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The Plot and Background information

A Classical plot which is so overused that it'll be used once more.
A team of sled dogs in the middle of Alaska's wilderness gets lost during a run because of an earthquake middle of Alaska's mountain range. Depression conquers everyone's mind when the musher gets fatally wounded and is out of action, some of the dogs gets injured and some of them faces a fatal fate of death. The group has to gather all their knowledge and resources they have to make a go and seek for that warm fireplace they need and their owners pats and careresses. The death lurks at every corner at a form of a wolf or a lynx, even nature can give its cool death for dogs who are unprepared for rough coldness in Alaska.

Sled teams destiny is Anchorage and their journey starts from Nome to deliver important medicine which is out from Anchorage's stores. Civilian Aircrafts are forbidden to fly for now on with a reason of a bad forecast. The weather has made heavy damages to train tracks and Anchorage's shores are under thick ice blockade. Due to a mistake Nome recived double ammount of the medicine what Anchorage didn't recive and so on it is Nome's mayor's duty to send some of the medicine to Anchorage and the best Sled team is choosed to deliver the important cargo.

The date is 11th Month 26th day 1928 in Alaska.
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Character's and their Owners
Speedy ~ M.S.D.F - Black Color for me
Aaliyah ~ DustPaw
Riona ~ Faye
Piano ~ Steele's Girl
Kassidy ~ AJ

Rules: (Those who won't follow them will be kicked by the Host ;D)

-No God Modding. This includes that a character just can't find off some food out of nowhere and catch it in a moment and then bring it to the others or sees everywhere or just dodges every hit if a fight comes by. The Story goes with 3 Dodge Rule 3 dodges per post, 4 hits per post. This as well carries off the fact- DO NOT CONTROL others Character only yours please

-No Wolves or Wolf Dogs In 1928 Wolf dogs or Mutts were preferd to be shot in the head rather than accepted to a sled team. Let's just say that only huskies allowed, they were the basic work dogs for everyone. [For British people they are favorite pet canines]

-When you Join, Don't quit without letting us to know Yes it is slightly irritating we all know what it means. If you are about to leave make a post that your character just simply dies on something, keeps things interesting.

-Do not manipulate the background area, let the Host do it This includes such like a wolf attack out of the blue made by some player in the group, if you wish to have such an incident please PM me about it. If you want a blizzard or any sort of a storm to rise please PM about that to me too and the host (me) will decide will such a thing come or will it hurt the plot. Otherwise it is just plain annoying to have someone manipulate the sense.

-Advanced Roleplay Yes we know that Quanity beats Quality. In this case I do expect to have experienced Roleplayers or then roleplayers who know how to make a larger post. There are plenty of examples around the Forum of Balto Source for example Maya's thread. I do expect to at least have one Paragraph. Limits? No there are none you can type up a whole story if you wish if it won't hurt the current situation and is only about your character. Lines? Let's say minimal is 80 words. No 80 words is not much, I'd prefer to have 250 if one asks from me.

-Follow the Plot The plot moves as the story goes on, each of the dogs duty is to reach their destiny safe. Stick together with the plot. We all know that love will bloom between characters in dangerous situations but please if that will occur keep it to go with the plot and don't make the plot blow up. Depending on the popularity of this Game there might come in Side-plots that are in contact with the primary plot.

-Crushes Please this takes place later on- if it does.

-Example Post Required At the end

GL&HF


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Character Bio For everyone:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Sled Spot
Species:
Mate:
Pups:
Personality:
Physical Description:
History:
Picture(s):
Extra:
Post Colour:

Copy from MayaHuskee's Thread, [C] For her. Un-needed parts removed [Clan][Rank] [Char post color] [Rank] Replaced with [Sled spot]

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Name:Speedy
Age:4 Years old
Gender:Male
Sled Spot: Team dog 4
Species:Siberian Husky x Alaska malamute
Mate:None- Ain't looking
Pups:None
Personality:Mainly a shy character, barely speaks unless he has to. A helpful soul with wise words when ever it is required. He usually tends to pay attention to whoever speaks to listen carefully if he finds something he could change or comment to it. His mainly a young pup as his comrades describes him. Usually he tends to help those who are in need of assistance whatever assistance it will be he would be glad to help or try to help. When Speedy is talks he usually talks nonstop since he usually doesn't talk or say much, that is his usual "Chatty mood" as Speedy describes it. Usually he stays quiet and speaks only when nessecary. Once a while he might carry off with his philosophy. Basically he hates fights and every sort of thing which contains war. After being an soldier for three and half years he doesn't wish to end up in a civil life to fight with others.


