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 It is a beautiful day in the town of Bough, hidden within the trunk of a giant tree. The forest sways in a gentle breeze, a troubadour plucks their string and the moons shine like a bleeding wound in the sky. Here you can be a gubbin.  Everyone who wishes to be a gubbin will need to post: -A name -One visible quirk, be it an article of clothing or a horrifying deformity. -Three things you are good at. These can be pretty much anything, from badger jousting to poetry but they should all be different from each other. Three very different skills! --- As a gubbin you will complete objectives in order to attain rewards, and avoid peril. Being a gubbin is not difficult but it will require the use of Orokos dice roller, the SA CYOA Discord channel , and the Something Awful Forums. You should expect to be a gubbin every two days or so. Being a gubbin can last up to a week. Applications will close and the game will start on monday.
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Name: Hamhock Quirk: Pyromania (Singed) Skills: Birdwatching, Sleight of Hand, Animal Husbandry. malbogio fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 05:54
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Name: Lubbin Quirk: Really long Skills: Climbing, Bee Bothering, Cooking paper bag with a face fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Nov 24, 2019 |
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Nov 24, 2019 06:02
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Name: Swub Quirk: Stag beetle prong Skills: Eating, cloudgazing, basket weaving
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Nov 24, 2019 06:19
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Going with Jubbin Gubbin, the Jingling Bell Hat/Head Gubbin -Jubbin Gubbin is pretty good at Juggling, Throwing, and Catching.
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Nov 24, 2019 07:03
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Name: Nutfiend Slayer Quirk: A nutty helmet for a nut's nut Skills: Nutfiend Slaying. Acorn tracking. Trapping. Nutfien' won't get past this gubbin slayer!
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Nov 24, 2019 07:18
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Dashinar, the Metal-plated Grubbin who is good at Rescuing Damsels In Distress, Swordfighting and Heroic Speeches!
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Nov 24, 2019 07:24
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Name: Stubber Gubbin Quirk: Monocle and Scholar's Cap Skills: Draconic Lore, Gubbin Histories, Penmanship
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Nov 24, 2019 09:31
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Name: Wubbin Gubbin Quirk: Skull-bone-protrusions that just happen to look like modern headphones Skills: Dropping Beets, Being Adorable, Performance: Accordion
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Nov 24, 2019 10:18
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Name: Gubku Quirk: orange dōgi Skills: Powering up, yelling real loud, punching things with their tiny gub hands
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Nov 24, 2019 11:36
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Name: King Igga Quirk: A crown (of sticks and leaves) and a scepter (a rock tied to a stick) Skills: Delusion, Etiquette, Violence
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Nov 24, 2019 14:29
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Name: Stan Quirk: Wears a tie Skills: Accounting, Trivia, A cappella Singing
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Nov 24, 2019 16:15
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Name: GUB Quirk: Random bits of dragon anatomy Skills: Flying, Firebreathing, Hoarding
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Nov 24, 2019 17:15
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tup a thrid hand thubm wreslting, spelling, prayying
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Nov 24, 2019 19:24
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Name: Gubvin Quirk: Uses a bunch of grapes instead of an apple Skills: Carousing, refined palate, projectile vomiting
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Nov 24, 2019 22:30
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Klobby Quirk: Baseball Cap Skills: Sports, Arguments, Money Laundering
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Nov 25, 2019 07:17
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There are only three days before the Feast. Esteemed Bross is receiving very important guests this year. You stand in the kitchen of Bross's mansion. Your job gives you much responsibility over the Feast. It is an excellent chance to gain wealth and favor. Preparations are well underway, but much remains to be done.  Unfortunately the kitchenmaster has died. Much remains to be done to make the feast happen, and with the kitchenmaster gone, you, and the others standing in this room with you, are next in line for the blame if the celebrations are not perfect. It is an excellent chance to lose everything. You have three days. - Witness the world, the Zones of engagement~~  A subsection of the mansion of Esteemed Bross, the most important gubbin in the town of Bough. Bross is both rich and wise. Everybody knows this. The mansion occupies some of the highest spaces within the trunk, from it's windows one can look down on the whole forest. Not that you have a chance to do so. Perhaps you once did, but now, your work provides you with access only to the kitchens, beneath the carpeted lounges. There are also other, less important people working the kitchens. They haven't noticed the kitchenmaster's death yet, and for the sake of the Feast, keeping things that way would be the best.   The town of Bough is the best town in the world. Everybody knows this. Carved within the interior of a giant tree is a haven for gubbinkind. No monster can tear down these walls. No neighbor can claim to have a home as cool. The town prospers through trade, under the wise leadership of Esteemed Bross. Beneath whose mansion stretches the town proper, all the homes and amenities of the common gubb. This is an excellent place to live. Provided you don't suffer from claustrophobia. It is little cramped.  Surrounding the tree, there are other, smaller trees. A lot of them. And supposedly, beyond the trees there are other things. Not everybody knows what those other things are. But the trees. The forest is full of nice things, but it is also dangerous. Especially the last few years. A lot of people have gone missing there...   Very recently, a stranger arrived and set up a ring just outside Bough. An arena for free-for-all combat. A place where one may risk everything for Glory and Cash. -  Jvie fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 16:36
