| Thursday | August 5, 2007 | 12:56PM PST |

The Threadaversary went very well, thank you all who participated! For those of you that missed it, we have another event coming up at the end of August soon as I catch up with growings and rank changes. I’ve updated the growth list- PLEASE look it over and make sure that I’m not missing anyone. There were a few deer that had somehow gotten lost from the list that have been bumped into August’s growings. The owner’s list is also mostly up to date. A lot of the new deer I’ll have to add soon as I can get around to it.

    + The raffle was drawn on Page 197. Mint 'tea was our first winner and claimed the doe. BlackPidgeot was our second winner and will be awarded the little fawn.
    + The new herd has been decided! Congrats to the Rhok'kelar. While I'm not sure about the coloration, I have the Countess Lineart for the new herd up for display.
    + Seabhac has won the "I Am Spartacus" auction! Page 1205
    + Seabhac has also won the flatsale for the FC calf! Page 1205. Congrats Sea and thanks to everyone that participated!
    + RL commissions are open! Thal's taking them on her Secondary DA account. Two customs ordered by EchoLimaFoxtrot can be seen on page 1194 and 1202.
    + We've hit the 1200th page mark! The raffle hind this 100 pages around goes to Tamiko_kitten! Contrats!



| Thursday | August 2, 2007 | 4:23PM PST |
We’re officially one year old! Thank you everyone for your support and encouragement. It’s been amazing. I’ve started up an anniversary event, details in the listing below.

I’ve also undergone a large surgery just at the end of last month. I’ll be in recovery until after the 25th. During this time I’ll be doing a lot of two things: Catching up and resting. Also because of this I’m unable to work and thus completely and utterly broke. So in order to help raise funds during my ‘down time’ I’ve opened RL commissions for the deer through my Gaia-specific DeviantArt Gallery. Normal customs and completely customized lineart prices are all there. PM me on my main account if you’re interested. This offer likely won’t stand long!

And finally our little listing:

    + Threadaversary events begin on page 1153 with a raffle, a dice game, and a Featured Character Flatsale! All three events are 100% free to thank you all for your support over the past year.
    + GunSniper has contributed her gestates into an auction starting on Page 1170. It’s just a fun auction with a heavily lineart-edited stag she’s affectionately nicknamed Spartacus.
    + Two new growths today- both of them WAY over-due and I’m so sorry for the delay. Dichtor and Artair are now outriders!
    + We have SIX new speakers among us! Out of 13 requested rolls this is an amazing success rate. The results can be viewed on Page 1184. I’ll be coloring those within the week. The reindeer female speaker still needs to be drawn and templated so she may take a little longer. Braith will just have to wait till he’s grown to adult for his special pose. ;3
    + And finally I’ve updated the Growing List. There were a lot of deer that somehow got lost in the growing order- another HUGE apology from me. I’ve added them to this month’s workload so if all goes as planned we’ll be caught up.





| Friday | June 22, 2007 | 7:10PM PST |
Quite a pile of announcements! Quite a lot going on in the shop, we're hoping for great turn outs for all of them.

    First off, this month's batch of growings are done and posted!

    We've opened up a Create-your-own herd contest! Winning concept will manage and own their own herd of deer complete with 5 new pieces of lineart!

    We're still Hiring! We're in need of two colorists. Spread the word. ^_^

    I'll be gone from July 1rst to July 7th camping. I won't have access to the computer in such time. I'll miss you guys!

    Also, if all goes to plan I'll be having a large surgery that'll keep me from work for a month or two. In which time my only budget towards college will be from my art. In light of this I'll be accepting RL Commissioned unique lineart for deer. Details will be available in the journal of my Deviant Art Gallery

    Finally, I'll be allowing unique lineart for oober pet trades. Details in the custom section. :3




| Friday | March 30, 2007 | 1:15AM PST |

The biggest news is that we’ve finally hit 1000 pages! Thank you to everyone that’s contributed to getting us this far. To celebrate we’re planning a flatsale guest colorist event hosted by Cihiru and potentially an auction by Thalion. We’ll keep you posted on that.

Thalion’s also working on re-vamping the entire wolf lineart set. So far the lone wolf (Which is a pose for both genders) is the only wolf available. Both gender pups and the male adolescent have been inked. More are on the way, just please be patient!