Physical Description:Slightly lean but has muscle on his shoulders and on his legs. His body is slender like because speed is one of his advantages in him.
History:A long story put in a short: Speedy's parents and siblings died in Anchorage 1925 in a incident of unknown coporations bombardment. The young husky was adopted by the US Army and sent to a newly trained unit where he became a dog soldier with a proper training and knowledge. His history contains a lot of violence, sorrow, glory, honor and death. Which would make most of people crazy, yet Speedy succeed to survive through the horrors of Alaska till the day he was sold to an old man who adopted him as his own pet.

Picture(s):
Made by UK
Made by Nara
Extra:A brownish collar around his neck that has a Silver plate on it that has his name on it. it is his "Dogtag". Speedy's accent is British due to his mother's accent.
Post Colour:Black

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Example Post:

A winter dawn, darkness was still the dominant color middle of the town that was awake even though it was early. Still a lot of people had closed their windows and still had their lights off, but the shops were open or then prepared to open their doors. Even the musher was awake and enjoying his light breakfast, dry bread and little butter, something to replace coffee and water. Musher did have financial problems like everyone else in the town, well shoppers were rich since the mines required a lot of equiptments. The musher sipped his hot "coffee" and turned to glance outside to the dark streets. He knew that he had to work for his bread and as well feed some of his dogs. Post office did sponsor the dogs and his pay off so that musher had enough money to surprise his wife with a meal and even repair the sled. Somewhere in the single houses a dog was still asleep. His forepaws were crossed and his chin laid across the top forepaw. His eyes were shut and black tipped ears were against his skull only lightly perked. For his bushy black tipped tail- it was curled against his flank. The young dog knew that he'd have to wake up soon or else he'd miss up the morning preparations yet the young ex soldier wanted to sleep till the last minutes.

A blank let out a gossiphing sound and that caught the orange and white husky's attention. His ears perked and soon after he lifted his head to look at the staircase that laid besides his basket. A old man padded down from the staircase while he carried a handler that had a candle on it. "Still asleep 'ere boy? Shouldn't ya be out already?" man asked and chuckled the old man's laugh and went to kitchen. At first he placed some firewood to the boiler to keep the house's warmth up. The husky lifts his gaze up from his forepaws to look at his master who focused on the house's warmth while he mumbled. "Oh dear, I need to buy more wood today otherwise I'd run outta heat!". The husky stood up and padded a step or two forward. His brown leather collar's steel plate gave off light jiggle sound as he padded up to the kitchen. The old man turned to look at the husky and chuckled warmly "Thatcha boy, your plate again loose? Lem me fix it" the old man said and gently grabbed from the husky's collar and begin to tight a screw with his finger nails. The steel plate on the collar had a name. Pvt. Speedy and some other knowledge such like a ID number. The old man gently padded Speedy's head as he finished with the screw. He was up to 63 years old man. Speedy were about 4 years old now. "Good boy...now where did I put your lunch again?"

The old man always forgot where he put his pet's food bag, he was kind enough to offer fresh meat once a week but in the end rest was just dry bebbles, not that Speedy would complain, he loved those dry bebbles, they were a lot more delicious than raw meat of a rabbit, oh also a lot more safer to eat. Speedy's blue eyes followed his master's movement when the old man made up to the boxes and begin to open them. "There ya go" he pulled out a bag of dry food and poured some on a bowl that had a small S like scratch it resembled Speedy's name.
Of course Speedy would eat up and like usually save like ten procent of the food even if his master always scolded nicely "No no no Speedy eat up all you need energy" The man took care of Speedy like he was his son or something.
The old man turned to look outside from the window. He gently opened the window to let the cold air pour inside just so that he could sniff it. "Its going to be a rough day today, I hope you'll bring your butt back in one piece" he laughed his old man's laugh. Speedy begin to lick his forepaws to clean them. He then made a quick glance at his food bowl, perhaps he should eat up everything this time, but the ex-soldier always saved some food so that he could eat when he was hungry again since he was never too hungry at mornings.

