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// Prologue 
// Story: Learning to Master the Art of the Dungeon 
// by ADashofShy 
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After the Battle of the Bands Twilight began to make regular visits to the Human world, to spend more time with her friends and become friends with more of the students at CHS. During one of these excursions she came across a game called Dungeons & Dragons. Curious, she purchased a starter kit and took it back with her to Equestria. On her next visit to CHS she posted an announcement looking to start a Dungeons & Dragons group. Figuring it was too nerdy of a pursuit to be of interest to her friends, she was taken aback when six of her friends responded enthusiastically to the idea.
After a few weeks of campaign planning Twilight was finally ready to call the group together for their first session which included the single most arduous task in Dungeons & Dragons, character creation. Luckily the human world’s Shining Armour had seen the advertisement and was willing to offer up his help as an assistant Dungeon Master when he was available. 
After two and a half hours, everyone had created a character and was ready to play. Gathered around the table were six unlikely adventurers. Sunset Shimmer had decided to play a Half-Elf fighter wielding a mighty claymore as her weapon of choice, sitting next to her was Trixie playing a Gnome cleric armed with a quarterstaff and crossbow. Beside Trixie sat Rarity who had opted to play a powerful (and fashionable) sorceress, to her left barely fitting into his seat was Bulk Biceps playing the rage fueled Half-Orc barbarian hefting a mighty greataxe. Continuing to the left and looking rather small next to Bulk with her eyes askew was Derpy playing the unorthodox combination of a Dwarven wizard wielding a gnarled and twisted quarterstaff. Finally, sitting next to her with bright cyan and white hair was Lyra playing a Half-Elf ranger armed with a powerful composite longbow.
The group began their adventure in the typical fashion for players new to the game, stumbling and making mistakes, but learning all the while. One of the early lessons that Derpy learned was: never insult the mother of a half-orc (She had made a decidedly tactless remark about Bulk’s character’s mother.) Early on Twilight decided to test the limits of the fledgling party’s capabilities by throwing a forest ambush at them followed by a large group of goblinoids. During the ambush Derpy discovered that wizards should never front line in combat, and Lyra proved time and again how skilled she was at dispatching foes. Eventually the group stumbled upon a natural cave that turned out to have been dug into, and after solving a basic puzzle the group found themselves in a dungeon. And so continued their epic first adventure into the realm of Dungeons & Dragons.