Post by nightwhisper on May 6, 2015 1:48:11 GMT
The Artists
~History~
There was once a ginger tom named Vincent. Vincent was a kittypet, but he wasn't your average fat, lazy, stuck in a boring twoleg den all day kind of kittypet. His twolegs were different. They were artists. Vincent's owners created all sorts of miraculous things with paint, clay, all sorts of things. Vincent loved it. They let him help, putting paint on his paws and watching as he walked over paper, smearing the c colors around. All three of them, Vincent and his two owners, were happy. Until one day, Vincent's owners went out to buy more materials and they never came back. Vincent didn't know what happened: he thought, perhaps, that they had abandoned him. But they wouldn't do that. The next day, several twolegs in monsters with flashing lights on top came to his house. They began looking through all of Vincent's owners' stuff. Angry, he attacked one of them, which resulted in him being stuck in a weird box-like thing. They later put him in a van with other cats in boxes and sent him who knows where. The van stopped at one point, and Vincent took that chance to break free of the box and dash away right when a man opened the back of the van. He ran as far as he could until it was night, and he collapsed from exhaustion. In the morning, he found an abandoned mansion hidden away in the woods. He went inside, and found all of the beautiful things his twolegs had had and more: paints, clay, canvases, brushes, everything. It was incredible. He found some more cats in there, cats who also enjoyed those sorts of things, and they formed a group. The Artists.
~Beliefs~
The Artists believe in the Fallen Colors, a group of deceased cats that watch and guide them from above. Only healers and leaders can communicate with the Fallen Colors outside of their dreams. In a small abandoned hut near the mansion is a room full of spilled paint. The floor is covered in it, except for one platform at the front of the hut. To communicate with the Fallen Colors, one must simply touch the colors. The Fallen Colors will then bring them to a dreamworld where they will talk. Once the dream is over, whichever color is most easily distinguished on the fur of the cat who touched the paints symbolizes something: red is war/death, orange is joy, yellow is warmth, green is abundant growth, blue is sadness/water related things, purple is change in leader, pink is new cats, brown is nothing particularly significant, and black is total destruction. There is another way to communicate with the Fallen Colors, but only healers may use this method: the healer would find some clay or paint and canvas, and then close their eyes. The Fallen Colors would then lead their paws to paint/sculpt whatever it is they must know of.
~Territory~
The Artists live in a large abandoned mansion in a forest. The forest used to be part of a city called Portland long ago, but that was about 100 years ago, and most of the city has gone, and trees have grown in its place. Their territory is large, but slightly smaller than that of the main clans. The mansion is there camp. The first level is a large, open space, used for gatherings. There is another room on the first floor where the food is stored and eaten. There is a beautiful staircase leading up to the second level, where cats live. This level has about 50 rooms, 15 large and the rest smaller. The 14 large are used for each rank: One for the leader (with a balcony that goes out over the first level gathering place), one for the council, , one for the scholars, one for the queens and kits, one for the guards, one for the travelers, one for the painters, one for the sculptors, one for the painter apprentices, one for the sculptor apprentices, one for the talented, one for the talented apprentices, one for the faded, and one for the elders. The last large room is a private meeting room for the leader, high council, and scholars. The small rooms are occasionally given to larger families who the leader feels deserve them. The third level is the workplace. The workplace has three different rooms: the painting room, where painters work and train, the sculpting room, where sculptors work and train, and the talent room, where the talented work and train. The fourth and final level is the museum. The museum has three parts: the new gallery, the ancient gallery, and the private gallery. The new gallery is where all the pieces made by Artists go, the ancient gallery is where ancient, famous pieces go, such as pieces by Vincent Van Gogh (who is the favorite artist of almost every one of the Artists), Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, and more. The private gallery is a gallery of all the leaders favorite pieces made by Artists (it is unheard of to have Ancient pieces in the private gallery- their exquisite beauty should be shared and used as examples for all). Very few cats are allowed to view this room: only high positions may enter, with the exception of cats whose pieces ended up in the private gallery. The only other significant landmarks of the territory are the Color Pool, which is the hut with the swirling paint mentioned under Beliefs, and several small streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes.
