Kangoo's Riverclan Digest - summary

[Kangoo]

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Just joined the clan? Coming back from a long period of inactivity? Forgot who got their ass kicked by a fox that one time three months ago? Don't worry, this thread's (probably) got you. Here's a timeline of major events that happened in Riverclan since its creation.

Click on the bullet point links to read more about any given event, and don't hesitate to reply if you think I've missed something!​

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2022 - you're there :)
2023​

2022
† deaths
♥ relationship events
🗡 fights & injuries
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Greenleaf ✧ Leaf-fall ✧ Leaf-bare ✧

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  July
  

  

  
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  ☼ Riverclan moves into its new territory, disrupting the life of the loners already living there. Some, such as Buck, want to chase them off
  ☼ Loner siblings Frost and Spider join the clan, the latter planning to destroy it from the inside
  ☼ Buck confronts and threatens Cicada
  ☼ Beesong joins Riverclan as medicine cat after receiving visions from Starclan
  ☼ Other loners and former marsh- or pine-group members slowly trickle in to join the clan
  ☼ Raccoon joins Riverclan despite the tension between it and their family
  
  
  

  

  
  
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  ☼ On his way back from getting his nine lives, Cicadastar is injured by a Windclan warrior claiming to have been sent by Sootstar. Cicada decides to close Riverclan’s borders to loners and kittypets as a result
  ☼ Willow joins Riverclan to protect their newly-adopted kit Boar
  ☼ Sootstar comes to Riverclan camp with a hare as a gift and makes Weaselclaw apologize for attacking Cicadastar. Tensions rise quickly, but both groups go their separate ways without physical conflict
  † Corvidtongue dies of old age
  ♥ Icesparkle and Mudpelt have four kits together
  ☼ Buck joins Riverclan under probation, with Lightningstone as her parole officer
  ☼ Cicadastar refuses to name a deputy, but chooses Willowroot and Smokethroat as his lead warriors
  ☼ Names are given and apprentices are assigned mentors for the first time
  ☼ Beginning of the White Stag plot
  🗡 Pumpkinpaw is grievously injured by dogs while hunting
  ☼ Peachkit’s mother gives birth to her before dying, and the kit is taken in by Dogteeth
  † Cicadastar loses one life while investigating a twoleg nest and is taken away by the hunters while the patrol escapes
  
  
  
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  🗡 Spiderfall lures Ashpaw into a twoleg trap, and the apprentice is wounded by a twoleg before escaping and being swept away by the river
  🌢 Thunderclan warriors find Ashpaw and bring her back to Riverclan
  🌢 Spiderfall threatens Ashpaw to silence and admits to his ~crimes~
  🌢 Cicadastar comes back to life and returns to the clan
  🌢 In the absence of a deputy, Willowroot and Smokethroats assign the first patrols
  🗡 Spiderfall tries to get Raccoonpaw killed, but Frostpaw intervenes and is wounded herself
  🗡 Clearsight is injured by the twolegs’ hunting dog
  🌢 Fire erupts in Thunderclan territory, and they evacuate to Riverclan, who welcomes them as refugees. Some go back to Thunderclan camp to rescue survivors
  🌢 Spiderfall continues his career in evil by killing the mother of his kits and bringing them back to camp
  🗡 Citruspaw, Raccoonpaw and Forestkit are attacked by a fox. Houndsnarl jumps in to save them and is wounded himself
  🗡 Lakepaw is injured by a rogue trespassing on Riverclan territory and kills them
  🌢 Frostpaw, Ashpaw and Raccoonpaw go to Beesong and Cicadastar to tell them about Spiderfall’s actions
  🗡 Cicadastar confronts and exiles Spiderfall with extreme prejudice
  † Spiderfall finds Pumpkinpaw alone and kills her
  
  
  

  

  
  
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  ♥ Willowroot and Poppysplash become a couple
  🌢 Cicadastar is caught in a trap on the way out of the twolegs’ camp and is saved by Buck
  🌢 Buckgait is made deputy and no longer under Lightningstone’s watch
  🌢 Elmbreeze is caught coming back to camp with Windclan scent clinging to him
  ♥ Buckgait confronts Lightningstone, who admits to having feelings for her
  
