May 9, 2013 - 8:37pm — arrowdoe
It may be good or bad, funny or sad, whatever you prefer.
Try to think of something that had to do with the Forest. Your favorite memory of it, perhaps.
If someone did something that moved you to incredible emotion, please share it with us. Hopefully it was not an angry emotion, though.
If you can't think of anything to do with TEF, you're welcome to remember anything from anywhere else.
If you want to add a personal one, go for it- I don't even mind if you use a different account to post it on to protect privacy.
Not planning on using these for anything, just a place to share thoughts with one another, I suppose.
My favorite memory, though I cried like a baby, was when Polt had her fawns.
The artwork was beautiful and the song so incredibly moving- I was a puddle by the end of it.
But I remember when Wudiin was around- I felt happy for Polt that she was finally with him.
I even tried to make my own fanart of it for Mis- but I was really embarrassed by it since I was still so new to digital art.
It made me want to try harder.
Having Moss in-forest for the
Just playing him, running around with the camera zoomed all the way out and watching the forest fly by... with friends and alone.
I guess it's more of an experience than a memory, since I could run him anytime, but it's my most favorite thing, and makes my heart jump.
When I played TEF for the
I have a lot of good
I really think all of my
Also, JD and Brit (sleepything and 11dollarbills) are always way too kind. When I was trying to find my footing here with getting sets, or CSS, and artwork for Glisseo. They helped me with everything they could. JD gave me my first image of Glisseo for my birthday. And Brit made the lovely CSS for her. That I've long since butchered in my boredom. I still constantly bug them for things, and I'm glad they don't just shoo me away. <3
I guess these aren't really memories, so much as thanks. But it would be hard to type out each individual memory. I'm just glad these three people are around, is all.
I remember when Kerwin and I
First day in-forest with
For me nothing compares to
For those who don't know about this, I hold an all-day event every July 24th near the Ruins, where we all sit in a circle around a spot we call Run's memorial after a TEF player who passed away. We hold the service for my father as well as everyone suffering in recent tragedies.
Here are the links for them:
IRL Update - Bad news about Dad (2010)
1st Annual Remembrance Day (2011)
2nd Annual Remembrance Day (2012)
Five years ago, when I first
Some of them I'm still friends with today. They've all changed me or helped me in some way, and I hope I've done the same for them.
Also when events in life had me feeling beyond repair, and those friends lifted me up again.
I've left TEF on a few occasions... But it's a part of me, has moved me, and is my home. I feel I will always return, and cherish that fact. It has some of my best friends.
Oh pft Arrowdoe you made me
Uhm, phew, I could come up with a lot of memories myself I suppose. I've had some amazing interactions over the years, not even just my first years. TEF keeps inspiring me, no matter how long I've been here.
If I do need to pick a memory I'll go with something that was a lot of fun. Me and a small group of people would play "tag" in the forest. We'd turn off our 'display pictograms' option in the menu, so we couldn't see where anyone was. The person who was it, would get a spell (any spell) and hunt down the others. Could only recognise eachother by set. It worked suprisingly well and it was very tense :") You never saw the other coming. I think we told eachother on msn who was "it".
It was very simple but a lot of fun. Lots of exiting and big stuff happend in the forest, stuff that made me emotional etc. But since this one sticks out to me right now, so why not mention it?
I recommend playing tag with your buddies :") Even if you look like a group of weirdo's hiding in trees. I think one of the rules was that you kind of had to keep moving about though..
It makes me feel really good
Thank you so much for taking the time to share them with me (:
stumbling on tef for the
i was so in awe back then, a silly young noob, but in awe. i really miss the magic tef had, but it is still amazing to me nontheless.
when my caribou peanut died, i cried like a baby with a tef friend
when i got angry at a friend for having her character leave mine, lolz so immature
hate that i got sad (and i understand now) but man i did
Mm..
When I first discovered the
Hearing The Great Oak for the
For a long time I suspected something were to happen there.
