#darlong

When Danny had walked into his dorm room to see Michael and Ashlee T. sitting on Michael’s bed, watching a movie, he decided that he had only dropped by to pick something up and was going to be meeting up with Haley for dinner. 

It wasn’t that he didn’t like Ashlee T. Or cared that Michael had someone over. Just that--he was awkward and probably the worst third-wheel in the whole world. And if he just stayed, sitting in their room, it would be weird. He probably had a text on his phone from Michael, giving him the heads up, but he had a bad habit of swiping notifications away and forgetting about them. So, no worries, he’d just go study in the library for a bit or something.

He’d smiled, said a very stilted hello, grabbed something random off his desk: his sketchbook--and then turned around and left again. Smooth. Nothing weird about that at all. 

Danny slinked back down the hallway, pausing at Haley’s door and...well, he hated lying. Soooo...he knocked.

And Haley answered.

“Oh, hey.” Danny blinked in surprise. “Michael has a girl in the room,” he blurted.

So, Haley and Danny had been getting along pretty well. They went to that one character creation session and then Wendy showed up and laid out their Strahd game. Haley was really getting into everything and she figured maybe she should like start up a precedent or something for after the games. Finish the session and then go hang out at Pizza Planet with Danny. 

She’d honestly fumbled it a little bit after the game, asking if he was hungry and still wanted to game or something ridiculous like that. Then she said the slogan of Pizza Planet to which she was sure he probably thought she was going through something because who says where the slice is out of this world in actual conversation. 

In any case, Danny had agreed to come and hang out so they struck out to Pizza Planet, which was only like a 2 minute walk from the Comic Barn. She pulled open the door and was immediately hit with the smell of pizza and the loud noises of games firing off and tickets and tokens being counted. 

She walked over to the counter to order so they could put in their order and get it delivered to their table. She was greeted with the usual Pizza Planet delivery guy. Did they have other employees? The college aged kid, pizza planet hat on his head backwards just grinned in his lazy sort of way, “Yooo Outerspacers, welcome to Pizza Planet where the slice is out of this world. How are we today? We’re running our Supernova special. One large pizza, 50 tokens and a choice of a milkyway shake or the Alien Space Slime fountain bevy, all for 19.99. Modifications and toppings are extra but yanno, totally worth it for an out of this world experience.” 

Haley looked over to Danny, “That sounds like a pretty good deal actually, did you want to split that? Maybe get some Cosmic Cookies too?”

@dragon-prodigy

At their last DnD session, Haley had complained to him that she didn’t know PrideU as well as she would like. He could understand the anxiety. They were both people who liked to do well in school, nerds in the purest form of the word. Not just because they liked things like Dungeons and Dragons, but because they liked school and learning. Danny often found that these sorts of things went hand in hand anyway, which was why he gravitated towards groups of people like ones who played DnD.

Anyway, not the point. The point was that Danny had offered to show Haley around. Let her poke a bit in places you could only get into with a school ID. Take her to some of his favourite study spots (the idea of this made his cheeks pink, thinking about it, though he wasn’t sure why; just felt...intimate...sharing study spots. That was weird probably.) 

He was waiting outside the art building, where he’d told Haley to meet him. It was one of his favourites. And the building that he was most familiar with, considering most of his classes were held there. It was evening, the sun low in the sky, though not dusk quite yet. They had DnD after this, but at least they would have a few hours to explore. PrideU wasn’t a big campus. He was sure that it wouldn’t take that long. 

@dragon-prodigy

Danny was a bit nervous. (When wasn’t he?)

But, no. For real this time. He was nervous. 

Haley had invited him to join the Barn’s DnD new campaign that would be starting next month and, of course, he had said yes. He needed friends, desperately. And not friends that were putting themselves in constant imminent danger (hello, Dash and Eric.) Or friends that thought he wanted to do comedy?! (Hello, Anna.) He just wanted...nerdy friends. That did safe, nerd activities like play Dungeons and Dragons on Saturday mornings.

He had played campaigns before, obviously, but that was on Roll20 with his Internet friends, who he’d known for much longer than Haley and the other people in this campaign, which meant he could be--chill with them. The way he couldn’t with Haley and her friends.

Still, he was doing his best to be chill here. He had done a bit of prepping beforehand, but he didn’t--actually know what the campaign was, which would influence his character. 

Danny entered the Barn and trotted up to the counter, where he found Haley, who was just getting ready to get off a shift. His cheeks were pink, but he hoped that she thought this was just because of the cold weather. 

The Lord our Protector (DARLONG: Bible)

DARLONG: Bible

Psalms (Sam) 121

1 Tlânghei tiang enin ki mitin ki hang thlîra, Ṭangpuina keima dingin ten aṭanga hong mo?

2 Ani ṭangpuina chu LALPA rinêng nih Rivân siampu lak aṭanga hong achang.

3 Ani chun ni phei inphêt phal naw nia, Nang a vêngpu chu inmu ngâi naw ni.

4 Enta! Israelhei hrungpu chu inmu naw nia, Inn hom inn naw ni.

5LALPA chu nang a hrungpu achang. LALPA chu ni kut chang…

The Lord our Protector (DARLONG: Bible)

DARLONG: Bible

Psalms (Sam) 121

1 Tlânghei tiang enin ki mitin ki hang thlîra, Ṭangpuina keima dingin ten aṭanga hong mo?

2 Ani ṭangpuina chu LALPA rinêng nih Rivân siampu lak aṭanga hong achang.

3 Ani chun ni phei inphêt phal naw nia, Nang a vêngpu chu inmu ngâi naw ni.

4 Enta! Israelhei hrungpu chu inmu naw nia, Inn hom inn naw ni.

5LALPA chu nang a hrungpu achang. LALPA chu ni kut chang…

The Fruit of the Spirit (DARLONG: Bible)

DARLONG: Bible

Galatians (Galatia) 5:22-23

22 Rithla râ rochu, hmangaina, lawmna, inremna, tuarselna, inrianghmûna, ṭhatna, ringomna,

23 nun innêmna nih insûmtheina an chang. Mahei chung achun dân ihman a boi.

The Fruit of the Spirit (DARLONG: Bible)

DARLONG: Bible Galatians (Galatia) 5:22-23 22 Rithla râ rochu, hmangaina, lawmna, inremna, tuarselna, inrianghmûna, ṭhatna, ringomna, 23 nun innêmna nih insûmtheina an chang. Mahei chung achun dân ihman a boi.