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PuzzleJune 2026

Welcome to PuzzleJune 2026: ...To Explore The World WIth You!

It's another PuzzleJune and another month to celebrate our favorite soulmates! As always, this month is all about finding that creative spark to celebrate the amazing relationship between Yugi Mutou and Pharaoh Atem from Yugioh DM. Creative freedom is welcome in any way you want to share your interpretation of their love with writing, art, or whatever art you feel like expressing yourself with!

We want everyone who wants to participate to express themselves freely. You don't need to do a prompt every day. You can do one prompt a week, one prompt for the whole month, or pick and choose which prompts you want to use for your creative works. You may want to use multiple prompts for one work. No matter how you go about it, we want to see it, whatever it is! However you want to celebrate is great! This month is all about coming together to celebrate our favorite puzzleboys. The theme may be about travel, but your work does not have to be. Write or draw about whatever comes to you with the prompts!

When you post to social media or Ao3, please use the following tags: #puzzlejune2026 #puzzlepassport so that others can find your work.

You may also post to the following collection on Ao3 so that we can easily find your amazing work: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/PuzzleJune_2026

Special thanks to Rat King for the amazing art to celebrate this month!

Happy creating! And happy PuzzleJune 2026!

koolkat9

Season 4 was truly for us puzzleshippers 😌

honourablejester

I am deeply offended by this! I was reading thoughts on what D&D classes the characters of The Mummy (1999) would be, and there was a comment that Jonathan was obviously a rogue, but either a badly built one or one with shit dice rolls. And! Excuse you? Jonathan is a perfectly acceptable rogue! He rolls fine when he’s actually attempting to do something!

In the first movie alone, some of his greatest hits:

Successfully pickpocketed Rick on their first meeting, without Rick so much as joining the dots until later.

Survives a pitched battle on a burning ship without a scratch, and somehow gets the key from a burning hook-handed enemy mook in the process. (“And did I panic? I think not!”)

Survives a pitched battle in the Hamunaptra ruins while drunk, through liberal use of cover and picking off targets at range.

Rolls a Nat 20 on his deception check to avoid being massacred by a large group of hynotised enemies in the museum.

Survives the final pitched battle with the undead (again, through liberal use of cover, hiding and running).

Successfully makes his intelligence roll to translate the Book of Amun Ra (with the Help action from Evie).

Successfully uses the resulting control over the undead mooks to even out the battlefield, including the genius brain move of sending them after Ankh-Su-Namun to both save Evie and distract Imhotep.

Successfully pickpockets a lich while being strangled by him to regain the key and enable Evie to use the book to banish Imhotep altogether.

Yes, he’s fairly flimsy in direct battle, and if at all possible refuses to get to melee range with anybody. So he’s a ranged rogue, and has a tendency to use the environment to his advantage. But he’s clearly designed around Sleight of Hand, Charisma, and a decent sprinkling of Intelligence, and prefers to use object interactions and battlefield control to even out his odds. For all that, though, he fully will stay in melee range if he has no other choice, and take the opportunity to pickpocket the BBEG while he’s at it.

He's a perfectly serviceable rogue, he’s just not optimised for straight combat. And even there, as the second movie shows, he’s excellent at ranged combat. He just doesn’t like getting up close and personal.

we-are-rogue

The Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo [original version]

by Richard Aronson, as printed in the Fall 1987 issue (#13) of “The Spell Book”

…Let us cast our minds back to the early days of Fantasy Role Playing, back when ye Dread Gygax was loose upon the land. Funny how humor and horror can start out so alike. Let us go still earlier (yes, it is permitted to breathe sighs of relief) to the days before Gygax (and the courts) thought that he owned FRP. In the early seventies, Ed Whitchurch ran “his game,” and one of the participants was Eric Sorenson, a veritable giant of a man. This story is essentially true: I know both Ed and Eric, and neither denies it (although Eric, for reasons that will become apparent, never repeats it either). If my telling of it does not match the actual events precisely, it is because I’ve heard it many different ways depending on how much of what type of intoxicants Ed had taken recently.

The gist of it is that Eric, well, you need a bit more about Eric, or else I won’t fill quota. Eric comes quite close to being a computer. When he games, he methodically considers each possibility before choosing his preferred option. If given time, he will invariably pick the optimum solution. It has been known to take weeks. He is otherwise in all respects a superior gamer, and I’ve spent many happy hours competing with and against him, as long as he is given enough time.

So, Eric was playing a Neutral Paladin (why should only Lawful Good religions get to have holy warriors was the thinking) in Ed’s game. He even had a holy sword, which fought well, and did all those things holy swords are supposed to do, including detect good (random die roll; it could have detected evil). He was on some lord’s lands when the following exchange occurred:

ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo. ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it? ED: (Pause) It’s white, Eric. ERIC: How far away is it? ED: About fifty yards. ERIC: How big is it? ED: (Pause) It’s about thirty feet across, fifteen feet high, with a pointed top. ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it. ED: It’s not good, Eric. It’s a gazebo! ERIC: (Pause) I call out to it. ED: It won’t answer. It’s a gazebo! ERIC: (Pause) I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way? ED: No, Eric, it’s a gazebo! ERIC: I shoot it with my bow (roll to hit). What happened? ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it. ERIC: (Pause) Wasn’t it wounded? ED: Of course not, Eric! It’s a gazebo! ERIC: (Whimper) But that was a plus three arrow! ED: It’s a gazebo, Eric, a gazebo! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don’t know why anybody would even try. It’s a *)@#! gazebo! ERIC: (Long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.) I run away. ED: (Thoroughly frustrated) It’s too late. You’ve woken up the gazebo, and it catches you and eats you. ERIC: (Reaching for his dice) Maybe I’ll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin.

At this point, the increasingly amused fellow party members restored a modicum of order by explaining what a gazebo is. It is solely an afterthought, of course, but Eric is doubly lucky that the gazebo was not situated on a grassy gnoll.

That is the story of Eric and the Gazebo. It’s funnier when I tell it in person. Isn’t it always, though. Be seeing you…

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bekkomi

rocketbirdie

long time reader first time writing in i just wanted to ask. do you have any puzzleshipping fics that you would recommend, especially ones where they continue to share a body and lean into the DID of it all? because i would love to read them but i can only seem to find fics where they are separate people and i need my juice…

*cracks knuckles* alright let's see here. i've got a few that might fit those criteria. i'm just gonna fire 'em off like a t-shirt cannon

So how do you define the 'self'? and I know it's kinder to let you go, but I just can't by twining_aspen2222

origin of esports by victortor. this one's post-ceremonial duel flareshipping actually (atem x yugi x kaiba) but with atem and yugi sharing a body so hard that he can hardly tell them apart :)

All I Wanted Was A Friend by FavChanger

as for some more highly NSFW stuff:

wanna feel your lips against my skin by lavenderlotion

Ebriose by @binding-with-briars

it's stupidly difficult to find fics where they are actually genuinely sharing a body instead of things taking place entirely inside of their soul rooms (and don't get me wrong i LOVE soul room shenanigans but that's not what i'm lookin for here). i may or may not have also written something out of sheer spite because of this