Thanks for making this blog.
Ravynn reminded me of the
And the response I got was pretty much, "...yes, we already know about that." XD
one night, several years ago,
another would be the birth of brighteyes. alicev gave me large crow spelldata, and in the span of about an hour, my greatest creation was set in stone. i'd never felt the rush of creation as I did that night.
The best memory I have of TEF
Every day that I got on, I would look for this fawn and eventually find them. We played, ran around and learned how to play hide and seek together without knowing who we were or ever communicating with each other. It was just this..unexplainable instant connection.
Finally, I met her. Learned that her fawn was called Ravus and ever since, we've been practically inseparable. We live together now and I couldn't be any happier, I love her so much!
Also Acer, I was so happy to read that -- seriously, means so much to me that you took the time to write that about us ♥
I have way too many awesome memories from this place, mostly just meeting some really great, creative and wonderful people.
adorable art by Tuoho! ♥
The day Quad became an adult,
My favorite thing about TEF
My favorite memory, or memories would have to be the times when my first character Sodesi and Nimariel's Myszka would romp around and just be silly, playing games and casting spells. Everything was so carefree, so simple.
Quote:Ravynn reminded me of
I remember first entering the forest, waking up near the bridge. For some reason this other deer came up to me, and I assumed they wanted me to follow them. They took me straight to the crying idol where they showed me the red pelt... I wanted to express my excitement but at the time, had no idea how. hehe good memories.
Loving this topic.
Quote:one night, several
Way to make me tear up, Lu. ♥
I was editing bio's when i
unfortunately a lot of my memories of this place have quite a bit of pain to it especially now since i try to limit my self from the site unless for bios and map checks. Honestly it wasn't all bad for me. When i first joined I really needed this place. I've had a bad home life for the past five years and it seemed to finally start to get a bit better this year.
When i joined my cousin, someone who i was practically inseparable with for my whole life had passed away. It tore a hole in my heart that wasn't easy to fix, My family wasn't the best people to go to to cope with so when a friend referred me to this place. well i started to let my self check out. When i first joined i didn't know what to really think of the place, it was interesting. and i didn't really understand it a whole lot but i met people and started to slowly develop a character. though i changed her up so much that shes not who she once was i was still happy with her. And i was happy with the people i had met, But because i was broken, and because i wanted so much for something stable I had a tendency to push people away. Somewhat of a self sabotage, and because i fought and argued with people id called friend i started to recluse my self, drive them away and at times just weird people out with how bad my social skills were. I did quite Alot of this to my self, and it was because i was afraid to get attached I was afraid to be ignored. Id been ignored for so long, no one bothered to hear me , no one wanted to know how i felt and because these things were going on in my real life i started to shut everyone out.
Except one person who i selfishly clung to for about three years now. She cared to listen to me complain , to cry. she was there for me more then my own mother was when all the death started to happen. And to this day i still haven't managed to drive her away. To be honest my fondest memory of this whole place is the first time I started to talk to her. I was nervous because i didn't know if she'd hate me, i've felt hated for quite a while and i didn't know if she was the type to silently judge my characters actions and push them onto my own personality. or if she'd give me a chance. Lucky for me that she was a very sweet. She accepted me for the broken social awkward person i am, and because of her support and kindness i can honestly say that im still standing today. I dont know what id do without her. She's one of my best friends, and most trusted companions.
All in all ive made my mistakes here, but ive learned from them. and through all the heartache ive had here, ive made a friend for life thats helped me heal. who geeks out with me over characters and art and general nonsense. And i think that because of her, im still here. She helps make this place fun for me.
I remember... ...reading the
...reading the homepage ten times over to make sure i don't do anything wrong.
...waking up as a nameless. being approached by a player with the deer mask and a fawn. being so terrified I stood still and closed the game, pretending the game client crashed.
...waking up as a fawn to rain and mushrooms. getting the devout pelt cast on me. being extremely grateful about it.
