Dungeons and Dragons and Drunkenness
Dad reports:
Tommy and I played Dungeons and Dragons with his friends last night. The DM had to talk with Tommy at the end of the night because despite my warnings and encouragements and interuptions Tommy wanted to speak in absolute silliness and non sequiturs and his sentences were frequently unintelligible because he would tighten his lips in a caricaturesque smile as he broken into laughter half way through his sentences.
Our party found themselves waking on beach, our guides and horses gone as agreed upon. They were kind to leave our gear and we were within sight of a port town but incapable of carrying our gear. The group decided to send two scouts to town in order to get a means to transport the team and its booty to safe lodgings. Once in town our thief took to pick pocketing for fun while trying to collect information and sought out a thieves guild to help plan the aquisition of a ship capable of sailing a fortnight.The presence of our halforc was causing distress to locals and was confined to the loft of a stable for the duration of our stay. His only request was a steady supply of ale to ease his doldrums.
Our clerk was off to a temple for renewal and took our ranger/mage with her as she feels the group as a whole could use some moral healing.
The human fighter took to aiding the dock worker Darby in hopes of speeding the process of finding passage for our adventurers to the Isle of Dread.
The elf fighter, Tommy, laughted and insisted on getting drunk. Decided to be companion to the half orc and toyed with the idea of picking fights, taking a job with intent to steal from his employer, and generally finding ways to have the city guard either oust or kill our whole party.
I think Tommy thinks he is being funny. I know he understand how to put himself into the game and play the character because I’ve seen him do it. At times like last night though Tommy is not playing the character but instead is trying to get the group of people in the room with him to laugh and be jolly all the while they are getting frustrated and upset with Tommy.
I am also confused by Tommy’s joking about drinking and drunkness. He started the night off by saying he wanted to go to the town and get drunk long before the half-orc was confined to the loft and requested such pleasures. There is very rare drinking of alcohol in our house and certainly no drunkness. And when I say rare I mean rare as in I don’t think there has been any consumption in the year 2005.
I think Tommy still sees the game as a social activity and not quite the same as he would a board game like chess.