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This was a fill where the original prompt was completely unrelated to it, and indeed I just wrote this because I felt like it. No, not all of my works are real world AUs, I just felt that this fill was a good one to start off with.

Fill: Roll For Damage

Cinder Fall, Neo, Adam, Pyrrha, Yang, Ruby, Blake, and Weiss sat at a table. Weiss picked up a 20 sided dice and rolled.

"Sorry, Cinder. You rolled a 1. You tripped and impaled yourself on Pyrrha's sword."

"How? I destroyed it and threw off the tower."

"Pyrrha rolled a 19 on her semblance roll. In addition to throwing gears on you, she also got back her weapon, although it's still in pieces. You fell on the largest one."

"I roll for damage."

Weiss rolled again, "You got 3. Your lung is pierced and you bleed out."

Pyrrha said, "I move to plunge my sword deeper into Cinder's chest."

"Roll a d20."

"11."

"Cinder is bleeding more."

"Weiss!" Yang shouted, "Can Adam, Blake and I finish? We have a book club meeting to get to."

"That's fine, if Pyrrha and Cinder are okay with it."

Cinder nodded, "I'm going to need time to figure this out."

Pyrrha smirked, "It's alright. Watching Cinder squirm is hilarious."

Weiss nodded, "Blake is on the floor, with Adam above her. Yang sees him."

"I charge," Yang said, "My character gets a plus 5 due to initial rage. Fists out, I plan to smack Adam in the face."

"I move to counter," Adam said, "My character's semblance is all about countering."

"Adam, roll a d20," Weiss said.

"I rolled 18. And my plus 2 against surprise attacks."

"Your blade pierces Yang's heart."

"I roll for damage!" Yang yelled.

"It's in your heart," Weiss said again.

"I. Roll. For. Damage," Yang pressed.

"Fine."

"What do you know, 20. And my plus 3 masochism bonus."

"... Damn it, Yang is completely fine, and somehow stronger than before."

"Oh! Oh! I'm still falling because I hit Neo on the way down!" Ruby smiled as Neo glared at her, "I roll to land on Adam!"

Weiss rubbed her temples, "Roll a d20."

"Aw poop, 1."

Neo tugged at Weiss and handed her a note. Weiss read it out loud, "Don't forget my characters' illusion still applies."

Weiss stroked her chin and hummed, "Ruby lands. On Yang."

"What!? I roll for damage!" Yang shouted.

"D20."

"... Damn, 6. Masochism though."

"Both of you are injured, but relatively fine. Ruby broke her left arm."

"I move to strike Yang," Adam said.

"Roll-"

"Wait! I move in the way of the blade! Look, I rolled a 15!"

"Fine, Ruby moves into Adam's way. Adam, roll for for strike."

"17. Plus my plus 3 against defenders."

"You pierce through Ruby's stomach, and your blade stretches so far out her back it stabs Yang in the chest, piercing her lung."

"I roll for damage!" Yang pumped her arm out.

"D20. You have a minus 5 due to previous damage."

"20 again! And my masochism and Sisterly Bond combine for a total of plus 10!"

"You and Ruby are perfectly fine. Ruby's arm is now slightly less broken," Weiss droned out as Yang pumped her fist in the air.

"Book club starts in five," Blake peeked out from her book, "I take Yang and Ruby using adrenaline, then I use my semblance to carry them away. After that I drop them off on a ship and my character runs away, never to be seen again. Then I can finally leave this stupid campaign."

Roll a d20… four times."

"14, 15." Blake said.

"Wait, my character slashes Blake's head off," Adam said.

"Adam," Blake almost whined.

"Roll a d20."

"4."

"Blake survives and you hit a shadow clone. Blake, roll two more times."

"19, 17."

"Wait!" Yang said, "My other character, Sun, rolls to chase after Blake."

Weiss frowned, "You have to roll higher than 17."

