#natural consequences

So today my kid spilt the bowl of water we use to clean up after eating. Of course I was upset (maybe a little panicked), but it was an accident, and the natural consequences are a) enough, and b) a much better teacher.

I had to run and grab towels, and a fresh bowl of water to clean up with. Kid had to stay in the high chair while I do this. (Not happy about it.)

I let my kid see that I’m upset about having to do more cleaning up. My kid is very sweet and does not like it when I am sad. (This is fairly standard for small children.)

Cleaning up took at least twice as long as normal. This means less time for playing. (If my kid was older we’d clean up together. Alas, a one year old’s cleanup abilities are limited.)

We didn’t have time to go and play in the garden before nap time.

Like, for example, our dear rogues today

Both of them were told, separately and together, that the party would be spending the night at the ruler’s manor to discuss a job in the morning

(Drow rogue’s player missed the last two sessions so he got lost during a dramatic fight and had to be recovered, so he was told separately that his friends would be back soon and they’d all stay the night)

And, well

Our dear halfling rogue also has the ADHD, and pretty regularly forgets important details like “sneak up those stairs to whisper what we saw to the party”

(He got to the top, forgot why he came, and yelled back down the stairs to ask what he was meant to be doing

I love him with every part of my soul he’s secretly my favourite

He’s also the one who decided to assert that the ranger isn’t fucking her dire wolf companion, not because no one was, but because he personally was fucking the dire wolf and he’s not sharing

He is not fucking the dire wolf there was no need for this)

So you can guess what happened right after halfling rogue found drow rogue once the rest of the party went to bed

Halfling explained 3-4 times that the rest of the party went back to their inn, in a city they teleported from

The other players made distressed noises and tried to correct him every single time

But the rogues were ass deep in Thee most generic schlocky “your needs are more important than mine” shounen ass scene of all time, and Did Not Listen

Partner’s leaning in beside me whispering to let them just get it done and then send them to bed

But you see

I also have ADHD

And I like natural consequences

And drow rogue in particular needs to learn to pay attention beyond their current YA trope of the day, we all know halfling rogue is doing his goddamn best but he’s also down to commit to the bit with me

Literally everyone in our 8-person party tried to correct them on where to go, including me twice

We had three separate scenes about people being shown to their rooms, or asking to be led to their rooms

We described the hallway and the wing in detail, the number of doors, that all but one of them would have their own rooms (because the drow rogue got left behind and the ruler didn’t see him)

My mercy has limits and my desire for crack does not

So they go, find someone to teleport them, and go back to the inn

And don’t notice til morning that none of their friends are here cuz they rolled garbage insight and assumed their roomie probably bunked with the others instead so they wouldn’t wake him

And then got a Sending-text from the warlock asking where the heck they are since they have a job to do

The cleric had to go collect them they wanted to walk after I told them it was a full day’s ride on horseback

Lockdown #Mood: April 2020 (cont)

Time to admit I’m never going to colour these, so I might as well just post them 😊

the peril of your

knowledge is if you

discard it and act

contrary to it

you know fire burns