Open Camp RC Connecting the Dots - Stargazing [Challenge the Poster Below You]

[Silverspirit Silverspirit]

OOC: I had this idea to try making a thread where folks challenged the next person to post with some sort of restriction or requirement for the post. For example, it has to be rhyming; it needs to be a lipogram; generate 5 random words and use them in your post; it has to be written from a POV you don't typically use; et cetera. You aren't required to stick to the same restriction for each of your posts, either, just follow whatever the person above you specified! I'll go for a lipogram (no using the letter E other than for his name) for my post, and challenge the next person to write their post from a first-person perspective!

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High, high up, distant from Silverspirit's body, stars sang shining-songs. Tipping back, splaying out across cold ground, Silverspirit was full of thoughts about far-flung light-points. Truly, do you follow us? Is all known to you, StarClan? A cloud of doubt, not of a sort Silverspirit could dismiss or clarify, hung around him as a shadow-cloak. It was alluring, though; all twinkling light and dark sky...drawing him in with its compulsory charm. "I can't stop looking at this night sky." words thrown to a cat at hand, soft and fond. "Amazing, isn't it?"

 

[Drizzlepaw]

Drizzlepaw

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I've not been in RiverClan long enough to truly discover all its wonders and beauties. Thunderpaw has shown me a lot, and I'm forever grateful to her - not just for showing me, but for bringing me here as well. For giving me this opportunity, for inviting me into the wilderness. I never dreamed I could ever leave my old life, I didn't know I could. I thought I was too... too kittypet.

And maybe I still am - I'm still a little lost, my lungs are still weak, my muscles sore easily. But I'm hoping with enough training, that will all change. I wouldn't want to leave this life behind, not when I've been welcomed here, not with Thunderpaw so happy to have seen me.

As I wander the camp after dark, a silver tabby murmurs something - was that for me? The night sky...?

My head tilts upwards and... I can't believe this is the first time I've truly looked at it since coming here. I'm left speechless at the wonder above me - the countless stars and the crescent moon shining so bright, it's so... so beautiful. "Woah..." I let out a simple gasp. "It's... it's an endless sea of beauty."

The twolegplace had always been too bright for me too see anything - the moon or the brightest stars the only thing I could ever see. But this... there are no words to describe this. This is beauty, unconditional and ever-present.


OOC:
Haha this sure was a challenge!! But i like it
I've generated these 5 words for the next poster to use!
Mountain, Recollect, Welcome, Moon, Smart
Feel free to use them in slightly different forms to fit of course

 

[RUSHINGTIDE RUSHINGTIDE]

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Rushingtide is, perhaps, not the kind of tom to indulge in stargazing. There is a recollection of doing so with his parents and Crescent back at the shipyard, long ago, when he'd only been the young kit Rush ( too naive, not very smart. . . but is any kit smart? ). Back then, with Wave and Adder by his side, he had asked a myriad of questions, which looking back on now, all sound terribly silly. The chocolate-furred kitten had glanced up at his parents, his pupils as wide as the full moon bright in the sky, and inquired if there was a way to reach and touch it.

Surely there's some way to get there! He'd squeaked, thinking very hard about ways to get to the moon. No tree's tall enough, but a mountain might be. After all, if his littermate had been named after the moon, surely there had to be something special about it. Something unique and exciting and —

The warrior sighs, his breath billowing in front of him. While the change of pace might've been welcome at first, it now only upsets him as he thinks of a past he cannot return to. Rushingtide blinks tiredly at Silverspirit and Drizzlepaw, a frown etched into his face after he's distressed himself. "It looks better by the ocean." He grumbles, sneaking a quick glance towards the nursery.

OOC // next person has to write in second-person pov.

RUSHINGTIDE

WARRIOR OF RIVERCLAN
he / him, cismale
17 moons old, ages on the 14th.
adder x wavesong, littermate to crescentmoon
older brother of salmonkit, otterkit, foamkit, piranhakit, troutkit and shellkit
SPEECH // THOUGHTS // INTERACTION

penned by nocthymia

 

[Heatherfield]

HEATHER
SHE/HER
21 MOONS
RIVERCLAN CAREGIVER
SPEECH | THOUGHTS | PHYSICAL

PENNED BY PLOT

You see the young caregiver pad out of the nursery, hear her murmuring a quick farewell to her denmates. Heather joins your group in the camp, casts her gaze up to the sky, and muses aloud as she watches the thin clouds dance across the sky.

"It wasn't long ago that I slept under stars every night," she meows. "It's gorgeous out there, I agree... but there's something about it that's far nicer here. Getting to share in the view with everyone else..." Her eyes meet yours, sparkling with starlight and embarassment.

"That is, to me, at least." Her tail, wrapped with a traditional RiverClan Waver's jewlery, curls around her legs as she sits beside you.

"What about you?" she asks softly, her voice ruffling your fur with her question.

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OOC: Fun challenge! My challenge for the next poster is that the first letter of each sentence in your reply must combine to form an acronym for your character's name!