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 Attention gubbins! To pervail, you'll need to complete Tasks. Saving the Feast is recommended. However you can pick any Tasks you want. You can invent your own Tasks! Completing, or failing, tasks drives change in the world! Do note that in addition to saving the Feast, you will want Cash. Cold hard coin. Cash may be spent 1:1 to raise your die roll. There may be other uses. But most importantly, at the end of the game the gubbin with most Cash will Win, and be crowned the Grand Gubbin. The Grand Gubbin enjoys admiration and fantabulous prizes. TASKS |
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Nov 25, 2019 18:19
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 Prepare the presentation[25] Anything from cleaning to rehearsing performances. Gain access to rest of the mansion[25] The kitchen staff are not really supposed to wander around, but it is technically not forbidden either. Persuade or bypass the guards. Notes: -The Feast requires 3 types of non-meat foodstuffs for the salad. -The feast requires meat. -The feast requires another type of meat. -The feast requires entertainment. -The lower ranking kitchen staff are kinda clueless, but they can manage the drudgework. Probably. -The kitchenmaster's corpse is hidden in the pantry. -- Go shopping[25]? Specify what you want to find! You can probably scrounge up something to barter with. Meat is not easily available. Notes: Messing about in the tree in general goes in this Zone. Track Animals[xx] Every 10 points raises the quality of animal found. Fractions matter too. 15 points gives level 1 animal, with 50% chance of upgrading to level 2. Hunt[??]? ...Assuming that the trackers found something. Difficulty depends on animal level. -- Free-For-All Battle[SPECIAL] The GubbMeister rolls all dice for this Task. -All participants gain 1 Cash. -The highest roller gains a cosmetic upgrade of their choice and a special reward! -Gubbins that roll an odd die result lose 1 Gubb Point. -The lowest roller loses 1 Gubb Point. -If there is only one player participating, then a NPC will join the fight. !!!All participants consent to possible loss of Gubb Points and any resulting complications.!!! Sign here:_________ --------- SKILLS Fate is tempestous. You might have numerous skills but not always will an opportunity arise where you would be able to make use of all of them. At each morning a roll of dice shall reveal what skill can help you on that day. Use the skill or not, it will be Exhausted after today. whoosh~ SKILLS posted:Hamhock: Animal Husbandry Above you see what skill is available to you today. - When you use a skill that is suited for your Task, you get +5 for the roll. If your skill is only sort of barely plausibly useful gain only +2. When you cooperate with another in the same Zone, and your active skills complement each other, both of you gain additional +2. You can only cooperate with one person at a time. Jvie fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 18:20
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 ...Are they gone? Good. Listen, there is more, a secret you should know. Your turn is not complete after you make a post, not yet. You must also, using Discord's or SA's private messaging, let the GubbMeister(Jvie) know if you intend to Skim Off The Top, or if you intend to Be Clean. Again, this decision may not be in your post itself. If you Skim Off The Top you gain +1 Secret Cash. Secret Cash is just Cash but you don't need to reveal that you have it until you spend it. The GubbMeister will keep track of your total. Do note that every gubbin that Skims Off The Top raises the probability that a Catastrophe will happen in the Zone they are in.
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Nov 25, 2019 18:32
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Nov 25, 2019 18:36
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Wubbin ignores the corpse to practice his accordion, knowing that that his hands need to be a well oiled machine to entertain a whole Feast! Performance: Accordion: 1d10+5 = 14
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Nov 25, 2019 19:00
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"How dare you stand in the way of your KING, you boorish churls", King Igga raved as he bonked the increasingly awkward looking guards with his scepter, "Step aside and let me pass! I've ROYAL business to attend to!" "MOVE!" "MOVE OR I'LL HAVE YOUR HEADS!" Violence the guards to make them let me pass: 1d10+5 8
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Nov 25, 2019 19:09
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No, no this won't do. The kitchenmaster can't remain here. Swub sighs and brandishes his fork. Eat the evidence: 1d10+5 8 Not Alex fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 19:16
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 Investigating the scene of the crime is out of question due to the efforts of certain parties. The next step then, is to hit the seedy part of town. Try and find out if anyone had grudges against the kitchenmaster, inquire into what the hired muscle types were doing the night of the murder, have one or several glasses of cheap Moscato... Searching for clues in town: 1d10+2 11 charms fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Nov 25, 2019 |
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Nov 25, 2019 19:32
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charms posted:Gubvin (image pending) Sorry about that!
