Post by Anyu on Sept 1, 2008 10:49:22 GMT -5
These are the rules on mates and kits and on mating and birthing. They must be followed at all times. Rules may be subject to change. Lookout for updates
♥ You cannot play your cats' mate(s). For instance, I could not play Fluffytail and Fuzzyear and have them be mates; someone else would have to play one.
♥ She-cats are pregnant one OOC week before giving birth. Kits are allowed to be RPed by their claimers 3 OOC days after being born; until then they are RPed by their mother.
♥ Female Leaders, Deputies, and Warriors/Queens can mate and have kits. If a leader has kits, her deputy will take over for a while. If the deputy has kits, the leader will choose a trusted warrior to fill in for her. And if both have kits, a trusted warrior will take over both positions temporarily, or split the job up with two cats.
♥ Medicine cats, cats from separate clans, and apprentices are not allowed to have kits by the Warrior Code. You could still have them do so, but beware of the punishements!
♥ Kits and elders cannot have kits. Kits are just babies themselves and elders will have gone barren (unless they are elders for some reason other than being old).
♥ I (Anyu) will decide the number of kits in each litter (1-6) and the genders (depending on which gender is most needed for your clan.) UNLESS they are in a plot approved by myself, and only if you need a special number or gender. You may decide the names, appearances, personalities, etc. of them. PM your clan leader after deciding.
♥ Kits are combinations of the parents, and possibly show some traits from grandparents or immediate relatives. So if both parents are white and come from families of white cats, you're not going to have a tortoiseshell kit in there or something. The exception to this might be if there are two fathers of a litter or recessive genes.
♥ After you PM your clan leader, you can post your expecting notice at the Kits Board. One week (7 days) after the notice is posted, your she-cat can give birth IC. Then you can post the kits at the Kits Board.
♥ If no one claims a kitten from the litter, it will die. Kits are RPed by the mother for the first week or so, then the new RPers of the kits can take them. Of course, the players of the mother and father can have kits from the litter - as many as they like.
♥ Kits will be apprenticed at 6 moons, maybe 5 if the leader has special reason to do so. Once apprenticed, their mother goes back to being a warrior.