Good evening my beautiful ss123 people! I have the pleasure of announcing that SS123 is coming up on it's... one, two, three, four, five, SIX year anniversary! I know that's pretty hard to believe. One of the things I love best about this site is that no matter how low activity gets at points we're still around and active. Adding on to that, Kuro and I would like to do something very special for the sites anniversary. I know in my last video I mentioned putting together a video of everyone's memories and other such things, well we are going to do exactly that! Please give me some time to get that together more information will be added at the end of this announcement later!
The activity check is officially over now and the staff members will be working hard to clean up the clans and get ready for a new year of active roleplaying by new members. As mentioned before some high roles that are now inactive will be available for those greedy people craving power. Give Kuro and I some amount of time to work that out as we figure out what roles will need replacing. If you have not yet replied to the activity check and wish for your characters to be kept safe, please contact an owner and they will take care of it. All characters that did not reply to the activity check will be put on the Character Recovery Page. In other news, I am pleased to say that activity this month has stepped up and you should all be proud of yourselves for getting back online. The next major step is starting up roleplays again! Ask all your friends and just everyone and get some new roleplays started up. We have some eager members who are more than happy to do that. In one final note we still have events that we would love to have going on so, please, if you have any ideas for events submit them in the thingy down there and we will add it to the list of events! Love you all stay tuned for more information on the video and new available high roles.
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Hello ss123-goers! We hope you had a good holiday and new years! January and February will be dedicated to advertising for new members! Major updates will pave the way for easier joining and understanding of the site. I ask that if any of you see a new member who has questions, answer them! The future of the site hangs in the balance! D8
As for the site changes, until activity increases, the space that used to be for Member of the Month has been changed to Character of the Week! Willow and Wiki figured this would be a great way for new members to learn and understand about the site's more popular characters, as well as shine a light into daily Clan life. Clan update boxes will also start to be updated again, after a long time of them being closed. All unfinished pages are currently being completed, so check around and see if you can find something new! We are hosting an activity check starting today and ending 2/1/14. Due to the decline of activity from older members, this is a good chance to clean up the Clan pages a bit to prepare for an influx of new people. I'll be sending out emails to inform everybody of this! Click here to post in the Activity Check. Anybody with a high position who has not roleplayed in the past two months are in danger of losing the role! At the end of the activity check, the high role's will be reassessed for activity, and will be taken down via 'dead', so that more active characters may have the chance. Message Willow or Blue if you're going to be gone for a while and don't wish to lose it. That's all, folks! Stay tuned for more updates coming soon! To start off, it has come to my attention that activity has plummeted the past month of October. There is many reasons for this- one is the lack of updates, and we promise more updating in the near future. Next is school and work. We the admins know that everyone is busy with real life situations and don't often have enough spare time to come on and role play, but I ask that you at least make time pop in and say hi every once in a while! We miss you guys!
Also, frankly, the site has been a little boring lately while waiting for the prophecy to start. But fear not! Now that MoonClan is thoroughly starved and half-dead, with one of Wildstar's lives taken by Liberty, the deadly rouge group is rising and almost ready to attack! If you are interested in joining the rogue group, talk to Iris or Sal for more information. We are bringing back events! Instead of having a calendar widget, the admins will be hand-writing the calendar events under the chat. Be sure to check every once in a while to see what new and exciting things are happening! AMV contest! Make an amv of anything ss123 related! Entrees will be judged on the raw effort put into them. Winners receive special prizes and their amvs will go out on official advertisements! Entrees must be in by November 30th. If you can't upload your amv to youtube for any personal or mechanical reason, let Blue or Willow know and we'll work something out. You can use anything from character pictures seen on the site, drawing the characters, to even animating scenes! If you need a music download, contact Willow/Kuro and she'll download and safely email one to you. Adhesive is MOTM! Go congratulate him. The Fanart Gallery is almost ready for submissions! Go check it out under the 'Site' tab! New Newsletter will be posted soon, keep an eye out for it! Advertise! Iris is a good kisser~! End of update. Alrighty! MoonClan's activity is coming along greatly, and I appreciate everyone who helped contribute to the fall of MoonClan's dynasty. We only need a few more key things to happen before the prophecy may start; the biggest thing being the Group's activity. It's not often roleplayed in, so we must bring that activity
