Ethan Has to Leave Early

"I try to stab the border guard." Dale says, shaking his fist to roll his dice.

Carnagie, the DM, rolls his eyes so hard that for a second they're about to roll right out of his skull. Obviously, Dale was right about to get us all murdered. I consider doing something to stop him, but frankly at this point this game had lost all steam. A total party kill would be a mercy.

"You understand that if you do that, the Razurian army is probably going to kill you all right." Carnagie's eyebrows raise. Dale did this shit back when I ran a campaign too. I had this great idea involving an artifact and one of the team members was set to double cross the rest of the party and-

"Wait one second." Ethan calls out, holding out his hand. His phone is ringing. "Don't let Dale kill the party while I'm gone please, baby?"

"Dale. Come on, dude. Let us actually roleplay this one one. I was looking forward to the infiltration segment." Leia pleads, putting her hand in a prayer gesture. "You know that I've wanted to run an espionage type adventure for a long long time." It's a deft play since Dale, like probably the rest of the table, has something of a crush on Leia. And with her perfect blond hair, cute nerdy glasses, and perpetually done-with-this-idiocy expression on her face, what is not to crush on?

True to expectation, Dale **** agrees to not **** the guards. It's probably for the best that we made him the barbarian. He's very well suited for the entire hit things and take their loot style of gameplay. Leia on the other hand, is the company's rogue. She's not so much a diplomancer as she is the stealthy kind. Quiet stealth operations. Distractions. That kind of thing. She says it's because "Splinter Cell is the shit". I play the wizard because fireballs are cool.

"Hey, I need to pick up Miriam." Ethan groans, lowering his phone. The look on his face suggests that he'd rather have his nuts torn off by lobsters then have to go. But, he starts rising from his seat anyway. "Don't wreck anything while I'm gone, alright?"

Leia stands up and plants a kiss on Ethan's lips as a goodbye. We all avert our gaze slightly. Ugh. They'd been dating for nearly a year and a half now. The public displays of affection had to end at some point right?

Ethan walks out the door, slamming it slightly behind him. That's when Carnagie rubs his hands together, bringing us all back into the game.

"So, you arrive at the border...

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