"19. Sorry Blake, but you're not leaving this game yet! I will ship you with one of my characters!"

"Damn it, Yang," Blake grumbled as she, Yang and Adam got up from their seats.

"Oh Blake, I need you to finish your backstory before next week!"

Blake waved her off dismissively, "Yeah yeah, I'll write something down or whatever."

They left.

Cinder and Pyrrha, the former was furiously scribbling down calculations looked up. Pyrrha smiled, "My sword is deep inside of Cinder, drawing out blood. Cinder is in pain. What now?"

Cinder looked up at Pyrrha, then at Weiss, "I'm out of moves and spells. Should not have gone for a Warlock-Mage-Rogue build. I uh, have nothing else really. Except for charisma."

Pyrrha and Weiss frowned. Cinder continued, "I have one more use of Epic Persuasion. I move to persuade Pyrrha to my side and heal me."

Weiss frowned more, "You have a minus 5 due to enemy status, and another minus 5 because of your bleeding."

"I pull Wounded Gazelle Gambit, that gives me a plus 6 to counter the bleeding. That's my last Special Keikaku available."

"You need a 20 to work."

"It's my only choice. I have… 20. Man, we are lucky today."

"Cinder convinces Pyrrha to stop and heal her. Pyrrha uses up all her potions."

"Wait!" Pyrrha says, "I roll to seduce Cinder to my side!"

"Pyrrha, you've failed every charisma check with Jaune, so you have a permanent minus 2 to seduction," Weiss said.

"I have to stop Cinder," Pyrrha said flatly. She was still pissed that Jaune tried his hardest to make his character miss her's attempts at romance. Damn him! He ruined Pyrrha's perfect seduction streak. She'd been able to seduce every character she'd set her sights on in the last seven campaigns. Now she has to go for Cinder's.

"Roll a d20," Weiss said.

"I got 12. But! I kissed Jaune's character before he left, and that was only about ten minutes ago in game time. I activated Second Hand."

Weiss frowned before an expression of awe spread on her face, "So that's why you had Velvet's character shanked. To steal her ability."

"And with that, I copy Jaune's Blonde Bastard ability, doubling my charisma in seduction against non-DM characters," Pyrrha smirked, "Which means I have a 20 in total."

Weiss looked at Cinder, who groaned, "Sorry Cinder. Pyrrha activates Second Hand, allowing her to recall the scrumptious taste of the adorkable blonde she had recently face sucked. In an instant, her blood red hair was illuminated before turning into a cascade of gold. Her now blue eyes shimmered in the twilight at the healed Fall Maiden at her feet. Cinder Fall had seen the true light, and her heart grew again. No longer entrapped by the evil Salem, her heart was now free to love another."

She frowned, "And lo and behold, what wonderful person lay before her. Truly this blonde specimen was worthy of her, after all, CInder was just bested by such an opponent. Their eyes met, and Pyrrha dove down onto Cinder."

Weiss sighed, "I'm stopping here. This was so stupid. This campaign is so stupid. Ruby, why did you choose this mess?"

Ruby brightened, "I heard it had cool weapons and giant monsters!"

She looked around the table, at a defeated Cinder, a smug Pyrrha, a bouncing Ruby, and a slightly bored Neo. Weiss sighed, "Do you guys want to wrap up for today? I want to try to rework what we got because this is ludicrous."

Murmurs and nods went across the table, and everyone began packing up.

Considering RWBY's convoluted rules and lore that continuously make less and less sense, as well as some controversial stuff in the show (e.g. Blake's parents), I thought that the only logical explanation was that everything was made up on the fly by a bunch of teens playing some vaguely DnD-like tabletop RPG.

All the player characters are screwing around, and Weiss the DM is just trying to make everything mesh. Couple that with design flaws in the game and disinterested players like Blake, weird players like Pyrrha, and screwy players like Yang, and you get a hot mess of a world that is somehow even stranger than canon.