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Nov 25, 2019 19:35
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Also, I edited my initial "submissions closed" post into an actual game post. ...I didn't really think that one through. I recommend refreshing/rereading the thread just in case I caused you to miss something.
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Nov 25, 2019 19:37
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A murder mystery? A feast to prepare? Nah, not when there was an arena to decide the ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPION OF THE UNIVERSE well the best fighter in the immediate vicinity anyway. Gubku stepped up to fight all challengers, ready to punch things with their tiny gub hands.
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Hamhock is wandering through the forest alone to Analyze Animal Leavings with Animal Husbandry: 1d10+5 9 to Track Animals The talking tree had been lying, but such is to be expected when they've been consecrated by foul arts. Hamhock returns from the forest with their tongue sticking out, bloated and full of splinters. They wave their arms in excitement, eager to share the news that Nutfiend mating season has begun. Now if only someone could be so brave as to capture a pair while they were distracted performing dark rituals on one another. Surely this made their dairy even more delicious. Just think of the cheeses! Yes, their meat was probably delicious too, but what did that have to do with anything?
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Nov 25, 2019 20:03
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 Gub opted to cooperate with King Igga, using their distraction to spread their magnificent wings and tiptoe quietly up the stairs. +2 to King Igga Flying past the guards on tiptoe, using King Igga's distraction: 1d10+7 15
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malbogio posted:...that Nutfiend mating season has begun. "Nutfiend hating season never ends," countered Nutfiend Slayer darkly, thoughts still fresh on the scene of the kitchenmaster's death. All those knives carried a faint tang... butterfingers had been at work. Nutbutter. The gubbin Slayer said nothing more. simply donned his bug-scout bag and crawled resolutely into the forest to litter the trees with springs, slings and spear traps. Set many, many traps with Trapping: 1d10+5 8 to Hunting with traps
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Nov 25, 2019 21:21
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Hark! A maiden, being accosted by some creep trying to hit on her! She needs saving! And her dress looks important! Maybe saving her will get a good favor! Dashinar moves in to rescue her! Rescuing a girl from a pick-up artist! = 15!
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Nov 26, 2019 01:31
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"Come one, come all, to the greatest show of the day!" Jubbin weaves through the crowd, bowing their cap with a jingling flourish "Jubbin Gubbin, Professional Juggler at your services, dear grocers." "And I, Jubbin Gubbin of the Wandering Circue-De-Gubbin Troupe, am here to give you a show!" "Please leave all fruit or vegetable donations in the basket or if sufficiently fresh thrown at me. I assure you, if you can throw it, I can juggle it. Especially tomatoes." Juggling for Tomatoes: 1d10+5 15 Knives and tomatoes, clubs and pins, little round balls and cabbages, three probably-potatoes and a small gubbin; true to their word, if it could be thrown, Jubbin could Juggle it to heartfelt applause. "Thank you, thank you! Your contributions today will make for a better grand feast soon enough!" "Please, if you enjoyed this, come and see our troupes main event at the grand feast; we are setting up right as we speak, and I would love if all of you could come and see!" Arcanuse fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Nov 26, 2019 |
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Stubber Gubbin Cash: Secret "I d-d-d-daresay," Stubber stuttered, once the deed had been done. "That was one K-K-K-Kitchenmaster who c-c-couldn't k-keep his lids shut!" Running to a water basin in a walnut shell, Stubber washed his tiny Gubbin hands of grit and blood before he metaphorically washed his hands of this whole Kitchenmaster-being-dead affair. The deed was done, it had happened whether they had wanted it to or not. The Kitchenmaster was dead in the kitchen of Esteemed Bross's mansion, three days before the grand feast, and there was nothing that Stubber or his cohorts could do to stop themselves from being the next in line to get their Gubbin heads lopped off if the festive Gubbin celebrations didn't go swimmingly. Stubber knew that this particular Gubbin scenario, historically, had never ended well for the poor folk who took up the Kitchenmaster's role this late in the game before the grand feast. "Right-!" Stubber proclaimed to the packed kitchen in his pipsqueaky voice. "If anyone n-needs me I'm g-g-going for a w-walk, in the w-w-w-w-woods, alone." By the time he'd made it to Bough's front gates, however, Stubber found himself being joined by a hunting party of his fellow Gubbins-in-arms. Apparently, they were going to search for food to hunt... "It's N-Nutfiend mating season?!?" Stubber ejaculated. He had just heard Hamhock's news. "I c-c-can help with that, H-Hamhock!" Stubber announced to the wood-stuffed Gubbin, "Sh-show me what signs you've seen." On their way to to the talking tree with the strange stain marking it, Stubber Gubbin explained his excitement. "W-well, you see," Stubber began, "if you s-s-simply look at the ruddy skies above you w-w-would know that the moons are in c-c-c-conj-j-j-j-juj... aligned, and this tends to cause all sorts of inc-c-creases in D-Draconic activity." Stubber waved a stubby hand to the purple moons, waxing philosophical. "Actual magic is in the air my f-friends, and the lowly animals - especially d-d-demonic animals, such as our N-N-N-Nutfiends here - are rutting like mad!" "So," Stubber explained, "I say let us c-catch them while they're all r-r-rrriled up and distracted!" > Stubber coordinates with Hamhock - Hamhock and Stubber's rolls gets +2! > Stubber Gubbin tracks animals with Hamhock using his Draconic Lore!: 1d10+4 11 - Tie with Hamhock!
