Exquisite Biome: Review, Actual Play (Ep 22)

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In this episode, we review and play the tabletop roleplaying game Exquisite Biome.

• 04:40 - Actual play

Exquisite Biome was written by Caro Aserscion with illustrations by Si F. Sweetman. It is available through itch.io and Plus One EXP.

Our intro and outro theme music are by McRoMusic, who can be found on Patreon at patreon.com/mcromusic. Their piece “Melodies of the Past” was used in this episode.

The following tracks were also used and are by Michael Ghelfi Studios https://michaelghelfistudios.com/

• Mysterious Jungle (RPG Ambiences Vol 1)

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Rachael 0:02

Hi, I'm Rachael

Dan 0:03

And I'm Dan, Rachael's dad

Rachael 0:05

And this is Almost Bedtime Theater, a podcast where we play family-friendly role playing games. In this episode, we are reviewing and playing Exquisite Biome, a game about creating strange and wonderful animals.

Dan 0:21

Exquisite Biome was written by Caro Aserscion with illustrations by Si F. Sweetman. It's 18 half-sheet pages, and it's designed to be played either as a solo game or as a GM-less game for a group.

Rachael 0:35

In this game, you draw cards from a standard playing card deck, and you use the prompts from those cards to build creatures and explore how they live.

Dan 0:43

And in addition to the base version of the game, there are five variations that are offered at the end of the book to let you play in other ways, like exploring more locations, creating creatures that are designed to meet specific requirements is another option, especially if you've got a group. So like each person then tries to make a creature that's the best at scaring off predators or the best at surviving in an urban setting, for example. Exquisite Biome is available digitally through Itch.io for $10 or you can pick up a physical copy for $19 from the Plus One EXP website. So let's talk a little bit about what we thought of the game.

Rachael 1:19

On a scale of simple, moderate, or complex, we would say it's pretty simple to play. I mean, all you're really doing is drawing cards and using the prompts from the booklet.

Dan 1:29

Yeah. And I thought that the prompts were sufficient to really get you going. I liked the questions. I liked the little

Rachael 1:34

questions, yeah.

Dan 1:34

Yeah, definitely Speaking of questions, what was your favorite part of the game?

Rachael 1:39

George and Marcus.

Dan 1:40

Those are these characters that just kind of evolved doing a documentary about these animals when we were playing.

Rachael 1:45

Okay. Like, actually- I liked how, like, when you switch around the cards when you're moving them, to create another animal. I was worried that since we were gonna be using, like, the same cards, I was worried they were gonna be too similar. And they were a little similar. Like, we had two apex predators. But It wasn't like you're getting basic carbon copies of everything. There were a lot of different prompts.

Dan 2:06

And I liked, just, like, even in the beginning when you use cards to come up with your biome pieces, there are combinations there that feel like they don't make sense at first glance.

Rachael 2:16

Mm-hmm.

Dan 2:17

Um, I really enjoy the part of these games where you come up with reasons to make them make sense. Especially if you're doing- Mm-hmm like, kind of a fantasy thing or something, you, you, you get a lot of leeway you can work with there. Mm-hmm. But it's, it's always just that, that aha moment when you're like, I have an idea that'll take these two concepts and actually bring them together in a way that works." Mm-hmm. And then you get these results that are stuff that you'd never come up with, or at least I don't think I would ever come up with- Yeah if I was just trying to imagine a new animal. Then it's like, "Wow, here we go."

Rachael 2:47

Mm-hmm.

Dan 2:48

I'm a big fan of that.

Rachael 2:50

What are suggestions that you would have for somebody playing this game for the first time?

Dan 2:55

I was very tempted to start off by just picking concepts that I liked. It's like when we were picking out the biomes, like, oh, could we do a jungle? That sounds good. I am glad that we just worked that into what we actually pulled on the card. Mm-hmm. So I think my suggestion is go with the cards. Let it be random and see what you get. 'Cause that's a lot of fun. Do you have any suggestions for playing?

Rachael 3:17

No, I agree. I think, like you said earlier, it's fun to try and make things make sense. We came up with stuff that I never would've thought of.

