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July 12, 2024 43 mins
Welcome to Meeples and Wine! This week Michael and Suzy play Flock Together from Sea Cow Games, taste La Vieille Ferme Rosé, and test out two new microphones! (Let us know how you think it sounds!) Yes, in this week's game we take on the role of two chickens trying to survive three seasons against the elements and the predators that surround our coop, as Madame Chickovski and Cluckerberry Finn we go claw to toe against such villians as Professor Moleiarty, Chicksune and Cleopoultra! We also taste La Vieille Ferme Rosé, a fruity light wine for hot days, and attempt a cocktail with it also, with mixed results. Our Final Call is the Scented Realms Kickstarter, a scent based system to get just a little more depth and immersement to your tabletop games!
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(00:13):
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Maple and wine.
I am Michael. And I am Susie.
And wine is your podcast
for board game reviews for couples with a
drink in hand. You know, I don't think
you've done that I was trying to say
something different, and it wouldn't come out of.
I don't think you've done it the same
in at all.

(00:33):
Not far we get better. I know go
better. They're so cute. I love you. So
who are we? We are Michael and Susie.
Long Married, long gamers.
Kinda long time drinkers.
Yeah.
But We are way over 21. Oh, yeah.
So we are here to take you and
talk to you about board games for couples.
How to games a couple and not wind

(00:56):
up destroying the marriage,
which
is a thing.
So tonight, we are talking about a game
called Flock together,
and a wine called
What is it?
Love fe. La va
Fe,
which I assume is something to do with
chickens because there's chickens on... Well, you took

(01:17):
French into? Yeah. But I don't know. You
don't know if those words law. Okay. A,
lot as a girl. So anyway, If you'd
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(01:38):
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Yes.
So
Suzanne. What wine are we tasting?
So as I said, As I crack the
bottle? Ba
why do I cannot Say this. VIEILLE.
La v,
ph,
and it's Ro.

(01:58):
They have lots of different of wine. But
this 1 is a ro. Right. Who. It's
from fam peri.
The winery. Mh. In France. Mh.
And
hot park France.
It is located in the regional park of
the Lu
equal distance in the web page. Equal distance

(02:19):
from A,
I Porta, and Mu.
I'm not sure if Saying any of those
words correctly. No.
Just so.
We don't know how to speak.
Well, I hey French, you know, I only
speak 2 languages but English and bad English.
So...
And I could speak English and bad french.
So anyway,

(02:40):
so
the description on the website said that this
wine
is has a fruity nose.
Should remind you of nectar rings and blood
oranges.
Salt.
And.
That is the blend of grapes. There.
And pairing
It's got cold buffets, tomato salads and grilled

(03:03):
meat is what it's says... You poured it
out. Looks pretty. Very... It's a very pale
rose. Yeah. It describes it as a peach
color, and it is very peach peachy. Color?
Yeah. Kinda,
little more smells real fitting.
Yeah.
Like that they'll get that nectar type of
like, a honey stone fruit?
Yeah. Stone fruit. Nectar or

(03:25):
peaches type. Sent on this?
Smells good. So shall we team before we
drink?
Alright.
It's very smooth and light. Mh.
Very light. Oh.
A little bit of dark. Got more flavor
there at the end. A little bit of
tart to end. Yeah.
Just tight tiny tiny bit tart. Not that.

(03:48):
Mh. Crazy. It's very fruity.
It's I mean, it's it's
very light. There's not... I mean, it's... III
don't wanna say it's your
kind of sweet but dry. I mean, it's
it's Yeah. It's not overly sweet. A little
bit of mineral at the back back end
of it on, like, here on the sides
of your tongue. And get a little bit
of that going on. That's good... Yeah. That's

(04:08):
like a full flavor
profile there. Mh. But it's very light,
great for summer. Yeah. This is... This needs
to be colder. It's better than I thought
it would be. Mh.
But it was... Well, when you go through
the Wine store and your ass like,
French wine French wine, French wine French wine.
Like, what have we not tried lately? We

(04:30):
haven't had a ro in a really long
time. And we found rose with a picture
of a chicken on it, so that's... Yes.
They think we're nuts at
at the
shops that we go to. I know. Because
we walk in and we go to you
any wines with chickens on the lip. I
think we talked to Ellen this time. We
were at a different... We were at different
ben this time because we were on the

(04:51):
south side of town. I thought it was
Emily. Emily. Emily. Yeah. That's right. Emily, with
her fuchsia hair,
Yeah.
She guided us around, and it... I wanna
say... Thank you to Bin because your wang
people have been like,
exceedingly
happy to help us out with this ridiculous
request that we have them. So
so so on the south side we have

(05:12):
Emily on the North side, we've got Susie,
Mh.
So
but yes, but what game
Susan are we playing today? So the reason
we got chicken on the label is because
the game we are playing is called
flock
together,
which is a board game by.
It. Seek how games.

