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    "You got that right, Kim. For a physicist, Aaron shows a terrible lack of faith in Boyle's Law. I think we might need an intervention. You have to BELIEVE in the cooling, son."

    Kate turned and glared at Pete in faux outrage. "GI Jane? GI Jane? Do I look Hollywood? Sheesh, Pete, get your facts straight. I thought you legal eagles were all about accuracy in the details. Remind me to get a fact-checker if I ever need you for legal advice..." Kate mock-grumbled, pretending far more umbrage than she actually felt. In a friendly voice, she added, "Glad you could make it. How's it feel to be done with law school?"

    "Well, Hannah, I have good news. I talked to my guys over at the VA this week and I got my hands on the manual for this model. I was going to sneak it out of the building but had to settle for studying it while I was there. It made a nice distraction." She tinkered for several minutes, finishing with an "Ah HAH!" followed quickly by "Oh, you ever-loving piece of ---!" She sighed, and said, "Well, good news is I think I know what's wrong; bad news is you need a part. I'll get you the number and you can ask your dad for it; I might be able to scrounge it from the gimp room but it could take weeks for the procurement system to come through." She carefully lubed up all the parts she could reach and closed up her tools. "Off to wash; anybody need anything while I'm up?" She levered herself back up with the help of her cane and went to the washroom.

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    "I feel bad about just taking a cookie, but I'll swap you for a cinnamon oatmeal raisin," says Annika, taking out her packed dessert. "They came out a touch dry, but should be all right with your water. Better with milk, but what cookie isn't?"

    ((Changing speech color because brown is so popular. I'm indigo now.))

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    The nerd picks up one, only slightly worn book... it must be new. "I've been waiting ages to get a copy of Complete Mage, this book is incredible! The Master Specialist class, the reserve feats, now the wizards and sorcerers can blast away just like the warlocks!" He looks up from his monologue... "Hey, cookies!"
    Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
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    "A new part, hmm?" Hannah shrugs. Her left shoulder, at least, works well enough, and the gesture is obvious for what it is. "I'll talk to my dad. Not sure he'll think it's worth it. Squeak doesn't bug him. Doesn't really bug, me either, except when I'm moonlighting as a ninja." She smirks and stuffs the bag back onto its hook.

    "Cookies are totally up for grabs, so long as I get one, but I'll take the trade, Annika."
    She grins again. "All you people have to do is wrestle the box away from Peter."

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    The nerd snortlaughs, "Well if it was 2nd edition, I'd cast my cantrip Gather - but since we're 3.5 I'll have to go with Mage Hand to snag a few!" He looks around, "Anyone else interested in a Jolt? All the sugar and twice the caffene!"
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    "Thank you but no thank you, Bill. I like being able to see straight." Kim stands up and leans menacingly towards Peter - well, as menacing as a 5'1" toothpick can be. "I do plan on having one of those, just so you are aware." She holds a straight face as long as she cans, then winks and grins.

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    "Bill, I think that was 1st edition. 2nd had Prestidigitation, just like 3rd. How long have you been gaming again? You must have been what, 4?" Aaron asked facetiously.

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    The nerd looks offended, "Hey, I've been gaming a long time, my dad had the original books." He smiles then and chuckles, "But so what if I made a slight mistake. Anything before Prestige classes is old hat anyway."
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    Douglas

    Douglas comes back into the room, and gives Hannah her waterbottle, placing it in the spot where she liked it so it could be easily grasped.

    I leave the room for two minutes, and all of a sudden, we're playing the, "I played that when" game. Next time I leave, I better not come back and hear about anyone attacking the darkness.

    Douglas chuckles, and moves back into his corner. While he may have joked about his next time leaving, it was rare for him to get up more than once or twice a session. Usually, as the session wore on, he had a tendency to turn the extra chairs around him sideways and use them for footrests, or just as barricades. Sometimes, after a particularly long session, he would have essentially built himself a chair fort. He looks around, greeting Peter, and studying his character sheet, and flipping through one of his many books, tapping his fingers on the table in anticipation of the game..

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    Peter

    Peter reaches out and takes the box of cookies from Hannah. He opens them, looks to grab half a dozen, and then settles on just two. He smiles at Hannah, and then responds to Kate. Speaking with a straight face,
    "There are no facts, Kate. Only better arguments." He then flashes a grin at her before taking a bite of the cookie. Noticing Kim trying to intimidate him, he rolls his eyes playfully and then slides the cookies toward her.