Dan 3:23

Let it work its magic.

Rachael 3:25

Yeah.

Dan 3:25

Awesome. Next up, we usually cover any suggestions for someone who's running this game for the first time. This was us just playing it and reading it and kind of running it all at the same time the first time. Since you don't have a GM that runs it, it's just read through it. It is, a short read.

Rachael 3:42

Most of it is tables

Dan 3:43

if you read through it once before you play, you can easily be in a place where you can, I guess, host it for a group if you wanted to. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Maybe you're not the GM, but you're just making sure everybody knows how it's played. Do you have any other thoughts about the game?

Rachael 3:56

I liked playing it with somebody. It was so much more fun playing it together than it would've- been playing it by myself.

Dan 4:02

I agree. Uh, George and Marcus were a lot of

Rachael 4:05

fun. Yeah. And that's our review. If you would like to get in touch with us with a question, comment, or suggestion, you can email us at AlmostBedtimeTheater@gmail.com, or find our current social media links at bio.link/almostbedtimetheater.

Dan 4:20

And if you enjoy our show, please consider leaving a rating or review wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot, and it does help other folks find us. Thank you.

Rachael 4:29

And now, let the adventure begin.

Actual Play

Dan 4:40

Do you want like, a real world set of animals or a fantasy set of animals or sci-fi or

Rachael 4:48

I wanna go more fantasy.

Dan 4:50

Okay. So let's kick it off. Step one, we need to establish our environment. And that means drawing cards that are going to tell us what kind of environment we're working with. Ready for the first card? Oh.

Rachael 5:04

I forgot which one that is. That's a three of clovers. Clubs. It's a three of clubs. It's

Dan 5:09

a three of clubs. Scrub or grassland. What is

Rachael 5:13

that?

Dan 5:13

I was hoping for jungle. Do we need to shuffle? I think we need to shuffle

Rachael 5:17

broski, did you not shuffle?

Dan 5:18

I didn't shuffle.

Rachael 5:19

Okay, there's a jack I figured we shuffled Coastline or shore. That's like a jungle.

Dan 5:23

That's, yeah, like, like- That's like a jungle a jungle of the sea.

Rachael 5:26

That's seaweed.

Dan 5:27

There could be seaweed in this jun- Okay, coastline or shore. I like it. Okay. Okay. I like it. Okay. Cool, cool, cool.

Rachael 5:31

Okay.

Dan 5:32

And we have a heart.

Rachael 5:33

Oh.

Dan 5:34

Which means cool No, heart. Warm and

Rachael 5:36

wet. Warm and wet. Uh, so like j- jungle.

Dan 5:38

It's like a jungle

Rachael 5:40

coastline. It's like a

Dan 5:40

jungle coastline. It's like an island, coastline- Yes warm, tropical.

Rachael 5:43

Okay.

Dan 5:43

Okay.

Rachael 5:44

Oh. Oh, canyon or a valley. At the coastline. Wait. Hear me out. Hear me out, okay? You got the shore. You got the waters, and then, like, in the waters there's like like in the water and then it woof, and then there's a- An

Dan 5:58

underwater canyon?

Rachael 5:59

Yeah. Ooh. Just like that.

Dan 6:01

So we've got afternoon or twilight in an underwater canyon. Cool, cool. No,

Rachael 6:07

it's warm.

Dan 6:08

It's a warm, wet underwater canyon. We get to just draw three cards from the deck, place them in a row, and those are our creature cards, so we'll use those to describe an animal that lives in this warm underwater canyon next to the coast.

Rachael 6:24

That is secretly a jungle.

Dan 6:25

Yes.

Rachael 6:26

I mean, nobody underwater knows it's a jungle.

Dan 6:28

Unless, unless they're amphibious.

Rachael 6:30

Well, that's their problem.

Dan 6:31

Then, then they're in on the secret.

Rachael 6:34

Two of...

Dan 6:36

Clubs

Rachael 6:36

clubs.

Dan 6:37

We need three cards.