(05:33):
Cc cow games. So flock together is a
beautifully immersed cooperative
experience for 1 to 5 players. Yes. You
can play it 2 player.
During the game, each player takes on the
role of a unique chicken with
asymmetric abilities
and works together to drive off the invading
predators before the third season ends.

(05:56):
Every return players choose their own strategy to
progress their cause by selecting 2 of their
8 available.
Along the way, players will also have to
manage leveling up, predator loot drops, traveling gru,
and adverse weather conditions. However, players must plan
carefully because as the seasons change every predator

(06:18):
that is still alive
grows stronger and gains new abilities. So basically
they level up every season. Mh. With 11
asymmetric characters to play and 10 unique predators
to defeat.
Flock together offers immense replay ability that can
be enjoyed with quick turns,
and an experience that lasts 25 minutes per

(06:41):
player. Yes. Now,
that is something I found interesting. It wasn't
like it'll be 25 to 90 minutes.
It's 25 minutes every person that's point. You
have a 5 player game, hun down and
get ready because it's gonna take some time.
Right.
So
I... This is... Okay. You have to weigh
in on this, this

(07:02):
asymmetric
word that they're using.
I think I know what they mean, but
I've never heard it described in a game.
A, I think in this case, asymmetrical u
for me usually means that people are not
taking their turns
1 at a time.
I think in this 1, Ace, I think
what they mean by this is that the
asymmetrical

(07:22):
portion of it is you have a selection
of items and things that you can do,
but it's not like you have to do
this and then do this. You could do
you could attack and then you can lay
egg and then you could do this, and
then you can do that. It's not like
there's a set. Point of what you can
do for. I I mean, looking through the
characters, they all have their advantages and disadvantages,

(07:43):
and that's what I thought maybe they were
talking about. That it's this balance between advantages
and disadvantages. Yeah. I... I'm not entirely sure.
Because, like, the the chicken that I played
was started out a little bit stronger than
yours did.
But then yours started out with an extra
egg at the beginning of the game. Yes.

(08:03):
Which was a tiny bit of an advantage.
Well, it it worked up. Had. You were
you were like the mega egg layer.
Well, I had... Let me... I had wyatt
chi. U. And you had Madame T?
Yes. You were an immune to winter conditions,
which was good, and I was able to
lay eggs and bring you along with me

(08:24):
wherever I went. But let's let's get a
little bit. Because I picked up some cool
drops. Yeah. But Okay. So right now, it's
got a board game geek rating of 8
out of 10. Mh. Very been very popular
because of the kickstarter just released. This just
rolled into the house last week. Mh.
It has a weight complexity of 2.4
now. Out of 5. Out of 5. When

(08:45):
I looked earlier, it was a lower. It
can be a little bit complicated
Yep. But it was just enough to make
it
my kind of game. Right. Lot of overly
come where you're like, Oh, my gosh, there's
just too
keep track of. Did you what sense? Yeah.
That it went up. It went up So
more people are rating this game and the...
It's did the cup It's some new claims.

(09:06):
Sound. It's a new game. It has... It
has a lot going on. Yeah. Like Susie
said, number of players 1 to 5. This
is designed by Matt Mu. Mh. All the
board games this is his first game. And
I believe
it was Matt, who messaged me back
on, when we were playing this game. When
you had a... Well, I had questions about
my carrot...

(09:27):
About a card
because
When you play a coop game with, you
have to understand.
Is playing the coop game.
If you do not do your term, the
way Expects you to do your turn, she
will get irate at you.
So you have to remind her you're playing
your character. I'm playing mine So she was,
like, I don't know what was... Just but,

(09:48):
like, we should talk about it and decide
what to do today there. But what I
had to think we meant... We should talk
about it, and you should do what I
want you to do.
I think Susan Be great to for her
to play. This is a 1 player game.
I bet she would really enjoy it. No.
Yeah, Matt Mu. This is his first game
and Matt? Good on you. We eat. Yes.
Spoilers.
We really enjoyed this game. Yeah. We really...

(10:10):
This is a Honking a piece of game
too the sing is
nicely heavy.
Sometimes when you get a kick kickstarter and
it comes to the house, you're like, oh,
you know, this package is light. But this
1 no. There was a a he to
it on this look when it got delivered,
and I appreciate that. Big square box. Mh.
Full of goodies. Yeah. We actually, if you

(10:30):
check out our socials our Instagram. We had
pictures of all the pieces. We will also
have them in the show notes also.
Andrew Bo.
So the reason I thought I recognized him
because he had done the art for a
game that I wanted to kick start, but
did not. And I'm hoping I should try
double out, double back and check and see
if they have a a late pledge thing

(10:51):
going on, but it's called bunny boom
and it's about a
group of of people living in a valley
they're gonna overrun with bunnies and the bunnies
keep multiplying and you have to keep passing
the bunnies from player to player.
And whoever has the least amount of money
at the end of the game wins. It
looks super cute.
I think my daughters would love it. I
think it 1 of those gains that you
could pull out for a family game. What

