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The Cascades
The main valley is spacious, with good grazing, and allows room for several herds. It is fairly wide and open, and mostly flat, with Cascade Creek meandering through the snowgrass of the valley floor and the odd pocket of trees offsetting the heath and snowgrass and the occasional granite outcrop. Several smaller valleys branch off the Cascades, especially towards the head of Cascade Creek at Mt Purgatory, where the terrain becomes steeper. The valley of the Cascades is named for the great waterfall that drops out of it almost 2500 feet into the Indi river below. |
6 | 43 | July 20, 2006 02:59 am In: Finding The Others By: laliclesuk |
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Burrabi Tor
This tor at the very end of Dead Horse Ridge, by the edge of the Main Valley, is the best place in the Cascades area for fighting - and indeed a lot of fights take place here. Fighting may occur anywhere, but it is here that stallions will often take their most important battles, due to the perfect conditions - the hard-packed earth, the great granite tor rising out of the ground with flat surfaces etched by hundreds of hooves, the occasional tree to dodge and weave around and the view over the Cascades. If you want to challenge the King of the Cascades, this is the ideal place to do so. Also, if you fight (and win) in another area of the board and would like to have the results of the fight shown (eg if you defeated an alpha stallion and wish to take the alpha's place) then post the fight stats here, ie who was involved, who won, how long the fight took and degree of injury sustained by each horse. Mares may not squabble for herd positions or resist stallions here, and any mares in the area after a fight are by rights the property of the winning stallion, though if two herd leaders are fighting, the victor may go to the loser's bimble and select from one mare to the whole herd. You may not fight more than three times per RP day, no matter which board it is on. Anyone fighting more often than that will automatically lose and can even die. Death is possible in this area, and fights are judged by the moderator/s based on the skill and attributes of each stallion, as well as by the moves made and general quality of the posts. If requested, a poll will be taken. You may make one move (action) and one counter-move (reaction) per post, eg 'Thunder backed away from Cloud (reaction) and struck out at the other stallion (action).' Any moves made beyond this will be ignored, and unrealistic moves such as slashing at the jugular and trying to break your opponent's back will count against you, not your adversary. |
1 | 11 | July 31, 2006 06:24 pm In: Close To The Tor By: laliclesuk |
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Dead Horse Gap
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2 | 4 | December 17, 2006 06:47 pm In: The Arrival Of Man By: Star |
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The Murray - Midsection This section of the great Murray River stretches down the side of the Cascades and up around the end of the Leatherbarrel. It is a fairly wide river, and can be too deep for foals to cross in places - in the floods of spring it can even be too deep and swift for full-grown horses to cross surely. But alongside the river are gentle green banks lined with paperbarks and black sallees and kingfishers dart to the water's surface for insects like flashes of sparkling blue, showing the river's peaceful side and natural beauty. Several herds can roam along the Murray Valley, but if there are too many or they try to graze too close together, angry neighs and snorts can echo off the Ramshead Range and drift into the Cascades. |
2 | 0 | July 02, 2006 01:01 am In: Painful Colts By: Genundarra |
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The Upper Crackenback
The silver river snakes through the undergrowth, lined with bowed eucalypts, black sallees and tea-tree. On either side are gentle slopes that gradually become steeper as they rise up to a tree-capped ridge on the southern side of the river and the southern face of the Ramshead Range on the opposite side. More trees line the northern bank than the south, and a path winds through these trees, edged with snowgrass, kangaroo grass, wattle and the small bright stars of wildflowers. This is a pleasant place to graze, though Man sometimes turns up here in the summer, with his red-and-white cattle. |
1 | 11 | May 17, 2006 04:49 pm In: Young Horses At The Cracken... By: Star |
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Wanbanalong
This area's name means 'place of kangaroos', and this is indeed a place well-known to kangaroos throughout the mountains, where a roo may sit back with his or her fellow marsupials and ponder the meaning of life in contemplative serenity surrounded by the peaceful sounds of the bush. Wanbanalong lies along the spine of Dead Horse Ridge, where the Pool of the Moon reflects the full moon at times, and is known to all kangaroos and wallabies, even wombats and emus, while other animals either do not know of it or are generally respectful enough not to intrude while the roos are relaxing. |
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