I had picked up some basic cat related items, a cat tree, a litter box, with the needed items. Some cat bowls for eating and drinking, not to forget, high-quality cat food. It all seemed so simple, having a cat. However, when I started cooking, Bob stared at me. “What do you need, Bob?”

“I am hungry, you will need to feed me.”

I sighed and opened a can of cat food and put it in a bowl, “Here you go.”

He sniffed it and started eating. I smiled, “Perhaps, we can be friends after all.”

Bob looked at me, “Friends?” “We can get there.”

After a while, the spaghetti with meatballs had been prepared. Lory walked inside, she looked tired. After she sat down, Bob jumped on her lap. They stared at each other, then Bob started talking. “Thank you for inviting me into your home.” He sniffed her belly. “It seems, we are going to have company in the future.” Lory started petting Bob, and he allowed it.

Lory smiled at me, “If he is not trying to murder you, he is quite nice.” She looked around, “The cat decorations are odd, considering I am not, a cat.”

Bob had this weird look in his eyes, “No, you are a wolf. But you love cats, that makes it okay.”

I chuckled, “He is quite talkative.”

Lory nodded as she kept scratching him, “How are we going to explain this to people?” I put down dinner and Bob disappeared under the table.

As I took a bite from the spaghetti, I shrugged, “It is a genetic defect.”

Lory laughed, “I fear that won’t work twice. We can say, we taught him the human language.”

Bob suddenly spoke up, “Or you can tell people that due to your genetic defect, you can speak the language of animals and have taught me to reverse engineer it.”

Lory and I stared at each other. All I could say was, “Fuck, he has a point.”

After dinner, Lory had set up the Dungeons and Dragons campaign after freshening up. She told me she was weirded out by Bob staring at her when she went to pee. I asked her to close the door, but Bob can open doors. All Bob had to say for himself was, I am protecting my lady. Man, that cat is going to replace me. Once we had everything set up, the doorbell rang. Bob looked at me from the cat tree I had managed to assemble. He had this turtle like position, you could not see his legs or his long tail, Damn, that cat is big.

I opened the door, “Hello, Riley.”

“Hey Steve.”

I gestured, “Come in.”

Riley walked in and looked around, “I have not been here yet.” Riley locked eyes with Bob. “Holy shit, you have a motherfucking giant cat.”

Riley walked over to Bob, he just looked at him, and then Bob started to talk. “Did your mother teach you that language? I have to say, I like that swear word, motherfucker.”

Riley jumped back, “Oh my fucking god, it talks!” He looked at me being calm. “That is normal?”

I nodded, “Lory taught him human language, Isn’t that amazing?”

Riley caught his breath and sighed, he walked back to Bob. “You can really talk, this is not some kind of prank?”

Bob just glared at him, “Do I look like a prank to you? My name is Bob, not just Bob, I am the Bob.”

Riley nodded, “Alright, the Bob.”

I sighed, “Just call him Bob.”

Lory walked in, “Hello Riley, everything is set up. Oh, you met Bob, yeah, you guys will get along just fine. Come with me, Steve, take the beer with you.”

We made our way to the living room and the board had been set up. I heard a thud, and Bob walked over to us, and he sat down on a chair. “Oh, this looks intriguing, don’t worry, I will not throw items off the table, today”

Lory sighed, “Alright, this is a test run for this new campaign I am working on. No advanced or high leveled characters. A simple game, a simple run. Is that fine with both of you?”

I smiled and nodded. Riley looked at Bob while nodding. Lory smiled, “Alright, Riley, what is your new character name going to be? You can write it down on that special character sheet.”

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Riley grabbed his pen, “His name will be, Mydude.”

I laughed, “Seriously?”

“Yes, I am, Mydude.”

“Alright Mydude.”

Riley started writing while reading what he wrote down, “My character will be a wizard raised by cats, and he can summon cats, a catmancer.”

I let my head fall, “You are going to make Bob happy.”

Bob purred as he lay down, “Yes, indeed, a catmancer, it sounds astonishing!”

Lory looked at me, “And what is your character name going to be?”

I put my hand on my chin, “I have been thinking about this since Riley and I spoke about playing Dungeons and Dragons. My name, in the game, will be, Ipeefreely.”

Lory blinked a couple of times, “you are kidding, right?”

“No, Ipeefreely.”

Riley laughed, “And what is your job going to be?”

“My character will be a barbarian that loves to swear, he will be massively ripped with this gigantic axe. Of course, he cannot stop swearing, as he does not know many other words. Of course, he will have a lot of strength, and no intelligence or wisdom, unlike Mydude.”

Lory let out a chuckle, “This will be fun, Mydude and Ipeefreely.”

While we started filling out our character sheets, my phone rang, I held up my finger, “One moment,” I walked away and looked at my phone. I picked up, “F, is that you?”

“Yes, S, it is me, are you involved with the incident in the tunnel near your house?”

“Well, yes, I already sent a report in, X should have gotten it.”

F made a grumbling noise, “Yes, I have it in my hands, people who are looking for Lorraine, you should be wary of any changes in or near your house.”

“Don't worry F, I already swept my house for bugs, and I don't think we are being watched, I will do a sweep tonight around the house. Now, I am out, you know that, I am going to play Dungeons and Dragons.” I hung up the phone before F replied, he knew I love to do that.

As I sat down, I noticed Lory had opened a beer for me. “Thank you, my love.”

She smiled at me, “No worries, was it an important call?”

“No, nothing important at all,” Riley had been looking at me, he just shrugged.

Lory gave me a barbarian like character, and Riley a wizard, “Let's get started,” she pointed at a grass field with one long road. The next board piece is a village, the other ones are covered by paper. I filled in some basic attacks for my barbarian while taking a sip from my beer. Bob looked at us and seemed to enjoy just staring at us.

Lory smiled, “Alright, let me tell you a little bit about this campaign.”

“This is just the first part, if you like it, we can continue. Let me tell you the tale of this campaign.” She cleared her throat and adjusted her sitting position. She spoke up in an epic narrator voice. “This is the Yusian Empire, there used to be peace. Heroes had saved the day, the great beasts had been felled, as time passed on, the heroes faded away.”

“Two of the heroes lived for a long time, and they found a place where they just lived in peace. However, one of the heroes died, sickness took her. The other hero felt so angry, he went to the site where the beasts had been slain. There he performed a forbidden ritual, one that had been purged from the books of every spell book. As this ritual imbued this hero with the power of the villains he had slain, he needed a piece of the moon and shot it to peaces, disrupting the flow of nature. Killing many people, he did not mind. He took the power all for himself, he felt, that if he could not be happy, everyone must die.”

Lory moved some papers around, “He razed entire villages, cities, and destroyed the empire. Monsters came to the lands. Many people tried to stand up to the newly turned villain, he used the power of the moon to destroy his opponents. It seems as if all is lost, the Yusian Empire has been taken by the wilderness. Not many villages remain, but, there is a small sparkle of hope. Two new heroes rise from nothing. They are traveling down a long road after all their power has been taken by the moon. As the villain had seen them coming, despite losing their gear, and their strength. These two new heroes make way to the village of Roguepass. This is where the story of Mydude, and Ipeefreely begins!”