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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lhorgrim" data-source="post: 2905456" data-attributes="member: 12222">I got booted once long ago.Harken to my tale of woe and tremble at the horror! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The year was 1984.  I was a Freshman in high school in a small town with few gamers.  There was a group of enigmatic gamers that met at the local library.  They were upper classmen, and  their group was very selective.  I didn't know what their game was like, because they did not speak to outsiders often, and never to lower classmen.  Suffice to say that I felt a burning desire to become a part of this group of "elite" gamers.So I petitioned to join the group.  After passing the written test covering information from the 1st edition PHB (you read that correctly.  I had to make an 85% or better on a 100 question written test administered with a time limit.) and passing an interview board with the members  of the group, I was accepted.First game session (wait for it...) I was handed a Cleric character three levels lower than the other PCs, and thrust into the action.  I had no information on the game world or the other characters.  I didn't even know which god my cleric followed.  Then we had our first combat encounter.  We faced off against several stormtroopers(yes the Star Wars kind) and one Darth Vader "clone", complete with lightsaber.  That is when I found out that the rest of my party was also equipped with lightsabers, and they made relatively short work of the stormtroopers.  "Darth Vader", unfortunately, was able to escape to his Star Destroyer in orbit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />   After this first encounter, I began to ask some questions about the game.  Something along the lines of "What the hell?!".I was told that my membership was revoked, and I was asked to leave.Thus is my shame.  The only time I have been kicked out of any gaming group.</blockquote>

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