#gladepatch

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Moon 211-Leaf-fall

It’s a mixed moon for the Clan.  On the plus side, Creekstar (65) and Wildcave (94) have had their kit!  A powerful fire-blessed little girl they named Patchkit (0), after Gladepatch, Creekstar’s dad.  Creekstar is a little ashamed to feel relief that her daughter isn’t dark-cursed.  Wildcave is just so excited to be a dad that he’s vibrating. Now that she’s not pregnant anymore, Creekstar has been enjoying some moonlit strolls.  Chiku (145) covers for her.  Creekstar is also quite protective over Patchkit and promises to always look out for her.  Queenyspeckle (87) still doesn’t think Creekstar is a good leader and prays that he doesn’t have to go on patrol with her.  With Creekstar in the nursery, Primcrest (53) has to take on a lot more responsibility.  It’s stressful.  And she misses having her father and mate to help support her.  Lightheather (28) got bitten by a snake and died.  Silverspots (29) is shocked to be the last survivor of his once thriving family.  It feels weird to be without kin in the Clan. 

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Moon 182-Newleaf

Peakspots (151) is so proud of Primcrest (24).  He feels like she’s already making a great deputy and promises to always look out for her. Now that she’s deputy, Primcrest is much busier.  But she still finds time to say hello to her dad and hang out with the other young cats in the Clan.   Gladepatch (58) is a little overwhelmed with all the young Healers around lately.  He takes a nice long walk to clear his head.  How is it that he, at not even 60 moons old, is the most senior Healer in the Clan?  He’s glad he has Sleepyfoot (48) to support him though. It turns out that there is one cat Rabbitfur (38) actually likes: Gladepatch.  She thinks his charming smile is sweet.  Mossyfleck (24) is talking about potential mates with Brightfern (24), his sister. Glowquake happens (18) to be eavesdropping on him and is disappointed when his name doesn’t come up.

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Moon 175-Leaf-fall

Gladepatch (51) and Sleepyfoot (41) are feeling better.  Asterpaw (11) and Poolpaw (11) are very relieved.  Taking care of the Clan with just the two of them was hard!  Unfortunately, Lightkit (2) has gotten greencough.  If it spreads to Tornkit (2) he’ll have a hard time shaking it. It turns out that Creekstar’s (29) fears over Daisyfreeze’s (16) safety were quite warranted.  Just the moon after she became a warrior, she was found dead near the TulipClan border.  Her brothers and parents are shaken.  Rustsong (44) and Wildcave (58) will miss their only girl.  Finchbelly (16) and Halfnoise (16) are shocked to find themselves the only survivors of their four kit litter.  Glowpaw (11) is feeling shaken by the loss of another young cat.  Chervilcry (154) promises that she’ll always look out for him.  Gladepatch is grateful for all the hard work the apprentices took in caring for him and takes a moment out of his day to share tongues with Poolpaw. With Sleepyfoot back to working in the Healer’s den, Pigeonspot (44) is taking responsibility in caring for their kits.  She plays with the ever so talkative Elmkit (5), who just wants to tell her how she knows so much about fighting.  Yeah right-maybe that’ll be true once she’s an apprentice!  Meanwhile, Cypressbadger (41) is getting in fights with everyone.  She argues with Frostheart (78) and Frecklekit (2).  What is up with her?  Well, it turns out she is feeling ignored and unappreciated in the Clan.  Her sister is busy with kits and she caught Brightfern (17) complaining about her behind her back.  Meanwhile, Brightfern’s sister, Primcrest (17), is doing quite well. Creekstar is quite proud of her former apprentice.  Primcrest fought bravely in a border skirmish with TulipClan and with great control over her powers.  She’ll be ready for an apprentice soon-and then she can become deputy.  Creekstar has also enjoyed spending more time with Wildcave.  She loves his sense of humor and how she can make him laugh, over and over.

