Roll D20…To the Death! (Part 7)

Part 6 is HERE.

My heart felt like a mallet beating against the bass drum of my chest as I banged on Toddy’s door. I had never been so frightened in my life, yet there was also a resolve within me that was greater than anything I’d experienced before.

This was real life, I told myself, not a role playing game. I, Sean Rosencrance, was about to kick some ass to save my friends. In that moment, it was easy to understand the romance of soldiers giving their lives for their brothers.

Toddy threw the door open, eyes blazing balefully. “Finally ready to face Sir Drexler?”

“No, Toddy,” I said. “I’m ready to face you.”

And, with that, I punched Toddy in the face.

He fell back into a sitting position on the floor. He looked more confused than anything else, gazing up at me in bewilderment as if looking for an answer to a perplexing question. It was so comical looking that I actually started laughing.

I left him sitting there and walked to his bedroom where the Sir Drexler module waited in the clear spot on the floor. As I bent to pick it up, something hit me in the back of the head. The force sent me tumbling forward into the junk.

I rolled to my back just in time to see Toddy standing over me with a garden gnome hoisted high in the air. I slipped out of the way just as the statue smashed onto the floor.