Tripping During a Marathon
You fell mid-race and had to get up and keep going. Tripping during a marathon is a sports fail where the aura damage is proportional to the crowd size at the point of the fall. Six thousand points lost because the fall happened in front of spectators, which means dozens of people watched you go from running to prone in a single stride, and the collective gasp is a sound that drains aura faster than any other stadium noise. The aura loss is in the recovery, not the fall. Falling is fine. Getting up slowly is not. The marathon does not pause for falls, which means the seconds you spent on the ground are seconds the field took from you, and the time is gone. The deeper fail signal is that your form broke down, which means you were fatigued, which means you mismanaged your pace, and the fall is the receipt for the mismanagement. The recovery is to get up immediately, to not limp even if it hurts, and to finish the race, because a… Tripping During a Marathon is a sports event in the major tier, worth -6,000 aura points. Compare it with Walking Into a Party and Everyone Knows Your Name and Nailing a Karaoke Song, or browse the full aura events index to see where it ranks.