Post by leda / carolina on Mar 25, 2019 21:01:35 GMT
A quick guide regarding the locations of our RP, I decided to put it under welcome because it was relevant to all groups and would have made little sense if divided up into different categories. All locations are found in the map.
LA TIERRA’S MAINLAND
An open expanse of desert that is generally safe from main predators such as cougars, coyotes, and lobos. Not only because it has been so long defended by the pack of Los Sabuesos, but also because most predators fear the long Highway that the mainland is set upon. In the mainland one will also find El Viejo’s Hill, Marked Rocks, and Shantyplace.
EL VIEJO’S HILL
A hill where the pack of Los Sabuesos holds gatherings every full moon, these gatherings are known as El Aullido and just a time to rejoice and recollect on all new life gained (new litters) and the lives lost as of recent. It is said that El Viejo is buried here, his grave marked by a volcanic rock scratched with claw marks by his previous pack members.
MARKED ROCKS
You may notice the dark volcanic rocks among the mainland that have scratches along them. The pack started this tradition after they noticed other rocks marked many years ago by Native American and Spanish peoples, Petroglyphs as they are called. The pack scratches a rock for every life lost, be it a stillborn pup or a dog who dies defending the pack from predators. They even scratch rocks for nomadic travellers who may have died in their care.
SHANTYPLACE
An abandoned ranch from the early 1900s that Los Sabuesos seeks refuge in. Beneath the Shantyplace is a small storage and pipes area that the pack uses as a nursery of sorts. On the main floor lay pelts skinned from mustangs, horses, and elk by the previous dwellers of the ranch. The pack uses this, as well as emptied feed sacks and old furniture as bedding. Outside the Shantyplace lay piles of scrap metal and wood, and a corral. Flanks are held in Shantyplace’s outside corral.
BED ROCKS
An open desert territory, mostly made up of arroyo from Salado Rio and Jemez River feeding into the area many years ago. The rivers have since dried up, leaving a flat bed arroyo. This territory is officially under Los Sabuesos control, forcing El Estrago to drink river water rather than the fresh spring water that is offered here. Because of it’s spring water, and certain training and trials that El Estrago enforces, El Estrago often disregards Los Sabuesos’ and enters the area anyways.
COUGARS DEN -
Deeper into Bed Rocks lay a cave full of bones. A cougar, or cougars, are often sighted in this area. El Estrago has a rite and trial in which training dogs must fetch a bone from the collecting pile among this wretched little cave.
COUGAR PETROGLYPH -
Petroglyphs are sacred in Native American culture and many hold high cultural importance and stories. They range from 300 to 3000 years old, and many aren't interpret-table to this day, but there are many throughout New Mexico.
Upon entering the territory of Bed Rocks, you'll find a strangely wondrous marking on a volcanic rock. It is a cougar, a warning in fact, of what could potentially lay ahead. The pack notes this and always try to keep quiet and be weary among Bed Rocks.
FRESH SPRING -
Treading forward into Bed Rocks, you'll find a fresh water spring. The pack brings their old, trusty and rusty bucket down to Bed Rocks every single morning to collect water from this endless stream. Even in the winter, it pours even if it's light. It's been a water source for many years.
A river does lay nearby, but more predators tend to make use of it instead and lurk near it. Most dogs also are not adjusted to the drinking of river water, and those who do tend to drink river water are likely exiled or desperate because of the potential sickness given from drinking the dirt and litter filled water. That is why the pack relies so much on this endless little spring, despite the river nearby.
DEAD ROCKS -
Flat rocks are scattered in the North East area of Bed Rocks. When a pack member dies, they're dragged down here to be lay to rest on a rock and have their pack have a short ceremony in remembrance. Unfortunately, they leave them here because scavenging predators like hawk, owl, and coyotes will eat their dead. But they figure that leaving the dead here to be given such an unfortunate end, is better than hungering predators to be treading into La Tierra and hurting the living.
THE STATION -
In the midst of the semi-arid desert lay an abandoned gas station, once a travel center for Upwalkers. The Station marks the end of patrolled Los Sabuesos land, it also borders Bed Rocks. Coyotes tend to gather here.
FANGOSO -
Off of the highway and easily reached through a drainage tunnel is Fangoso. Fangoso is a simple area where an old, muddied, poor excuse of an oasis can be seen. Water tends to seep through the Earth here to create the large puddle. Usually trainee pack members are brought here by their blood brothers to, well, train, given it's rich in Javelina and practicing defense and attack in the water is a great and popular form of training. This is true for both packs, which has left it an area of territorial struggles.
RABID (RED) RIDGE -
A large expanse of land outside of Bed Rocks, coyotes, cougars, hawks, and lobos run rich here. Dominating the area is a family based group of Lobos often called the Red Ridgers, or Rabid Ridgers.