The front page is a bit sloppy and in horrible need of updating so through the week (Or month depending on how productive Thal is XD) there’ll be some updates, re-vamping, and perhaps some more new banners. The main banner’s been re-done. Again, please be patient and bear with me. This next week I’m working full time (short two hours if you want to get technical) and I’ll have breedings to color so progress will still be slow.

    * We've passed the 1000 mark! To celebrate we have our 100-page giveaway winners. Three lucky posters to page 1000 have won the very first wolves! They can be seen on pages 1001 and 1002. Thanks so much for getting us this far!
    * Congrats to Cihiru for getting the first post on 1000! She's earned a bonus stat roll for one of her deer. :3
    * Rudolph has grown on Page 1008
    + Anlach (Breeding and Lord challenges) Close this Saturday!



| Wednesday | March 21, 2007 | 9:14PM PST |

A few large and small announcements. For one I'm very sorry that Anlach has been delayed for this long. I've given it an extension so it lasts from now till the end of the month. This gives everyone enough time to build up the rp's needed to breed and make their claims on hinds but also to challenge for the position of lordship of the herd. I've also reduced the post requirement for valid complete rp's from 15 to 10 posts per player. That's just a little over 2 pages, a pretty average rp.

Ryugen has left the shop as a staff member. All deer colored by her will be taken on by Thalion and the wolf art provided by her will not be used. It just doesn't feel quite right to use someone's artwork who no longer wishes to remain with the shop. Thalion will be drawing the wolves up from scratch. So far three have been drawn and inked. Two more are sketched. again, I'm very sorry for the delay this has caused.

I've taken long enough to do it but now we finally have a Stat System established. I'll be rewarding those that helped me establish this as soon as I can make time. Thank you everyone for your suggestions. Feel free to comment on it and put in more suggestions. The stats are to help with Anlach, rp, and breeding.

Growths are posted on Pg.962 to include our very first undead speaker!


| Sunday | Febuary 25, 2007 | 12:38PM PST |

We're at the 900 mark! And Seabhac is the winner of this round's 100-page mark giveaway! Thank you everyone for your support in getting us this far. We're looking forward to the 1000 mark- perhaps the give-away will include some.. WOOFS! X3

Also I've updated the speaker rollings for the month:
    | Loreena | 85 | Unsuccessful |
    | Vienna | 9| Unsuccessful |
    | Elliot | 96 | Successful |
    | Brychan | 46 | Unsuccessful
    | Sergie | 38 | Unsuccessful |


We have a new speaker! Congrats to Elliot. (This should be interesting...buuuuudddyyyyy xd )

Still working on inking the wolves between work. I'll let the Anlach poll run until March 3rd. Whichever option has the most votes will be the official month of Anlach! We're also working on developing the stat system. Keep an eye out. :3

And finally I may be hiring a cert artist just to help keep everything updated. It's not for sure but there's a good chance.




| Friday | Febuary 23, 2007 | 8:50AM PST |
Very unproductive month on my (Thalion) end. I still have to finish growings and inking the wolves so we can start events for those up. Been working nearly full time during the week and I've been taking a semi-hiatus from gaia for personal reasons. (It's gone unannounced but it's gone on none the less. xd )

However, we've managed to keep everything mostly on schedule. Here's this months update list:


    + This month's growings are all done! Pickup is on Page 892. Certs, as always, are also found on Pg.2 in the cert pickup.
    + Black Pidgeot has won the wolf lineart auction! The finished wolf can also be seen on Page 892.
    + Ryugen is hosting a human concept contest! Details can be found on Page 888.
    + Thal's looking to create a stat system for firebringer! Details can be found on Page 892. There is something in it for you. wink
    + Anlach this spring! The poll's up for you to decide when.





| Wednesday | January 24, 2007 | 11:27PM PST |
Sorry to have skipped out on updating for a month everyone! As you can see we've been busy. Ryugen has made 12 beautiful new linearts for the shop- 10 wolves and 2 boars. I'm working on linearting them and setting templates to them all. There's a preview of them here. here, and here. There's been a pile of growings, all of which can be seen now in the cert pick-up.

