Page 1161 - Training Flashback

Remember kids adults, what worked for you probably doesn’t work for everybody and likely involved at least a little bit of what others might call targeted abuse that you were (for whatever reason) uniquely resilient to instead of vulnerable.

(beat)
Discord GM: Done talking with the girls?
DM: Ah, well, y’see…
Discord GM: I suppose it’s not working out, then.
DM: I mean, it’s–
Discord GM: No no no, it’s your game, it’s your call. I am but your humble subordinate.
DM: <sigh> Question.
Discord GM: Shoot.
DM: That first campaign you ran… Was it also like this?
Discord GM: Ohoho, interesting… Not every week, but in the let’s-call-them “pivotal moments?” Yes, I’d say that was my style even back then. And as I recall, amid all that adversity, you as a player thrived.
DM: …Oh. That explains a lot.