up before we can start! You can create a character there simply by joining under "rogues" in the joining forums, but specifying in the name that they will be in Historycall's Group. Remember, you may only join the Group with a black, gray, or silver cat. The second roleplay that needs to happen is for MoonClan's medicine cat,, to receive a warning from a deceased and in StarClan MoonClan cat. Feel free to harass Blue for this position. Next on the list, we feel obligated to inform everyone to remember! Leaders do not have to go along with your plans and plots. A Leader position on ss123 is respected in the way thatthe leader can control the Clan in anyway they deem fit. They can banish or punish your character any way they see fit if they want too. Nor do they have to let your character join their Clan. You do not have to agree with it, it is in their power as Leader. If you feel as if a leader is being extremely unfair, report it to Willow or Wiki and they will pass ultimate judgment on the situation. Also, as you may or may not have noticed, we've been finding ourselves with quite a lot of new members and guests on the xat, and I cannot stress enough to roleplay and help make them feel at home here at ss123! You should also totally advertise. But not in a way that makes people angry. Or by going against any site's rules and regulations. On that topic, we were considering bringing back New Member Rewards! A little unofficial contest where if someone does a great job in advertising and helping new members, they get prizes of appreciation from the staff. Tell Blue what you think of the idea, to help influence us on whether or not we should do this. And on the subject of contests, we were also considering making mini "monthly contests", small easy-and-quick-to-do contests that start on the third of every month, and end two days before the end of that month. Some ideas include short stories, photography, art, roleplay scenes/situations, ect. Prizes are undecided, and winners are not chosen through quality, but through the heart and passion that was put into completing it. You can always tell how much work and effort one puts into something by the way they do it, not by the quality of the final product. As for more Clan-related updates, StoneClan is no longer accepting any more apprentices. Kits of StoneClan will have to wait to be made apprentices until most of the current ones are made Warriors, as there is more apprentices right now then there is Warriors. We urge people to instead join FrostClan, SunClan, and MoonClan. That about wraps it up! Get out there and have some roleplay fun! For today's brilliant updates, we'll start with announcing that the Activity Check is officially over! We'll be cleaning out all the Clan pages, so check over and make sure all your characters you posted are still there; if not, message an admin to re-add them.
On that note, rping activity must be picked up. People are forgetting that RP Saturday is an official rule now, and must be inforced. Even if there aren't any staff on, get into the spirit of the game and rp anyway! Its not about being forced to rp, its about having fun! So get out there and roleplay!! Also, if Sal is to do a weekly Clan Newsletter, she requires the Clan News! Don't forget that there is a fancy update section in each Clan, so whenever something substantial happens with your characters in rp, be sure to let an admin or your leader know! That way everyone can keep updated on the Clan's status and we can enjoy more of Sal's amazing newsletters <3 Don't forget to be rping in MoonClan! The Prophecy will begin shortly! We have a new affie~!! Go drop by and say hello! Remember, we have affies so that we can go visit them and have a blast joining their site! http://warriorcatsroleplayi.webs.com/ June's MOTM is Lion! Go congratulate him! "Struck by lightning!" - Cricketsong, FrostClan. Rising hostilities with the Clan of Stones may soon create a huge rift between the consistent rivals, StoneClan and FrostClan. This could be a truly horrendous problem, the larger the rift becomes, the more likely the two clans are to go into a ferocious war. Luckily, it has yet to get to that point, but with the hostilities rising and with border disputes touching everywhere, tensions are rising. Spring has now touched the mountains of FrostClan, making the slopes slippery and making the cats in the clan extremely wary for avalanches as well as many several other hazard points. The cats have been especially careful to avoid any spots