The Nature of Not Deer

• 🦌 Not Deer are described as creatures that resemble deer but are far more disturbing, potentially being deformed, mutated, or something else entirely disguised as a deer.
• ⚠️ They may exhibit aggressive, intelligent, or malevolent behavior, unlike normal herbivores.

First Encounter: The Malformed Buck

• 🌲 A runner encountered a buck with malformed or broken legs, forward-facing eyes, and sharp, discolored teeth.
• 🏃 The creature moved unnaturally, half-walking and half-running, prompting the runner to flee.
• 🌳 The runner now avoids the wooded section of the trail where the encounter occurred.

Second Encounter: The Rotting Deer

• 🌃 Late at night, a deer-like figure was spotted in a yard, appearing necrotic and rotting.
• 👀 It possessed human-like blue eyes and a smiling mouth, seeming to recognize the observer.
• 🦌 The entity later attempted to climb a fence, revealing human legs and arms with hooves and a human-like skin beneath the deer's hide.

Third Encounter: The Mimicking Herds

• 🌳 A nature center visit involved hearing a disturbing, high-pitched cry, followed by sightings of multiple deer herds.
• 🚶 The deer were observed behaving unnaturally, moving their heads in odd ways and keeping pace with the observers.
• 🌲 The observers concluded these were not normal deer, especially after discovering the nature center's limited capacity for such a large number of animals.

Fourth Encounter: Oscar the Giant Deer

• 🐔 A farm experienced gruesome chicken deaths before hunting season, attributed to a large deer nicknamed Oscar.
• 🌲 A child's encounter with Oscar revealed a deer scaled up to three times its normal size with massive antlers.
• 🐇 Later, a fawn was found, and its mother reacted strangely before hiding, followed by the sound of a large branch snapping.
• 💀 The story culminates with the sighting of Oscar again, appearing torn and skeletal, near a river, shortly before the death of an elderly neighbor.
• 🐕 The narrator's dog also reacted with extreme fear to the creature near the river.