DO CROWS EAT SPIDERS? \ cobweb collecting

[Crowkit.]

It seemed to Crowkit they had been stuck in area for a little while now. He was a bit haunted to find out Chilledstar had "died," but the murmuring of the clan cats seemed to imply he would be...alive still? Crowkit wasn't entirely sure of the verbatim. There were still some faces missing, and he faintly hoped they were just straggling behind. The collection of cats that were here though were just sitting, waiting, pacing, or just plain shook up. He was still too, but Crowkit had known swamp creatures lurked in these parts. Just mulling around was difficult for him, and so little black paws carry him a few foxlengths from the others, but still in eyeshot.

A twitching black nose peers into a pine tree with a hollow. Crowkit smelled nothing but wood rot and so dual - colored orbs peer further in. A viscid cobweb startled him as it stuck to his nose, and he pawed his nose to be rid of it in slight annoyance. One silvery - green and one nearly black eye stare at it on muddied pawpads for a moment, and then he remembered he had overheard one day in camp that cobwebs were helpful. For what exactly he was not sure, but they were good for injured cats. He stuck his head back into the hollow of the tree, and the silken strands were found drooping, hanging, and littering most of the hole. Crowkit wasn't sure if any cats were hurt, besides Chilledstar, but maybe it could prove useful. He liked grabbing stuff anyway.

Crowkit loped back to the group of Shadowclanners, and cawed to no one in particular, "There's a bunch of spiderwebs. Should I - should we grab some?" Before anyone had the chance to reject his idea, or chastise him to stay close, he lurks back to his spot. Feathery paw set to work, raking pawfuls of the cobwebs. He carried the batch in his maw as gently as he could before moving on to another tree, and he cast a sidelong glance at the other cats, making sure he was still running - distance to them.

The ebony tomkit set the cobwebs gingerly as he started his inspection of this tree, but all he found was pine bark at the base of this one. Crowkit tilted his head up and no cobwebs greeted his eye. Instead, massive and scaling claw marks upon the bark. Swamp monsters could climb!? The kit takes not a moment to hesitate, and after hastily scooping the collected cobwebs in his maw, takes off to the rest of the Shadowclanners. The spiderwebs drop from his maw from his squawking once he's back in the midst with them. "There's HUUUGE claw marks," He exclaimed franticly, pointing in the direction with his tail, "GINORMOUS swamp monster ones. I found them looking for these!" Yeesh, maybe he shouldn't have said it like that. Hopefully it didn't freak anyone out further.

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• ooc: part of the bear event! he's basically just looking for cobwebs and inviting anyone else to in case of injured cats. also spots a huge set of claw marks on a tree —

• shiny, feathery pitch black fur with one silvery green eye and one nearly black one. eyes have an unsettling gleam to them. looks terribly suspicious in his body language and facial expressions.

• crowkit named at the Carrionplace for stealing tendencies and ability to eat almost anything; and for his black and shiny pelt
  
  —— he / him; 3 moons, kit of shadowclan
  
  —— prone to thievery and gluttony, he's building a stockpile of trinkets
  
  —— current inventory + location
  
  - 1 blue twoleg wrapper
  
  - in his nest in the nursery

• "speech"

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[mossblood]

i'm always the outcast, i'll take the blame
▵the first night you met me, you forgot my name▵​

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Collecting… well anything probably wasn’t a bad idea given that the clan’s storage of supplies was likely still back in camp….with the bears. Mossblood heard the mew of the dark furred youngster and he decided to offer his aid. Why not? He had idle paws and using his paws kept his mind happy. The dull tabby started after Crowkit at a leisurely saunter. ”Oh sure. Not a bad idea, kid,” he would say from several foxlengths behind. Mossblood watched the ebony fur disappear into the tree line and he prepared to follow, but he halted with a confused expression in his tired eyes. The kit popped back out of the woods quickly with a shout. HUUUGE claw marks. What? Could those swamp monsters have already come this close to their new safety?

”You’re kidding?” Mossblood would blink. He glanced towards the trees, tempted to look himself. He flicked his ears and entered the forest, his eyes searching the tree trunks for signs of claw marks. He craned his neck to look up. And yep. He found them. So the kid wasn’t lying. Several gashes were carved into a large tree’s body. There was no doubt that the prominent claws of the monster they’d seen in their camp would be able to make such distinct marks. He scented the air deeply. ”I don’t smell anything around right now,” he would muse, assuming at least the monster was elsewhere.