...not getting in viewing distance of the pond for at least one month because i was afraid of the deer there.
...almost exclusively interacting with sleeping deer.
...really really wanting to have a "who are you?" blog made about me.
...finding out you could cast DotD stuff with an older version of TEF. Casting halloween stuff on unsuspecting sleeping deer and other fawns.
...meeting Eaff, my first TEF friend, and Kokochora during a long slow-walk in the rain with a bunch of other people, and Vermillion.
...Creating Mozart. Following Virgil around like the creepy stalker I was when Virgil was injured. It was foggy, there were many other deer.
...Virgil taking care of us and gently introducing us to other deer. Slowly nudging us towards new people. Meeting Dusk thanks to him.
...Baal's plot.
...antlerless deer and god-pelts.
...the first Rut.
...bios without css or divs. Finding out about CSS thanks to Ravynn.
...no forest map!
...Aleit having a picto-mix of Virgil and Mozart!
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Hehe, if Virgil and Mozart
JD, you know I both love and
I credit you guys for the attention Glisseo got when she was created!
Love to read these. Might
There was one time a deer was
Also meeting Mazey when she was a fawn, and then when she became an adult the decision that she and Quad would be mates. I'd always wait for her by the Crying Idol - some days she came on, other days I would wait there and never see her. But the days that Mazey and Quad were together were some of the most wondrous.
I really miss her, I hope she's doing well.
I remember when Fly was a
He enjoyed playing with her , casting sets on him ...nonstop..
And i jumped like crazy by all new pelt she casted lol
Our special place where we always met and where fly was waiting ....even for a long time , was
by the tree near the crying idol .
My first days as a fawn with Amy ....What a beautiful Memory ...
Sadly she quit the game and never came back .....I still keep thinking of her and hoping ....
There are many more sweet memories ....but this one was my first encounter ...Still special for me !!
I will never forget
.Forming a huge deer pyramid
.Some of the best laughs were forming peacock gangs,going up to random players,and just hitting the sad button repeatedly.
My best memories were having
The birth of Otis and Sterre,
Being invisible as I watched mourners weep beside the pond upon Wudiin's departure.
When Wudiin and Virgil stood vigilant in a heavy fog surrounded by a huge herd of other deer.
Wudiin first approaching Polt.
Wudiin interacting with Iendoe as a fawn and giving her antlers.
Run's memorial.
The entire herd of Silence clones.
Endlessfawn.
Watching crowds continue to dance even after the Twins of Dance finish their song.
Definitely Otis and Sterre's
Meeting the twins of dance! That was neat.
Unfortunately i'm having trouble remembering the early days for me- when I had some...very weak characters. Menelaus and....a doe? she had the orca pelt and peacock antlers. They weren't very interesting and I dropped them quickly to be replaced with three others. The only one of them that managed to really stick with me was Sorrel.
And for Sorrel....I think a good memory is the rut two years ago. I had so much fun and that was basically the time when I finally started really getting out into the community and making friends. Plus, even without that, the rut itself was fantastic. AND participating in Dag's event....the one before the latest one, I think? Very impressed with my/Sorrel's extreme killin skillz
And with Casti, so far, I think...hmm. I'm very happy to admit that 90% of the time he's in the forest interacting i'm having a great time(it's been a little different with Sorrel, but the good memories are good nevertheless!) What's popping out to me at the moment is....one of his earliest days where he was in a group of other fawns hanging around Daneth and they all started chasing a rabbit at once. It was crazy. And the day in the birch when everything was getting all tense and he got his leg broken because he's silly.
Aaaand the day where he first met Alina and Fletcher and got really cross with both of them. And I think he challenged Fletcher? oh man.
I remember... Being on the
Raktea you just reminded me
I couldn't go into the Birch Forest at all, or between the Twin Gods and the Pond. Want to know why?
It actually would restart my computer!!
