Summary of "Child Psychopath Terrifies Everybody"

Overview

A professional DM is hired to salvage an unruly online D&D group of kids that another DM had spoiled. He expects to fix basic rules and stakes in a couple of sessions — instead he uncovers one player, “Damien,” whose behavior turns the game into a horror show.

Main plot and highlights

Setup
- The narrator is hired to salvage a dwindled group (originally 10 players, down to 3).
- Remaining players: Jimmy (tabaxi druid), Alex (tabaxi druid), and Damien (half-orc cleric).
- The previous DM allowed power-tripping; the new DM introduces real mechanics and consequences.
Town festival → immediate meltdown
- In a festival town, guards try to block the party. Damien repeatedly yells threats, summons spells, and charges the guards.
- Notable quote from Damien:
  
  “I came here to kill your mother”
- The DM initially avoids a full fight, but things escalate into a brawl.
Jail scene and the first shocking moment
- After being knocked to zero HP and jailed, Damien panics repeatedly then, with eerie calm, demands Alex sacrifice his character.
- Alex complies and stabs his character; the DM and everyone are stunned.
Escalation and murder
- During the arrest, Jimmy rolls a natural 20, turns into a bear, and viciously kills a guard.
- This is a watershed moment where in-game mayhem becomes genuinely terrifying for the DM.
Hanging/rescue and betrayals
- Next session Damien is set to be hanged for the guard’s murder.
- Jimmy and Alex free him during a chase through the woods. Damien coerces Alex into exposing himself and running so Damien can escape — again demanding sacrifice and threatening those who refuse.
Lake / troll / alligator episode
- The party attempts to retrieve a crystal guarded by trolls. Damien swims out, screams that he’s “being targeted,” tells others to join and die with him, uses his own healing spells selfishly, and ditches them.
- The trolls tear him apart; he screams, tells the others to let themselves die, then disconnects.
Emotional volatility and manipulation
- Damien shows extreme mood swings tied to die rolls: ecstatic at high rolls, suicidal at lows, gleefully cruel at middling outcomes if others beat him.
- He repeatedly pressures or blackmails teammates into sacrificing themselves for him.
DM’s reaction and aftermath
- The narrator becomes increasingly creeped out, jokes about calling an exorcist, dreads running the next session, and wonders whether Damien’s behavior is pathology, trauma, or just toxicity.
- The DM considers banning coercive in-game demands and refuses to allow forced sacrifices going forward.
- The group ends the story with only two committed players; the narrator may post updates.

Notable jokes and reactions

The DM’s dry humor about going from “Minecraft creative mode to Elden Ring” for these kids.
Sponsor bit praising World Anvil and a few internet memes (e.g., “mom sends kid outside → neighbor’s kid”).
The DM’s half-serious quip about needing an exorcist and a “Roblox 220 million” joke.
Player and audience reactions range from stunned silence to shouting, crying, and the DM’s growing, unsettled amusement/concern.

People / Personalities

Narrator / professional DM — the storyteller and newly hired game runner.
Damien — the disruptive, manipulative half-orc cleric player who escalates the sessions into horror.
Jimmy — tabaxi druid who survives and rolls a nat 20 bear kill.
Alex — tabaxi druid (later rolls a wizard) who is coerced into a forced sacrifice.
Owner of the local gaming company — called the DM to patch the group.
Former DM — mentioned as having spoiled the group.