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  So, welcome to another Gnosia loop! This is based in the original setup by Yami Fenrir (who ran the two previous iterations, Gnosia 1 and Gnosia 2). I’m taking it over this time, and hopefully managing to retain the spirit of the first two! As usual, Maerlyn is gonna be my co-mod for this one, and hopefully prevent me from making too many mistakes. Also IggyMeen, who's acting as US timezone mod this time. Hello to both!  This is a Mafia-like game; while there are a lot of elements common to normal Mafia, there are also a number of mechanics that are unique to this type of game. Be sure to read them.  Gnosia is a single-player mafia/werewolf-like videogame available in Steam, Nintendo Switch and PS Vita. You are trapped in a spaceship where an unknown number of your peers have been replaced by Gnosia – alien beings intent in eliminating the humans and taking full control of the ship. It’s a good game! Day phases involve debating which crew member will be sent to cold sleep, a type of reversible stasis where they can do no harm. Night phases involve a lot of gruesome death. Sounds familiar?  There are several differences as to how Gnosia is played when compared to a normal forums Mafia game. The most important of them is that Gnosia games are flipless Mafia. There is a specific Credential (role) that will reveal dead players’ alignment, but there is NO flip mechanic. Some players may hold both normal powers derived from their character, and a Credential that allows them to do extra actions at night. No role is intended to be Crew or Mafia - player characters, alignment and credentials are completely randomized prior to game start. Setups in this iteration are open, meaning you will know a) every character's powers and b) how many Credentials are in the game. Also important to know: Gnosia kills follow a couple restrictions. - The Gnosia MUST submit a kill each night. Abstaining is not allowed. - Gnosia cannot be NKed. Only human players can die at night!  The usual roles are replaced by Credentials. Any character will, in top of their particular powers, hold a Credential role that functions independently. Credentials are also randomized each game and not tied at all to characters! There are several possible credentials that can appear, but, apart from the Gnosia and Crew Members, not neccesarily will. Crew Members: Town. Gnosia: Mafia. Engineer: At night, target a living player to learn their alignment. Similar to the “cop” role in regular Mafia. Doctor: At night, target a dead player to learn their alignment. Guardian Angel: Can prevent a kill, similar to the “doctor” role in regular mafia. Guard Duty: A pair of players that, if they claim to have the Credential together, will be mod-confirmed to be town. If one does not claim, or if one is lying, it will do nothing. AC Follower: Human, and will cop as such, but wins if the Gnosia win. Similar to the “traitor” role in regular Mafia. Bug: If alive at endgame, wins in place of the Crew or Gnosia. Cannot be Night Killed, but dies immediately when investigated by an Engineer. A modified “survivor” from regular Mafia.  A difference in how this game is going to run when compared to the previous ones: we’re running this as an open setup. This means you will know what Credentials are in the game, and which ones aren't.  An important mechanic in Gnosia is Counterclaiming. If a player claims to have a Credential, and is not counterclaimed by anyone else in the same in-game day, they will become mod-confirmed as holding that role, regardless of if they do or don’t actually have it. This means it is very important to claim and counter-claim appropiately, whether you are the Human with the credential, a Gnosia, an AC Follower, a Bug, or whatever! Gnosia is a game of confusion - anyone can claim or counterclaim, and the players should weight the veracity of everyone’s claims and the usefulness of them appropiately. Remember: Doctor-less Gnosia is Flipless Mafia! As a tip, Guardian Angels should not, usually, claim. Claiming a credential that's not in the game setup will do nothing, and people may laugh at you. Read the OP.  Characters have specific Abilities that are tied to them – those ARE regular Mafia roles. Their use is independent of that of Credentials, meaning a player can and will have the two! Those are, in this iteration, as follows:  Cassidy – ##Ask for someone to teach them a skill. In unconfirmed masonry with Setsu. Setsu – ##Shut up to cut out a day action used in thread. In unconfirmed masonry with Cassidy. Gina – ##Copy to obtain a copy of someone else’s credential results, real or fake. SQ – ##Exaggerate to give a target 1x Hated for the day. Raqio – ##Retaliate to set up a thunderdome. Stella – ##Join Argument to move their vote and one extra vote to the player their target is voting. Shigemichi – ##Scapegoat to clone one use-version of a random player’s night action. Chipie – ##Follow to track a player. Comet – ##Identify to flavorcop a player. Jonas – ##Seek Agreement to redirect a day action from himself onto someone else. Kukrushka – ##Join Defense to give a target 1x Loved for the day. Sha-Ming – ##Grovel to give himself 3x Loved for the day. Loses his vote next day. Otome – ##Refute which auto-negates any negative day mechanics used on her (Hated and Thunderdome). Remnan – ##Fade Out to redirect a night action used on him to a random target. Yuriko – ##Cover to delete all Loved/Hated effects on a given target. Some of those are permanent, and some are one-use, and some of the latter will recharge if given specific circumstances. Some are day, and some are night; and of the day ones, some are public, and some are private. Specifics of each role will be detailed in the PM. Remember – this is an Open Setup, meaning that your powers are more or less public! If you want to claim to be a certain character or other, by all means, go ahead, but remember people will roughly know what you do!  This loop is intended for 15 players, meaning all 15 characters will be in the game. If we don’t get enough players in a week or so, I’ll modify the setup to fit however many players we have. If we don’t go full 15, the characters that appear in the game will be randomized. Gnosia characters will be randomized. No character is tied to any alignment. Credentials in the setup are listed below. They will, also, be randomized, and the real ones will be held by Human players, with the exception of the Bug, if applicable. Gnosia will have a Gnosia credential. No player will have two credentials. The 15 players setup in this iteration will be: 3 Gnosia  1 AC Follower  8 Human Crew  1 Engineer  1 Doctor  1 Guardian Angel   General mafia rules apply. If you are playing, do NOT discuss the game outside the thread or authorized OOT channels! Please note: our games usually feature some amount of flavor. Anything you may receive short of your actual night action results should be taken with caution, as while not intentionally misleading, we've taken care of not letting it influence the actual game. You can pursue arguments on flavor, but please be aware it may not match reality or even be coherent among different days or players. You have been warned! Please, do not lurk. The lurker threshold will be 10 posts per game day, with the requisite being halved for hammers that happen at 12h to deadline or earlier, and eliminated if 24h to deadline or earlier. Communication is key - if something important is keeping you from posting and we can accomodate it, tell us! First time is a warning, second one is a modkill. Do not edit your posts. If there is a big reason you need to do so, tell us first. Do not directly quote private communications. Copying and pasting any kind of OOT comms into thread is not allowed. Neither is copying and pasting any kind of mod communication, including your PM, either in thread or in any possible OOT communication channels. This rule will be enforced, and infringing it will result in a modkill. Do not fake day actions. Don't be an rear end to people. You don't have to be all nice and friendly all the time, but if things get too heated, please disconnect, calm down and come back later. Again, mod team is here to ensure everyone has fun, but I'd particularly not like needing to tell posters to chill. Be mindful of the person at the other side of the screen! We will use Discord. Link is here, please join.  This game works on majority, with hammers happening upon a player reaching half+1 of the votes. Should majority not be reached, no execution will happen. Nights will be 24h long from hammer and days will begin inmediately after nights end, with the deadline being 48/72h. We're open to setting up a deadline that works for everyone, so if you are not on the US, and we don't know you, please note your timezone on sign-up! We cannot guarantee it will 100% accomodate everyone, depending on where you are you may get some odd hour like 10 am or 6 pm, but we'd like to avoid anyone getting a middle of the night deadline. Days are at a maximum 48h long, going up to 72h if they span a weekend. Days end at hammer and threads will be closed at night. You can post during twilight (after hammer and before thread closes) but no game-related talk is allowed in that time, and those posts will not count towards day postcount. Crew wins when all threats are eliminated. Gnosia and the ACFollower win when they hold control over the vote. ------ Player List:
Graveyard Quackles, Remnan, has been sent to cold sleep Day 1! SporkChan, Chipie, has disappeared without a trace Night 1! Bifauxnen, Gina, has been sent to cold sleep Day 2! Nep-Nep, Stella, has disappeared without a trace Night 2! Shellception fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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Bifauxnen posted:RIP triplevote I'm taking this as a signup? If wrong tell me, lol.
