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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1768077" data-attributes="member: 12706">I did tell my parents that he reacted strangely, but his dad and my dad were good friends (my dad was his Best Man at his last wedding, for example.) They talked about it, and Dad came back telling me that the boy was just going through a weird phase and he'd get over it. O...kay. It may sound kinda twisted, but I didn't want to lose my gaming group, and this was my dad saying everything was okay. We moved away when I was 3/4 of the way through the 8th grade, and I've never seen him since.For those of you who have read my previous posts in other threads, yes, this was the DM under which I "lost myself". Before it was all over, I guess the person I had been before all this just didn't know how to take it anymore, and gave up. My parents didn't really notice all that much - dad was on perpetual overtime, I think primarily to stay away from my mom, and I think my mom thought that my going a little bonkers would help her keep me under control. (Boy, was that ever wrong - I don't think she anticipated the effects of going bonkers to become Lawful Good  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) But she's another, non-game-related evil, with a story (or twenty) for another time.Oh, by the way. Whee. What did I win?</blockquote>

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