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Friendship and Stabbing: an Adventurer's Guide, Thursday 2nd Period

It took a little while to make in the danger shop, but there was very large gashapon machine at the head of the class and one super excited teacher. At least one. Magnus couldn't speak for Cara, that would be rude.

"Equipment day, equipment day!" he said, totally trying to make that a thing. Would it catch on? Eh.

If Cara was ever visibly excited, the class should probably be worried. She did looked vaguely pleased though. Which meant they should probably worry a little anyway. "While ideally you should be able to fight naked with whatever come to hand, there's no denying that good equipment makes it a lot easier. Of course, that requires getting good equipment."

"Which you can buy, loot, or steal," Magnus said. "Ooooor you can try the wheel of fate, Istus herself! Well. Kinda. I'm an emissary of her and I helped with this, so it might have some divine stuff on it."

And that was good, right? Right.

"Right," Cara said slowly. "Though the downside of trying your luck is you might get worse gear than the person next to you with no way to remedy that." Well, no way that she could get away with suggesting.

Because they were adults who were setting a good example for the class. And not people who gleefully looted shit.

"So, step right up and let's see what you get! If you don't like it, you can always try selling it at the Fantasy Costco," Magnus suggested. Because they were safe from creepy warlocks asking for blood there. Also because they couldn't flat out suggest other methods.

Because it would be wrong to steal your classmates' sweet, sweet loot.

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Or admire the very large gashapon machine.

Or crank a giant vending machine handle, same diff.

Conveniently each capsule also contains a scroll with the name and a helpful description* of your loot.

Aloy: A Toy Dinosaur - A painted wooden toy of a giant reptile. (The dinosaur talks to you in your dreams and tells you to betray your friends suddenly. After all, it is inevitable. If the use does anything to betray their friends, they get hit with a spike through the chest dealing 2d6 piercing damage.)
Mara: Kazoo of intimidation - A kazoo that when played gives the player +2 intimidation.
Khadgar: Star Shield - A circular shield with a star on it. Can be thrown (20/60), using strength as your ability modifier. On DC10 check, will bounce back to your hand, does 1d6 bludgeoning.
Yang: The disco phial - A phial when opened lets loose music that causes anyone within earshot to start dancing. Any creature dancing has the effect of difficult terrian, an d has disadvantage on any acrobatics, intimidation or persuasian checks.
Peebee: Clue by four - A board that does 1d4 bludgeoning damage. (When you hit someone with the board, you gain knowledge relevant to your situation. Can be location of a useful object, location of a flanking enemy, automatic success on an insight roll, helpful plot info, etc, up to DM.)
Summer: Helm of courage - A beautiful +1 AC helmet. (A helmet that encourages the player heartily. Good shot! Nice Hit! I'm sure you'll get him next time!)
Ahsoka: Robe of the high ground - A simple hooded robe, like one a monk would wear. (Gives wearer advantage on any attacks made on someone below them and a tendency to speak in absolutes.)
Uma: A very silly hat - A hat that when worn gives +2 performance

* Writing in brackets not actually part of helpful description have find finding that part out on your own!

Definitely do not try to steal other people's loot.

Ask what '1d4' or 'DC10' mean, maybe one of them will know.

Spoiler, it will not be Cara.

All loot RNGed from here

Ahsoka Tano, 13

Ahsoka opened her capsule. And eyed the teachers, if this were Anakin's class she'd suspect this was on purpose.

Summer Smith, 19

This could go very, very well for her, but, in Summer's experience, these sorts of things went very, very badly.

And this was why Fandom was better than home, because back home it would have been something that would have instantly tried to kill her in that plastic capsule.

"Ooooooooh," she said, admiring the helm and turning it over in her hands before reading the description which was....vague. "Shiny!"

And that was when her eyes darted to the teachers. "It's not, like, going to try to start sucking out my brains or only be able to be removed with a special spell or link me in to some freaked out hive mind when I put it on, right? You guys can't do that in a class, can you?"

