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Post by Ravenpelt on Jun 26, 2009 18:21:33 GMT -5
The following are the guidelines for mates, queens and kits.
1. Medicine cats are not allowed to have mates or kits. This is
simple enough, and if disobeyed will result in delete of the cat or
removal of status. This rule can be bent if there is consent from
an administrator, however.
2. Leaders and deputies are allowed to have kits. Not always
together, mind you, it is allowed in the warrior code. When the
leader is off of her duty, pregnant with or nursing kits, the deputy
will fill in her role temporarily and administer a temporary deputy.
If the deputy is pregnant, the leader will issue a temporary
deputy, a warrior.
3. Mates must be in the same Clan. Yet again, part of the warrior
code. Again, this can be arranged if an administrator agrees with
the warrior.
4. Apprentices and kits are too young to have kits of their own.
Just for clarification, though apprentices may be arranging for
their future mates. Their sole duty is still training, not preparing
for having and raising kits.
5. Both owners of the cats must agree to be mates. This is crucial!
You will be punished if you claim to be mates though the other
roleplayer disagrees.
6. No detailed matings. Please just post "Mates with -----",
replacing the hyphens with the other cat. This must be done for
both cats.
7. Mating will not always be productive. Just because you mate
with a cat does not necessarily mean that you will have kits.
There is generally a 15%-25% chance that the queen will become
pregnant. An admin must moderate this, not any moderator.
8. You cannot mate too often. Please limit your mates to once
every two weeks in real time. After you have had kits, you must
wait a month in real time before mating again. This is for the fact
that it is quite hard to find someone to roleplay your kits.
9. No more than four queens in the nursery. This is just to
prevent overpopulation, like the mate limit. Four is quite a lot, and
mates will automatically fail if there are four queens already.
10. Pregnant cats must still do their duties. Until a queen cannot
hunt anymore, she must participate in Clan activities. This may
vary between Clans, though it is a good idea that they still hunt
and patrol.
11. Limit your queening threads to only medicine cats and
apprentices, your mate, kin, other queens and close friends. This
is mainly to ensure that the whole Clan isn't in the nursery.
12. As soon as kits are born, or before if wished, give them a
thread on the "Adopt-a-Kit" board. This is to advertise their open
status for roleplaying.
13. There should be between two and six kits per litter. Try and
keep your amounts realistic to your activities beforehand--if you
were expecting five kits, you wouldn't have patrolled until birth.
One kit is fine, but more rare (unless they die).
14. Try and keep your kits relevent to yours and your mates
genetics. If you and your mate were both brown, your kits would
be brown (so long as the parents weren't bicolored). The only
acception is bicolors; if you or your mate is white with another
color, or tortoiseshells if there is brown or black and red. Eyes, fur
length, tabby marks, points and such are also carried to the kits.
15. Real time is incorporated in kit raising. Your character should
be pregnant for 3 months, and raise their kits for 4-6 months.
There is a price to be paid for queening.
16. Kits must have a proper name ending in 'kit'. Pretty
straightforward. Try and name a kit after it's appearence or
personality.
17. Kits take time to grow! Don't expect your kit to be fluently
speaking after birth. They don't open their eyes for a week, and
should be speaking fragmented language a week later. They also
do not open their ears for a week either, or start eating fresh kill
for a couple months.
18. You may only play one of your kits. This is optional--you can
play none or a single kit. This is to ensure you don't have too
many characters.
19. Kits always stay in the nursery. This rule can be bent for quite
a few reasons--though not without consent.
20. Queens leave the nursery shortly after her kits are weaned.
Weaning takes place around three months, and the mother stays
and recovers from queening for a week or two after that. Once
the mother has left, a permanent queen takes care of her kits.
21. Tortoiseshell and tortoiseshell and white toms cannot have
kits. This is due to the fact that in real life, they are infertile.
Now enjoy your time, whether it be as a queen, a mate or a kit.
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