In an effort to help your students become more critical listeners and better note-takers, you assign them a scene from the classic Sam Spade radio program The Maltese Falcon (LUX Radio, 1946). (+5 charisma)
Turn the knobs to select your station.
You turn the knob.
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. . .Ladies and gentlemen, I have a grave announcement to make. Incredible as it may seem, both the observations of science and the evidence of our eyes lead to the inescapable assumption that those strange beings who landed in the Jersey farmlands tonight are the vanguard of an invading army from the planet Mars. The battle which took place tonight at Grovers Mill has ended in one of the most startling defeats ever suffered by any army in modern times; seven thousand men armed with rifles and machine guns pitted against a single fighting machine of the invaders from Mars. ...
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(+10 initiative if you can identify this quote!)