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Right, I came up with this in a blink of an eye when I was just taking my doggie out for a walk (I'm just being spontaneous!). Five minute background making and such. Updates may come at some point.

So here it goes;

THE GAME

The game takes place in Alaska, partly in a small town and partly in the woods around it, the year is somewhere near 1920's.
It is winter time, the time for the great dog-sled contests and the time of the short days and long cold nights.
Side Note #1: If you ever have watched a movie named Balto, you get what I mean. If not, go check it out, since it is really a great movie! (makes me cry crying )
Side Note #2: If Balto doesn't ring any bells, you can use Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin or Ginga Densetsu Weed as your reference.


THE RULES

arrow Follow Gaia's ToS (Terms Of Service).

arrow Absolutely NO cybering! If your character's are about to "deepen" their love, just write something in the lines of "slow, but intense lovemaking". And make sure that the both of you are on the same page when and if it comes to this.

arrow Everybody makes mistakes, but keep it as literate as possible. Use of periods and capital letters at the beginning of the sentence is highly recommendable.

arrow Please, no chat talk!

arrow Don't kill other player's character without getting their agreement!

arrow No godmodding!

arrow Don't determine other character's actions, unless it is ok with the other player.

arrow Put your profiles on your first post, and I'll add them later on to the Players -section. And after I'm done with that, please remove the profile from your post. Also, please use an url for your characters picture.
____ exclaim I may edit the profile away from the first post, if it takes long for you to do (or if I'm feeling unpatient), so don't be alarmed if it goes missing. It's not gone, it just switched it's place.
____ exclaim I may also edit your profile's family section a little, especially if you have left room in it for another animal.
I will inform you of these changes via PM.

arrow Fighting is allowed. BUT if your character is enemies with another character, it doesn't mean that the players must also be enemies. It's only a roleplay, children.

arrow Using pretty much any animal is allowed, but try to keep it somewhat realistic, read something about the animal from wikipedia or something and try to remember where the game takes place (so lions for example are pretty unrealistic). You can, however, have some jewelry, pieces of clothes and such, especially if you are an animal with an owner.

arrow Using random humans is allowed as NPCs (Non Player Character) and you can control them freely.
____ exclaim I hold the godlike power to control the Owners. Otherwise there might be too much confusion among the packmembers. I might at some point share the responsibility of a specific Owner to a selected player. Even then the player is only allowed to control that one Owner.

arrow Everybody is welcome! Let's make this a big and long lasting roleplay! blaugh


UPDATES AND PLANS

March 15 2008
Updates; Made some small changes in the Rules section, and after watching Balto, changed the year of the game.
Plans; I plan on scanning some reference pictures for the town and the forest surrounding it. I also am thinking of adding a PACKS section somewhere here, in case we at some point have enough players to think about forming packs. Thus far there would be only two packs and two independents.
Pack #1; Sepp & Bucky
Pack #2; Cristo, Denali and a spot for three other dogs
Silver and Tenka as independents

PLAYER'S NAME: Hopeasusi84
NAME: Silvershadow (Silver)
AGE: Somewhere 15 to 16 in human years
GENDER: Female
APPEARANCE: Silver Lineart, colors done someday in the future. But she is completely white, and her eyes are green.
OWNER; ---
FAMILY; --- crying
RACE: White wolfie
BIO: Silver's long late mother didn't really know what she was doing when she named her. What her mother had in mind included a silent hunter, gracefully running over a frozen lake. What she got was a loud little puppy, runt of the litter and too nosy for her own good.
Five weeks after Silver and her two brother were born, something terrible happened. A hunter found their cozy little den and all the others were killed. Silver was taken in custody because of her white fur and was chained to the yard, as the plaything for the hunter's child.
Now, all grown up, Silver has regained her freedom, and is slowly learning the ways of the Great Wild.

