Welcome to Canis Major

a wolf and animal rpg (role-playing game)

Canis is a writing community for play-by-post (forum-based), freeform roleplay set in a fictional dream world in the intrusion fantasy genre. Most characters on Canis are wolves; many play elements are focused around wolves and canids, but the world makes room for a large variety of other animal characters such as dogs, horses, cats, bears, deer, and many, many more.

Our community is focused on flexibility, creativity, and collaboration. That boils down to a few important features:

  • There is no set activity requirement to write
  • The setting and plot are member-created and staff-supported
  • The game is continuously improved to increase fun and decrease stress

Learn more in our Rulebook!

AW
and fearless and thirsty and supple


Afternoon Partly Cloudy
#1
AW
Paladin
05-11-2022, 02:21 PM (This post was last modified: 05-26-2022, 06:00 PM by Olive. Edited 1 time in total.)
The days that Olive passed with @Tiberius in the Elseweyr were easy and pleasurable. It always astonished Olive how, during the springtime every year, all the world's problems seemed to evaporate like so much dew upon the grass. Food was plentiful, the other half of her heart was always somewhere nearby, and she was almost certain that she was carrying his pups. Walrus, who? Shiroshika, never heard of 'em. Planatír? Don't know the meaning of the word.

Of course, there were many things that would eventually need to be revisited, like the matters of @benry and the contention that existed between them, and just exactly where this new family was going to be raised — but for now, everything was calm, and Olive allowed herself the briefest respite to enjoy the warmth of the day, and the other many pluses that came with living in a land of plenty.

With the lack of winter snows, the fowl that nested amongst the cliffside were plentiful. There were many cliff swallows and rock terns, but an odd large-bodied gannet could be spotted here or there — and Olive truly wanted to catch one of these masterful flyers, though there was only the briefest of opportunities whenever the birds would summit the cliff, and even that was a surprise lest someone glance over the ledge to see what might be coming at them. So the ash-dusted woman, without anything better to do, spent the better part of an afternoon leaping and lunging after various birds when they swooped and dove and crested the cliffside.

It felt a lot like dancing amongst a feathered veil, but the potentiality of a snack was what truly kept her going.

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#2
Hunter
05-11-2022, 06:00 PM
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On a crisp, though partly cloudy afternoon, Caspian awoke with a sharp intake of breath as he quickly rolled onto all fours and looked around with raised hackles. It had been dark for so long and now? Well now there was the scent of a female nearby, and the chirping of birbs. How lovely.

Ah, wait, no; on second thought, those were not chirping birbs - those were birbs in distress. Which were not a common occurrence unless something was hunting them or harassing them in some way.

Coming upon the scene, Caspain would witness a flurr of white going after them. Ah! Surely, these winged feathered beasts had insulted the woman in such a way that was punishable by death! 

Slowly creeping upon the scene, as to not scare away any more birbs, Caspian joined the scene of birb harassment until he, too, could land a feathered snackerl in his mouth.
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#3
Paladin
05-12-2022, 12:52 AM (This post was last modified: 05-26-2022, 03:01 AM by Olive. Edited 1 time in total.)
It was a rather delightful thing, to be airborne; Olive, a lithe little thing, springing up from the ground again and again with ease and even a sense of grace. She would twist her body to try and catch a wing as it fluttered by her, or propel herself in the direction of a fat frigate, but even her best efforts left her with nothing more than a mouth of feathers. Still, it felt good on her body to be so active and aware of all her muscles, and how she moved through space. Even with the din of the bird colony, the methodology was almost something like a moving meditation.

She only became aware of the fact that she wasn't alone when she bumped her hips against his in descent — she whipped her head around, briefly believing it to be Tiberius. Instead it was a man with who bore a more muted coat of grays, and by scent, she assumed was a newcomer to this area. Did he know of the steep drop just on the other side; did he know where the birds were coming from? "Careful," she barked, keeping all four paws on terra firma for a moment's delay to usher a keen warning, "Don't fall!"