that look like they will give out under their feet. FrostClan has also found itself with new lovebirds! This week, Melody and Royalfight became mates. They have yet to get to the point where they are about to have kits, but the two have officially announced that they are definitely mates! Good for them! Two clan cats, Melody and Royalfight, have also found a tiny kitten. They found him laying beside two bodies, and despite the violent protests of the tiny kit, they have brought him back to their clan, and are intending on nursing the angry little tom back to health. "Greypaw! How would you like to take me out to the territory? I need to gather some comfrey, and it would be rather dangerous for me to go to the border alone!" - Lighthaze, SunClan. SunClan is striving in the spring season. They have plentiful prey and are completely capable of taking care of themselves. Healthy and happy, at the moment, SunClan is a strong clan, which is a good thing seeing as the clan they are allianced with is currently having a large prey shortage, which makes them worry, but not enough to do anything about it, at least for most of them. Thunderpaw, the young SunClan medicine cat, has made a deal with one of the StoneClan apprentices. She has agreed to catch him prey as long as he needs it, if he will give her the herbs she needs that are refusing to grow on SunClan territory. Thunderpaw has been hiding this fact from everyone, including her mentor, who she looks up to despite everything. There are also two she-cats that found out they are expecting in SunClan! Brittlesong, mate of Shadowsplash, is extremely excited about the fact that she is going to have her first litter of kits. Whereas, her close friend, Searingflower, Toxicshadow's mate, is taking the fact that she is about to have her second litter of kits in stride. A small little kit, looking like almost the exact replica of Aspenfang slid from the nursery, trying to be sneaky but she tripped on a small hole in the ground and face planted onto the ground. - Springkit, MistClan Flooding in MistClan has called the river to overflow. It has been advised to avoid swimming this week. Of course, this is good advise. The flooding has made it where the river is a dangerous place. Falling and slipping into the water would be likely to occur, and cats could get seriously damaged for it. It seems as if every cat in the clan took this advise and avoided swimming in the river. Good! There are three cats in MistClan who have gone missing this week. Cardinalpaw and Arintas, two young apprentices, were wandering the territory when a storm hit. They took shelter in a cave and got caved in. Now they are desperately searching for a way to escape from the cave. The other cat, Greenfire, left MistClan because he wanted to join the rogues. Greenfire, as many may remember, was a Dark Vessel in the Vessel War. The disappearance of three of her clan has made Bluestar angry. The leader is looking to blame someone - and it seems as if her blame is going to be thrown onto SunClan. The leader is out for blood, and it looks as though SunClan may have a battle on their paws here soon. Snowflakepaw, Stonepaw, and Diamondpaw have each been made warriors. They are Snowflakewing, Stonelight, and Diamondsky respectively. Congratulations on the three new warriors! "I will have fun ruining your mate.. and your kits. I will have fun tearing them into pieces." - Morbidspirit, StoneClan. StoneClan is having a severe food shortage thanks to melting snow. The rift between StoneClan and FrostClan is coming to a head as tension rises between the two proud clans. Desperate for prey, and hoping to survive the harsh spring that has been thrust upon them, the StoneClan cats are doing all they can to survive, even if it means they have to accept or steal prey from the other clans. Polarpaw is doing just that. He has been accepting prey from Thunderpaw, the SunClan medicine cat apprentice. It is amazing how much work he has put into hiding it, keeping it a secret from his clanmates, either in his shame or in his guilt. The tom has been kind of on edge since he has started accepting the young, cheerful she-cat's offer. "Oh, sorry, the melting snow must have washed it away. You're in MoonClan territory right now- not far in, but far enough in that someone could attack you." - Crystalsong, MoonClan Again, spring has reached out with vicious hands and smacked the clans in the face. However, for MoonClan the problem has nothing to do with the fact of spring approaching. In fact, spring is a good thing for them. The snow is melting nicely and there is are many birds fluttering around the territory - which is important because they are going to need all the help they can get. All of the rodents in MoonClan territory have come across a terrible disease that has denied slipping into other clans. This disease has no effect on birds, and so that has to be their main prey source in a while. However, because rodents are their prime source of prey, MoonClan is in a terrible state. They have very little prey and the clan is weakening day by day. Newsletter Game!Let's play Five Questions, shall we?
