If memory serves me right, the plot of it goes something like this:
It's a story about a guy and a woman playing Dungeons and Dragons, or perhaps another tabletop role-playing game. The guy is playing the referee/game master/dungeon master. The woman's character gets stuck in quicksand, in the middle of a desert, and the character goes under due to some bad dice rolls. The woman tears up, as the character was one she had been using, perhaps for some time. The man, fudges things a bit and asked if the character has any abilities. With a successful dice roll, the character amplifies her last scream, and NPCs within earshot find rescue her in the nick of time (as most great rescues do
I think I remember the author good-naturedly admitted that it was something a nerdy fantasy he had in the past.
I looked in the stories section of the forum and can't find it anywhere, and can't remember what the title was. My biggest fear is that the author deleted their account and all the posts that they made. Again, if anyone could take a look around, that would be much appreciated.
Please let me know if anyone needs help looking for something, and I'll try looking myself.