~Traits~
The Artists almost all love art. Those who don't are sort of just rejected, and often simply forced out of the community. Artists tend to be very intelligent, very deep, and very kind. This is not always the case, but these are the most common traits. Artists also have a special way of knowing their ranks: marks. Every 5 moons is Painting Day. This is when every cat gets their mark. A mark is 2-3 small lines of colored paint painted on a cat's forehead. The first line, on their right, indicates the rank. The second line, on their left, indicates their specialty. The colors for rank are: purple for leader, deep blue for deputy, light blue for council, deep green for scholar, light green for traveler, yellow for talented, mustard yellow for talented apprentices, orange for painters/sculptors, light orange for painter/sculptor apprentices, red for guards, and pink for elders. The colors for specialty are: yellow for painter, red for sculptor, orange for talented, and green for healer (only scholars may have this- occasionally talented may have a third stripe of green, but it is VERY rarely allowed- scholars do not need a specialty mark if they do not paint, sculpt, or heal- this is an option, but ONLY for scholars).
~Rules~
IC
-The leader's word is law.
-Every cat must get their mark refreshed on Painting Day (see traits).
-All faded must be treated as lower than average.
-Any cat who harms an Ancient piece shall be executed- this is considered the greatest offense.
-Any cat who harms another Artists piece shall have their mark washed away and will be treated as a faded until Painting Day.
-The smaller rooms may only be used by families of at least 4 cats (VERY OCCASIONALLY 3) who have the permission of the leader.
-No murder or fighting allies/other Artists or anything like that.
OOC
-You may have no more than 1 high position and 1 semi high position, or 2 semi high positions (in addition to as many normal/low positions you want).
-No more than 3 kits per person.
-Check with me, Nightwhisper, before starting big plots for the Artists.
-All main rules apply.
~Ranks~
High Positions
Leader- leads the Artists- must train in both painting and sculpting 1/1
Scarlet - both - rped by Nightwhisper
Deputy- second in command, becomes leader when the current one dies- must begin training in both painting and sculpting 0/1
High Council- advise the leader, deputy often chosen from among them. the deputy is the head of the high council- there are always 2 painters and 2 sculptors to keep it even- talented count as one of each, and there must always be even numbers of talented on the council 1/4)
Aquamarine - painter - rped by Spottedleaf
Semi High Positions
Scholars- the most intelligent cats- do not have to train in art if they don't want to, though it is recommended- at least one of them is always in charge of healing the sick or injured (this is a special type of scholar- healer) 0/3
Talented- cats who specialize in both painting AND sculpting 1/unlimited (but rare)
Ruth - both - rped by Nightwhisper
Travelers- cats who travel to find allies and materials- often help healer find herbs as well 0/2
Normal Positions
Talented Apprentice- cats training in both painting and sculpting- not many are chosen 0/unlimited (but rare)
Guards- guard the camp, in charge of reporting crimes and punishing those who commit crimes 0/8
Painters- specialize in painting- fight when needed 1/unlimited
Claire - painting - rped by Horselover
Sculptors- specialize in sculpting- fight when needed 0/unlimited
Queens- she-cats who have young kits, are pregnant with kits, and/or help take care of the kits 0/unlimited
Painter Apprentices- cats training to become painters 1/unlimited
Splash - painting - rped by Nightwhisper
Sculptor Apprentices- cats training to become sculptors 0/unlimited
Kits- young cats who have not yet been apprentices 0/unlimited
Elders- cats who have retired due to old age/ inability to work 0/unlimited
Low Positions
Faded- cats whose marks have faded or been removed- treated as the lowest rank until their mark is repainted- even the leader could temporarily become a faded (in this case the deputy would serve as leader until Painting Day) 0/unlimited
Form
(please state their specialty next to their rank unless it is self explanatory (like for painters, sculptors, talented, etc.)
