Dungeons and Dragons: A Lego Story

Hello fellow IHC members. This weeks blog (spoiler alert) is about how unpredictable life can be.

I spent this Friday evening at the Ward household with a few others. Logan had decided to set up a lego based Dungeons and Dragons, and I must say, it was rather entertaining. However, it also taught me that anything can happen, at any point of time, from when you least expect it to when its least convenient. Sometimes its a good outcome. Sometimes its not. Either way, you gotta role with it. The game started off pretty simple. Protecting the king, getting him into the country safely, etc. Then we got hit by a giant rock that came out of nowhere. Gotta say, that threw a wrench in the plan. Next thing I know, we were tracking bandits to try and save the kings chancellor.

First lesson learned: check your surroundings. Very unfortunate for our party when our only alli and guide through the land was crushed by a trap we didnt bother looking for. Then a few bandits hopped out of nowhere, surprised us and all but we still kicked their butts. So here we are, lost in the middle of nowhere. Oops.

Second lesson learned: kindness kills, but so does aggression. Finally, we came across a small village, which actually was just a farmer, his family and a blacksmith. After *kindly* persuading them to let us stay the night, we asked them about the bandits. They didnt seem like that, but oh well. We tried again in the morning. That also didnt work. Then, one of the, for lack of better term, more aggressive members of our group decided to threaten the villagers. Bad idea. Long story short, not a lot of villagers survived that incident. Not exactly in the moral code, and it definitely wasnt our finest moment. Oops. Either way, we continued on our trek.

Lesson 3: you can actually tame giant spiders. We came across a split in the road. After a short investigation, we decided to go right first. We came across 2 rather large spiders, and an orc stuck in a tree. After a bit of teamwork, we managed to kill the first spider. As the second one approached, one of our teammates had the ridiculous idea to attempt and tame said spider. Which, after rolling a perfect 12 ( 2 sixs, what are the odds) the spider managed to get tamed. Unpredictable, but beneficial. So we cut down the orc, and somehow convinced him to fight with us. We went back to the fork in the road and went left this time

Lesson 4: dont poke the werewolf. We approach this rather large tree, and boom. Theres a werewolf. Ill save you all the finer details, but let me say. That werewolf was very good at fighting. He beat us all up pretty good, even took a bite out of one of our guys. But the giant spider definitely helped. Turns out werewolves dislike spiders. After a while, we managed to best the werewolf creature, and continue on our way. So we went back to the cross roads, and went straight

Lesson 5: swords are sharp. (As are spears. And axes.) We finally found the bandits lair. We managed to put our heads together and come up with a brilliant stealth attack, which involved climbing towers, throwing dwarves and goats, and charging a spider into a gate. We went through the castle rather efficiently, it being nighttime. We retrieved the chancellor and finally got to the end, where a bunch of armoured dudes attacked us. And let me say. It was very difficult. They carried very sharp weapons, and we received quite a beating. But, like in every good movie (or game), we eventually won. So, it was time to get the chancellor back to the castle.

Lesson 6: don't hoard things. So remember back in lesson 4 when I mentioned how our teammate got bit by a werewolf? Yea, it would have been best to pay attention to that. On our ride back, he turned into a werewolf. And bam. A high-speed horse werewolf vs 4 other warriors fight broke out. Little did I know, back in lesson 4, I found a rather shiny, fancy looking stone that I decided to keep. Turns out this was the werewolf stone and it drastically increased the werewolves powers. Once again, not my finest move. It was a very difficult fight, with lots of jumping from horse to horse and trying to stab this crazy werewolf.

Eventually, one of our teammates rolled a perfect 12, the second in the game, and we finally beat the game, after almost 8 hours. Its still one the highlights of the week, and it goes to show. Always be ready for anything.