
In other rpg news:
At our last All Staff Meeting, one of the little breakout sessions you could sign up for turned out to be a pared-down rules-light D&D one-shot. It was super fun and the guy DMing was great. He mentioned at the end that he'd be interested in an ongoing staff game.
Today, he messaged one of my coworkers who was also at the game, and she let me know that she had been invited and when and where it was happening. And then I was very brave and emailed the DM asking to join.
And! He emailed me back and seemed enthusiastic about me joining! Their next session is this evening, which I won't be able to make, but I'm going to roll up a character tonight and try to join next week.
I'm so excited!
ETA - Ahahaha, I spent the whole evening building a character and I already love him so much. He is a gnomish wizard named Eponymous Raventack, who used to run a magic shop before deciding to go On the Stage as a professional stage magician. (Mostly, he did children's birthday parties.) But then, during a performance, he made his assistant vanish, as per usual, but she never reappeared. So now he is adventuring to find her. He has an enormous top hat and a dramatic cape and a white rat familiar named Clancy. I can't wait to play this goofy dude.