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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:

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Evening Snow
#1
Duskguard
Hunter
09-10-2022, 04:10 PM
It would do little good to sit on his laurels while the rest of the pack does their duty.

Torben picked up the scent of hare and followed it at a slow but determined pace. If he could find a warren, he could bring back more than one. Luckily, fate was on his side this evening. He crouched low and began to stalk, the scent growing stronger. More than one, but he was just one man.

A flicker of movement caught his eye. Torben turned to look at a pale woman nearby. He could not signal her due to the lack of tail, but he blew air out his lips in an effort to gain her attention. If she wasn't careful, she'd scare his prey. But he was not averse to her joining the hunt. The hares hopped around, scavenging.

They hadn't noticed the wolves yet.

@Aries

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#2
Hunter
09-11-2022, 11:42 PM
There was more members that were joining Duskguard, and she felt enjoyment to see this pack flourish well. Although not many hailed to it, they were mighty ; and well-equipped with friends all over. They were not one that was but easily tossled through, and she too realized a quick loyalty to the pack who accepted her so ; despite being a suspicious hare that rained, by literally from the sky. Serving as so, she tried to help as she could.. Nwt life was coming forth and she dabbled in but advisory and messaging, but continued in more normal duties such as medical work and hunting. 

As the night went, she had caught sight of a man in the distance. Pale, unusual to say ; for there was only two she recognized and Aries immediately knew this was a new member. His gaze was focus elsewhere, for a moment she thought to be locked by pinks before pointed elsehwere, and naturally she followed. A few hares stood in the distance, munching away on the foraging of the fallen leaves of the vale.. Wholly unaware either was there. Slowly she prowled, dropping to a hunters position and making her way over to the man without a name.

Step by step, avoiding the attention as her plump-tail swayed lightly behind, and her ears flickered with each stalking step. She looked at him with a smile — an eye expecting a hunt to begin.

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#3
Hunter
09-11-2022, 11:51 PM
The woman was complacent. He was thankful for that, for his intention was not to order her around but put food in their bellies. When she dropped and approached, he flickered a shaggy ear to the side and began to move. She could take the other side, splintering the rabbits after startling them. If she did as beckoned, he would chuff lowly and alert the prey.

The hares looked up. There was a moment of pure panic, and uncertainty before one darted. Then another. Then two more. Torben was hidden in the foliage, stomping forcefully down on one hare as it threw itself at him. The squeak was cut off, and he was able to snag another that ran after its friend. This time, he used his jaws. The blood scent made the others scared even more.

Two of them darted to where @Aries was. One slightly to the side, unaware of the woman who was there. It was difficult with both their coats as clear as the snow they found themselves on.

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#4
Hunter
09-12-2022, 02:02 AM
Primal instincts to kick in, wolves naturally fell to body instincts when words were not, the smallest shift in nature could always indicate where one should go or do. A nodding to follow along, serpentine motion as he crossed to one and she drifted to another. Slowly did they go, but before able to attack as they would, the looked up, and darted. 

She aimed for the right, as one came barreling over and her fangs nipped at the air, but just by a width of band, she caught nothing. There was a look of disappointment, as she had to twist and turn to adjust herself onto the chase ahead! Momentarily look back, at Torben ; who had caught one. She shouldn't disappoint! Off she went to the chase!

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#5
Hunter
09-12-2022, 04:23 PM
The woman missed - but he didn't hold it against her. No, rabbits were quick blighters once they were scared. They seemed to exude a supernatural speed. With his two rabbits dead, Torben abandoned them on pack lands to help the woman. He charged as fast as he could after her, aware his heavier body could slow him down.

The rabbit that she missed was trying desperately to find shelter. It paused a few times, wasting seconds as the wolves gained on it. If @Aries was quick, she could easily catch it. The rabbit did try to go to the ground, scratching a few times at the earth as if it would reveal a burrow. It did not. Torben growled lowly as they chased -

- trying to cause it to feel pressure. Slip up. Feel distracted. Enough for the woman to kill it.

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#6
Hunter
09-28-2022, 09:14 PM
She ran with an ease, body twirling to catch up and attempt to maybe even round-about. She spread in the distance, pushing herself just enough where if she could do side-by-side, just maybe Aries could pluck with ease. Torben was coming forth, growling as so, a beast before the rabbit that made it seem even more frantic as it's eyes bulged out. Though that stress enough made it seemingly look just a bit slower, she thought.. Maybe..

And she pounced! From the side that she was, Aries tumbled forth and wrestled the rabbit as her light paws slipped in the snow. Yet within her maw was the rabbit, squeaking and moving as it was.

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#7
09-29-2022, 12:01 AM
"Good job."

He panted, coming up from behind and veering to her left. The rabbit in her jaws, and the rabbits back there... Duskguard would eat tonight. He was perhaps too nice or didn't seem to think it was a big deal, to scold her on the sloppy hunt. In the end, they got the prey. Wasn't that what mattered?

Point is, he wasn't cruel about it. Turning, he walked back to where the prey lay dead. He nosed the bodies a bit, then recalled he didn't know where to deposit them. "Err" he glanced up at the woman "do ye know where the cache is?" If she came back to join him, he would ask this. Seemed silly not to know but...

He was new. Perhaps a bit of a break required here.

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#8
Hunter
09-29-2022, 04:13 AM
Tossing and turning before finally upon her feet, looking a rather mess of fur as the rabbit continued to squirm despite the blood that soaked between both hides. She almost thought to drop if there wasn't that kick upon her chest, and only then, Aries would finally bite down hard on the prey that she had successfully killed.. With quite some effort she might add, in the tussling of the hurricane she made in this whole event. She dropped it, and sighed.

