some screenshots from the past few days:
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh267/S33dl1ng/1dumpSeednomnomnom.jpg (Ferns are tasty.)
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh267/S33dl1ng/1dumpOkaaay.jpg
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh267/S33dl1ng/1dumpSeedComplex.jpg (My daughter Complex and I, sleeping on the lake.)
While my morning was fairly uneventful, while I was running around....setless....after some unforseen incidents on a level beyond my rational understanding....I saw Scape asleep in the pond. I wnet over to see if I could wake him up. To my surprise, he actually did wake up! One set later, he and I started playing carosel deer.
We wandered around until we found a high stump. We played around with that a bit: I think my favorite thing, beyond Scape's "cower so the stump has his pictogram" move was the two of us laugh-sitting next to the stump, sort of like it was a table we were both sitting at, perhaps having lunch.
"I say, Scape, would you like to run around in a wide variety of silly ways?"
"That sounds quite enjoyable, Seed old chap."
..... or something like that. And we did that for a while, jumping over logs, walking backwards a bit, running around trees, bouncing about... Until I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, Walter picking a fight with a nameless deer. There's a limit, you know? A nameless deer, if shown kindness, can be reborn as a proper named fawn: and who doesn't want more fawns in the forest? OK, other than Walter, I guess...but fawns become stags one day, too. Maybe that idea just seems strange to a deer like Walter, who was born before there were fawns... That aside, I went over to try and cool him off: first I tried sparring, just to distract him...and then I tried another idea. when Walter wears the set he was wearing at the time, he'll sometimes wear flowers. When he wants to fight, he takes the flowers off. I figured, maybe if I put flowers on his antlers, he'd stop. The effect doesn't work in reverse, which is a pity. I figured out, however, that he was fighting because 21 was sleeping there. I decided it was better not to touch that one, so I left the matter where it was and went back to Scape. We ran around some more with a whole mess of deer, and then we went and sat in a mushroom circle. I couldn't get any spells though...I had to go after that.
It was really nice playing with Scape, though. Everything felt very simple and happy again...I mean...when I heard Walter was around before I saw him fighting, I worried for a moment about whether I should join him, or keep playing with Scape. And then it sort of hit me: Scape's my best buddy. We were fawns togethor, and he was the first thing I had that I could think of as anything like family. And I haven't really played with him in a while. My choice simplified, just like that. It's been a while since I had an easy, guilt-free choice to make.
I returned later, and met a fawn named Cole who I had heard, from the soughing whispers of the trees, was looking for a teacher. I decided that the first trick any fawn needed to know was how to water-walk. Although the learning curve was a little steep at first, he eventually caught on really well. The next step, then, was to introduce him to the shallows: for a while, it looked like he was trying to water-walk on that. He eventually, I think, realized some water was OK for walking on. The next step, since we were close to a log, was to learn to sit on the log. I tried the proper recline, but he never caught on to it, so I switched to trying the leaning recline: which, after a few misses, he got. He never did get the proper recline, so I decided I would try to teach him magic ettiquite. With pelts, that didn't work. But with masks, he seemed to get what I meant when I tapped the tree and when I shook my head. Still, he was growing impatient. I decided I would try something else. I took him down to the idol to show him the red trick, and then to the playground rocks. We were playing in the blue bowl....when I blacked out for a second. When I came back, he was fast asleep. We'll have to continue our lessons another day, my young pupil.
I'm eager to learn some
Green means Cole has something to say!
"If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?” - Stephen Wright
Green means Cole has something to say!
"If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?” - Stephen Wright