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#4
05-12-2022, 03:49 AM
^^All in all, Caspian knew nothing of this world, or how it was laid out. He did not know it’s mountains, it’s trees, it’s foundations. He did not know how the grass felt under his paws after a fresh rainfall, or even what it felt like to dance in the rain.

He had these memories of another time; another life, but this was a different realm. He was reborn; this, too, he knew, but that was his only memory. He did not know the details, just the details that lead to his arrival here.

They touched their hips in their moments in the air, and Caspian would agree that it felt just wonderful to feel the air through his coat. Luckily, this female was not aggressive, nor did she spook easily, and did not mind the company.

She was even nice enough to warn him about the cliffs, and the danger of falling. Yes, he didn’t want to die. Not again. “Thanks for the warnin’ doll,” would come Caspian’s thick aussie accent’d tone as he took his leaps further away from the cliff, and from her, should she desire the space.
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#5
Medic
05-13-2022, 07:56 PM (This post was last modified: 05-26-2022, 05:55 PM by Olive. Edited 2 times in total.)
rolled a fall, so this post is inspired by my very recent sprained ankle lol


The laugh that came from deep within her was pure, vital, and unable to be stopped. Eventually it became less about snagging herself a snack, and more about imagining herself as a winged, white gull — soaring where simple legs couldn't take her, though they tried their absolute best in this moment. Olive glanced every so often at the man who had joined her, delighting in the fact that he was new to her, and held unlimited friendship potential. He shuffled over to give her a wider berth, which Olive easily filled with her dizzying dance moves, leaping and cavorting, feeling the feathers brushed against her face and legs and tail —

until her back foot gave way beneath her, perhaps by fault of the crumbly consistency of the earth, or an overconfident miscalculation of her part, or maybe weakness left in her ankle from the bite of the great walrus, Boomba... no matter what the reason, the sylph was sent sprawling to the earth, first thudding down onto the side of her hip and then falling backwards. The pain that went through her paw was hot, sudden, and severe; Olive released a hiss of dissatisfaction, working to right herself, but only succeeding in sharply inhaling and biting her lip as she realized what had happened, and how embarrassing that was in front of a stranger.

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#6
05-14-2022, 12:17 AM
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What a wonderful first memory to have within this new realm; like two children on a trampoline, the two of them soared into the air after the gulls, sometimes at the same time - sometimes not. On this particularly cloudy afternoon, it felt nice to let loose and harass some mindless gulls.

His first attack on the gulls had missed, terribly; he hadn’t even gotten the tiniest feather! But he was back at it again, though this time, he’d grabbed a gull by the rear, grabbing just enough to take one of them down and he handed with a grunt as his partner, too, landed ungracefully, rolling about. 

Thankfully, he had not heard the snap of bone to indicate that she’d broken her ankle. He would come to her side, nonetheless, immediately laying down whilst also giving her some space as to not crowd her. 

“Oi, lass. That looked like a nasty fall. Anythin’ I can get fer ye?”
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#7
Medic
05-17-2022, 05:51 PM (This post was last modified: 05-26-2022, 06:00 PM by Olive. Edited 1 time in total.)
There was little Olive could do in that moment but grit her jaw hard and feel her body and mind lock up as the hot pain became worse, almost searing for a moment, before eventually time worked what it could of its magic, and the level came down to be something that was a little more manageable. The tightness in her chest lessened, and her breath flowed more smoothly. "Oooooooo" the woman breathed as she released something between a pent-up exhale and a moan.

When she opened her eyes, the roan and silver had paused in his own avian flight and was attending to her with a low, rolling diphthong to his voice. Now laying on her side and hovering her injured foot above the earth, she shook her head to discharge some energy but ended up emitting another sharp susurrus as that sent pangs through her foot and lower legs. "That was so stupid," she eventually sighed, at a loss for something more elegant to say, feeling the heat creep up in her cheeks behind a thin veil of white fur.

"No, well, I don't know yet..." she managed to stammer. After a pained glance towards him, then back towards where the birds fluttered and swarmed, she quipped "At least you got one," and sighed, attempting to apologize with the sincerity of her gaze at how she had bungled their revelry.

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