~RAR
lately i've been turning my game on, finding a fairy circle, and just sleeping in a sunny patch. the sounds of The Forest are so calming, it's almost like sitting outdoors to relax. the whimsical ambient music is also very soothing, i kind of wish that TEF had a real "soundtrack" to listen to. even the different voices roaring the forest aren't disturbing or distracting but rather enhancing to the entire experience.

(and sometimes i wish that when it snows there would be snow on the ground but alas, i'm afraid that it would be a developmental problem that ToT just can't conquer right now. but someday. . . .)

~Artemis
The Forest has slowly been changing its face from a dark, foggy shroud to its more open, green self. I have noticed fewer and fewer swarms of bats - my tiny little friends - and the fog is dissipating, the candles are slowly disappearing and the God of Death is nowhere to be found.

After such a frenzy of activity The Forest seems like a worn-out host after a long party.

~RAR
i think that i prefer to play TEF during the fall and winter months. sometimes i'll log on during the spring and summer, but the game seems so much more homey when it gets dark outside at 6 but The Forest is still sunny-dappled and beautiful. of course, i always enjoy logging on and seeing the dark mists, candles, and bats. i've been having too much fun with my new deer Artemis walking around The Forest and taking artsey screen shots.

but anyway, i'm just posting to say i'm still alive and i'm back in the forest! moo!

~RAR
i made an AIM account to log onto when i'm playing TEF. the e-mail address is "deerpan (at) aim (dot) com". feel free to add me as a friend! i might take a while to add people back, and it wouldn't hurt if you sent me a message with your picto or bio so i know exactly who i'm talking to. i'm a little paranoid online, but i promise i'm nice

~RAR
the New Year has rung in, and also a New Decade. i wish that this year we would concentrate on the "new decade" part more; it feels more revolutionary, and more like we're turning over a new leaf. a "new year" just feels like another year in the long strain of years we've been living before, but a "new decade". . . it's a brand new decade!

eh, i dunno.

of course, like everyone else, i've made "new years resolutions"; which - to me, at least - just seems like more standards i can have a chance at missing, but maybe this year i'll be more motivated. one of my new years resolutions is to get better at gaming. i know it's an odd resolution, but i feel like my lack of control with the two-joystick design of 360 and PS3 controllers really gets in the way of my gaming experience. and since 1) i work at a game store, and thus should be educated and 2) since i play games as an artistic experience i feel like is should 1) a. be able to relate better to my clientele by playing more games, better, and 2) a. be able to better "communicate" with the game designers. all of these goals i can meet by being a better gamer.

it will be really easy, though, since there are a TON of new, incredible games for me to play. i still need to finish Assassin's Creed II, and Bayonetta, Mass Effect II, Bioshock II, and Dante's Inferno are all coming out within the next few months. (the only thing that troubles me about this list is how many games are sequels. . .) not to mention the fact that Final Fantasy XIII comes out in just a few short months, as well.

i played the demo for Dante's Inferno and i was blown away. i highly doubt that many fans here in the Forest would be interested in it, considering it's dark, and highly twisted nature. but if anyone else has played it, let me know what you think! i love discussions the only problem about playing the demo is that now i want to play the full game, and that doesn't come out for another month.

~RAR
i just want to wish everyone a happy new year! and happy new decade! may this next decade of our new millennium be much better than the last!

~RAR
so i keep trying to post responses to responses in blogs (like responses to my blog posts, or someone else's) but the site tells me that i have to "specify a valid author" with the problem number "4192". anyone know what that's all about? i want so very badly to be able to communicate with everyone here on the community site, but that's a mite bit difficult when i can't respond to blog posts.

~Pan
Alicev, you offered to help me get my pelt and mask back, do you still want to play? I'm wondering in the forest, I'm going to the Big Oak next. I'd love to be friends ^_^

~Pan
I'm such a klutz! I was so proud of my new set and I had to go and ruin it! I was just taking a drink in the pond and suddenly I fell in. Now i'm back to being plain, old, drab brown.

Anyone want to help me get it back?

~ Pan & RAR

RAR & Pan

~RAR~
adulthood isn't all it's cracked up to be. but along with the bad comes the very very good, and for that i can't complain.

i work most days of the week, now. i find very little time to play in the forest, but with a job comes that illusive creature "money", and with money perhaps i can donate to the forest to make it just a little bit brighter.

this has been the most bittersweet year of them all. and with a New Year approaching i can feel the paradigms of the world begin to shift. not just my own situation but the lives and situations of those i love around me are changing, as well.

~Pan~
winter is approaching in the forest, the cold hand of Death has passed and now Sleep is coming to us all. There are so many new faces in the forest i know that i'll never be able to know them all.

~RAR & Pan~

just like bicycles.

~ RAR

i played with my rats today and it was wonderful. i do love my little girls, my little babies. Boo is such a little sweet-heart and i love her curley whiskers, and Tink is just hilarious to watch.

~ Pan

As the forest and my fellow Deer ready themselves for the All Hallow's Eve celebration I can feel an electricity in the air. Every day as I wonder I will find that wall of fog, and can hear the bats flittering above me, and hear their almost imperceptible language of squeaks and squeals. The Big Zombie Deer, that God of Death, is always asleep when I find Him, but I know that soon He shall awaken and we shall celebrate Death - and in a circular way, Resurrection, as well.

The velvet on my antlers is, for the second time in my life, shedding, and my antlers itch something aweful. As well, I'm feeling antsy. I'm wishing I had another Stag to compete with - not to harm, but to release all this energy.

Maybe, some day, competition will be allowed by the Twins.

**~~**