(11:12):
to collect the bunny he's not give them
a. I know. That 1 He's he's awesome.
He does a lot of animal games. He's
got Ever, which is another very popular a
game that we should probably play at 1
point or another? Yeah. Ducks in tow,
yeah, more Ever art
And he... But he's he's been around for
a while. He's got, like, 80 plus care...
89
credits to his name for

(11:34):
wow. For art
and published by Cc cal games and Cc
how games. This is their first game. Oh,
okay. So... Well, the... Bet he forms a
company that... Yeah. Matt Mu. Mh.
We're we're impressed with your first your game
right out of the gates.
So type of game mechanism from this. Well
we've got action points it's a coop game

(11:55):
and we have variable player powers where everybody
has
different powers. It's not like everybody can do
in some games where, you you can all
do the same things at a rate, you
know, you can attack. You could do this,
do whatever. But in as you play the
game,
everybody has these little spiral notebooks
that your chicken starts off with as a
chick and then a

(12:16):
hen a chicken then something and then I
was a a cut roll. Poultry
pull. I forgot that I've forgot the middle
name.
But
people who raised chickens with no. Yes.
But the art fantastic. The chickens look awesome,
like wyatt chu has this little bowl hat
and he's carrying a stick. Madam Cha skis
got a, well brush furry a hat. Mh.

(12:38):
Well, at the end she's got a big
fur coat. Yeah. Just wanted to fur a
coat. Egg
has books under her arm and is wearing
like like wearing glasses. Mh.
Who sells. Annie Y,
you know, look looks like that. Then... Is
the kinda cool also that fun. Yeah. The
names are fun and each 1, they have
a description of its actually each character is

(12:58):
set up on a actual
chicken
nut brand on a variety. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah Yeah. So, like, they're all different types
types of chicken. General Sa is a dragon
chicken. And Winston Cup hill. It's a ceramic
chicken.
A till of the hen is a Jersey
giant.
And shell holmes is a polish. Yeah. Chicken.
So there are all these different breeds. Right.

(13:20):
And in that, you as you level up,
you have to get
eat so much food.
And as you eat the food, you level
from
1123
to your top level.
And instead of leveling up and having things
change. You flip the page on your little
through their little spiral binder. Mh. And you
have more abilities available to you. Right. So

(13:42):
all the abilities that you start with at
the beginning of the game, you just add
to them. For each level. Right. So you
can still use the ones that you had
at the very beginning, and then you would
keep adding more as you go on. And
your health points go up, your overall health
points. Mh. Although the damage that you have
doesn't just disappear when you level up. That
is an interest mechanic. That. I am not

(14:03):
entirely sure I'd liked, but it definitely added
more challenge to it. Now know, in order
for you to survive,
you have to
get all of... You have to survive all
3 seasons and get rid of all the
predators. So 3
base predators and then the 1 big boss
predator.
That's at the end. So this... They've... Again,
they're a lot of fun. That is Hans

(14:24):
grew heads gru, who's over.
Of a
and Salmonella,
who's this little rat. Mh. And you basically
steals your food pie. Yeah. Eggs mer eats
your eggs, which are sheer corn,
which is a plant Sheer khan.
And we also had... We had Chic
I was kinda disappointed that sheer isn't it?

(14:47):
Was a sheer corn? Sheer corn was not
a tiger or a cat or something.
I sort of cat. Well It was a...
What was it a? He's a wolf. A
both. Yeah. And then Chi,
a wolf. Thought it was Looking at his
picture right now here. Okay. He's a wolf.
Yeah, well, then that makes a little more
sense, but anyway... So, yeah. And then Cl,

(15:08):
which
someone didn't pay attention to the beginner steps
of the rules and where where,
it was suggested
by Matt
Very good suggestion. Maybe you should start with
these enemies
because they might be easier for you to
fight. We had cl
who was dealing 4 points of damage to
us every time

(15:28):
we played, and it was, like, hit for
1 runaway. He'll he'll he'll he'll heal. But
we hit... By the time we got to
her was ready the third season. Alright. We'd
had already leveled up. We were like...
We're looking at the game going we just
get a level up really fast. And then
at least knock 1 of them out before
the end of the season and they all
level up. Yeah. Because once they once they

(15:49):
start gaining...
Yeah. So each season lasts
7 days. Mh. Right?
And
at 3 different times during the season, the
weather can change. Right. Now, each day is
a full round
for everybody on the table. Right. Which is
which is marked by this really cool little
gold egg token that we got with the

(16:10):
kickstarter. Yes. Great. I don't know if that'll
be in the regular
store bought alberto know. But on kickstarter. Yeah.
That was a cool add on. And then,
so I went first, and then you went
and then it would be... We'd have to
do the next day. So at the end
of every day, 1 of the gru had
to be discarded. Right. Remember that. The gru