  
  

  

  
  
  November
  

  

  
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  † Peachpaw is killed by the rogue Kuiper
  🌢 Riverclan warriors pursue him into the Twolegs place
  ♥ Willowroot learns that they are pregnant
  🌢 Quietpaw is found wandering the border of the territory after disappearing for moons
  🗡 Smokethroat kills Spiderfall
  🌢 Cicadastar's long-lost brother Wasp turns up in Riverclan territory
  
  
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  December
  

  

  
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  ✧ Beesong has another prophetic dream and tells Gloompaw she's to be the new medicine cat apprentice
  † Elmbreeze is attacked by a rogue on his way to a secret meeting with his lover Echolight and is taken away by a twoleg
  🗡 As prey becomes scarce, a fight breaks out with a Windclan patrol over a hare that escaped onto Riverclan territory and Smokethroat is gravely wounded
  

  ✧ Former Shadowclan medicine cat Bonejaw joins the clan with her mate and son and a litter to come
  

  ✧ Hyacinthbreath and their apprentice Spiritpaw ask to join the clan after being exiled from Windclan
  ♥ Willowroot gives birth to four kits​
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[Kangoo]

2023
† deaths and disappearances
♥ relationship events
🗡 fights & injuries
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Leaf-bare ✧ Newleaf ✧ Greenleaf ✧ Leaf-fall ✧ Leaf-bare ✧

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  ✧ The river starts to rise with the snowmelt following the blizzard. Cicadastar leads a patrol to investigate
  ♥ Boneripple gives birth to four kits
  🗡 Greenpaw, a Skyclan cat, runs into Riverclan territory to ask for help after Windclan launched an attack on their camp to steal herbs. The patrol that intercepted him runs to join the battle in Skyclan camp while Greenpaw and Cranecatcher go back to camp to organize Riverclan reinforcement. The second group faces off against a Windclan patrol at the Sky and Wind border.
  † Rainwhisker is attacked and killed by a wounded Kuiper.
  ✧ The river keeps rising until it floods the camp. The nursery is snowed in and the apprentice den collapses on top of the apprentices inside. Buckgait takes a patrol out to find a temporary camp, and the clan moves soon after.​

  
  
  

  

  
  
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  🗡 Ashpaw is attacked by a fox while out of the camp, but manages to fend it off with minimal injuries.
  ♥ Lightningstone and Buckgait become mates
  🗡 Cicadastar falls through ice and drowns in the freezing river, losing one life.
  ✧ Two injured Windclanners show up at the border, begging for help from Riverclan, and are turned away.
  ✧ Cicadastar appoints two more lead warriors: Cindershade and Snakeblink
  ✧ Shadowclan's medicine cat Starlingheart comes to share herbs and knowledge with Beesong
  ✧ After asking for help from Riverclan with dogs on the other side of the river and getting none, Thunderclan demands hunting right on Sunningrock, which Cicadastar does not agree to.
  🗡 Hyacinthbreath fights and kills the Windclan warrior Juniperfrost at the border, pulling him into Riverclan territory
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  ✿ Beginning of the Riverclan Newleaf prompts
  ♥ Buckgait is pregnant
  🗡 Otters disturbed by the clan's move into the beech copse attack the temporary camp
  ✿ Cicadastar confronts Buckgait about her place in the clan, threatening to exile her.
  † Medicine cat apprentice Gloompaw disappears without a trace
  🗡 Angered by the murder of Juniperfrost, Windclan attacks Riverclan's temporary camp in two waves
  † Clearsight dies from injuries sustained in the Windclan attack
  🗡 Thunderclan decides to stake a claim on Sunningrock, leading to a battle that Riverclan ultimately loses. Lilybloom loses an eye in the fight.
  ✿ Buckgait is demoted from her deputy rank, with no one being named in her place​

  
  

  

  
  
