Hi everyone,

Of late there has been more and more bad busness in the forest and on the forums which is bad in it's self. So Heres a few thoughts: (partly in response to a complaint blogg)

People play TEF to relax enjoy the game and admire the workmanship of the design. The builders of this site have worked their socks off on a very small tight budget so we are very luck to have all these things.

Everyone does HELLO posts alot of people dont have friends or MSN/ chat places. So when they come here the first thing they do is be polite and say hello, testing the waters, then once welcomed they build up from this. It's good maners and a friendly thing to do.

Deer charcters are as indervidual as their owners. (Otherwise we would be drones)

Some deer represent the hidden emotions, wants, and dreams of the player. A neverous person may have a bossy deer, It natural for humans to do this.

Just because a deer is shy does not make them bad. (it could be a new player or someone who does not want to interact with others) Enigima is shy sometimes so what.

Aggression should be a last resort. It's not clever to be bullies (Yer i lernt that one myself and thanks to my cousin lernt it hard way) If angery go beat up a tree like Enigima does (somewhere deep in the forest) dont take it out on other players unless Roleplaying.

There are multible ways for inderviduals to interpritate the moves, some deer see rearing as aggressive some call it a forest hug. Pawing the ground can mean follow me or bring it on.

I am yet to see an EMO deer and i have no idea what one looks like? Is is red and talks about potty training with a big yellow bird as it's friend?

Role play.... Well role play serves several functions, It makes friends, Encroughes people to try writing and using their imaginations. It improves characters. Help expressn emotion, and Is a good sorce of communication. People come on to the site with weak writing skills in a month or two with help from the veiwers become stronger writers and this helps them build confidence in life.

Drawings on the site are Called ART. Art can be anything, but mostly art is an interpritaion of what the indervidual sees. Not everyone can draw deer with human faces (i can't) so they draw people characters instead. I see nothing wrong with that. As for non TEF related most people lable it clearly so everyone knows. No all people have other websites to show work on, and we are no exctly drowning in it.

As for nudity i have yet to see anything major (ar'nt deer nude anyway) And people know where to draw the line/ lilly pad (I loved that idea)

So perhaps we need to fix things. I think we need a list of move interpritations on this site to help newbies and others. This way we should reduce the amount of scuffles in the forest.

I think we also need to respect each other a little more.

New chant for the forest "Dont Flame, just play the game" "Other wise, it an't the same"

Anyeway thats just some thoughts

Feedback is more than welcome.

Take care and happy galloping.