I made myself a list of all the 2 player games in the giant bundle so that I have a list of new games to go through with @auralcurator. If you are interested, it is here. No promises that it is *all* of them because I only did one pass. https://itch.io/c/1033052/2-player-ttrpgs

Today we played The Ground Itself, which has the potential to become one of my favorite Quiet Year style games. You focus on one location over time that could be on a scale of days or millennia. https://itch.io/queue/c/1033052/2-player-ttrpgs?game_id=321109

The face cards are used to design your location collaboratively. Then you use the number cards to go through a span of time that ends when you draw a 10. You then move forward or backwards on the timescale and play until you draw the next 10. Repeat until it ends on the last 10.

The game offers alternatives to the questions, which allow for roleplaying focused scenarios, myth building, and easy alternatives when the prompt doesn't fit. We also found that flipping to that page also let our brains come up with prompt answers.

We told a story of a grove of maples and berries with a spring and a hawk and a legend of a ghost who asked for gifts in return for the water. It was the story of a town dealing with the toxicity in the spring that they thought was caused by mining, of love and poetry readings.

That became a story of the fairy gods who loved and lost there 6k years before. Of the rock that let them hear the songs of the earth. Of the quartz extracted by magic that weakened the land. Of the fairy queen who faded away there waiting for her love to return with gifts.

Which became the story of the tribes who settled 1000 years later, and the shaman who asked the spirit of the spring to convince them to move on, and how the spirit who had forgotten her time as a queen poisoned the waters so the shaman would die and give her the gift of company.

Which became the story of artists 1,000 years after the town who came to harvest rare stone from the grove but awoke in the morning to light glimmering off the spring and the voice of a woman asking, "But what gift will you leave me in exchange?"

We both cried and hugged one another, and I think it's one of the best 2 player stories we've ever done together. Thank you @everestpipkin for the great game!