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(Take two; I hit backspace while not in the description, the page went back, and when I clicked forward, EVERYTHING was gone. So here's typing it all over again.)

Summer 15, Year 1

When Robin finished refurbishing the old coop (under the watchful protection of the Adventurer Guild... just in case), the deer decided to spend the rest of the night sniffing out everything new about the once-decrepit building. Once full of broken bottles and cans, now primed for livestock.

With Jas vouching for the deer, and Robin saying it had stopped by her shop, Marnie was left curious when the deer came by early in the afternoon. It walked up to the counter and spat out a leaf folded around four chicken feathers. The feathers were clearly several years old at the least; they were filthy and from a type of chicken she hadn't seen in the valley before. Not from one of her chickens. The deer looked up at her, back at the feathers, then back up at her. It snorted and tapped a hoof multiple times against the floor.

Those blue antlers weren't natural. Deer also didn't have fangs. Or wings? How had she not noticed those before? Maybe because she was too busy chasing it away with her broom. Deer frolicked in the woods and ate grass, not walk around a town and use a BAG.

Tap-tap-tap-tap.

Marnie was very glad Jas was at the beach and Shane was at work. She was about to feel incredibly stupid. Just pretend it's another customer. Not some... Weird Ass Deer.

"You want... a chicken?" Marnie asked, feeling very ridiculous. "It's 800g, they come as chicks, and you need a coop to house them." She smiled awkwardly. "Though Robin tells me you recently got a coop, so that should be fine."

Tap-tap-tap-tap.

The deer lifted a wing, and Marnie got a good look at the barring along the underside, like some kind of raptor. It shoved it's head into the bag, and spat out a mouthful of coins. The deer stilled, eyes moving along the coins, then it went back for a second mouthful.

This thing could count? It understood currency???

Not being the grossest thing Marnie had touched even that day, she picked up the coins and counted them. This thing didn't seem rabid. She froze as she saw several of the marked coins Lewis had told her to watch out for. She had expected Gus to get these, or Pierre. Did Robin get some of the marked coins too? How did a deer even get 3,200g in the first place!?

"This is exactly enough for four chickens-" Marnie suddenly realised why it had been tapping. Tapping four times. "I will be right back with those chicks for you!" She said with a strained smile.

Once the deer left with four chicks on it's back, Marnie made a mental note to talk to Shane when he came home from the Saloon after work. That thing was a carnivore, and she just gave it four sacrifices to determine if it really was trustworthy.

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Things different from canon; (AU???)
Gramps never had an heir, or they never show/ed up.
Special new farm map; Frontier Farm!
Stardew Valley Expanded; new maps, new NPCs, new events, a LOT of new stuff.
The new “Farmer” is just a Weird Ass Deer. NPCs will respond/react accordingly.

This is my first time playing Stardew Valley Expanded, so I’m learning as I go. (Please no spoilers if you play SVE)