    " It's good to be done. Although I don't think I'll really be done until after the bar exam. I was going to go to back to Minnesota to take the class, but I think I'm just going to do the whole 'study from the iPod' thing they have. Probably not the same, but I really don't feel like moving right now. That can wait until August."

    As Peter wolfs down the cookies, a young girl, likely not yet in her 20s looking very "granola" with her dreads and facial piercings, complete with patchwork pants and hemp blouse, stands in the doorway. "Peter!" Peter looks up as a sandwich comes flying at him. He grabs it just before it lands on his dice. He glances up, but she's already walking away. He yells out to her, and her responses are gradually farther away.

    "What is it?"
    "Corned Beef and Munster"
    "I Love You!"
    "No, you don't!"
    "I Love your sandwiches!"
    "I know."

    Finally speaking quietly to no one in particular as he unwraps his sandwich, "Awesome." , he pauses and removes the sprouts as if he expected them to be there.
    Peter bites into the sandwich. Realizing he has no napkin, Peter looks around for a moment, and then wipes his mouth on his hand, which he then wipes on his pants. Just as he had with the cookies, he quickly gobbles down the sandwich - his first food all day.
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    The skinny freshman reaches into his bookbag and draws out a shark-head grabber on a stick and reaches over, snagging one of the cookies from the box. "MAGE HAND!" He smiles, "So I was playing last thursday with this real newbie... we had gotten some treasure including a ring that detected as magic, but nobody could figure it out. You know... a torch still burns your finger so it's not fire resistance, the big guy drops you from a height and you hit the stone, so its not feather falling. Anyway, the new guy is like examining it and he puts it on, and he's talking to the GM while we are all arguing about divvying the spoils. So I asked the newbie later how his conversation with the GM went, and he says that he asked the GM what color the ring was, and the GM said silver. So the newbie said 'I wish it was gold,' and the GM tells him it's gold. Now none of the other players notice this, and so the new guy says 'I wish it was copper,' and the GM says it's copper. Then the new guy says, 'I wish it was green!' Just then we overhear and all turn around saying, 'NOOOO!' and the GM says it's green. The newbie turns to us and says, 'Hey guys... it's a magic ring that changes color!'" Bill snortlaughs.
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    Kim takes two cookies and sits back down. A paper napkin is moved from her bag to the table, where one cookie is placed. The other one is slowly consumed, each bite relished, as she listens to Bill's story. "Just what anyone would want, Bill. A magical mood ring. Definitely more useful than a ring of wishes." She reaches for her soda, taking a sip and washing only some of the blue staining off her teeth, before grinning at the young man.

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    Hannah

    Hannah give Douglas a quick smile of thanks as he drops her water bottle in her cupholder. She snorts at Bill's story, shaking her head. "The first time I played, I asked what kind of wounds does light make that you need a special spell to cure them."

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    Annika

    "Well, crystal dragons in the MMII have a breath weapon described as being light, and that can rough you up a bit," chuckles Annika, swapping a sugar cookie for one of the cinnamon oatmeal raisin.

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    The biology major snags his cookie from the jaws of jaws, "So, what other characters did people make? I did a wizard. An Abjurer with two levels of Master Abjurer PC!"
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    Finishing his sandwich, Peter again wipes his mouth on his hand and his hand on his pants.
    "Well, I did something a little different this time. Instead of making a generalist wizard who just so happens to enjoy blowing things to tiny bits, I decided to make an evoker with a level of sorcerer to try out Ultimate Magus. I don't know - it just seemed right. Plus, I really never use enchantments anyway. And the only illusion I really use is Phantasmal Killer, but we don't fight that many thieves to make it all that useful."
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    "I too deviated from my normal character type, adding a few levels of fighter to my scout. It should make for a very useful 'tank'." Kim leans back in her chair and listens to everyone else's character description with genuine interest.

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    Kate returned in time to hear the conversation turn to characters. "Well, I decided to shake things up; I've built a cleric this time. And she's not even a cleric of a warrior's god, either," Kate laughed. "Actually, I'm not so sure about the god I picked. Fharlanghn always struck me as the classic 'make up a deity to sound cool' build, but I'm hoping Dr. B will let me use the Cleric of an Ideal variant. Sooo, she's a cleric of 'Sometimes it's just time to hit the road,' but uses Fharlanghn temples as places to meet like-minded worshippers. Anyway, we'll see what Dr. B says."