Rachael 6:38

Oh. King of diamonds. King of not diamonds. It's the curved diamond.

Dan 6:42

The spade.

Rachael 6:43

Yeah. Okay

Dan 6:45

Sweet.

Rachael 6:46

Okay Two of clubs, king of diamonds, king of spades

Dan 6:48

Okay, so the first is our creature card general description. A two of clubs, which means we have a grain or seed eater who is a reptile or amphibian

Rachael 7:00

Or

Dan 7:00

amphibian. They know the secret.

Rachael 7:03

Okay, so it's an amphibian.

Dan 7:05

An amphibian seed eater.

Rachael 7:06

Okay, hear me out. Okay, again, you remember Project Hail Mary and the astrophage, and how they would, like, go one place to eat, and then they'd go somewhere else to have babies?

Dan 7:17

Uh-huh.

Rachael 7:17

What if this thing goes up to eat in the jungle, and then it comes back to, like, sleep and live and have babies?

Dan 7:23

Like an amphibian.

Rachael 7:25

I genuinely forgot that's a thing You just invented amphibians i'm so smart.

Dan 7:30

You're science.

Rachael 7:31

That did not cross my mind at all, and I was like-

Dan 7:36

our second card... Let's see. Our second card-

Rachael 7:39

Camouflage or mimic. That's cool. Octopus.

Dan 7:44

It's an octopus?

Rachael 7:45

It's a, it's an amphibian octopus-like thing.

Dan 7:48

Okay.

Rachael 7:48

It blends... 'Cause don't octopi, like,

Dan 7:50

they can- Octopuses?

Rachael 7:51

Okay, so these octopices

Dan 7:53

Which is like an octopus and a fish. It's an octopices.

Rachael 7:56

Yeah.

Dan 7:57

We're inventing animals. Let's do it. Mm-hmm. And then our third creature card is about its habits and personality. Sedentary lifestyle on a king of spades.

Rachael 8:06

It does not move often. And dozens, hundreds, or thousands- of this species live together. What is the collective name for this creature? Whoa. And what is enough to stir its attention?

Dan 8:18

That's

Rachael 8:18

cool. So they're all just, like, sitting there, hear me out again. They, like, move as a collective- Okay like, all of them go up on land to eat at the same time, and that's, like, part of their protectiveness, and they also all, like, camouflage. They all mimicry themselves to look like another kind of animal. What if when they go out on land to eat, they all mimicry to be different parts of this, like, huge snake, so they all look like a snake moving together- Ooh to go feed.

Dan 8:48

That's so awesome

Rachael 8:49

And nobody messes with it 'cause it's a huge snake

Dan 8:52

It, it's a big snake

Rachael 8:53

Yeah

Dan 8:54

Which just happens to have lots of tiny little mouths that are eating seeds- Yeah, yeah because it's actually a whole bunch of these little octopus fish

Rachael 9:00

It's an herbivore, yeah.

Dan 9:02

That is so cool. I'm envisioning, like, this 30-foot long-

Rachael 9:07

Yeah

Dan 9:07

like, eight inches around, quote-unquote, "snake" cruising through the jungle

Rachael 9:12

And it's really just a bunch of, like, really cute

Dan 9:13

little octopices It's all these little

Rachael 9:14

tiny

Dan 9:15

octopices thousands of them-

Rachael 9:17

Yeah

Dan 9:17

going up to get seeds, and then swiggling their way back down into

Rachael 9:21

the water Yeah, maybe they, like, crawl around trees to, like, reach the top of the tree Sure.

Dan 9:25

And the, the sedentary part, maybe they don't do a whole lot underwater.

Rachael 9:28

Mm-mm.

Dan 9:28

They wear themselves out on land. But the

Rachael 9:29

water, the water's, like, protective for them.

Dan 9:32

do they stay as a group underwater, or do they scatter underwater?

Rachael 9:35

I want them to, like, make a huge net out of themselves-

Dan 9:39

Ooh

Rachael 9:39

when they're on the water, and so, like, they're like this huge net of things.

Dan 9:44

It's almost like a floating canopy of them.

