Another successful Dungeons & Dragons adventure in the books—go team! COURTESY OF LAKE WASHINGTON GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL
In an unassuming red-brick building between Capitol Hill and the Central District, a pirate thief named Scarlet is plotting to overthrow the king and queen.
Hired by a humble elf to end the plutocratic reign of the twin regents, Scarlet and a band of adventurers infiltrated a castle last month, passed themselves off as royals from abroad, and had begun plotting a surprise attack when their parents arrived to pick them up.
In our world, Scarlet is Stella McDaniel, a sixth grader at Lake Washington Girls Middle School. But every Friday afternoon, she becomes a rogue in a game of Dungeons & Dragons that has captured the imagination of the student body and, even more impressively, has prompted dozens of students to remain after school for hours.
