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Himiko is excited to finally be playing with the boys. She has her character, a handsome half-orc Barbarian, and she’s so ready to play!
She enters the main room to see that one of the tables had been set with a board, playing pieces, and a bunch of colorful, odd shaped dice. Almost everyone is already sitting at the table, besides Dabi who was standing near the bar, so she took her seat and turned to talk to Spinner.
“I’m really excited! I still don’t really know what I’m doing, but I think that I made my character right,” she says proudly. “I decided that I was going to be a half-orc Barbarian, what’s your character?!”
“Oh, I’m a half-dwarf fighter,” Spinner says with a chuckle, “and Compress is a human wizard.”
“What about Dabi? And Shiggy? What are they?!”
“Well, Dabi is a Dragonborn rogue, and I believe that Shigaraki is a half-elf ranger.”
“I have no idea what any of that really means, but I’m ready to play!” She exclaims as Dabi walks over to sit down.
Kurogiri clears his throat to get everyone’s attention. “Is everyone ready to start?” He asks the group as he looks around the table.
“Yes, everyone’s ready, let’s finally start this, I can’t wait!” Shigaraki responds, reaching up to scratch the side of his neck.
“Alright, let’s start the campaign that I’ve made for us, this one is a bit basic for the sake of it being young Toga’s first time playing,” Kurogiri explains. “You all will be going through a dungeon to collect a specific artifact for a wealthy lord.”
“Really? That’s it?” Comes the expected whine from Shigaraki.
“Don’t worry, there are some fun surprises along the way if you can find them,” Kurogiri says with a mysterious tone in his voice.
After buying some basic supplies, the group heads for the dungeon entrance. “What do you think that we’ll find first?” Himiko asks the group, not really knowing what to do.
“Probably some sort of small monster to fight, or some old weapons, nothing too useful,” Compress says thoughtfully. As they entered the first room Compress was quickly proven correct, when they searched the room, all they found were some spiders, that they burnt to a crisp, some rotten fruit and old bread, and a couple morningstars.
When no one went to claim anything for themselves, Himiko spoke up, “These ‘burnt spider corpses’ can I do anything with them?”
“No,” Kurogiri answers.
“What if I eat them?”
“They won’t do anything good or bad, there is hardly a handful of them.”
“Well, can I keep them?”
Shigaraki glances at Himiko with a questioning look, “Why would you want to keep them if they don’t do anything?”
Himiko just shrugs in response, “I don’t know! What if they come in useful?”
Dabi chimes in with his unnecessary comment, “But they won’t.”
“Well I’m going to keep them anyway,” Himiko says stubbornly, “and I’m going to keep the rotten fruit and stale bread as well!”
Kurogiri looks as exasperated as a man made of mist can, “Why do you want to keep rotten fruit?”
“To throw at people that I don’t like!” Himiko says with a wide, fanged smile.
“At least that makes some sense,” Spinner says to himself, under his breath. “What about the morningstars, what do we do with them?” he asks at a regular volume.
“I’ll take all of the ones you don’t want!” Himiko shouts with glee. “Those are the weapons with a spiky ball at the end of a handle, right?! Those could injure someone pretty badly,” she says with a slightly dreamy look in her eyes.
No one else spoke up, so Spinner decides to get everyone back on track and says, “I want to take one, but do you really want seven morningstars?”
“Oh course I do!” Himiko exclaims loudly, “You can never have enough pointy objects with you at all times.” That statement causes everyone to give her a look.
“What?” She asks.
“Nothing,” Shigaraki says, scratching his neck again, “let’s just move on to the next room.”
As they enter the next room, they notice something is different from the last room. “There are two doors,” says Compress.
“Where do you think that they go?” Himiko asks.
“They both end in the same room,” Kurogiri states, “but one of them leads to a large room and the other is just a long hallway.”
Shigaraki and Dabi both respond at the same time, “Let’s go through the room” “I say we go down the hallway.”
Spinner gives Dabi a look, “I don’t think going down the hallway is a good idea.”
“Well that’s what I want to do.”
“Dabi, this is my first time playing, and even I know that splitting from the group is a bad idea.”
