Two really good friends/fuck buddies get together for game night and discover that the decades-old out-of-print TTRPG they just got from the bargain bin allows them to astrally project into a fantasy world with a wealth of horny possibilities. This first chapter is pretty vanilla, but future ones will contain BDSM and all sorts of monster-fuckery.
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The buzzer to my apartment rings. That'll be Jess: it's time for our weekly game night/hangout session. The pizza arrived half an hour ago and I already finished eating. She's not usually *this* late. A few minutes later there's a quick knock on my door and she comes striding in.
"Heeeyyy Alex! Sorry I'm late!" she comes over and gives me a big long hug.
At barely over five feet, Jess is the shortest trans girl I've ever met, but she's got extremely tall girl energy. Short wavy hair with a swoosh covers part of the right side of her face, while the other side is shaved short. Right now the colour is kind of a dark blue thing, but she dyes it something different almost every month it seems. Her exposed ear and a large portion of her face are decorated in a wide assortment of piercings. She's wearing the same ratty dark grey denim battle jacket she always wears, along with a tank-top and sliced-up skinny jeans. Everything about her appearance screams, 'I am trying far too hard to be perceived as a punky homosexual creature.'
I'm about half a foot taller than her, about average height for a cis girl I guess, and definitely on the chubbier side. My fashion sense is more in the comfy, plausibly deniable zone with regard to my Gayness. I've got a mop of straight light brown, not-quite shoulder-length hair and a basic bitch pair of lobe piercings. I'm trying to push outside my comfort zone a bit but so far the most I can manage is the occasional flannel and the septum ring I got last year. Tonight I'm just wearing my big comfy hoodie and leggings.
She finally releases me, "Howya been?"
"Ah... y'know..." I shrug and gesture vaguely.
"You wanna talk about it?"
"Ehh... nah, it's not worth it. Mostly just work shit."
"Same as it ever was..." she takes off her jacket and hangs it on a chair back, exposing her wiry shoulders and back covered in tattoos.
"Yep. Anyway, I'm really glad you're here!"
"Yea, sorry I couldn't make it the past couple weeks."
"Don't worry about it. By the way, pizza's on the counter," I say gesturing towards the kitchen, "It's uh, a bit cold."
"Aw what, you didn't make dinner?!" she exclaims incredulously.
"N- no, sorry..." I start nervously fiddling with the sleeve-ends of my sweater.
"Hey hey you know I'm just kidding right? You don't *have* to cook for me every time I come over. Like, I appreciate it, you're a great cook but you can take a break. I love pizza, even cold pizza... *especially* cold pizza."
"Oh... oh yeah, I mean I do too. Just like, I dunno, I like doing it, and ordering out feels spendy."
"Bitch I'll pay for the pizza!"
"What? No!"
"Yes!" she frantically rummages through her messenger bag then slams thirty dollars on the table, "You're keeping this or I will fight you."
"F- fine. Okay, thank you."
"Good! Now, I got a bit of a surprise for you tonight," she walks over to the kitchen and pulls down a plate before opening up the pizza box, "What's on it?"
"Mushrooms, green pepper, onions, olives."
"Hell yea! You know I love mushrooms," she tosses a couple slices on the plate, then pulls a six-pack out of her bag, "Want a beer?"
"Yeah... I'll have one... might need to make it two."
"Shit, you didn't even ask what kind it was, you must be feeling real bad," she removes two bottles from the cardboard carrier before putting the rest in the fridge, then grabs a glass from the cupboard before bringing everything to the table.
"Honestly it could be an IPA and I wouldn't have turned it down with the week I've had."
"Well, good news: it's not an IPA!" she cracks them both open and slides one with a glass over to me, then slams back half of hers from the bottle in one gulp. I examine mine for a moment: it says Feisty's Nut Brown Ale and there's like, a little goblin or something on it. I pour it into my glass then take a sip.
"Well, how is it?" she says while rifling through her bag.
"It's uh.. sweet, kinda like bitter chocolate and toffee. I like it."
"I figured you would," she says right before she dramatically plops down an old glossy cardboard box on the table then pushes it toward me.
"Horny Dungeon Adventures? What... what the hell is this??"
"Ha ha!"
"Where did you get this?!"
"Gnarly Dragon. You hear they're going out of business?!"
"Yeah..." I say mournfully, taking another sip, "They were the last games shop this side of town."
"I'll drink to that," she takes a slug, "Anyway, it was in some pile of random old discontinued shit for *five bucks*."
"I dunno why you say it like it was a bargain, it's probably not even worth that."
"Hey hey, let's give Horny Dungeon Adventures a fair shake! Besides if it's shit and we at least get a laugh and a couple hours entertainment I feel like that's worth it."
I take another long sip of my beer before lifting off the top portion of the box. The outside is well weathered but the contents seem almost brand new. As I begin removing and placing everything out on the table I'm surprised by how much is in here!
There are three hardcover manuals: Player's Handbook, Dungeon Lord's Manual and Monster Folio. There are also decks of Creature, Location and Magical Item cards, a drawstring bag with assorted dice in it, a set of candles, a few pieces of chalk, and a small white crystal point about the size of a golf ball.
"Holy shit this is a lot of stuff for five bucks!"
"MSRP was $129.99, and it was published in 1987."
"What?!"
"Yea I know... I've never even heard of this game before. And why are there candles?!"
"No fuckin' clue."
I crack open the Player's Handbook and there's that musty old book stink wafting out of it. Tucked between the cover and the table of contents are a few pre-printed blank character sheets. Scanning it quickly, it seems... pretty bog standard for like a combat-focused fantasy TTRPG. I skim the table of contents and again nothing really stands out compared to other games like this I've played.