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Today's #ToddlerDnD moment:
"I search the room for loot."
"There is no loot."
"I search again."
"No need. You succeeded your roll. There is no loot in this room."
"I yell NOW."
"Yelling NOW won't make loot appear out of thin air."
"Are you sure? I'm gonna try anyway."
@TarkabarkaHolgy "can I get the help action from my imaginary friend?"
I will say, I've run a bunch of one-shots at corporate events etc. and "I search again." evokes one of the hardest things IMHO to explain to TTRPG 1st-timers: that doing a check in a given scene constitutes the character's entire best effort to Do A Thing™ and you can't really re-do or repeat that; if any GM/DM has any tips for that one, hmu 
@shi We had a running joke in my party saying "I just keep searching until I find it" :D :D
(I sometimes gave players a second try if they came up with actual imaginative actions/places to look. I like descriptions more than rolling, honestly.)
@TarkabarkaHolgy @shi
There was a D&D-adjacent semi-parody fantasy novel years back (I think "Another Day, Another Dungeon"). Unfortunately I don't recall being as funny as I think it was intended. But once scene stuck with me:
Protagonist & party search a room for useful/valuable items and find nothing. But the dwarf in the group isn't satisfied until they've whittled apart the table legs and generally reduced every piece of furniture to flinders confirming there were no hidden compartments.