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[firstelevens]

daggers of pure light are a finesse weapon? 👀❤️

This is a Tyrone/Tandy fic, because I love and miss my kids terribly.

There's a concept that I cut from the last chapter of by land, by sea that involved Ty DM-ing a DnD campaign for some of the kids at the place where he was a counselor, and I cherished it for months without really knowing what to do with it.

It has since grown a bit beyond that concept but I kept the title because it made my heart happy. Here's an excerpt:

“You have to hit one of the branches on the other bank.” Ty looks down at his notes, then back up at Cass and the rest of the party. “Alright. You’re going to need an 18, but remember you have a plus-two to acrobatics.”

He doesn’t end up needing it: the other four kids watch intently as Cass rolls the die and burst into cheers when it skitters across the table and lands in front of Ty on a 20.

The DM is supposed to be neutral, but Ty can’t help but laugh. “Okay, fine, you made it across the river. Y’all want to know if the cyclops is dead, or should we just celebrate until he gets us?”

That gets everyone to quiet down, clutching their character sheets nervously as they gesture for him to go on. Ty waits a beat to prolong the drama, biting back a grin when they all lean in a little closer. With an eye on the clock, he spins out a tale of Cass’s character heroically swinging across the river and backflipping over to the downed cyclops to discover that their last attack took him out.

“..and then,” Ty says, “when Kildrak pokes him with the staff, just to be sure, his body disappears, and all that’s left in its place is a little, jewel covered box.”

“And?” prompts Amara, the newest member of their DnD party. “What happens next?”

“You’ll find out in two weeks, ‘cause that’s all our time today,” says Ty, laughing as they groan and complain. “Alright, everyone, I want the character sheets put away with the dice and the map, please, and let’s count the dice sets this time. I don’t know how that four sided die ended up in the Captain Crunch last month, but let’s not do it again.”

still a few WIPs left if you want to throw a title into my inbox and hear about it