Rachael 9:45

Yeah, a floating canopy.

Dan 9:47

Ooh.

Rachael 9:47

The wind brings the seeds from the jungle onto the water- and then they all make these huge rafts of whatever, octopices, okay?

Dan 9:56

Uh-huh.

Rachael 9:57

And they, like, join together. Maybe they've got, like, claws or something they hold together, and they all just like- Tentacles. Yes, tentacles, and they all float.

Dan 10:04

That's awesome.

Rachael 10:05

Like, hundreds and thousands of them.

Dan 10:07

So they must not get very big.

Rachael 10:08

But I'm thinking they must have some kind of shell on the back so that nothing can, like, get them from above.

Dan 10:12

Or the camouflage.

Rachael 10:13

They're colored to look like the sea.

Dan 10:16

So they're, like, light colored underneath, so if something underneath looks up, it looks like the top of the water and the sky- Mm-hmm and they're dark on top, so if something's looking down it looks like they're part of the ocean.

Rachael 10:24

Mm-hmm. Okay. I don't know about the snake thing, then.

Dan 10:27

The snake thing was pretty wild. I mean-

Rachael 10:29

Maybe they lay their eggs, instead of on the water, they lay their eggs on the trees.

Dan 10:34

Oh.

Rachael 10:35

So they go like a snake.

Dan 10:37

Okay, What is the collective noun for these creatures? 'Cause there's so many of

Rachael 10:42

them in- Octopus.

Dan 10:46

well, I mean, like, like a flock of something, or a- A

Rachael 10:49

flock of octopus.

Dan 10:50

A flock of octopices. I mean, they could be called all kinds of things. You can have like,

Rachael 10:56

a chameleon of octopices?

Dan 10:58

I like that one. Excellent. All right. So now that we have answered all of those prompts associated with our cards, we get to have a scene where we get to see these animals. So we're gonna pick a lens through which we are watching this creature's life. Suggestions are, is this like a nature documentary that we're watching? Is it that we're field biologists and we've got research notes that we're documenting this with? Or is it something where it's being watched through the creature's point of view?

Rachael 11:31

I like the idea of a nature documentary.

Dan 11:33

I really do too.

Rachael 11:36

What if it was just you and me, and we came over here, and we're, like, freelance YouTubers or whatever, and we're d-

Dan 11:40

Oh,

Rachael 11:40

my goodness

Dan 11:43

we're pretending to be a documentary crew

Rachael 11:44

okay. You encounter one of these octopuses in the wild.

Dan 11:48

Here

Rachael 11:48

we do- No you

Dan 11:48

don't. No you don't. You encounter thousands.

Rachael 11:52

Shut up, George.

Dan 11:53

There's never just one.

Rachael 11:54

George, mute your microphone, George.

Dan 11:57

There's not one.

Rachael 11:58

George!

Dan 12:02

Okay, nature documentary it is. There is a list of prompts here that we can get one by- I'm

Rachael 12:08

gonna draw a card.

Dan 12:10

A nine.

Rachael 12:10

Risk and reward.

Dan 12:13

Hmm.

Rachael 12:15

Hmm. Welcome everyone to planet Erf. My name is Marcus Grump, and I am your leading documentarierer in this-

Dan 12:28

Says who?

Rachael 12:29

Shut up, George. It's not your turn yet.

Dan 12:31

I'm George.

Rachael 12:32

George, shut up. I,

Dan 12:33

I'm George.

Rachael 12:34

No. That's Anyway, so here we will be, um, investiga- ig- in-

Dan 12:42

You, you tell them, Marcus. Yeah, you tell them.

Rachael 12:47

We will be investigating the risk and reward in the life of these octopices that we have found on

Dan 12:55

This island.

Rachael 12:56

This island. In a sea.

Dan 13:00

Next to the island.

Rachael 13:01

Next to the island. Thank you, George.

Dan 13:03

You're welcome.

Rachael 13:03

I will- passing it over to George, who will talk about the life cycle of the, of Pisces o- birds.