So she wasn't about to put random shit on her head without a little questioning first. She learned stuff in her adventures, okay?

Magnus would try his best to explain game mechanics while staying in character. It would be a disaster.

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"No, no, no. No?" He consulted the notes for a moment. "No. That one is not cursed."

But others might be.

Summer narrowed her eyes, because that did not sound convincing. But she put it on, shifting a little to get it to fit right, and had to admit, it felt pretty sweet to have a helm. And just as she was about to ask if anyone had a mirror so she could see how it looked on her, the helm piped up, "It looks great! So you!"

And she laughed, mostly out of relief, but encouragement was always nice. "Man," she said, "now I'm going to have to find some sweet matching armor, too!"

"You will look so fabulous!"

"Ohmygod, I know, right? Thanks, helm! We are going to accessorize the shit out of this ensemble!"

And now she was pumped, because adventuring was cool, but adventuring and fashion? Hell yeah.

"Hell yeah, boost your AC!"

Magnus, no.

Yang Xiao Long, 18

Yang did not understand most of whatever this scroll was saying. Except 'dancing.'

"So if I open it, do I have to dance too since it says 'anyone' within earshot, or does that mean everyone except me, the MASTER OF MUSIC!"

Was she planning on making her classmates dance? Maybe.

Uma, daughter of Ursula, 4

Uma was looking at that hat, dubiously. It seemed too full of feathers and lace and--was that an entire dead bird?--to do much of anything.

"What's a plus two to performance?" she asked.

"I mean. Maybe? We won't know until you try it out," Magnus said thoughtfully.

Also, where was Griffin to make that decision for them? God.

"You know. On ability checks."

Magnus, no.

Uma just looked at him.

Of course, she'd been besting by a Capri sun pouch last week, so her confusion might not carry the weight it really should.

"What even is AC?" Summer asked.

Air Conditioning? Actual Coverage? Awesone Clothes? Whatever it was, she hoped it was good, since she apparently now had +1 of it.

"For your proficiencies?" He tried again. "Like how I have proficiency in animal handling and vehicles. I'm, like, super good at them. Sometimes."

When he was unobserved in his dice rolls.

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"Armor class," Magnus replied promptly. "How much the stuff you're wearing keeps you from getting stabbed."

And, really, that actually could make sense in a real conversation, even if it seemed a little...arbitrary to denote that sort of thing. Summer rolled her eyes up toward her helm, tapped it like stabbing. She nodded, then looked down to the rest of her unarmored self.

"Yeah, definitely need to find a set. Nine out of ten, most people aren't going to go all stabby toward the head first. But for that plus-one person, I'm all good, I guess."

"So it's just what we're good at?" Uma asked. "If we're already good at them, why do we need bonuses?"

Uma's proficiencies would in intimidation, performance, and, eventually, arcana.

"To do them even better."

What if you rolled super shitty? Take the boost.

"Still not seein' how an ugly hat's gonna make me sing better or whatever."

As opposed to her own, very clearly awesome hat.

"Well, you can always see about trading with one of your classmates?" He suggested. But clearly she was gonna miss out on some awesome performance rolls.

She was a Disney property, Magnus. Performance rolls were what defined her.

"I'm still trying to figure out how this works," Uma said. "Magic?" Her hand crept up to the seashell necklace resting on her collarbone.

Khadgar, 18!!

There was a lot to the description of Khadgar's shield that didn't make sense to him (also, why would he throw his shield at something instead of using it for protection?) but... shiny pretty shield!

"Probably," he replied with a little squint. He made that perception check, thank you. "I mean. I'm not one of the magic guys, but yeah... that's totally magic."

Peebee, 7

Peebee kind of squinted at the board for a while.

"Bludgeoning damage, obviously, but what the hell does 1d4 mean?"

Scanning it with her omni-tool didn't yield any more helpful information, though it did save her from a couple of splinters.

Oh my god, I kind of really want my D&D character to have a clue by four now.

Mara Jade, 12

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