Not original

Not Original Social Basic 50 hours

Everyone occasionally thinks of something clever when they meet someone, whether it be a joke about their name or appearance, or just some overly personal comment or question. In learning this skill, you have had that beaten out of you. You know that you are probably not the first person to think of that 'clever' little joke, that they have heard it hundreds of times before, and to the recipient it really wasn't funny the first time. Use of this skill allows you a chance to rethink when you want to make a comment on someone's name or appearance, or for you to take back—retroactively—questions such as, "So, what's with the missing arm?" Use of this skill grants you one chance to either restate what you are going to say, or just keep your mouth shut. This is a purely metagame phenomenon: you never said the offending sentence in the first place. Grace retests can be used to augment this skill if you still say something stupid the second time. You can still go ahead with your initial statement, of course. While you can take back an asinine statement to a non-player character, this skill does not protect you from the wrath of the Game Master for making fun of non-player character or place names.