For some background knowledge, Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a game that

revolves around telling a story through a game left mostly up to chance. Dice decide
where you end up. D&D is only limited by your imagination. Anything you can think of
can be done. Of course, that is if the Dungeon Master (DM) allows you to. The DM is
responsible for creating the story for the players to indulge in. There are seven dice
Ranging from 4 sides to 20 and depending on what you are doing in the game, a
different die will be used. While reading the story, you will come across parentheses
that have dice that would be rolled. I want to add more D&D elements so I will roll an
actual die when you would in a normal game to decide how the story will go. Any roll
under 13 (out of 20) will fail and the roll will be shown as “(#)”. You're going to have to
trust me that I rolled all of the numbers on the spot when I wrote the situation. Also in a
real campaign, there is the possibility to stop Hiroshima, but historical accuracy
overrides that.

Shadows of the Shattered Blade

1861:

Asuda bolts through the damp leafage of a dark forest, getting hit in the face
constantly by soaking wet leaves drenching his entire body. He pauses in front of a
large boulder that blocks his path.

“Surrender now and maybe master will spare your meaningless life, for the king
gives meaning…” says a deep voice that doesn't sound too far from his location.

Thunder booms in the distance, so he uses it to his advantage to destroy the

boulder. (14). He waits for the lightning to strike and, when the time is right, his arm
surges a bright orange and he sends his fist hurdling toward the rock. He manages to
put a crack straight down the middle and it slowly splits open and falls to the ground. He
wastes no time and continues forward, the yelling of angered Samurai follow suit.

Asuda makes it out of the forest and comes upon an open expanse where a
mountain can be seen in the distance. The perfect hiding place. He starts rushing
across the vast field to make it to safety but is cut short as the samurai flank him. Asuda
is now surrounded by samurai that once were some of his closest friends or the closest
he could get to a friend. He is outnumbered six to one. Knowing his odds of winning a
fight are slim to none, so he calculates his movements and goes for a huge leap overtop
the circle of soldiers. (19). His legs shimmer with the same orange glow as his arms did
earlier and with a powerful step he propels off the ground, leaving a small crater in the
mud. He soars over the human wall and counties sprinting towards the mountain. The
samurai don't move a muscle.

Asuda ascends the mountain making it to a small cave. The cave is dark but
warm, provides decent shelter from the cold, and works as a suitable hiding spot. As he
peers down at what may be a world he never gets to roam again, he trudges into the
hole.

20 years later…

A cool breeze flows through the window of a small workshop in the city of
Hiroshima. In this workshop is a young woman hard at work behind a big tarp hung from
the ceiling. Her name is Keiko and she had an excellent mind capable of inventions and
creations thought impossible by all mankind. Yet somehow, she had cracked the code.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Keiko stopped her work and, slightly
aggravated, opened the door. It was the emperor of Japan, Meiji followed by about a
dozen soldiers with rifles. Meiji is a powerful Keiko’s tone quickly changes to appear
more excited, but her thoughts are racing as to why the Emperor himself is in her home.
The Emperor must’ve heard of my astounding machines, she thought.

“Your majesty? Wha-” Keiko starts, but it is cut short by Meiji.

“Yes, yes, It’s me. The one and only. But enough about me, for my men here tell me that
you are the smartest in all of Japan”

“Well, I wouldn’t say that-”

“Nonsense! Your mind is brilliant, and that is why I’ve come to ask a favor of you…”

The emperor asking for a favor was certainly not what Keiko was expecting.
Honestly, she did not want to do a favor for him. She figured it would be outlandish or
too high a request. Besides, she is a poor inventor. What could she possibly offer to the
emperor of Japan?
 “Remember the myth of ‘The lost Samurai’?” Meiji asks with a mysterious tone in
his voice. “Well, We may have found him, and with your brains, his power, and my
incredible good looks, I believe we could finally stop the Oni king who has been
terrorizing our city for all these months, word has it, he has an alliance with the west and
has this thing called a ‘nuclear bomb’. Figured if anyone would know what that is, it’d be
you”.

Keiko had heard of the Oni king. A once great samurai turned evil sorcerer that is
said to have powerful dark magic. His motives are unclear but there is a looming threat
of what is possible with his mythical power. The emperor tries to persuade her to join his
cause.

“Please, we need you in this fight. Your intelligence is beyond any understanding,
you could save the world…” (9).

Keiko was quite seeing the big picture yet she just stared at him with a confused
look on her face.