(16:30):
are another enemy that's on here that has...
You can fight to get bonuses from, So
there's things like there was the... There's the
ant hill which will do 2 damage to
it to a
enemy, but you have to kill it first.
And I think it's got too life. Mh.
There was... And you so basically, you, it's
1 2 points of damage that you have
to deal to the to the gru. Some
of them were 0 or maximum... Some of

(16:51):
them were 0,
which I discovered. You don't have to use
any food. Right. To do that. We'll... He
has act is actually on Bo in f
fa on this people asking questions. Somebody assembled
a
Why I just assumed since it was 0
that you didn't have to spend any food
to it.
We assumed a lot of things. But

(17:12):
But... Yeah. So because that's how they laid
it out in the book. Yeah. So many
food you...
If for... How many points of damage you
were gonna do is how much food do
you how much food you had to card.
Right. But also, you had a limit to
that according to your character. So, like, when
we were first level,
I think you're your fight strength was 1
and mine was 2. Mh. So I would

(17:33):
hit for 2. You would... I could hit
for a total of 2 if I had
2 food to spend. Right. So if I
only had 1
resource to spend Or if you only wanted
to do 1 damage, she didn't have to
spend Right. Right. If it only took 1
more hit to kill it or something. Mh.
I didn't have to spend all 2 of
my food.
I had a really hard time getting enough
food

(17:53):
stacked up. There's a lot of resources to
balance on this. So you gotta re... In
in building up the resources. You have your
you get your eggs in the very beginning.
Mh. You don't weigh eggs as a chick,
but you've got food.
Right. So as a chick,
the beginning of your turn is when you...
What they call it,

(18:15):
resources. Production. Production Production. So
the beginning of your turn as a chick,
your production is gathering food. Right. So you
could do that no matter where you work
because that was not part of your actions
that was just something you did at the
beginning. Mh. Was production. Then when you go
to the next level,

(18:35):
your production is laying eggs. Right. So then
you roll the really cool little chicken dice.
Right. And then the let eggs could later
on be turned in for food. But only
at certain times during the season. Right. That
that actually was the same time the weather
changed. Yeah. That the egg exchange. Exactly.
So you'd exchange your eggs for food, and

(18:56):
then the weather would change and then you'd
go for 2 or 3 days, depending on
where you were on the track. Before you
can do an egg exchange again, and the
weather would change again, But there's... Like I
said, there's a lot of things to pay
attention to in this thing because, like, what
are the cards that I got allowed me
to nor weather conditions. Yeah. That was nice.
But I, Suzanne wanted me to use it

(19:16):
right away. Well, be... I was confused because
on the card, it said,
ignore all weather conditions until the next egg
exchange, and I was like, oh, he's only
gonna get to use this for 1 turn.
Right. But it he better a hurry up
and use it, and you were like, no.
I'm not gonna use it, but I don't
know why I was like, on a
1 track You were on kind of a

(19:37):
bar that I had to get this... I
had to use that egg. You had to
use it right away. You're use that card
right now, but I no saved it. Because
it's gonna go away glass egg exchange glad
on that light
it. Because when the lightning started dropping out
of the sky, who was nice to not
have to worry about that. Yeah. So that
was... Kinda lucky on that. I had some
good rolls. Also, you do get dice in

(19:58):
the game as well. Yeah. Just said the
chicken dice. Oh, did you tell them what
it looked like? I said they look like
chickens.
Okay.
The face is the 6.
And the 1 on the opposite side is
a little chicken butt hole.
A little x for 1. The 2 on
the bottom is the feet. Mh. The little
chicken feet. Then there's little wings and a
crust on the top for the 3. It's

(20:18):
it's very... It's very well. Very cute. The
he's... The they definitely stuck to a theme.
Mh. And the
the game is a hundred percent worth of
money because it's
what I'm spoilers. It's fun.
It's engaging. It's great. I could see this
being a lot of fun with many people
playing with 5 of blanket. I think we're
gonna take this on vacation in August. And

(20:41):
the the little... You know, you get a
little bowl to put your items in, and
they look like little nest Mh. All the
pieces are wooden except for the eggs, which
I think there's some kind of ceramic. They're
heavier than. You know don't I think there
would don't think. I don't know. They just
seem heavier than the... Other They were nice
heavy. Yeah. And they're flat on the bottom.
So they stand them up. And the board
has 2 layers. So if you put the

(21:02):
eggs on there, and they do tip over,
they're not gonna roll away because it's got
2 layers of cardboard, to keep you things.
Oh, you mean our little our little word
player mat Little tableau. Yeah. Yeah. We... So
every player gets their own little player mat,
And there's a nice little...
D it in the board for the spiral
of your spiral book. Yes. So it very
nicely and flat. That's

(21:22):
And there's little places to put the eggs
that you've laid and there's a place to
put your resources, your food that you've gathered.
There's a track for how many meals you've
eaten, so you know when you can level
up. Right. I do wish. There's there's a
track for your health
2. 1 thing I wish that he had
included Yeah. Was a

