𝙸 𝙲𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝙲𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚜

𝚂𝟸𝙴𝟾: 𝚂𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝙷𝚊𝚕𝚏-𝙱𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍𝚜 𝚂𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙰𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛... 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐

CW: The original version of this episode of Community includes a character using blackface. I do not condone the harmful images portrayed in this episode, and therefore, they are not included in my written adaptation. This episode is not available on most streaming platforms, but if you do intend to watch it, please do so with this in mind. Blackface is wrong, and it will never be okay, even in the field of comedy.

Inspired by Community S2E14: "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons"

Nico POV

"Okay, I don't really do the whole 'emotions' thing, but I've gotta ask. Do you know why Will seems so off?" Annabeth asks.

Nico thought Annabeth was just going to ask for the last of the pizza as she does at every GSA meeting. This is a lot more interesting. "Well, have you seen his Instagram story?"

"The WiFi's down in my apartment, so if I want to check social media, I have to do it here. God, Nico, I feel stranded!" She's so dramatic.

Nico boxes up the last of the pizza and hands it to Annabeth anyway. "Will's dad died the other week. He's probably just grieving."

Annabeth furrows her eyebrows. "Nico, that's not something you can just casually deal with."

"I thought you were the one that didn't do the whole 'emotions' thing."

"Yeah, but his dad died. The least we can do is like, buy him some carnations or something."

"Okay, so buy him some carnations."

"I'm a broke college student!"

Nico crosses his arms. "So am I!"

Annabeth takes another cookie from the tray. "Maybe... maybe there's something else we can do?"

"Like?"

She shrugs. "What does Will do for fun? You know him better than I do."

Nico's ears turn a little red at that comment. Do people see him and Will as close friends? "Sometimes we play MythoMagic together..."

"Great." Annabeth grabs the box of leftover pizza. "My study group is working on a group paper for our mythology class. Tell Will to meet us there for a game of MythoMagic."

Nico chuckles to himself. Annabeth Chase does not know what she's getting herself into.

It's a good thing he never leaves home without his MythoMagic binder.

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Not even half of the people at this table are familiar with MythoMagic. Idiots. All of them are idiots.

Nico brings his fancy MythoMagic dice to create some quick character sheets for everyone in Annabeth's study group. This campaign could go several ways. Either it'll be awesome because they have a lot of people, and big groups are always more fun in MythoMagic, or they'll completely crash and burn because the only people who know how to play are Frank, Jason, Will, and himself.

"Okay, so basically, I'm going to give you all demigod characters to play as, and then I'll explain the quest," Nico says.

"Can my character control fire?" Leo asks. "I've always wanted to be a fire bender like in Avatar: The Last Airbender."

"Probably not," Nico says. "It's more random than anything." He rolls the first die. #3. That makes a lot of sense for Percy.

"Percy, you're the son of Poseidon. Pick a card for your weapon." Nico fans his MythoMagic weapons so Percy can't see.