I know it's a long shot for anyone to know who I am at this point. I haven't been around much at all on the blog site. I'm one of the oldies though, weather people really remember me or not is a different story.
I remember playing the game before there was much in the forest beyond a hill and a creek with a bridge that had a deer always asleep on it. And always the same deer.
I used to run around and this odd deer would show up randomly and play with me. It took me a year or so to realize there was a forum and realize there was a human controlling that deer and it was Michael.
I can be a bit slow on the uptake.
I used to be active on the forums, actually, but not so much in the past year or so.
I'm back now though. Hopefully for good.
I can say the forest isn't recognizable anymore. It's always got deer running around in it. A far cry from when I began playing and thought the only deer there were in the forest were NPCs that were asleep.

I'd like to introduce Rya though. She's an old deer with a young hart. (yay puns) A doe who enjoys the simple things like running and jumping and playing with the fawns. She doesn't remember being a fawn herself, but she has decided she likes the little sprouts. When she's running around her coat is most often red, though under the tears of the river god, her coat is often more muted, unless one of the sprouts has changed it while she napped again. Her antlers are more often then not of the graceful sort that flow behind her head, though she enjoys her flowers and candles when she's feeling a bit prettier than she usually does.
If it rains Rya is often out playing in the falling water, rather than hiding under the trees, and her favorite snack is the luscious dandelions she so often naps in. When she doesn't want to be disturbed, she stays in the blue berry bowl just a bit from her favorite part of the creek near the river god. The old ruins tend to frighten her however. She swears she saw ghostly lights near there once before, and the odd relics left in that place always seem threatening. She dares not venture to it on her own, though if there are deer there that are not being scary and strange, she'll approach without getting too close.