entranceway | video } and that is when we heard it: the sound of rollin' dice

Hey people! [Dipper grins, bouncing on his heels. If he hasn't slept much since the event, it's hard to tell, but considering how much sleep he got that weekend, it's really all averaged out to his usual semi-exhausted state.]

It's been a while and we've got a lot of new people so I thought it was time to remind people about the weekly game I'm running.

[He holds up an epic looking box.]

Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons! Which is pretty similar to something called Dungeons and Dragons or Warlocks and Warriors or probably some other magic stuff and other magic stuff that's found in any number of different worlds. It's tabletop roleplay, and it's awesome. If you're interested in escaping this weird fantasy world for a different, better weird fantasy world where you can fight evil and do magic and be awesome, let me know. Or just show up. I can help you make a character and show you the rule book.

[A beat.]

It… doesn't require as much math as you think it does. But you still might want to bring a calculator.

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Trust me, if I minded, I would never have anyone to play with.

[Most people don't know how. You gotta be comfortable teaching or you're playing with yourself.]

You should stop by! Should be fun.

Maybe I'll give it a shot. Should I like, read up on this thing first? Y'know, come prepared?

[Seems like it might be a good idea.]

Sure, that'll probably make things go a little faster. [He holds up the rule book.] They probably have more copies in the library.

I'll check it out. Is there somethin' you can be that lets you have animals?

[This is Important.]

Sure a few of them. Ranger, Druid, Wizard or Sorcerer… and those are just the official ones. You can usually justify a pet if you don't actually expect it to fight anything.

Oh man.

[That's a lot of options.]

Definitely gonna have to do some research!

Need a rule book? I can help you get one from the library.

Yeah, that'd be great-- wanna make sure I get the right one.

That's smart. There are a lot and not all of them are needed. Really, you just need Volume 1, then if you're going for a cool prestige class the others are useful. But for your first time, I'd stick with the basic classes.

That's good advice, thanks. I'll keep it pretty basic to start with.

[He's definitely leaning druid. Can he turn into a rabbit?]

I, uh-- thanks. For makin' this open to people.

Sure, man. This is way more people than I ever got to play with me at home!

I'd've figured people would be all over somethin' like this, seems fun.

[And it's way cooler than his hobbies are usually considered to be.]

You'd think. But it's, you know, "nerdy." [He rolls his eyes, raising his fingers into quotes.] Which some people still think is a bad thing even though nerds get paid way more than anyone else.

Even "nerdy" is better than "girly" where I'm from. [He grimaces.] But I guess we got that in common-- people thinkin' our hobbies are weird.

Sounds like you're from a place filled with jerks.

[Dipper has his own insecurities about coming off as girly. Still, between his time with the Manotaurs and the fact that it's a lot easier to get mad at someone else's behalf than it is to be okay with your own love of, say, girly pop songs that are Top 40 hits for a reason, dang it, he's certainly coming around on team be interested in whatever you're interested in, "girly" or not.]

Who cares if it's girly? It's plenty manly to stay true to yourself even though people are mean about it.

I sure as hell don't care anymore, but I used to.

[Being bullied and ridiculed will do that. It'll make you want to hide your true self away. He's past that, now.]

I like cute artsy stuff. I mean, y'probably already knew that. [He and Mabel have had some pretty solid conversations about the many uses of glitter.] Some people think that's weird, but I stopped carin'. If it makes you happy, that's what matters.

Art stuff is girly? [Glitter, sure, and maybe cuteness in general, but Dipper has honestly never thought about it like that.]

But, yeah, good! Who cares what they think, right? Lots of people think I'm weird. And Mabel is definitely weird. But who wants to be normal? That's boring.

[Which Dipper will continue to believe right up until he gets teased next.]

Well, the stuff I like is-- or people say it is. I don't really give a damn. Sewing, crochet-- I just like making things.

[He cracks a lopsided smile as Dipper goes on, agreeing with that.]

Yeah, I'm with you there. Normal's pretty damn lame if you ask me.

Gravity Falls where we spent our summers was the weirdest place I've ever been. It was amazing. Way more interesting than home. I mean, that's a place, not a person, but the people there were pretty weird too.

Yeah? 'Weird' how?

[The question is an earnest one-- color him curious.]

In every way you can imagine. But mostly in the cryptid way. We had gnomes and manotaurs and ghosts and cursed wax figures and everything.

What the hell is a manotaur? I mean, I've seen a minotaur-- are they different?

[He kind of hopes so. Minotaur shadows are seriously creepy.]

More manly, mostly. By a... very specifically narrow definition of manly. Nice guys when they're not trying to get you to kill someone to prove your manliness or making fun of your favorite music.

[Kanji squints a little, trying to parse all that.]

... I dunno, they sound like assholes to me.

[He takes bullying very seriously, okay.]

Oh, they were. But they were okay guys too.

[It's COMPLICATED.]

They helped us save the world.

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