Roll D20…To The Death! (Part 3)

Part 2 is here.

Toddy’s mother sat on the living room couch next to her boyfriend, Steelhead Rob, who sucked at the empty space where his tooth had been knocked out in a bar fight the week before.

Redness filled their heavily lidded eyes as they smiled absently at me in the smoky air. I was never particularly fond of being in Toddy’s trailer, but he hadn’t been in school all week, and I hadn’t seen him since the day he stole Sir Drexler.

I couldn’t call because their phone was down. This was nothing unusual. Toddy’s mother failed to pay their bills more often than not.

“How’s it going?” his mother asked. She always asked me to call her Sue, but it felt weird, so I never did.

“Why hasn’t Toddy been in school?”

She looked at me vacantly. “Is school going on this week?”

Steelhead Rob chuckled.

Toddy’s bedroom door opened at the end of the hall. He waved me down. I bid adieu to Toddy’s mom and Steelhead and hurried away.

Toddy closed the door behind me. Fast food wrappers, soda cans, garden gnomes, and dirty clothes covered every inch of his floor space except for a small, uncluttered circle in the middle of it all. Within that clearing were a legal pad, some dice, and the Sir Drexler Impaler module.

Toddy sat down in the circle. “I’ve been working on the campaign.” The blackout curtain in his window blotted out all traces of…