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Moon 172-Greenleaf

Unfortunately, Halfnoise (13) was right to be concerned about Gladepatch (47).  He was working himself too hard trying to teach two apprentices and care for the Clan.  While reaching for some herbs (seeming to forget that he could either make them grow towards him or pull the land they were on towards him), he fell in the river and inhaled a lot of water.  He’s on bedrest while he heals, leaving the two apprentices by themselves.  It’s going to be challenging, but at least it’s greenleaf and there shouldn’t be too much illness. Chervilcry (151) is feeling old and cranky.  She thinks that the young cats are quite annoying.  Halfnoise isn’t very considerate of others and Fennelpaw (8) never does anything useful.  She quite prefers the company of fellow old cat Peakspots (141).  She even hopes that she dreams of him at night.  Peakspots has been encouraging her, a bit, and brings her some pretty flowers back from a patrol.  Fry (79) has been having constant nightmares lately, following the death of Conegoat, and is struggling to sleep.  He feels like Sleepyfoot (38) is downplaying his own concerns over his health.  Meanwhile, Sleepyfoot is preoccupied caring for her kits-both those in the nursery and the apprentices.  Having six young cats to care for at once is challenging!  What was she thinking? Caring for kits is also wearing on Pigeonspot (41) and the two got into an argument.  Pigeonspot also does not notice Elmkit (2) sneaking out of camp.  She returns a little while later, unscathed.   Wildcave (55), meanwhile, is ready to have more kits.  Rustsong (41) is not.  She thinks they should wait at least until Daisypaw (13) is made a warrior.  Gladepatch is developing a bit of a crush on Rabbitfur (28).  Sure she’s mean to him, but that makes her all the more appealing, right?  Apparently he’s not the only one who likes mean cats, because Brightfern (14) has been noticing just how beautiful Rabbitfur’s eyes are.  In the medicine den, Asterpaw (8) has taken to sharing what he’s been learning about herbs with his brothers, to help him remember.  Glowpaw (8) is listening carefully as he explains the purpose behind yarrow.

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Moon 161-Greenleaf

Rumors reach the Clan that the exiled Yuccawillow (140) has died.  The Clan does not mourn her, and Creekstar (15) and Gladepatch (37) can’t help but feel a little relieved.  Gladepatch has also heard from StarClan that they were sent to the dark forest.  As she deserved.  The Clan will be telling tales of the corrupted star-blessed leader for generations.  Hopefully it will help with the prejudices against cats based on their powers.  The Clan is a bit more shaken when Chaskingskip (73) is killed in a landslide caused by early greenleaf rains.  Chervilcry (140) feels like the world has ended with the death of her last kit.  One day, the Clan will have kittens who never knew Chasingskip in life, but Chervilcry vows to ensure that Chasingskip’s memory will live on through her.  Sleepyfoot (27) and Cypressbadger  (27) comfort her, although they too are mourning the loss of their mother.  Sleepyfoot is hit especially hard, with her death coming so soon after Caterpillarmallow’s.  She sists vigil that night as grief fills her heart.  She keeps searching for tasks to do, cats to comfort, distractions against the hole in her heart, as she fights to keep the grief from consuming her.   Meanwhile, Frostheart (64) realizes that she is one of the most senior warriors in the Clan.  It feels weird, because she was always the youngest one of her siblings, who are now all gone.  She decides to spend some time with the youngest of the warriors.  She enjoys spending time with Rabbitfur (17), but Wormdart (17) has proven to be a little unreliable.  She asked him for help with a camp chore, and he abandoned her.  How rude!  Another senior warrior, Amethystdapple (88) is feeling a little cramped in a full nursery.  She loves her kits, but she watches Cypressbadger leave camp with longing.  How she wishes she could go out on patrol.  But she needs to stay in camp.  Her kits are all quite powerful and she doesn’t want to risk leaving and having them burn the camp down!  (or having Primkit-3- accidentally kill someone. . .)  Also in the nursery, Rustsong (30) is a little intimidated by raising kits that are more powerful than her.  Riftkit (2) especially is proving to be a handful.  Volcanoblossom (88) decides to take it upon herself to tell the other cat about how she cared for her own kits, but Rustsong is distracted.  No, Riftkit, don’t light your sister on fire!  Featherspeck (17) feels a little upset that she hasn’t been given more responsibility in the Clan yet.  She’s powerful. She should be doing more to help, but instead she’s stuck entertaining squirrely kits.  Joy.

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Moon 158-Newleaf

Apparently Cressfreckle (74) wasn’t as subtle as he thought.  Less than a moon after Caterpillarmallow’s death, he was pushed off a cliff into some sharp rocks and died.  The culprit is unknown, but Gladepatch (34), Conegoat (41), Sleepyfoot (24), and Creekpaw (12) suspect Yuccastar.  Shortly after her grandpa dies, Creekpaw is given the warrior name of Creekstripe, honoring her vigilance.  She’s terrified of what might be coming for her, now that it seems Yuccastar is on a murder spree.  Gladepatch mourns the loss of his last parent.  He knows that this is not the life Cressfreckle wanted for his family, but is glad that at least he is reunited with Airclaw, Graysong, and Yellowcreek in StarClan.  Brioche (72) also couldn’t beat the redcough and died.  But all is not horrible in the Clan.  Amethystdapple has a litter of four kits.  There’s the daydreaming Mossykit (0), who has a medium strength fire-blessing; the surprisingly bossy Goldenkit (0), who surprises the Clan with her water-blessing when neither of her parents share that magic; the fittingly named Brightkit (0) with her bullying personality and fire-blessing; and Primkit (0).  An attention-seeking little girl who seems to be. . .emitting darkness.  Conegoat is the one who’s helping with the kitting and, thinking of how Yuccastar has treated dark-cursed kits in the past (e.g. by killing them) opts not to tell her.  She, Amethystdapple, Fry (65), Gladepatch, and Creekstripe are the only ones who know and they want to keep it that way.  Creekstripe knows that, if she decides to lead a coup against Yuccastar and expose her, she will become leader.  She’s not sure she’s ready for that yet.  But if Yuccastar discovers Primkit’s powers, she will expose their leader as a murderer.  She needs to protect this kit like she couldn’t protect her brother.

