Alana looks over the sheet music with a smile and nods. "Ah. A beautiful piece. Quite challenging too. Okay." She stretches her fingers calmly and plays a small scale along the piano before letting the piano silence. After a moment, she springs into the piece, her fingers quickly fluttering their way along the piano and back as she puts her attention into the piece, playing both methodically and full of feeling. The room is filled with lightning fast notes followed by softer slower pieces of the song before it inevitably comes to a end, Alana leaving her fingers to linger on the kekeys she looked over the piece in the short shocking silence that filled the room. She let's her hands drop to her lap quietly and smiles, glad to tell she hasn't lost any of her practiced skills. "I'd almost forgotten how nice it felt to play. It's... been a while."
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When she gets Victor's text, she responds with a slight amused smille.
"Harold and I will be there shortly. Although I didnt take you as one who would enjoy such a thing. I have much to learn about you Victor."
Alessandra blinks in confusion at the head pat, the gesture itself making her feel like a child, but she gently laughed it off, knowing he was just trying to be friendly. She takes the shirt from him when he takes it off, her eyes very briefly glancing over his now exposed chest because she was a woman how could she not do it, shut up. However when offered his hand, she looks back to him as takes it with a smile. “Yes, we shall. Would you like to see the laundry room or wait in the main hall?”
Unfortunately, Victor’s text goes unnoticed as Aless had left her phone in the game room.
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor sends a separate text to Misha and Alana. "Excellent. I'll meet you in the game room. Once I've gotten a response from Sorrin and Alessandra, we can begin."
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Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
Sorrin gives a light shrug, "Might as well learn where the laundry room is, never know how often I'm going to need it." He'll then walk back inside with Aless, letting her lead the way again.
Victor had the table ready when Misha, Alana, and Harold arrived, with a DM screen, a module picked out, and dice sets for each of his players. He had purchased them years ago out of passing fancy, but he never thought that he'd get to use them. But over the last few days, a lot of things that he never thought would happen had occurred. Getting them all together to play DnD seemed like small potatoes after that. "Come. Sit. Make yourselves comfortable. We're just waiting for Alessandra and Sorrin before we begin." He sent both of them one more separate text. "Misha, Alana, and Harold have joined in. Are you interested?" After he sent the message, he heard a ping! from Alessandra's phone, letting him know that she left it right there. "Well, she didn't get the message." He resolves to call Sorrin after a few minutes if his text doesn't go unanswered.
Harold had momentarily ignored Victor's text as he was too busy listening to the beautiful piece Alana had successfully managed to play. At the end, he gives her a big round of applause, smiling ear to ear as he hands her his phone. "Simply. Magnificent!!! A hard piece but you made it seem so effortless! I could feel the emotion and soul that you poured into it as your fingers hit the keys. Truly inspirational! You must teach me how to play sometime! <insert an absurd amount of celebration and smiley emojis here>"
When she hand him back the phone, he opens up the text, a brow raising then looking to Alana and shrugs.
Alessandra wordlessly walked them to the laundry room, the older vampire flicking on the lights then out stretching her arms in a welcome. "I know this room is amazing, but please don't get too crazy," She quips with a smile, settling the shirt and handkerchief in the sink and turning on the cold water. She opens one of the overhead cabinets and takes out some hydrogen peroxide, then begins to scrub the cold water into the stains. Her brow raises when she hears his phone ring (or vibrate? she could probably hear it shh), causing her to say: "Wonder who that could be~"
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Alana and Harold had returned from the Instrument room to sit around the table, Alana went to admiring her dice with an amused look. "Oooooh. Fancy. " She seems almost entranced by the spikey pretty dice as they wait.
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Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Sorrin, after getting his shirt thrown in the washer, will finally look at his cell and note the message. Quickly looking up what the hell D&D was, he took a curious interest and looked over to Alessandra, "I'll assume you got an invitation as well? Shall we head over?"
Alessandra looks over to Sorrin and shrug. “I don’t have my phone on me but I suppose so? Let’s humor him I guess.” She finishes up setting the wash and heads over to the game room and sits herself at the table. “So... what is all this?”
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Ah yes, this is Dungeons and Dragons, a strategy/roleplaying game where you, the players work together to complete a story, or campaign with me, the DM serving as a storyteller of sorts. While the story has been pre-generated, the characters that you play will be created by you from their class to their backstories and personalities. Is everyone with me so far? I used to play before I received the Embrace and still followed the game afterwards, although I didn't get the opportunity to play until now. Regardless, I can answer any questions that you might have."
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Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
“So far,” Alessandra says, crossing her legs and resting her elbows on the table. “Dork.”