"I must apologize, I usually am not.. So bad at hunting." Especially embarrassing, she would say! Aries would pride herself adept in hunting, her body was sleek and supple to be well-hunter, but she had let some such as.. A rabbit, slipped by and now looked to be a mess. Even as she looked down to her blood-stained chest, her ruffling of the tongue would do nothing to release the scarlet besides a more pink-ish hue upon her. 

"Oh, yes, I know where they are." At the very least, Aries could do something right with her sighing, gathering up the prey she had. Ah.. She had trouble with one while he had several — the feat of winning was ambient between them.

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#9
09-29-2022, 05:27 PM
"S' okay" Torben shrugged his broad shoulders at her apology. There was nothing to apologize for "ye can't always win. Be a bit boring, aye?" He chuckled in good humor "especially fer huntin'." Walk, kill, go to cache. Walk back. Kill. Cache. Ugh, the thought alone was a bit weary. He thought her 'slip up' made for extra excitement. But he wouldn't directly say this. She felt bad enough.

He angled his body to follow the woman, gathering his rabbits in his jaw. He raised his brows to let her know he was ready before moving again. The pair would no doubt find the cache eventually, and these limp pieces of prey shoved in their mouths... Not good to talk, really. He let the silence continue until the woman showed him where to deposit them. Gratefully doing so, he licked his jaws free of stray blood.

"Name's Torben, by t' way" he added. Goodness, he wished he had a tail to wag.

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#10
Hunter
09-29-2022, 09:27 PM
"I enjoy the hunt, it feels refreshing." Not at all she thought, and found something like hunting rather refreshing, a favorite past time of her that not only reinvigorate herself, but helped toward the pack as a whole. Uplifting, she would perhaps take more on the hunting aspect if not for the need elsewhere — but enjoyed much the same. She just.. Realized she should probably hone her abilities a bit better, perhaps coming to somewhere new had rusted such skills. A true shame of embarrassment.

As they arrived to the cache they would drop off the fresh kills into it. She hummed lightly though, craning her head to the pile and noticing one that seemed awfully foul — another rabbit though, and she would pluck it from the spot to separate from the fresh kill. Wouldn't want to cause it to make the rest tainted, especially with the amount of rabbits Torben caught. It was a rather quick effort to take and replant in a separate hole.

Dirt, and in blood, she smiled meekly while turning toward him, "I am Aries, a pleasure."

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#11
10-01-2022, 04:21 PM
Torben felt even enjoyable tasks would become boring if too easily done. There was a difference between tedious and dutiful. However, he said nothing about pointing this out. "S' nice to meet you, Aries." He dipped his head politely to his new packmate. 

He would notice she combed through the bad prey, taking that out and placing it to the side. Then she'd bury it to prevent others from getting sick. Torben gave a nod of approval. "How long ye be in Duskguard?" he asked casually, shifting his weight. The albino would sit quietly by the cache.

A pink nose turned in the direction of it, assessing how much more he'd need to hunt. "Fraid I won't be round during the day, erm..." he lifts a paw pad to reveal the pinkish gleam "I have sun sickness. Makes me weary and useless during sunny days. But if ye have nothin' to do during the evenings... I wouldn't mind another hunt."

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#12
10-01-2022, 07:38 PM
"I only been here for some time, and welcomed in by Olive and Tiberius. Still fresh ; but it seems Duskguard as a whole is still relatively new." A small assurance to any he asked would relatively say the same thing — they had only joined recently, and were settling in. A brand new claim for the blooming family, but their roots had begun long ago by their fame around. Many flocked to the borders that new them, and even Aries had been sent as a messenger to those who were not.. They were pleasantly known, and strived for peace.

She had also heard of albinos, although did not think too hard if the man was one or not, "I see," she said, "perhaps I can company you on some nights. Isn't it lonely?" she knew especially the leaders would need a rightful sleep with their young, and though guards would rotate.. He must miss many quite a few wolves who rest early. Aries didn't mind spending a few nights here and there being but someone to company him, especially if she was tending to nights on organizing the herb den.

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#13
10-01-2022, 11:09 PM
It was news to him that Duskguard was relatively new itself. He blinked in slight surprise but continued to listen to Aries. He started a bit when she offered to accompany him at night. His cheeks heated somewhat, wondering if she was just being nice or if she felt he was lonely. "I'd like that." But the words did slip anyway. Did he regret them? No. It would be good to have company.

"Thank ye, fer uh thinkin' about me" he added, dipping his head again "I usually patrol alone while ever'one else is sleeping." He didn't mind it, truly, because it gave him some alone time. But sometimes, yes, it could be quite lonesome. He'd had enough alone time. Now it was time to think about the future, especially his connections in Duskguard. He didn't plan to leave unless forced. Despite the loneliness, he felt content here.

"It'd be nice to have som'one to talk to." He smiled kindly.

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#14
10-03-2022, 07:04 PM
"I will see you on a night then." She said with a warm-tone. It may not be this night, but Aries was determined at some nights to accompany this man. She was a social wolf, she could not see herself on that loner-life and would admit to some fear about it ; the tundra wolf never once was a loner, and the time when she was young and escaping a rebellion — she did not remember it well, and only knew it was a short-trip till accepted by the Winterglade. A life never once knew of those hardships ; she delved to social relationships and pitied the man who would struggle, due to his physical weakness.

She liked Torben, he was a nice wolf.


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#15
10-03-2022, 07:08 PM
With some sort of plan pending, Torben nodded. Aries would move away and leave him be for now. He didn't mind, since the first meetings could be overwhelming. He even felt the need for quiet after the hunt and socialization. "See ya." He rumbled to her, moving away from the cache and beginning to head off. Still so much night... He would patrol now, and see how things went as they slowly came to. At least it seemed he had made a friend. /end

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