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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 2789630" data-attributes="member: 20307">The penalty came to bear due to negligence.  <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=";)" />  As I said, it's the first time someone had her character run into this situation.The culprit is a Changeling who started out with one level Barbarian before switching over to Wizard. The character hasn't changed the class since. There was a tad number crunching involved, to be sure. The decision on the race was due to the Changeling's linguistic ability.The reasoning is as follows: The character grew up in the city of Sharn and was being conscripted into the Brelish army for the final battles of the Last War before she could complete her studies at Morgrave University. She was placed in the same platoon as a childhood friend of hers, so all seemed okay. One day she saw her friend critically wounded and was unable to reach him, because enemies separated the two of them. When she heard him crying and screaming something snapped inside her. Her vision narrowed, a wave of strength hit her and she hacked her way to the friend with reckless abandon. The moment she reached him, her new found strength left her as suddenly as it had come. Enfeebled, she sank to her knees only to watch her friend die. She doesn't know how she survived the day and the rest of the war. When returning home, she knew she had something inside her, something dangerous, powerful. She was sure she could call it up again, but was afraid to do so. She tried to return to her former life, but quickly came to the conclusion that she couldn't purge her experiences from memory. So she began looking for like-minded individuals who might comprehend her inner turmoil and accept her like she was now. She met such a group just before her final exams at the university.Of course this story is constructed, but I like it. Of course she could have taken a level of Rogue and told the above tale with sneak attack instead of rage, but hey!HuldvollJan van Leyden</blockquote>

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