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 ”Yup!” Tup exclaimed worriedly. The chef was dead! He examined the knives in the chef’s back with his typical attention to detail. Maybe there was a clue?in the kitchen, checking out the crime scene with the attention to detail that spelling provides Inverstifation: 1d10+2 6
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Nov 26, 2019 06:06
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the invite link to the discord is down btw
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Nov 26, 2019 06:11
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a fatguy baldspot posted:the invite link to the discord is down btw Here's a fresh one. https://discord.gg/BgyN5V We use the #getslain channel for gubbtalk.
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Lubbin nervously wringed his front legs. So much to do and not enough time to do it! He stared at the beehive, letting the bile rise in his throat. Lubbin double checked the false flags he had planted, nuts and what he thought looked like convincing Nutfiend claw marks. This required a little more finesse than his usual bee manipulation gambits, but if it worked...Haha, stupid bees. Lubbin made some loud and annoying chittering sounds and hefted an acorn. He pitched it with all his might at the hive and dove into his hiding place. Lubbin could hear a cacophony of buzzing as a bunch of stupid bumblers investigated the scene of the hive crime. Did they take the bait? Lubbin cooperates with Nutfiend Slayer! Lubbin hunts with Bee Bothering: 1d10+5 8 Lubbin could barely contain his laughter. If the others wanted to find some Huntfiends, all they had to do was follow the buzzing. And maybe if they were lucky all the relentless stinging from those dumbass maniacs would drive them into the traps of his brother in irrational-animal-hatred!
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"Hey buddy," Klobby said as he sided up next to a produce clerk who'd stepped away from their stall for a quick smoko. "Ya like ta watch the game next week? I can snag ya some tickets fer a discount on the greens yer sellin'. Just a little offa the top for Bross' guys when they stops by, no one's gotta know. Who's ta say how accurate the scale is? Better than givin' summun a five leg discount when they swings a bat atcha." Klobby gave the clerk a few pointers on the fine art of scale thumbing and a tutorial on which of the sevens his boss wrote down were safe enough to underline so they looked like twos. It wasn't much but it'd cut down on costs. "Negotiating" a better deal on veggies: 1d10+5 7
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Stan double-checked his figures. The kitchen’s budget was a mess at the best of times, and with the kitchenmaster dead, there had been nobody to help decode the complex web of debits and credits, loans and favors, and assorted arcane nonsense that had been used to balance the books previously. If the gubb hadn’t already been dead, Stan would have wanted to kill him himself. Ahaha, just a joke, he hadn’t had enough coffee today, you know how it is. Still, the point was, Stan was pretty sure he’d found enough forgotten money in the books to fund a truly impressive purchase—an entire pumpkin, large enough to house an entire family of gubbins! Now if he could just find one for purchase. He really hadn’t done this before. “Hey. Hey buddy. You look like a gubb of discerning taste.” Stan swiveled his head, finally noticing the dark alley the voice was coming from. He nodded. “Yeah, yeah, I thought so. See, I’m in the business of making connections. Between gubbins it taste, and gibbons who happen to have lots of tasty things. Now, if you just come with me, for a modest finders fee, I can get you hooked up with the good stuff.” Well, this was convenient! This was going to be the best feast ever! Maybe he’d even get an end of year bonus for this! Assessing Assets to Procure a Prodigious Pumpkin: 1d10+5 6
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