boneslikebarerootsrp

[boneslikebarerootsrp]

how many apps did you get in total? i know you said you had 14 at one point but im curious!

Astoundingly we closed with 32 total! I’m floored and completely flattered. We’re just about finished reading through now, and now we’re in the decision making and sheet making process!

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Going to close them up now! Thank you all so so so much for your interest, it means the world. we can't wait to start reading through!

Like stated, it may take us some time to read and then make sheets for incoming players. As of now, estimate to see our 'all players have been contacted' notice around the 28th just to be safe-- but it may be earlier depending on mod scheduling. Thank you again!

The world is changing. Kits are born still, elders are fading, and colds are claiming the lives of healthy cats. Prey grows more and more scarce, all of your neighbors have the flu, and it grows harder to lift yourself from the nest with each passing day. How many more losses will it take for you to seek safer grounds or, at least, answers?

This final arc of BLBR focuses specifically on magic draining from the world. Once, magic permeated the world like an invisible ocean, providing for healthy plants, animals, and stable conditions. Now, that well is all but depleted, with the last pocket remaining on Court lands and in the souls of the individuals across the world. 

The Bright Realms, a surreal and horrible world the Court can access through a strange little well on their land, is alive and hungry. It drains the world of magic. Magic can be defined as many things, but ultimately the 'spark of life' or 'soul' is made entirely of magic. With each slow drip being taken from the world, more will die. Eventually, nothing will remain.

We are an 18+ Discord roleplay vaguely inspired by Warrior Cats that explores themes of fantasy, magic, cosmic horror, body horror, and found family. We offer a TTRPG style skill system and crafting! Our story follows a group called The Court in their struggle to now find many paws to prevent the end of the world. We will expect you to be coming in without much context and we are fully prepared to help you along and encourage you to learn as your characters do. As this is our final arc, we have about a year guaranteed left in roleplay-- but likely more! This is the last time we will open to the public.

See all information including our rules, themes, backstory suggestions, adopts, and more on our website!

Have any questions? Send in an ask, we're always happy to help.

Applications are open and will be until the 22nd, at which point we will go through and send approvals and character sheets.

Apply Here!

[boneslikebarerootsrp]

Applications close tonight!!! Midnight CST!

The world is changing. Kits are born still, elders are fading, and colds are claiming the lives of healthy cats. Prey grows more and more scarce, all of your neighbors have the flu, and it grows harder to lift yourself from the nest with each passing day. How many more losses will it take for you to seek safer grounds or, at least, answers?

This final arc of BLBR focuses specifically on magic draining from the world. Once, magic permeated the world like an invisible ocean, providing for healthy plants, animals, and stable conditions. Now, that well is all but depleted, with the last pocket remaining on Court lands and in the souls of the individuals across the world. 

The Bright Realms, a surreal and horrible world the Court can access through a strange little well on their land, is alive and hungry. It drains the world of magic. Magic can be defined as many things, but ultimately the 'spark of life' or 'soul' is made entirely of magic. With each slow drip being taken from the world, more will die. Eventually, nothing will remain.

We are an 18+ Discord roleplay vaguely inspired by Warrior Cats that explores themes of fantasy, magic, cosmic horror, body horror, and found family. We offer a TTRPG style skill system and crafting! Our story follows a group called The Court in their struggle to now find many paws to prevent the end of the world. We will expect you to be coming in without much context and we are fully prepared to help you along and encourage you to learn as your characters do. As this is our final arc, we have about a year guaranteed left in roleplay-- but likely more! This is the last time we will open to the public.

See all information including our rules, themes, backstory suggestions, adopts, and more on our website!

Have any questions? Send in an ask, we're always happy to help.

Applications are open and will be until the 22nd, at which point we will go through and send approvals and character sheets.

Apply Here!

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sorry question: when u say apps close tomorrow, do u mean that apps close at like midnight tomorrow or midnight tonight or at some point tomorrow?

Midnight tomorrow! CST time, as that’s my own time zone. Means you have the rest of today and tomorrow to send in any final applications!!

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Applications close tomorrow! I’ll begin reviewing then.