Ryugen and myself are also excited to announce a colorist exchange. Black Pidgeot is hosting a few events featuring deer she's colored, in exchange keep an eye out for the work of Ryugen and myself in our sister shop, Gryps Nemorensis!

And now, our doom list of events.


    + Massive Cert Drop-off. Page 2 - More to come soon.
    + Herd listing updated - welcome the new herd, the Ártali Ísjaki
    + Black Pidgeot is hosting a guest colorist exchange event. The Raffle and The Auction are up until the 31rst at 5pm PST. Check them out!
    + Upcoming custom wolf lineart auction hosted by Ryugen! Date and times will be announced shortly.
    + Happy page 800! And congrats to Tirokio, the proud owner of this 100-page event giveaway, Eliot from Open Season!




| Saturday | Dec 9, 2006 | 11:48AM PST |

More updates! More than I can fit on the title. I got all the breeding fawns and calves done and ready for birthing next week. The Christmas event will run until next week. All the events can be found under the reindeer or in the event sub-thread in the guild. A few more announcements will be added when I finish up the doggie semi-customs.


| Tuesday | Dec 5, 2006 | 12:45AM PST |

Another busy week and thus another listing of events! Keep an eye out, there's two more growings due to come and soon preggers does. All of Santa's reindeer are completed, all of the spirit of giving deers are complete (accept, of course, the semi-custom ones), and I'm going to get to work on the last few after growings are done. There's another familar- irish Wolfhounds! I'm going to try to add a few more and have a small secret santa event. Just depedns on how much time I have.

And now... the doom list of updates:

* Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:02 am | Anlach is Officially Started! | Page 377
* Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:23 pm | Ryugen's B-day Dog Raffle Winners | Page 404
* Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:33 pm | Page 400 Raffle Winner & Prize | Page 406
* Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:38 am | Tergen & Alline have grown! |Page 408

| Fri | Nov 24, 2006 | 11:09AM PST |

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving went as well as mine did! I'm very sorry for the slow progress of the reindeer. The school term's almost over so I'll have more time very soon. I only have one of Santa's reindeer colored but I have both the adult male and female reindeer templated so look forward to seeing the rest of them pop up within the next few days. Thank you everyone for your suggestions in the thread! I'm still working out the Santa's deer event, there's a poll up for this week to gather opinions on it. I have my progress on the event under special events here on the front page.

Also, Ryugen has contributed two beautiful Christmas red deer, two Reindeer, and two fox for the upcoming events. She's also running a human character contest in the thread that could include some of her magnificent art for him! It's well worth looking into, don't let something new scare you off ;3 The details are on pg.254

Customs for familiars may open Sunday depending on how things go. Remember this December we’re holding Anlach- likely starting on the first so we don’t catch it in with the Christmas event and to give me time to color the offspring.

| Mon | Oct 5, 2006 | 11:45AM PST |
The halloween event went awesome! Thank you everyone that participated. I'm debating a thanksgiving/harvest event though my primary focus at this point is completing the reindeer set to make ready for Christmas. I may just skip a fall event all together to make time for that (along with all the time for growings, etc.) Also! There will be a winter Anlach. So start rping! There'll be only one raffle slot this time around to encourage activity.

Special Undead Offer!
From now until Friday, November 10, custom undead deer will be offered at 25k to any interested. Lineart edits range from 5k (for antler changes or minor blood/bone exposure edits) to 10k (for undead doe since I have no template for them, major edits like the addition of items or additional fur). This will be the last time until next halloween you can get a fallen herd member! Send all trades and info to the mule. Info needed will be a description/references of what you'd like, who gets the deer, and the deer's name.

There's too much to announce for our poor title so I'm posting them all here for you.

