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title: BEST LEAVES GIRAFFERIFIC!
subtitle: An adventure setting for<br>*There is a giraffe who wants the best leaves but their neck is too short*
author: dozens
date: 2023-08-25
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## GIRAFFE NAMES
Give your giraffe a name!
A giraffe can have any kind of name really.
But traditional giraffe names always adhere to a specific formula.
Choose or roll `adjective name adjective noun`:
<figure>
d6 adjective adjective adjective
--- --------- --------- ---------
1 little black spotted
2 big yellow fast
3 tall brown walking
4 short jumpy thirsty
5 long hungry smelly
6 red sleepy sneaky
<figcaption>Table 1: Giraffe Adjectives</figcaption>
</figure>
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d6 name name name
--- ---- ---- ----
1 johnny chandler ingrid
2 irwin phoebe ricky
3 irving rachael lucy
4 thelma ross eddie
5 monica martha chloe
6 joey suzie mikey
<figcaption>Table 2: Giraffe Names</figcaption>
</figure>
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d6 noun noun noun
--- ---- ---- ----
1 neck spots bones
2 legs hoof tooth
3 horn kick mouth
4 tree coat face
5 leaf tree legs
6 tongue tail neck
<figcaption>Table 3: Giraffe Nouns</figcaption>
</figure>
## GIRAFFE PLACES
Here are some places you can go!
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<figcaption>Figure 1: Giraffe Places</figcaption>
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### 1. Giraffe Home
- Maraffe (supportive)
- Paraffe (eager)
### 2. Great Tree
- Best Leaves (out of reach)
- Sassy Monkey (taunting, gossipy, also out of reach)
### 3. Watering Hole
- Safari Truck (lots of tools and rope, stuck in mud)
- Humans (x2, frustrated)
- Crocodile (hungry, snappish)
- Zebras, wildebeasts (sipping, cautious)
### 4. Elephants
- Mystical, dreamy, meditative
- obsessed with tradition and matrilineage
- pulling up tree trunks, wallowing in mud
### 5. Lions Den
- Lions (lazy, sleepy, unhelpful)
### 6. Hyenas
- proud, noble, hardworking
- *actual* king of the jungle
## GIRAFFE ENCOUNTERS
Here's how to do giraffe encounters.
1. Roll 3d6. One for `creature`, one for `want/behavior`, one for `complication`.
2. Count down that many lines in each column, skipping over any crossed out items, and note what you got.
3. Cross those items off the table.
3. Use the combination of `creature` + `want/behavior` + `complicaton` to create an imaginative encounter.
4. Repeat as many times as you like.
***Example***: *I roll 1, 3, 2: a crocodile on the hunt, but there are snakes! Roleplay out the scenario.* \
*For my next roll, 4, 4, 3, I count down that many on the columns, skipping what I've already rolled previously. I get zebra, on a pilgrimage, wounded.*
If any dice rolls "best leaves" then start to wrap up loose ends and towards a conclusion.
Ideally one in which you finally get the best leaves!
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creature want/behavior complication
---------- --------------- --------------
crocodile hungry toothache
mongoose just wants to chill snakes!
lion hunting lazy/bored
warthog wallowing in mud injured
zebra on pilgrimage fleeing
wildebeast passing through paranoid
humans poaching lost
wild dogs care for the dead it's a trap!
cheetah laying an ambush blackmailed
giraffe looking for a mate way too ugly/awkward
elephant digging for water sick child at home
hyena set up a lair is a baby
best leaves best leaves best leaves
<figcaption>Table 4: Giraffe Encounters</figcaption>
</figure>