How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, April 22, 2014]

[sith_happened]

If you thought you were getting out of Anakin Kriffing Skywalker's class without an examination, you were sadly, sadly mistaken. "There are four essay questions," he said, passing out the papers, "and then one practical examination question. Please don't hurt yourself too badly. I don't want to have to explain it to your parents, and the paperwork for this sort of thing is completely ridiculous."

He glanced up when he was finished passing everything out. "You have been an adequate group of students when you bother to listen. You will probably not die horribly."

...and thank you, Anakin.

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Practical Exam Question

[sith_happened]

The simulation is up: you find yourself in front of Jabba the Hutt who is cackling maniacally and threatening, through his translator, to feed you to a rancor, whatever that is, for not paying him 50,000 credits.

Talk or fight your way out of the problem!

Yes, Anakin is in fact an evil bastard.

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[iceolatedqueen.livejournal.com]

It would be so easy to just turn this... large, smelly slug-creature into an ice cube, if Elsa was the sort of person who did such things. It was certainly tempting.

"I'm curious if you would be feeding me to this 'rancor' beast raw, or preparing me somehow, first. You know, it's terribly irresponsible to feed a live meal to any pet. It might get hurt."

Well. There was a little bravado she hadn't been aware she had. But when large, unpleasant things jumped straight to making threats, she had little patience for them at all.

"The money owed must have slipped my notice. If you'll allow me to send word back to Arendelle, I can pay you as much, with interest."

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[failsatspirit]

No, Korra, don't encase the intergalactic crime-lord in ice, that won't end well.

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[ultron_junior]

Victor raised a hand, letting electricity crackle around it. "Sure about that? 'Cause I taste a little metallic."

... so maybe his battle cries still needed some work.

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[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker made some quick assumptions about what he, personally, might have done in order to owe that much money to a person who was obviously some sort of crime lord -- and turned out to not be very far off. The main difference between Joker and Han was that Joker wouldn't have shot first. That, and the legs.

"I don't have 50K on me, obviously, but you know I'm good for it. I'm worth a hundred times that much to you if you keep me alive. Sure, I lost your cargo, but if anyone -- anyone -- else had been flying, you'd'a lost the ship and crew, too. So don't even give me that. I can tell you're not the let-bygones-be-bygones type, but I got two words for you: installment plan."

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[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"We both know I don't have that kind of money. And let's be honest, if I did and I gave it to you, you'd spend it all on Ring Dings," Jessica said, being careful to stand at the very edge of the trap door. The second it was going to open, she was hopping up onto the "throne" platform and punching Jabba in the eye. And the hole in the floor would give her plenty of time to do that AND get in a good position to use the wide load gangster as a shield.

"Also, would it kill you to use soap once in an ever? The only reason I'm not complaining about your body odor is because I'm not sure that technically counts as a body. It's more of a cry for help, really."

She was going to keep on like that until action time.