Success in the Pack
I promised, and it’s here. The post on the pack.
Man, I am just so proud of all the packmembers right now. There has been so much activity in the pack. At least when I’m there. And I’m pretty sure it’s been the same when I haven’t been. Because, I read my Alpha(Amythist)’s journal a lot, and she’s been quite happy about the activity of the pack, too. I remember the times when she was only saying things like “activity needs to improve”, or things along those lines. That phrase is completely vanished from her recent posts. It’s just been so nice to be with the pack recently.
We just had another pack meeting on Sunday, and I am so glad I could make it. I always love those, because it used to be the only time when nearly everyone got together and roleplayed. Sometimes it’s hectic…but who cares! There is always a lot going on. Promotions, discussions, and this time, adorable puppies trying to steal away his mothers voice while she tried to lead the meeting. Haha, Scyanite is hilarious. I just added him to my friends list on Facebook a few days ago. We even tried to arrange to meet when I was in Ottawa(he lives there), but that didn’t work out.
Here are the specifics of what happened the day of the meeting:
4/27/08 – Packmeeting is held!
Darklight was demoted to packmate for lack of activity
SilverEye promoted to Gamma
Opalfire promoted to Hunter/Scout
Feenix, Azureite and Whiskey complete Assesment and advance to Packmate
Spynil and MoonWhispers enter assesment as Omegas
Discusion held regarding Forum
Well, that’s not all of it. I intentionally left out two things there just so that I can talk about them individually. And you may have guessed it…but yes, they are about me. To some extent.
The first, is that Jasper has been promoted to Centurion. I’m no longer a Battalion. But, a Centurion. That’s quite an honor. Because that means that I have been granted the responsibility of leading the pack Battalions. They follow my order. And I will be the first on the scene if there’s a threat to the pack. This also means that, if the Alphas need to leave the EmeraldMyst territory for any reason, I am to accompany them as protection. This promotion is such an honor to me, and Jasper. Whoever reads this just might think I’m crazy…and you probably have good reason to. But that won’t change the fact that I love this pack. And therefore, be honored by this.
The funny thing about it, though, is that I knew this was coming. I saw it in hard writing from Amythist. I don’t think she knows that I check up on her journal all the time. If she found out…maybe she’d call me a freaking stalker…but no. I’m not. I check there because I want to know the happenings. And because I care about my packmates. So, I just laughed when she said in the OOC room one day: “Jasper, you better be there for the meeting. You might have a suprise”. I couldn’t stop for like…5 minutes. But of course, I kinda hid that from the pack… =P
But(I know, this is getting long. But meh. Don’t read if you can’t handle it, I don’t care =P), this is not all that happened to me that night. Remember, I left TWO things out? Well, here’s the second.
It came so sudden, I was hardly expecting it. Nothing in Amy’s journal about this, otherwise I wouldn’t have felt the shock. Randomly, in the middle of the meeting, Amy messaged me and asked if DemonCrystal and I wanted to start courting. For all of you who don’t know what that means, it’s the equivelent of dating in “wolf” terms. I told her I would talk to Demon about it, and get back to her by the end of the meeting. Man, that was awkward =P.
We got into this whole random discussion about where a wolf would get a good-looking wedding dress and a ring. We settled on rolling in the mud for a dress, and the twig my wolf was playing with during the roleplay earlier. Because that’s just us. The two most random wolves in the pack. Haha, she even had me propose to her. Jokingly, of course. Then, she said yes.
Amythist threw that into the meeting schedule, and we both agreed to become courts, in front of the whole pack. Demon’s quite the roleplayer. She took on a whole shy persona about the whole situation. I didn’t…lol.
Again, I must say that I am extremely proud of this pack. They are an amazing group of people. Always fun to be around. Hopefully, things can keep going the way they are!
Back Home
It’s been such a long time since I was able to get onto mIRC and roleplay with my pack. Mostly because I’ve just had so much homework to do, and keeping up with that and working at the same time is just impossible. It’s pretty annoying, but it’s the truth.
All the time I was away, Jasper was lost. He’d been separated from the pack one day while he was scouting the packlands for threats, and a blizzard struck. He couldn’t get back until it cleared and, by then, the pack had evacuated the area to return home to the EmeraldMyst clearing. There was no trace of them, so Jasper had no idea where they went. He’d been searching for them for a month until stumbling upon the pack once again.
