"No way!" Gloom exclaimed. "You play DnD too?"
Liby pushed the hefty rulebook back in place on the shelf. "Yeah, a little. I mostly run it, though."
"That's so cool~! I've always wanted to play but nobody seems to want to."
"Well, I've been thinking of running a campaign for family, you're welcome to join too."
Gloom's eyes sparkled. "Really?!"
Liby nodded. Gloom squealed and wrapped her in a tight hug.
"Thank you!"
Gloom let her go and she spent a moment catching her breath. "I've got some time, you wanna do some character gen?"
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"So I add my Con bonus to ten?"
"Yep."
Gloom had decided that her first character would be a gnome paladin. Certainly an unusual combination, and she would never had picked Gloom to be the Paladin type.
What surprised her the most, though, was how quickly she was picking it up.
Gloom jotted down something on a sheet of paper. "Neat. What now?"
Liby skimmed through the handbook. It had been a while since she had run 7th Edition DnD, normally she ran Pathfinder. "Well, we've done most of the technical stuff, I think all that's left is equipment and what your paladin's like as a person."
"Are you running a pre-existing story or your own one?" Gloom asked as she took the handbook and flicked to the equipment section.
Liby paused. "M-my own. Is that okay with you?"
Gloom looked up with that same sparkle in her eyes. "Of course it is!" She leaned in, propping her head in her hands. "Tell me about it."
"Well, where would you like me to start?"
The two of them spend the next three hours talking about Liby's world, and only stopped because Gloom's mum had to leave.
Before the two of them got into their car, Gloom turned back to Liby and waved. "See ya later, Liby!"
"See ya next week." Liby waved back as they drove off.
"I'm happy you two get along." Luan said, placing a hand on Liby's shoulder. "That would've made things awkward with Maggie."
"Yeah." Liby smiled. Then frowned. "Dang it."
"Hm?"
"We forgot to finish her character."