Dead Rising (38 page)
Authors: Debra Dunbar
Tags: #templars, #paranormal, #vampires, #romance, #mystery, #magic, #fantasy
I knew why, but nobody would believe me if I told them. At least nobody present would believe me.
“Yeah. Sucks that someone got killed like this, but honestly it couldn’t have happened to a better guy,” Zac chimed in. “It’s like fate. Like divine retribution or something.”
So Ronald was not a favorite. No wonder everyone was busy snapping pics and tweeting.
“Melissa, their other mage, said he was new to the group?” I asked.
Brandi snorted. “New to them maybe, but not new to us. He’d made the rounds and been thrown out of just about every gaming group in town. Arrogant asshole. And he cheats.”
How did one cheat at throwing bean bags at an opponent? “Cheat how?”
Brad shrugged. “I don’t know. In Other Worlds, he showed up with this insane character roll-up. We made him roll the stats again, just because he was plus twenty on everything. He got the same numbers. He always made his saves, always rolled max on his hit points. We made him use a set of our dice because we were beginning to think his were fixed. Still, the guy always came out on top.”
“And if you argued with him, or took the last diet Mountain Dew, then your character began having the worst luck ever,” Zac added. “Ones every roll. I went through three characters in one night. It was no fun, so we told him not to come back.”
Sounded like a real sore loser. As well as a sore winner. “Did he get back at you guys in any way?”
“Food poisoning the next game night, but we couldn’t really blame that on him. He wasn’t even there, and the crab dip did taste a little off.”
“Ronald was a total ass,” Charles added. “I don’t know what he was putting in his bean bags, but those suckers left a mark.”
I looked down at the burned sigil in the grass. Either Ronald’s luck had run out, or some gamer with a grudge had rolled a natural twenty.
After majoring in English with a concentration in Medieval Literature and Folklore studies, Debra promptly sold out to the corporate world. By day, she designs compensation programs, after dark she feverishly writes her novels.
Debra lives in a little house in the woods of Maryland with her sons and a slobbery bloodhound. On a good day, she jogs and horseback rides, hopefully managing to keep the horse between herself and the ground. Her only known super power is 'Identify Roadkill'.
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