“Whatever, I’m going down the hallway, you guys can go through the room as a group if you want to, but this is what I’m choosing to do,” Dabi says stubbornly, crossing his arms, shooting a glare Shigaraki’s way.
“Fine, if you want to die alone then in a dark hallway, be my guest,” Shigaraki says with a wave of his hand.
As Dabi goes down the hallway by himself, the rest of the group moves on to the next room, which has two doors as well. The room was searched, and some coins were found, along with a few more morningstars that Himiko kept for herself. Then, they explored what was behind one of the doors, one that led to a side room with more coins.
“I want to search in here,” Himiko states.
“Alright,” says Kurogiri, “when you search the room, you find a key with a blue crystal embedded in it.”
“Wow, I bet this goes to something awesome!” Himiko cheers loudly.
“Oh my god, can you be any louder,” Dabi says as he covers his ears.
“Of course I can be louder than this. I’m using my inside voice,” she says teasingly. “And how is your solo hallway trip going?”
“It’s going good so far.”
“You may want to rectify that statement, you just set off a trap that released a medium monstrous scorpion in front of you,” Kurogiri says calmly.
“Oh, shit,” Dabi says as his eyes widen in shock, “what the fuck do I do?!”
“Do you have anything to fight it with?” Compress asks.
“No.”
“Then, I’d say, you better start running back to the room, we’ll meet you there to help you kill it.”
“You know, maybe, if you had stayed with the group.”
“I get it, Toga, we should have stayed as a group,” Dabi says with a defeated sounding sigh.
As Dabi gets closer to the doorway, the scorpion starts catching up with him, and it had already hit him once when he started running, so poison was running through him, adding to his damaged health. The only person to have made it to the doorway by the time the scorpion was in view, was Spinner.
Dabi’s health is dangerously low at this point, one more hit from the scorpion, and he will be dead. “Do you have any long range weapons that you could use on the scorpion?” Dabi asks desperately.
“Uh, no, not really,” Spinner says sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck, “but I have an axe that I could throw.”
“Throw it! Otherwise I’ll die!” Dabi shouts.
Spinner rolls for attack, he rolls a natural 1, and the axe hits Dabi’s character right in the face, and he dies.
Himiko and Shigaraki break out in hysterical laughter at the look on Dabi’s face as his character dies. When they can finally get their laughter under control, and kill the scorpion, they discuss what they’re going to do next, because Dabi’s character just died at the start of the campaign.
“We could have him be reincarnated into a new character that we can find in the next room,” Kurogiri suggests, “he would be an adventurer that got trapped here, and you guys can free him from his chains.”
“Okay,” Spinner says, “let’s do that.”
They head to the room that they were in before, and then they move on to the next room, where Dabi’s new character is chained to a wall. “Does anyone have any lock picking skills?” Kurogiri asks.
Everyone responds with a no, except for Dabi, but that didn’t really help, as he is the one chained down. “Okay, then what weapons does everyone have on them?”
“I have like, ten morningstars!” Himiko says, waving her hand in the air.
“I also have a morningstar,” Spinner states.
“I only have magic, and it won’t help get the chains off of him,” Compress says.
“I have a bow and arrows, also a sword, but I’m not using my sword on the chains,” Shigaraki says with an annoyed tone, upset that they have to waste all of this time.
“How the fuck are you going to get me out of these chains, then?” Dabi exclaims.
“We could just leave him here,” Shigaraki suggests.
“No!” Himiko shouts, “We can’t just leave him! What if we use the morningstars to break the chains, and then we can get the cuffs off later?”
“That’s probably the only option we have,” Spinner says as he shrugs his shoulders.
Himiko and Spinner take turns hitting the chains with their morningstars, but they keep rolling low numbers, and so they keep missing the chains. They are on the third chain when they kill Dabi’s character for the second time in an hour. Dabi slams his head on the table as the group starts to laugh again, this time, it took a lot longer for the laughter to die down.
“God, why me?” Dabi says as he stares up at the ceiling.
Himiko just gives him a pat on the shoulder and says, “Maybe next time, you should stay with the group.” And everyone starts to laugh again.