Half an hour later Speedy padded outside from the doggy door that located on the front door. It was a lockable thing but it was always open, the old man knew that Speedy was a great watch dog so he could safely leave it open, after all he bought Speedy from Military sell away place last time he visited Nenana. Speedy walked few steps and sniffed the snow to see if there were any fresh tracks. Ah he knew that the sled would leave exactly at 07:30 military time. He did check the old clock that made "tik tak" sound on kitchen and he knew that it would be another half an hour till the sled team would leave. The outside was beautiful, the snowy town was bathing in Moon's cold glow. Speedy begin to pad outside to warm up his limbs, he'd go to the team kennel that was closeby the post office, it was a warm place to sleep on. He made his way through the snowy streets and left fresh tracks on the untouched snow. A wolf's howl echoed in the distance, those howl's were usual in Nome. Finally the orange and white husky arrived to the team house and placed his butt down on the porch, he'd not go inside, not yet though he'd first enjoy the silence of the dawn. Sun wasn't up yet. Speedy looked to the distance, he so wanted to see the sun, he respected it with full heart but yet he knew that it would take an hour or two before it would rise. The American flag would lazily sweep back and forth in its pole Speedy paid no attention to his father land's sympol, 50 stars, 50 states and so on. Speedy didn't want to count how much blood and souls that flag has taken, some even were his close friends, his family and a lot of others Speedy shivered at the thought and just waited. So now, Speedy just waited for others to crawl by while he sat on the porch of the team house that located next to the Post Office.

Lead Dog's Position is still under a question mark, if there comes no other players who are willing to take the spot the Akita Inu will get it. Example Post is good I say:


Accepted

Team dog 1 Yes So far

[bumps for others to join]

-delete-

Name: Piano
Age: 3
Gender: Female
Sled Spot: If you need another lead dog, Piano can take it, if not, just assing it. I don't know the places all too well.
Species: Malamute
Mate: None
Pups: Tag, a baby swallow that rides in her fur
Personality: Quiet and seclusive.
Physical Description: She is a whit wolf with a black 16th note on her back hip, forehead, shoulder, and two upside down quarter notes over her eyes.


History: Unknown
Picture(s): None
Extra: Nope
Post Colour: This one
Example post: Piano trotted along with Tag on her head. The swallow was singing and made Piano want to sing, too. "The rivers are running again. The song of the SWALLOW is heard in the trees and renwal is fresh on the breeze!" Tag chirped along, happy to be singing. The song reminded her of the first day of spring, how it hopped into the air with songs of birds, very much like Tag's only sounded like he was wailing. Piano giggled. "Mangwani m'pu lele, ke nel wa ke tu la. Le hale mu la, le ha le mu le, kenel waki tu la!" Tag chriped aalong again. "Your so sweet," Piano smiled. Nothing could ruin this. The friends were walking alog a mountian whe suddenly Piano slipped and slid along on her tail, screaming. The mountian trail was steep so Piano and Tag kept sliding. "We aren't gonna stop anytime soon, might as well stop freaking out," the dog shrugged. The pair kept sliding until Piano noticed sharp rocks in her way. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" she wailed, but it was too late. Piano and Tag slid over the sharp rocks until they hit a big one and went flying over a bank. "I felt like I was launched!" poor Piano said, getting up. tag seemed to be happy for the ride. "Oh, keep quiet! Your not the one who went though that!"

