Part 1 – Nights in the Glade

When Nera awoke in the morning the light was streaming down into the clearing. He looked around wondering if what he saw during the night was real or just a dream. If it was real what had happened after the stag looked at Nera, straining to remember his head grew weary and he collapsed back into a sleep.

It was early afternoon by the time Nera woke once more. Feeling light headed and rather parched he hung his head over the rocks and took a mouthful of water. Something stirred in the forest outside the clearing and Nera paused, looking up to see where the noise had come from. His ears pricked up as another noise, this time closer, came from outside the clearing.

Feeling weak and very exposed, Nera crept backwards off the rocks and took cover behind a large rotting log on the edge of the clearing. Just as he settled in, a noise on the other side of the clearing announced someone else’s arrival. To scared to peak out and see who was there, Nera steadied himself and tried as best he could to make no noise. Leaves crunched under the weight of footsteps and Nera’s breath grew heavy as the sound came around to the side of the clearing where he hid.

Nera heard the clattering of hooves against stone and grew curious enough to poke his head out from behind his cover. Slowly and carefully he peaked around the side of the log, but saw nothing in the clearing. Confused, Nera poked his head further out to better see the surroundings; just as he did he felt a tap on his shoulder. Nera jumped and fell to the ground; he scrambled to turn around and saw the black stag, staring down at him. Warmth flooded Nera’s body and as the stag leaned down to him, he felt a kind and gentleness coming from him. Still frightened, Nera tried moving but vines and flowers had risen from the ground entangling his body. A sharp pain spread across him as one of the vines coursed over the wound on his leg, leaving a throbbing reminder of his clumsiness.

Cavalier surprised me today.......

HE FREAKING GREW UP D8

It wasn't supposed to happen today......meeeh? What do I do with you now? *pokes* I wasn't ready! :C

Well........I don't know buuuut.............OMFG I HAVE ANTLERS!!! >8D

*runs around with head down charging at stuff till he gets his head stuck in a tree*

awww....crap.

"Come on, spit it out."

Her picked at the lily flowers at her hooves mournfully. "It's stupid. Really, it is. No big deal." She chewed on the sweet buds, avoiding Tuna's eyes. How was it that she was telling her partner less and less these days? She wished herself to believe it was the doe's abrasive attitude, but the little voice in the back of her head told her otherwise.

"Look, Her. It's torture to see you with your feathers ruffled this bad. Tell me what's up." Tunafish nibbled on a strawberry, her eyes glittering with unusual concern. The water lapped at the duo's hooves as Her reluctantly looked up to meet her eyes. "It sounds like I'm hooked on this, but...Renojack. He's what's up." Her friend didn't sigh n exasperation - She must be holding it in, she thought with a flicker of amusement. The navy-and-white doe smiled sadly at her in a romantic sort of way. "Babe, look. He left a message in the Otherworld two days ago. He's coming home soon, real soon. Aren't you satisfied knowing that?"

"But he might not come back to me anymore. Why would he?"

It had slipped out. Her sucked in her cheeks in embarrasement. The other doe looked positively astonished. "Why WOULDN'T her be?!" She opened her mouth to start ranting, but another voice popped up behind her. "Her, you have no idea."

Srila's wiry form plopped down beside Her. Martisol appeared on the other side. Both were smiling as if they knew a secret shared between them alone. Tuna grinned. "Why don't you tell 'er, girls?"

"You're beautiful."

"Poetic."

"Marvelous at what you do in the Otherworld."

Today the forest was fun. I danced with a brown deer and orange deer with small antlers and a deer with really big red antlers, that one is cool. Who are you? Where do you get antlers? I saw a deer running and it was sitting down. How do you do that?!?!

My friends...my enemies...can you confirm the words of my Lady?

Is one of the Gods truly twisting their hooves around the skies, meddling with my curses properties, trying to free it from me?

As I lie here upon the flowerbed, my ears still tilt towards the sound of not but birds. My Lady has hope, and so do I. Might I wander as a normal fae once more?

Pray to the Twin Gods for me, deer friends...if you have the time to spare...and enemies, pray that I shall be hushed of my curse forever more. For once I wander beyond this forest and into the true forest, I shall leave this accursed past behind. But I shall walk forward...forward, towards my friends...

*smiles*...

I'm heading off to New Hampshire and Maine for the weekend. This vacations has

been well overdue and now that everything is settling down we're FINALLY taking a vacation!

Friends and Lightbringers, please be patient everything I owe you will get done sooner or later! I

promise! I love you all and keep spreading the light! (you can still post your screenshots and such, I

will get to them when I return!) Until we meet again!

~Mystress

*pokes the forest*

Alright.

So, at first I thought the live map wasn't working for me that well. Then I looked in the game, and...there were only two pictograms in my picto clump. So I listened...but no pictos spread, so this meant that the forest is quite...vacant o_o;

WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

EDIT: ...*confused* Was the back-up server up or something? I know it's not up now...the Live Map is updating (never happened with the back-up server), my pictograms aren't spreading, and non-3.21 people haven't said a word.

...starvation.



(Where is everyone! It's not a bug, as I watched first Tabithaa, then Seele, then a random fawn leave. )

Quad's legs were stiff. The creatures continued toward him at remarkable speeds. He couldn't seem to move any part of him.

"Run! Run, Quad!!", the voices of his parents called to him. He finally moved and ran, not looking back. He didn't know how fast he was going, but it didn't matter - the only thing on his mind was to survive.

He could hear two of the creatures just behind him. He kept running, until one of the infecteds was able to get infront of him. Quad slid to a halt, almost colliding with the infected form of Lieka. He turned to see Aspen there, who also carried the disease. Quad lowered his antlers at them, "Back off!", he yelled. It didn't phase the deer, who continued to approach him. Aspen lunged at Quad, who braced his antlers and connected with the infected. This gave Lieka the opportunity to ram into him from the side, tossing him down forcefully. Quad stumbled to his feet and tried to regain his breath when Aspen thrust his antlers into Quad's chest.

The stag was already in tremendous pain when the other infecteds arrived and encircled him. His vision was blurry, and all he could do was lower his antlers and ward off any attacks made to him. He connected antlers with Hunter, while FIU and Nina caught him on the sides. Backing off, he blocked another attack from Pan, while Lorak and Rutilus got him on the sides. He was slowly losing his strength as several antler thrusts connected with his body. He slowly slunk to the ground in agony. His body was going into shock when another infected tried to attack him.

UNDER HEAVY CONSTRUCTION 8D



[=#8BB381]Name: Charlie
Pictogram: here
How to remember: My girlfriend says it looks like a weathervein, so there lol
Title: Creature of the Night (lol Rocky Horror)
Theme song: Getting Away With Murder - Papa Roach
Gender: Stag
Age: Ageless
Appearance: Peacock pelt, orca antlers, and fan mask, and he's rather skinny with long, skinny legs, and a long neck.
Personality: He's a mean son of a gun, so anybody he sees (save for Minion), he'll taunt, rear up against, and try to scare off. So don't mind him. He won't actually hurt you. He's truly lonely, but is too insecure to admit it to anybody.
Locations: Wherever he wants to be. Generally with any deer he can try to intimidate.
Likes:

-Eating fawns

-Intimidation

-Fog

-Night

-Zombies

Dislikes:

-Twin Gods

-Goody-goodies

-Deer that gang up on him

Mate: None
Friends:

-Minion

Family: None
Other:

-If he's feeling lonely, he'll generally hide out in the Great Oak.

Fanarts:

by Silent