First of all thank you so much everyone who joined us on lottery night! Tasha and I had a lot of fun rolling and hope you all had a good time watching. Without further ado here are the results!

2021 Lottery Night Results

Leaders

Subordinates

Loners

Congratulations

Breeding Season 2021

Registration

• Registration opens March 1st and closes March 28th
  
• There will be no cubs if you breed without registering
  
• Mother's rank determines how many cubs you may be eligible for
  
• Leaders will be assigned a maximum number of pups allowed from 1-5
  Subordinates 1-3
  
• Loner females must register their breeding if they intend on entering the loner lottery
  
• Please include on your registration: Parent's names, mother's rank, and a link to the breeding thread
  

Breeding

• Breeding threads cannot start before March 1st, and must be completed by April 1st to be eligible
  
• Sexual assault and pornographic descriptions of breeding are 100% not allowed
  
• While subordinates are allowed to breed on a sitewide basis this does not excuse your character from IC consequences (ie. breaking pack breeding rules)
  
• The pup lottery system will be rolled by staff in the official discord on March 31st at 9pm EST. This lottery system includes assigning cub numbers to leader and subordinate litters, and announcing the winners for the loner lottery system. Please note, leader and subordinate litters can be smaller than the number rolled, but not larger.
  
• Once litters have been rolled parents can submit pup information to Spirit of Wildwood account, including but not limited to: names, genders, fur colour, alignments, and any other information of your choosing!
  
• This year 3 Loner Lottery Litters will be up for grabs!
  

Cub Lottery Night!

Adoptions

• A large thread with all available cubs will be posted in early April
  
• Players may apply for multiple cubs
  
• Parents may pre-reserve cubs
  
• If a player has not been found within 2 weeks of a cubs birth they will die
  
• If you're interested in a cub please pm both parents with your application. Please include in your app: Your name, current characters, how many other pups you've applied for, a roleplay sample, and anything else the parents have requested
  

Births

• Cubs are born 60-64 days after the breeding thread occurs, the exact date will be rolled as part of the cub lottery night
  
• You may not back date or pre date birth threads. The day the thread is posted is the day the pups are born. If you absolutely must post your thread early due to in real life constraints, please message staff to get special permissions!
  
• If the mother goes inactive during the month she’s supposed to give birth the other parent has until the end of the month to write a thread where the Cubs are “found”
  
• Labour may be described graphically but please mark your thread {M} accurately
  
• Cub accounts can be made at any time, but parents please do not add them to the pack until they've been accepted to the site
  
• Cubs are playable 3 weeks after the birth thread is posted
  

Advertising Contest!

Prizes

• A guaranteed loner litter in the 2021 breeding season
  
• An extra puppy for your character's rolled 2021 litter (please note, this can be claimed by pack wolves or loners) Claimed by Mel
  
• A second avatar set created by Sarah for the character of your choosing Selected by Pinn, an avatar set for Vanadis
  
• A skin created for the character of your choosing Selected by Bryony for Sita
  
• Access to spring skins from older seasons, not just the 2021 options Claimed by Cade
  
• A special random event for your character Claimed by Ghost for Viorel
  
• Special bbcode allowing you to use a code similar to {character}[/character] that can change font size, colour, etc. Perfect for users who like to use more muted tables! We're testing out how far we can take this but there's a lot of flexibility. If you have questions talk to Sarah. Claimed by Tasha
  

Rules

• Always read the rules of the site you are about to advertise on before leaving our ad. Breaking rules just makes us look bad.
  
• Do not post an ad if someone has already posted one recently (though this usually falls under the above rule).
  
• Have fun! Duh.
  
• Advertising should be done on legitimate, active sites. (Staff will be checking).
  
• You must post the link to the ad you post on the site so that staff may verify it. Any unposted advertisements will not count towards your total.
  
• You must use these ads.
  
• You will lose a point if you break the rules of a site.
  
• Make sure you do not delete staff notes
  

The Ad

Current Standings

• Pinn - 49 (avatar for Juniper) avatar for Vanadis
  
• Bryony - 45 (avatar for Sita) skin for Sita
  
• Melorama - 33 (avatar for Clover)
  
• Ghost - 17 (avatar for Viorel)
  
• Cade - 14 (avatar for Chan)
  
• Tasha - 10 (avatar for Vayko)
  
• Becca - 2
  
• Sarah - 1
  

RE Writing Contest

Rules

1. Your REs must be new and cannot already be submitted to the contest or on this list of current REs.
2. Since we don't currently have any packs, pack REs are only worth half a point, global and individual REs for any season are worth one point. We are also accepting new SoW drops, these submissions will also be worth one point.
   
