Here, I present to you the diary of one of the characters for my most recent campaign, Shuichi, played by Renaud. Enjoy (and yay for deleguating writing duty to my players!). The post was mostly untouched by myself.

Shuichi’s Dairy

Day 1 : Wednesday, September 18th.

Today I woke up to a weird dream. It was about a bus filled with people having blurred faces making no sounds when they talked. It seem I was not alone in this bus that was puzzled by this. The bus went in a tunel and the lights flashed. The only persons left on the bus were the puzzled passengers I saw earlier. I woke up when the foremost one’s head turned intn some mouth with countless teeth… It is definitely NOT a good way to wake up.. I hate having a dream in which I was studying. I already study enough when I’m awake I don’t need to study more when I sleep…

It was a mostly normal day. Shiro was reading a book hanging down from a tree and we got a new strange American man as a helping teacher. Vale, was his name, I think. He asked us to call him “James”. I’m surprised he got the job with the clothes he was wearing… Anyhow, Mei still teased me and Tsukasa still laughed for nothing. It’d be fun if she’d stop teasing me all the time, but they are good friends none the least.

I also had Track and Field practice today. I still can’t believe I joined this club. If mom wasn’t so scary, I would’ve dropped a long while ago.. To say I do this just “to get into a good university and make my parents proud”… Still, I got a bit faster: 32 sec for 100m. I shaved a second.. Woop-de-doo! ><

The weird part starts then.. On my way to cram school, I heard some strange dissonant music from an alley. I was curious so I try to find it’s source, only to end in some alley crossroad where I met Emisawa-san and Kazuo-san. The music seamed to come from midair in the middle of the intersection. It was then that some strange blade-y beasts appeared from the various piles of garbage along the alleys. I somehow felt… different. I picked up some stick from the garbage and I knew that if I hit those things with it, they would be in quite a pain. Same with me being able to use a trashcan cover as a shield efficiently. It seems that Emisawa-san got the same thing and that he could _heal_ wounds, while Kazuo-san was actually sending bolts of lightning from his fingertips… After a while, we ended disposing of those… beasts. Their corpses were no where to be found, surprisingly… While we were figuring out what just happened, Kazuo called his family to get a car to come pick us up. They were kind enough to provide us with new uniforms, since ours got screwed in the fight, and gave us a ride home. We also all agreed to keep this to ourselves.

The worst part had yet to come, though.. Kazuo tried to help me cover up my skipping cram school only to make it somewhat worst by mentioning that he was one of the persons who always got better grades then me.. And that he did not go to cram school.. Man… I do not want to get scolded again like that. My mom’s a real devil.. An Italian mama inside a Japanese body with some Godzilla blood, and a level 20/20 fighter/barbarian. It really refreshed my memory as to why I don’t go against her.

Day 2 : Thursday, September 19th.

I woke up early. I’m also really energetic today, for some reasons. I felt like running a bit after breakfast. I somehow lost myself while I was running and found myself running laps around the school. I had to bum into Ken-kun, who actually fell down, to stop myself. I can’t really believe it. I was not even sweaty after running all those laps right after running from 4 stations away… Definitely a strange thing.

During the English class, I spoke to James a bit more in English. It seems my English is so great that they want me to help them out. This should have my mom calm down a bit, it’s good for my “future” that’s for sure. I’m glad I read that many DnD books and forums.

At lunch I actually got teased by Mei because I forgot my bento. I was unhappy, since I was really hungry, so I ran home and came back with my lunch (an increased portion). I still don’t know why, but it took me about 15 minutes to do that. I somehow manage to get out of this mess by acknowledging to me “hiding my bento just to get teased by Mei”. Kazuo came to me shortly after this to ask me about yesterday, if I remembered anything. I definitely did not forget the scolding… As well as the beasts.. It looks like this part was indeed not a dream. We agreed to meet after school at the shrine to talk it up, especially since it seems we have a classmate that went missing yesterday night…

I had a lot of fun after school in the Improvised Theater And Historico-Fantastic Literature club with my classmate geeking out in our club room. I always look forward to those days. We sadly did not play our regular game, since the GM was sick, but we still played some board games. I’m sure no one would believe that Akahito and Renjiro were actually rpg-geeks. ^^

I met up with the other at the shrine after that, where we saw Shiro sleeping with a broken guitar. Saki got angry even more when she was told Shiro found her hot. We ended up agreeing to search for Okie, which seems to be missing since yesterday night, since it may have something to do with our strange powers.

I have to control myself a bit more, it seems I am letting my RPG player side come out a bit too much these days. 

I also seem to have one hell of an appetite now. I stopped by the supermarket and got some supplies for my lunch tomorrow. Good thing I got some meat. Supper was not enough, so I cooked more food and made me some HUGE bento (3 layers of meat and protein) that I hid pretty well in the fridge. I feel strangely good, albeit strange now.

Day 3 : Friday, September 20th.

Another early morning. Still as energetic as yesterday. Breakfast was good and I left for school with 2 bento : the one I made and the one mom made. It should be enough. I got a lift from Kazuo to school. He’s a nicer guy than we can think, with his father supposedly a Yakuza.. Siro had a black eye this morning. I guess this proves that Saki may have a thing for him, she has yet to punch someone else.

I had to use a “growth spurt” to hide the fact that I had such über lunch today. I slipped again and said that “I gained a level” as an excuse. It got me a nice foldable D20 from Akahito, and weird looks from the rest of the class. Still, that dice was so worth it! They were even more flabbergasted when they saw me eating that lunch. Mei didn’t even find anything to say to that. I then went to thank Akahito for the dice, which got me some more stares, since I don’t really fit with those bishies. If they only knew. XD

After that, I went to get some more info on my English teaching job while Kazuo surely got some more info out of Aiko about the route the missing girl used to get home.