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  name ▹ mossblood
  

  ↳ named prefix "moss" for his dull brown-grey fur. given the suffix "blood" for connection with his clan and his variable intensity.​

  gender ▹ male - he/him
  age ▹ 12 moons
  

  ↳ ages real time on the 1st of every month ​

  sexuality ▹ bisexual
  
  clan ▹ shadowclan
  rank ▹ warrior
  
  created on ▹ june 1st 2023
  toyhou.se ▹ link!
  penned by ▹ @starsheep
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  short description ▹ a dull brown-grey spotted tabby tom with a cream underbelly and bloodshot green eyes; his medium length fur is unkempt and wild
  
  physique ▹ he stands shorter and is smaller than an average tomcat with a lithe and skinny body
  notable features ▹ his green eyes are often noticeably bloodshot; his fur is known to be unkempt and somewhat unhygienic and poorly groomed
  eye details ▹ his eyes are a cool green color and shaded by detailed effeminate lashes
  
  scent ▹ has a distinct musty scent; cool, mildewy, stale and damp
  voice ▹ has a short and informal manner of speaking paired with a flat tone; his voice is an unemotional tenor
  
  demeanor ▹ he carries himself on dainty and oddly graceful paws; he has an ability to blend into the background when he wants to; he usually has a soft but vain grin on his maw but his his eyes hold a kind of tiredness within them
  
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  personality traits ▹ a tad superiority complex / selfish / skeptical of starclan / rational / spontaneous / unhygienic / unpredictable / relaxed / unambitious / crafty / nihilistic / sometimes tactless / flexible
  
  alignment ▹ neutral evil
  mbti type ▹ ISTP-A, 'the virtuoso'
  hogwarts house ▹ slytherin
  
  likes ▹ living in the present, swamps and water, cricket sounds, recognition, novelty, fishing, comedy
  dislikes ▹ long-term commitments, being rushed or pressured, ghosts, hard deadlines, boredom, large open spaces, visiting the medicine cat
  
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  generation ▹ gen 1
  status ▹ single / crushing on no-one
  
  partner(s)/mate ▹ n/a
  parents ▹ elmstripe (npc) x minktail (npc)
  siblings ▹ briaroath (npc), owlhowl (npc)
  offspring ▹ n/a
  
  mentor ▹ dustburn (npc)
  apprentice(s) ▹ none
  
  friends ▹ none; open to friendships!
  enemies▹ none; open to enemies!
  
  relations notes ▹ WIP for now until more relationships are formed~
  
  
  
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  interaction notes ▹ get along well with most cats and can form many acquaintances however it can be difficult to become a close regular friend of his given his complicated nature / he is often looking for other to participate in activities with / he is loyal to shadowclan and his clanmates but will look after himself first / tends to be perceived as cowardly in physical altercations and he can be passive even in tense situations / will flee fights if the outcome is disputable / he holds few strong convictions and so his enemies are not usually plentiful but it is not difficult to find his faults / he has an uncommon type of charm with his relaxed, open, and spontaneous attitude / powerplay of peaceful and non-violent actions allowed / all character posts & opinions are IC and not OOC
  
  adept at ▹ good swimmer - he has practiced traversing the thick swamp waters, skilled stalker and good at going unnoticed if he wants to, navigating and seeing at night, remaining calm under pressure or in crisis, speaking his mind, he tends to be easy to get along with
  inept at ▹ he has a wavering will and low endurance, he has a dislike for speaking in front of large crowds, he struggles with reading others' emotions and delicate situations
  
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  kithood ▹ mosskit was part of the first generation of kittens to be born under the newly established shadowclan. he grew up in the forest shaded swamplands as his only home. his childhood took place within a turbulent time and under briarstar's and pitchstar's reigns. he had two siblings, owlkit (npc) and briarkit (npc), that he was raised alongside with by his parents elmstripe (npc) and minktail (npc).
  apprenticeship ▹ At four months of age, mosskit became mosspaw. he was trained and disciplined by the clan collectively until the age of eight months when he was formally assigned his mentor, dustburn (npc). he often tried to sneak away from dustburn's training and meetings with him but despite rough and unproductive patches he managed to graduate to a full-fledged warrior. he was now known as mossblood.
  12 moons - current ▹ at current, mossblood is a new and inexperienced warrior of shadowclan. he is serving under the new leadership of chilledstar and trying to deal with the new responsibilities that come with his warrior name.
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[Crowkit.]