    + Announcing the winners for Wrath, Envy, Lust, Greed, and Sloth. Page 169
    + Announcing the winner of the suprize raffle! Page 170
    + Announcing the winner of the Storyteller! Page 171
    + Lightning Shadow X's Custom's Complete Page 186
    + Quiet_Wolf's Undead Custom's Complete Page 187
    + DarkFlame's officially our first speaker! Congrats! Page 188
    + Ronno's grown! Page 191
    + Rhian's grown! No more fawn spots for her. >3 Page 192



| Sun | Oct 15, 2006 | 2:00AM PST |
Whoo! Finally all the red deer lineart is complete! Female storyteller and both speakers have yet to be templated by they're at least there. All stages can now be seen in the "Of the Herla" section right here on the front page along with an explanation of how ranking works and a detailed description of each stage and how to obtain the special ranks. Next set of lineart will be the Reindeer to prepare for Christmas and once that set's complete expect another chart up on the front.

The Halloween event is in the planning stages. Within the next week we'll be gathering interest while working on the deer to give away. Stags from the fallen outriders, a storyteller (maybe two ;3), and The 7 Deadly Sins themed deer will all be available along with some foxes for smaller awards. Tell a friend and keep your eyes peeled!

Special thanks to Ryugen for all her help around the shop and for hosting our last event and katersaur for the suggestion of the 7 deadly sins.

| Wed | Oct 11, 2006 | 1:19AM PST |
Lots of announcements. First of all there's a Twin Raffle for two very rare fawns being hosted by our talented guest artist, Ryugen, as well as an auction for four lovely hinds. Check the appropreate event section for further information. The title's not big enough for the tid-bit announcements so for those that are just walking in here they are:

+ There's an important Speaker Announcement on Pg.119. Please read it!

+ I wasn't happy with the Lord of the Herd lineart so I re-did it. The New Lord of the Herd Lineart (Fell Lore) and Reindeer Shadow can be seen on Pg.118. More Reindeer previews to come- making room for the holidays to come!

+ Hallween Event Previews on Pg. 112 & 114. There'll be a plot-based and iin-thread event. More deer will be given away, possibly a storyteller, and definately a few fallen outriders!

+ Calf Growths - Certs in Pickup. Calfs and Fawns loosing their fawnspots and growing little nubs. Like they need more reasons to cause trouble.

+ Also our first familar can be seen in the cert pick-up as well! Familars (foxes only at the moment) have been added to the customs. Customs and pet-trades are still open for any interested.

| Sun | Sept 10, 2006 | 9:10PM PST |
Thal is back from her vacation but still slow going from her end. She's trying to find a new RL job so she can quit/get fired from her current one. It's too stressful, too low of pay, and by the end of the month, she'll be returning to college full-time. The lord of the herd lineart and template is complete, there'll be a contest for the Lord of the Firebringer herd very soon. Thalion has also opened up three of her custom slots.

| Mon | Aug 14, 2006 | 5:11PM PST |
Event is over! Congrats winners. The money from the events bought us a guild. It's on public settings so anyone can poke in, set up a quest thread, watch rp, or even rp themselves as lera or man. I've tossed up a poll since there's been a lot of talk of having wolves in the shop as well as deer. It's an idea but if we're to do that it won't be right away. :3 Just a distant possibility I wanted to bring up. Certs are posted as well and I've moved the owner's list to the back page. (No point in having two listings, no?) Also, we've taken on Dire Wing as a colorist to the shop.

| Fri | Aug 4, 2006 | 11:28PM PST |
The front page is almost complete. Just have info on the Lera and Man to update. We'll also be accepting requests for sister shops if anyone's interested. Just PM the mule with a link to your shop, all we ask is that you link back to us. The cert contest ends at 2:00pm PST on Sunday, Aug.6. The winner will be announced and onc we've recieved the files for the cert we'll begin our first events. An auction, a flatsale, and a raffle are planned- lots of deer to be given out. Once the deer are given out, role playing can start so keep an eye out. Thank you everyone that's kept the thread active :3

| Tues | Aug 1, 2006 | 7:26PM PST |
The shop's set up a bit. There's a lot of info on the front page that we still gotta put up but everything's off to a good start. Please read the rules over and if you have any questions drop them in the thread. We're holding a cert contest with a semi-custom deer as the prize to the winner, don't know how long it'll run. Please don't be offended if we don't pick any of the entries, we can only go without a cert for so long and if none of the entries quite fit what we need, we might have to (gasp!) try to make one for ourselves.
Also- if you had a deer in Shadows of the Forest contact the mule if you're still interested in a deer and we'll replace it with one from this shop. It's only fair.