How to?
In The North Star, in order for your character to progress in life, you must open a character progression ticket using the ticket system and inform the staff of the changes. This is so that the staff can keep track of used names, skills, rare traits, character slots, mateships and lineages.
There are also assignments you can do to achieve extra goodies like getting new character slots without having to wait 2 months, getting extra rare traits character slots and having your character graduate early into warriorhood!
Character Progression
These progressions in life are the following:
Aging
Kithood to warrior apprentice or sage apprentice //
A ticket should be opened when they turn 6 moons old. Inform the staff of who their mentor is, if you need help finding a mentor and if you want the ceremony roleplayed.
The Sons kit starting their Harvest//
A ticket should be opened when they turn 8 moons old. Inform the staff if you want the event of them being chased off to be roleplayed or not.
The Daughters and Children kit starting their training//
A ticket should be opened earliest at 5 moons and latest at 7 depending on kits maturity and readiness to start their training.
Apprentice to warrior or sage//
When your character turns 12 moons you should open a ticket to inform the staff of your character's warrior or sage name and what skills they have. Also inform the staff if you want to roleplay their ceremony or not.
The Sons young returning from their Harvest//
A ticket should be opened when they turn 14 moons old. Inform the staff of their new name/given title and what their skills are.
The Daughters and Children becoming adults//
A ticket should be opened earliest at 11 moons old and latest at 13. Inform the staff of their skills and what their work title is! With a daughter's character inform what you want their followers to mark and if you want the ceremony to be roleplayed.
Loners/Sun Singers/ Smiths becoming adults//
At 12 moons of age a ticket should be opened. Inform the staff of your character's skills.
Retirement//
At the latest of 132 moons(11years) you should open a ticket to inform us of the change from warrior to elder.
Graduating early//
Your character can become an adult at the earliest of 10 moons in all the clans and outsider groups. If your character graduates at 10moons of age, they are considered a ‘’teen’’. They still have apprentice hp and they cannot become mates or have kits. In order for them to graduate early they must have either performed a feat of sorts or have trained extremely hard. You must also do an assignment for early graduation (scroll down to see).
Consequences for failing to open a character progression ticket//
If you are unable to open the aging progression ticket in time, your character is considered to have ranked up in canon, you cannot roleplay them until you have opened the character progression ticket. If you try to roleplay them your posts will be deleted and you will be reminded to open a ticket. If you do not and you continue to try to rp, you will receive a strike.
For kits to apprentices:
Unlike Apprentices who may be held back from ranking up by a variety of in rp reasons, for kit characters if a ticket isn’t opened by 7 moons they will be considered ranked up and cannot be role played. In this case, they would be assigned to a nameless NPC mentor until a ticket is opened, upon which an established player can be chosen and retconned into the start of their training.
For apprentices to warrior:
If the ticket isn't opened by 13 moons, the character will be considered to have ranked up IC so that the mentor is free again. From an OOC standpoint you cannot rp your character.
For outsiders:
Similar to the above, outsiders moving from adolescents to adults can’t be used in any form of roleplay until the ticket is opened.
The only exceptions to the above include plots that are planned ahead of time with staff that may result in character injury, illness, or another legitimate reason they may not rank up on time - you must run it by us first!
Becoming mates and having kits
Becoming official mates with someone//
When your character wants to officially become someone’s mate, open a ticket to make things official. Please follow our rules about mateships in regards of age and lineages.
Having kits with someone (fling and non fling) biological & tree kits//
When your character wants to have kits with someone, open a ticket and the staff will count you a litter size. You can find more about how to have kits in our kit guide.
Adopting kittens//
If your character wants to adopt a kit/kittens, please open a ticket to let us know who they are adopting, so that they can be added into the lineage tracker and counted into the character's maximum kit count. Cats adopted as adults also apply.
Assignments
Assignments are something to do if you want extra benefits that are out of character! You must open an assignment ticket when you submit your assignment!
In order to complete these you have to choose one of these options:
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Make art of somebody else's character - Min. a colored fullbody or equivalent work
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Write a poem of somebody else's character - min. 150 words
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Write about how your character(s) feel about somebody else's character - min. 400 words
The idea is to make a gift for someone else about their character. **submit your artwork or writing in their own channels (#artwork or #poems-and-writing) so that the gift receiver sees it!
Extra character slot//
If you feel impatient and don't want to wait 2 months for a new character slot, use this assignment to open one!
Second rare trait//
For those who want a second character with a rare trait!
Third rare trait//
For those who want a third character with a rare trait!
Switching skills//
Unhappy with your character's chosen skills? You can now change them using this assignment! You can change just a negative or positive skill, or you can change both! Can be done only once in a character's life. You cannot remove or add a positive connection to Itha or Jahi.
Clan cat graduating early//
If you want your character to graduate early! Earliest at 10 moons of age.
