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Welcome to TGoL

"The Game of Life", or TGoL, is a semi-realistic, post-by-post, wolf roleplay site based around a chess metaphor for a war between two packs: Light and Dark Pack, respectively, to match the light and dark pieces on a chess board. The wolves themselves don't know anything about chess of course, only that they are locked in a seemingly eternal battle for the rights to their thriving yet limited land. Tensions are high, blood has been shed, and all must be careful which move they make next, for it could either ensure a victory for them or the end of everything. You, as a player, may either play a wolf from one of the packs, directly involved with the war in some way, or a loner on the outside, either looking in, taking advantage of the distracted packs, or staying out of it all together.

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SPRING 01

The ice and snow of winter are finally starting to melt away as things warm up, making way for budding flowers, returning prey, and spring showers. Mating season is no longer in effect, but those whom did get pregnant should expect to give birth within the season, towards the beginning of Summer. Prey is steadily becoming a little more plentiful, which is good news, but all of the melting snow/ice and the spring showers are causing The Divide and Flatlands to flood, coaxing both packs to stay on their respective sides... lest they wish to get swept down stream.

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2018 Wolf of the Year TBD Jan. 2019	Pack Wolf of the Season TBD Sept. 2018
Loner of the Season TBD Sept. 2018	Pup of the Season TBD Sept. 2018 if applicable

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4.26.2018 - A new announcement has been made in regards to major revisions/additions to the site! Read here.

4.2.2018 - An "Activity" section has been added to the Rules thread, since I realized this was never clearly defined. In addition to this, a thread for making characters inactive and a thread to take an offical abesence have been added. I've also enabled guests to be able to view the IC and Player Record Book boards in their entirety so you can get a feel for activity/characters before joining the site!

4.1.2018 - The theme's been changed to have a little more color and to be a bit more visually appealing!

3.4.2018 - TGoL has offically been completed and is now open to new members, so feel free to join and submit your characters for acceptance! We have many high rank positions open in both packs and would like to get those filled as soon as possible. Also, please advertise us to anyone you think might be interested!

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High Tensions: May '18 to Aug '18

As the heat of summer bares down on the valley, wolves from all over come to The Divide for a drink. Tension is high and both packs struggle to remain civil as they stare down their enemy across the way.

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4.// The Board (Setting)

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Rin

Feb 6, 2018 16:20:21 GMT -5

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Post by Rin on Feb 6, 2018 16:20:21 GMT -5

SETTING

Our land is a large, grassy glen, shaped like a bowl surrounded by rocky, snow capped mountains on nearly every side. Smaller hills and ledges surround the glen as well, creating smaller rises in the shadows of the large mountains. A majority of the glen is covered in various tall grasses and fields for as far as the eye can see, though occasional clusters of trees can be found here and there, creating small forests for woodland creatures to take shelter in. A single river runs through the glen, slicing our board in half and creating the obvious dividing line for both packs. In the summer, it dries up and drinks down to a mere creek, but in the rainy seasons, it greatly swells and floods its banks. It is during the time of the floods that battles are most uncommon, and during the droughts that battles are most likely to occur. Seasons here can reach both extremes, from being blazing hot in the summers to severe blizzard-like conditions in the winters. It would take a wolf of strong genes to survive here, though prey is fairly common, so there's that... for now.

The prey you'd find here is pretty typical for a temperate forest or mountainous region in North America. For all intents and purposes, we'll base it on the Rocky Mountains, and Wikipedia has a good guide to the kinds of fauna there. One thing that does need to be noted though is that there are two elk herds in the valley: a smaller one that grazes on the far east side (along the east border of Light Pack), and a larger one that grazes between the packs in the north, a little more on Dark Pack's side. The northern herd is the only herd that stays in the winter, so both packs will have to attempt to hunt from it if they want bigger prey.

In terms of herbs, we'll use this list. Anything that must be boiled in water or made into a tea to be used, we'll just bend the rules a little and say you can just mix it with river/rain water (but DON'T attempt that in real life please).

Edited Apr 25, 2018 16:06:39 GMT -5 By Rin