and try to take it out of the river? Because I'm sure with all that trash floating around it's bound to catch their attention.
Earlier, on the last plot planning, I remember some people talking about using fuel to spread the fire. What if they found some fuel and used it to pollute the river instead? Then we wouldn't run into Shade's problem of the DawnClanners seeing it and taking it out, and it would probably be easier to get to the river than big cans of trash. Also, if it was fuel it would probably spread better along all of the river.
But how would they know if it was fuel or not? SE cat would be bound to taste it or something before the cats even realize it's flamable. And how would they even know what to do with it? Also, as for the noticing, even if they take out the bodies and trash, the bacteria is bound to spread, possibly allowing diseases from the decaying cats to spread on to the fish depending if the disease we decide on can do that. Same thing goes for the trash. Fish will also try to eat the trash, it killing them in the process
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