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saladscooper posted:I haven't played Gnosia so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but does the AC Follower know who the Gnosia are? No, the AC Follower is a human for all intents and purposes - has no extra info and is not in the Gnosia chat. Difference is, they only win if Gnosia do, a normal Human victory is a loss for them.
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I have a question for everyone who signed up or is thinking of, tho. I originally planned this as normal, 48h/day Mafia. But there is another option in the table, which is to run it as faster-paced 24h/day Mafia. Nights would still be 24h long, and weekends would get extra time, but days would be quicker-paced. I don't have a preference, and I'd like to hear the thread's opinion.
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Alright, normal 48h it is.
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WindwardAway posted:Count me in! I'm planning to start around next Monday (19th) if that's OK for everyone. Waiting for ongoing games to wind down and also giving a bit of a breather to players, I feel we've been chaining games as of late. So it's completely OK!
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hambeet posted:yami said if i didn't play he'd beat up some kid in hospital. Are you signing up under duress? Blink twice for yes, one for no.
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Quote is not edit, lol. Also I'll take that as "I've seen things..."
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We are at -2 now!
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Also, people who signed up but aren't in the Discord, please hop in whenever you can, so we can get deadline time sorted.
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Tentatively full! Gonna reserve a spot here for a future player.
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Guillo posted:Im in as Guillo, not Guillotina Corrected.
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Shellception posted:Also important to know: Gnosia kills follow a couple restrictions. Added a note to the rules OP that I forgot to specify at start, noting it here too so it doesn't take anyone by surprise. Also, if anyone wants me to add pronouns to their name, just tell me!
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You wake up, startled. The ship alarms have apparently been going haywire for a while. Sleepily, you make your way to the Meeting Room, and exchange glances with your equally half-asleep crewmates. You all have gone through this before. You knew what you were getting into. But this time, it's real. The real deal... not a simulation, not a drill. The worst has come to pass. This time, you know it, some of those people - people you have laughed with, shared food with, worked with, are no longer human. And they are about to kill you all. It is now Day 1! (no day banners, I forgot to make any) Mod note: Please mark any official claims with ##Step Forward.
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Discussions got heated. Claims and counterclaims flew, causing a good deal of confusion. After a lot of debate, the whole crew seemed to decide Quackles was a good target - he was finally agreed on, and marched on to cold sleep without putting up much of a fight. As befitting of him. Quackles, Remnan, has been sent to cold sleep D1! --- You are that guy. The kinda guy that always got to play referee, just because they got entirely forgotten when making sports teams. You don’t even trigger motion-activated lights when you enter a room. You are just… there. You have an incredibly low profile and are, more often than not, overlooked by everyone. Which… isn’t that bad, per se. Once per game, you can ##Fade Out at night. Any actions you are targeted by, including kills, will bounce to a random target. If your ability is spent, and you don’t get voted once during a given game day, it will recharge. Charges do not stack. --- It is now N1. 24h for night actions! Shellception fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Sep 23, 2022 |
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After the long day, the night passes peacefully. Exausted, the crew rests in night stasis, blissfully unaware of anything going on. Day starts a bit earlier than usual, though, due to the strong chorus of meow that starts with what passes in the ship as early morning. Did anyone feed the cats tonight?? SporkChan, Chipie, disappeared without a trace Night 1! --- You like cats. Like, really, really like cats. You want to be a cat. Actually. Well. Actually, you are undergoing surgery to fuse yourself with a cat. This all makes sense to you. And anyway, who is anyone to judge, really?? At night, your cats can ##follow a player. You will learn who they visited. This is a one-use ability, but will recharge if you are voted by at least three players the following day. Stacks up to two uses. --- It is now Day 2.
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GirlDickEnergy replaces A Sometimes Food!
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Due to oversight, we don't have an official EoD1 votecount. This one here should be correct with the later votes of b-minus1, Nep-Nep, PlasticAutomaton and Neverhelm to hammer Quackles.hambeet posted:5 minutes Sorry!
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WindwardAway posted:Wait I thought GDE voted Yami Yup, fixed. Sorry.
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Votecount for Day 2  Bifauxnen (3): PlasticAutomaton, WindwardAway, saladscooper Yami Fenrir (1): Guillo, girl dick energy, Not Voting (9): b-minus1, Bifauxnen, Guillo, Hal Insandenza, hambeet, Nep-Nep, NeverHelm, wologar, Yami FenrirWith 13 alive, it's 7 votes to execute. The current deadline is September 25th, 2022 at 11 p.m. CEST -- that's in about 2 days, 8 hours.