Dan 13:14

Birds? These are not birds, Marcus. These are octopices, the most, the most extravagantly, wildly impressive creatures of this very small part of the ocean. This fascinating thing about the octopices is that thousands of them will gather together in a flotilla that we call a chameleon. And then they, they float along and they're eating all of the little seeds that Marcus has, uh, uh, that- that's me, has, has invented. I mean, discovered. Totally discovered. And then-

Rachael 13:46

Get it together, George

Dan 13:47

wait, I'm, I'm George. Oh, no.

Rachael 13:51

George. I,

Dan 13:52

I have a-

Rachael 13:53

I don't... Yeah, so I will be taking over now since George is having- There's risks George.

Dan 13:58

The risk is you'll get ate.

Rachael 13:58

This is not

Dan 14:00

your- You're gonna get ate the herbivores.

Rachael 14:03

George, take a five-minute break. Okay, so, so these... these octopices-

Dan 14:09

Yes

Rachael 14:10

uh, they, uh, there's risk in living on the high seas by an island, and that risk is always danger-

Dan 14:21

And getting eaten

Rachael 14:21

and getting eaten.

Dan 14:22

Oh, man, these things, they get eaten like popcorn. That's why there's thousands. Not by me. I don't eat them. I would never.

Rachael 14:29

George.

Dan 14:31

I would

Rachael 14:31

never. Take a swim. Take a swim.

Dan 14:34

I'm going swimming.

Rachael 14:37

So the risk is that there's, uh, when, um, when these octopices, they come on land to, to, to eggs, and then there's, there's fake trees, man. These trees, they're actually giraffes, but here we call them gi-trees.

Dan 15:01

Wait, wait, wait. I, I go take a swim. Now, now you have invented giraffe trees.

Rachael 15:06

I no invent. I no know.

Dan 15:08

You discovered.

Rachael 15:09

I-

Dan 15:09

You discovered the giraffe

Rachael 15:10

trees I discovered the sh- You know what this sounds like to me? Actually, we're gonna patent the name as G- J- Jamarcus trees

Dan 15:19

J- George. It r- just rolls off the tongue so much better

Rachael 15:22

Okay. take a walk, George.

Dan 15:25

You'll never believe what I discovered when I went and took that swim- What? out there.

Rachael 15:28

What, George?

Dan 15:29

Well, let's find out. Oh. Okay.

Rachael 15:31

We gotta talk about reward first. Th- th- The reward is that they have babies

Dan 15:35

And survive.

Rachael 15:36

And survive.

Dan 15:36

Yes.

Rachael 15:37

That's a reward.

Dan 15:38

Just like popcorn.

Rachael 15:39

Um, what-

Dan 15:40

Okay. Now-

Rachael 15:40

kind of popcorn are you eating?

Dan 15:42

Okay. George. George. All right. So now we shift the cards that we drew before. Like DNA transcription. The three animal cards. Yes. so now we can work through the table once more.

Rachael 15:55

Oh, for evolution?

Dan 15:56

Well, it's not the same animal evolving, although there is a version of the game that does that. This is, because we've shifted them, now we'll get completely different answers- Oh, all right on the creature tables.

Rachael 16:07

Okay.

Dan 16:08

Um, so that we

Rachael 16:08

can- An apex predator.

Dan 16:10

We've-

Rachael 16:11

That's what eats our popcorn.

Dan 16:12

It is. It's a bird or a fish, including sharks, eels, and rays, and it is an apex predator. So now the second creature card.

Rachael 16:20

Vivid coloration.

Dan 16:22

To warn or to entice. It's an apex predator. What's it warning off?

Rachael 16:29

Others of its kind, saying, "This is mine." Ooh.

Dan 16:34

Is it like a, like a poison arrow frog, where it's got some splashes of black, but then there's bright blue and bright orange and bright reds and-

Rachael 16:42

Yes.

Dan 16:42

It's not an ambush predator.

Rachael 16:44

No.

Dan 16:44

Cause it's not sneaking up on anybody.

Rachael 16:45

No.

Dan 16:47

All right. Time for the third creature card. Habits and personality, it's endangered. And it lives in groups of a dozen or more

Rachael 16:58

Maybe the vivid colors, like that's what they use to have social hierarchy.

