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The Sea and the Storm (abbreviated TSatS) is an 18+ Warrior Cats-inspired roleplay run over discord. The Sea and the Storm follows the cats of a singular clan, Bluffclan, located on the coast of Alaska, as they struggle to survive in the unforgiving environment. In this roleplay, the main challenges faced by the clan do not come from other clowders, but instead from other predators who are equally desperate to thrive in the territory they call home.

This story is just beginning, and it's up to you to decide where it goes..... keep an eye out for future news regarding mod and player openings!

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Hey guys! First of all, I just want to say thank you so much for the incredible amount of support I've gotten, I didn't expect this many people to like my silly little clangen cats.

Unfortunately, this isn't a super happy post. I took on more than I could handle with Lichenclan, and both the art style I used and the amount of cats I started with were too overwhelming to handle. For now, Lichenclan is on indefinite hiatus.

However! I have started a new clangen challenge @winterclan ! I started with only two cats and a much simpler art style to make it easier for me to manage. If you've liked what I posted on this blog, please go check out over there!

[lichenclan]

HI IM SO SORRY. School and work and holidays are working together to kick my ASS right now. I promise I haven't given up

update is going to be late today!! my birthday was yesterday so I'm very extra super busy this weekend

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LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEEEEEE primrosepaw . i know u said u dont have any trans cats yet but as a trans person,,,,,,,keep playing the wait and see game i promise

primrosepaw is one of my specialest little guys ever he suffers every moon

i knowww I'm also trans which is why I'm so sad I haven't gotten one naturally 😭 I do have a few I headcanon as trans. primrosepaw has transmasc vibes to me

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Happy late birthday! :D

THANK YOU!! :D

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update is going to be late today!! my birthday was yesterday so I'm very extra super busy this weekend

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who ARE you people

seriously though thank you :'] I did not expect to get so much support for my silly little kitties this fast!! it makes me so happy that people are enjoying reading about lichenclan just as much as I enjoy making them. considering we're only on moon 9 I promise there's lots more exciting stuff in their future!

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huge moon for deadbeat fathers, recent graduates, and elderly lesbians

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SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP THEY LOOK SO GOOD!!! I love thisss thank you so much for drawing them. Staring at this forever :'']

PINESTAR & RUSHPAW AKA MENTOR AND APPRENTICE EVER FROM @lichenclan

i love them

if anything ever happens to them i’ll set myself on fire <3

[lichenclan]

rushpaw main character arc? That dream is also a lil foreboding kinda scared for the guy

rushpaw is soo main character. he's orange. his mentor is the leader. he's part of a group of same aged apprentices. that bloodthirsty old man saved him from a fox once. I think there's been maybe one moon so far that he hasn't done anything in.

his dream is related to something that happens in a later moon ;]

[lichenclan]

haha sorry this moon took so long there was soo much i wanted to include! i had another cute character interaction written down (bubblingrise kept giving moorfreckle gifts) but i ran out of space to include it. all the teenagers are doing stuff this moon. also primrosepaw has a little baby crush on berrypaw now!!

rushpaw keeps getting more and more like firestar and honestly. i support him! live out your main character dreams little dude! him and pinestar are the mentor/apprentice duo of all time, they've had a lot of cute interactions i havent drawn out

[lichenclan]

I work and am usually busy on weekends so I haven't had the time or energy to draw updates on those days and also update every day. If I updated every other day I could queue moon uploads for the weekend but I'm not sure if you guys would prefer every day on weekdays. Anyway all this to say I want to know what people would prefer as far as updates go!!

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also eaglefeather, why DID the squirrel cross the thunderpath

eaglefeather is a great comedian, and a great comedian never gives away his punchlines

(it wanted to get to the other side. the squirrel wanted to get to the other side. that's the whole joke)

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i Am so down to hear the clans lore dump that lore on me 👀

Thank you so much for enabling me I really appreciate it <3

Lichenclan are actually the stragglers of a former clan called Creekclan. There were a few clans living in the general area (Lichenclan's neighbors are Bayclan, Dancingclan, Waspclan, Thrushclan, and Dryclan) (I might delete one of those because that's so much), but none of them really bothered to interfere with each other as much. So when Creekclan's leader, Firstar, started receiving false visions from a Dark Forest cat, no one outside of her own clan noticed.

Firstar was convinced that it was Starclan speaking to her, and so she hung on every word she was told. She exiled the clan's sole healer, Olivetuft, after learning that she was expecting kits. She was convinced that Starclan wanted her to disband the clan, or else terrible things would happen. In the middle of the night, she called a clan meeting and declared that Creekclan would be no more. Firstar's mate and deputy, Eveningstorm, left with her. The remnants of Creekclan had no leadership.

Former clanmates went their separate ways, losing their sense of comradery when prey became hard to find and herbs became a limited resource. Many cats left the territories altogether to become rogues or kittypets, while some sought asylum in their neighboring clans.

Pinefoot was one of the warriors who refused to let go of the clan. He had an immature insistence that they could band together and sort out leadership on their own, but his former clanmates didn't share the same ideals, and he was chased out of any small group he found. He ended up just outside the twolegplace, where he met with his former clanmate Lichenheart, who had settled into life as a kittypet and was expecting kits of her own. His pathetic nature convinced Lichenheart to help him out.

While living with Lichenheart's twolegs, Pinefoot began to have visions of starry-furred cats in the yard outside, leading him in the direction of the woods. After a moon of this, Pinefoot told Lichenheart that he believed Starclan was trying to tell him something. With her litter just around the corner, Lichenheart was reluctant to leave, but she trusted Pinefoot.

The starry-furred cats led Pinefoot and Lichenheart to a pine forest, specifically to a sunken clearing surrounded by a natural protection of brambles and stones. Pinefoot believed that Starclan had showed the two of them a new camp where Creekclan could be reborn. The new camp was put to the test when, a few nights later, Lichenheart had a single kit. She named him Rushkit, her formal commitment to starting this new clan with Pinefoot.

Pinefoot believed that, although Starclan had showed him the camp, Lichenheart should be leader. She was more responsible than him, and had trained an apprentice in Creekclan. Lichenheart planned to travel to the Moongrove and receive her nine lives when she'd recovered from giving birth, but her condition continued to worsen, turning into greencough.

Pinefoot searched the territory for any cat that had healing skills. He stumbled upon the den of Olivetuft and her newborn daughter, Berry. He pleaded with her to come treat Lichenheart, but by the time they made it back to camp, Olivetuft knew there was nothing more she could do except make Lichenheart's last few days painless. She was the first cat buried in Lichenclan's graveyard.

Olivetuft and Pinefoot traveled to the Moongrove together to speak with Starclan. They gave Pinefoot nine lives and his new name, Pinestar, and entrusted him with the infancy of this new clan. He was officially a leader of something new - Pinestar, Olivetuft, Rushkit, and Berrykit. He named the clan Lichenclan, in honor of his friend.

Eventually, the rest of the founders wandered into Pinestar's life and stayed in the clan. I could get into all of their histories, but then this post would be even longer than it is, haha. But after all that....well, the rest is history!

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would anyone be interested if I ranted about the lore/backgrounds of the clan and some of the founders? I think about them soo much it's unhealthy

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lots of speech bubbles this moon, i'm trying to give everyone a little bit more personality. also experimenting with adding basic character info into the panels to make them easier to keep track of

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I'm on moon 36 in-game and we still don't have any transgender cats what's even the point anymore