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  ✿ A loner comes to ask to join Riverclan. Ravenpaw reveals that the loner is his father and asks for him to be allowed in, but Cicadastar turns him away.
  ✿ Cicadastars calls a council meeting to plan an offensive on Windclan, and Cindershade proposes calling on the windclan exiles for assistance
  ✿ Smokethroat assesses Iciclepaw's skills in public, and Cicadastar decides to promote her to the warrior clan early.
  ♥ Buckgait gives birth to three kits
  ✿ Cicadastar urges the clan to continue treating Sunningrockas riverclan territory
  ✿ Beesong names Ravenpaw as the new medicine cat apprentice
  ✿ A patrol is sent to clean up the main camp from flood debris
  ✿ Cindershade leads a night patrol onto Sunningrock and they depart without being caught by Thunderclan
  † Boneripple's mate Wolverinefang is found dead from a dog attack​

  
  

  

  
  
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  † Snakeblink finds Frostdrop's body in the river
  † Ashpaw is caught in a trap and taken away by twolegs while on a walk with Iciclefang
  ✿ Smokethroat finds wire traps on the territory and sets to disarm them. On a later patrol, he is caught in one of the unsprung trap but suffers no grave injury
  🗡 Emberflower leads another hunting patrol to Sunningrock, but they are caught by Thunderclan and Emberflower has to call for retreat.
  ♥ Two outsiders come to Riverclan's borders to ask for their kits to be raised by the clan. Pikesplash agrees to take care of them and adopts them as his own
  ✿ After inspection, Cicadastar decides Riverclan's camp is once again livable and tells the clan they can return. They move back in soon after.
  🗡 A border patrol escalates into a skirmish after Smokethroat takes one of Sootstar's children hostage
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  🗡 Hyacinthbreath is exiled after sparring one of her kits during the Windclan skirmish
  ☼ Willowroot chooses to step down from her lead warrior position
  † Cicadastar confronts Beesong and the medicine cat, backing in fear, falls down the gorge
  🗡 Catfishpaw and Hazepaw stumble upon a badger's den while out at night, and Catfishpaw gets her leg broken by the predator
  ☼ Twoleg trash fly into the river as a result of high winds, which causes some troubles, such as Cindershade nearly drowning after getting tangled in a net.
  ☼ Smokethroat notices the river level being low, and is surprised by a loner while investigating.
  🗡 Fernpaw loses an eye fighting a fox on his own
  ☼ Smokethroat is promoted to deputy, and Petalnose and Lichentail are made lead warriors.
  ☼ Ashpaw returns to Riverclan with a kit in tow
  ☼ Cicadastar leads a patrol to the loner camp and finds the Ripple Colony, who have been driven away from their previous territory by the blockage upstream
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  ♥ Aspenhaze and Petalnose declare their love to one another
  ☼ Ravenpaw becomes a full-fledged medicine cat and is given the name Ravensong
  ♥ Smokethroat reveals he is expecting
  ☼ Cicadastar decides to team up with the ripple colony
  ☼ Following perceived insubordination from Boneripple and Lichentail, Cicadastar asks Lightningstone to keep an eye on them both as he did with Buckgait in the past. He also forbids both warriors from going unattended as punishment.
  † Buckgait is taken away by twolegs in front of her mate and kits
  † Houndstride disappears, leaving behind signs of struggle against a fox
  ☼ Cicadastar leads a patrol to the Ripple Colony to offer an alliance
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  ♥ Smokethroat gives birth to three kits: Cicadakit, Starlightkit, and Beekit
  † Lightningstone reports Boneripple as missing, with her trail leading into Twolegplace
  ☼ Lichentail's punishment is lifted; because of the numerous fox attacks, Cicadastar orders that cats leave camp in teams of three at least. Finally, news is shared to the clan that a new illness has been reported in Skyclan and that patrols should stay firmly away from Skyclan cats
  ♥ Willowroot is expecting another litter
  🗡 Lichentail and Otterpaw fall sick
  ☼ Blazestar brings Robinpaw back to the Riverclan border after she was found on Skyclan territory
  ☼ Raccoonstripe comes to announce that a cure to the illness has been found
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  ♥ Willowroot gives birth to three kits: Bumblekit, Carawaykit and Tidekit
  🗡 Aspenhaze and Prairiesun catch yellowcough