Username:
Activity:
Muse:
Other:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Rank:
Rank wanted:
Relations:
Appearance:
Personality:
Favorite color (optional):
History:
Plots:
Other:
My Forms
Username: Nightwhisper
Activity: previously low, now hopefully high
Muse: OFF. THE. CHARTS.
Other: so excited!! i've had this idea in the back of my mind for a while, and i've finally got it out here! YAY!
Name: Scarlet
Gender: female
Age: 25 moons
Rank: leader
Rank wanted: leader
Relations: deceased- and not available for a crush
Appearance: ginger tinted brown she-cat with green eyes- beautiful
Personality: kind, stubborn, sarcastic, loyal, trustworthy, intelligent
Favorite color (optional): lavender
History: nothing significant
Plots: she has a long lost sister named lavender who may or may not turn up
Other: nope!
Name: Ruth
Gender: female
Age: 20 moons
Rank: talented
Rank wanted: talented
Relations: SEE PLOTS
Appearance: brownish she-cat with icy blue eyes- very pretty
Personality: kind, stubborn, AMAZING artist, intelligent
Favorite color (optional): blue
History: nothing particularly significant
Plots: I REALLY WANT HER TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A SCHOLAR but you know, anyone's fine
Other: she is based off someone who is actually an artist and who is an INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE artist
Name: Splash
Gender: female
Age: 6 moons
Rank: painter apprentice
Rank wanted: high council
Relations: father is dead, mom is probably dead (she doesn't know), TOTALLY OPEN FOR A MATE
Appearance: small, pale grayish blue she-cat with bright blue eyes
Personality: kind, friendly, sarcastic, joyful
Favorite color (optional): turquoise
History: she was brought to the mansion as a newborn- her mother abandoned her after her father died
Plots: MATE PLEASE
Other: SPLASH of color oh, also, PLEASE SIGN UP!!! I WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS THING!
~History~
There was once a ginger tom named Vincent. Vincent was a kittypet, but he wasn't your average fat, lazy, stuck in a boring twoleg den all day kind of kittypet. His twolegs were different. They were artists. Vincent's owners created all sorts of miraculous things with paint, clay, all sorts of things. Vincent loved it. They let him help, putting paint on his paws and watching as he walked over paper, smearing the c colors around. All three of them, Vincent and his two owners, were happy. Until one day, Vincent's owners went out to buy more materials and they never came back. Vincent didn't know what happened: he thought, perhaps, that they had abandoned him. But they wouldn't do that. The next day, several twolegs in monsters with flashing lights on top came to his house. They began looking through all of Vincent's owners' stuff. Angry, he attacked one of them, which resulted in him being stuck in a weird box-like thing. They later put him in a van with other cats in boxes and sent him who knows where. The van stopped at one point, and Vincent took that chance to break free of the box and dash away right when a man opened the back of the van. He ran as far as he could until it was night, and he collapsed from exhaustion. In the morning, he found an abandoned mansion hidden away in the woods. He went inside, and found all of the beautiful things his twolegs had had and more: paints, clay, canvases, brushes, everything. It was incredible. He found some more cats in there, cats who also enjoyed those sorts of things, and they formed a group. The Artists.
~Beliefs~
The Artists believe in the Fallen Colors, a group of deceased cats that watch and guide them from above. Only healers and leaders can communicate with the Fallen Colors outside of their dreams. In a small abandoned hut near the mansion is a room full of spilled paint. The floor is covered in it, except for one platform at the front of the hut. To communicate with the Fallen Colors, one must simply touch the colors. The Fallen Colors will then bring them to a dreamworld where they will talk. Once the dream is over, whichever color is most easily distinguished on the fur of the cat who touched the paints symbolizes something: red is war/death, orange is joy, yellow is warmth, green is abundant growth, blue is sadness/water related things, purple is change in leader, pink is new cats, brown is nothing particularly significant, and black is total destruction. There is another way to communicate with the Fallen Colors, but only healers may use this method: the healer would find some clay or paint and canvas, and then close their eyes. The Fallen Colors would then lead their paws to paint/sculpt whatever it is they must know of.
