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MsVindii t1_is9nj2u wrote

Reply to comment by The5Virtues in On a hunting trip with my Grandad, deep in the forest, we made a haunting discovery. There's something wrong with the animals. by Darkly_Gathers

Alright, I’m willing to go with it.

Explain the deer.

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The5Virtues t1_isabqz4 wrote

My personal bet is the original two deer that ran from them and then ran back toward them were genuine. We never saw them again after they ran like hell.

They fled humans then realized they were running toward something far worse and went “nope, fuck that!” and doubled back right passed Roberts 1 and 2.

The deer had been seen by the shifter so now it had something to use to approach the Roberts in a form they would be familiar with. From that moment onward the Robs never saw a real deer again, just the shifter messing with them in the form of a deer.

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ADerbywithscurvy t1_iue09h7 wrote

Dangit, tried to edit the comment to amend my theory and managed to delete it instead. :/ Edited version was meant to read:

I got the impression the Barely Breathing Deer was a real deer, but empty. It "caught" the BBD, “ate” its soul or conciseness or whatever, and was waiting to use it as a lure to ambush the humans.

That’s why it was just off the Human Game Trail, that’s why it was pulled so close up against a tree it had a hoof on the trunk, and that’s why when Grandad tried to startle it with a clap, water fell off the leaves and branches directly over its head in perfect time with the head turning.

Whatever the fuck is hunting them, I don’t think it’s shapeshifting. I think it’s using the empty bodies of the other things it’s caught like decoys, and turning the deers head required some kind of movement on its part, like controlling a large marionette. But they didn’t go up to the deer, they went wide around it - so it couldn’t Death From Above them.

Wonder if it uses the deer as lures for other things beyond humans, like bears or mountain lions.

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MrEket t1_is9s45f wrote

maybe the entity is sort of like controlling the woods? so that would encompass the deer and maybe use them for like spying or something? just a thought.

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MsVindii t1_is9s7ud wrote

Fuck that forest and those deer

And fuck Steve too.

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RUFrayd t1_is9su9y wrote

"there's something wrong with the deer" The something is never something to mess with. Best leave the deer alone.

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MsVindii t1_is9swen wrote

I just see that video, with the deers head completely turned around and still running.

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