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Mystery Quest's cryptid sanctuary makes room for a Squonk

Lydia returns to creature-keeping in Joie Yong's tabletop game, swapping dinosaurs for Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil and a melancholy favourite.

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0:52Tom introduces a sanctuary-building game that balances cryptid care with visitor entertainment.
2:40Lydia rolls her starting residents, including Bigfoot, Yeti, the Jersey Devil, Hydra and Griffin.
8:50A dice roll introduces the Squonk, prompting a look at its tearful folklore.
10:48Lydia chooses the Squonk as her favourite and designs a dreary enclosure beside her character's house.
11:43Keeper stats and an eccentric backstory take shape, with inspiration from Jumanji and Nigel Thornberry.
18:07Day one's events bring a large crate containing Mothman and a difficult handling check.

Bigfoot gets a habitat, but the Squonk gets special treatment: a suitably dreary enclosure beside the keeper's house. Lydia immediately takes to the tearful creature in Mystery Quest's new tabletop session. "And every day, I'll tell him he's so pretty," she promises.

"Cryptid Keeper" was the channel's only upload this week, bringing Tom and Lydia back to park management after "Prehistoric Keeper | Run Your Own Dino Park". Both games are by Joie Yong. This time the job is to build a sanctuary for cryptids while keeping visitors entertained, a balancing act complicated by residents rather less predictable than ordinary zoo animals.

The setup gives Lydia Bigfoot, Yeti, Ahool, the Jersey Devil, Hydra and Griffin before the Squonk arrives. Then the first day's events deliver a large crate containing Mothman. So much for easing into the work.

The episode reached roughly 12,000 views in its first 11 hours and is the channel's busiest video for daily views. The dinosaur-park session remains the next strongest draw, with the fourth Fatherfog instalment also bringing viewers back to the fairytale adventure. In the new video's comments, viewers pick out the Squonk, the edited bat picture and the possibilities of playing tabletop games one-on-one themselves.

Across the channel, weekly views came to about 73,000, while subscribers held steady. Nearby in the tabletop world, High Rollers DnD had a somewhat busier viewing week, and Battle Report - Games Night was drawing substantially more daily views than usual. Mystery Quest's own week belonged to a smaller table: a game master, a keeper and an increasingly unusual collection of charges.

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What viewers say

Poor Squonk! Keeper Lyds will take care of you!
@ADoveinshortsSee it on YouTube
As a PA native, hearing both the squonk and jersey devil was awesome!
@mpm165See it on YouTube
You spoiled us Tom and now I miss my extra Wednesday Mystery Quest.
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The edited bat picture sent me 😂😂😂
@adamjrabilSee it on YouTube
Lydia and Tom did a fantastic job with this one.
@OfficialJamionSee it on YouTube
If you want to add a part three to this at some point I recommend Menagerie of the Void, where you look after alien creatures on a space station that's falling apart
@blankrubixSee it on YouTube
This was a fantastic one shot! Thank you for the amazing video.
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i look forward to mystery quest every week. love this channel so much!
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