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 I finally caught that dice bug 🐛.  I thought i could live with just one dice set, but as the story goes Kalina wanted some nature inspired dice. I order a set of 7 dice for around $10 from temu and completely regretting it. It's hard to tell the dice apart. They are so shiny, it's hard to read the number and they seem dangerous.  Likely to poke a small child's eye. Better luck next time. 

 In this session there are only 2 other players and we are locked in combat for over 40min against a band of goblins.  I begin to compare the combat to nethack and realize how different the game play is.  I'm told several times that this is not nethack.  If I was confronted with a similar situation I would run to another level, get better armor and a better weapon then return to kill them all.   After killing most of the goblins I would like to loot, and am asked if I'm a "murder hobo." I actually think nethack may revolve around killing others and looting them.  That in addition to stealing items from ghosts.   Finally I asks if we are going to take food from their kitchen? They laugh and ask why? I don't want to die of starvation. Well that's not going to happen in this game.  One of the most advanced players set it up so our party has unlimited food sources.  So now I realize this is not nethack and I have to spend some time lear...

 In honor 🎖 of Kalina's run in with the wild boar, and subsequent killing of said 🐗 I decided to try Mystical Meats 🍖. In 2024 Mytical Meats teamed up with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to create a Dungeon & Dragons Adventurer’s Rations line of jerky.  Choose from these classic D&D characters I decided to try the mythical animals line which includes unicorn 🦄 and kraken 🐙.  The group concencus was they are good but not amazing, a solid 7 out of 10. I tried the Loch Ness Monster made of beef and buffalo, which was mildly spicy and flavorful. Next I tried the Basilisk made of alligator, beef and pork which I liked a lot better. This was spicier, with some heat and a more complex flavor pallet.

  Bringing water, red bulls, and snacks definitely helped me get through this session. Your in person rations are just as important as your in game rations. At least I wasn't falling asleep and dehydrated at the end of this session.  Our party decided to go back to visit a town we saw while traveling to the sunken city.  Our boss gave us gifts/ bribes to offer the local townspeople.  We were sidetracked even before reaching the town, we stop to look at a glimmer of a battle taking place between ghosts armies. Before we could decide what to do, a band of goblins descend upon us. The leader is holding a wild boar by a rope. Kalina decides to attack a goblin first since she believes the board is harmless.  I combine my longbow, hunters mark and dreadful strike to kill a goblin.  I'm learning how to combine attacks, referencing the player's handbook helps.  Unfortunately after a couple rounds of attacks, the boar breaks free and attacks Kalina.  My ar...