Seeing Auriea's picto on the map, I rushed to get into the Forest. To make things easier, here's an album for easy viewing:
8-31-08 Mini-Abio

Screenshots from the rest of the weekend (including anymore I take today) shall be added here later. =]

EDIT: I always end up procrastinating. XD But here are the screenies as I said I'd post them.
These are from the 30th:

Blue found an oddity. His picto was stuck at 0x0. O.o


His possible future set (modeled by Magnet XD), though I've decided since then that he'll have magpie antlers.

31st:
Just a nice picture:


And here's the shots at night that Scape got:

O.O He blends in.


I love fireflies. =]

Think I'll post for today, too. Pretty much uneventful. Scape was wandering around on my laptop, so if you saw him running slower than usual, that's why. I was also up earlier. O.o
When I got to go back on my desktop later, I sent in Magnet. He just spent most of his time in the Blue Bowl, either feasting on the blueberries or sleeping.
Then later, Blue was exploring the Forest, seeing the mushrooms in daylight, as they were still there after night was lifted.
[=#6666CC]Blue: The giant mushrooms are quite peculiar. Though they do make excellent back scratchers.

I haven't been on the Forest too much the past few days, mostly cuz of playing Sims2. XD; But here's some screenshots from when I've been on.

Only one from Magnet, being Trinket's "hat". XD


Scape met an insane bird near the Playground. o.o The only one that wouldn't fly away no matter what. And he was the only one who could see it. It just sat there...spazzing.

Freaking him out. I think his pawing at it when it didn't leave did something to its mind...
He decided to get at eye-level with it to have a chat.

Kinda disturbing Halogen and Selig in the process. And they were already concerned about him talking about the bird that was still there. They saw nothing.
Scape: It was there, I tell you! The pictures don't lie!


...I don't think it could understand frog.
Scape: ...well...I was the same size at least. XD;
^^;

The next day, Scape found himself remembering Run... So in her honor he held a Run for Run of his own, following the same path he took when the Memorial was in the Forest...


Now, I'd like to introduce a new deer.
Can't I introduce myself?
*blink* Ok. Go for it I guess.
[=#6666CC]*bows* Thanks you.

Yes, I'm copying Skokey, who copied Sarie. XD;
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So basically, everyday but Monday and Wednesday are normal days for me. Those two are kinda DEATH. O_o; 'Least I love Ceramics...
You might see me on here, the forum, or iScribble sometimes when I'm on-campus. But if I'm on a Mac, iScribble won't happen. Doesn't wanna work on them. I'll try to be in the animation lab (which is all PCs) during Common Hour, so mayhaps you'll see me in iScribble then.

Fawn fun:

I think this was the after-party on Saturday. Scape got there too late, but he still saw a bunch of deer as fawns, so he joined them for awhile.

Then Radeon went walking around, and sat down at a nice spot on the riverbank. Soon it was a staring contest.


I've got some shots from today's rain now.


Magnet was confused to come across purple flowers. There were no mushroom-covered trees either! They had all been replaced by the flowers!

After finding more flowers, 'Net got sick of being soaked and constantly having to shake himself off, so he went to sit in the Old Oak to dry off. He got found by SS and Morogami. SS wanted helped with a pelt.


Finally got it. =]
They went off to complete the set, and soon Magnet grew bored with sitting in the tree, so he went to go about the shortened version of his routine: running to the Ruins to bow to the Sunbeam, then since there were no mushrooms, he decided to see if the rainwater made the blueberries taste better. They had a strange brightness to them in the low light and rain.

Getting sick of being soaked again, a giant tree became his shelter.

Radeon switched in then. He just walked around enjoying the wonders of the Twin Gods.

I'm drawing a blank for what to say, so I'll post the screenshots I have and let them speak for themselves (unless they need captions XD; ).
Starting with an impromptu closeup of Skokey:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b296/Pegasicorn/TEF_Pegacorn_20080821_224955_352x38.jpg






I thought this stag that Magnet was hanging out with after the line-dance broke up was kinda cool. But also familiar... 'Net doesn't usually loosen up around deer he'd just met so fast, but it felt like I knew this stag from somewhere. O.o I figured it out after Sqish posted a blog about guessing who their 3rd deer was. Yep. It was the stag 'Net had been hanging out with.


Skie's a strange one.


But still fun.

Then he left, and Magnet was alone, so he decided to head to the pond.

"What? Whaddya mean 'there's something on my antlers?'"

