Jay Friday

Extra Credit

"...And that's it, folks. We're at time. Please pass your exams to the front. I hope you all have a great week off; as a reminder, next semester starts our block on Ethics. If you aren't caught up on the reading yet -- I'm looking at you, Blake -- make sure you take advantage of spring break to get caught up."

Blake -- one of the worst students not just in this section, but in any section -- gave me a cheery wave of acknowledgement. He was on the football tea...

Shoplifting

I was in a dressing room, just pulling on a new pair of jeans that, if I did say so myself, looked pretty good on me. And they should; this was an upscale store, and they weren't cheap. I was checking myself out in the mirror when I heard a bit of commotion from the front of the department store. It was one of those dressing rooms with a bathroom-stall style door -- it closed, and locked, but left about a foot of visible space under the door of the tiny room.

In that foot of space under...

The Challenge

At midnight on All Hallows Eve, seek ye a powerful place;

Pure, of unsullied strength, outside of time and space.

There, the Aspirant meets his challenge, to battle before they wake;

For power is never given; to get it, one must take.

The one challenged chooses the battleground, weapons, terms;

The Aspirant must win, if power they wish to earn.

The defeated suffers the loss of all life's hard toils;<...