It's been a while since I saw my beloved forest.
There's always this moment of fear before I know there are other deer out there, lowing and calling sleeping and playing among the grass.
I feel a little old and silly sometimes. Especially since I've never been much of a code user.
I've changed computers, and my lovely blue/grey coat, mini body, beluga mask, and antelope horns are gone.
But each time I see new pictos in the forest I giggle.
I remember when there were so many of my picto, and I smile, seeing deer in the ruins, at the statues. I see them sleeping in the patches of sunlight and by the pond.
I hear that old rattling call of a skeleton deer and seek out the candle-covered antlers of its owner.
I'm so glad this forest is continuing to live on and thrive.

Everyone stopped moving. Then suddenly, everyone vanished. My connection had gone kaput.
That's not so unusual, even though I haven't had it happen in a long time.
The funny thing was, just as I was logging in again, I saw a bunch of "naked" deer run by, then vanish, right before pictos started gathering.
There were some glitches when I logged in, too. The deer around me stood up, sat down, stood up, sat down again--which I've seen before, but then a clone suddenly appeared, and it was running in place, then everyone glitched to different spots at the same time the clone vanished.

Oh, and then two nameless deer showed up, which is nothing strange (if unusual to see more than one at a time), but for a second I wondered if the "phantom deer" I saw while connecting were back...

Everything happened too fast for me to get screenshots, even if I'd thought of it.

Do I have to wait longer? Its been a month

Also do you just go on the game and your deer is grown when your connected to the network?

I hope I grow up soon .

This is a bit of a late archive update, but it is very much needed. Over the past few months I've been moving and we only recently finished. It's good to be back, though!





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