“I’ll give you 700k yen…” (15).

Now Keiko was sold. She has been living off the scrapes that others left behind
while waiting for someone to notice her amazing machines. Now is her chance to show
the world what she has done.

“Why didn’t you say so?” Keiko responded. “...But I have no idea what a nuclear
bomb is”. The emperor was disappointed that the object was unidentified without
knowing what it could do, but it didn’t matter too much to him as long as the Oni king
didn’t get the chance to carry out his plan. With a team assembled Keiko and Meiji left
Hiroshima in search of the fabled Lost Samurai.

Both Keiko and Meiji knew the folk tale like the back of their hand and started
their expedition toward Mount Haku, where it is said that the legendary lost samurai,
Asuda. After a couple of days of trekking, they almost made it up to the foretold cave,
when the rocks around them started to shake, and a Gelatinous Cube started to form
from the snow and remains of deceased organisms. Keiko is terrified and hides behind
a snow drift as the emperor stands face-to-face with a man-eating cube of destruction.
The ooze of the block looks frozen over most likely due to the extreme weather
conditions atop the mountain. Meiji notices this and decides to take advantage of it and
use his wizarding ability to cast a fireball, melting the Gelatinous Cube where it sits. He
pushes out his palm to cast the spell (12). He forms a blazing ball in his hand, throws it
at the cube, and melts a chunk of its body. It is still standing and pounces on the king.
Keiko watches The king get sucked inside the slimy box and knows she has to do
something, and maybe if she saves the emperor's life, she may get a higher reward.

“Don’t worry, I got you!” she says as she vaults over the snow drift and aims her
imperial rifles given to her by one of Meiji's soldiers (18). She fires multiple rounds
sending a bullet through at every angle of the cube. No longer being of form, the cube
disintegrates and Meiji is freed.

“How did you not shoot me? That is very impressive… perhaps I might raise your
reward?” This is just what Keiko wanted to hear, but at the moment, there was a more
pressing matter. Convincing the silhouette in the cave to join their cause.

“Excuse me, sir?” says the emperor, “Are you the lost samurai?”. The was no
response from the Asuda. He has deprived himself of human contact for so many years.
“If so, I think we can defeat the one you hate most.” The man turned his head toward
Meiji, but still no words were uttered. “If you join us we can defeat the Oni king”.

“...Are you certain that… he… can be stopped?” says Asuda.

“Without a doubt in my mind. We can save the world” (3). Asuda was not buying
it for a second. What if the Oni king found his location and these people were sent to
lure him and execute him? “The Oni king has created a weapon beyond our
understanding and you are the key to stopping it from destroying all we hold dear.
Besides I’m the emperor so you kind of have to do what I saw anyways” (17). The
emperor of Japan felt too good to be true, but at that point, he would take whatever they
could offer rather than his lonesome cave. Asuda picked himself up and started
descending the mountain with Meiji and Keiko.

An explosion was seen in the distance from atop Mount Haku. The party quickly
rushed down to see what was happening. While Meiji was gone, a civil war had broken
out and a battle was currently ensuing between the Imperials and the Shogunate at
Kodea Bridge. They arrived at a fleet of Imperial soldiers fleeing from the field. One
glance toward the sky and Asuda was staring directly into the eyes of his once leader,
the Oni king, with a large piece of metal floating above his outstretched arm.
 “Cower before me for me, Saigō Takamori, am the Oni king. Fear what this great
piece of…”. He looks up at his bomb for a moment before continuing. “You know, they
didn’t tell me what it does, but I’m sure it brings maximum destruction.” The Oni king
starts floating over to the developing city of Hiroshima. Frightened for the livelihood of
their home, Keiko and the rest of the party chase after the Saigō on imperial horses.
The party rides into the city as the sky turns a dark shade of gray. The Oni king bellows
out that he is about to drop the large object on the city below. Keiko grabs Asuda and
tells him to jump as high as he physically, catch the bomb, and then throw it back.

“Are you sure that’s a good idea?” what if it explodes?” Asuda responds. Keiko
reassures him that she is an expert with machines and says it will be fine. Asuda with
nothing left to lose, goes for the jump (10). He jumps up to catch the bomb, but upon
laying a finger on the metal, Asuda takes his final breath as well as everyone else in the
city of Hiroshima.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16869-gelatinous-cube (a gelatinous cube and

its stats were taken into consideration when being fought in the story)