(21:43):
turn sequence.
So at the at this... At the end
of every day. Like, a cheat card with
the 2. So an end end of every
day, you have to remove a gru. We
forgetting to do. To move remove the gross
couple times. I might not better that much,
but... Well, I mean who maybe able to
cycle through them a little bit better, But...
Yeah.
There's just... There are some portions of it

(22:04):
that I wish we had. I think I'll
just take, you know, get a piece piece
of, you know, card or something in write
churn on.
Also, there are action cards or bonus cards
that you can get that allow you to
have different bonus... Thing we kept forgetting to
do was get bonus cards. The bonus cards.
Which... But you had to make a choice.
You've got, like, what did they say? Like,
8 actions to choose actions, and there's... Do

(22:24):
you can do
2 of them depending on you know, you
can... There's other ways to get around that.
Mh.
But you're able to do the 2 actions
on there and, you know, we have things
like
lay egg, give
move.
You know, in some cases, it was like,
okay. Well, we're outside. We're outside the the
nest
you can forage but also on your outside

(22:45):
of the chicken coop. Yeah. So with them
what I'm saying like, where sometimes like with
the move, but the moves that we had.
Do we wanna move from outside the coop
to inside the coop just to go in
there to kill the gru that'll give us
a plus 2 to it? Is it worth
and use it on the final box. Right.
Because, like, in the... We... Some good card
showed up in the third. Right. The third
season. And, you know, as we were playing

(23:06):
at first, I was, like, why don't they
have an enemy turn where they attack you?
You know, because otherwise, you could just
keep spending food to heal up and get
your
health meter back up and then go in
and attack and then back off and forage
and eat and then go back and attack
but the seasons is a timer. Right. So

(23:29):
you can run out of time. I think
we only had 2 days left. When we
had won the game. Yeah. We only had
2 days when we won, and the big
boss, the each each
enemy has a different life total, depending on
how many people are playing. So like,
the
the little rat was it helps a picture
of a a player icon times

(23:50):
2 right I think. So for every player
playing, they get He gets 2 life. So
with he start out with 4. Because we
were 2 playing players. So we're we're playing
with 5 players, he would have 10 Right.
If we were playing with 5 players and
got to
Cl
chic.
Cl. Cl.
If we got Cl

(24:11):
with 5 players, it would have been
what it was hers times 5 and then
they added on like us, it was, like
14 15 points for us to take her
down and that was huge. Yeah. But if
you had 5 players, all 5 of us
could has it turned before the end of
the day. Right. So the day actually lasts
longer and there's a lot more actions going
on. Yeah. What other the thing that you

(24:32):
can do to keep the game going in
case somebody dies you can spend an eggs.
It's a coop,
and we live in a coop
and they're spelt same. If you take the
dash out of coop.
It's coop coop.
Chicken coop. Would you like some more wine?
Yes, please. Okay.
So but no, It's it's

(24:53):
it scales very nicely. I mean, there we...
There was never a moment where we're, like,
yeah, we got this. You know, we're leveled
up. We could just hammer through this. Now.
Every time we went up against an anatomy.
It was a little...
Unnerving. They leveled up too. Yeah. So... Well,
like, we had the 1
and they didn't just gain health. I think
they gained certain abilities. Didn't they? Yeah. They

(25:15):
had power. Some of the negative things that
they did was Cl
the 1 at the end that...
With the arrows?
Chi because she would attack you for, like,
5 or 4. 4. Should detective for 4.
We had professor mo mo multi.
Mh. Who you got a gas mask from.
You got all the loot. I did manage.

(25:35):
She managed a score the you would go
and and and flick their ear for 1
or 2, and then I would come in
and
attack them until they were on. Right. Because
you were getting... You got the magic rod
from the from the fox? Yeah. Then Got
the gas mask from Mori. I was able
to tow you along. I forgot what the
gas mask. Oh, I don't know. In a

(25:56):
way blocked... Think it blocked damage I was
able to tag along that was a bonus
card that I got that made it so
that when you moved, I just went with
you. Right. And but 1 of my abilities
was also to bring you along in combat
also. Oh, right. You're right. So I. But
then but then I kept burning out of
food, Nick couldn't attack anyway. Yeah. You know
why? Because you kept running in there and
hammered them them going in and flicking them

(26:16):
for 1 and running away like. I was
doing. Like a chicken 1. Like a chicken
1.
So I just went ballistic.
But, yeah, we... I am... This isn't 1
of the few,
I think there's like the third or fourth
kickstarter that we've gotten this year. Mh. And
I think
some of them have been
okay. But
this 1 I really like. Yeah. This 1...

