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Orrex

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13. If you're attacked by a mob, though, I don't believe you're required to single out your targets

Reply to Whiskeytide (Reply #11)

Thu Oct 3, 2013, 03:47 PM

Oct 2013

That is, if the mob as a whole threatens/attacks you, it's not your responsibility to protect the one member of the mob who might afterwards claim "it was everyone else but not me!"

If the biker who got squished was part of the mob, then he was part of the attack.

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