Yesterday a strange phenomenon was spotted in the Forest. A nameless stag that wouldn't move; it just stood in one place by the pond.

It was noticed, however, that if one were to have it in their view as they're moving away, it would start running once they reached a certain distance.

Move closer again, even by just a tiny amount, if it's "within range", it'll stop running again, as Scape shows.

He performed this test a second time using a different location, with the same results.


This was followed by the sighting of what was believed to be Zaeyde's picto on the border. It quickly disappeared, so Scape made nothing of it. Until he chose a random direction to run in and came across this.

Zaeyde's picto, deerless. In just a moment, a default deer soon appeared on the spot, bearing the picto. Both disappeared soon after.
And then...

Are zombie antlers randomly sprouting from the riverbank?

As Scape faded from the forest, the nameless was still seen in the same spot. Hopefully the next day it would fade too.
Except it didn't...

Now that I'm finished with Divine Intervention, I don't want to start my next story yet. Dunno what I should do now...

Anyway, for those of you who missed it, I finished the story yesterday:

http://www.endlessforest.org/community/divine-intervention-epilogue

I guess I'll start working on some short stories. I have a few ideas that would be inspired by things I went through while playing as Quad, including -

Fawnhood

- Meeting the Great Zombie Deer
- Finding the red pelt at the Crying Idol
- Learning to waterwalk
- Quad's curiosity about small animals
- Finding the red flowers (and reactions from other deer)
- Hide-And-Seek through the big trees

Staghood
- Quad's dark days (a.k.a. the buttsniffing time)
- Meeting Auriea and losing his antlers
- The head-mount trick
- Guarding the old bridge with Quamar
- Floating Nem

--- winded ---

Hark, you foulest zephyr
You shall never tread before me
With your cutting hooves and hushings
Bringing chillings down their spines

Take what I'm throwing down
Dance with bolts of sapphire lightning
With their lazuli and amethyst
To lock your eyes with mine

And that, my dear companion
Is the reason why you're scarce
And why the birch forestry's grasses
Never lay or break or bend

A toughie? Break my thunder?
What a dolt, oh what a blunder
That you think that you can pass between
Reality and here

For we cut world from world
And we sewed it back together
Took a fleck of time and weather
For ourselves to have and hold

But the winds, they never stray here
And they cannot ever stay here
For we are not social beings
To the world which you call home

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What do you think? Is it "Poetry en Motion"-worthy?

It's about why the forest has no wind.

I know, it's kinda short, tell me if I should lengthen it.

But outside, a storm ahs been brewing and the wind is basically rumbling through the trees, I can feel it. If I don't post this now, I'll be gone for a while, until the storm passes.

Envy:;.~

I feel it much more often then I should now.

I envy the does that converse so easily with stags. I envy their bravery to simply walk up to them and greet a new stag like they were old friends. I envy the control over emotions they have; to be to control their urge to run in embarrassment away from him. Or maybe that part is just me; I never show emotion, and when I do I can never control it.

I envy their beauty.

I envy the does who attract every stag to their slender frame and warm eyes. I feel like a repellent, always shunned from a group because of how much a stag I look. My eyes are a cold slate blue, never to be warm or inviting. My pelt is a dark opaque shade, shaggy and disgusting. My mask… My mask is what defines me well. Most does are blessed with the beautiful deer mask, and oh, what an amazing sound it makes! But I have made I promise… I never wear that mask in honor of the doe Run.

My bellow is deep, not graceful and moving like most does’. My body is muscular, not slender and lithe. My walk is slow and annoying, not quick and timed. My face is partly disguised and hides the monster I will become in a few months…

I envy the does.

What am I to claim that I love him?

Hopefully this may change.

Pray that it might.

Best Regards,

Aspen;;

hi its me ariah. so im a fawn right now and i dont know how to make her grow up!

soo the game is kool but i also dont know when the festavel of the 2 gods is so.



thats prittty much it.





if you have awnsers please tell me.

The title says it all.

I haven't been on the forest lately because a friend found a fun MMO and it's a bad idea to show me new or highly addictive things. Horray for digital crack! But since I've hit the leveling wall and am not that great at finding parties I'll come back to just checking out the forest next time I'm bored instead of staring at my Chaos Mage/Sword Mistress killing Evil Cats and Fire Mimics.

And to make things easier I decided that since someone was kind enough to tell me how to save my screenshots as something besides .bmp without having to open them all in paint and convert them separately and since photobucket has a bunch of convenient things that imagshack doesn't like mass uploading and folders that I'd just make a folder for every time I visit the forest and put the description right there with the image. Fun, ne? And since Photobucket does this thing where it sotra makes a manual slide show all on its own I only have to post one link and let you scroll through at your own leisure. Yay!


(Click the image)

...

I do not know what to write anymore.

My mind has gone assunder.

Nothing makes sense to me.

And lonliness feels all the more painful.

My mind has gone the way of lead feathers. Of piercing grass. Of ever-darkening rays as the sun climbs higher. Of water that takes up no space.

I've gone into a place with no entrance. So how did I come in?

I feel I've traveled miles, but I look back and see the place where I began.

...

I speak of insane things that will never come to be. Why? My mind was so clear... until that day...

Could it be that socializing has brought me to my knees? Has the one thing I thought would prevent my insanity actually provoked it? I can't help but wonder why I cannot think straight. So much to take in... Yet my mind couldn't take it.

After I left them, those so very kind deer, I walked. And walked. Until even I didn't know where I was. I was exhausted and hungry, but still I pressed forward. Soon I collapsed, and unable to get up, I squirmed pathetically. I was glad no one was there. And so I stopped, finally. And thought.

Only to find that I could not think.

How I sat there and grunted silently, trying to come up with a single thought, but yet, nothing! You cannot ever imagine what it is like unless it's happened to you. It's incredibly frustrating. And so, becoming angrier, I decided to put my blank mind to use, and fell asleep.

A week had passed since the Abiogenesis. Despite the fact that Winter was fast approaching, the Endless Forest was still as warm and lively as ever. The festivities were soon a memory, and the deer were back to their old routines.

The morning brought a slight breeze of the Autumn wind, while the early sun was already warming the deer. Quad awoke from his pillar at the Ruins, stretching and yawning before making his usual trip to the pond. He wore his new red antlers proudly, and despite how lunky they felt, he loved how they caught the sunlight and warmed him. It was an unusually pleasing feeling.

Upon trotting to the pond, he noticed three fawns were already up. The trio stopped their early play and greeted him, giving him respect due to his massive size (or at least that's what they thought because of his antlers). He bowed to them before moving on.

After taking a much needed drink, he made his way to the Twin Gods' hill. The Forest Elders were already up and waiting for him, and upon his arrival they bowed to one another. "Well, look at you.", Magnet said. Quad smiled, holding his head high and displaying his antlers for them to see. "The Twin Gods were definately pleased with your performance on the journey.", he continued. Silent spoke next, "Now is the time for you to take the next step on becoming a Forest Shaman.", he said.