PLAYER'S NAME: Shaye Silvershade
NAME: Buck (Bucky) London
AGE: Around eight to ten years old in human years.
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE: Bucky
OWNER; Jeff Longley, a hunter and a part-time drunk
FAMILY; Jeff's wife Olive and an old karelian bear dog, named Geuseppe (Sepp), who is the rolemodel and personal icon for Bucky.
RACE: A husky-puppy
BIO: Bucky is a wild and kind of a mischevious little puppy, who loves the smell of old boots, taste of old boots, everything about old boots! Old boots are the greatest!
He was bought by his owner to be raised as the new hunting dog, but right now Bucky is more interested in everything else, except the training.

PLAYER'S NAME: LunatiCat
NAME: Geuseppe
AGE: 50 to 60 human years
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE: Geuseppe
OWNER; Jeff Longley, a hunter and a part-time drunk
FAMILY; Jeff's wife Olive and a young husky-puppy Bucky.
RACE: Karelian bear dog
BIO: Sepp has done, heard and seen it all (trust me). He still loves hunting and everything related to that but when there's nothing interesting going on he prefers lounging around. He feels that his shape isn't what it used to be and from time to time gets grumpy because of that.

PLAYER'S NAME: Yoen Tokono
NAME: Tenka
AGE: 17
GENDER: Female
APPEARANCE: Tek
OWNER: None
FAMILY: Tek prefers to be alone. She hasn't given birth to any bairn, nor does she remember much of her family, since she has a problem with her memory.
RACE: Arctic Fox
BIO: When she turned twelve her mother let her go, that being the proper age to live alone. She then wandered till she found a den. But soon after, a year or so, she was kicked out by a stronger fox. So, her life has been to find a den where she can permanently live.

PLAYER'S NAME: Trash MacTire
NAME: Cristo
AGE: 27 in human years
GENDER: Large male
APPEARANCE: -not yet available, Hopi in the line of work-
OWNER; Jack Torrance, a dog-musher and a part-time hunter
FAMILY; Denali, three other part-huskies (feel free to claim) and Jack
RACE: Dog, part-huskie, part-mutt
BIO: There was a time, when everything in Cristo's life was related to the big dog-sled-races held every year in town, and everything was about getting to be the sled's leading dog. Now that Cristo's older and more mature, he noticed that he now values the quiet hunting trips with his master, more than the race between human mushers.

PLAYER'S NAME: QueLori
NAME: Denali
AGE: Young adult, somewhere around 18 to 22
GENDER: male
APPEARANCE: Denali (sorry, I know the picture is pretty faint, Denali is the one on the left, lying on the top of a dog house where it says "Dusty")
OWNER; Jack Torrance
FAMILY; Cristo, three other part-huskies and Jack
RACE: Dog, part-huskie, part-golden retriever
BIO: Nothing is more fun for Denali, than mushing and obeying orders. He is the born follower, cheerfull and occationally mischevious dog of his pack.

Bucky was feeling restless. The fireplace was nice and cozy, and the fire had been withered into a red glow a long time ago, but he just couldn't sleep.

He raised his head, and carefully sniffed around his basket. His ears were up and turning wildly in every direction, until they finally settled to Sepp's direction. The old hound was wast asleep.

Bucky carefully stood up in his basket and layed his paw silently on the floor. He peeked at Sepp. Nothing. Good. He started to sneak over the floor, towards the window. Since he was only aiming for the window (for now) there actually wasn't any reason for sneaking, but it made it all a lot more exiting.

Tenka dashed from den to den, looking for one that is uninhabited. She saw a home, knowing that humans lived in such places from experience. The soft light of a room shining orange on the snow outside the window. She glanced around before dashing to the home, finding the walls still warm from the days sun. She found a small entrance under some stairs and entered.

In the near forest, the slender figure dashed among trees, disappearing behind one big rock. There was a short cluttering noise, followed by a low whining easily translated to human language as; "...ouwwie..."

Sepp nodded to Bucky and tried to follow the noise. He looked at Bucky for a moment and the pup's excitement amused him.

"It's about the size of a fox. Maybe a small dog." Sepp waited and tried to follow the noises direction. "Under the house." He mumbled.

Sepp was pondering a way under the house from the inside when the rustling stopped. He wondered what kind of animal had made the noise. "I think it's another dog." Foxes usually stay far away when they smell a dog. Could it be a female? He walked to the door leading to the boiler room and tried to hear if anything was making sounds anymore.