BushyBeaver
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“I don’t wanna be the dungeon master again,” cried Andy.
“Tough luck,” barked Jacob.
“But I’m always DM. Why don’t you do it tonight?”
The young man in the football jersey simply shot his fat friend a scowl. And just like that their conversation was over. Andy looked plaintively toward the other two guys who moments earlier had been following the discussion like hawks. Now they were pretending as if they hadn't heard a thing. Cowards.
“Fine,” he shouted. “But tomorrow night it’s somebody else’s turn!”
Papers were shuffled. A die clattered across the table. But other than that the small bunch didn’t make a sound. Things were feeling awkward.
Suddenly, unable to restrain herself any longer, Mrs. Starr did something she’d promised never to do... “I could be the DM,” she half-joked. “How hard could it possibly be?”
“Mom!” exploded Jacob. “You don’t even know what the hell that means… And you said you were gonna be quiet!” His volume continued to climb higher with every angry word. “Gaaahd!” he complained. “Just… don’t… say... anything! OK? ”
“OK,” the woman answered, her voice somewhere between flippant and contrite.
The other three nerds sat quietly. If it had been up to them then Mrs. Starr could have DM’d all day and all night. It was difficult to miss the way her body showed off its curves underneath the typically unremarkable attire she chose to wear. John had sworn to the other two that the woman wore a C cup beneath those frumpy sweaters. Carl had guessed a large B. None of them however uttered a word of it to Jacob since the last time any of them had mentioned her, they’d ended up with a punch in the arm.
That’s how it was. Just because he’d been on the football team for one season, Jacob took it as his mandate to call the shots in their unpopular little clique. It wasn’t to say that he was stronger than the other three. Andy for one knew that he was plenty strong underneath all that extra padding. The problem however seemed to be that through some unknown vagary of the cosmos, none of the guys could muster enough backbone to stand up to Jacob Starr. Maybe not even all three of them combined.
“My warrior is gonna kick some ass,” exclaimed the ex-footballer suddenly. “Let’s get this show on the road fellas.” A soundless groan rose up from the other three. Besides the fact that he never wanted to play the dungeon master, their taskmaster further disobeyed important rules by acting out-of-character. Naturally none of the frightened nerds was willing to tell him that the ‘role’ in role play was more than mere suggestion. It wasn’t uncommon for the egomaniac to spend their whole session in fact yelling things like: “My dude’s gonna kill that goblin… What do you mean he missed? Roll the dice again… No. That loot’s mine. I did all the work...” And so on… One would have expected Mrs. Starr to do something about it, but she seemed utterly oblivious to the fact that her son was so toxic.
Even when trying to lead by example (i.e. “Felonious wishes to dispense with his enemies by casting a searing fireball directly into their midst.”), the nerds were largely ignored. It was hopeless. All of it, hopeless. They’d started playing earlier that summer and instead of becoming a better player, Jacob had actually gotten worse. The three of them were relieved when football season came around… But then their hopes were dashed just as quickly when the fourth-string whatever-he-was decided he didn’t want to try out for the team.
Carl spent an entire weekend secretly crying.
And if that hadn’t been bad enough, it was then that Mrs. Starr came up with her bright idea of turning their sessions into a philanthropic, after-school club which would help… wait for it... veterans returning from war. It would help them by letting them roll the dice with her son and their friends.
No. Seriously. That was actually the idea she came up with. Most of them figured it was because her son’s college applications would look like total dog shit without some sort of extracurricular activity. C minus averages every quarter were not hard to come by. Carl had nearly died laughing the first time he heard Jacob say its name: The Riverdale High School Dungeons and Dragons Table-Top Gaming Guild for Returning Veterans and Other Service Members.
Carl had then of course been promptly punched in the arm.
But honestly... It was like, a totally legit thing. Mrs. Starr had come up with the brilliant plan to embrace war-weary heroes by including them in after-school sessions of high-fantasy role playing in which her terrorist son bitched and moaned about loot which didn’t even exist..
Who was she kidding? No service member was going to join their stupid club… Or at least that's what Andy thought.
So he would therefore find himself rather astonished when about twenty-three punishing minutes into the session, a time-span during which not one of the three could tear their eyes away from the clock, a knock came suddenly at the classroom door.
Mrs. Starr, startled from deep within her poorly concealed EL James novel, awkwardly stood up from behind the teacher’s desk, and when Jacob didn't immediately yell at her, proceeded to head toward the door.
Unable to help himself, Andy dropped a pencil on the ground and used it as an excuse to watch the woman’s shapely bottom alternating the weight of her upper body from one haunch to the other. He suddenly felt the blood flowing more rambunctiously to his lower body. "Damn," he muttered under his breath.
“Who the hell can that be?” shouted Jacob.
As the door opened all of the young men turned to look.