Dan 17:04

Oh, I like that idea let's see. Endangered, this creature's species is at risk of extinction. What forces endanger its livelihood?

Rachael 17:13

George.

Dan 17:15

I am not a force of extinction for apex predators

Rachael 17:19

invasive disease.

Dan 17:21

So we've got an apex predator. It's vividly colored. It is endangered by the recent introduction of a disease. It goes around in groups of a dozen or more. What's that hierarchy like that it tracks with its coloration? Do the colors change?

Rachael 17:37

Maybe as they get older it changes.

Dan 17:39

It's a, it's a slow coloration shift. Mm-hmm. And then does that mean that its hierarchy, or its place in the hierarchy changes as it gets older?

Rachael 17:46

Mm-hmm.

Dan 17:48

Interesting. Now, we have not decided what kind of animal this is. Is it, like, a shark, or is it, like, an eel, or is it, like, a-

Rachael 17:57

fish? Like a big old shark, or maybe just, like, a medium-sized shark, and they, like... maybe they can see a much wider range of colors and light than the octopices can, and that means that, like, they can see differences between the octopices and the actual, like, surface of the sea?

Dan 18:16

What if they see, into temperature ranges?

Rachael 18:20

Oh, okay.

Dan 18:22

And so if you're going along and you look up, and all of a sudden there's this part where the water is a slightly different temperature because the octopices are- Mm-hmm making a cover there.

Rachael 18:31

Unless octopices are amphibians and they're cold-blooded. Are amphibians cold-blooded, or is that just reptiles?

Dan 18:36

Amphibians are cold-blooded.

Rachael 18:38

That's why frogs sunbathe, right?

Dan 18:40

Yeah. What are you gonna call it, Marcus? You gonna call it a- fish Marcus?

Rachael 18:47

You're pretty smart, George, I'll give you that.

Dan 18:48

It's a Marcus fish.

Rachael 18:50

I don't think that was funny. Try again, try again, try again, George.

Dan 18:52

No, no, that's fine. That's fine. Try again,

Rachael 18:54

George.

Dan 18:54

You don't think I'm funny. George. It's okay you don't think I'm funny. George. Eh. George. Nope, nope.

Rachael 18:57

George, no, don't leave me, George. Stay, George. Don't go on a walk, George.

Dan 19:03

I gotta go for a swim and find another animal.

Rachael 19:05

Don't go for a swim, George.

Dan 19:06

Something I can name a George.

Rachael 19:08

I'll call it a

Dan 19:09

A George and Marcus?

Rachael 19:10

A George and Marcus fish?

Dan 19:12

A George and Marcus fish.

Rachael 19:13

Yeah.

Dan 19:14

Okay, okay, i'm back in.

Rachael 19:15

Copyrighted. Since now.

Dan 19:18

Let's, let's, uh, let's, let's find ourselves one more animal so we can go home. All right.

Rachael 19:23

All

Dan 19:23

right. Shifting the cards one more time.

Rachael 19:24

Ooh.

Dan 19:25

first creature card.

Rachael 19:26

It is-

Dan 19:27

King of spades

Rachael 19:27

another apex predator. You sure you did that right?

Dan 19:30

I did. The, we had two kings, so it-

Rachael 19:33

It's an invertebrate.

Dan 19:34

It is. Like a giant squid, or an arachnid, or a mollusk. A mollusk.

Rachael 19:40

It's a huge clam.

Dan 19:42

A huge clam is the apex predator at the bottom of the canyon.

Rachael 19:45

The canyon is the clam.

Dan 19:48

Oh. Okay, we gotta find out about this thing. This thing-

Rachael 19:50

Watch it say there's thousands of them

Dan 19:52

that's gonna be freaky. They're gonna be spread out across the entire ocean if there are.

Rachael 19:56

What if they open up, like, 180 degrees so it's, like, all the clams make up the ca- Maybe not. Okay. Small, flat feet. This canyon has feet.

