"Alright, Adam. It's your turn, what would you like to do?"

"I want to uh.... Stab him with my sword?"

"Ok, make an attack roll for me."

Sunny peered around the side of the doorframe into the mess hall where an entire table of her friends were sitting with Maverick at the head. She frowned slightly in confusion as she looked at the set up to this strange game. Sunny had played plenty of human games, card games, bored games, strategy games, but she had never seen a game quite so..... complex as this. There was a board on the table, sure, but it didn't have a trail as it usually did. There were pieces on that board to, but in no particular order. There were no cards, but there were plenty of dice, and dice in all different sizes.

Each player had at least two to three pieces of paper pulled up in front of them, if they weren't using holo-projections, and Maverick, only, had a screen set up before her face, so that no one could see what she was doing behind it. Dr. Katie had a calculator sitting next to her as she adjusted her glasses.

Adam reached down and rolled the largest of his dice and waited for it to roll to a stop.

He frowned at is did.

Krill cackled.

"Uh that's a.... that's a one."

Maverick shook her head and grinned, "You know my rules about natural ones Adam.'

He huffed in frustration as Krill buzzed louder clearly enjoying this.

Maverick glowered over at krill, "Since Krill is laughing, he agrees to be a part of this. Adam, you miss so badly that your sword falls out of your hand and stabs..... sorry Krill what was your character's name."

"Lord Punchface."

Katie snorted.

"You drop your sword and it stabs lord Punchface in the foot."

"Dammit." Krill muttered.

More dice rolled.

"Wait, doesn't he have to roll an attack to see if he can beat Krill's armor class." Lord Avex pointed out helpfully.

"No, this was a natural one, he failed so badly that the universe aligned itself to stab lord punch face in the foot. Krill take 5 points of piercing damage."

"Sorry krill, I tried." Lord Avex said, adjusting the paper under his foot.

"Shit." Adam muttered.

"that's what you get for playing a bard." Katie said.

Sunny walked over tilting her head at Ramirez who scooted to the side to let her sit between him and Adam. She nudged Adam a little but he waved her off, "In a minute Sunny," He huffed, "Fine, I use my bonus action to cast bardic inspiration on lord punchface as an apology for stabbing him in the foot. I would heal him, but, what was it, seven points of healing doesn't seem worth it."

"Alright Krill you get one D6 bardic inspiration to add to any attack roll, saving throw, or ability check."

Adam turned to look at her and smiled as she looked over the board, "What game are you playing, I haven't seen this one before."

"Lord Avex, it's your turn."

Lord Avex drummed his foot against the ground, "First of all, I am going to take this time to rage, then I am going to turn into a grizzly bear and make two claw attacks."

Sunny shook her head, "You turn into a.... bear?"

She looked at adam for explanation who was still sitting and pouting at his dice, "Maverick, I think these dice are broken. The statistical likelihood of me rolling nat ones that many times just isn't possible."

"Get your own set of dice and maybe they will e nicer to you." She said simply.

"Both of those attacks hit, go ahead and roll damage."

"That's nineteen."

"Not bad."

"how's he looking." Ramirez asked.

"He looks mildly annoyed."

Across the table Etium winced and rubbed at his bandaged ear as he looked over his piece of paper. He looked almost as confused as Sunny felt poor guy, but she wans't sure if that had to do with his slow recovery from the disease, or because the fight wasn't going well for them.

Katie locked eyes with her and smiled, "We are playing dungeons and dragons."

"Explain?" Sunny asked.

Adam gave her a rueful smile, "I think you would like it. Sorry I didn't invite you, but you looked busy with your work.'

"Still doesn't answer my question."

"Ramirez, it's your turn."

"I am going to use my crossbow to shoot at him. I won't be able to get close enough this round,"

"Alright, go ahead."

Ramirez rolled his dice, "It is a game that big ol nerds play. The kind of kids whose lunch money I used to take in high school." He winked at maverick who flipped him the bird, "Does a twenty two hit?"

"No shit, roll damage."

"Imagine children playing pretend, but mixed with a strategy boardgame, with an element of gambling as far as the dice go, oh and then throw in some math, statistic and a complicated set of rules, and you have DND." Katie said, taking pity on Sunny, who still didn't entirely understand what was going on.

Krill was practically bouncing in his seat.

"Alright krill, you're up."

Krill's antennae vibrated with pleasure. "Ok let me show you armatures how it's done. I am going to use action surge for five attacks, and I am going to stack all three of my divine smites on to three of those attacks.'

Maverick raised an eyebrow, "Well shit, go ahead and roll those dice."