The world is changing. Kits are born still, elders are fading, and colds are claiming the lives of healthy cats. Prey grows more and more scarce, all of your neighbors have the flu, and it grows harder to lift yourself from the nest with each passing day. How many more losses will it take for you to seek safer grounds or, at least, answers?

This final arc of BLBR focuses specifically on magic draining from the world. Once, magic permeated the world like an invisible ocean, providing for healthy plants, animals, and stable conditions. Now, that well is all but depleted, with the last pocket remaining on Court lands and in the souls of the individuals across the world. 

The Bright Realms, a surreal and horrible world the Court can access through a strange little well on their land, is alive and hungry. It drains the world of magic. Magic can be defined as many things, but ultimately the 'spark of life' or 'soul' is made entirely of magic. With each slow drip being taken from the world, more will die. Eventually, nothing will remain.

We are an 18+ Discord roleplay vaguely inspired by Warrior Cats that explores themes of fantasy, magic, cosmic horror, body horror, and found family. We offer a TTRPG style skill system and crafting! Our story follows a group called The Court in their struggle to now find many paws to prevent the end of the world. We will expect you to be coming in without much context and we are fully prepared to help you along and encourage you to learn as your characters do. As this is our final arc, we have about a year guaranteed left in roleplay-- but likely more! This is the last time we will open to the public.

See all information including our rules, themes, backstory suggestions, adopts, and more on our website!

Have any questions? Send in an ask, we're always happy to help.

Applications are open and will be until the 22nd, at which point we will go through and send approvals and character sheets.

Apply Here!

[boneslikebarerootsrp]

Can our character be affiliated with any of the groups listed on the official website (ex. The Sewer Cats, Branches of Truth, The Order) before joining?

Sure! A couple notes for any folks considering the same:

Some of this is stated on the website, so pardon any repeat information! The Sewer Cats are pretty few and far between after being taken out by the Order. Regardless, cats could definitely still come from that background. It was dangerous to be associated as a sewer cat at one point, but that time has passed and perhaps some are coming out of the woodwork?

The Truth's group is open to make cats from! We have BLBR players who are his children and one in particular, Dirge, who is thinking of stepping in and taking over the group. This is something to just keep in mind for all that, and if you do go that route you could plot with that player once approved!

The Order is all but crushed out at this point. Nobody wants to return to that lifestyle and be outcast from society in the city, which is only now beginning to truly heal. Of course, your cats having been part of that big brutal group in the past is completely fine though! Better be careful who they share that information with, though...

We have a group called the Pack on the website whose player-run and is directed by an old Court Member. This player is on a hiatus right now, though, so keep that in mind if you consider the Pack-- not much may be able to be done with that at this time.

We also have a small group of cats who live in a food truck park and trade all kinds of ingredients for containers.

And finally, we have a group of refugee warriors who don't quite call themselves a clan. I've been calling them the Ladybird Lake warriors, as that's where they live. They don't follow traditional clan life exactly, but they still teach and hunt and keep similar traditions to keep the culture alive. At this time, they're hesitant to jump back to clanlife-- as it comes with a lot of old wounds. The Order sought to wipe them out as well, and many clans have been lost to sickness or other events. It almost feels dangerous to claim the label still. This is a looser group, I have a few NPCs here but if anyone wanted to take charge and develop this more-- I'd be happy to allow you to with your application.

Let me know if you have any specific questions!

[boneslikebarerootsrp]

how many applications so far? are any adopts in particular need?

Hey!

Right now, we're sitting at about 14 apps! Not bad for a roleplay several years in the running. As a reminder, we're able to take a really decent number of players so don't let that number discourage you.

Our adopt apps have been updated on the doc and masterlist, and I'll lay them out here too!

Shadestar - 1 Brunswick - 2 Wayfinder - 1 Strange chick - 2

Adopts without auditions: Lavender, Truffle, Echo, Junebug, Dulce, Hopeful, and Ezra

I hope that helps your decision making process along!

Applications will be closed and reviewed this Friday! If you're considering applying, try to do so soon!

Apply here!

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Will we still be contacted if our application is denied? I feel so tense waiting :sob:

Hello!

