Talk:Deer Cyclops/@comment-64.30.14.50-20130611023725

So, after about 188 hours of playing this game (total - I have no idea how many worlds I've gone through), I finally had my first REAL encounter with the Deerclops (I'd had some others, but they were more like glimpses that didn't follow the really scary pattern). It's the middle of the night, I'm stuck by a campfire far from my home because I'd gone Koalefant hunting but it wasn't QUITE as close to summer as I thought it was, and I'm just sitting there waiting for the dawn, when I hear the Deerclops's weird growl/moan noise in the left speaker of my headphones. It's weird, because it doesn't really sound like anything, you know? I thought it was just some random ambient "insanity" noise at first…and then I remembered.

Middle of the night, stuck by a fire, listening to the Deerclops's noises and praying that, somehow, it will at least be dawn by the time he actually reaches you…scary, right? It's still late at night when the screen starts shaking. I wait about ten seconds, then hastily craft a torch; five seconds after that, I see him within the radius of firelight from my dying fire. So, here's an even scarier situation: Running around in the middle of the night, in winter, barely equipped enough to handle the cold of winter nights, carrying a measly little torch and trying to escape a gigantic infamous monster you've never gone toe-to-toe with before that you can't even SEE because it's the middle of the night! Scariest minute of my gaming life (except for Slender)…

Then dawn comes, and I see the freak…biggest mob EVER - I mean, I thought the spider queen was big, but THIS… ;_; Luckily, just a short distance north, I'd gotten the set piece of the tallbird nesting ground. XD So I run through there, all the birds get aggroed at me, and the freaking deerclops keeps chasing only me as well, until he gets stuck on a boulder in the middle of the nesting ground. I keep running until all the aggroed tallbirds gave up the chase, then just stand there for ten seconds. Then I go back to see what might be going on, and what I find is about five tallbirds walking around the ring of nests and a HUGE PILE of meat where the deerclops had been. And of course, tallbirds (unlike pigs) don't eat meats, so all the meat that wasn't too hidden by boulders for me to select was all mine - 21 meats! I got the eyeball, too; even took a tallbird egg.

Moral of the story: Even the most annyong/inconvenient set pieces can save your ass if you use them right. XD