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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.