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Encounter Conditions
None?
Initial Text
A student stands along one of the ballroom's walls, grumbling as he arranges streamers and paper bats. It seems pretty off-theme for this year, but nobody seems to mind terribly.
Summary of Choices
- Hang crepe paper (with crepe paper) - lose crepe paper, adds to decorations?
- Drape decorative webbing (with decorative webbing) - lose decorative webbing, adds to webbing?
- Add another paper bat (with paper bat) - lose paper bat, adds to decorations?
- Chat with him - gain 2 XP Perception, lose all Watchful Guards
- Burn it! - burns?, fight Hipster and with Watchful Guards, also fight Dock Guard
- Leave him be - Walk away
Choice Text and Results
Hang crepe paper
You add some crepe paper in Halloween colors, in stark contrast to spiders' webbing. The student gives you a thumbs up.
You've earned 4 XP in Will
(Lose crepe paper)
Drape decorative webbing
The student glowers at you as you drape webbing over his project, trapping several paper bats in the process.
You've earned 4 XP in Will
(Lose decorative webbing)
Add another paper bat
You add a paper bat of your own to the proceedings, which inspires him to even greater heights.
You've earned 2 XP in Will
(Lose paper bat)
Chat with him
He barely lets you speak, going on a snark-laden tirade against the school in general and Jess in particular for selling out to Midgard. However "unlike some people," he's not willing to just burn the whole place down and is putting up streamers and bats instead of "corporate mandated spider propaganda."
In the process, you do pick up how he's making the paper bats, which is actually kind of clever.
(Learn recipe for paper bat if you don't already know it?)And, with Watchful Guards active:
In the process, the guard who'd been following you seems to have gotten bored (or insulted) and wandered off.
(Lose all energy of Watchful Guards)You've earned 2 XP in Perception
Burn it!
Normally:
As you move forward to torch his work, he shouts something about corporate censorship, then lunges at you with surprising courage. The anger in his eyes flicks back to surprise and fear once he realizes he just got into a fight.
(Fight Hipster)
And if you win, get the following message:
The streamers and bats go up in flames with shocking speed, sending smoke billowing into the hall.
If you have Watchful Guards active:
As you move forward to torch his work, he shouts something about corporate censorship, then lunges at you with surprising courage. The guard following you moved in at the same time, leaving them both slightly confused on how things ended up like this.
(Fight Hipster and Dock Security)
And if you win, lose all Watchful Guards and get the following message:
The streamers and bats go up in flames with shocking speed, sending smoke billowing into the hall.
Leave him be
You ignore him and leave him to hang another paper bat among the streamers.