Meta: In the game, Yuccastar did in fact murder Cressfreckle. Both of them had mutual hatred for each other even without me mediating them to hate each other. I did not want Cressfreckle to die.

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Moon 155-Leaf-bare

Creekpaw (9) has recovered from greencough!  She may have used her powers to help her heal a little. . .but just a little!  She also may have helped Chiku (89) heal from whitecough, but don’t tell anybody!  Cressfreckle (71) hears that Gladepatch (31) got to talk with Yellowcreek and is glad for his son, although he wishes he had been there.  He misses his mates.  Chervilcry (134) notices that he seems upset and bumps heads with him reassuringly.  Yuccastar  (134) notices that their current and former deputies are not getting along and has them eat a meal together and chat.  It helped, she thinks (it did not, actually).  The three wind-blessed siblings are helping each other out.  Rabbitpaw (11) is making sure that Featherpaw (11) still gets some training, even though she’s sick, and Wormpaw (11) helps Rabbitpaw pick burrs out of her fur after she accidentally launched herself into a bush with a gust of wind during training.  Yuccastar has been watching the three of them closely and thinks they’ll be ready to be warriors soon.  Chasingskip (67) is feeling out of place in the Clan.  She wants to show her affection for others, but doesn’t know how.  She feels bad about never being asked to share tongues.  Creekpaw is also feeling a little worn down and out of place.  She wishes she were back in the nursery with her brother, before everyone knew about her powers.  The Clan also takes in a kittypet whose twolegs abandoned her, named Brioche (69).  She’s very sick with redcough and Caterpillarmallow (105) doesn’t know if she’ll survive.  The four Healers will try their best, though.

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Moon 149-Greenleaf

At long last, Sleepypaw (15) has been made a full Healer.  She is named Sleepyfoot in honor of her serenity.  Steppemimic (32) thinks fondly back to when Sleepyfoot was a kit, running around in the healer's den and following after her mom.  She’s come so far.  Yuccastar (128) has been watching the new kits closely.  It makes Gladepatch (25) nervous.  He tries to distract her by asking her to speak up in a conversation they’re having but it doesn’t work.  She just keeps staring at Creekkit (3).  Does she suspect something?  Fry (56) is not a fan of how close Frostheart (52) is getting to his daughter, Steppemimic.  He got in a spat with her over a piece of fresh-kill, but it was really about him being an overprotective dad.  Peakspots (118) feels like Wildcave (32) is too headstrong of a deputy and brings it up with him, but the two get in a fight.  Wildcave is a different cat than Peakspots.  He’ll be deputy however he likes!  Pigeonspot (18) has noticed that Gladepatch seems to be hiding something.  She knows that plants tend to inch away from an earth-blessed cat when they lie, and they’ve been doing that whenever he’s been talking about his kits.  What is going on?  Amethystdapple (76), on the other paw, is watching the kits with fondness.  She laughs when Featherkit (5) blows a gust of wind at Wormkit (5) from behind, knocking him over.  She knows they’ll grow out of it when they’re apprentices, so she’ll enjoy it while it lasts.  She wonders if Fry  would ever like to have more kits.  Songkit (3)is a bit annoyed at Rabbitkit (5).  The older kit is always rubbing it in his face that he doesn’t have powers and she does.  He really wants to tell her that he actually does have powers.  And light her on fire.  Just a little bit.  But he can’t.  Because Gladepatch says so.  Sigh.  While on a patrol, Fry and Cypressbadger (15) come across a kittypet with her kits.  She introduces herself as Blossom (76) and explains that she fled her twolegs when one of them beat her kit, Rocky (4).  The Clan agrees to take her and her three kits in, and she changes her name to Volcanoblossom.  It turns out that she has an incredibly strong water-blessing, even rivaling that of the deceased Shardfrost.   Her youngest kit, Slipkit (4), is powerless, although with the amount of noise she makes it’s easy to forget.  The scarred Rockykit does have magic, although his water-blessing is very weak.  Her third kit, Whistlekit (4), is on the complete opposite side of the power spectrum.  She has a water-blessing that may be even more powerful than her mother’s.  She’s already flooded the camp, which Chervilcry (128) and Volcanoblossom have to clean up.  She’ll  be a formidable warrior when she’s grown.