(26:39):
I'm looking forward to expansions on this 1.
Well, I can't wait to try it. Yeah.
To go on our family vacation. Yes. My
brother. Everybody because they like this is It's
like boy games so... It's... It's kinda euro
game ish, but not, so it's got the
tokens and the movement and you pay attention
to a lot of things going on.
But it's not like a

(27:00):
it's not like a German train
simulation board game where you got 30000 different
sorts of to that you're paying attention. And
that's what I mean. Those kind get, like,
overwhelming and I can't keep track of things
and I'm done. Yeah. This 1 what I
think is right right at a good level
for you for being out with very strategic,
you were able to,
keep with the pattern. I think once we

(27:20):
once you played it a couple more times,
we'll be able to figure out the flow
of the game a little bit easier. It'll
be come... Because we were we were falling
back number the. Every time you stretch third.
Because you're supposed to pick
randomly. Your chickens randomly and pick your enemies
random. Right. So we... I only paid attention
to half of the directions for that For
a beginner game. We picked the enemies randomly,

(27:41):
but we picked
the chickens, the heroes
according to the ones they suggested for beginners.
Right. Yeah. Which is why we wound up
put that beast.
At the very end. So... Well, I think
they all would be because... Okay, guys. The
final boss always starts on their completely matured
level. Yeah. There's no... They don't have to

(28:02):
level up. They start out on page 3.
And you don't get to see what they
are until you've defeated
all the other bot... The other 3 bosses.
Mh.
Then you go up there
and flip it open all the way to
the last page well second to the last
page to see their final form. Yeah. And
who you're providing. So Do you think it
played well with 2 players? I do. I

(28:24):
do think it played well with 2 players.
I think though that
we kept losing track of when the day
would end because there's only 2 of us
and are playing back and forth. Yeah. Wait.
The day was supposed to end after your
turn, we're supposed to get rid of 1
of the gru. Right then... Yeah. Oh, wait.
Now we gotta do a egg exchange and
then... But do you have, like, the the

(28:44):
egg... The little egg thing was cold. Keep
dry who the first player was, but for
2 players who was a little
silly? Yeah. Mh But will it record relationship?
Yes. Yes, it will.
Especially if you keep trying to boss around
the other person and tell them, hey, it's
a coop op game. Let's talk about this
before you make your decision.

(29:05):
Wow
there were multiple times where I pulled off
a move and you were like, hot. Didn't
see that come and that was something really
like, you know? Yep. Because Suzanne, I don't
know if you know about this about her.
If you wouldn't. She talks out loud.
You think out loud. You thinks out loud.
So she's talking about her strategy out loud,
the entire time and the whole time I'm
sitting here going is she talking to me?
Is she telling me to do things? Should

(29:26):
I plan? I plot? What should I do?
You're trying to think about what you wanna
do, and I was telling you what my
strategy... Well, your strategy for me was. Yes.
Well, my strategy for myself too so you
would be able to make a more informed
decision. Yes. But you're like, stop talking. I'm
trying to think.
So
score of 1 to 10 for fun score.

(29:48):
10:10
wow.
Wow. This is my kind of game. This
is a on of game. Yeah. I'm putting
it a... It was just the right amount
of strategy
to make it a challenge,
but not completely overwhelming and makes me wanna
cry. You know what I mean? I I'm
putting it an 8. You know, it's a
little hug.
The wine is hit wines hitting you? Give
it just a second. Will it direct relationship?

(30:11):
Yeah. I'm gonna give it a 4. Really?
Yeah.
I'm giving it all. I would give it
at too. As long as I do what
you say.
No. Because it's not like you're attacking me
or something. Know what I mean. But if
I pulled something and you wound up dying.
Well, or if you didn't revive me when
I was dying at delaware 1 heart mister.

(30:31):
And I always had an egg on my
good night. Hello.
I always had an egg on here. Yeah.
You did. And I always had food on
hand because I had that card that's... Or
no. Check off capability.
My ability. To give me a food and
you would heal yourself. Yeah. Okay. Final sip.
Tell me, well, get then k. Sorry.
10 for Susie, 8 for me on fund

(30:51):
score? Yes. Couch score. I said 2. I
said 4. So that shows you where that
sits.
Let's do another taste of wine final set.
I poured myself and I know you're ready
bored yourself some hang on. I gotta AIA
surprise for you. So
ding... I have a surprise for me. I
just.
Talk about how you think... What you think

(31:12):
about the wine and I'll be right back.
It almost tastes like sparkling wine, but it's
not. Is it that mineral
part of it.
So it is a little dry.
But I like dry wine,
but it gives the impression of being sweet
because of the fruit.
I don't know if I can talk about
wine for this long. What are you getting?

(31:36):
Oh,
we got frosted glasses out of the freezer.
When he's shaking something.
What is that?
We just had wine?
I can hear... I wonder if they can
do I could hear you pouring it.
Are you're gonna add some of the wine.
Now you have to describe what you did
because I don't know what you did.