~Territory~
The Artists live in a large abandoned mansion in a forest. The forest used to be part of a city called Portland long ago, but that was about 100 years ago, and most of the city has gone, and trees have grown in its place. Their territory is large, but slightly smaller than that of the main clans. The mansion is there camp. The first level is a large, open space, used for gatherings. There is another room on the first floor where the food is stored and eaten. There is a beautiful staircase leading up to the second level, where cats live. This level has about 50 rooms, 15 large and the rest smaller. The 14 large are used for each rank: One for the leader (with a balcony that goes out over the first level gathering place), one for the council, , one for the scholars, one for the queens and kits, one for the guards, one for the travelers, one for the painters, one for the sculptors, one for the painter apprentices, one for the sculptor apprentices, one for the talented, one for the talented apprentices, one for the faded, and one for the elders. The last large room is a private meeting room for the leader, high council, and scholars. The small rooms are occasionally given to larger families who the leader feels deserve them. The third level is the workplace. The workplace has three different rooms: the painting room, where painters work and train, the sculpting room, where sculptors work and train, and the talent room, where the talented work and train. The fourth and final level is the museum. The museum has three parts: the new gallery, the ancient gallery, and the private gallery. The new gallery is where all the pieces made by Artists go, the ancient gallery is where ancient, famous pieces go, such as pieces by Vincent Van Gogh (who is the favorite artist of almost every one of the Artists), Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo, and more. The private gallery is a gallery of all the leaders favorite pieces made by Artists (it is unheard of to have Ancient pieces in the private gallery- their exquisite beauty should be shared and used as examples for all). Very few cats are allowed to view this room: only high positions may enter, with the exception of cats whose pieces ended up in the private gallery. The only other significant landmarks of the territory are the Color Pool, which is the hut with the swirling paint mentioned under Beliefs, and several small streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes.
~Traits~
The Artists almost all love art. Those who don't are sort of just rejected, and often simply forced out of the community. Artists tend to be very intelligent, very deep, and very kind. This is not always the case, but these are the most common traits. Artists also have a special way of knowing their ranks: marks. Every 5 moons is Painting Day. This is when every cat gets their mark. A mark is 2-3 small lines of colored paint painted on a cat's forehead. The first line, on their right, indicates the rank. The second line, on their left, indicates their specialty. The colors for rank are: purple for leader, deep blue for deputy, light blue for council, deep green for scholar, light green for traveler, yellow for talented, mustard yellow for talented apprentices, orange for painters/sculptors, light orange for painter/sculptor apprentices, red for guards, and pink for elders. The colors for specialty are: yellow for painter, red for sculptor, orange for talented, and green for healer (only scholars may have this- occasionally talented may have a third stripe of green, but it is VERY rarely allowed- scholars do not need a specialty mark if they do not paint, sculpt, or heal- this is an option, but ONLY for scholars).
~Rules~
IC
-The leader's word is law.
-Every cat must get their mark refreshed on Painting Day (see traits).
-All faded must be treated as lower than average.
-Any cat who harms an Ancient piece shall be executed- this is considered the greatest offense.
-Any cat who harms another Artists piece shall have their mark washed away and will be treated as a faded until Painting Day.
-The smaller rooms may only be used by families of at least 4 cats (VERY OCCASIONALLY 3) who have the permission of the leader.
-No murder or fighting allies/other Artists or anything like that.
OOC
-You may have no more than 1 high position and 1 semi high position, or 2 semi high positions (in addition to as many normal/low positions you want).
-No more than 3 kits per person.
-Check with me, Nightwhisper, before starting big plots for the Artists.
-All main rules apply.
