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Note to moderator: read the answerline carefully. The effects of this condition prompt a man to travel to a non-video game Monkey Island and resume a long-dormant fling with Margaret Allington Grey. The description of this condition in the novels The Romantic and Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair draws on her work with Charles Samuel Myers, the first physician to study it. This condition afflicts Chris Baldry, the title character of the debut novel by Rebecca (*) West. A character suffering this condition is overwhelmed by the ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: shell shock [or PTSD; or post-traumatic stress disorder; accept deferred traumatic stress or combat fatigue or combat neurosis or combat stress reaction; prompt on (mental) trauma or stress or neurasthenia; prompt on amnesia or nervous breakdown by asking "what is causing [the relevant thing]?"] (The Rebecca West book is The Return of the Soldier.)
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Clark SmithOSUMaryland B-8910
Mike BentleyAmartya Senpai Notice MeMojo Shojo9510
Alston BoydChicago B+Chicago A96-5
Ned TagtmeierChicago AChicago B+9810
Mitch McCullarIllinois A+Epic Games99-5
Charles HangWUSTLPurdue10210
Andrew SalijNorthwesternMichigan133-5
Connor ThompsonMichiganNorthwestern14110
Jason AsherEpic GamesIllinois A+14210

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%50%111.17
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%0%33%105.67