I don't own D&D or Digimon.
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Tai
The preteen studies the box for what seems like the twentieth time but still, the game doesn't jog any memories. Tai sighs and glances over to Izzy, who is seems to have paused in his writing on the back of the mat. It seems that if they want to 'specialize' their game world, they had to write it all out on the back of the mat.
Picking up Team Courage character sheets, the team consists of Agumon and himself, Tai stands behind Izzy. One minute equals a week? Boy does Izzy want to keep us from goofing off... He thinks to himself while turning to regard the list of empires that Izzy came up with over the last four days. More then a few of these empires that Izzy came up with seem to be 'ancient'.
"That's rather... detailed." He admits while noting that Shifters seems to hold most of their territory about some mountain range called Black Ice Mountain Range. Tai then notices the book with a bunch of writing on it and Izzy seems to be copying off of.
With a soft grunt, he looks longingly over at the TV but knew that if he were to turn it on, it would only increase his grounding. "Can't believe they ground me for saving the world..."
He looks at his character sheet, his name is next to the player one but the name next to the character name sports the name Cro Runeskin. Agumon's character's name is Donaar Godspeaker, which works as Tai had made his partner's class that of Invoker, although he had been thinking of using paladin for Agumon's class but changed his mind.
He hadn't gotten to see Izzy's own twin character sheets but he just assumed that Izzy had chosen to be a human or half human while having Tentomon to be some kind of insect person like how he decided to make Agumon's character a dragonborn. Moving around, he lies on the couch while allowing the two sheets to rest on the table.
Then the doorbell rings and he quickly gets up, saying, "I'll get it." Upon opening the door, he finds Sora and Mimi standing there. "Hey you guys, come on in, although watch out, Izzy seems to be busy writing stuff on the back of the game mat." The Digidestine of Courage says while moving to allow the pair to enter.
"Just what kind of game requires you to write on the back of the game board?" Sora wonders while Mimi requests to use the washroom. They had switched out their outdoor shoes for indoor slippers.
"According to Izzy, it's a Dungeon and Dragon rip off." He says with a shrug. "He's even had me move most of the furniture away while he increased the mat size. He did write most of this stuff on the back, what's left seems to be about us being divided into teams while starting at a higher level then one." Tai says to Sora.
"Teams?" Sora asks and he smiles a bit while replying, "You know, you create a character for your partner, as in Biyomon. I did one for Agumon, made his character into a Dragonborn Invoker."
"Oh?" Sora seems to hum while he looks around for the character pad, which turns out to be on the table. He gestures to the table and follows behind Sora to get the various books from the kitchen counter.
"Here's some of the books. There seems to be away too much information for such a simple sounding game." He admits and while Sora tears off a sheet, putting her name at the top, he heads for the fridge to grab something for Sora and Mimi to drink.
Tai can hear Mimi and Sora talking as he manages to pull the cans of soda forward to the front of the row for future retrievals of soda. Just as he sets down the two cans does the doorbell rings, when he answers the door, it turns out to be Joe with Matt and TK. He smiles widely at the three while moving out of the way to allow them into the apartment.
"Hey you guys, come on in. We're just waiting for Kari to come home from a friend's place. Which should be shortly." The Digidestine of Courage says.
"Is Mimi and Sora already here? Izzy too?" Joe asks and he nods in confirmation to those two questions. The door closes once they're within the apartment.
"Heya Sora! Mimi!" TK says, sprinting towards the table. "What ya reading?"
It wasn't long before Joe and Matt join in the discussion. TK mentions that he'll work on Patamon's first. Izzy finishes with writing on the back of the mat and helps TK when the younger blond asks him for help.
While that's happening, Tai checks to see if the freshly written mat part is ready to be flipped. It's still rather wet but five minutes after that, it's dry. Then, it surprises him to find out that the front of the mats to display land masses and water. Huh, I didn't know that Izzy was so artistic. Might as well place the towers and keeps on the map, heh, he even has spots reserved for them, although, those are a lot of places reserved for them...
Once he puts the various keeps and towers onto the map, the front door opens and Tai heads over to greet his sister, Kari. "Hey Kari, how was your sleep over?" Tai asks his younger sister. Kari smiles brightly while nodding as he takes her bag, taking it to their shared room once the door is closed and locked as their parents won't be home until evening.
As he comes back to double check the map, Tai is rather surprised to find that each of those marked spots possess either a tower or a keep. "Guess Izzy found more keeps and towers." He muses thoughtfully at the site of so many keeps and towers.
He casts about to check on the figurines. They seem fine and he finds a manual detailing the various gods, it's then he remembers that he forgot to put down the name of Agumon's character's god down. "Oops." He murmurs and opens to the table of contents, starting with those gods that Dragonborn favor before looking at those of chaotic god variety.