  † Cicadastar leads a patrol to investigate the river blockage. They find beaver, and one mortally wounds Cicadastar, who sends the patrol away to get help. Petalnose goes to the ripple colony for help. Ripple cats volunteer to come and help, and they return to fight off the beavers. They are welcomed within Riverclan for their efforts.
  🌢 Lichentail and Otterpaw are given the first dose of the cure to yellowcough
  † Flutterpaw dies from yellowcough after hiding rapidly-escalating symptoms
  🗡 Mudpelt and Dipperpaw come down with yellowcough
  🌢 Cicadastar announces that the medicine cats of all 5 clans have received visions pointing towards the mountains as the places where life-saving lungwort can be found out of season. Every clan is to send cats on the journey, and he asks warriors and apprentices to volunteer. Iciclefang, Hazecloud, Lakemoon, Fernpaw and Mosspaw do, and Dovethroat is appointed by Cicadastar to round out numbers.
  † Frogpaw dies of yellowcough
  🗡 Ravensong starts showing clear signs of yellowcough
  🌢 Cats start seeing signs of loners trespassing on Riverclan land: Snakeblink catches sight of one running away, Hazepaw sees half-eaten prey and one steals Chicorypaw's catch
  🗡 A patrol gets in a skirmish with some of the trespassing rogues
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  🗡 Stalkingpaw and Fallinglight fall sick
  🗡 While many riverclanners are sick or gone on the journey to find lungwort, the rogues that have been harassing the clans make their move, invading the camp in the middle of the night, killing Cicadastar repeatedly and chasing the clan out of their home.
  🌢 Riverclan go to Skyclan for shelter, and Blazestar agrees to take them in within his own camp.
  🗡 The respite does not last, and the rogues soon attack Skyclan's camp as well, forcing the two clans to flee. They seek shelter in Shadowclan, just as Thunderclan and Windclan do; Chilledstar reluctantly allows them to stay on their territory.
  🌢 The five clans plot to fight back against the rogues by fighting together and overwhelming them with number.
  † Steepsnout succumbs to yellowcough, soon followed by Nettlekit and Bristlekit's mother Reedflower, and Riverwhisker.
  † Following a conversation with Snakeblink in Skyclan, Smokethroat sneaks out of their temporary camp to go back for Cicadastar in Riverclan territory. He finds Cicadastar delirious and aggressive, and after a brief struggle is forced to kill him. Smokethroat returns to Shadowclan with Cicadastar's body, to the horror of their clanmates and kits.
  🗡/ † The clans join forces to retake their camps, starting with Windclan, then Riverclan, Thunderclan and finally Skyclan. Meadowpaw is killed during the fight for Riverclan's camp, and named Meadowheart in honor of his bravery.
  🌢 Riverclan returns to their home and prepare to clean up the damage from the rogues and go back to normal.
  🌢 The former Ripple Colony cats are given warrior names, and Ratpaw is renamed Moonpaw
  🌢 The journeying cats return to camp with lungwort, missing only Dovethroat after he stayed behind to help an injured Thunderclan cat make her slower way home.
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  ♥ Lichentail and Hazecloud become mates (after the latter broke up with Rookfang)
  🌢 Snakeblink gives the former Ripple cats some lessons in warrior life
  🗡 Rookfang is injured while protecting Valekit after the kit was put in his charge
  🗡 Otterpaw attacks Edenpaw at the border after they helped him during the rogue crisis
  ★ Smokethroat decides to go to Highstones alone, as Ravensong is still recuperating. He is attacked on the way by Windclan warriors, as Sootstar has decided to lay claim on the usually-neutral place. After being left for dead, he manages to make his way to Highstones and receives his nine lives, though Cicadastar is nowhere to be seen. Later, he admits to Ravensong that he lost one of his lives then, and that he was the one to take Cicadastar's final life before, voicing his suspicions that Cicadastar was directly responsible for Beesong's death.
  🌢 Iciclefang is made lead warrior
  🌢 Boneripple returns to Riverclan with one leg missing after being attacked by a dog and taken in by twolegs while she healed
  🌢 Lichentail is made deputy
  🗡 An elder gets sick from eating the crowfood that Nettlepaw has been bringing back to camp
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  ♥ Hazecloud announces she is expecting kits
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