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A Mind for Mechanics

“Nerd!”

It wasn’t enough Life decided to give you a random encounter, it had to roll double-zero on the percentiles.

sigh

“Yeah?”

They circle like orcs, right through your threatened areas (each accruing 2 attacks of opportunity per round). If only you had Combat Reflexes.

“Where’s our homework, nerd?” “Yeah!” “You’d better have it, nerd, or else.”

Intimidate checks. Thank heaven for high Will saves.

“I’m not doing your homework for you, I told you yesterday.”

“Yeah, well, maybe you need a hearing lesson.”

“Huh?”

A surprise round. The one on your right knocks the sourcebooks out of your arms. The one on the left initiates a Grapple check. The one in front of you makes an unarmed attack to your stomach, dealing at least 4 points of subdual damage. Ouch. Next round. Initiative.

You go first. An Escape Artist check gets you out of melee. A move action to step back and pull the ruby from your pocket. You are stopped from throwing it by an administrator with a held action.

“Alright, What’s going on?”

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