{"id":4929,"date":"2019-08-17T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2019-08-17T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T14:36:00","slug":"i-free-i-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/2019\/08\/i-free-i-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"I Free, I Fly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This short story is written from the point of view of the Steam Mephit<\/a>\u00a0that I played in a one-off Dungeons & Dragons session. Players chose a CR1 (or lower) monster or NPC to play.<\/p>\n

Nasty, tall, being comes to poke at me again with a very skinny dagger. I threaten nasty being’s life in both Aquan and Ignan, but thems ignore. I has an ouchie, and I sleeps.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Waking while room is shaking. Cage falls. Crash-boom-crack! Nasty being is gone away, leaving skinny daggers behind. What’s this? Small crack in side of cage! I wiggle and squish through. I free! I fly.<\/p>\n

Itsy bitsy fast being zooms around, grabs pokey, skinny daggers. Jumps into armored being by door. Larger being is fighting other armored being. I look for other Mephits, but only me. Thems not Mephits, so I don’t care.<\/i><\/p>\n

Big heavy door is open! Wish to fly out, but metal beings are hitty. So, I do a Blur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Metal being, infested by zoomy being, loses pieces. No can hit me now! I fly away from room of cages and ouchies.<\/p>\n

Long skinny room, with no windows. Metal being chases. I fly up so thems no can reach. Big door at end of skinny room closed. Flap into high corner, waits for not-Mephits. Sees other metal being lose pieces, too.<\/p>\n

Getting tired. Needs a rest. Zoomy being boing-boing-boing on the best perch. I lands. FLING! How zoomy being fly with no wings?<\/p>\n

Larger being now has big\u00a0<\/i>dagger. Fights with metal beings. No can open door while fighting! So, I breathes a steam at metal beings head-space. Other metal being, with pieces missing comes, and I move. Boom! Big hole in door now. I fit! I fly.<\/p>\n

New room is round. Has connected parts that go up, a little higher, a little higher. Thems other beings try to climb. Are slow. I has wings, and I fly up, fast-fast. Freedom is above!<\/p>\n

Pieces that look like Nasty being fall. So do whole<\/em> Nasty beings. I dodge, dodge, dodge. Thems not Mephits, so I don’t care<\/i>. What’s this? Big, angry, flappy creature screams. Is in way, so I scratch thems eyes, and flick the goo off my talons. Flight path is clear.<\/p>\n

Is at the top! Very big flat room with no walls. Way too much happening here, with fires, and shiny rocks, and fighting. I look, but them’s not Mephits. So, I don’t care<\/i>. Flapping faster over edge of flat room, away from all of thems. I fly, I free!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This short story is written from the point of view of the Steam Mephit\u00a0that I played in a one-off Dungeons & Dragons session. Players chose a CR1 (or lower) monster or NPC to play. Nasty, tall, being comes to poke at me again with a very skinny dagger. I threaten nasty being’s life in both … Continue reading “I Free, I Fly!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[295,332],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ttrpg","tag-dungeons-and-dragons","tag-tabletop-rpgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/cogwheel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}