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Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Now, the characters. The five of you will be the stars of the story. The first step in creating your characters is to generate their stats, either by rolling four six-sided dice six times and adding the results up, or by using a pre-determined array of numbers. Once you have the numbers, you can put them whichever stat you want, depending on whether you want them to be strong, dextrous, hardy, intelligent, wise, or charismatic. Still with me?"
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Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
Misha sat quietly, patiently, staring at Victor while he explained the rules of the non sex game with the funny looking dice. She nodded that she understood.
Aeydof the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm /ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Excellent! Now that everyone has generated statistics, it's time to choose races and classes. Before you, there are lists of the races and classes in DnD, so you can see the abilities of each one and make your choices. Once you've done that, then comes the part of giving your character a personality. What do they like? What do they dislike? Are they honorable, good, evil, impulsive, neutral, all of the above? What are they afraid of? What are their values? What was their childhood like? Why did they become an adventurer? This is what really makes your character a person and not just numbers on a page."
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Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
Sorrin, kinda getting it, picks up 4d6s and starts rolling for his stats, "I'm thinking of playing a knight? All of this ability to be what you want sounds great, but for know I'd like to stick with what I know." He'll probably half-elf paladin, and make some basic backstory of him being a knight of "The Platinum Dragon", sworn to uphold good. (classic paladin stuff XD)
Ability scores: 141311151114
He looks at his rolls and does the math, before looking to Vic, "Are these good?"
Alana listens to Victor, occasionally nodding before looking at her options. "I think I'll go with an elven Bard of Satire." She hums in thought before just taking the standard array, arranging her stats to be more charisma based like the class recommends. Once she's done, she patiently let's Victor check over it before lhe helps the others.
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Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Alana looks over the sheet music with a smile and nods. "Ah. A beautiful piece. Quite challenging too. Okay." She stretches her fingers calmly and plays a small scale along the piano before letting the piano silence. After a moment, she springs into the piece, her fingers quickly fluttering their way along the piano and back as she puts her attention into the piece, playing both methodically and full of feeling. The room is filled with lightning fast notes followed by softer slower pieces of the song before it inevitably comes to a end, Alana leaving her fingers to linger on the kekeys she looked over the piece in the short shocking silence that filled the room. She let's her hands drop to her lap quietly and smiles, glad to tell she hasn't lost any of her practiced skills. "I'd almost forgotten how nice it felt to play. It's... been a while."
------
When she gets Victor's text, she responds with a slight amused smille.
"Harold and I will be there shortly. Although I didnt take you as one who would enjoy such a thing. I have much to learn about you Victor."
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
Alessandra blinks in confusion at the head pat, the gesture itself making her feel like a child, but she gently laughed it off, knowing he was just trying to be friendly. She takes the shirt from him when he takes it off, her eyes very briefly glancing over his now exposed chest
because she was a woman how could she not do it, shut up. However when offered his hand, she looks back to him as takes it with a smile. “Yes, we shall. Would you like to see the laundry room or wait in the main hall?”Unfortunately, Victor’s text goes unnoticed as Aless had left her phone in the game room.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor sends a separate text to Misha and Alana. "Excellent. I'll meet you in the game room. Once I've gotten a response from Sorrin and Alessandra, we can begin."
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Sorrin gives a light shrug, "Might as well learn where the laundry room is, never know how often I'm going to need it." He'll then walk back inside with Aless, letting her lead the way again.
Victor had the table ready when Misha, Alana, and Harold arrived, with a DM screen, a module picked out, and dice sets for each of his players. He had purchased them years ago out of passing fancy, but he never thought that he'd get to use them. But over the last few days, a lot of things that he never thought would happen had occurred. Getting them all together to play DnD seemed like small potatoes after that. "Come. Sit. Make yourselves comfortable. We're just waiting for Alessandra and Sorrin before we begin." He sent both of them one more separate text. "Misha, Alana, and Harold have joined in. Are you interested?" After he sent the message, he heard a ping! from Alessandra's phone, letting him know that she left it right there. "Well, she didn't get the message." He resolves to call Sorrin after a few minutes if his text doesn't go unanswered.
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Misha took a seat and looked around the table with a smile, mildly amused and interested.
Harold had momentarily ignored Victor's text as he was too busy listening to the beautiful piece Alana had successfully managed to play. At the end, he gives her a big round of applause, smiling ear to ear as he hands her his phone. "Simply. Magnificent!!! A hard piece but you made it seem so effortless! I could feel the emotion and soul that you poured into it as your fingers hit the keys. Truly inspirational! You must teach me how to play sometime! <insert an absurd amount of celebration and smiley emojis here>"
When she hand him back the phone, he opens up the text, a brow raising then looking to Alana and shrugs.
