I went to the Dungeons & Dragons Stream of Many Eyes earlier.
If this is the first time you're hearing about it
There's a fresh season of D&D starting up this September with a set of books arriving.
It was a big event where they had made a set of Waterdeep and people got to walk around,
and you could meet with some of the most talented funny wonderful people in D&D!
...And then..I was there (because I had bought a ticket and they couldn't tell me no...)
It was actually pretty cool.
They had a bunch of actors wandering around in costume on these streets,
and they would come up and talk to you in character.
You could go to the Yawning Portal, which is the fictional tavern featured in Waterdeep
with a notorious well that leads into Undermountain.
They served us beer... errr... ale... not 100% sure which was which...
I'm not really someone who drinks alcohol normally. "Hey Ben. Do you want some alcohol?"
Ben: "Hmm. What is this...
"al-co-hol" you speak of?"
"It's a magical drink that makes you make bad decisions and forget things"
Ben: [chuckles] "I already do that! Without the drink!"
*gasps of amazement*
Anyway, we got to keep the glass mugs afterwards with the Yawning Portal logo on them.
They'd set up a little dice game in the back which you could play with some seedy actors"
Actor: "All right, you roll these dice and set aside at least one per round...
the goal is to get consistently the lowest score by the end of the game."
Ben: "Oh. We're going for low numbers here?"
Actor: "Yep."
Ben: [chuckles] "Oh, a game made for me...𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦..."
I crushed it! They didn't stand a chance!
Actor: "How did you do that?!" 
Ben: "Years of training. YEARS. of. training."
Also on my mind was the possibility that I might get a chance to meet with fans!
What I decided to do was to go there and then be amongst the crowds and then-
and then people would say
Fan: "Hey, are you Puffin Forest?"
I'd say "yes", and then I'll get showered with praise and the people will be all like, oh, wow. You're so cool
Much praise would be reaped that day.
You know, in retrospect,
I've never actually shown my face on my channel,
so this plan worked a lot better
in my head than it does in real life... Later on I watched Dice, Camera, Action Live!
It was a lot of fun.
I was sitting up in the audience,
But I had a little...
incident for the show...
When I reach into my bag to pull out a napkin there was suddenly a loud clatter
and a bunch of people around me looked in my direction
and I realized that I had my bag from my RPG sessions the ones with all the dice in it...
Unfortunately, I had dropped the dark purple dice on the black wooden platforms in the dark and oh
By the way, they were not the regular sized dice. They were the under sized one.
Welp, guess I'm not getting those ones back
Fortunately, I managed to find them with a little bit of help and by accidentally stepping on them
also, thank you to the person I met in a line who
You had given me the Shadow Council thing
You were the one with a handmade bunch of them and you were handing them out to people you were really cool
I immediately forgot your name
But y-you are an awesome person. Thank you!
I also got to meet with and talk with other Dungeons & Dragons fans.
Ben: "Hey, how'd you guys get into D&D?"
Player: "Well, we were watching videos online of people playing D&D and decided to get into it."
Ben: "Oh! pfft Well then...
hrmhrm[Cough cough]. I mean, that's really weird. I've just I'm just wondering if you guys...
at all...
have heard of the content creator who goes by the name of
*ahem cough cough*
Puffin Forest?"
Ben: "You uh...
you ever um, heard of him?...Makes videos on Dungeons & Dragons?
And seems like he would be a very cool and uh
interesting guy to talk to?"
Ben: "Hm? Nope, okay. Well then I guess I'm going to go over here and pretend like I don't exist."
What was also great was I got to see a lot of actual famous people there.
Ben: *gasp* "Hey, I've never met a famous person in the wild before!" *GASP*
"I should introduce myself and say "Hi"....
Yep, just gonna go up to him and say "Hi" right now.
right now...
Can't stop me.
Just gonna walk up...and say "Hi". right now.
G-Gonna do it. Yep...
C-can't stop me..."
Overall I had a lot of fun. It was really cool
I look forward to the new books coming out at the end of the year and the next chapter in the story...
of D&D.
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