First Experience

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Remember when you where a Nameless/fawn? Remember when you didn't know anything about the forest, all you knew was that other deer were out there? Remember how excited you were when someone cast a spell of you, and then disappointed when it faded away? Remember when you made friends with new deer, danced and played?

On this blog, I want you to write your first experience on The Endless Forest. Not tell what happened write it as a story. Try to describe how happy or excited or even how upset or sad when you played the game. Write your first experience ever, when you first walked into the forest.

My first experience, under the cut~

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Beams of sunlight made the grass glow. My eyes opened. Trees and grass was what I saw. I didn't see any deer. Such a wonderful forest... I got on my hooves and ran. Dust followed me. The birds chirped. ...I thought...there would be deer... I suddenly stopped. There was a big cloud of dust and I almost fell. I was confused, though staring at the forest with awe at the same time.

Then...I opened my mouth. Moooooo. I looked back and forth. Did anyone else hear? Moooooo. The noise didn't come from me. Where did it come from? I looked back and forth, and starting running again. Two deer. They had a different pelt color from me, and different antlers and masks. I knew these were spells.

Then I had the feeling to move my feet. I danced... and there was a wonderful music. It suddenly got louder and better. I stopped dancing in shock, and the music disappeared. I saw one deer dancing. He had a skull face. I began to dance again, and the louder and better music came back. It got even better as the other deer joined in. Then they left, running away. I ran after them, and I found them again, trying to make them dance, but this time they left again without dancing. So I walked away.

I saw more deer. I even got to see a fawn. He seemed playful, but I soon got bored and left.

Then, I felt tired, and I layed down to sleep. Before I closed my eyes, I thought, I know I will have many memories with this game.
eyestrain's picture

So this is the Endless

So this is the Endless Forest? Let's test how endless it is.

What does this button do? And this one?
So these are... angry. And this one is... rofl? haha, that's ridiculous.


Finding others. Blooms of light, a sharp squeal. More blooming light, prolonged. Where did it come from? Why? What did it do? Why did it start and stop? Was I gaining an ability? Losing something?

Everyone seemed quick to accept me. Each brief encounter seemed favorable, but mostly empty. This is a game of being polite to everyone?

Satisfied and ready to leave, I found a random partner to rest beside before logging off.
An intimidating creature. Face of skull. Frightening. Impossible, tangling antlers. And he alone was not charmed by my fawn's face.
He left. I pursued and he rejected. I tried again and again, more politely. And he taught me what distance was acceptable.


The power of that gesture moved me in a way that was shocking. That rejection hurt. I glimpsed a peek of the powerful depth of the communication possible in this game. And I was hooked.

I don't strive to be the best, but instead I strive to do my best, and always give it my all every time.
-faunet

Was it ever truly me. Was it

Was it ever truly me.
Was it ever truly Me?

Endless? No, that's going on forever and seeing something new. This forest isn't endless, it's a circle. How cynical.

People? I should wait, see if they'll invite me.
It would be polite to bow. I'll do so.

You're red. How did you do that?
I see, like that then. Okay.

These actions are easy to learn. It's nice. How simplistic. I can sit here all day and draw in another screen.

Who are you? why aren't you bowing.
Go away.


I've always been the same pretty much. Not moving often and wary of symbols I hadn't seen before.

Knowing my friend, I

Knowing my friend, I generally don't follow her into games. She's not usually into my kind of stuff.

One day she told me about The Endless Forest and I immediately said, "Oh god, it's a hippie game." She explained a little of what it was about, I got bored and put it on back burner.

Four months later, I decided to try it out. I went into the game as this...thingy. My first thought -- "WHERE IS MY FACE?! Oh wait a minute, there it is. WHAT THE--?"

So I walked around and played with the actions before the pictos spread.

"Ah, okay, that looks like it's angry. Shouldn't hit that button unless I mean it." "What's this one do? Oh, I see." "A bow? That seems like the respectful and courteous thing to do. That must be a greeting." And so on.

I suddenly heard a whole mix of "MUEEEEHHHRRRRGHHNHARGRHARGH" which made me jump, and I realized that there were a bajillion others around me. Naturally curious, I romped right up to a fella who looked like a butterfly and bowed. They stood up, turned around, and bowed right back. They were wearing a wooden deer mask and little orange things. I guessed it was a female deer. They were sitting with another person, but they didn't greet me so I don't remember them.