~Ranks~
High Positions
Leader- leads the Artists- must train in both painting and sculpting 1/1
Scarlet - both - rped by Nightwhisper
Deputy- second in command, becomes leader when the current one dies- must begin training in both painting and sculpting 0/1
High Council- advise the leader, deputy often chosen from among them. the deputy is the head of the high council- there are always 2 painters and 2 sculptors to keep it even- talented count as one of each, and there must always be even numbers of talented on the council 1/4)
Aquamarine - painter - rped by Spottedleaf
Semi High Positions
Scholars- the most intelligent cats- do not have to train in art if they don't want to, though it is recommended- at least one of them is always in charge of healing the sick or injured (this is a special type of scholar- healer) 0/3
Talented- cats who specialize in both painting AND sculpting 1/unlimited (but rare)
Ruth - both - rped by Nightwhisper
Travelers- cats who travel to find allies and materials- often help healer find herbs as well 0/2
Normal Positions
Talented Apprentice- cats training in both painting and sculpting- not many are chosen 0/unlimited (but rare)
Guards- guard the camp, in charge of reporting crimes and punishing those who commit crimes 0/8
Painters- specialize in painting- fight when needed 1/unlimited
Claire - painting - rped by Horselover
Sculptors- specialize in sculpting- fight when needed 0/unlimited
Queens- she-cats who have young kits, are pregnant with kits, and/or help take care of the kits 0/unlimited
Painter Apprentices- cats training to become painters 1/unlimited
Splash - painting - rped by Nightwhisper
Sculptor Apprentices- cats training to become sculptors 0/unlimited
Kits- young cats who have not yet been apprentices 0/unlimited
Elders- cats who have retired due to old age/ inability to work 0/unlimited
Low Positions
Faded- cats whose marks have faded or been removed- treated as the lowest rank until their mark is repainted- even the leader could temporarily become a faded (in this case the deputy would serve as leader until Painting Day) 0/unlimited
Form
(please state their specialty next to their rank unless it is self explanatory (like for painters, sculptors, talented, etc.)
Username:
Activity:
Muse:
Other:
Name:
Gender:
Age:
Rank:
Rank wanted:
Relations:
Appearance:
Personality:
Favorite color (optional):
History:
Plots:
Other:
My Forms
Username: Nightwhisper
Activity: previously low, now hopefully high
Muse: OFF. THE. CHARTS.
Other: so excited!! i've had this idea in the back of my mind for a while, and i've finally got it out here! YAY!
Name: Scarlet
Gender: female
Age: 25 moons
Rank: leader
Rank wanted: leader
Relations: deceased- and not available for a crush
Appearance: ginger tinted brown she-cat with green eyes- beautiful
Personality: kind, stubborn, sarcastic, loyal, trustworthy, intelligent
Favorite color (optional): lavender
History: nothing significant
Plots: she has a long lost sister named lavender who may or may not turn up
Other: nope!
Name: Ruth
Gender: female
Age: 20 moons
Rank: talented
Rank wanted: talented
Relations: SEE PLOTS
Appearance: brownish she-cat with icy blue eyes- very pretty
Personality: kind, stubborn, AMAZING artist, intelligent
Favorite color (optional): blue
History: nothing particularly significant
Plots: I REALLY WANT HER TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A SCHOLAR but you know, anyone's fine
Other: she is based off someone who is actually an artist and who is an INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE INCREDIBLE artist
Name: Splash
Gender: female
Age: 6 moons
Rank: painter apprentice
Rank wanted: high council
Relations: father is dead, mom is probably dead (she doesn't know), TOTALLY OPEN FOR A MATE
Appearance: small, pale grayish blue she-cat with bright blue eyes
Personality: kind, friendly, sarcastic, joyful
Favorite color (optional): turquoise
History: she was brought to the mansion as a newborn- her mother abandoned her after her father died
Plots: MATE PLEASE
Other: SPLASH of color
oh, also, PLEASE SIGN UP!!! I WORKED REALLY HARD ON THIS THING!
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