Mina

Mina as a 2 year old wolf, resting in the tall grasses next to a bison skull.

## Mythic-Ironwolf

Mina, also known as Petalbloom or Petalfall, is a she-wolf based off my real life cat of the same name(s)! Her lifetime challenge is none other than the Mythic-Ironwolf - similar to Ultra-Ironwolf, but even more obscenely difficult (because I like to torture myself :3). The rules to Mythic-Ironwolf are as follows:

* **Your wolf must be an Ironwolf.**
* **The game must be set to Accurate difficulty at all times.**
* **All your stats must be set to -2.**
* You are not allowed to scavenge carcasses - only hunt your own food. Coming back to *your* carcasses is allowed.
* No age perks are allowed whatsoever.
* After having pups, your mate must die. You may only get a new mate after Endless Summer is initiated, but purely for the sake of having more pups next year. After that, they must die too, and so on.
* Your pups may only eat regurgitant - only you may eat small carcasses and meat chunks (again, as long as it was your prey).
* Your wolf's personality values must be set to the least convenient pup personalities - Bold / Balanced / Energetic.
* Always choose the smallest territory configs.
* After having pups, do not mark your territory.
	+ Names work more-or-less the same way as they do in Warriors - 1 month old pups have the -kit suffix, 2 month olds have the -paw suffix, and pups that live to Endless Summer can have any suffix.
	+ Use a random number generator (or roll a dice) to decide which map you'll be playing on for that year of your wolf's life.

*\*the **bolded** rules are the original Ultra-Ironwolf rules, which are obviously mandatory for a challenge. The underlined rules are completely optional.*

To achieve victory, your wolf must pass away from old age. Isn't that ~~torture~~ ***fun***?

## Detailed History (As of most recent playthrough)!

### Age 2 <33

#### First Quest - Learning to Hunt

Mina's life started out at Second Meadow of Slough Creek. Immediately after arrival, she located a bison skull. After a photoshoot, she headed west towards the Pussytoes elk herd - where she succesfully hunted an elk calf that already had low health prior to the attack - about 25%. It left her with 56% health, and thankfully no injuries. However, the herd was still insistant on guarding the carcass, and she lost 3% more of her health. After the herd left, she ate as much as she could before falling asleep on the carcass. In fact, she slept twice, with eating-breaks in-between. After her second sleep, she got up and was at 97% health. In the night, she made her way to the elk herd again, because a cougar appeared at her previous kill and she didn't feel like risking a fight. This time, she made the herd run before picking out her prey. It was another calf, this one at 50% of its health. She barely managed to kill it, with 33% hp remaining.

Mina with the Bison Skull
#### Second Quest - Finding a Mate

The moment she learned how to hunt, Mina headed northwest towards the howl of a nearby dispersal males, leaving her fresh kill. There were two Avalanche dispersal males - 64M with the 7F coat (2\* diversity), and 62M with an orange-tinted 10M coat (3\* diversity). She rejected them, and headed back east towards the sound of other males. There she found two Toadflax males - 47M with a Frosty coat (2\*), and 44M with a 925M coat (2\*). She picked out the Frosty as her very first mate. They went back to one of Mina's previous calf victims and encountered a bear. Mina took a meat chunk and ran, but the Frosty ate it anyway. They slept, and after waking up they walked back to the carcass yet again - this time there was a pack of coyotes, and they fought for a fair bit. During the coyote battle, Mina and I realized his personality was Bold / Loner / Lazy. Yikes. Nevertheless, they eventually emerged victorious and got to eat. Then they slept.. again. Once they woke up in the evening, they interacted some more. Mostly by howling, but also sniffing noses and such. Their affinity was raised to 78%, which was when they decided to become mates. His new name was Whitenose.

Mina's Meeting with WhitenoseThe hillside on which Mina found him!
#### Third Quest - Establishing a Territory

The pair swiftly marked a 15 hex territory in one go, without hunting, sleeping or anything. It stretched from the hex covering McBride Creek, and ended at the very east of Second Meadow. It was also vertically 3 hexes thick, stretching all the way to a Gravel Fan level. Along the way, they came across an old grizzly bear skull, and they carried it all the way to their den of choice. Speaking of dens, they discovered multiple densites, namely the Tree Hut, McBride Cliffside and Mulberry's den. One more was randomly discovered by the game itself once they were finished marking - Cloud's den. Before officially finishing the quest, though, they came across Whitenose's brother again - the one with the 925M coat. That's when the choice was made to have him as the next litter's father.

