I lifted my headphones off just as the sounds of Blessing of Might and Arcane Intellect echoed in the distance, and I gave my son a foreboding “Yes?”, intent on conveying the severity of time at this very moment. I expected a request of ice cream or a new movie to be queued up.
‘Dad, there’s someone at the door. He says he’s having a heart attack.’
The stove ablaze, the player recounts as the boss’s health trickles down, staying just long enough to secure loot before brandishing a fire extinguisher.
‘The stove ablaze, the player recounts the boss’s health trickling down…’
Ironbound Proto-Drakes
Formatting: include the ‘s’ in the hyperlink text.
and so thumbed a text back to Blain,
‘and so I thumbed a text back to Blain:’
on-the-fly
No dashes.
We survived the first transition, but a series of mishaps led to a healer death;
Replace the semicolon with a period.
heart-attacks
No dash.
Am I a bad person if someone showed up on my door drooling I would have tried to get them the hell out rather than, “hey yeah come on in and drool/die on my furniture”?
Gonna refrain from rolling this one up. The sentence already has two "I"s; if the reader doesn’t know who did it by this point in the sentence, fuck 'em.