Thank you. I said before that Shika's flighty and nervous, and prone to scampering away when he feels like he's intruding. That kinda goes for the player too...

I have to run, but thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one to get greeted with chirping crickets at the start. And I'll keep an eye out for Flyleaf!

(Sorry if Shika's seemed to ignore the grown deer - it just seems so disrespectful to walk up to them and start to cast spells or dance and stuff. I usually just bow once and run off again...)

Noooo, please don't go!


I was just like you at first. And I know you must have gotten discouraged, but it's not worth leaving over. (:

Post art if you can, and maybe bump your bios. People will see them and track it. Thats one way to meet friends.

Another and very helpful way is to meet other deer in the forest, and then post the screenshot on here and ask who it is. If they see it, they'll definitely respond. And you can turn out to be great friends!

If you have MSN, many others have an account and would love to add you~ I'll add you (;

I'm sorry that you feel that way, but please understand that this is a busy community. Blogs and things like that get bumped down really quickly due to frequent updates, and it is very likely that not many people saw your initial blog. I'm sorry that happened, please don't feel that we're unwelcoming, in fact, usually quite the opposite!

Anyway, welcome to the forest and the community, I hope you can enjoy it!

Oh dear, we're usually pretty good about noticing the new folk :/ I'm sorry you got missed!
If you stick around for a while longer, I'm sure you'll notice that the longer you're here the more friends you accumulate.
If you ever have a question, be sure to put something like "How do you" or "Help" in the topic title - it's like sticking a little red flag on it. Sometimes more obscure titles get glanced over for a while, or entirely.

Hey sorry for not seeing your post. If you don't get any response, just bump it and you will get something. Sometimes there's too many things being posted at once that it can get overlooked, or other times people just aren't on the site.

In any event, welcome to the Forest! Hope my Quad runs into you sometime

Welcome to TEF. I like your icon. It kind of reminds me of a squid.

I think I may have just seen you, Kutanra! I was showing a fellow fawn around and had to settle for just a quick bow in passing, but were you by the oak tree? And there were so many huge deer around tonight... and so many rabbits and squirrels... and the sky was red!

(The forest hasn't looked exactly the same any two nights in a row so far... )

I guess that does raise a question, though: what do the deer do together? I end up trying to dance with just about every deer I meet, only because it's the only thing I know to do (and because I just discovered that you can dance in rabbit form, which is adorable!). But are there more things, like casting flowers on them and baying for a deer to come run with you and so on? Is there an etiquette for casting spells on grown-up deer? I wanted to "bless" a group of grown deer by the river after a visit to the idol, but thought it might be seen as intrusive, especially if it messes up all the masks and pelts they worked so hard to get right.

Thanks Sypris! I hadn't thought of a squid, but yeah, they do look like tentacles hanging down - all hail the Fawn of Cthulhu! It kinda reminded me of a bird, with the head on the left, and one wing and its tail feathers on the right. If it's possible to wear animal forms permanently, Shika may end up spending more time as a bird more than a deer...

Oh! I can see a bird now! ^___^

Uhm, when I'm in forest I usually just run around and lay with nice deer. Or dance. hehe

"I guess that does raise a question, though: what do the deer do together?"
As someone who wrote an article about TEF once said, "These players could find a way to re-create Shakespeare."
I'll have to find the link to that, because it was phrased much better... lol. But really, anything you can think of, there's some way to express it in the Forest.

"But are there more things, like casting flowers on them and baying for a deer to come run with you and so on?"
Of course! Once you know a few deer, calling will help them find you (or you to find them) if you get separated during play or want to attrack their attention. If you tap your hoof (orange action bar, the one on the far left with the purple scratch in the ground) and then nod, most players will take it as an indication to "do what I do" - follow, sit, dance, run - whatever it is that your deer does next.

"Is there an etiquette for casting spells on grown-up deer?"
If adults are spellcasting with other deer, it's usually okay to cast on them as well. Occasionally someone will request that they aren't casted on while casting due to lag, or that spells such as the devout not be cast on them (also due to lag), but for the most part it isn't a problem if they're already in the midst of a spell "party."
Other than that, as long as you aren't casting to be annoying (spamming after the other deer asks you to stop, etc) and the other deer doesn't appear to be upset, there usually aren't any problems.

"especially if it messes up all the masks and pelts they worked so hard to get right."
Spells come in layers. Each layer can be sneezed off individually until the player has the set they want to use again. With the newest version (3.4) they can even just open the menu and load their favorite set instantly. Unless you cast on someone as they're logging out, it's usually not a problem.