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  1. Rec 6

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    CLASS NAME: HOW TO WITHSTAND THE WORST OF THE WORST

    SPONSOR: Lower Planar Reconnaissance Task Force

    REQUIREMENTS: Senior enrollment. Grades above 3.75 GPA. At least 75 hit points

    DESCRIPTION: Learn to survive, evade, resist, and escape. The professor will teach you how to make it through harsh combat, high level spellcasting, and unique forms of torture. By the end of the semester, you will be able to withstand hardship, escape captivity, hold up under interrogation, and push through any brutality enacted upon you. Grades dependent on tenacity under pressure, perseverance in the face of challenges, and survival through it all.

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    or: Riz and Fig sign up for a class designed to test their mettle as adventurers and teach them how to withstand anything. Their loved ones don't necessarily approve.

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    17 Jun 2025

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    The gashes in his stomach have healed to the point of a soft remaining redness. There’s a thinning scab, the skin ridged where it’s gone and stitched itself back together, though not much pain anymore. Not unless deep pressure is applied.

    Think it’ll scar? Norman asks.

     

    Life, afterwards.

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    13 Jun 2025

  3. Rec 14

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    It had taken nearly twenty years and a lot of excellent luck for him to end up on the Zephyr again. If Maxwell hadn’t noticed the strange, small mark on the deed to the MacLeod farm, if he hadn’t gotten his brother to help convince the staff to take the Zephyr instead of one of the Karakamachi blimps, if he hadn’t managed to make a connection with Olethra—

    Well. He certainly wouldn’t be here right now, feeling the cold air gust against his face as the Zephyr rides through the skies, headed for the junkheap land of Scrapsylvania. He wouldn’t be feeling his heart pulse with an unfettered panic, his nerves constantly on edge the longer he stays away from the safety and certainty of the ground below. He wouldn’t be caught in the strange struggle of meeting his idols — of Daisuke Bucklesby, first and foremost, and from the route they’re headed to, perhaps the others as well.

    But Maxwell also thinks that if he hadn’t managed to do all of those things… well, maybe he wouldn’t really be living at all.

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    07 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Fabian pauses to look up at Goldenhoard, stopped in time. The balloon arch behind them is maybe a little trite, but it’s also maybe a little sweet. He’s never been to a school dance before, homeschooled as he was on his father's ship, and a part of him wonders if this is supposed to be a shared experience every high schooler has.

    “It’s too bad we aren’t here to actually enjoy prom,” Fabian says. “Didn’t even have the time to dance or anything.”

    “Do you… want to dance?” Gorgug asks, hesitantly.

    Near the end of freshman year, in the shadow of a dragon paused mid-battle thanks to some miraculous chronomancy, Fabian and Gorgug slow dance at prom.

    It still takes the better part of a decade for them to start dating.

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    04 Jun 2025

  5. Rec 2

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    “Her choice?” He asks, suddenly filled with rage. “She has to choose between her brothers?”

    “From what I hear, Miss Applebees here, sweetheart that she is, has a problem with taking responsibility for things. She has a hard time stepping forward and making the tough calls. If she wants to prove herself to be more than a fickle, indecisive girl, she’ll have to make this impossible choice and live with the consequences. That is her challenge. Not yours.”

    Kristen remains frozen, arms held out in front of her loosely. She looks like she wants to dig—her fingertips move, nervously twitching—but she doesn’t touch the earth. She doesn’t even blink as the words wash over her.

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    or: A mysterious figure entraps Kristen and Riz in an Aguefort classroom and presents them with a game of moral quandaries, complete with life-or-death consequences.

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    03 Jun 2025