Rabid Ridge has two names because dogs often refer to it as Rabid Ridge given it's history and stories of wandering rabid coyotes and rabid strays. But of course inhabitants, who more often than not aren't rabid, call it it's original name, Red Ridge.
The pack has tried and failed to claim this area many times, ultimately giving up and instead deeming it a place of exile. Law breakers not killed for their crimes are instead forced to live a life of solitude and constant struggle amid Rabid Ridge...
El Estrago now actively dominates this area as their primary territory, given that they had no where else to go upon their recent creation. However, because of it’s lesser resources and larger population of predators, El Estrago has to travel further and often intrude on Los Sabuesos territory and borders to receive sufficient resources.
CAVE OF MARKINGS -
A strange and ancient cave originally dwelled and crafted by Upwalkers. El Viejo originally found the cave during his wanderings in solitude, and felt a strong tie to it from the old canine painting. It's believed the solitary paw prints are his, and it's forbidden to touch them. Cave of Markings is a mysterious place and isn't told about to pack members unless picked by the leader for a special, secretive ceremony only given to gifted, elder, or heroic pack members. Both El Estrago and Los Sabuesos hold this ceremony of old, and one doesn’t truly know about this ceremony unless actually picked for it.
DEAD DOG'S MINE -
About seven years ago, Los Sabuesos tried to send out a scouting party of seven dogs to scope out more hunting ground. They travelled across Rabid Ridge, but had a run in with visibly rabid coyotes. When they tried to return to camp, the party was exiled out of the pack's precaution. One of the party who didn't seem affected got the attention of some traveling Upwalkers in hopes of them helping, but they called animal control. The dogs fled and ran away from the approaching Upwalkers, hiding in a mine at the end of Rabid Ridge's reaches. Ultimately, the dogs began to starve, and the Upwalkers knew this. They left poisoned food for them outside, and desperate and unknowing, they ate it. One by one, they all died that same fateful day in the mines. They died not as grand Sabueso pack members each had hoped to be, but instead as lost-minded mutts secluded in a dark room, further from home than they had ever been.
Mining projects have been booted up only to be abandoned a few days later because of the unstable Earth. Named Dead Dog's mine by Upwalkers and dogs alike for it's past that is known to both. Needless to say, it is the most eerie place of our locations.
El Estrago has found decent refuge in the area, and raise their pack and young inside it’s crumbling tunnels and small chambers.
KEY
LOS SABUESOS
EL ESTRAGO
PACK OF RED RIDGE
NEUTRAL/VARIED/FOUGHT OVER
LOS SABUESOS
EL ESTRAGO
PACK OF RED RIDGE
NEUTRAL/VARIED/FOUGHT OVER
LA TIERRA’S MAINLAND
An open expanse of desert that is generally safe from main predators such as cougars, coyotes, and lobos. Not only because it has been so long defended by the pack of Los Sabuesos, but also because most predators fear the long Highway that the mainland is set upon. In the mainland one will also find El Viejo’s Hill, Marked Rocks, and Shantyplace.
EL VIEJO’S HILL
A hill where the pack of Los Sabuesos holds gatherings every full moon, these gatherings are known as El Aullido and just a time to rejoice and recollect on all new life gained (new litters) and the lives lost as of recent. It is said that El Viejo is buried here, his grave marked by a volcanic rock scratched with claw marks by his previous pack members.
MARKED ROCKS
You may notice the dark volcanic rocks among the mainland that have scratches along them. The pack started this tradition after they noticed other rocks marked many years ago by Native American and Spanish peoples, Petroglyphs as they are called. The pack scratches a rock for every life lost, be it a stillborn pup or a dog who dies defending the pack from predators. They even scratch rocks for nomadic travellers who may have died in their care.
SHANTYPLACE
An abandoned ranch from the early 1900s that Los Sabuesos seeks refuge in. Beneath the Shantyplace is a small storage and pipes area that the pack uses as a nursery of sorts. On the main floor lay pelts skinned from mustangs, horses, and elk by the previous dwellers of the ranch. The pack uses this, as well as emptied feed sacks and old furniture as bedding. Outside the Shantyplace lay piles of scrap metal and wood, and a corral. Flanks are held in Shantyplace’s outside corral.
BED ROCKS
An open desert territory, mostly made up of arroyo from Salado Rio and Jemez River feeding into the area many years ago. The rivers have since dried up, leaving a flat bed arroyo. This territory is officially under Los Sabuesos control, forcing El Estrago to drink river water rather than the fresh spring water that is offered here. Because of it’s spring water, and certain training and trials that El Estrago enforces, El Estrago often disregards Los Sabuesos’ and enters the area anyways.
COUGARS DEN -
Deeper into Bed Rocks lay a cave full of bones. A cougar, or cougars, are often sighted in this area. El Estrago has a rite and trial in which training dogs must fetch a bone from the collecting pile among this wretched little cave.
