The next parts will take care of how all birds age and rank in Of Birds and Cats, showing when this happens, the restrictions, and more. Music by @Ym2612 -- ~ Have you read the Cats edition yet? Please read both cat and bird projects! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1258663295/ -- Note: You can use Warrior Cats and OBAC/regular terms interchangeably. Refer to the OBAC rules for more information. (different project) -- ~ Everything is usually recorded in moons (months) ~ The seasons are: greenleaf, leaffall, leafbare, newleaf (summer, autumn, winter, spring) ~ 1 moon passes every Saturday, or Friday in a different timezone ~ Season changes every 3 moons ~ Stripe is the leader, and the leader is Stripe. This changes if Stripe dies ~ After the parent lays eggs, it will take one moon until the eggs hatch. ~ When the eggs hatch, you can start a clutch project in the Clutch Hub studio. More on that in the studio itself. (coming soon) ~ Eggs hatch into chicks of their parent's species (Northern Cardinals can only lay eggs that have more Northern Cardinals in them, not other species like robins and jays, but jays will lay jay eggs) ~ Chicks cannot leave the nest until they are fully fledged ~ It may take a few moons to become fledged ~ All chicks will learn how to fly at the age of 6 moons or less. If not, the owner of the chick may either: - say to the owner of the RP @OfBirdsandCats that there has been some out of RP training on flight and as so, the chick can fly at 7 moons - continue being a chick until they are ready to fly ~ Precocials may leave the nest at any time ~ Once they are fledged, they are ranked as Recent Fledgelings ~ Recent fledgelings may not leave the main area (where all the birds live) until they are 8 moons old or two moons after being fledged, in which they become mature fledglings. ~ Mature fledglings can now go out of the main area, but they cannot go outside their territory to the cats ~ Mature fledglings can be trained by adults or young adults, and the leader, Stripe, tells them who to train, when to do so, and what to train them. ~ Mature fledglings must be trained at least once a moon on skills, including: - stealth - defense - advanced flight - endurance - reflexes - hunting ~ All mature fledgelings must train all of these by the time they reach 12 moons. ~ Adults (not young adults) may also be offered to train mature fledglings the optional lesson: Stripe's Wishes. Information on what this is will be sent to the adult bird's profile comments a week before the training happens. ~ If a mature fledgling reaches 12 moons: - If it hasn't completed the required lessons, it becomes a novicebird. - If it has completed the lessons, it becomes a young adult. ~ Novicebirds become a young adult or a full adult once they have completed the required lessons. ~ Novices are like mature fledglings, but they have less limits: - They can train anytime they like - They may enter level 1 sacred places and the cat territory, but can't enter level 1 sacred places in the cat territory. Only bird territory level 1 sacred. ~ Novicebirds are not adults - they are at the same age as young or full adults, but not officially adults. ~ If mature fledglings, novicebirds or any adult break the rules or laws too much, the leader will exile them and cannot join back unless the leader allows them ~ Once young adults reach 24 moons, they are full adults ~ Some mature fledglings may skip the young adult stage and become an adult after 12 moons ~ Upon reaching 36 moons, adults are eligible to become nursebirds. The leader selects an adult and may send them to 5 moons of training to become a nursebird. 1 lesson a moon. ~ After the 5 moons, the leader and the trained adult go to the Star Tree (level 2 sacred), where the adult bird becomes a nursebird. ~ Nursebird training can also happen out of RP. ~ There can only be two nursebirds at the same time, and nursebirds help keep injured or sick birds safe and healthy in the nursebird hollow, a tree hollow made by the leader, the deputy and a few hard-working adults, lined with feathers and grass and herbs. ~ If an adult bird reaches 72 moons they become seniors and have special benefits like eating second and being cared for first by nursebirds. They can also enter level 1 sacred areas in cat territory ~ If an adult bird reaches 72 birds and has served greatly in their history, they don't become anything, but at 96 moons they become great seniors and have the same, if not more benefits than regular seniors. ~ Nursebirds cannot become seniors or great seniors, but at 150 moons they may choose to continue working or become star elders. ~ Elders do not have to fight, they eat first, and other birds sometimes care for them by picking their ticks/cleaning their area etc. ~ Star elders are blessed and have a special job assigned by the leader. No one knows (except the leader) what it is because none of the nursebirds are old enough to become star elders yet.
Continued... -- ~ Free-roamers follow a similar aging system, but they cannot become seniors or elders and won't train until they decide to join The Beaks ~ Seniors and great seniors become elders at 110 moons ~ Elders may die from old age at 125-152 moons ~ After 153 moons they instantly perish, unless they are under Stripe's Hope or any level 4+ codes/hopes, in which they may live up to 299 moons ~ If an adult reaches 60 moons and has helped train a mature fledgling in at least 4 lessons, the leader may rank the adult into a deputy. Nursebirds cannot become a deputy, but that is up to the leader. ~ Deputies are like co-leaders. There can be only one deputy, and they help the leader assign jobs and patrols to other birds, and help plan stuff. ~ Deputies cannot become seniors or elders, unlike cat deputies which can choose if they want to become an elder. ~ When the leader passes away, the deputy, with the help of nursebirds, climb the Tree that Ascends to the Stars (level 3 sacred) to become leader. They are given the ability to climb by the stars above. Once at the top, the birds of the stars help the deputy change or keep hopes, codes and blessings of that type, and at the end, the birds hold a ceremony that makes the deputy the new leader. ~ What happens at the Star Tree is partially known; even if the nursebirds don't see a vision, they know that the power granted to them is probably from the birds of the stars above. ~ However, what happens at the Tree that Ascends to the Stars is still quite unknown. The ceremony stated above is something that Stripe said when he became leader. Some birds think it's true, but others say that it's not. But the truth is to be told! Will you be part of it? Join our RP!