Today:

Even if you don't know everyone there, dance parties are fun.
After the party broke up, who should appear but Aspen? They were taking a long time to break the ice, so what looked to be a default Aspen clone came over acting all weird trying to get them both to dance on the pond with them. o_o

They got set up. XD

Last night was pretty much full of lines for Richter:








Scape was very bouncy today. o.o I think my ice coffee hyperness rubbed off on him. XD Anyway, he met a really cool nameless deer. =D And ended up dancing with them and other deer.

I don't know anyone else in this pic. XD;
Then Seed arrived. After some spell-casting, he turned fawn and led Scape over to a group of fawns. o.o Some of them were adults-turned fawn. So Scape joined in. XD
Then they took over the bridge.


A little later, after Scape regained his set:

It's a grown-up RenoJack! =D
Oh, and the fawn on the left in this picture seems to have "adopted" Scape. XD

The one with the anchor-like picto. Even got the same mask as Scape cast on them. XD
Then another deer came over wanting set help. Scape was able to get them their antlers (took a long time O.o) and mask before they disappeared. I don't know why that happened. Must've gotten disconnected.

Ok, that's all for now.

Extra, unrelated note: Everyone who has a deviantART account...please go here and tell this artist her art doesn't suck, cuz it doesn't. Thank you.

Going through screenshots starting from Friday night. Sarie had said she was going to be gone until Tuesday, so Magnet was hoping to see Aspen one more time.
He did. Right after waking up in the Blue Bowl...

This seems familiar.
Very familiar. X]

After Aspen disappeared, Magnet found his father Radeon in the Forest. They just spent some time walking around making idle chatter, until Magnet called it a night.


Scape was in a really good mood the next day, and I still don't know why. But he ran into Laruna and Vesper, and just goofed around with them for awhile. And more deer showed up, which led to a few lines.


FAIL. (As Vesper pointed out in his pic.)

A little later, who should appear but Anzel! She was sleep-sliding! O.O
She slides into the 3 semi-clones of 2 Morogami's and a mini-Selig..

Apparently this wasn't really the set she was wearing (peacock with no mask). Just one of the oddities happening a different way.
Scape made chase for a little while as Anzel slid around the pond, then back to the group again.
They all sit around her.

Soon after, Scape decides to depart.

Main Entry Last Edited: July 19, 2017
-let's start fixing some broken images...
-and cleaning up some old/other broken things (so much dust 8|)

Beware, Forest-dwellers, for the "invasion" has grown to a grand scale.

That's right.

The calamity known as Toefat "the Tophat Deer" has...dun dun dun...

GROWN UP.

And, in celebration...

There was pole-dancing.

In the foreground, we see Toefat #1 dressed as Scape. On the right, the second Toefat - in the "official" set - is attempting to shield an unknowing fawn from things that are a bit too.."adult" for young eyes to see. XD

Zoom out and..

The Old Oak's branches make the perfect curtain.

Soon, the Scape clone Toefat was "traded out" in favor of the real Scape.
We almost formed a "BLT" sitting line. 8D But the L got up. >.>

Then Scape fell asleep, and awoke to find that Seed had sat down n the line.
It had been awhile...so commence the running, forming of carousel deer, and tree-dancing!


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...if not slightly awkward.

<=To chapter 10 * Chapter 12 coming soon->

Author's Notes: *falls over* It's 5:30. AM. I had this half-done a few weeks ago. I just spent the last hour finishing it. Yes, the last hour. XD I seem to write better at strange hours.
Well, enough of the insane rambling of the half-crazed insomniac. Surprised I can still spell at this hour... Get on with reading. And forgive any mistakes. It's 5:30. XD; Now, onto

Origins
Chapter 11

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The sounds of chirping filled the air as birds called out to each other from the treetops. A breeze sent leaves twirling in mini tornadoes. One strayed from the group, landing on dark fur.

Groan.

The stag’s ear flicked away the annoying leaf, his eyes opening a second later.

“It’s about time.”

He squinted at the bright sunlight. ‘…wha..?’

Pink wings fluttered as the dragonfly landed on his Orca mask. “I’ve been waiting awhile for you to wake up.”

Scape let loose another groan as he slowly climbed to his feet. He shook his head to clear it the rest of the way. “What happened?”

The insect flitted into view, landing on his mask again. “Don’t you remember? You were sent back to your old home, to find your little brother and bring him to the Endless Forest, since he is unable to receive instructions like you were.”

Scape froze, staring at his surroundings.

The trees were more tightly packed together in this forest, with bushes dotting the ground in between – but that’s not why he froze.

Images were flashing through his head at an alarming rate, so fast he nearly felt dizzy.

“I remember…” he whispered.

The dragonfly twitched its head, gazing at gray eyes. “What?”

The stag refocused on the insect. “Everything just… I remember my fawn-hood.”