Seriously, if I got too close to either the edge of the Old Forest where the Birch Forest began, or the space between the Twin Gods and the Pond, my computer would literally crash and restart itself.
So thankful it doesn't do that anymore XD
That's pretty weird. XD
Everyone has so many amazing
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Has anyone made any new
dat double post
I loved reading all those
I remember the month or so as a fawn... No drama, complications, fights, or hurt feelings.. It was simply go into the forest and see what friends I could make that day. So innocent and beautiful in a way... Mooing in someone's face was a good greeting, rearing, taunting, and lowering antlers were simply ways to play, and the laugh and dance emotes were used religiously..
Sometimes, I go into the forest as a nameless fawn or stag just to play the game, to take it back to the basics and uncomplicate everything.
This.
I remember when we'd never
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Found this from my tracklist
Mine has to be meeting all of
ENTERING SOMETHING PERSONAL-- READ WITH CAUTION
I've recently overcome Anorexia and I've honestly felt like no one in my family cared-- hell, they didn't even notice. I've been cyber-bullied so much and it really hurts to know that someone can sit behind a screen and tell someone else {me} to kill themselves, to slit their wrists, to do the world a favor and just end your life. I was called fat almost every day, which lead to me starving myself down to 89 lbs. {I wasn't even big to begin with!} I'm currently 91 lbs, so I'm recovering. c: Everyone here makes me feel so loved and welcome, and it's just more than I can explain. <3
For me, probably some of my
The birth of Herla`s fawns. I was incredibly new to the forest then, and my first character, Poppy (she`s inactive now) was only a fawn then. It was exciting, seeing so many deer and sitting by them, wondering if they`d notice me! My little fawn got to run around with OrinocoFlow`s Orinoco and meet a bunch of new deer. Back then, things were a lot simpler for me-just run around and have fun ♥
Another significant memory for me was when Jacob was born. It was the first time I was playing someone`s fawn, and I was really excited. Those first few days of his life, where I got to run him with his mother exploring the forest for the first time were amazing. I would love to do it again. C8
Then there was Dag`s Event. That was the first time I was involved in a big community event-and it didn`t disappoint. It was great-the fog really enhanced the atmosphere, and that first big charge after the one demon... it was wonderful. It was the first time that I felt I was actually playing a meaningful role within the community, that I`d actually been around long enough to do so. ♥
(Aside from that, I always do enjoy seeking out nameless deer and showing them around! It`s wonderful to just go OOC and show them around; teach them how to greet other deer, etc.)
Profile picture by ahimsa ♥
Pixel Wis by squeegie~
Quote:Wudiin interacting with
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Way back, possibly the first year I joined, the Valentine's Ball in the Blue Bowl. Zevi attended, and it was just a lot of fun... He actually got a crush on one of the does there, but neither of us ever said anything and it's faded now.
Radiance freaking out about the giant red mushrooms, running around the forest and trying to explain to everyone that they were being invaded. I had a lot of fun trying to convey what she was saying with the actions bar... And got into some epic fights with those sinister fungi.
Most of my memories in the forest are really attached to Iendoe... She was the first character that I really played extensively as a fawn, and just her entire fawnhood was one of my favorite experiences. Meeting Aegle and Odin, Poltergeist, Wudiin, Quamar and Raunun, who pretty much taught her how to have fun. Not being too anxious to peacock deer. That time Ravenflight, Poltergeist, Roucaud dressed up in matching sets and Iendoe joined their circus... I can't really think of anything negative that happened during that period.
The Baal plot, everything was so exciting while it was going on!
Iendoe's Easters, where she would revert back to a fawn for a few days and just goof around with her friends.
I wish I had been here for the births of Odin and Sterre, but I was on hiatus and missed it... The 'You are Never Alone' blog was wonderful though, and I still go back sometimes and listen and read through it.
When I first played Ren again after a long time of inactivity, and played with this one deer for hours and just had a blast and the most fun I'd had in a while.