Holding her cloak a bit tighter around here than she normally would Rainbow carefully made her way down the dim streets of Canterlot to the train station. She wanted to fly, stretch her wings and let the cool night air flow through her mane and fur as she soared through the sky. The twinkling stars called to her but she resisted. She didn't want to be seen at the moment and while she normally loved her bright mane and tail she would be the first to admit that they were not the best suited for stealth.

Why did Rainbow Dash, wielder to the element of Loyalty, vanquisher of Nightmare Moon, the bane of Discord, bombastic defender of Equestria (She had to admit, the press came up with some amazing titles for her and her friends) not want to be seen? To anyone else, it would seem trivial but to Rainbow, who cared about her image just about as much as Rarity did though she'd never admitted it, it was a legit reason not to be seen. She was heading home after a long night of D&D campaigning.

She'd overheard Spike talking about it to the CMC when she was resting on a cloud one day and it sounded interesting to her. Getting to create a cool character, play as them while storming through dungeons, slaying monsters and getting rich while doing it? Count her in. She'd later learned that there was a good amount of math involved, much to her annoyance, but she sucked it up and found herself a small, out of the way place in Canterlot that sold D&D merchandise.

There she met and bonded with a few other ponies that enjoyed the game and were willing to show her the ropes as it were. After her first play, she was hooked and didn't want to let go. It was an amazing feeling too, basically, play pretend and become somepony else. To create her character's backstory, flesh them out as a real pony, give them experiences, hopes, dreams, loves, heartbreaks and then to become them. It was a heady feeling to her.

Sadly it couldn't last and was why she was slinking towards the train station. She'd kept this part of her life successfully hidden away but now it was done. She and her party had finished their campaign that night. She was excited to plan for another but the other players had plans for a good amount of time in the future. So with a heavy heart, and her well-used dice set in her saddlebags she made her way home.

The train ride which had been full of excitement and anticipation when going to her little secret meetings now seemed sullen and dreary. It could have been the late-night rain clouds that were being moved into place overhead by the wheater teams but Rainbow didn't really care. As the train made its final stop of the night at her hometown of Ponyville Rainbow slowly walked off with the few other passengers. One of them bumped into her and didn't apologize but she was to depressed out to really care.

A rumble of thunder brought her out of her broodings. She looked up and felt a few drops of rain strike her nose making her snort. She quickened her pace and chuckled at how the weather team seemed to know her mood. The rain had just really started to fall when she landed on the porch of her cloud house. Quickly getting inside and locking out the cold wind and rain she threw her, now no longer needed, cloak onto the cloak wrack which was followed by her saddlebags.

With a small but heavy sigh, Rainbow stretched and made her way into the kitchen, flicking her wing against the glow stone on the wall to activate it and give the room some light. Reaching the fridge she removed a large jug, then retrieving a cup from the cupboard she poured her self a tall glass of cider and took a seat at the table.

"What do I do now?" She asked out loud to her self. With the campaign over there was this huge hole now filled with nothing but free time and for the love of pin feathers, she couldn't think of what to fill it with. She took a large swig of cider and felt the familiar burn in her throat followed by the comforting bloom of warmth in her belly. It was a small comfort but a comfort none the less.

As she set the glass down her hoof brushed up against something on the table. Giving it a glance she was slightly surprised when her eyes fell on a blank D&D character sheet. She didn't remember getting an extra sheet when she started but then again, she had a decent case of tunnel vision at that time so she could have just missed it.

Looking closer she saw the standard places for the name, her class, race, traits, skills and so on. One odd thing she noticed was that right next to the name box, in bright red letters, was written: "Do not loose, you only get one". A bit redundant in her mind because she knew if you lost your character sheet during a campaign you were screwed big time.

She was about to just brush it aside when a thought popped into her head. She wasn't planning on giving up campaigning so why not get a head start for the next one. It niggled and grew in her mind till she just decided to go with it. Not like she had anything else to do at the moment and while it was late she wasn't ready to go to bed just yet. Rainbow rummaged through a nearby drawer until she found a decently sharpened pencil before sitting back down to create her new character.

She wanted to try something different than her last one. She had been a barbarian this past time and the parties heavy hitter, dealing tons of damage to monsters in the dungeons. While she liked that way of playing she wanted to try something different this time, but what?