Alessandra wordlessly walked them to the laundry room, the older vampire flicking on the lights then out stretching her arms in a welcome. "I know this room is amazing, but please don't get too crazy," She quips with a smile, settling the shirt and handkerchief in the sink and turning on the cold water. She opens one of the overhead cabinets and takes out some hydrogen peroxide, then begins to scrub the cold water into the stains. Her brow raises when she hears his phone ring (or vibrate? she could probably hear it shh), causing her to say: "Wonder who that could be~"
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Alana and Harold had returned from the Instrument room to sit around the table, Alana went to admiring her dice with an amused look. "Oooooh. Fancy. " She seems almost entranced by the spikey pretty dice as they wait.
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead
"I tried to purchase dice that I thought all of you would find pleasing to your personal aesthetics."
Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
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Sorrin, after getting his shirt thrown in the washer, will finally look at his cell and note the message. Quickly looking up what the hell D&D was, he took a curious interest and looked over to Alessandra, "I'll assume you got an invitation as well? Shall we head over?"
Alessandra looks over to Sorrin and shrug. “I don’t have my phone on me but I suppose so? Let’s humor him I guess.” She finishes up setting the wash and heads over to the game room and sits herself at the table. “So... what is all this?”
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Ah yes, this is Dungeons and Dragons, a strategy/roleplaying game where you, the players work together to complete a story, or campaign with me, the DM serving as a storyteller of sorts. While the story has been pre-generated, the characters that you play will be created by you from their class to their backstories and personalities. Is everyone with me so far? I used to play before I received the Embrace and still followed the game afterwards, although I didn't get the opportunity to play until now. Regardless, I can answer any questions that you might have."
Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
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“So far,” Alessandra says, crossing her legs and resting her elbows on the table. “Dork.”
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
Victor laughs as Alessandra pokes fun at his admittedly nerdy interests. "Got me there."
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"Now, the characters. The five of you will be the stars of the story. The first step in creating your characters is to generate their stats, either by rolling four six-sided dice six times and adding the results up, or by using a pre-determined array of numbers. Once you have the numbers, you can put them whichever stat you want, depending on whether you want them to be strong, dextrous, hardy, intelligent, wise, or charismatic. Still with me?"
Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
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Misha sat quietly, patiently, staring at Victor while he explained the rules of the non sex game with the funny looking dice. She nodded that she understood.
Aeyd of the Dragons || Wood Elf / Way of the Ascendant Dragon Monk
Demetrios Zalaoras || Protector Aasimar / Paladin of Torm
Hawke || Kalashtar / Circle of the Moon Druid
Morticia || Half-Aasimar Rogue
Yvan || Goliath / Path of the Wild Soul Barbarian | Paladin of Helm
/ᐠ。ꞈ。ᐟ\
"Excellent! Now that everyone has generated statistics, it's time to choose races and classes. Before you, there are lists of the races and classes in DnD, so you can see the abilities of each one and make your choices. Once you've done that, then comes the part of giving your character a personality. What do they like? What do they dislike? Are they honorable, good, evil, impulsive, neutral, all of the above? What are they afraid of? What are their values? What was their childhood like? Why did they become an adventurer? This is what really makes your character a person and not just numbers on a page."
Xenophon: Topaz Dragonborn Fighter (ixi's Dragon of Icespire Peak)
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Sorrin, kinda getting it, picks up 4d6s and starts rolling for his stats, "I'm thinking of playing a knight? All of this ability to be what you want sounds great, but for know I'd like to stick with what I know." He'll probably half-elf paladin, and make some basic backstory of him being a knight of "The Platinum Dragon", sworn to uphold good. (classic paladin stuff XD)
Ability scores: 14 13 11 15 11 14
He looks at his rolls and does the math, before looking to Vic, "Are these good?"
Alana listens to Victor, occasionally nodding before looking at her options. "I think I'll go with an elven Bard of Satire." She hums in thought before just taking the standard array, arranging her stats to be more charisma based like the class recommends. Once she's done, she patiently let's Victor check over it before lhe helps the others.
Nina Wildvale|Changeling|Wild Magic Sorcerer|Rise of The Reunelords|Active
Kai Loire|Water Genasia|Life Cleric|Road To Phandalin|Retired
Willow Twilight|Swiftstride Shifter|Blood Hunter|Ebberon|Retired
Meephylia Polliwog|Grung|Dragon Sorcerer|Descent To Avernus|Retired
Ashryn Rairs|Changeling|Hexblade Warlock|Out Of The Abyss|Dead