“I don’t wanna be the dungeon master again,” cried Andy.
“Tough luck,” barked Jacob.
“But I’m always DM. Why don’t you do it tonight?”
The young man in the football jersey simply shot his fat friend a scowl. And just like that their conversation was over. Andy looked plaintively toward the other two guys who moments earlier had been following the discussion like hawks. Now they were pretending as if they hadn't heard a thing. Cowards.
“Fine,” he shouted. “But tomorrow night it’s somebody else’s turn!”
Papers were shuffled. A die clattered across the table. But other than that the small bunch didn’t make a sound. Things were feeling awkward.
Suddenly, unable to restrain herself any longer, Mrs. Starr did something she’d promised never to do... “I could be the DM,” she half-joked. “How hard could it possibly be?”
“Mom!” exploded Jacob. “You don’t even know what the hell that means… And you said you were gonna be quiet!” His volume continued to climb higher with every angry word. “Gaaahd!” he complained. “Just… don’t… say... anything! OK? ”
“OK,” the woman answered, her voice somewhere between flippant and contrite.
The other three nerds sat quietly. If it had been up to them then Mrs. Starr could have DM’d all day and all night. It was difficult to miss the way her body showed off its curves underneath the typically unremarkable attire she chose to wear. John had sworn to the other two that the woman wore a C cup beneath those frumpy sweaters. Carl had guessed a large B. None of them however uttered a word of it to Jacob since the last time any of them had mentioned her, they’d ended up with a punch in the arm.
That’s how it was. Just because he’d been on the football team for one season, Jacob took it as his mandate to call the shots in their unpopular little clique. It wasn’t to say that he was stronger than the other three. Andy for one knew that he was plenty strong underneath all that extra padding. The problem however seemed to be that through some unknown vagary of the cosmos, none of the guys could muster enough backbone to stand up to Jacob Starr. Maybe not even all three of them combined.
“My warrior is gonna kick some ass,” exclaimed the ex-footballer suddenly. “Let’s get this show on the road fellas.” A soundless groan rose up from the other three. Besides the fact that he never wanted to play the dungeon master, their taskmaster further disobeyed important rules by acting out-of-character. Naturally none of the frightened nerds was willing to tell him that the ‘role’ in role play was more than mere suggestion. It wasn’t uncommon for the egomaniac to spend their whole session in fact yelling things like: “My dude’s gonna kill that goblin… What do you mean he missed? Roll the dice again… No. That loot’s mine. I did all the work...” And so on… One would have expected Mrs. Starr to do something about it, but she seemed utterly oblivious to the fact that her son was so toxic.
Even when trying to lead by example (i.e. “Felonious wishes to dispense with his enemies by casting a searing fireball directly into their midst.”), the nerds were largely ignored. It was hopeless. All of it, hopeless. They’d started playing earlier that summer and instead of becoming a better player, Jacob had actually gotten worse. The three of them were relieved when football season came around… But then their hopes were dashed just as quickly when the fourth-string whatever-he-was decided he didn’t want to try out for the team.
Carl spent an entire weekend secretly crying.
And if that hadn’t been bad enough, it was then that Mrs. Starr came up with her bright idea of turning their sessions into a philanthropic, after-school club which would help… wait for it... veterans returning from war. It would help them by letting them roll the dice with her son and their friends.
No. Seriously. That was actually the idea she came up with. Most of them figured it was because her son’s college applications would look like total dog shit without some sort of extracurricular activity. C minus averages every quarter were not hard to come by. Carl had nearly died laughing the first time he heard Jacob say its name: The Riverdale High School Dungeons and Dragons Table-Top Gaming Guild for Returning Veterans and Other Service Members.
Carl had then of course been promptly punched in the arm.
But honestly... It was like, a totally legit thing. Mrs. Starr had come up with the brilliant plan to embrace war-weary heroes by including them in after-school sessions of high-fantasy role playing in which her terrorist son bitched and moaned about loot which didn’t even exist..
Who was she kidding? No service member was going to join their stupid club… Or at least that's what Andy thought.
So he would therefore find himself rather astonished when about twenty-three punishing minutes into the session, a time-span during which not one of the three could tear their eyes away from the clock, a knock came suddenly at the classroom door.
Mrs. Starr, startled from deep within her poorly concealed EL James novel, awkwardly stood up from behind the teacher’s desk, and when Jacob didn't immediately yell at her, proceeded to head toward the door.
Unable to help himself, Andy dropped a pencil on the ground and used it as an excuse to watch the woman’s shapely bottom alternating the weight of her upper body from one haunch to the other. He suddenly felt the blood flowing more rambunctiously to his lower body. "Damn," he muttered under his breath.
“Who the hell can that be?” shouted Jacob.
As the door opened all of the young men turned to look.
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