Oh! Isn't this a twist. I had thought it might be the same. No matter, this just makes it more interesting.

She decided to go the opposite of heavy hitter and chose to be the rouge class this time. She had to admit the thought of sneaking in the shadows to grab what you want before sneaking away appealed to that somewhat darker part of her mind.

She chose pegasus from the list of races as her characters this time wanting to be closer to the character but also for the +2 DEX bonus. Her barbarian had been a Minotaur before and it had worked so why mess with a proven formula. Looking at the passives for her race choice she couldn't keep a grin of amusement from splitting her lips. While D&D was a fantasy game it had many footholds in real life. Like the Pegasus racial passive, called Darkvision, was based on Pegasai having very good eyesight, both in light and dark environments. Another one was the resistance to lightning, thunder and cold damage, because what good was a pegasus who couldn't handle a little zap now and then.

Done with race choice she looked at her stat boxes and pondered what points should go where. Here stats started at a base of 8, a max cap of 15 for level 1 and she had 27 points to spend and had learned from her last character build that you should be very careful where you put them. All her points into STR, CON, and CHA had made her the strongest, toughest and approachable of the party but her character was as dumb as a bag of rocks and couldn't dodge for crap. She learned the best way for new players, as the other players had told her, by making their bed and having to lay in it.

This goes there! This one goes here and that one goes right there! Oh this is going to be very good

That teaching method worked well as she wasn't going to make the same mistake twice. She put 5 points into STR and CHA, 3 points into INT and WIS, 4 into DEX and a whopping 7 into CON. All tallied up with her race bonuses it gave her 13 STR, 14 DEX, 14 CON, 11 INT, 12 WIS, 13 CHA. It was a more flexible set up. While she wasn't amazing in certain stats she didn't have any negatives so it balanced out well.

Rainbow was pleased with her stats and went on to create her characters back story. Her DM had stressed that her character had to have a good backstory, it didn't have to be big or complicated but it had to be good. He'd explained to her that D&D was just an extremely interactive story and who wants to read a story about a bland, basic, nondescript character? no pony.

So she paused and gave it some thought. Another idea sprouted in her mind and she followed it while adding some more details that would fit with her class and how she intended to play. Making a mental checklist, she snorted in amusement as an image of Twilight's shocked face came to mind, on plot points she wanted for the backstory and she verbally checked them off.

Wait!? Is that... HAHAHAHAHA!!! Fate you are a cruel bitch and I LOVE you for it!! HAHAHA! Oh, this is just too amazing to pass up! It's just... peeeerrrrfect. heh heh heh heh!

"Framed for a crime and wrongfully accused? Check. On the run from the law? Check. Betrayed by the closest friend? Check. Finally, becomes a world-renowned thief to find who framed her and clear her name? Check." Rainbow smiled widely as she wrote down the backstory of her character in the box provided on the sheet. She was very pleased with the character she had created.

When thinking about what to name her character she decided to add another detail to the backstory. To go with the whole wrongfully accused and on the run thief story, she added that the name she was known as wasn't her real one and that certain features, such as her character's mane tail and eyes, had been changed so she could better hide from the law. She based her character off of herself with her mane and tail changed to silverish grey and have her eyes spell changed into a gold color.

That small detail gave her character the name Silver Stream, the slickest and most renowned thief in all of Equestria. A large yawn demolished her grin as the fatigue of the day finally hit her. Rubbing her tired eyes clear she gave her sheet one more look over. It wasn't complete since she had a few other bits to finish like items, equipment and such but for the most part, it was done. She nodded her head in satisfaction and left it on the table to head to bed. She'd finish the smaller detail sometime later, right now her cloud bed was calling her name and she needed to answer it.

As she stumbled to her bedroom she completely missed the character sheet glow for the briefest of seconds before it went back to normal. She fell asleep that night never knowing just what she had gotten herself into.

Let us see if your luck will hold, my little rogue. After all, it's all just The Luck of the Dice. HAHAHAHA!

Author's Note

So, my readers, this is in hopes you will understand why. This story is why I haven't been updating my other two stories. This idea has been bouncing around in my head so much that I haven't been able to focus on anything else.

I plan to write this out as much as I can and hopefully, I'll be able to focus on my other works after and you all will have another story to enjoy as well. I hope you all enjoy these Ideas from my twisted mind.