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The Falconer: Winner Takes All

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The setup

A rival forest dweller challenges the Falconer to settle a land dispute through a tournament between their animal companions.

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The premise

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Ken Mortimer’s peaceful life with Donald the falcon is interrupted by the Muskrateer, another former executive who has made the woods his home. Both men claim the same territory, so Donald and Galen the muskrat compete for it in a string of increasingly domestic games. Their grand contest of woodland supremacy comes down to a tabletop tie-breaker, with the anxious humans coaching from the sidelines.

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Highly quotable.

Food is plentiful, and I am not trapped beneath a tree.

Whatever you do, don't visualize that tower collapsing!

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The rivals’ introductions place Ken Mortimer’s departure from his advertising career in 1992 and Ted Abernathy’s departure from marketing in 1993.

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