Have a seat here in the light of the campfire and I’ll tell you all about it. You see, Eat Your Young is a Gribb based game from GDIAC. In it, the player is plunged into the world of ML 181, a planet-wide game preserve. Specifically, the player is plunged into Oppada Valley, rumored home of the Gribb. There the player must...

Ah, but you know that, or you wouldn’t be standing here in Oppada right now. Suit yourself, I’ll get right down to what all you greenhorns ask your first time on safari here.

What is the Gribb? Well, that’s a tricky one. Lots of people think it’s just another Bigfoot or Chupacabra. People who haven’t been to ML 181, they think it’s a joke, an old legend of the natives of the planet which happened to make it’s way into the odd horror movie and videogame. I know better. Mark you, the Gribb is very real. With any luck, though, you’ll never see him and we’ll head home with a few blue Waddlers to mount over the fireplace.

Snort, will you? Go ahead. You haven’t walked the Oppada forest at night with only your cold rifle for company, watching the shadows move and flinching at the wind. You’ll see. Just ask the natives. The Gribb is a ravenous beast, an elemental force of the untamed planet itself. Many a man hunting him has had the beast in his sights, only to watch the creature disappear into thin air. Oh, woe betide those unlucky souls. Pray that the last thing they feel is razor jaws slicing through their neck, for what comes next is too terrible to contemplate. No, I don’t know what it is, exactly, but it’s very terrible. The Gribb plucks men from their beds, tears their innards while they live, and devours them. He is a cunning fiend, but whatever cold intelligence he possesses is no friend to ours. The Gribb gives no mercy. Thank your God that there is only one.

I take it by your grunt that you don’t believe me. Of course there’s only one! Why? Hard to say really. Some think that nature will only allow one creature of such terrifying darkness to stalk the planet. That’s hogwash, if you ask me. The real reason, I think, is that the only thing the Gribb fears is another Gribb, and so he whenever a new Gribb is birthed to this unlucky world he sets upon the youngling and devours it whole.

Say, I can’t quite make you out. Come into the light; it’s dangerous to be alone after dark. That’s it, come forward.

Oh my. You’re the Gribb.

*CHOMP*

Last revised 4/25/06