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Day 781

When the Examining Days came, none were more prepared than the English students. They had devoted their semester to constant reviewal of the legislation of the Examining Days and found loopholes that they could exploit to their advantage such as the paragraph forbidding almost all weaponry. That slight turn of phrase on line 34 gave them all the reason they needed to begin preparing small bio weapons that would be triggered as the Exam Hall doors were shut.

Of course, while they were all in there it would be chaos anyway but the English students would have this small advantage, alongside their carefully concealed gas masks and whatever they could legally conceal in their Exam Approved Course Books (thankfully the Invigilators had been kind enough to allow them a particularly lengthy novel this year).

At precisely 08:30 the department leaders herded the students into the Hall, formerly the gymnasium giving the Physical Education department a slight lead in their home turf. All bags were hung from rotating hooks along the walls until every inch of wall space was covered in a variety of suitcases, rucksacks and even twenty plastic carrier bags sewn together and scrawled on with black pen.

Along the ceiling of the Hall was a series of platforms woven from the stringy tendons of any student caught cheating. This was where the Invigilators prowled after they had done their checks on each and every student in the room while the teachers searched every inch of the campus for those who refused to Attend.

Now at this point I should mention that a common Invigilator is around 8.5 feet tall exactly and in resemblance to a cross between three pigs, a bear and something aquatic. They are born to Inspect in all manner of environments, their many heads able to rotate 360 degrees to allow for optimum Inspection. This particular Examining Hall was lucky enough to host seven Invigilators who remembered more of the legislation than even the most practised of English students.

Once they had determined who was breaking the rules and sent them to the ladder leading to the walkways, they declared the Exams to have begun and sprung up to the walkways to mete out appropriate punishments. It was 09:15 and they had given the students exactly 45 minutes for the first round.

As the department leaders closed the doors, locking them from the outside and barricading them with large iron balls, the English student's plan was set into motion. The inconspicuous bottles were knocked into inconspicuous buckets as they chanted out the line which allowed for this, The Invigilators responded from their walkways with a chorus of acceptance and orders to continue.

Previously concealed gas masks were put on and torn off by more physically prepared students and the fighting broke out in proper as the first of many deaths occurred. Concealed weapons were pulled and assembled from anywhere and everywhere they could be kept away from the eyes of the Invigilators who swooped down to remove students using anything against regulation.

45 minutes later the students were ordered to put down their weapons and their victims and return to their departments to await their results.

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