When I was probably 12ish and the older of my younger brothers was around 10, we all shared a bedroom with me on the top bunk and both of them on the bottom (it was a twin + double stack meant to sleep 3).

If we weren't ready to sleep yet, we'd pass the time with D&D-esque verbal roleplaying games (no dice or anything, story flow purely driven by him as the DM and remaining characters).

There were a bunch of different storylines that continued for years in parallel. Nearly all involved intelligent animals, but closer to Redwall / Watership Down style (i.e. human level intelligence but physically unchanged) rather than anthro type.

The original, which became the namesake for them all, involved prairie dogs or "P.D." (pronounced "puh duh" or just "puh" for short). I forget most of the details of that one.

Another involved "super kitty", a cat on a Pacific island in late WW2 trying to fend off a Japanese invasion, I think with the aid of other cats?

And then there was the KWSTG ("killer whale and sea turtle game") involving me as the sea turtle and my brother as his orca friend adventuring in the ocean.

But before we could do any of these, we had to agree on which one to play that night.

This became a very long, involved ritual that was constantly having new verses added.

Towards the end it went something like this:

Brother: "Your Majesty, wilt thou express thy intentions to do a P. if there are any. Or, if there are not any, wilt thou express thy intentions to turn into a hippopotamus and fly away?"

Me: (chanting) "Could we turn into a hippopotamus and fly away?"

(pause)

M: "Could we do a Puh?"
B: "Duh"
M: "Sku"
B: "Sting"
M: (chanting) "Could we do a Puh-Duh-Sku-Sting?"
B: (chanting) "Could we do a Puh-Duh-Sku-Sting?"

M: "Well, I don't see why not. What type?"
B: "Well, I don't see why not. What type?"
M: (chanting) "Pooper-scooper kitty 1945" (this had started out as "super kitty 1945")
B: "No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no" (he was tired of it because it was my favorite for a long time)

My memory gets fuzzy but we went on for several minutes like this suggesting various ideas and being shot down.

After a while it didn't even make sense or refer to any of the stories at all.

(long list of European kings)
B: "King Henry the 8th"
M: "King Henry the 9th"

(we ran out of Europeans and switched to the Zulu)
B: Shaka
M: Dingane
(list went on until we couldn't remember any more)

Eventually the ritual would end and we'd actually have a real conversation about which to play.

Is this a normal kid thing or just a neurospicy version? Lol.

@azonenberg We also did the D&D in bed thing, but arguably less weird versions (maybe because we were friends, not siblings?) :D

/cc @TarkabarkaHolgy may find the topic fun too :)