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Okay, first entry in a little while and what does it wind up being about? My first Dungeons and Dragons meeting. First of all, the people we have is four others (not including myself) and Michael wants to join in every once in a while too. Now, I know DnD may not be the most interesting thing to you guys but at least hear me out about what happened in one of the WORSE parties to ever be set up.

The four people we have, three are friends: Dietz, Kyle, Kirk. The other is Hebi (and surprisingly he may be my one hope of keeping the party together after Rose leaves). What I'm curious about is how those three friends could possibly be worse matches in a group @_@ Hebi couldn't make it so for now here is what we have as the four.

Dietz is playing what seems like an interesting character at first glance. Chaotic Neutral (because that's "in" with the group I think. Law doesn't appeal to them? Ugh.) Ranger who's been living in the forest for many years after a bad incident with a king and dryad or whatever. He rejoins society due to some girl he's been taking care of who went to school for magic training, or something like that. So he has no sense of what money is (copper=silver=gold?) Basically more coins means you're richer (He got hired for a job for 100 silver coins over 10 gold pieces *laughs). So he seems like an interesting character, only one with no range (ironically). Oh and he's human (only one).

Next we have Kyle, probably the reason for our strife but still a nice take. He's an Elven Fighter, which is an interesting mix. Chaotic Neutral as well and due to some past events of being sold as a slave to humans (probably in Thay for those with DnD know-how) he hates humans. Half-humans get a little bit of respect, but he generally dislikes them. Oh, and he likes to kill things. But when push truly comes to shove, and he's done something wrong to an ally he does help them out. It just sucks that our party is him, a human, and two half-elves.

Now, Kirk is probably THE MOST IRRITATING CHARACTER EVER! He's a Lawful Neutral (meaning his path is the way he goes) half-elf fighter who was raised in an elven community, has never known his parents and at a young age his home got burned down by humans. Awesome past, very traumatic, something I could use for future events, right? WELL HE DOESN'T EVEN CARE. He doesn't want revenge and he's not even curious about who his real parents are! He has no motivation whatsoever outside of "I like to travel." Even 500 gold pieces wasn't enough to stir him into a mission. Talk about a DM's worse nightmare. And he complained that he had to give away his motivation... yeah I'm really irritated at that... (Enter Scenario: Cute, young half-elf comes up and asks if you can fight and requests that strong swordsman helps her with something that's been stolen from her. Mission: Failed)

Now, my temporary character is Rozario Lightschwaltz. He's only going to stay in if they figure out his secret. Issue is it's not likely. He's their Half elf Rouge, Chaotic Good, and a decent crossbow user. If used right, he can escape anything, bluff really well, and gather information from anyone. Hiding, moving silently, and gathering information, in fact, are his specialties. This is something they'll need considering their party is filled with non-skill characters. However, as I stated Rozario has a secret. Since it's known where he's from that the "Master" (Lightschwaltz's family leader) had a son with a human prophet, Rozario has disguised as a female for most of his life to keep close to his father as a servant. He goes by Rose as a girl and Rio when he's found as a boy (sometimes he prefers to revert back since it's more comfortable.) For this he has the Hat Of Disguise. He's also the one to recruit people because only he knows where the item has been stolen, so as a girl he tries to use the pity factor to get them to work. Being good, he's really the only reason everyone hasn't killed each other. Because Mr. No-Motivation, while hating violence, really doesn't like stopping the human-hating elf and the human from fighting.

So... after a bit of push and shove (and the human stalking the little girl. Man it'll be funny when(if) they find out) I DID manage to get them to hunt after the artifact and got them across the seas @_@ Too bad they didn't hire the Dwarven Barbarian who talked to them.

Funny incident that did happen: the elven fighter had some fire alchemist potions on him and they were fighting assassin vines. So he tossed one at them but it didn't go far enough and landed in front of Rose, who's skirt promptly caught on fire. After two turns of being unable to put it out, Dietz (the human ranger) went to pull the skirt off and prevent further burns so I had him roll to make sure he, too, wouldn't get burned. He rolled a perfect 20. (Me: "Dietz, does your character have experience stripping young girls?) Ah, good laughs for the rest of the night. (This was AFTER they tried to kill each other)