I instantiate for my evening stroll. Quiet tonight, deer are sleeping, but that's fine, it's still pleasantly chill to be here.

I commence existence in what I think is close to my currently appropriate form. I like the ram horns, I like the light grey pelt, and the real deer mask is also cool, even if it doesn't match my pelt. And I think the species mixture suits me, being a human whose primary "influential animal" has always been an ox, being a deer that's part sheep.

Yes, that's me.



I've given the forest most of my monitor tonight, which is nice, as I can get more detailed screenshots. Deer are sleeping, and as I walk around I take a good look at them, and a picture too, as it will help me to learn the pictos of everyone. I hope they don't mind if I stand quietly by to have a look.

These guys are nearly always asleep here by the ruins. That swirly red and black pelt is very striking.



The butterfly set is also very distinctive. I like the variance in the different sets. Perhaps ram horns aren't that divergent after all.



The skull mask is one I have admired before, and actually evokes a Welsh traditional costume called the Mari Lwyd in which a dancer using a horse skull mask features. It reminds me of the first time I saw Widmung.



The skeleton pelt is nice too. I guess that one only gets allocated at Haloween. Very Illuminati-esque picto there too, evokes the Eye in the Pyramid.

(forgive me if I am reading nonsense into people's pictos haha)



I stop for a moment to take in the view near the twin god statues.



These two look so pretty, symmetrically snoozing bweneath the willow tree.



Someone snoozes by a tree. I like those black antlers.

Do people have their favourite sleeping spots? Is this a favourite tree of this deer?

I know I like my favourite little hill, overlooking the ruins. If I exist and am not active, that is where you will usually find me. It just feels cosy to me.



I like to walk amongst the flowers. My only regret about these horns is that I cannot scoop up flowers.

It still looks nice here, even if perhaps we can see the limitations of a 20-year-old graphics engine beginning to show.

I sometimes think about how one might go about "modernising" the forest. It would not be done in any "obvious" kind of way. Making it bigger and putting more stuff in would risk destroying what makes it so unusually excellent.

It's not Grand Theft Auto, it's a work of art.

Any changes would have to be done with the utmost respect for the original artists' vision.

Perhaps it is best that no changes are done at all.



A multiplicity of horns.



lovely horns! (And I just noticed that fawn peeking up there too).



Someone asleep amongst the blue flowers, I almost didn't notice them there but for glimpsing their glow as I walked past.

The blue flowers remind me that spring is finally coming in the real world (in my hemisphere at least, one can't make global assumptions here). And I hope I shall take strolls in real forests amongst real blue flowers soon. I am not the biggest fan of winter.



The nicest deer will always be in here though.