Poll of the Day > What are your best, RL, nat 20's or nat 1's?

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You know, when you absolutely should have failed but succeeded (likely in an absurd way) or when you absolutely should have succeeded but, somehow, managed to mess it up?

For example, when I was a little kid I was taking karate class (like a lot of little kids do. Has that ever actually HELPED?) Was playing with one of the adults before class started and I swung a funoodle at one of them. He tried over it but then we heard a massive SNAP and he fell to the ground crying in pain. Somehow I had managed to break his Achilles tendon with my swing. Still not sure if this was a nat 20 or a nat 1...

Another time, same class, we were in a line-up and some kids were gushing over the, then new, pokemon cards. One of them had gotten a foil, 1st edition, Blastoise. Since it was a foil, though, the other kids were CONVINCED it was a fake (since it didn't look like THEIR cards) and they threw it away. Landed right at my feet. It was not a fake. Nat 20.

Finally, one day at college, we were in Spanish class when I started to feel woozy, weird, and started to smell strange things. I knew exactly what this meant and quickly dashed out of the classroom trying to get some water or at least to a place that had soft cushions instead of hard desks and office carpeting. I knew there was a cushoned bench and a water fountain, like, right outside of the classroom. I got to the door... and whump. The teacher said I barely made it out of my seat, but I remember distinctly slamming into the door. Either way, a nat 1 (made worse by getting an ambulance bill. >.<)

Nat 1: was skating on a local rink when my blades got caught in ruts in the ice that kept getting farther apart, until the one on the right swung in and my foot went with it, but not the rest of the leg; ended up snapping the fibula in half.

Nat 20: riding my bike home from work, truck came roaring out of a blind driveway and broadsided me, I was able to use my momentum and the momentum from the truck to swing around to the side of the truck with only minor damage to my back tire. The front end of the truck was totalled, the driver shaken up, but otherwise fine, I had a small cut on my ankle from my own bike pedal.

I shot a wasp out of the air mid flight at 100 yards. It was buzzing around my target while I was trying to get some grouping data.Finally got annoyed enough to take a shot at it. When it disappeared, I thought it got scared off. When I went to pull my target board down there were little flecks of bug viscera all around a nice clean bullet hole.