Carved In Stone

• to be considered "mature" you must be 5 years of age;
  
• foals cannot be claimed at joining; so if you join a two year old, they won't be claimed; foals: 0-3
  
• you cannot join a foal under one; that's it. end of story;
  
• to breed (male or female) you must be 5 years of age; simple? good;
  
• to own a land you must be 5 years of age; evil, aren't i?
  
• foals may leave their herd at 1 unless otherwise directed;
  
• leads may choose to keep foals for trading purposes; eh, poor foals;
  
• make sure you stay within the height limits of your breed;
  
• make sure it is an existing breed;
  

BREEDING;

• first make sure we're in breeding season;
  
• breeding seasons: spring, summer, autumn
  
• you then may post your horse's stats and have the other player post their horse's stats in NEW LIFE and your foal's stats will be posted for you; do not just create your own foal's stats unless you get permission from an admin first;
  
• if you just post the stats, you do not have to play it out;
  
• mares may be force bred anywhere;
  
• stallions may make trips to other islands to force breed to other mares;
  
• when force breeding, you must allow "room" for the other player to escape;
  
• no long breeding; end of story;
  
• when foaling, you have two choices; one, wait till the end of the season and then foal or, two, wait until the same season the "next" year and then foal for a horse's gestation is eleven months long;
  
• please keep the amount of times you breed each "year" down to two so we don't have an overflow of foals;
  

LINKS;

• HORSE; on wikipedia
  
• BEHAVIOR; horse behavior on wiki
  
• BREEDS; list of all breeds allowed on Abandon

The World

THE WORLD;
THE MAP; close up on the islands

THE ISLANDS; Kahuna, Nevoso and In-Between

• when joining, you choose which island you want to start off at, kahuna or nevoso;
  
• kahuna is larger with eight territories;
  
• kahuna was once inhabited by humans until the volcano erupted and they were forced to evacuate to the nearby islands;
  
• nevoso is smaller with only five territories;
  
• nevoso was and still is a territory covered in jungles, forest, and a few waterfalls and is quite a beautiful setting;
  
• nevoso also has beaches while kahuna's were destroyed by the humans before they left and while they were evacuating;
  
• kahuna is typically darker horses while nevoso is typically lighter ones;
  

TERRITORIES; everything about them

• anyone can own a territory;
  
• no need to have mares before you claim/challenge for a territory;
  
• each leader can make up whatever rules or ranks for their herd;
  
• you make make alliances with other leaders or territories from the same island, however, you may not make alliances with territories from the other island;
  
• you may allow creatures from the other island to stay in you territory, but it may give you lots of grief from your leader;
  
• if all territories are claimed, you simply may challenge or steal for one; or you may become someone's second or third ^^;
  
• you may only challenge to be king or queen of an island if you are already the lead of a territory on the same island;
  
• you get to choose if you want a herd or a gender-only land when you claim/challenge/sneak for one;
  
• there are no designated "mare (or stallion) only lands"; if a land is run by a mare, it is mare-only; if a stallion claims a land, he may choose to have a herd or to have it become stallion-only;
  
• you may make your land look however you want, but you must go along with your Island and area on the map;
  
• if on kusheth, you must have at least some sort of human inhabitance or ruins; it can be like one human living alone or house ruins or a whole house; doesn't matter;
  
• if on nevoso, you may have a cottage on the beach or something; nothing aside from the beaches, though.
  
• if a land is inactive for more than two weeks, then the territory may be claimed
  
• if the lead of a land hasn't posted in two weeks then the territory can be claimed and the other there may choose to do as they wish;
  
• so, if a person playing a lead is gone for more than two weeks, your territory may be claimed; it isn't something personal, it is to keep the rpg going so not everyone is just posting away to keep their land;

Stealing

STEALING;

• you may steal for
  one land;
  one mare;
  one stallion;
  one non-dependant foal;
  
• you may have two stealing going at once;
  
• there are two types of steals: stating the obvious and riddling;
  
• when stating the obvious, just say what you are stealing;
  
• ie: Tagore is stealing Wishing Well's Rabia (this would be invalid for one stallion cannot own two territories at one and that he can't steal from a different isle);
  
• ie: Tagore is stealing Wishing Well's mare Flower. (this is valid if flower existed XD);
  
• the stated steals last two days;
  
• riddle steals can be anything as long as you include hints at what you plan on stealing ( land or horse) and can be figured out;
  
• can be, but NOT limited to, blue text, poem-type riddles, languages, and number patterns;
  
• riddle steals last three days unless posted away;
  
• you cannot steal the leader of any land;
  
• you can steal horses from other islands;
  
• the lead is responsible for blocking their mares/stallions/foals;
  
• subordinate stallion ( a stallion that is living another another that is in a NON bachelor herd stallion) cannot be stolen;
  
• foals under 6 months cannot be stolen;
  
• if a stallion steals a land from another stallion, he get his mare; if it's stallion-only, those stallions have a choice of staying or leaving;
  
• if a stallion steals a territory from a mare, he chooses to keep those mares or let 'em go;
  
• is a mare steals a territory from another mare, those mares may choose to stay or go;
  
• if a mare steals a territory from a stallion, those mares also have a choice to leave or stay; if it was stallion-only, those stallions can be taken hostage if the mare wants, otherwise they must leave;
  
• no stealing lands from another island;
  
• steals must be found valid by an admin or mod before you can claim what you have won;
  
• you may tell guessers if they are right or wrong;
  
• once it ends, you must also explain your steal once so that the admin/mod can validate it;
  

BLOCKING;

• how to block: you may only block for half your herd and half your non-dependent foals; majority if uneven;
  
• ie: you have five mares and four non-dependent foals; you may block for three mares and two foals;
  
• if you¡¯re stealing a mare/foal/stallion that doesn't get blocked, you do not have to wait the full three days, you may reveal your steal right then;

Fighting

New Life

General