COUGAR PETROGLYPH -
Petroglyphs are sacred in Native American culture and many hold high cultural importance and stories. They range from 300 to 3000 years old, and many aren't interpret-table to this day, but there are many throughout New Mexico.
Upon entering the territory of Bed Rocks, you'll find a strangely wondrous marking on a volcanic rock. It is a cougar, a warning in fact, of what could potentially lay ahead. The pack notes this and always try to keep quiet and be weary among Bed Rocks.
FRESH SPRING -
Treading forward into Bed Rocks, you'll find a fresh water spring. The pack brings their old, trusty and rusty bucket down to Bed Rocks every single morning to collect water from this endless stream. Even in the winter, it pours even if it's light. It's been a water source for many years.
A river does lay nearby, but more predators tend to make use of it instead and lurk near it. Most dogs also are not adjusted to the drinking of river water, and those who do tend to drink river water are likely exiled or desperate because of the potential sickness given from drinking the dirt and litter filled water. That is why the pack relies so much on this endless little spring, despite the river nearby.
DEAD ROCKS -
Flat rocks are scattered in the North East area of Bed Rocks. When a pack member dies, they're dragged down here to be lay to rest on a rock and have their pack have a short ceremony in remembrance. Unfortunately, they leave them here because scavenging predators like hawk, owl, and coyotes will eat their dead. But they figure that leaving the dead here to be given such an unfortunate end, is better than hungering predators to be treading into La Tierra and hurting the living.
THE STATION -
In the midst of the semi-arid desert lay an abandoned gas station, once a travel center for Upwalkers. The Station marks the end of patrolled Los Sabuesos land, it also borders Bed Rocks. Coyotes tend to gather here.
FANGOSO -
Off of the highway and easily reached through a drainage tunnel is Fangoso. Fangoso is a simple area where an old, muddied, poor excuse of an oasis can be seen. Water tends to seep through the Earth here to create the large puddle. Usually trainee pack members are brought here by their blood brothers to, well, train, given it's rich in Javelina and practicing defense and attack in the water is a great and popular form of training. This is true for both packs, which has left it an area of territorial struggles.
RABID (RED) RIDGE -
A large expanse of land outside of Bed Rocks, coyotes, cougars, hawks, and lobos run rich here. Dominating the area is a family based group of Lobos often called the Red Ridgers, or Rabid Ridgers.
Rabid Ridge has two names because dogs often refer to it as Rabid Ridge given it's history and stories of wandering rabid coyotes and rabid strays. But of course inhabitants, who more often than not aren't rabid, call it it's original name, Red Ridge.
The pack has tried and failed to claim this area many times, ultimately giving up and instead deeming it a place of exile. Law breakers not killed for their crimes are instead forced to live a life of solitude and constant struggle amid Rabid Ridge...
El Estrago now actively dominates this area as their primary territory, given that they had no where else to go upon their recent creation. However, because of it’s lesser resources and larger population of predators, El Estrago has to travel further and often intrude on Los Sabuesos territory and borders to receive sufficient resources.
CAVE OF MARKINGS -
A strange and ancient cave originally dwelled and crafted by Upwalkers. El Viejo originally found the cave during his wanderings in solitude, and felt a strong tie to it from the old canine painting. It's believed the solitary paw prints are his, and it's forbidden to touch them. Cave of Markings is a mysterious place and isn't told about to pack members unless picked by the leader for a special, secretive ceremony only given to gifted, elder, or heroic pack members. Both El Estrago and Los Sabuesos hold this ceremony of old, and one doesn’t truly know about this ceremony unless actually picked for it.
DEAD DOG'S MINE -
About seven years ago, Los Sabuesos tried to send out a scouting party of seven dogs to scope out more hunting ground. They travelled across Rabid Ridge, but had a run in with visibly rabid coyotes. When they tried to return to camp, the party was exiled out of the pack's precaution. One of the party who didn't seem affected got the attention of some traveling Upwalkers in hopes of them helping, but they called animal control. The dogs fled and ran away from the approaching Upwalkers, hiding in a mine at the end of Rabid Ridge's reaches. Ultimately, the dogs began to starve, and the Upwalkers knew this. They left poisoned food for them outside, and desperate and unknowing, they ate it. One by one, they all died that same fateful day in the mines. They died not as grand Sabueso pack members each had hoped to be, but instead as lost-minded mutts secluded in a dark room, further from home than they had ever been.
Mining projects have been booted up only to be abandoned a few days later because of the unstable Earth. Named Dead Dog's mine by Upwalkers and dogs alike for it's past that is known to both. Needless to say, it is the most eerie place of our locations.
El Estrago has found decent refuge in the area, and raise their pack and young inside it’s crumbling tunnels and small chambers.