Sharing Tongues (News)

Hey everyone! All of us in the DoW admin branch want to address some concerns we have had crop up in a few Clans. With Eclipse coming we know that many people are unhappy with the changes that are being rolled out with it. As of now no changes have been announced for how groups should function. We are still taking precautionary measures and saving everything we can just in case.

For those who are going to be having a hard time with the transition, or do not want to transition to the new format, we want to be as accommodating as we can. If you are not already in the discord for your clan, we suggest hopping in! We are currently restructuring the main DoW discord to hopefully be able to fully have members able to stay in DoW through the discord. We are still working out some kinks as far as how we want to go about it but we wanted to release a statement so you all know what's coming along the pipeline.

Discord Links

 Main Hub: discord.gg/WSMcj6G

 Lightning: discord.gg/ad3Zr2C
 Cloud: discord.gg/JBxZK5F
 High: discord.gg/6x3WqQA
 Sea: discord.gg/zYCnGy8
 Leaf: discord.gg/RX4cm4R
 Neutral Zone RP: discord.gg/szYcqXE

Hope everyone is doing as well as they can right now,
- LaurenBlu and the rest of the Admin Team  

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April 4th, 2020

Howdy, y'all! Sonic here. The admins and I just wanted to say we hoped you enjoyed our little April Fool's shenanigans! It's always fun to do something to mess with the front page, and we hope we can continue to do some interesting things in the future, even going beyond just page tinkering~ I've left a little sta.sh link on the front page for those who've missed it, in case you're curious about what we pulled this time!  

But on a more serious note, there's no denying that the world has been turned upside down due to recent events. Folk from all walks of life are now having to adapt to a new way of living and are facing new challenges, and we just want to say that our hearts are with all of you. These are uncertain times that may need our focus more than ever, and we completely understand. A good portion of our admin team themselves are experiencing drastic changes in their lives, and we want to let you all know that we will be more than willing to accommodate for these situations.

If something has come up that requires you to get extensions, hiatuses, etc. because life simply needs to take a priority, we absolutely understand. Just talk to your Clan admins and let us know if you need some extra time or time in general to focus on yourself. Life comes first, and it's important that you all focus on your mental well being and take care of yourselves. Stay safe out there, stay clean, and remember to look out for one another!


With much love,

The DoW Admin Team  

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1/26/2020

Howdy y'all! Hope your month has been swell.

As you all know we've put the group on a bit of a "pause" for the past two months. We've taken the time to reorganize ourselves and given both members and admins alike a much needed break. In case you missed it, here's a little recap on all the things that have been done over the break:

• Created a new front page for the group (thanks, graypath-paws and kodi-ak!)

• Revamped and simplified the rules.

• Allowed kits to be created unattached to a couple or litter.

• Released the implementation of third Clans.

• Updated the territory map.

Today, the DoW Admin team are here to announce that winter break is ending early! This means that the group will be back on track, and assignments, events, and plots will resume as normal, so make sure to keep an eye out for these things! 

We'd also like to announce that Song-Birdie has decided to leave the group sometime in February due to school. We wish her luck with her endeavors! In the meantime, jackdawjay will be taking care of SeaClan with support from the rest of the admins. Wish them luck! 

Right now we're getting ready to launch a simple little event to kickstart the new year! The journal should be up within a day's time, so just kick back, relax, and smell the roses~ 

 

-Sonic 

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1/19/2020

Hey guys!

The Admin Team are happy to announce that we are allowing members to join a third Clan in the form of Sub Clans! Replacing Secondary Clans, Sub Clans are the Clans you are a part of that are not your Primary Clan. Being in a SubClan, you won’t be given strikes for not completing that Clan’s assignment, unless it is the yearly mandatory assignment. 

However, in order to keep your ability to create characters in your Sub Clan you must have completed at least one assignment for that Clan in the entire year. If you miss an assignment, you may ask your Clan leader to make it up (especially if assignments in your Clan happen to be sparse). 

Note! If you wish to complete your yearly assignment early but your SubClan doesn’t have one going on, you may note the group requesting a mini assignment your admin gives you! This will differ from Clan-to-Clan, but don’t be afraid to ask!

Gaining access to a second Sub Clan is optional, so if you are happy being in 2 clans then there is no need to pick a third. To join a Third Clan, you have the same requirements as joining a Secondary Clan, either through adoption, winning a tryout, or by simply creating a character. 

These are being implemented immediately so go ahead and enjoy these perks!

- Happy Late New Year, from the admins

1/7/2020

Hey everyone!! So the rules have been officially updated!! Rules (2020). There a few things we also want to highlight regarding the changes! We have trimmed the fat of our rules, and narrowed three different journals into one, 16 google doc pages is now 4. Which means we are also relaxing a lot of our older restrictions. You can go read to get the full picture but here is what we want to bring to your attention!

Kit creation is now open to all members!!

Histories are no longer required to be pulled fully from the clan archives. It's still going to be updated and it's avalible for the ones who want it!
But is no longer a necessary thing. (you still can't let your new kids murder/rampage/kill big game ect) but otherwise go free and create!

