On the 18th of February, this happened. (tl;dr: Player B cheated on Player A with Player C of our 6+DM group.)
Several people wanted to be updated about what happened next, so I'll be tagging those people in the comments below.
Player B did end up riding home with Player A since they live together.
First thing on Monday, which was 10 a.m., I was the first non-employee through the door at the game store, to see if my 4 dice were still there somewhere. I searched the entire game room and I only found one green/black d12 that was behind a box in the corner— almost invisible on the store's carpet —and a translucent red tiddly wink/bingo chip/marker of some sort. I looked through the store's dice chest, too, and didn't see my dice in there either. I told the lady running the store about their significance (and about the broken miniature) and she was apologetic and said I could "take" a set of dice they had "for sale". I couldn't tell if she was offering me a freebie or suggesting I buy some new dice, so I told her it wasn't the store's fault and I wouldn't feel right about the store giving me some dice for something someone else did. Then she said she meant I could buy some new dice from them, stuck out her tongue at me— I don't know why, but everyone at that store does that —and I felt infinitely stupid, so I courtesy laughed and left soon after.
I texted back and forth with Player A a lot on the 21st. He said he was "probably" not going back to the game, and I could hear it in his voice that he definitely wasn't. He told me he disconnected Player B's phone, which he was paying for, and that Player B was living with her mother by Sunday afternoon. He asked me if I would come over by noon on the 23rd to act as witness when Player B comes back to get the rest of her stuff. I told him of course I would and he texted me his address. (Once an Army brother, always an Army brother.) I asked him if he wanted to go "Eat shit, talk shit, and shoot some shit" (lunch, hang out, go shooting) and he said it sounded like a good idea, so we now have plans to make plans to get together someday and go shooting. I plan on broaching the topic of him playing D&D again in the future while we're out blowing shit up.
Player A also told me that Player B slept on the couch Saturday night (the day of the incident) and wasn't "kicked out" of Player A's apartment per se. I told him I would have had her "shit" on the curb even before I got home, I would be that livid. He just laughed. Since then, and as far as I know, Player A is not talking to Player B. (I can't blame him. I wouldn't talk to her either if she cheated on me— especially with another player in our D&D group. That still blows my mind, especially after how long the two of them were together.)
Player B showed up at Player A's apartment a little after noon on the 23rd with her mom and 2 cops. The cops and Player B's mom did virtually all of the talking. Player A and Player B didn't say a single word to each other. The cops asked who I was and Player A told them I was there for his protection. At that comment, the cops asked if Player B was violent before and Player A and Player B both said stuff to the effect of neither one of them ever physically fighting. Player B didn't say anything to me; she just looked embarrassed and ashamed. (Good!) Player B's mom gave me dirty looks the whole time she was in Player A's apartment, and I'm pretty sure she knew I wasn't her daughter's now-ex-boyfriend since the two of them had been together for years. Over the course of about an hour, Player B mostly took clothes, bathroom stuff, books, papers, and mail while her mom seemed to be attempting to instigate some bad behavior by constantly asking "Is this yours?" about damn near everything that was in Player A's apartment. When Player B was done, she left with her mom and the cops took off in their cruiser.
As expected, the DM showed up on the 25th because he gets paid to be there. (He gets a "very nice discount" on store purchases.)
Players D, E, and F (myself) showed up on the 25th to see if the D&D game was over. Player D gave me one of my missing dice, a pink/white d10. (Small victory! Yay!) Player A didn't show up for the game, and we all expected that. (I didn't tell anyone I knew he wouldn't be there.) Player B didn't show up for the game, and we were all thankful for that. The DM told us he didn't expect anyone to show up to play, so he hadn't planned on anything for that week. He told us he had the content we didn't cover the previous week, if we three wanted to continue the campaign. I brought up the point of the group not being "Monty's Midgets" anymore. I asked if we could play the same campaign, but with different characters (because I know how much it sucks to make a campaign and then not get to run it to completion) and from a different angle or something. Players D and E said that would be awesome and the DM said I get Inspiration for the entire first session for that idea. As we were making characters, Player C showed up...
Player C showed up about 2 hours after our original game would have started. The only one of us to actually see or talk to him was the DM. Apparently Player C called the store to see if we were playing and then stood outside, waving at us, inside, for "30 minutes" before the lady running the store saw him and went out to talk to him. She was how we found out Player C was even out there, and that he wanted to talk to our DM. Our DM went out to talk to him and came back in about 15 minutes later carrying two pizza boxes and a case of Mountain Dew. (None of us ate the pizza, but some guys playing Battletech or something at the other side of the game room did; we gave the case of Mountain Dew to the store to put in the refrigerator to sell "to make up for the broken chair".) Player C was allegedly not trying to rejoin the group; our DM said he was just there to apologize. ("Fuck that guy." was the general attitude Player D, Player E, and myself had; our DM didn't really say where he stood, but we noticed he didn't eat the pizza or drink the Dew either...)
Our DM decided that the premise of the new campaign would be that all of our previous characters had gone missing without a word, and our party of 3 was assigned the task of scouting their last known whereabouts for information. Thinking about last week's Reddit thread and how I named us Players D, E, and F, I joked with Players D and E that we should call the new adventurers the "Deaf Squad" (DEF Squad) and fake being hard of hearing whenever we don't like someone or something they have to say. (And our little scam has already gotten one of us— OK! OK! It was my character. —out of jail because of a "misunderstanding".)
And, finally, about an hour or so before we quit, we picked up a completely-new-to-5E player— an older guy who hasn't played since 1E.
Submitted February 27, 2017 at 10:45PM by Stormbow http://ift.tt/2mmytfJ DnD
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