That was fair. I had been expressing a lot of bitterness towards Jonah, I could just be trying to undermine his memory.
"The high elf Queen Esmeralda is the warlord's former lover. She's... involved in the plot quite a lot." She was actually the big bad, but that schlocky reveal was the big twist at the end.
"s**t. s**t!" She covered her face in her hands. "And he just stole it?"
"Never told me about it, so yeah."
"He just kept gushing over how long it took him to write it all..." Ellie looked so disappointed.
I threw her a lifeline. "It takes a lot of work to translate a novel to a homebrew campaign. It's not like he didn't do any work on it."
"I guess..."
"Let's just see how Friday night goes, maybe it's not so bad."
***
It was so bad. Holy cow. But I'll get there.
Alice and Ke