Design rules more open! so have fun with that!

The joining Journal has also been updated to reflect these rule changes.

The character creation journal is being rebranded as a kind of trait library, and that will still be able to be used.

The old journals still exist, but have been marked as old!

Thank you all so much for sticking with us through the recent changes, there are potentially a few more still to come.  We have some fun stuff planned in the coming days/weeks so please stay posted!!

- Your Friendly Neighborhood  Admin Team

1/6/2020

Hey all! Happy new years! We have a new "Kind Comments" journal up where you can share your good times that you have had in DoW.
We are also going to be rolling out a revamped Rules Journal and updating the Joining Journal in the next few days! So if things are out of place and or odd journals are being pinged that is probably why!!

We have more new years goodies coming stay posted ;3

12/12/19

Members, watchers, admins, and everyone else. It is with a heavy heart I come to you today with some rather sudden news. But first I need to come clean, The admins of DoW have been tense for a while and the other day the final straw dropped into the admin chat. Feelings were hurt and on a whole I want to say sorry to everyone involved. Our SeaClan admins, Maple, Rav, Gryph and our Lightning admin Paradox, have decided to leave the group, along with a few sea members they were close too. We will miss them dearly and wish them the best for all they end up doing. We are sorry for the way this happened and are working to improve the way the remaining admins function as a team; and better the group for all involved in it. song-birdie will be taking the leader spot for SeaClan, and we will be lending her all the support she needs. <--(We are working out who will be taking over as SeaClan's lead and will update everyone as soon as we know what is going to happen.) We wanted to get this out as soon as possible in order to explain what is happening currently and why.

While we do this we will be extending the group pause till the end of January, possibly into early February. By the end we hope to present a more open face and make the joining process a lot less intimidating. A rule revamp is already in progress and hopefully we will all be able to take a collective breath and keep on kicking.

During the Pause, feel free to submit to the group still and work on the prompts that we have listed in the previous news post. As before, notes might take a bit longer to get to but we are trying our best!!

There are currently no plans to close any clans, so for any worried about that please don’t be! We will do everything in our power to make sure the group doesn’t lose any more clans.

Sorry for everything and all things that anyone has had trouble with in DoW. We are working to improve and be the best version we can be. We will update as we know more.

With much love,
LaurenBlu and the Admin Team

12/01/19

EDIT: DECEMBER BREAK FOLDER NOW WORKS!! 
Hello members of DoW! We have a group wide December announcement; from today until January 9th DoW is taking a hiatus! We will have a prompt list that goes through till the end which you can find here December Prompt List. These are optional, but will be running with the holiday gift exchange as things to do during the break.

The admins are also taking a break so notes might be replied to a bit slower. During this time feel free to draw cats together who might not otherwise be friends boundaries and other factors will be temporarily suspended during the break. Any non Canon content can go into the "December Break folder". You can still work on Canon things during this time, just know plots in the clans are kind of on pause until we come back.

We will be posting ceremonies a bit early for cats in the December age up so keep a lookout for that!


Thank you all and we hope you have a lovely break!!

- The DoW team

If you celebrate anything this December we hope it's fun and filled with love and fun times! We wish you all well <3

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10/23/19

Hey hey folks! First of all.


Also thank you all so much for responding to the survey! We have just over 30 responses so far, if you haven't responded yet please do! In the somewhat nearish future we'll be wrapping that up and doing a summary of the results to share. Next step after that will be to actually act upon the results. XD That will probably be a bit on the slow side in all honesty but we'll get to it as we can.

~Shining (Leaf Lead)

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09/17/19

Hello, hello my lovely folks!

So the mod team has been looking at our set of rules with inquisitive eyes once again. We always do our best to keep our rules appropriate both for our members preferences and up to date.
This time around as we look at our rules once again we would like to hear your thoughts and have put together an anonymous survey about some of the ideas, concerns and simple spitballing that people have mentioned to us. About a week ago we posted in several of the DoW discord chats the question "Folks if there was a single rule you could change (or remove) in anyway you wanted to. What would it be?" If you missed out on this please feel free to comment below or if you'd prefer to be anonymous it is also the last question on the survey and a write in. We have tried to address every idea and comment that was brought up in the Discord chat by our members.

Now for the disclaimer. XD We really do want to hear what you all are thinking and have to say on these subjects.
That having been said we make no promises about what will or will not be changed. There are some things that while really cool would be difficult potentially to integrate into the game for one reason or another.

We promise to do our best for the group!
So go for it folks!
Rules Opinion Survey
-Shining

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08/30/19

Hey everyone we have a news update for ya!! The requirements for a surrogate have gone down! We realized that having so much was a bit unfair to couples who are either lgbtqia+ or unable to have kits due to medical reasons, and wanted to remedy that concern.

The original thought behind the 4 (Four) requirements was that it is a big decision and involves a third character, and we wanted the surrogate RPer to be involved.
The modified version is much the same but with less required.

