What a lovely day, both IRL and in the forest. Spring is arriving, outside there was lovely sun and the sheep were happy, and for a while I have greater freedom to spend time in the forest so I went in early evening and sat on the hill while I did some tidying in the house. Before long I heard mooing and looked to see Eris and friends running near the little hill so I woke up to join in the fun.



Fun and frolics amongst the flowers ensued.



And silliness of course, with deer becoming one with the very forest itself, amidst that lovely glow of companionship.



I was already smiling but I had to go and cook my tea, so eventually I sat down in good company whilst I went off to do that. Inside a tree, because of course.



After tea and a bit of telly I could hear the sound of mooing and hoofbeats and I awoke in the forest to find a load of deer there! Aah and Saater amongst them, haven't seen them for a few days, so nice to see them again!



So many deer! And so much frolicking! I'm smiling again all over as I join in. I don't normally have music on while I'm in the forest as it's usually late at night, but today I put on Chill Out by the KLF. It's weird and ambient and blends well with the sounds of the forest, big tree noise, mooing, and all.



We run around a bit and end up near the ruins. So many deer! I love this! I should come on earlier more often, obviously.



We're all just dancing and being mad as cheese and it's lovely.

It certainly has been a hot minute, but I decided to download this again onto my new desktop (the old one has sadly kicked the bucket... not surprising after 12 years). I forgot how much I loved to just get lost in this game. (:

It's raining outside, all the sheep are indoors, everything is quiet, time I think to instanciate in the forest.

I wake and go for a stroll to the water fountain. What will I be today?

A bunny! Let's take a shower.



Hey there's another bunny! Let's go and say hello.



This one does not have the soulmark. Cute company, sure, but I am unlikely to have any deep interaction here.



I visit the waterfall and try on a red pelt. Looks nice with these horns. But everything looks nice with these horns.



Oh hey I never noticed these little flies round the gravestones before!



I thought I noticed some movement but it was this deer sitting down to rest, best not disturb them then. Especially with those scary red antlers.



Passed a deer and they partially dematerialised. Are those... your eyeballs?



I always enjoy seeing a pile of glowing deer all sleeping together all cwtshed up. ("Cwtsh" is a lovely Welsh word that can mean "a hug" and also "a snug, safe space" and when applied to people the feeling is like "physical closeness in a comfortable shared protective space").

It is a lovely word, and a lovely thing to see.



It was quiet, so I went to sit on the little hill for a while. Glancing at my deer in repose I saw motion and stood to investigate and hey it was Eris!

Instantiated thinking I'd likely have a quiet stroll again only to find the place full of active deer.

So nice to see familiar others, Eris, Saater, Widmung, and others I have yet to know well.





Much frolicking ensued, and although my frame rate decreased, my happiness increased proportionately, to be in such nice company. Somebody was trying to get all orthogonal to reality here it seems, disappearing into the floor of the forest haha



Much glowing gregariousness.



I liked it when you all lined up there, I could take a nice group screenshot of you all



Let's all rub on the same tree at once



All aglow, and another deer taking a dive into the forest floor. (The peculiar things you can do to the animations are part of the way you communicate in here, it seems).



Two deer butts sticking out of the tree lol



Such a lovely time hanging out with you all. Thank you for spending time with the ox-deer-ram-thing <3



Goodnight, and I will see you all again soon <3

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.

Thought I'd go for my usual night stroll, see if anyone's around.

Yeah I like these horns. I don't think I can put flowers on them though but they do look kinda cool.



Oh hey I'm not alone! Good evening/temporal greeting appropriate to your timezone!



there's more? Hi there!



actually now that more deer awake than I've ever seen! Hey everyone, lovely to see you all! Saater, always great to see you! Is that Eris over there too? And more pictos than I know, I'm going to have to be looking those up...



Hey Widmung, lovely to see you too! How cool is this seeing so many deer here!

Frolicking ensues, much to my delight.

At one point I stopped to take a screenshot and everything got a bit laggy and I managed to lose everyone and had to run around the whole forest until I found you all again. Daft ox. Haha. I was so pleased to get back to you all.



And I got utterly blasted with forest magic again and again



I got to try a bunch of cool new looks.



BLAM! Hit with the glow again. This is so much fun



Then we all had a bit of a dance. Forest rave haha!



During all this I am absolutely grinning like a bastard, I should add.

How cool does Saater look here with the light coming from their antlers. Look at that!



At times everyone was just glowing. It was quite magical!



I really didn't expect to have so much company. I never have before and it was lovely!

"it's super late" I thought, "I should go to bed" I thought, but I just wanted to see a bit of forest..

for a while I trotted around and everyone was asleep (having im-batted myself)

and then you were there, Saater and Widmung together, so lovely to see the two friends together and to run around with them!

Got a bunch of magic cast on me, I am starting to get an idea of what I want my deer to end up looking like...

Sorry I didn't stay longer but it really is super late here.

But so happy to see you two!



(ah yes now I remember how to put images in, it's been a while since I've touched an img src tag haha)

Off to bed with a big smile. Looking forward to seeing you again and thanks for the frolics!

I am having trouble moving the signature to the right side of the page. If someone could help me, I would really appreciate it.

I have had A Day today, a couple of utterly bizarre and stressful things happened, one of them necessitating calling out the emergency vet. I need some deer time.

I come into existence and... um...

https://imgur.com/ZW8ivoL

I'm a bat.

https://imgur.com/dmYcF4p

Hey guys, nice to see you, I'm up here, being a bat!

https://imgur.com/PXOqE3q

I'll go to the water fountain, inside the mushrooms there magic wears off, perhaps that'll make me a deer again.

https://imgur.com/KZILRKK

YES! Deer. Posh new antlers and all.

I'm sure now when I leave here I'll be a perfectly normal...

https://imgur.com/zRudk07

BAT. I'm still a bat.

Perhaps I can pray the bat away?

https://imgur.com/1u18NJI

Nope! Bats can't pray!

Oh HEY IT's SAATER! I am so happy to see you! I'm over here, being a bat, please excuse my bat-ness!

https://imgur.com/BJbdaqf

We run around and frolic (as best as I can frolic, being a bat). Now I am really smiling despite being a bat.

We head to the drinking fountain and I am happy to be able to finally greet Saater in my deer form.

https://imgur.com/Z11jFZu

We drink the water and I come up frog, twice. Saater looks nicer as a fluffy bunny.

https://imgur.com/d7MIs65

And their deer form always looks super cool too.

https://imgur.com/KtWJTP7

I shall have to think about what I want my deer form to look like too, now that I am grown. Hey, maybe this time when I leave the circle I will be...

Nope, still bat

https://imgur.com/0XKvg1s

And after a little more frolicking I headed back to the little hill to sleep. Thank you Saater for being there exactly when I needed just to run, frolic and hang out with another deer in the forest (or flap, at least, being as I was a bat).

Your company was very much appreciated, and now I can go to bed with a smile on my face after a rough day.

https://imgur.com/zTfhvfU