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    "Man, am I the only one sticking true to form? Elven Ranger/Mage, gunning for Arcane Archer, as usual," Aaron said.

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    Gwen

    Gwen listens and sits back as the others talk, she's more interested in when the DM will arrive. Occassionally she munches on a piece of dark chocolate and gently steers the other bag of candy around to anyone who wants it. She politely declines any sugar cookies...they just aren't the same as chocolate.

    When characters are mentioned, I decided to go with druid and hopefully go to stormlord. I've been making a word doc of all the weather spells I can find. She'll still be able to heal, but her primary focus will be weather. Yes...Gwen loves the weather, when she walks around outside...her eyes are always looking up, never down, after all, the weather is up in the sky, not underground.
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    "The prereqs for stormlord are so bizarre, though. I mean, you need weapon focus in a spear or javelin or whatever, and..." Annika locates her e-book of Complete Divine and finds the class. "Great Fortitude and Endurance. The whole spear focus thing seems really contrived to me."

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    Eh, I'm not so worried about that. I already started with the first two feats. I really want the stormlord abilities, they just sound so cool. Of course, she'll have to get struck by lightning and survive. That'll be the interesting part.
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    "What crappy feat prereqs." Hannah nods at Annika's assessment. "I went for more utility than you can shake a stick at with a - surprise - rogue/fighter, using the wilderness rogue variant, and with Track." The 'surprise' part is delivered with sarcasm. Every character she's ever made has been Dex and Strength based in some fashion. "I had to restrain myself from dipping wizard just to be pure utility, but I should be able to be an effective scout regardless of terrain. Not too much of a combatant, though. I need to be backup or stealth, not frontline. With a group this big, I didn't think it would be an issue."

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    "You kinda gotta question the sanity level of someone that goes out and does that on purpose. I mean, who thinks, 'Alright, first I gotta be really, really tough. Not strong, but tough. Then, I'm going to go out and purposely be struck by lightening. Of course, I'll have to be sure to live through it.' To me, that really doesn't sound like a person with a high wisdom. That sounds like Grade A Nutcase, to me. I mean, it'll probably be a fun character to play. I've never really looked at it. It just seems . . . well . . . insane.

    Which, by the way, is actually a legal term - not a psychological term."
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    "Of course, the pre-requisite of being struck by lightning does rather explain the tendency towards tall weapons with metal on the end. Instant lightning rod."

    Kim grins at Hannah. "I will plan on following your lead. You are far more accustomed to this combination of character classes than I am. And Antiope, my character, is nothing if not willing to learn."

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    Bill looks thoughtful, "Stormlords have to be hit by lightening and survive, but Bloodmages actually have to die, and be ressurected. You have to have heard your final heartbeats to get into the blood music or something."
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    Kate stared at the wall. "Trust me, dying is overrated." She forced a laugh and added, "... and resurrection hurts."

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    "That's the damn truth," Hannah mutters, her cheer evaporating at the turn of subject. She shakes her head, though, using the physical movement to loosen the psychological reaction. "I guess I technically qualify for that PrC, then. That part, anyway," she offers with a little bit of forced cheer. "Assuming defibrillation counts as resurrection."

    The last thing she really wants to do was replay that day in her head, so Hannah does the best thing she can think of: she changes the subject. It starts with taking a bite of the cookie Annika gave her, which is quickly followed up by a compliment about them. "This is really good, Annika. Did you make them?"

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    Gwen has to chuckle a little at Peter and Kim's comments, Yes...I know, so as I said, it'll be interesting.

    With the change in subject and then another change, because Gwen is anxious to start, When do you think our DM will arrive? By now she's shifted positions on her seat a few times, just while waiting.
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    Douglas

    He looks up as the topic grows morbid.

    That's what I like about my base classes. The only prerequisite is that you own dice and want to play the game. I can't recall the last time I made a character with prestige class levels. I know, it might not be optimal, but I've always liked doing my job thoroughly. This time, I'm gonna be a tank with damage dealing potential. I decided I wanted to use an exotic weapon, and there's really no better option than the mercurial greatsword. That, and the physics of the weapon have always fascinated me.

    Douglas adjusts his books, and then leans forward.

    I'm not sure when the DM is gonna arrive. But you know him, he's always got something going on. He's got all our phone numbers, if something were to come up, one of us would know.

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