Ramirez pushed his dice across the table for Krill to take since he didn't have enough to make the roll."

Krill rolled eyes glued to the dice, "HA! My lowest is a..... 20! And I critted on two of them"

"Fuck, I really shouldn't have given you the damn sun sword." Maverick grumbled.

Krill was practically bouncing in his seat.

"Do you want me to roll fire damage separately/"

Maverick sighed, "No."

Krill's antennae were wriggling with pleasure as the rest of the group unhanded their dice and pushed them across the intervening space towards Krill. Sunny widened her eyes a bit as Krill rolled ten of the eight sided dice and six of the four sided dice.

Katie offered up her calculator, but Krill waved a hand, glanced at the dice and announced, "That is 122 damage.'

All around the table the group of them whistled. Maverick raised an eyebrow, "Hot damn! He is not happy. Krill, you approach him, and with a flurry of flaming swords, and holy light, you are able to cut one of his arms from his body, unfortunately for you he is going to use his legendary action and take a turn please make a wisdom saving throw."

Whatever a wisdom saving throw was, krill failed rather spectacularly grumbling about how his character wasn't built for the whole 'wisdom' thing. Sunny watched with great curiosity as this went on. From what she could gather, is they were playing some sort of medieval themed game, playing strange creatures from human fantasy lore the dice determining in part how well your character preformed certain actions.

There were different types of players, generally speaking magic vs close combat vs long distance, and tank vs healer dynamics, though those sometimes changed. Krill seemed to be taking great glee out of playing a character who dealt with most of his problems by hitting it. He told sunny that he was a multiclass paladin fighter with a specialty in two handed sword fighting.

Lord Avex was some manner of circle of the moon druid multiclass with an animal totem barbarian, and the others played their differing characters as well. From what she could gather, Ramirez was a charming noble rogue, Adam an incompetent bard, not by choice but because his dice didn't seem to favor him, Katie was playing a necromancer of some flavor or other, while poor Etium was struggling along a bit as he tried to comprehend some manor of Ranger.

It was rather entertaining to watch as krill beat in the head of anything he came across. Eventually Adam did something useful, casting a spell that caused a grove of thorns to appear on the ground just around their opponent, in time for Katie to cast some sort of vicious mockery spell which had him running in the opposite direction, leading him to tear himself up through the thorns. In the end Adam somehow managed to polymorph the creature into a turtle, and Etium added on by kicking the turtle of a nearby cliff. The falling damage that the creature took turned it back into its original form just in time to die from its injuries.

More than once, the entire table ended up roaring with laughter as something unrealistically hilarious occurred including maverick's explanation of the turtle hanging suspended in the air for a moment like a looney tunes character before plummeting to the ground below.

It was all going well enough until the tower guard came down on them. Adam tried to talk their way out, but ended up rolling low in his persuasion to the point where the group of them ended up in jail. Ramirez, cracked his knuckles and promised he would seduce his way out, which worked twice until the third guard, a big burly Viking type rolled just high enough to avoid being seduced, though maverick explained he was both aroused and confused at the same time, which led him to being aroused and angry as he locked Ramirez in a cell on a different level.

Eventually it was Avex's ability to turn into a cave badger and burrow his way into the guard room next door that saved them, despite having to fight off another group of guards to retrieve Ramirez, who was making kissy noises as a troll in the nearby cell for the fun of it while he waited. Unfortunately for him, an explosion took out the doors to both of their cells, and they ended up chased from the tower by an enamored troll, who was a little more interested in Ramirez than Ramirez would have liked.

They might have escaped permanently if it were not for one of Ramirez's jilted lovers who informed the guards of his presence upon seeing them running for their lives in the street. Sunny noted that it was mostly Krill who did the most damage, carving his way through their enemies with lord Avex as a close second. As a giant wolf, Lord Avex utilized pack tactics to his advantage, and he and krill decimated a small garrison of city guards sent after them.

Adam frowned at his papers, "I.... I think this goes against my alignment. I am supposed to be lawful good, right/'

Katie snorted, "I order my zombies to attack their leader." Before turning to Adam, "You might be, but krill isn't.'

"Krill is Chaotic good!" he protested.

Katie grinned, "Fine, I am certainly not."

"Etium, it's your turn."

"I uh, am going to stab the second guard."

In the end it was Etium who saved the day, finding their way out through a crack in the city wall, leaving fugitives where they were supposed to have left as heroes.

Maverick paused rubbing her head, "Well that was.... Not what I expected to happen at all."

"This is Dnd, it rarely ever does."