It's a fantasy role-playing game.

DM: You are Lionel Gayheart Chod, a half-orc bard . You are the member of the famous group of adventurers. Previously, In the morning, while everyone else is taking breakfast, Pike checks the front door and finds about 20 skeletons waiting outside. She and Grog charge out to handle them.
DM: Closest to you are the skeletons here, or if you wanted to rush around and get the guy with the big heavy armor.
Player: That's the old guy?
DM: There's an old one with a staff, there's a black knight in all the armor with the halberd, or there's some skeletons.
Player: Can I make it over to the black knight?
DM: Yeah, you can make it over to him.
Player: Yeah.
DM: You get up to him right there.