Message Sal with the answers, and if you get all of them right, then you will get a prize! Though I won't reveal what, just yet. 1. Who roleplays all five of the characters above (The quoted ones)? 2. Which character above is a sort-of love interest for Lightningstorm? 3. Who roleplays the three SunClan she-cats Thunderpaw, Brittlesong, and Searingflower? 4. If you were in the StoneClan roleplay while he was talking: Who was Morbidspirit talking to? If not: There was a StoneClan apprentice that made the mistake of crossing the border into FrostClan, who was it? 5. Which group of cats is going to raid MoonClan, and who was its leader (Either the temporary, or the former full one), and who is going to be its leader? People who answered correctly: Willy. Iris. Last night the staff met for a big meeting to discuss lots of changes on the site. We started with addressing the new Prophecy, which you can view as a subpage under Plots&Prophecies, called "The War for MoonClan." A few changes were made, and we've decided that a disease is now going to spread throughout the rodents in MoonClan territory, only the birds remain unaffected. Any cat who eats a diseased prey will get sick and will need Medicine Cat attention, though it won't be anything life-threatening. So remember, when you rp hunting in MoonClan, be aware of the diseased rodents. Birds aren't MoonClan's base prey, so they'll be hard to catch for most. We suggest raiding nests for eggs and chicks. Also, crossing the border into other Clan territory to hunt won't be unheard of, as we need the other Clans to get hostile towards MoonClan. This does not make your character a bad Warrior, but one dedicated to feeding their Clan, even if it means going against the rules.
Lately, apprentices have been made into Warriors, but never actually learned anything from their mentor. We've decided that since we have no way of telling who's been rped with their mentor or not, Blue and Sal invented a system where you cannot be made Warrior until at least one session of training is complete. You can view this system by clicking "MentorsxApprentices", which is a subpage to Site. Basically, after you finish a training session, you can submit your apprentice there, and it'll get marked off for being able to be made a Warrior when you like. However, this does not mean you must be made a Warrior, or that you can't rp training sessions any more. You can resume rping your apprentice for as long as you like. We've also been having problems with people making characters then not rping them. We've never had a character limit in the past, and we won't make one necessary now, but everyone must step up with rping their characters, or getting rid of the ones they don't want. If a staff member sees a character that hasn't been seen rped in a while, that character's owner will receive a verbal warning to rp. If they still don't for a while after that, they'll receive a second-stage warning and a character limit, meaning they can't create any new characters until all of their current characters have become active. Another note along these lines, leaders have to be doing their proper ceremonies. We've noticed whole months where leaders won't be doing ceremonies, and we've set up a system to change this. When someone asks a leader to do their ceremony, the leader has a week to rp that ceremony. If they don't do it in this time, and have no valid excuse for not being able too, they will receive a verbal warning. If they don't do the ceremony two days after the day of the warning, a staff member may rp that leader character doing a basic pre-written ceremony speech. If this happens four times to that leader, it's character owner will be in danger of losing his/her position. If it happens six times, they lose their position as leader. RP Saturday will now be an official rule! For those of you who are new and don't remember RP Saturday, it was an unoffical rule we came up with a few months ago, that eventually died off simply because it wasn't a real rule. Enforcing RP Saturday states that everybody on the chat on Saturdays must be rping at the same time as they are on the chat. You must rp for at least twenty minutes to be able to remain on the chat without rping. It's a good way to find roleplaying partners and have a blast in group rps! For those asking for a Twolegplace to be added, it was brought up and discussed, but the idea didn't pass. We've had kittypet and twolegplace sections on the site before, but they were the most inactive rps on the site, leading to their initial deletion. We apologize for the inconvenience, but the Twolegplace will not be re-added. We have created new Borders roleplay box for the Clan's borders, which you can find as a subpage under The Clans! Now you can roleplay all the borders without worrying about which Clan to rp it in! Hooray!! We've said it once, we'll say it again! Advertise, advertise, advertise! I realize some people don't advertise the site simply because they don't know how. For one, if you find a website that relates to Warriors, you must read the site rules before advertising there, because they may not allow it and it'll get our site in trouble. Other then that, you can advertise on Deviantart, facebook, tumblr, myspace, other Warriors rp sites, and even Chatango. You don't need to know how to talk to others, just say something along the lines of, "Hey! I see you like Warriors! You should totally go check out this site, because I think you'll really like it." Then give them the link to ss123. MistClan is now accepting kits again. SunClan's kit joining is closed