(31:57):
He got his fancy little shaker out.
Anyway, III
remember
trying roses
like long time ago, and I did not
for them. And I don't know if it's
because it's summer, and I'm in the mood,
but this is a good, I think,
not that I have a lot to judge
it off of them that great. Wine corner

(32:19):
were, but...
I think for what we paid for it,
which was 8 bucks. It's an excellent.
Yeah. I have had multiple. I there's a
lot of different. No more about wine than
I do.
But this for the price, this is a
great summer in Rose. In fact, I think
we should go get a couple more of
these and bring him to
Missouri. Locations? Yeah.

(32:40):
Yeah.
I... People... I just know what I like.
I like this. That's good.
What have I made? What have you made?
I found... There's salt on the rem? It
is a ro margarita.
Oh, I found a recipe before it.
Browsing
this morning and it is... Is it gin?
What's on there? It's tequila, white tequila. Okay.

(33:01):
Lime juice. And lime juice and simple syrup
was a rest but I just used Roses
lime juice that we had leftover over okay
last week for. It's still sweet. Basically what
I'm just hired.
Salt the rim
in water that I had mix in with
a little bit of lime crystal that I
have. So there's a salt lime rim.
And I saw recipe, and I figured we
should try it. Okay. So this is a

(33:23):
Rosa Margarita. Dunk. Dunk.
What kind of glasses are these?
It's a wine glass. Yeah. But it's stem
though. You ever stem stem glass.
What do you think?
I don't know.

(33:43):
Things I think I need to put in
a little bit more lime.
Or maybe more of the ro. It tastes
like watered dumb ro
salt. Okay.
Could grief. What is wrong with you tonight?
I can't take you anywhere. Where did we
go for it dinner? Oh, yeah. I made
dinner. Yeah. You cooked.
So
So while you sip on that,

(34:04):
maybe you wanna get up and go if
you the,
there's more tequila and roses sitting on the
table, or you for
tomorrow. So that's may not be the best.
I found it on found it on mine.
Thought it was cool since we're doing Ro,
But anyway, So what do I have for
kickstarter? It is an accessory. Last call, everybody.
Last call. It is scented realms,

(34:27):
fancy scents for immersive gameplay.
What?
It is...
Okay.
Imagine like we we wait. Wait. No. What?
It is... We see sense for immersive
games. It is this little hexagonal. Hans has
holt. Yeah. I don't know what that fairy
that. Hanson. I don't know who these people

(34:48):
are. It sounds like a milk. I know
I thought so it first. But you put
these
cylinders there's like a warm.
You put the little thing in here. Guys.
A heck hex hexagonal. So almost looks like
a 6 shooter inside. So there's, like, cylinders
that you put the scent cartridges into. Okay.
And you can... I think you could put

(35:08):
up to 5 of them in there. So
she put 5 in, it rotates. Another 1
rotates no 1 rotates.
K? And you have an app.
What are you doing? How do you mute?
Because you're bourbon? Yeah.
You have an app.
And
as you're playing the game, you go to
this app and let's say you enter the
the layer of the cave troll

(35:30):
And you wanted it to smell like a
cave, so it's moss, you smell dirt. You
smell that you you're, like, outdoors like, cave
sent to it. You go to the app
and you hit the button. It rotates to
the cylinder that has a cape smell and
goes
and for 4 to 5 minutes,

(35:50):
you've got the cave control smell in the
room. So it's 4DD
and d. 40 5DI don't know what what...
I don't know. So but it has...
It's it's 4 d time, 5 d smell.
I don't know if Why maybe smell, so
you've got the scent of fear,
you've got all these different scents, and there's
52
different scents. And when you log them in,

(36:12):
you pop them in there It'll. Too. Right.
You put them... I guess you could mix
different ones to make...
Well, I mean, Don't know if you'd want.
I mean, there's... You there's individual cylinders not
like your pouring vials together And I it's,
like a cylinder that lasts. It's supposed to
last, like, 200 times.
But going through there, there's, like, elf.
Elf,
smells like garden rose, floral k, citrus lotus

(36:35):
and fresh air, the half home, smells like
fresh baked bread, honey, type tobacco and need,
the werewolf
smells like wet dog, leather and musk.
What dog? No. Thank you. But but close.
But at first, I thought this was a
joke, but I'm like, it looks so cool.
It doesn't use heat. It uses a different,

(36:56):
like, a powder, powder sent something or other
that I I haven't looked too far to
how does it.
But it uses
this they walk into a trolls layer and
it just as a stent. You're right. And
and then you get the smell of the
trolls there. And actually,
Okay.
You walk into the trolls layer, and you've

(37:16):
got this, like, objective in your brain of
what you're gonna do, and you're are completely
distracted by the smell. Right? You can't even
think straight.
Right. And it's... And it's... It just... I
thought it was a joke.
But... Somebody really got into this idea. Scented
realms, it has no spills to or arrest
because everything is in a so people are
gonna buy this. Oh, yes. It is. Okay.