We now just want 1 (one) picture or story that is the parents asking the surrogate, since it is an important step for the litter!
As with any litter the more you do could potentially boost the number of kits in the litter as well, but you only need one deviation asking the surrogate now.
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ALSO! We would like to welcome Complete-Paradox as a full admin of Dawn-of-Warriors and LightningClan!! give them a cheer!! <33 Thank you for your help Para, and welcome to the team!

Lastly we are going to be working on streamlining and trimming down some of our rules a bit and will be asking for anonymous input on it soon!! so stay posted for that once we start working out the changes and edits we will post about it here. 

As always thank you all so much, and I hope you are having a lovely day!

- Blu

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06/02/19

Hello members of Dow! The admins wanted to do a little PSA boost. As I'm sure you might know we are very fond of cats many of us have them as pets and some even foster in real life! And while it's fun in game for the cats to have kittens, in the real world it is always better to spay and neuter your animals! There are already too many cats and kittens that need homes in the world, we won't run out anytime soon, and getting your animals fixed is the best way to prevent the problem from getting worse. If you have any say in your household and you have an unfixed animal try to ask and push to get them fixed!

Thank you for reading and please, please, fix your animals!



In other maintenance news The front page got a bit of an update! Title, Background, icons, and journal pixels are getting some touch ups!
  The icon is a rainbow for pride (happy pride) and will be through the month!

- Blu

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04/01/19

 Howdy again, ya'll! The DoW team is here to say Happy April Fools! Some of you might recall a previous April Fool's prank we did years ago with the front page, and we're back at those shenanigans again this year! But we wanna give ya'll a heads up!

 If you're sensitive to BRIGHT, NEON COLORS, avoid the front page as best you can for the next few days!   

We've put a PSA box on the front page to remind ya'll again (and to hopefully tone down some of the brightness before you scroll), but please take care of your eyes and avoid it if you need to!


Aside from that, Happy April Fool's day! Be mindful of your japes, and have a fun time today!

-Sonic  

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02/15/19

 Well, howdy, folks! CloudClan deputy here, and I'm here to bring some bittersweet news, at least for CloudClan. Hornets-N-Tribes has decided to step down from her position as CloudClan leader and officially leave DoW. Hornets has been in the group for 5 years, joining all the way in the beginning of 2014. She's made her way through the ranks and has shown great leadership leading CloudClan all these years, but now it's time to say goodbye.

Thank you so much for being such a dedicated member of DoW for so long, and it was an incredible pleasure working with you, friend. We'll miss you!


Riverstar'll be an NPC for a little while longer as we work on the role change in-story, and for right now CloudClan will be left without a deputy until we find one suitable for the job. We'll be keeping our eyes peeled for potential folk to train for the position, but CloudClan affairs will continue to run as smoothly as it can! There's been lots of change in the air as we're entering a new era of the group, but we promise to continue making DoW as best it can be. And as the new CloudClan leader I'll do my absolute best to do lots of good for CloudClan with my team backing me up~

Until next time!

-Sonic  

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1/21/2019

  
  Hey hey folks! I have something special that I am super excited to share with you all! 
   Dawn of Warriors will be swapping the age list to a new format! One that will make it easier to update it when cats age up. 
 docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
We are moving to Google Sheets! (At least for this) The new ages list has a couple of really spiffy features both for you guys and for the mods behind the curtains.
  The Clan survey's will also be moving onto the sheet and off of the Primary members page. The survey page will show up to date surveys of all of the Clans listing out how many of each Rank is in the Clan and how many of each gender so you can go and take a peek when thinking about making a new cat.
  Some of the cool things with this new ages list include, age up buttons for every Clan. Instead of manually updating every cat's age it will be simple a matter of pressing the age up button for each Clan. When a cat reaches six moons of age and their rank is still listed as kitten the color of their name will change and their name will be bolded, same for cats who reach 12 moons of age and are still listed as apprentices. 
 
  This has been a pie in the sky goal for quite some time and has been in coding testing for the past 5/6ish months or so. ;D If anyone wants to know more about the gritty details feel free to contact me or ping me in the comments.
~ Shining, Leaf Lead

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January 13th, 2019

(happy new years by the way)

As I’m sure some of you noticed some changes are happening in LightningClan! Littlestar has sustained injuries from the collapse of the old LightningClan camp and StarClan has told him it is no longer his time to lead. He has given up his lives and Twilightstar is the new Leader of Lightningclan, with Hawkstorm becoming the new deputy.

What this means Admin wise!  queensmii is the head Mod for LightningClan now! With WingsThePhoenix and blepsandbeans as support mods, and CompleteParadox098 as LightningClan's  modling right now! A big congratulations to the new promotions!!

Laurenblu is not leaving!! They are still founder, but wanted to step out of their LightningClan admin role to better help all the clans!

In other news, For those who switched clans when StoneClan got run out don’t forget to update apps if you haven’t already. Most, if not all, Journals have been updated to reflect the new changes if you see any mistakes feel free to let us know!

~LaurenBlu Founder

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