A lot has changed since I’ve been gone. First of all, Amythist’s pups have been born. So far, he’s met Ruebie, the runt of the litter. She acted so cute ^^. But more bad things happened than good, from what I understand so far. Two of my friends are gone. Kuma was banned for insubordination. And Kagetora, well, I just think he left. I don’t really know the reason…I haven’t asked about him yet. I probably should sometime soon.
But what else is interesting is that I’ve tried to get TheJakeman into the roleplay. He joined as Thiago(correct my spelling if it’s wrong…lol). He came on yesterday, and checked it out. He seemed to fit in pretty well with the group in OOC. Which is awesome!
He had to leave pretty quickly, though. And I don’t blame him for that. He’s not exactly been feeling well these past few days. And a computer screen definately doesn’t help with that. I know…I’ve been down that road several times myself.
I just hope he decides to come back once in a while ^^. It would be nice to have a real friend around the pack.
UPDATE:
Well, it turns out Kagetora didn’t leave at all. Instead, he’s also one of Amy’s pups. Scyanite. Also, I’d planned to put a banner for the pack on this post. So…here it is!
Start of Something New
Yesterday, my pack went through a traumatic event. Planned. But still traumatic. For weeks, we had planned that night to be the start of something new. And finally, it had been executed.
We began with Ashur and our Alpha, Aventurine literally biting at each other’s throats in a battle. I was alongside Aventurine, offering my support if he needed it. Fortunately, before any serious fighting happened, Ashur had to leave and so the fight ended with him retreating.
Imediately after that, however, a crack louder than thunder had been heard reverberating between the mountains, soon followed by a deep rumble. An avalanche had happened, and was heading straight for the clearing in which the EmeraldMyst pack is situated. Panic broke loose(and it was some crazy hard-to-follow roleplay with everyone posting at the same time), and everyone scattered. Some remained behind in an attempt to help the others get free(I followed Aventurine, and ran with Amythist, who is pregnant with pups, until Kagetora was beginning to follow behind. And so I broke from Amy and cleared the way of snow for Kage to make his retreat easier).
Through this truggle, though, Zircon got caught in the avalanche and perished through a painful death. In real life, the player of Zircon is heading off to the military, and won’t be able to be with us much anymore. And so, he decided to kill of his character. That was quite the scene with him and Darklight.
Lazuli, Aventurines daughter, also died in the avalanch. Along with one of our other Battalions, Obsidian.
They’ll all be missed.
This whole thing took quite a while, also considering the fact that we started 2 hours later than we planned to. Afterwards, near our refuge on a cliff, several others got buried(MoonWeaver, I believe) and Aventurine. Aventurine broke some of his limbs, but survived.
With Aven out of commission, I wonder how things are going to turn out between Ashur and him. I might have to do some fighting in the near future…lol. I always get nervous when that happens.
So, with our packlands destroyed, we cannot live at home. And so, we are likely going to be staying with WhiteWolf and her pack, SpiritRivers. From what I understand so far, anyway.
If you’re interested, I can e-mail you the entire log of the roleplay. I saved it to my computer…and I would look at it again.
Sat, Feb 23rd Pack Meeting.
Well, I couldn’t be there this time. Which I felt pretty bad about, seeing as the turnup for our past pack meeting was the worst I’ve seen in my history as a roleplayer. I was thinking about it all the time I was working while the packmeeting was being held, wondering how it was going to turn out.
Well, I managed to get on last night. And wow…Amythist was so happy. She was like, begging me to get on and ignore my homework because there were loads of peeps there. About 24 were there at one time…and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that many during a day with a pack meeting.
I heard about everything that happened. The list is insane. DemonCrystal(one of my fave wolves in the pack) was promoted to Battalion, joining me. Which is really cool. Maybe once her legs heal we’ll go scouting together.
Kuma and Shasta(two very fine wolves who have just kept the numbers rolling in for new recruits) were both promoted to Omega. Congratz you two! Really…Omega is an insult to you guys. And congratz for making the very first Wolves of the Month.
Kagetora, Kiko, Masahide, BlackOnyx, Ashur, and Daciana were all promoted to Omega as well. Congratz!