Slowly the others finish off their own or their partner's character and then move on to doing the other sheet. As they finish up, Tai comes up with a small list of gods to use but none of them seem just right... Remembering the other pads that came with the game, he goings through them and is rather surprised to find one that would allow him to create something new for the world that wasn't written on the back.
After thinking about it, he decides on chaotic neutral as this god's alignment. After thinking about Agumon and checking, rechecking the various domains, he decided that this god will be the god of cooking and figured that the domain of Animal, Plant, Knowledge, and Healing were ones that this god would need as they all compliment each other when it comes to cooking. He was tempted to throw in Time but decided against it as he thought four domains are more then enough.
He puts that this god accepts worshipers and priests from all races. As for power level, Tai puts down Greater deity as the base of moral worshipers can come from any race that likes to cook their food before eating it. The titles were easy to come by with, King of the Kitchen, Defender of the Cupboard, Emperor of Taste, etc. The next part concerning favorite weapon, he is torn between putting own frying pan or a ladle and finally settles on the ladle.
The rest is jotted down as the others were finishing up their sheets. Before forgetting, he's puts some random name down as the god's name and copies it onto Agumon's character sheet. The god with the created god goes under his own sheet. "So... what next? Where do we put these?" Tai asks.
"Well typically, you each get to keep your sheets as a reference for dice rolls." Izzy explains while picking up the figurines. "Now, let me put these on the mat and we can then begin..."
As one of the figurines rests on the mat, they're all engulf within a light, their surrounds spin about and rush pass them. As the surroundings end, with a jerk, Tai feels like he needed to vomit. "Tai? Tai!"
He soon finds himself in the embrace of somebody large and wearing coth robes. "Agumon?" He manages to ask upon noticing that the voice sounds familiar, no unlike Greymon's own but with a hint of something that reminds him of WarGreymon.
"What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in the Digital World?" He asks and his partner's reply is, "I was! Then this light appeared and well, here I am."
I wonder if the other partners are here too... Tai wonders only to lose his train of thought upon noticing just how different Agumon is. "Wow... Aren't you living large and in scales..."
Donaar Godspeaker, AKA Agumon, stands an inch over the standard Dragonborn average height. Donaar's scales range from straight red to a orange like copper color with flicks of yellow upon the scales. The 'hair' is braided into three braids.
"And you look... older and sports shorter hair. Nice cloths, although, where are your goggles?" Donaar asks him.
Before Cro could respond, they find themselves under attack by three ugly Hags. Two of them sport spears in one hand with the other carrying a net. The final Hag possess a wand that shoots fire. With a growl, he takes out his pair of short swords, managing to deflect an incoming spear.
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Kari
Ren Fernfox, AKA Kari, holds her boar staff up while unit of eight Spriggan Thorns. She had managed to fire off three fireballs before they got within range to deal melee damage. At least five of the incoming enemy sport arrows in their leather armor. Suddenly, she lashes out using her staff, hitting one of the Spriggan on the shoulder.
The ranger's, AKA Gatomon, next arrow enters into one of the attacker's head, killing it instantly. And now, it's seven against two... She thinks while swinging her staff at the next foe.
Her swing hits squarely upon its head, knocking it down. "Hanzerih!" With saying that, a fireball launches from her out stretched hand and hitting one of them on the hand. She mentally curses this but doesn't have much time as one of the closer ones lunge at her.
Karren the Ranger fires another arrow and it takes out another of the attacking Spriggan. One of the Spriggan manages to get close to cause some effect to explode onto Karren, which seems to do something as the next dodging attempt seems to be rather slugglish. Without meaning to, she finds herself transforming into her hybrid form, which is her appearing as a human size fox standing upright like a person.
She snarls out "Hanzerih!" With this fireball, she manages to kill one while those around it suffer burns. As enemy lines seem to flinch, she charges forth with her staff and uses it to clubber the Spriggan.
As the Spriggan beat a hasty retreat a few feet away, Ren moves to check on her partner and is relieved to find that the ranger has recovered from that strange attack. Karren says, "Is that really you, Kari?"
"Well, I did pick werefox as my race, so..." She admits. "According to Izzy, I can heal from just about anything as long as none of the items used to attack me is made out of silver." Ren adds, using her free hand to rub the back of her neck with her elbow kind of up in the air.
As Karren finishes studying her changed appearance, the ranger says, "You know, we should probably follow those beings before they bring a larger force to bare against us." Ren, blinks before nodding.
"Although first, we should look these before following after." She says. They quickly loot whatever few copper coins and anything else that looks valuable. They then follow after the survivors, hoping that they hadn't gotten fair.
To Be Continued!