Typically we do not reach out if you were not one of the accepted applicants (as we feel that it's worse to see a request/message from a mod just to find out you weren't accepted, particularly since our main contact method is Discord and you can’t always receive a message until you accept the request) - however, we do post on the blog once all acceptances/contact attempts have been sent out! That will be probably around November 29th, as staff will be reviewing each application in detail and then making character sheets as well.

Thanks for your interest and we look forward to reading your application!

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Hello! Would a character with bird wings be acceptable as one who has already lived a life dealing with magic? I still plan to submit an application either way, but just thought I'd ask!

Hah, yes, I'd allow that! As long as it's reasoned out, I'm open minded.

The benefit of being this far into the roleplay and the benefits of starting to get into all the juicy magic stuff does mean I'm willing to let folks get a little weird with characters.

Have fun! I look forward to seeing your application!

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What is the technology level of the humans as of modern day in the RP's world? Since it seems like they still exist

This may be one of our weirder selling points, but we follow real time mostly! We have exceptions for liquid time in roleplays and events, but generally we're set in 2024. Humans are modern day humans-- TVs, fridges, grocery stores and all.

The Court goes on an annual run to a local store every year to steal everything they can get their paws on. It's probably a documented local phenomenon, and maybe some keen naturalists have taken note of a really extensive colony of cats sighted in the woods. The Court lives on protected land, though, so they don't get much human activity at all stepping on their toes. They do live by a neighborhood on one side, but it's not exactly unusual to see cats walking around there... though it might be a strange sight to see them elaborately dressed in baby-sized peanut costumes or wearing armor-- both of which some characters own in roleplay.

Humans will see the last of the effects of magic draining on the world. Likely by the time they'll have realized something globally is going on not attributed to other standard human horrors, it would be too late anyways. Humans in BLBR are very detached from magic, as it is a modern world and they have no reason to question otherwise.

One of the reasons I loved Warriors roleplay is that it explores the world on a small scale. You grow to learn about the herbs in the area, see each nook and cranny in the forest as a possible camp for a clan, and see the world from this small perspective. I think, in that way, it's fun and enriching for me personally to have the creatures in charge of preventing the end of the world-- as silly as it might sound-- come from that perspective. They're observant, they're in touch with how the prey is running, how the herbs are growing, the rates of litters being born dropping would be a noticeable occurrence on a community-wide scale. And, in some way, they're a little more in tune with the imperceptible. Cats are notorious after all for watching shadows and tracking things we can't see.

I think often about the effects of end-game BLBR. If the Court is able to prevent the end and restore magic to the natural world, then things would change drastically in the relations between humans and felines and probably all animals. It would be a very different world in the aftermath of this roleplay. I have a concept written up for a post-BLBR roleplay about the setting it would leave behind. Since this is my final Warriors roleplay, though, I may hand that concept off for someone else to take the reins on if they were so inclined. It's fun to think about though. I'm someone who takes primary interest in taking what might be a bit of a silly concept and trying to explore it to its fullest extent.

So yes, our cats do magic, face horrors untold, and sometimes die trying. Meanwhile, there are still humans going to their 9-5s, watching the new season of Bake Off, and thinking about switching cell phone plans. Strange concept, but it works for us and I find it personally enriching!

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can you give us irp posts to help us understand more about what will be expected in roleplay samples? what do court members have to say about potential newcomers?

Sure, I'll share a few snippets from roleplays! Shared with permission, this is just an exchange between me and Buzz after our last event. Generally, we range a lot! Some folks write a lot, some folks keep to briefer posts, some match length. Really, the writing sample doesn't need to be anything complex or long and nor does it even need to be Warriors RP specifically. As long as you're putting a little thought into it and showing us what you can do, I'm sure your ability will shine.

As for the Court's impression of incoming members... I reached out to ask! Shared with permission as well.

We have honestly a pretty wide range! I think it's going to put new players at a really fun and interesting spot. Luster joined the Court recently... as a prisoner initially, for context as well so they are even more torn up about it all.

We may have some early crafting practice events with new members to start to build up new quarters for having new faces around. Sounds like fun to me!

