AnnouncementHi, this is just something I've been working on. It is LGBTQ+ in case you missed that. This is going to be a slowish burn sapphic poly retionship dynamic between our MC and several of her party members. So, if you're looking for harem, this ain't it. I'll update it as I find the spoons to write. I'm starting this off with 13 chapters ready to go. This is also hosted on Ao3 under the same penname. If you comment negative things about the elements I've highlighted here or are in any way homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, etc. I will delete your comment. You have been warned. Lilit yelled into her mic, “Trevor, I need you to start kiting the boss. Mike, stay focused on the mob. Kay, start picking up the stragglers for Mike. Everyone stay focused. We did not just spend the st three hours crawling through this dungeon to die to some stupid lich.”
A series of confirmations came in, from Trevor’s grunt to Kay’s perky “Roger!” Lilit navigated her character on the screen closer to Mike’s padin. As the healer it was her job to keep everyone, but especially Mike going long enough to bring down the mob of skeletons and zombies so they could focus on the boss.
Since she was a cleric and these were undead, it was also her job to try and maintain crowd control. She threw a turn undead at the lich as it lumbered past, trying to reach Trevor’s rogue. The spell didn’t send the lich running away like it would a lesser enemy, but it did pause for several seconds, giving Trevor time to give himself a dex buff via potion.
As soon as the lich started moving again, Trevor continued to fire bolts from his crossbow. Near the top of the screen, Kay was picking apart the mob that had been drawn to Mike’s taunting and ground pounding attacks with her battleaxe.
“Kay, why aren’t you raging?” Lilit asked. She swore she had to remind everyone to do their buffs before practically every battle. She was honestly surprised that Trevor thought to take his dex buff potion without her nagging him. Small miracles.
“Oh, yeah. Sorry.” Kay squeaked out. Her tiny barbarian goblin threw his head back on screen to apparently scream his anger before Kay waded back into battle. This time more effectively reducing the number of undead.
Mike was doing well, keeping the mob of undead focused mostly on him. She grimaced as she noticed his reduced health. “My bad Mike, have some heals buddy.” She cast a greater healing word on him. His health jumped up to refill most of his bar.
She threw a smite into the middle of the mob on some random zombie, just trying to do her part. A couple of skeletons broke away to head toward her. She hit one as it closed with her and then started running away while she waited for her turn undead to finish its cooldown. She stopped and swung her great hammer at another skeleton. That one crumbled to dust so she waited for the next skeleton to hit before dodging away again.
Trevor ran past with the lich following behind. He shot a bolt at one of the skeletons chasing her. It crumbled to dust as well. “Thanks!” Now that there were only two skeletons left, she decided to stand her ground and finish them off. She kept an eye on the rest of the screen and watched her party chipping away at the final enemies.
She’d been pying with this party for a couple of months now. They were all fairly new to their guild and hadn’t been picked up by any of the other established parties so they decided to band together. She thought they made a pretty good team, even if she did have to babysit them more than she would have liked. It was honestly like herding cats sometimes.
A few minutes ter the mob of undead had finally been taken care of. Mike got one more heal before she sent him to grab the aggro of the lich from Trevor. The lich was already down almost a third of its health bar. From what she’d seen on the forums, each third of a bar depleted would cause the lich to summon more helpers. But the summons always appeared near the throne at the top of the room.
“Mike, pick up the aggro toward the bottom of the room. That’ll give us the most time to wear down his HP before the mob hits us and we have to pivot.” Everyone started rushing to the bottom of the screen after Lilit’s command.
Mike taunted the lich before unleashing a ground pound for good measure. Although now he’d have to wait until one or the other’s cooldown wound down before he could grab the majority of the mob’s attention when they appeared. It worked like a charm though. The lich locked onto Mike’s padin and then stumbled to the ground.
“Now Kay! Get him while he’s on the ground.” Kay’s barbarian rushed in and performed whirlwind, spinning in a circle while swinging his battleaxe.
Trevor hid as soon as Mike had taunted the lich. Now he popped out for a sneak attack. “Yes!” He crowed into his mic. It looked like he’d scored a critical hit. The lich’s health was dropping fast.
Lilit started throwing out buffs to attacks, strength, dexterity, whatever she could think of to help them push down the lich’s health bar faster. It hit about the halfway mark before the first summoned skeletons and zombies appeared at the top of the screen.
“Alright, Mike, go grab the mob. Trevor go back to kiting. Kay, keep your rage up and pick apart that mob.” Lilit shouted as she hit the party with a group heal. It wouldn’t heal anyone as much as a targeted heal, but it gave everyone a little boost that they would need soon.
Lilit hit the mob with turn undead, sending several skeletons and one zombie rushing away from the party. That would st for about six seconds and then they would hurry back. But anything to lessen the pressure on Mike and Kay would help.
Trevor was doing too good of a job if anything. They hadn’t even finished off this second mob when he triggered the final mob. It was great that Trevor was doing so well against the lich by himself, but geez did it keep everyone else too busy to help him.
Five minutes ter it was done. The lich y dead at their feet. The lootdrop window popped up and everyone got to see what epic items they were about to grab. Lilit scrolled down the list of items looking for the color text marking a rare or legendary item.
There it was. Near the bottom of the list. She read the name and let out a groan. The chatter of everyone congratuting each other cut off. “What is it?” Trevor asked.
“Well, we got an epic item drop. Problem is its mage’s robes. No one in the party wears that kind of armor,” she answered.
“We can still sell it and make pretty good money,” Kay interjected.
“I mean yeah, but half the time the item drops from stuff like this is so much better than what we could afford to buy at our level. It just sucks that this doesn’t help anyone in the party.”
A couple of grumbled comments came in over Lilit’s headphones. They agreed to meet up over the weekend at a tavern close to their guild house. Lilit said her goodbyes and then logged out of the game.
She twisted herself around in her chair, her back popping in several pces. She repeated the motion in the other direction and got a couple more pops.
Looking at the time on the bottom of the computer screen she judged she had time for a quick shower before her evening css. She hurried out of her office/gaming room and into the bathroom.
Half an hour ter she was jogging out the door and headed toward campus, her backpack slung over her shoulders. This early in the year it was still light out as she walked to her seven o’clock css. It was times like this that she was gd she’d been able to snag one of the elusive apartments on the edge of campus. After sitting on her butt in front of her computer for several hours it was nice to be able to stretch her legs out as she walked to css.
She walked through the door of the cssroom and was almost immediately run into. “Oh, shit. I’m sorry Dr. Lipka. I didn’t mean to run into you or anything.” A blushing freshman stammered as he jumped back from her.
Lilit brushed herself off. “It’s alright Todd. Maybe don’t go running around in front of the door. Hmmm?”
“Of course, Dr. Lipka. Sorry.”
“Ok. Go grab your seat so we can get started.”
Todd nodded his head vigorously and nearly tripped he twisted around so quickly. He rushed to a seat about halfway down the middle row. Lilit walked to the front of the cssroom and began the css by asking if anyone had had problems during the b earlier that week.