Mossblood's kudos to his idea makes mucky fur plume in self - pride. It was an idea full of wisdom, ingenuity, and gumption, at least to him. The young warrior's questioning of whether his announcement were kidding words or not exasperate Crowkit. There was no time for kidding if the swamp brutes could drop on them from the sky at any moment! "It doesn't make no sense! They're supposed to be sleeping in mud and covered in ALGAE!" He squawks at the warrior, flabbergasted at Mossblood's own lack of astonishment. His outburst of "fact" calms as Mossblood inhaled the stinking air. Mismatched orbs narrow suspiciously at the warrior's proclamation of "..not smelling anything around right now." Did he breathe the air in deep enough? An ebony nose whiffs the air obnoxiously loudly, following Mossblood's lead. But Crowkit couldn't tell anything. He supposes he doesn't smell the musk of the beasts right now either. "Should we tell someone?" Crowkit murmurs uncharacteristically quietly, so as to not alert any swamp creatures. "speech"

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• shiny, feathery pitch black fur with one silvery green eye and one nearly black one. eyes have an unsettling gleam to them. looks terribly suspicious in his body language and facial expressions.

• crowkit named at the Carrionplace for stealing tendencies and ability to eat almost anything; and for his black and shiny pelt
  
  —— he / him; 3 moons, kit of shadowclan
  
  —— prone to thievery and gluttony, he's building a stockpile of trinkets
  
  —— current inventory + location
  
  - 1 blue twoleg wrapper
  
  - in his nest in the nursery

• "speech"

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[CHILLEDSTAR.]

DON'T YOU GIVE ME UP, PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP​

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"who would you tell, crowkit?"

the gruff voice of the leader comes from behind the two, and they only twitch their tail curiously. had crowkit come out here by himself before mossblood joined him? or had mossblood come along with him, after the kit tried to prove himself to be useful? oh, the leader doesn't know and that frustrates them. they furrowed their brows with a gentle grunt before they just look up from their paws– they didn't even realize they had been staring at them– and they just frown. this was proving to be more of an issue than they knew what to do with. how in the name of the stars could they even deal with an issue like this?

"we will just have to tell everyone to be on the lookout. mossblood is right about nothing being around here right now but... stars only know if they decide to come back. hopefully the thunderpath will scare them away."

it was their only hope. they had no where else to hide. chilledstar only hoped that the smell and sound of the monsters that rarely ever steered from the thunderpath was enough to keep the beasts of midnight colored fur away from them. stars knew that chilledstar was not eager to see one of those things again, as long as they lived once more.
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[mossblood]

i'm always the outcast, i'll take the blame
▵the first night you met me, you forgot my name▵​

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The spotted tabby scanned the trees, looking up high in the branches, but he didn't see the large black creatures from before. He felt Crowkit join him at his side and he peered down at the kit, but he soon leaned away from as the frustration of the ebony tom was heard. Creatures covered in algae? Mossblood could only think of frogs doing that. The tabby flicked an ear and grinned. Those monsters didn't seem like they'd live in mud and algae. It would be lucky for them if they did. "Sleeping in mud and algae? I wish they did. Seems like they prefer our beds to the swamps," Mossblood would reply wryly.

Crowkit began sniffing the air as he'd done. Then the kitten posed a question and Mossblood wondered. Should they tell? It would probably make the others more anxious, but they had to know if the monsters could be close by. He was about to break the sour news that they'd likely have to go back to the tunnels and tell about the claw marks when he heard his leader's voice.

He turned his head to see Chilledstar approaching them. It was relieving to see them walking once again. "Hey Chilledstar," he would greet, dipping his head halfheartedly. "I hope so too," he agreed. The Thunderpath was inconvenient at best and deadly at worst but perhaps its nature would ward the creatures away.

Spoiler: ◣ TAGS ◥

◸ general info

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  name ▹ mossblood​

Spoiler: ◣ TAGS ◥

◸ general info

Spoiler: ◣ TAGS ◥

◸ general info

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  ↳ named prefix "moss" for his dull brown-grey fur. given the suffix "blood" for connection with his clan and his variable intensity.​

  
  

  gender ▹ male - he/him
  
  age ▹ 12 moons​

  ↳ ages real time on the 1st of every month ​

  
  

  sexuality ▹ bisexual
  
  
  
  clan ▹ shadowclan
  
  rank ▹ warrior
  
  
  
  created on ▹ june 1st 2023
  
  toyhou.se ▹ link!
  
  penned by ▹ @starsheep
  
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