3. Please consider that some Random Events or SoW drops could happen anywhere. They should not be location/ecology specific.
   

Current Rankings

• Cadence - 20.5 Points
  
• Ghost - 12 points
  
• Puppythief - 9 points
  
• Tasha - 7 point
  
  
  

Life Points

What if I've already claimed some life points?

The Fighting System

What Will Happen to Us?

Meet The Stats

Where do I start?

What's the difference between ages?

How else does my character grow?

Are there Limits?

How do I pick a build for my already accepted character

Is this going to be on my profile

Is the process going to stay the same?

Are you going to update the library?

Creating a Pack

1. show proof of 5 completed threads specific to creating a pack, this could be recruiting members, scouting out a good territory, digging a den, discussing pack names etc.
   
2. The pack must have 5 members each played by a separate player.
   
3. The leader must have passed 5 consecutive ACs without falling off or being absent when they apply for the pack.
   
4. The leader must have a minimum of 50 IC posts.
   

Activity Rule Changes

Grace Period

Pack Activity Levels

Wait Period Between Characters

Characters Being Outside of Pack Territories

Breeding Season

Miscellaneous

OTMs

Random Events

Ribbons

Hello!

So I know you all might have seen Shadow's announcement from last month about laying RoW to rest, after we have struggled for 2 years trying to get a new site to work as a new home and ran into personal struggles along the way. After reading that message, doing some deep nostalgic dives, and a lot of soul searching, I came to the conclusion that I really want to give RoW another try. The the site we already know and love. Shadow and I have discussed it, and the site has been transferred over to me to host. I've spent the last few days cleaning stuff up and I want to discuss the new plan with you. If you want to come along, fantastic! If you're going to move on, that is 100% fine too and I still love and miss ya'll.

So I have spent the last week or so cleaning the board up. I have moved any threads that were still open to the Incomplete Thread archive folder, I have removed all the packs and carefully followed the disbandment workflow so you can all still see their library content, or the subterritory. I have cleaned up a lot of the OOC area as well, but left some things that I felt were helpful.

This leaves us with, more or less, a completely clean slate.

Relic Lore has effectively, since we made the announcement in February 2018, been a ghost town. Wolves have left, and moved on with their lives. Perhaps the coyotes resurfaced and drove them all away (Remember that was the last BWP? I didn't, right away). However, now with the help of some wild life conservationists wolves have been reintroduce to the area. The humans left without a trace and will not be returning. We would like to invite you to bring any character you like, back, as long as their history includes what they've been doing for the last 2 years outside of Relic Lore. (Perhaps they had a brief stint on the failed Wildwood Coast?)

This leaves a lot of opportunities completely wide open. There are no packs. The land is abundant and a bit overgrown without the wolves, maybe it's become wilder or stranger in their absence. You can do what ever you like!

That being said, there is still some evaluation to do of the old rules on the site. There is some stuff that was never written down that we applied as precedent in many situations, but it's been 2 years and 2020 has been killer on my memory. There was some stuff that was just so convoluted that it hampered the game. We will be taking a look at that as we progress but for the mean time, if something is written down in the Library it is a rule. Please see this thread to add your input.

Ghost will be joining me as an Administrator and Marina, Arla, and Namara/Tasha as a Moderator. We definitely will need some more help in order to stay on top of the upcoming tasks, so if anyone would like to express interest feel free to ping myself and Ghost and we can discuss!

Please feel free to also ask any questions you like now. I realize I may not have covered everything and I'll do my best to come up with a good answer for things I might not have considered yet.

Thank you,
Sarah

RoW's Future: Progress Report

Next Steps

1. Help us figure out our rewards system. See the "Points/Awards" section above for the link to the Google Doc.
   
2. Help us finalize our regions, territories, and starting subterritories. Marina has been working on a polished version of the map mockup that Pinn made us and we've divided it up into 15 territories of various kinds. We need help with names & descriptions. You can leave your comments & suggestions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kPts...jbs0I/edit
   
3. We're hiring! If you're interested in helping to staff RoW, please send the @Spirit of Wildwood account a PM telling us:
   • How long you've been a member
      
     
   • Any staff experience you might have had (both online & off are relevant, just please explain)
      
     
   • Why you want to be a moderator at RoW?
     

RoW's Future

Fall Cleaning and Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

Fall Festival!?

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