This morning in the forest I saw a small red deer talking talking with a deer with a grey pelt and broken antlers, both in a hyacinth patch. Being Spartak, I joined in the fun, dancing and "mooing" and skipping. The strange grey deer ( I call him Grandfather because he looks old), looked like he was eating something off the ground without even rubbing a tree for it. I think this deer was a player in an old version of The Endless Forest. I followed Grandfather around without him seeming to mind much, but what was really strange was that he (or she) had the same picto as Spartak. But I assume that if this player was logged in, I could see what their pictogram looked like. It would probably look different than our modern pictos do now, because it was an old version of the game. Anyway, if you see a grey deer with broken antlers in the forest today, it could be Grandfather.

I know I haven't been active much on here, but I do come in and stalk some blogs every once in a while xD

How are you all? I hope you're doing well and are enjoying your lives.
As for me, I am starting school in two days and I will be a junior in high school. I'm excited, nervous, kind of everything xD
This is the year when my school is going to have us focus on colleges and job options for the future. And I have some thoughts on this subject... and I wanted to share them with you guys and ask for advice because I know a lot of wise people on here and I'm comforted by the fact that I can always turn here for help <3

[warning, I tend to go on tangents especially on this topic, so I apologize ahead of time if this ends up being quite long to read hehe]

So... Ever since I could remember I've always wanted to be a singer. But as I grew up, I decided to be more realistic and changed it to being a therapist or a writer. And now, I realize that nothing gives me more happiness than singing and it's something I really would want to do as a career. But lots of people are telling me that I should just do that on the side and pair it up with another "more professional" career.

I understand that- the concept of having something to fall back on. But in my mind, I know that being an artist, especially now that everyone wants to be noticed and all that, is going to take a lot of hard work and if you want to pursue anything, you must eat, sleep, and drink it. You have to be completely dedicated and work hard. So going to college and pursuing a degree just so I have something to fall back on seems like a waste of money and time.

I personally wouldn't mind living in a crappy apartment, as long as I could make music and it was appreciated, I would be completely content in life.

Also, I have this gigantic fear of the end of the world.

I know about the glitch that can duplicate my picto , but I was wondering if another players picto can also be duplicated?

I want to wish SS Haopy 5 tef Years !!
I know she is lonely here !!
Maybe you could send her wishes to !

Well shoot, I wasn't able to celebrate my being here 5 years on the day that would've been the anniversary due to lacking internet. Currently at a friend's house to mooch Wi-Fi.

Anyway. 5 years.
Plus a day.

blurb.

If anyone's interested I can put together alphabets for 2nd and 3rdgen glyphs~
_____________________________
Um, I had an idea to make a mask and/or antlers based off pictograms? Haven't yet, but I was thinking about designing concepts in the spirit of the game and pictograms really are a huge part of that, and I was thinking about how the glyphs that make up pictos have their own letters/numbers that correspond to each one. And I wanted to try to assemble some sort of message, TEF being the obvious choice, in the 'language' of the forest to inscribe on the set pieces. So I downloaded Aivilo's pictogram builders.

I haven't gone thoroughly through every frame, but in general it seems that for every letter of the alphabet there are two different glyphs in each generation. And each generation can be like it's own dialect. So I combined the two glyphs for each letter, and interlocked the other letters in a diagonal formation to create words:



Not sure how accurate it is in theory, like I might have gotten some of the positions wrong because I didn't completely take into account glyphs that are the same just in a different location. I also know it doesn't fit with everyone's views of pictograms, for instance people who consider their characters names and their pictos to be the same, just translated, or those who like that idea that TEF deer speak an entirely different language. But I did think it was pretty neat and works well enough to form actual readable sentences that I would share for you guys to play around with =)

i just want to know the name of the kind of flowers inside the forest...

For anybody who has seen Spartak or Nireda glitch up all of a sudden while in the forest randomly, it its because of my computer. Or the game, I don't know. But when this happens, the deer may disappear right afterwards or stay there, not moving a muscle, and then disappear. And if someone rubs my deer, and in the game I don't rub back, it is because one or more of my buttons are broken: rub another deer, rub a tree, sniff another deer, and skip button are all broken. But I still know who you are, and my bow button is not broken. I will just press the sad button when I am about to leave or have glitching problems, which I have frequently now. This is strange because my game used to work perfectly....

thank you for understanding,
~Spartak
~Nireda