The OG pair marking territory!Mina with the Grizzly Skull in the snow!
#### Fourth Quest - Choosing a Den

Once early spring arrived, it didn't take long for the pair to arrive to their final destination - the McBride Cliffside. They had already discovered the den prior to the quest's start, so it wasn't much of an issue. It was time for the pups to arrive, which also meant it was Mina's birthday.

### Age 3

#### Fifth Quest - Raising Pups

Mina's 3rd birthday didn't really matter whatsoever, as she wasn't able to get any age perks anyway. The important thing was the arrival of springtime puppies - four males, and one female. Adderkit was the name of the eldest son (because that's the name of the real Mina's son). He had the Brown Base coat, with slight white and orange tints respectively. Then there was Silverkit, the only daughter. Her coat was Gray White, with a strong orange tint that made her less silver and more beige. Birchkit was another male, with none other than the Pale Gray coat! I'm fine with either Pale Gray outcomes, so that was exciting. Coralkit was a Gray Mix male with no orange/brown hues, but rather a strong white tint. Lastly there was Reedkit, a male Brown Mix with a slight white/orange tint exactly like Adderkit. Sadly, this meant Whitenose's time was running out, and he would be killed off soon. Sorry, Whitenose! After feeding the pups (and of course sleeping), Mina brought Whitenose over to a group of 3 bull bison just northwest of the den, and he took 4 hits before succumbing to his wounds. She, being a Mythic-Ironwolf, didn't take the slightest bit of damage. After the death of her very first mate, Mina decided to run around and look for snowshoe hares, as they seriously come in clutch. After killing two, she had just enough to feed her pups *once,* leaving them all at 88% of their food. Thankfully, Purity graced her with another, which was just enough for yet another feeding. Reedkit and Silverkit pigged the hell out, so while they had 100%, Adderkit still had 88%. Coralkit and Birchkit had 96% each. With that, they slept yet again, and woke up at dawn... only to see Coralkit fell ill. As usual, everyone went inside the den and hung out with him since 100% wakefulness. They stayed until reaching 0%, and he was down to 85% of his health. Things were looking alright - the health depletion rate was *1%hp per 6.5%wk*, but the others already needed food somewhat. *Plus, a little note: Coralkit tried his hardest to play chase with his brothers, despite being ill and unable to run. How cute is that?* Anyway, Mina decided to sleep instead of hunting, as everyone's food meters were still around 60-70%. Waking up outside the den was stressful, and they swiftly went inside now that Mina's wakefulness was replenished to 36%. She decided to wait until it dropped to 15% or so before going hunting, as an elk herd was nearby when she last checked. However, it was nowhere to be found, but she needed food urgently at this point. She hoped that, by some miracle, Purity would bless her and she would gather up enough snowshoe hares to feed everyone. After a long and chaotic scramble, she managed to gather enough snowshoe hares to feed everyone, but affinity was low, and she was at Hornaday Creek in the middle of Junction Butte territory. It truly was a race against time. By the time she reached the Gravel Fan, Silverkit had left the den. Thankfully though, she arrived home and managed to find her, since only wandered a little bit. She gave the pups all the food she could, but before they finished eating, two stranger wolves from the Oxbow Pack attacked - 2M with a Blackfire coat, and 5F with a 3rd Mother coat. By climbing up to a high ground, she evaded them and intimidated them by repedeately snarling. The pups came back out and managed to stuff food into their mouths until they were completely full. At this point, Coralkit's hp was plummeting, and it had reached 55%. Mina slept the moment everyone was done feeding. After spending even more time with Coralkit, Mina woofed the pups into the den, at which point a cougar attacked. It ended up being on the cliff above the den, so she managed to intimidate it, though Reedkit and Silverkit did leave the den shortly. Mina ended up taking short naps and hanging out with Coralkit inside the den until he finally healed at 26% of his health. At that point, everyone was between 6.2 and 8.4 pounds.

Mina ended up sleeping on and off until she reached 66% wakefulness. She was trying to raise pack affinity so she could go hunt, but right as the affinity reached 73%, Reedkit got sick. The pups' food bars were at around half, and she knew she had to get them food while she still had wakefulness, so she prioritized that over Reedkit for the time being. She went up north toward some elk and hunted a few hares along the way, but just as she was getting vlose to the herd, CL 1202F and 1203F attacked. She was forced to retreat with 62% food and 38% wakefulness, so she made the choice to spend the rest of her wk on Reedkit, raise affinity some more, and then go hunt hares in Oxbow or Junction Butte territory instead.