OpalFire was promoted to Packmate
See? A lot of new recruits. Hey, Jakeman, you gotta get in on this action sometime! I know you wanna =P.
We’re going to be starting with a new plot on Wednesday. I know what it’s basically going to be about, but I won’t say anything =P. That’ll probably show up later that night or Thursday, granting that I can make it.
Jordan Bergeron wants me over to his house…but I don’t think I want to go. For more reasons than this new plotline.
But, perhaps the best news there is, is that DarkAzure(Sangre) has finally returned. After some internet troubles, and other troubles, she’s made it back. I hope she’s doing alright. I know this fact because I read it on my packleader’s journal on LiveJournal.
Newcomers
Just a few days ago, our pack has become home to a pair of new wolves. Their names being Kuma and Shasta(and no, it’s not because of the movie Snow Buddies that he got this name. Apparently, Shasta means “fire”.)
I’ll admit that the two of them are a little shabby on the entire prospect of roleplaying. They haven’t entirely grasped the concept like most of the experienced roleplayers of our pack. But I must really give them credit for what they have done. These two have been more active than ME in the past few days since they’ve joined. They’re really determined to be a part of this pack, and despite their lack of experience and roleplay knowledge, we love to have them with us.
When I say their lack of knowledge, I mean that they don’t put too much detail into their posts. At best, they’re only three lines long. That is something that I can’t do. They only describe the immediate things, and have very little expansion. And they quickly move from one thing to another. Very very hard for someone who types long and slow to keep up…let me tell ya.
But, really, I don’t care too much about that. If any of you two happen to read this, don’t feel hurt. I really love the two of ya, even though you’re hard to follow sometimes =P. That’s likely just my fault.
Well, I hope they stick around for quite some time. Maybe make it to the next meeting to declare their request to mate. Congratz, if you do ^^
Judgements
Have you ever had a time where your own stubborness completely blocks the truth? Like, you have this mindset that a person is a certain kind of person, but really, they are someone who is completely different than you thought they were? I sure hope you follow me….because, seriously, I can’t really explain it any other way.
Well, that’s what happened to me on Monday. Ivalyo was one of the council members in my old pack, SweetBreeze, which had been “disbanded”. Many of the members(specially picked ones) from that pack were invited to join a new pack that Dagda(Amythist) was forming, called EmeraldMyst. Ivalyo(Aventurine he goes by in EmeraldMysts) was to be our Alpha Male.
Well, in SweetBreeze, I had some beef with Ivalyo. And to be honest with you, I have no idea why. It’s just…every time that he signed on, I just got a bad vibe from him. And that completely molded the way I felt about him. I, literally, hated him then, for no good reason whatsoever.
You could easily call it prejudice, and would have hit the nail right on the head.
But something completely changed that opinion within 3 hours on Monday. Monday, Febuary the 4th was to be our second packmeeting. But, out of the 30 or so packmembers, only 4 of us showed up. Aventurine, me, DemonCrystal, and Lazuli.
This was when it all started. He didn’t care that were were the only packmembers here. (These meetings are supposed to be manditory) He still went on with it. Throughout this entire meeting, I noticed something completely different about him. Or…it was something completely different about my perception of him. He was a wonderful leader. A quality I thought he would never have.
That packmeeting between the four of us was so emotional. We could feel the disappointment that Aven had for everyone else. And I really felt sorry for him. He put so much time and effort into this pack, and we were the only ones who seemed to care about it.
He was actually a really REALLY decent, and nice person. And all along, I thought him as a jerk who didn’t really care about anyone. What a slap in the face for me…
But what really changed me wasn’t that. It was what happened after I explained this entire scenario of me hating him and him totally not deserving it that did it for me.
From what I could tell, he completely understood when I explained to him how I had felt back then and how I did at that moment. I was sorry from the depths of my heart, and I think he knew that.
What happened right after that, though, was that he admitted to being the reason that SweetBreeze broke up in the first place. I won’t go into detail for his sake…but really, it put a firm stamp on my new opinion of our Alpha.
Once, I thought he wasn’t fit to lead us. But now, I can see no other leader better than him. I don’t think I could do a better job. It’s amazing how just a few hours can totally change your perception of someone.
Isn’t it?