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Hi there! You might want to check your Twitter account's DM settings, I think it might be set to verified users only because when I tried to message there, it said to buy premium to do it.

Fixed! Thanks, Twitter defaults to that for some reason. I appreciate the heads up! If anyone was trying to contact us there, go ahead and give it another shot.

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Sing us a song, you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well, we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feelin' alright

I had to draw something from the most recent expedition over on @boneslikebarerootsrp! Poor Thile looked at something he shouldn't have for too long and lost a part of himself... Bleakfoot and Kestreltalon were there to try and snap him out of it... but who can say how successful they were?

Bleakfoot (left) belongs to Finch Thile (middle) belongs to Marshall Kestreltalon (right) belongs to Taps

Library background, Oilslick texture

Interested in joining Bones Like Bare Roots? Our applications are currently open until November 22nd!

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can we apply for both an adoptable and an original character?

Absolutely! If anything, we encourage it.

[boneslikebarerootsrp]

The world is changing. Kits are born still, elders are fading, and colds are claiming the lives of healthy cats. Prey grows more and more scarce, all of your neighbors have the flu, and it grows harder to lift yourself from the nest with each passing day. How many more losses will it take for you to seek safer grounds or, at least, answers?

This final arc of BLBR focuses specifically on magic draining from the world. Once, magic permeated the world like an invisible ocean, providing for healthy plants, animals, and stable conditions. Now, that well is all but depleted, with the last pocket remaining on Court lands and in the souls of the individuals across the world. 

The Bright Realms, a surreal and horrible world the Court can access through a strange little well on their land, is alive and hungry. It drains the world of magic. Magic can be defined as many things, but ultimately the 'spark of life' or 'soul' is made entirely of magic. With each slow drip being taken from the world, more will die. Eventually, nothing will remain.

We are an 18+ Discord roleplay vaguely inspired by Warrior Cats that explores themes of fantasy, magic, cosmic horror, body horror, and found family. We offer a TTRPG style skill system and crafting! Our story follows a group called The Court in their struggle to now find many paws to prevent the end of the world. We will expect you to be coming in without much context and we are fully prepared to help you along and encourage you to learn as your characters do. As this is our final arc, we have about a year guaranteed left in roleplay-- but likely more! This is the last time we will open to the public.

See all information including our rules, themes, backstory suggestions, adopts, and more on our website!

Have any questions? Send in an ask, we're always happy to help.

Applications are open and will be until the 22nd, at which point we will go through and send approvals and character sheets.

Apply Here!

[boneslikebarerootsrp]

what magic types are there in this setting? what does magic look like?

Magic is expansive in the BLBR world and can be channeled into many different things. Think of "magic" itself like a power source, a form of energy that can be summoned up from within yourself or from the environment (if it holds enough magic, like the Bright Realms does) and shaped to do your bidding. Technically, we have different 'types' of magic in practice, pictured here:

Each form has its inverse, and covers a few different things. Ultimately, you really don't need to learn these though. These are for us as mods to sort your character's attempts into these different categories. Generally if your character is interested in doing certain things with magic, like gardening, healing, etc-- they will fall into similar categories and with each successful attempt they will gain skill and it grows easier each time both in that specific category and doing magic overall. Our goal is that your character can basically try... whatever, and we just worry about the semantics.

Generally we have tickets that folks put in, describe what they'd like to do and where they're trying it, and what their character's mindset is. It takes practice and patience to dig in the deepest reaches of one's soul to pry magic... and comes at a heavy cost particularly the first few times it is achieved. It can be a slow process, but after success happens it gets easier and easier.

It is heart wrenching, exhausting, and pulls at your very soul and sense of self. When it goes badly, it can have the opposite effects of what you intend-- or cause you damage. It is a notorious mistake to stand in a deeply magical place, like the Bright Realms, and try to leech power directly from it. It starts up a power vacuum that can quite literally split you apart. A character exploded that way after another character had a near death experience trying the same. So... be warned.

[As funny as that is, though, you are thoroughly warned and prepared throughout the process. If things turn dangerous, we will tell you and we will never kill a character without consent.]

