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Ah shit
So, we started dnd with a campaign based off a book series the dm really likes, and apparently he can't find any fanfiction of it anywhere...
So
Yeah
Someone said to post our sessions (I think this was me) and someone else said to post on Tumblr (this was who the hell knows) and..
Yeah
Now we're here
I'll do one post for each session and we've already had three, so expect more hopefully
(FYI, book series is Arinthian line)
Haven't read it myself but someone else in the party started and I have only heard good things about it 👍
anyway
Characters are-
May: 12 and Atlas: 13 (brother and sister)
Asher: 16? (Random dude they met (still a player))
Rest are the actual characters and/or npc's
Not too many npc's as the dm (as far as I know) does really well with keeping with plot and having cannon characters we enteract with.
So, yeah, first session! :D
(Need fecken food🚶♀️)
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Atlas woke to the smell of smoke only to open his eyes to a raging fire not far from him. He leaped out of bed, running around, trying to find what had happened to cause such a flame to take their normally tame home. He leaves his room and looks down the hall not long before he sees the door to his sister's room do the same, her head poking out, mimicking her brother's. They ran to the front door, barely making it out and falling into the snow right outside before some parts of the house started collapsing.
The fire seemed to be only the beginning, as when the two looked out to try to spot their parents, their eyes only landed on the corpses of them, surrounded by guards in strange armor. The king grinning down at said bodies.
"Well damn," A (May's player) stated with a look of half surprise, half amusement at the quick start.
"Uhhh," J (Atlas' player) muttered with a look of slight panic. Yes, he is the one who read the book.
"Well, what do you wanna do?" The dm questioned.
"We should probably try to sneak out" -J with sarcasm.
"Yeeeaah" -A
The siblings, sensing the very clear danger, turned to try to make a quiet getaway.
"Alright, roll for stealth." -dm
"Ah, shit." -A, with a slight history of bad rolls.
Both roll, A successful and J failure.
May, with her smaller form, managed to silently sneak past falling wood and burnt straw with little to no sound, successfully making it to the white woods next to their house. Atlas, not so much, comically stepping on a stick as he passes, looking up to see the alerted guard.
"K, roll a wis save." -dm
J rolls a wisdom save and succeeds.
"Do you look up?" -dm to A
"No, I just look at where he broke the stick" -A, (thinking: with a look of 'wtf, a stick, really?')
One of the guards locks eyes with Atlas. Atlas, for a moment, gets a strange feeling when he sees the guard but quickly brushes it off. He takes off running, attempting to flee in a different direction than his sister. He runs and runs for what feels like forever, the cold air burning his lungs before he hears the guard stop suddenly.
He continues to run for a little longer before slowing down and turning to see that the corpse of a guard had stopped as if there was an invisible wall. It looked forward at him for a moment before turning around and walking back as if it had all never happened.
Atlas stands there stuned for what felt like hours, but couldn't have been minutes. When he gains his composer again, he turns to where he thinks he saw May run off in.
"Roll investigation." -dm
Rolls and it lands low, but not a one, thankfully.
"It takes you a while, but you do find her." -dm
Atlas wondered for what definitely had to be at least an hour or two before hearing sniffling in a bush. He walks over cautiously before spotting his sister's dark, shaggy hair poking out of some leaves.
He walked over, making a little more noise, trying to alert May of his presence. When May's head turned so quick that Atlas felt like his own neck hurt from it, she spotted her brother and rushed over to him, pulling him into a bone crushing hug. She sobbed into his shirt for several minutes, him crying quietly into her hair.
Atlas was the first to get the tears to slow, he knew he needed to stay strong for his sister.
"Yeah, May is balling her eyes out." -A
"Atlas is definitely upset, but he knows he needs to hold it together for now." -J
"What do you guys wanna do now?" -dm
"We should probably set up camp, start a fire." -J
"Let's get closer to the buildings so they think the smoke is just another building." -A
J gives a thumbs up.
Atlas and May managed to gather themselves enough to get a plan for surviving. They got close enough to hide the smoke, but far enough that they didn't have to directly watch their home burn.
Atlas started the fire while May went off to look for edible berries and any other food.
"Roll survival" -dm
A roles and gets a natural 20.
"Hell yeah!" -A
"Holy shit!" -J
"You find everything, you know exactly what's edible." -dm while laughing.
"I got extra training with mom and dad." -A joked.
"You were the bakers favorite, so he taught you much more. As in, he loves you more than his own son." -dm
This caused the whole party to start laughing.
May quickly locates the berries, edible flowers, all with practiced ease. She brings back an arm full and lays them out for her and her brother to start eating.
"Show off," Atlas says, laughing lightly and ruffles May's hair. Atlas was only a year older but always acted more maturely than the typical 12 year old. Atlas knew he had to take charge now, knew he needed to keep his sister safe...
No matter how crazy she acts sometimes.
The next day, they got up, and Atlas led the way back to their, now ash, home. They tried not to think too hard on it as they dug around the remains. Atlas made quick work of finding a strange book. It didn't look like their usual story books, which surprised them, as that was all they ever knew was in their house.
"Wait, THAT book?!" -J
"Yep" -dm
Atlas pockets that for later.
May digs through for any rations.
"Roll investigation."
A rolls, getting a natural 19.
A throws their hands up in victory.
"Yes! I find all the food!"
That night, they had a fire that was burning out with a tent holding in what little heat they had from the soft breeze that felt like it was cutting through them. Atlas was looking over their rations, just talking out loud.
May was at the small opening of the tent, just sitting there, half listening to her brother when something strange caught her eye.
"Roll a d20 real fast." -dm
A rolls, and it lands low. A grimaces.
"You look down and see ice slowly crawling up your finger, barely making it to the knuckle before receding and repeating."
A sits there in confusion then amazing.
"That's so cool!"
May watches as what looks like vines of ice slowly slither up her finger. She wasn't sure what to do, but it didn't matter as she was too stuned to do anything while the ice went back down before rising again.
"Hey.. Atlas?" May attempts to get her brother's attention, but he continues to ramble. She makes a few more calls before yelling at him. He makes a sharp turn to her, still on guard with what happened only a few hours ago.
All train of thought stopped, however, when he looked down at what she was referring to. Just as she was, Atlas was frozen in place, confused before a thought came over him. He rushed over to the book he had pulled from the remains of their home and looked through.
He brought it over to May, showing her where it talks of "Arcanery" and how to control it. This confused them both, weren't their parents just.. well.... what were they? They never seemed to really need anything. This was all thought by Atlas, as May was busy with the seemingly alive ice on her finger.
"This is so cool! Hello little guy!" May leaned in, trying to get a closer look, completely infatuated by it.
"Do you say that?"- dm
"Yeah, it just sounds so cute." -A
"It quickly retreats, as if embarrassed."- dm
"Dang it!"- A
The ice quickly retreated from her finger after the comment. This upset May. She began talking to it, apologizing repeatedly. To any passerby, she looked crazy, talking to nothing.
Atlas went from amazement to confusion at May's choice of passing the time. He went back to reading the book. (The dm has us roll to see how far we get through each chapter, but I can't remember off the top of my head how far we got)
When he got as far as he felt he could for the night, he offered the book to May. She took it with no other words exchanged. She didn't get as far into the book before giving up for the night. They ate their fill of their dinner and attempted to drift to sleep.
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