Hello! Hoping the person I'm talking about never finds this but lets go
I (F20) joined a discord server with a new friend (M28, I'll call him D) who wanted to run a DND campaign. I had only known them for about a few months, but I thought they were nice enough despite him having done some stuff that I found rather weird (a majority of the group was weird but we'll get to that).
The campaign he had written was based on an anime game that we all played, and would take place in a magic school like Strixhaven, only without the dorms. He said all of our characters would be above age and that the only things we'd have to look out for is alcoholism and bullying, which we were all fine with.
As the title says, things did not turn out fine.
On our 6th(??) session, he decided we were gonna go on a field trip to a museum located in a bad part of town. During this time, I was trying my hardest to romance one of the NPCs with my character (a dragonborn), so the DM let us be partners during this trip. However, a thing to know about my character was that I designed him to be a bit stupid. Anything that had to do with gold would grab his attention, and sadly I managed to do a high roll on sniffing out some during the museum section. I grab this NPC, and therefore the party, and we end up running out of the museum and into some kind of gang. The gang leader recognizes my NPC and tells the party they're coming with him. Suddenly, the DM tells us fighting them "would be useless" and that "we'd die trying", so we're essentially railroaded into coming with them.
We're taken to some penthouse in another bad part of town, and I'd like to remind people that we were explicitly told to only expect drinking and bullying this entire campaign.
Anyways, the group is promptly split up into 3 groups. The girls would be getting sent to a sex-trafficking ring, the NPCs that came with us would be getting their limbs ripped off and put into organ trafficking, and whoever was left was considered "too important" (according to the DM it meant we were gonna be reserved for the Gang Leader's own "pleasures").
So obviously I am now feeling nauseous and panicking, and honestly I should have stopped everything there. Unfortunately, my wish to look cool in front of online strangers beat the sirens flaring in my head.
More railroading here, we save the girls (who's players are gushing about being dressed in really orientalist sex slave outfits) and get the NPCs out (who I no longer wanted to romance after this entire ordeal). We defeat a random boss encounter and go home and everything is supposed to be peachy-keen, the NPCs are damaged but fine and I'm supposed to act like I didn't nearly throw up from this session.
And that is not even the worst part.
For context, D loved my characters, perhaps a bit too much. Any character I made they desired a ship for, especially if it was a guy. They had a DM PC I was avoiding like the plague because anytime we talked it was just how D wanted them and my character to get together so bad. And anytime the characters talked it was so D could hint at their nonexistent ship and trauma-dump on my poor guy.
Anyhow, I get a private message from him in Discord, where he begins to explain that since my character saw his DM PC in the sex slave outfit, he would notice her many self-harm scars, and then showed me photos of the DMPC without clothes on to emphasize the point.
I WISH this was my breaking point, I WISH I realized I hated this campaign and its trash writing and terrible usage of FUCKING SEX SLAVERY and quit. But I didn't! In fact, I played for 4 more sessions! Of terrible writing and bad choices the DM made including: pretending the sex slave dungeon did nothing to us, killing us off and then suddenly bringing us back, doing the same with an NPC, and having the DMPC cut themselves in front of another character.
The only thing that finally stopped me was school, and even then I still hung out with them sometimes, bringing us to the climax of this awful story.
More context! D hated being told he was wrong, and he was prone to constant emotional breakdowns. Most conversations I remember having in voice calls was him crying to another person while the rest of us were on mute because I don't know you that well!!!!
One day I finally gather the courage to say how awful I thought the campaign was, and it was met with essentially "I have dark writing so don't complain" and that was that. Afterwards, he then proceeded to go into the server's vent channel and describe how he's leaving because "he's not confident in his writing" (he never left it was an excuse for pity points).
I'm happy to say I don't speak to him anymore, although the story for him leaving is another mess that requires like 5 other people to explain the whole thing.
Thank you for reading unless you are D then uhh leave me alone