(37:38):
How many
It is currently...
Wait. It has 28 days to go. Mh.
They're at a hundred and 13000 to the
10000 dollar goal, and they have 348
backers.
I think I was right and needed more
of them. Mh. K. So you've got Hans
Household Hen Hanson
Is it 2 different people? No That's 1

(37:59):
person.
Hans He holt Hen han Handsome. Yeah. His
name is my name too.
So you jingle
They have different the Vip
special. You get the scent engine and 4
cent vials for a hundred and 73.
No for 1... A hun gap for a
hundred and 26 dollars off. So it's a
hundred and 73 dollars is almost a 50

(38:20):
percent
discount.
Then the launch special for a hundred and
89,
you get
sent engine force and vials of your choice
and you... You'll choose your sense in the
survey. If there's...
It is
ridiculous, but at the same time, I'm like,
this sounds kinda cool. Engine.

(38:41):
Yeah. So it's scented realms.
So there's... The thing is there's also realms
dot com.
There's also a thing where I forgot says
Sir scape is what it's called. And Scape
has
music
that you can just tap on your app
and change the music. Are you going to
the trolls later? We're gonna play cool. Yeah.

(39:01):
But there has a variety of, like, Sci
f, all that. But it's like insurance gate,
but for smells. That smells. Yeah. This sounds
really
bizarre. Well, it just sounds like it would
be very
pricey to
manufacture.
Well, yeah. And I think that's weird. Is,
like, music,
it's digital. You just, you know, the app

(39:22):
I mean, that could be pricey too, but
eventually, I mean, everybody's gonna use that. I
don't know, if green anybody would do this.
Some people will
Yeah. So 848
dollars will get you the sent engine and
all 52 cent vials
together, which
I'm not pledging
I'm not pledging 848,
but

(39:43):
there's only 17 left of 50
on that on that pledge. Wow.
So that is ridiculous and crazy, and I'm
gonna put a put a link to it.
If you guys wanna kick this 1 half
us over. I'd love to see how this
works, but I unfortunately, I don't think I
can drop that much on cent thing. I
just thought It was wack a doodle and

(40:03):
fun. So... Yeah.
What... Yeah. So there you go. That is
that is something different. Let me tell you.
Yeah. Chicken rose. I'm looking at all the
pictures. This is wild.
So today we have... There's is an app
to go with it. That's what I said.
That so you can choose... And it'll it'll
rotate to the right send as you... Little
like tell you what to do or to

(40:25):
what, oh, it'll control the thing. Mh.
No spills, no mess.
Interesting.
Knocked my cup of tea.
So he interesting. Hans He holt. Eddie Hansen.
Good job. Yeah. So today, we've got la
fe, the chicken
ro

(40:45):
from Fresh. Rosa, which is very good. You
should all go try it. Flock together. Everybody
keep your eyes open for that out once
it hits stores, I hope it hits. We're
look on kickstarter and see if they have
an after
a post deal. Well, I don't think so
since already been delivered.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I would definitely... You
know what I wanna do is take this
over to Dayton games and show it to
him. And be, like, you need to get

(41:07):
this game. Yeah. That would be a lot
of fun. Maybe playing game there with him
that would that would be pretty cool over
the game store. Wanna play it again.
But yeah? And also scented realms.
And scented realms was your last call.
Suzanne, if people wanna get in touch with
us, health with how would they do that?
Well,
You can go in the show notes and
leave us a voice mail and tell what

(41:28):
you think of scented realms
Chickens Do you have chickens.
I want to buy some property out in
the country and raise some chickens.
That sounds like fun. Have fresh eggs
off 3
months out of the.
Because what we would do for our north.
But anyway,
or you can go to our website, and

(41:50):
line dot com.
And there, you can find links to all
the different ways that you can subscribe to
our podcast,
or you can go to our socials on
Facebook Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin
all the things
and, Michael, if they want to see us
live and in person where can I find
us?

(42:11):
I'm in the
local police drunk tank. Alrighty. Nice.
Now
dude main Street.
No. We are If you're in the Nap
ville, Illinois area, come on by to up
north
A house. It is in like in Nap
ville. And we do trivia from 7 to
08:30PM.

(42:31):
And,
had... We had our largest crowd ever last
week last... Was actually almost 09:00 couldn't we
finished. Yeah. 44 people showed up for it.
And they got rockets. I got boo.
I boo them right back.
The crowd. We have an unusual relationship with
the crowd. Turned into a thing, the, the
boo image. It's a boom every time they
came up and III liked it because I

(42:51):
was able to get to get do the
why are you booing me? I'm right.
Crack out them, But it's it's a lot
of fun. We have... There's good food, They're
specials. There's
They got giant pretzels. Mh. And it's a
lot of fun. So definitely, if you come
out to up North A House in Nap
prevailed from 7 to 08:30,
on Wednesday night. Wednesday nights.
We are usually the ones running the trivia.

(43:13):
Yep. And
that's all we got for right now.
So we'll see you next week. Bye bye.
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