temporarily. Historycall's group is now open for joining, contact Sal if you wish to join. On a final note, we've decided to have Clan update areas beside the chatango rp boxes. Here, the leaders and admins can post updates relating to that Clan. It'll be updated regularly, so be sure to look at it when you rp! Sal will be taking all these updates and forming Clan newsletters that will be posted here in the Announcements page, so anyone can read up on what they missed! Happy Roleplaying!! Welcome to the ss123 Scavenger Hunt! It’ll span over the entire site, and some things will be very difficult to find! For each post/character/page, I’ll explain a characteristic of it! Then, you have to read through it and find the ‘secret word’, which you put in the blank space beside the hint! I'll post the answers in an announcement on Monday, giving everyone a chance to participate. Please keep the answers to yourself!! It's a lot more fun to find everything on your own then take answers from so
Example: Question: _________A gray and white tabby calico character whose name ends with ‘tide’ Answer: Seashell A gray and white tabby calico character whose name ends with ‘tide’ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. _________ A rule that has something to do with respect 2. _________An affiliate whose initials are WCC 3. _________A tortoiseshell rogue whose name is an insect that chirps 4. _________A Clan description that states that the Clan lives in a partially underground camp between two boulders 5. _________The first page of a forum thread which is 137 pages long 6. _________A recent Forum conversation in FrostClan in which two old characters decide to retire 7. _________An old MistClan tortoiseshell she-cat whose mate was named Darkpine. 8. _________A deceased old FrostClan leader who had hidden love for a character who left the Clan to be MistClan’s medicine cat. 9. _________A plot in which includes Silverpaw and Mountainpaw. 10. _________The page you go to too see the MOTM and learn about the site. 11. _________A Forum story game in which a clock pooed on Leafy and Scarlet. 12. _________A Forum post in the Poppy Field where Ravenpaw gave Rockfall the death-blow. 13. _________A longhaired creamy tabby SunClan tom whose name ends in ‘stone’ 14. _________A FrostClan apprentice whose mentor is Rowanfur 15. _________A Stoneclan Warrior who saved Stormpaw countless times from Ravenpaw’s bullying. The staff meeting today concluding the FINAL results for the cursing poll. These rules are now set in stone, and no amount of comments about it in the Comment Box will change them. Although open cursing won't be allowed, cursing abbreviations, such as "wtf", are no longer against the rules.
Also, we recently received a complaint stating that the staff don't rp, which just surprised me beyond belief. Shocked, I went around to all the roleplay boxes and in every single one at least two staff members had rped there recently, and between all the boxes, all the staff members had rped, sooo I figured that people might not realize a staff member on the roleplay boxes due to different usernames. Because of this, I (Willow) will be posting all the staff's Chatango usernames next to their names on the Staff list! So make sure you check up there if you need to find a staff via Chatango. We've noticed a lot of disrespect in the chat lately, from everyone, and once more I have to ask that if you feel as if a staff member does something unfair or uncalled for, to politely private message them inquiring their reasons. I ask you take consideration into their reasons before sending in a complaint, and if you still feel as if it's unfair, go ahead and send a complaint for the admins to discuss. But please keep your cool when questioning! Presenting your personal opinions too strongly or in a closed-minded fashion won't make you heard, but rather it makes us not want to listen from it's rude presentation. I ask you consider everything and think deeply on the situation at hand before making a final decision. Advertise Advertise Advertise! SS123 is officially on an advertising spree in attempts to get new members, and we ask all members to participate in it! However, remember not to advertise in a way that could possibly annoy people more then attract them, and make sure to check the rules of sites and make sure they allow advertising before posting anywhere, we don't want angry staff from another site complaining xD And if you see a site you think would make a good affie to ss123, by all means message an admin with the link! We're always looking for new, active sites to affiliate with. Please send in a comment to the Comment Box about your opinions on RP Saturday! Should it continue? Still interested? Or do you think it should vanish? I found that the Saturdays we've required roleplaying have been quite successful for some members, but others feel inconvenienced. Sooo send us your comments on the matter~ Moon is January's MotM! Go congratulate her! I guess that's it for now! Don't forget to regularly check back Today the staff met to discuss all the excellent feedback we've been receiving in the comment box below the chat. We once more discussed cursing rules after more complaints came in, and have decided that although open cussing still isn't allowed, we'll create a poll to see if cussing abbreviations would be in the favor of the chatters. Please choose carefully and think about the upsides and downsides of having curse word abbreviations before voting. The poll can be found on the homepage.
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