Went in last night and after a stroll around couldn't see anydeer else conscious. So I thought I'd start learning some of the things that people have told me about the UI and its use (and abuse). I started by binding some favourite actions to the f-keys and seeing what happens when I mash them up.



Splendid! An excellent and satisfyingly daft start.

Then I followed the advice I'd had for climbing up steep rocks and not bouncing off them like a fool.





Jolly good! Now I shan't look like such a numpty if there's a party on the rocks again. But there was one thing I'd never managed to do that I'd seen everyone else doing, and that was levitating. Every time I'd tried it before I just ended up sitting on my arse on the ground. And eventually (using my new found rock climbing ability to give me a bit of a launch platform)



Yes! I am sitting on my arse IN MID-AIR!

I occupied myself for a good few minutes to familiarise myself with the procedure, and take a few screenshots in various places of my ox-ram-deer-thing hovering in the air in exactly the way that bricks don't.







My mother taught me that "tiny things please tiny minds", and accordingly I was having an inordinately good time simply sitting on my arse in mid-air in various places. Learning to bend some of the rules of the game world to my will made me feel a little more closely bound to it, somehow.

After a while I was joined by Valaire, who proceeded to give me a demonstration of the kind of levitation hijinks a more experienced user can get up to, showing me that you don't need a stone platform to launch off to achieve the effect, and that you can even run for quite a distance entirely in the air before sitting down.



And so I spent a while watching and learning and practicing, and we occasionally landed for a bit of a frolic, the way you do.



We even managed a couple of towers (if you can call a two-deer stack a tower), although those were far more down to Valaire's positional skill than mine. Still it was fun to see!





I still have much to learn though, since I don't really have the hang of doing much else once I am sitting mid-air, I tend to fall straight down if I try any acrobatics. I did get some effects to happen a couple of times but... well, I need more practice.



LOL

After a good amount of watching and learning it was time to call it a night. Many thanks to Valaire for spending time with me to teach me new things. I really enjoyed it!



A lovely end to a fun night. I hope to see you again soon!