Magic in the same way takes many visual forms, truly dependent on what is being done. Throwing a fireball is a bit more exciting than growing a plant, for example. Visual flare is a bit low, mostly because this sort of thing comes with more innate *feeling* than it does any fancy effects. It's a very... grounded sort of practice. You will something to happen, you reach within yourself to summon the ability to do something impossible, and should it work... you'll see the change happen and feel something almost removed from you.

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This final arc of BLBR focuses specifically on magic draining from the world. Once, magic permeated the world like an invisible ocean, providing for healthy plants, animals, and stable conditions. Now, that well is all but depleted, with the last pocket remaining on Court lands and in the souls of the individuals across the world. 

The Bright Realms, a surreal and horrible world the Court can access through a strange little well on their land, is alive and hungry. It drains the world of magic. Magic can be defined as many things, but ultimately the 'spark of life' or 'soul' is made entirely of magic. With each slow drip being taken from the world, more will die. Eventually, nothing will remain. 

With that dire premise in mind, here's some backstory suggestions for incoming characters: 

- For Those That Follow: You've lost too much. A healthy litter gone, a mate lost, too many goodbyes given to good friends and enemies alike. Your life has been uprooted, and now... so will you be. You've heard there's a place where this isn't happening, where there might be a chance for you to start over, help, or simply live in the name of those you lost.  - Plant People: You ran into the weirdest, ugliest persian cat-- covered head to toe in tiny traffic cone decorations. They spoke like a storybook (albeit, a very *loud* storybook) and told you of a place that will need paws to fight "the righteous fight" against "a very large vampire" to "save the world"? Well, might as well check it out. [Followed by the realization 'holy shit this is real'] - Approaching the Shimmer: Nightmares have plagued you for months, flashing horrible imagery of death and plagues every time your eyes shut. Eventually, one location began reappearing in these visions-- the site of the Green Cave. Peaceful, calm, a break in all the chaos. You don't know what this all means, but... when you come closer, the nightmares ease some. Maybe you were drawn here for a reason.  - What Do You Know?: You've heard of the Court. They're a nice bunch, occasionally tending to some city groups like yours and making sure you're well cared for. Recently, though, you've heard of them bringing in cats to stay with them. If they're bunkering down, then maybe you should head over and lend some paws. They've looked after you, time for you to look after them. [Allows you to establish context with Court Ambassadors when entering the server!] - The Alien: You know all about this magic stuff. You've lived in the Bright Realms for a while, perhaps born there or perhaps lost. Maybe you're something of a strange one yourself, coming from the tutelage or perhaps family lineage of some god who disappeared mysteriously a few years back. You want answers, or at least closure. In your search, you come across a group of cats working on saving the outside world... some of them seem to be magic wielders. They may be able to help, and you may be able to help them in turn. [This backstory allows for skill in magic! Just describe the type generally your character would be experienced with.] - Cells Divide: You've been suffering for months trying to scrape together a life that will stay put. You're ready to give up, starving and wasting away from illness after illness... but a group of individuals have come to the area. They're from the Court, and if what they say is true... you'll have no choice but to come with them. [Will be roleplayed out as event-- the Court will be leaving their lands briefly to see what the world is like and gather individuals. New characters can be intro'd on this journey!] - Were You Me?: While passing through Court territory, your character ran into a massive white lion. You spoke with him a spell, listening to his strange slow voice drone about the end of days. At the end of it, he offered you a paw. There was such a strange, sharp pain when you took it… but you left otherwise unharmed. Months later, you come to hear that other cats marked by him become something horrible in time. You come to the Court for answers… and find all you can do is wait and prepare for your new life. They tell you that once corrupted, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to leave Court Lands. Better make yourself comfortable. [Your character comes with a seed of corruption present, and will corrupt in time... this means you may not want to get too attached to their design or name, haha!] If you're interested in playing a cat already tethered to the Court, consider taking a look at our adopts. For kit adopts, feel free to give more of an idea of your vision for the character and go looser on the backstory. If you choose to apply with an adopt you may also submit a secondary application with a backup character just in case, but this is personal choice.