The butterfly sniffed me. "Uh, okay..." I thought, and clicked the button to sniff back. Then they nuzzled me, to which I said "AAW I MADE A FRIEND." And from there we played around and after a while we lay down with that other deer. I had to log off, so I bowed goodbye and left my first day of the game behind and kept the memory.

I since learned that the Butterfly was really named Accendare.

A few days later, I tried to find Accendare but ran into another fawn. I bowed to him, but he did the "angry" (amazement) action at me. I headtilted. "What did I do?"

He lowered his head, walked closer, and reared at me. I clicked the fear emote and shook my head. "Stop it! What are you doing?"

Then he laughed. I ran away and logged out. That hurt more than losing on any FPS I'd ever played.
wingeddeer's picture

I heard of this game back in

I heard of this game back in January,with the help of parrotsnpinapples Endless Forest art.I was so intrigued by her characters.And the others that she included.Her art seemed to have a mysterious atmosphere to it.
This is what got me curious.
I checked out the site and thought about it for a bit.But I left it alone for I was concerend that it might slow down my computer.
When Febuary rolled in my curiosity was to much for me and I made ana ccount,and went in-forest.
it kept crashing at least three times before my PC finally decided to accept it!

The details of the first day are fading a little.Which is sad.
But I remember meeting a friendly red deer.Who showed me around,and taught me about spell-casting.I really wish I knew who the player was.
I also took some good looks and ideas at the buttons.Figuring the action emotes would be seen as aggresion to other deer,so I avoided those for a bit,not wanting players to think I was a nuisance.


As I continued to explore throughout the week,my fawn quickly met friends who would soon become dear to him.And when I cheked out the community,And I met players whom I find a pleasure to talk to and RP with.And very inspiring people who amaze me with words,art,or just being themselves.
I also found out the addicting mystery of this place.


It may be a small world,but there is always new or old wonders that intruge me everytime.


quadraptor's picture

I would hang out with a group

I would hang out with a group of deer, only later on to run off. I'd think I had found a different group of deer, but then start to notice they look similar. So I had just run off only to find the same group of deer I was hanging out with before.

I accidentally ran through the Crying Idol and found myself to be red. I was so excited about it that I ran and told people on the Forums, only to discover that they knew about it already.

I originally played on a Phase 2 version of TEF (where I would appear as a ghost to others), so I never knew what the Playground was and never saw any fawns at first. I was already an adult when they were casting spells on me, and my first set ever was the gazelle antlers, real deer mask, and kabuki pelt.

When I finally downloaded the Phase 3 version of TEF, I would sit by the Twin Gods' idol for hours waiting for something to happen.

I didn't understand what I was doing when I cast flowers, so there would be a group of deer trying to cast mask spells on each other and I thought they were just trying to make the bright light happen, so I'd cast flower spells over and over and over and over because I thought that was fun.
Iaurdagnire's picture

We run through rain and

We run through rain and mushrooms. Is it like this all the time? Log in! We'll play tomorrow too.
We did, but I came back too often. It was no longer our game; it was other peoples and I was following their rules that I had learned.
Don't lower your antlers, that's mean! Haha.
I don't want them to play with us.
Okay... shake your head at them, that'll work.
I don't want to be told what buttons to press... I don't like this now, I liked it when it was just our game where we could do what we wanted. I don't want to play anymore.

... I'm sorry.
Anjali's picture

A little deer-like shape is

A little deer-like shape is sleeping on a black background. No, wait...the deer is in a forest. The deer becomes a fawn.

The fawn wakes up. We wander around together. We can bow? And jump! But who is this fawn? Is it me? Are you male, or female?

I don't remember encountering many--if any--deer. We just absorb the beauty of the landscape. Huge rocks, carpeted in moss, enter our field of vision. This one looks like a good place to sleep...we jump up on top of it and are gone.

Although this next part is not my first time in the Forest, I tend to think of it my first true experience of the Endless Forest. It is because of this day that I joined the Community. A deer actually plays with my fawn. We run around together...we even see a god, just for a moment! It must have been a sign. We have not said a word, the player of this deer and I, but somehow we have made a connection through our deer. I later learn my fawn's friend's name is Ravus. I want to do for others what she did for me, and so the Forest becomes part of my life.