#it means i dont get a good boy shadow dog yet. that's the level 6 shadow sorcerer thing

[orcelito]

i just had. a fucking MOMENT in dnd. oh my godddddddddddddddddddd

ok so we're on a ship. normal water ship. trying to get out of town, the works. we end up getting followed. probably pirates or some shit. everyone's panicking, trying to figure out what to do, but im just there Itching for them to get within 150 ft so i can throw a fireball at them. major focus

smth weird happened though. our dear paladin has this medallion from her mom that started... singing. only to her, really. but she managed to tap into that. and as we're setting bombs off towards the pursuing ship (i say we, but Fang was very much just focusing on firing the fireball as soon as they got into range lol...which they never did...). bombs go off, aided by this school of glowing fucking fish that swarm around their boat. glowing in many different colors. it's really beautiful.

their ship sinks, we're victorious. and fang cant stop staring at it. thinking about stories he's heard about divine influence, things at sea. he cant get it out of his head that this is something Divine. and he wants to see more.

so he doesn't say anything to anyone. he's still in single-minded focus mode. he decides he's going to see more. and see, he's had this magic cloak, the cloak of the manta ray. it lets him breathe underwater & have a fast swimming speed. so with that in mind & the fact that he's in general pretty water-proofed, he decides to go in. ties a rope off and just jumps into the fucking ocean

and it's cold. a sudden shock of cold water, bc this is the Fucking Ocean. but he sees motes of white around him, specks in the dark expanse. and he hears Music. the same music the paladin heard, though he doesnt know that. he hears this music beckoning to him, so he starts to follow it, swimming down to the depths... and then he reaches the end of his rope, which stops him from going too far.

from there, he feels something behind him. a presence. he turns to look, but it darts out of his view, almost playfully. eventually it stops moving, & he sees a beluga. it opens its mouth, and he hears that same song. it's mesmerizing. it starts pushing him back to the ship, all the way until they're bumping against it - an obvious nonverbal Go Back. and Fang doesn't try to resist. but before he goes up, he reaches out to touch the beluga. just a hand on the head, to Connect. and he tells it, "Thank you." for getting him back to the boat, or for the experience, who's to say? he can sense that it understands him, though it just keeps singing.

so fang goes up. breaking the surface of the water, the music immediately stops. he climbs up the rope, them plops right down at the back of the ship where he'd jumped off, and pulls out his flute. he's been puttering around with it, but only really started playing it earlier that afternoon. but something about that encounter... he just had to replicate it. he starts playing to the best of his memory the song that he heard... getting a 13 performance check at first, but then i use an ability i have to reroll, and i get. a nat20.

so with the aid of Fang's magic, he taps into that Something that he experienced down there. and the paladin can hear this. she sees him sitting cross legged, sopping wet at the back of a ship, just playing his flute, and she feels everything that the medallion made her feel. yearning, belonging, love... and she approaches him. reaches out to touch his face, just to see if he's Real. and he is, of course. still playing, he looks up with his bright yellow eyes. Confused, but the touch is not unwelcome.

and thus the scene ends. we escaped danger, and now Fang has tapped into a musical magic he barely understands.

aka. GUESS WHO ACCIDENTALLY GOT THE PERFECT FUCKIN SEGWAY INTO THE BARD MULTICLASS IVE BEEN WANTING LMFAOOOOOOOOOO

#speculation nation #fang #d&d #and on fang's birthday no less. this is so perfect. #like this is the level of thematically fitting that i wouldve thought it was planned #but no. it just happened entirely naturally. #the dm didnt expect fang to jump off the boat. even i didnt expect him to. #but it was just Something he could do. no one was paying attention to him so no one would stop him #and he just was filled with the knowledge that he Could do this #and he couldnt explain why. but he wanted it so badly #he just wanted to see more. and then he Did... #he's gonna keep practicing this. keep playing. AND... we r leveling up #so im gonna take a level in bard heheheheheheh #it means i dont get a good boy shadow dog yet. that's the level 6 shadow sorcerer thing #but i'll have access to a bunch of new spells and also HEALING #god it's so perfect. fang bard multiclass is so fucking perfect. and this was the PERFECT way for it to happen #the fact that this is happening with the paladin aka the person he has a budding crush on (that he doesnt recognize) #i really hope this is some good points in his favor for her lol. it certainly is Something either way #god tho i just cant get it out of my head. it was so vivid #aka why i wanted to capture it here. loose form writing in a post i guess. with ZERO proper capitalization #informal writing let's gooooooooooo #waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa i have so many emotions. such a perfect moment to end his birthday with. i love it so much.