Azriel+Steele's Girl

So far Rejected

Reason:

-Example Post Required At the end Missing On Both Describtions

Did it. Long story why it didn't come up at first.

omg... wow >///< okay let me try again, this was so long ago >,<


Name: Riona
Age: Roughly 3 years and 7 months
Gender: female
Sled Spot: Team dog 3 >P
Species: Alaskan Husky
Mate: .-. we talked about this Pirks LOL
Pups: none
Personality:

Not a typical every day sled dog. Having a more bipolar, split personality, she could be happy now and depressed the next instant so she's a heavy handle. Has a more bolder attitude then most, mainly because she is very strong minded but also timid. She is some one that prefers to be alone, taking her time then with a group mostly. By nature though, when she is put to a sled it completely changes to a hard working she-dog. Patience she lacks, miserably, and once its gone, her tongue gets pretty smart, inflicting verbal abuses at the ones that asked for it. But in the overall has a gentle soul

Physical Description:

A more slender to her bit. Has long legs that root well to her form. Strong haunches for she is a powerful runner. Her top/main cot is a dark gray intermixed with deep rich brown that is more apparent along her upper eyelids and snout bridge. There is a small diamond located in the center of her bi-colored eyes. Her right one is a light, pale blue and her left one is a rich dark brown that holds a small golden tint. Her chest buffs to a light brown then to white along her lean legs, and under belly, including the tip of her long bushy tail. She stands around 45-50cm (2.7-3 inches) tall and measures 4.3 inches from tip of nose to tip of tail

History:

This she prefers to keep classified, but it was not a bad one actually, but in slow bits she will reveal throughout the story

Extra: wears the classic black leather sled collar, no tags
Post Colour: the one Im writing this in..
Picture(s): (was a small file so you look at it w/o clicking 8D)


Example Post:

Pads delicately touched the snow as she rounded the bend to were her home was. Two toned profound eyes catch slow glimpse of the falling day break "another day finished" she said to outloud, for anyone willing to hear would do so. her breath fell like damp mist from her soft colored lips. Her fur rested easily on her worked frame, bending, seeming to bow to the hug of the black nylon harness strapped to her slender frame. She felt the cold metallic loop ring that tied her to the pack mates was light. Breathing in for a moment before a back member jolted forward, pushing her frame ahead. She growled softly as the younger black dog jumped excitedly before her, dragging her lines a bit. She rolled her eyes slightly sinking her claws against the cold snow, grasping onto it softly as she watched the musher come round to the lead dog and began loosening the rings as he put his dogs to kennel. Unlike the bouncing pup before her, Riona waited calmly before sitting down on the snow back. Her tail lathered the snow before curling along her legs as she waited. She took a glance to her running partner, the soft orange male, known as Speedy, before looking back at the musher.

Hearing his heavy boots platter the snow besides her she smiled eagerly, standing up as she felt his firm fingers run along er spine then her thighs and underbelly before releasing her of the harness, leaving her in the black collar and lead her to her kennel. Her fur pricked as she stretched out her fore paws, letting her claws make groves into the damp snow as she pulled back upright and shook her fur. Her ears barely twitched to the 'clink' of the gate latch as the musher turned and went back to bringing in the other dogs. She watched for a bit, then walked to her straw bed and plopped down, her eyes traced the rim of the silver bowel in the corner, but she was not thirsty to say the least. ON her way back she had taken various chunks of ice to her maw and gotten her liquid. Her tongue clasped her upper lip before she curled into a tight snug and rested her tail by her nose as she closed her eyes, trying to catch some ill needed rest.

~Day Break~ EDIT://

Riona was up and ready as she watched two dogs out already. She waited eagerly as her door was opened (idk by what and at the moment, me no cares) and walked towards them in a firm stride.

had to edit, since i actually read the example posts and i was like 'oh darn' so i had to add more to allow it to conjure with the others ^^;

Azriel Accepted
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Piano Rejected

Reason for Rejection:

Wolf Character.

Violates the Rule

-No Wolves or Wolf Dogs In 1928 Wolf dogs or Mutts were preferd to be shot in the head rather than accepted to a sled team. Let's just say that only huskies allowed, they were the basic work dogs for everyone. [For British people they are favorite pet canines]

<3

oh yush >3

I said thats what she was in another rp, not this one. She's not a wolf here.

Breed required. That is final I'm afraid.