Dan 20:09

It has very, very tiny feet. They are so tiny. Uh, they, they are so tiny, the, the canyon does not move. The feet were good when it was very small, and it had to get to- Yes, George a new place. Yes. And then it grew and made a canyon. Yes, George. And now it doesn't u- it doesn't use the feet.

Rachael 20:22

Good job, George. We'll name this one George.

Dan 20:26

It's a George gorge. Yes. It's a George gorge. All right. Third card.

Rachael 20:34

Good job, George.

Dan 20:35

Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, third card.

Rachael 20:38

His accent.

Dan 20:38

They're all over the place. Yes. They are, they have gone more places than George and Marcus. Okay. the third creature card- It's another s- king of diamonds

Rachael 20:46

sed- sedentary lifestyle.

Dan 20:48

Obviously. I mean-

Rachael 20:48

Obviously.

Dan 20:49

Obviously.

Rachael 20:50

And it's, lives in very small groups.

Dan 20:53

Very small.

Rachael 20:54

Maybe it's like a mom and a kid.

Dan 20:56

like this one has, a parent that is part of its group, but the parent is like around the side of- Oh the island. There's another canyon.

Rachael 21:05

Okay, so their groups just span much larger distances than we're used to 'cause we're smaller.

Dan 21:10

Yeah.

Rachael 21:10

Oh, I mean, they must be there forever, though- Right 'cause, like, they don't move. So it's really just- Yeah. Well, it's probably, like, a mated pair 'cause their children would go off somewhere else. You know what

Dan 21:22

I'm realizing? What?

Rachael 21:23

They could be so old to the point where, like, one of them is underground, and it's like an underground cave- Ooh that another one that's up higher opens up to the top so that you can, like, go through one and get to the other. But, like, you don't realize it 'cause they're so big. They look like they're just caves.

Dan 21:39

Whoa. That's Do they periodically go clomp and close?

Rachael 21:44

Earthquakes.

Dan 21:45

And the whole canyon, like, shifts closed and digests and then opens back up.

Rachael 21:50

Yeah.

Dan 21:51

Uh- George Marcus, I j- I just figured out something about the- George I am feeling much less comfortable about my excursions into the George Gorge. I wanna go home.

Rachael 22:03

I got you, George. Vroom. It's, they're on, like, a jet ski. They-

Dan 22:08

Eee.

Rachael 22:10

The tank might be empty, George. Ah.

Dan 22:13

Ah. And cut. Wow. All right. All right, so, ending the game. After you've described all three species with your creature cards- Mm-hmm oh, you can do one final scene if you want of these creatures coexisting together. Followed by a smaller chomp. Followed by a much bigger chomp. That's the story. Yeah. Okay. And then, we can end the game by thanking our fellow players. Thank you, Marcus.

Rachael 22:43

Thanks, George.

Dan 22:44

And, wrapping up by sharing a contribution from another player that delighted or surprised you. I was surprised by so many things. I thought that the, frame of these YouTube streamer documentarists- was really fun. Yeah.

Rachael 22:57

Thanks, George.

Dan 22:58

You're welcome, Marcus.

Rachael 22:59

George Gorge. George Gorge. So we've got the Octopices copyrighted.

Dan 23:02

Uh-huh

Rachael 23:02

And we've got the-

Dan 23:04

Giraffetrees Germarcus Trees.

Rachael 23:05

Ger-

Dan 23:07

Germarcus Trees. Sorry, yes.

Rachael 23:08

Patented.

Dan 23:09

That was just a side project, not official.

Rachael 23:11

And the George Gorge's-

Dan 23:13

Yeah

Rachael 23:13

patented.

Dan 23:14

And then also the- Patent pending apex predator that is the sharks.

Rachael 23:17

Marcus Fish? The, the Marcus- George and

Dan 23:19

Marcus Fish?

Rachael 23:20

The Mar- George and Marcus Fish.

Dan 23:21

George and Marcus Fish, yes. We're gonna be famous, Marcus. We're gonna be famous.

Rachael 23:28

Famous, George.

Dan 23:37

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George Gorge? George Gorge. George Gorge.