Welcome
First, a few things about our new guild:
- - This isn't a chatterbox. It doesn't require bumping. xD
- I've set up the guild for long-term serious RP, horse character description, and little nooks that the owners can have for their pets. I encourage all of you to put it to use. ^_^
- Remember the setting of the ranch. You're at a junction of terraines on a large area of farmland. Individual owners will be granted either a bunk house or an appropriate housing of their choice. Just not anything Native American, please.
- Follow all the rules of the main thread. That aspecially includes no OOC drama! IC drama is fine, it makes some role play interesting.
- Type properly. That means punctuation, and fully written out words.
The setting:
The main ranch house is located on a grassy patch just north of a narrow winding river where lush vegitation grows. There is a corral near the large house, where domestic horses were once penned. Now, some of the newest wild editions to the ranch run throughout the small pasture, until they are acclimated to the area and their new lives. Near the corral is a large barn filled with roomy stalls where owners can care for sick, injured, or very young horses. To the west are the Sierra Nevada mountains, grazing grounds of some modern wild horses, and the home of the horse's largest predator, the cougar. Farther south of the river, a sandy desert sprawls across the landscape, destroying the hopes of any succulent grass that tries to grow there. Finally, to the east the great plains expand in a flat, grassy spanse.
Wild Heart horses that have aclimated to the area and have found owners can be found roaming any of the terrains as lone horses, in herds, or in the company of another animal that may sometimes be seen with a Wild Heart. Lone horses have a tendancy to band together, however. They find protection and security in numbers. Any horse found wandering in the nearby mountains is warned, there have been predators spotted recently...
Herd Information:
For the sake of knowledge, I'll reiterate the herd specifications:
- -Herds must have three unrelated horses ready to join, besides the two lead horses.
-Herd leaders should be RP'd as such, they are the bosses of the herd, aspecially of their respective sex.
-Owners are encouraged to take part in herds with other owners. Lets face it, its more fun that way.
-Herds will be allowed to claim a certain area of the surrounding lands.
-You can have a subforum for herd only activities. It does however, cost 2,500g.
-If you're having trouble finding a role play plot for your herd, let me know. I can always tweak something to snowball an interesting role play.
Should there be a challenge of ranking, I request that it be well played out. When an outside or up-and-coming stallion from within the herd wins against the current stallion, the current stallion is outcast. He doesn't just drop in ranking. The nature of horses is that the new boy on the block doesn't want the other guy around to try and move back in on the newly won girlfriends. Challenges for lead mare just result in the past lead mare dropping in rank.
Herds are not entirely like packs of carnivorous animals, such as wolves. I can't stress this enough. There isn't much communal raising of young, and there aren't herdwide efforts to find food. If the lead horses run, so do the rest of the animals in the herd. The leaders are also the first to drink, and it is not reccomended that another horse eat close to them if there's an especially tasty patch of grass.
