Freeform this time. Written while sitting with Magnet tonight. Diary Entry (hopefully) coming in the morning.

Koi

They are otherworldly dancers,
with long trains and white sleeves
on dresses painted with blossoms of color.
They move like the flight of birds
like the tranquil buzzing of dragonflies
Clustering, they pinch and nibble
at water-born roots and gulp
at crunchy fallen insects.
They dwell in a blue-tinted world,
in the underwater forest of lilypads
and the shadow of the bloom.

Hovering Wings

Mud-hidden stones glimmer ; reeds
gain irradescence. The shimmering
water is hurled back
in on itself. The world
becomes bright and blurred,
full of surreptisious
whispering, of buzz and hum
and the softest flickering.
The world seems to glide
for all the frantic flapping,
when seen through the wings
of a dragonfly.


(( Not familiar with Seed's Poetry? You should be! Seed's Poetry Corner: The Collection ))

Zephyr here! You would believe it! My little brother, Axie, was in the forest today!!

For the first time in a long while, I was really happy! I haven't danced and laughed in ages. Maybe I'm the happiest when I'm with my brother!

And look, screenshots of us together!


Axie sure has gotten bigger since the last time I saw him!


We look really silly!


I never realized how fun it was to dress up, either.


Axie had to leave for a while. I was heartbroken.




But then he came back. I think this is his set now.


We're absolutely inseparable!

I had a lot of fun with you, brother! I'm glad to have seen you again, and I had hoped your stag day would come soon.

A lovely poem, and picture I'm sure some are
familiar with. I don't know who wrote this
poem, but its beautiful.

uh. would you marry emiva and i?
we can set up the date an everything.
so will you?
could you be the wedding planner??

Deer that looked a little like Lemons picto, had skeleton pelt, and skull mask, and (doe?) antlers. They were very shy, and Mystress is interested in knowing who it was. Kaoori, thanks for bearing with me. I forgot to take screenies -pwns self-

is the server being all buggy or is that just me? we moved Moms computer up to my room so....

JUST WONDERING KTHANXBAI. trying to get Bellsio to have some fun but instead all the deer are just standing there XD

Oooh, I just watched this show called wild kids, and a verry close friend of mine is participating, he is 3 years younger then me, and he's like the little brother I never had.
And when they got to like talk about friends and family, and the first thing he said was that he never had a sistrby blood, but he found his big sister in me, I was so touched, and then he looks in to the camera and goes "We may not me related by blood, but we sure are by heart, I love you sis'" I like... Died, I just had to shed a tear! 8'D He is just the sweetest<'3

a....... new deer..... mebe c:

Her (yes another girl x3) name will be Hortense, and she will be Lenore's daughter, well, not neccessarilly her daughter, we dont really know. What we do know is that she is almost always seen at Lenore's side, small and silent.

As a human she carries a little doll, but as a deer I was thinking she could be... hmm... grey as well? x3 With BIG blue eyes. She's a blonde though. cx Lenore's a brunette :x

She has been through much a many turmoil and never laughs, or smiles.

OKAY SHOULD I MAKE HER OR NOT X3;;

I was thinking this might be her color c:
while this is Lenore's

**UPDATED**

Hello everyone! It's 2010 now and I see people are still linking to this blog.
It was made back in the time people were using the "permadevout pelt" exclusively, and a few of us decided to bring it out when we found out how it worked.

Though, times are a changing and The Endless Forest now works with server-side spelldata since version 3.4. In this version, permadevout does not work anymore. If anyone can prove me wrong on this, you can give me a description how to work it out in 3.4, but I don't think it's possible.

It does work in 3.31, and it works in this way:

Make sure your deer is carrying no pelt but the default pelt. Pray at the twingods statues, and wait untill you get the devout pelt. As soon as you have it, go into the menu by pressing ESC on your keyboard, or the little green dot in the bottom left corner of your screen. Then go to network, and click "disconnect". Reconnect again, but make sure your deer is standing UPRIGHT before TEF connects.
It may not work all the time, and you may have to try a few times, but this is how to get the permadevout pelt in 3.31

There is also a method that will work pretty much 99% of the time if you do it right.

Make sure your deer is carrying no pelt but the default pelt. Get someone else, or start the forest twice, to cast the devout pelt on you. As soon as the yellow bright glow start appearing on your deer, indicating a spell has been cast, but the pelt isn't visible yet, click disconnect in the network menu. It's a good idea to have your deer sitting and your mouse ready on the disconnect button before the other casts on you. As soon as every other deer poofs, you will get the pelt whilst disconnected. Connect, and the pelt will stay.

Again, I don't think this is possible in 3.4. But don't worry, we have many pretty pelts to choose from, and you are all very creative! I bet it's not a problem

Love,

Misako.

Chapter 5 - Snow

The bitter winds howled, a flurry of snow and ice pelting the two weary deer as they continued on. They had been walking for hours, losing the ground to layers of snow and having to take each step carefully so they wouldn't sink into the blanket of white. Axie's eyes felt like they were frozen shut, and he tried to keep up with his sister, who shielded him from most of the storm. Her legs were numb, but she refused to rest...she refused to die here.

Axie cried out to her, "Zephyr! I can't...", but the doe glared at her brother and called in reply, "Yes you can! We're going to make it! Keep going!" The young stag hesitantly took another step, but his legs gave in and he collapsed into the snow. Zephyr turned to see her brother curling up, his eyes slowly closing. "Axie!", she gasped, and hurried to him. Slipping as she approached, she covered him with her body, warming him with her belly. "Axie! Axie!!", Zephyr cried. Her brother looked up at her, shivering and gasping for air. "Just let me rest...", he began, but his sister shook her head, "Come on, Axie!" Axie's head slowly sank. He had lost all hope, and began to give into the cold.

"Just leave me, sister. I'm a burden...", Axie said. "No! Axie, no!", Zephyr bent down and nuzzled his face. Axie pressed his face into hers, but said to her, "Just...let me...die..."

The world seemed to go silent for the two of them. Their bodies shivered together, and in that moment, Zephyr thought of her brother, all of the memories they made. She thought of her mother...and how devastated she would be if Zephyr returned alone. She thought about Axie never enjoying the Forest, and what it would be like without him...