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Graveyard has been added to the first post and player list has been updated with GDE.
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Game is still ongoing.
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As the day starts, someone barges in with a startling result - they found the Gnosia! But can they be trusted? A debate starts up and heats right off, with part of the crew staring from the sidelines, unsure of who to support. Bifauxnen herself keeps her calm during the whole affair, and as the crew reaches their final decision, she marches off to cold sleep without a word. The finale will have to wait. Bifauxnen, Gina, was sent to cold sleep Day 2! --- You mostly keep to yourself. Never the noisiest member of the crew, you are nevertheless great at spotting liars… and terrible at being one. You can come out as cold, but nothing far from the truth. You can also look like an easy target… and nothing far from the truth, either. At night, you can use ##copy on any player. You will receive a copy of the result of their Credential-based ability, if they have any. This includes fake results. --- It is now Night 2! 24h for night actions! Shellception fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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And another day starts. It isn't too long before someone notices Nep-Nep has gone missing - a customary look at her room leaves no questions unanswered. It's done. Nep-Nep, Stella, disappeared without a trace Night 2! --- Your skills mostly lie in organization. You are a kind person, and it hurts you to see your crew members attacked, though you are well aware it is a necessary evil. You don’t stand out too much - your strength lies in your logic, and your heart. You will do your best to minimize any non-necessary losses. Once per game, you can use ##join argument on a player. You will place your vote and an extra vote in the same player they are currently voting. Those votes cannot be moved, but they can be retracted (both at the same time) using ##undo. Both are public day actions, submitted in thread. --- It is now Day 3!
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As another day marches on, discusion seems to go in circles a bit. The conflicting Enginneer claims were odd, and most of the crew agreed they needed to be addressed. With that in mind, the course seemed clear for all of them - freeze PlasticAutomaton, and let time tell if it was the best course of action. PlasticAutomaton, Setsu, has been sent to Cold Sleep Day 3! --- You may not know everything that’s happening, but you sure know more than the rest. You have one mission, and you will see it through. Well, two. One is to kick out the Gnosia. The other is to try and stop the rest of the crew from killing each other. You aren’t sure which one of those is harder. At least, you are not completely alone. Once per day, you can use ##shut up to cut any day ability used by another player before it takes effect. This is a public action, submitted in thread. You are also in an unconfirmed masonry with Cassidy. --- It is now Night 3. 24h for night actions. Be mindful of the threshold due to early hammer!
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The artificial morning cycle brings out yet another, not entirely unexpected, surprise. This time, however, it's a bit more bloody. It is clear Hal Incandenza's disappearance wasn't entirely... clean cut. Hal Incandenza, Cassidy, has disappeared without a trace Night 3! --- You don’t know how you ended up here. But it’s the only thing you don’t know, because other than that, you remember everything. Every time this has happened. Who all of them are. Who said what to who, did what to who. Some of those memories you’d really want gone. But there is no escape in sight, so you need to survive... and adapt. At least, you are not completely alone. At night, you can visit a player (##ask Player) and ask them to teach their skill to you. If they agree, you gain permanent access to that ability; you can choose to keep it, or overwrite it with another ability by using ##ask again. Credential-based abilities are exempt from this. You are also in an unconfirmed masonry with Setsu. --- It is now Day 4! IMPORTANT: To avoid having a Saturday deadline, this day is shorter and will end on Friday. If you want an extended deadline, get back to me in Discord, and I will extend it by a day if enough people ask for it!
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Tensions ran high. Hal Incandenza was a good guy, he didn't deserve it. Fingers quickly fell on Yami Fenrir: he had been undeniably louder and fightier than the rest, and that didn't sit well with them. This day, they didn't let him plead - he found himself on cold sleep before he could open his mouth. Yami Fenrir, Sha-Ming, has been sent to Cold Sleep Day 4! --- You aren’t here to die. That much you are sure of. Those fools all blabber a lot, like they knew anything. You are a master of not standing out, so much that people sometimes cannot even tell you are in the same room as them. It’s all good to you, however - whatever it takes to get out of the ship alive, right? Once in a game, you can give yourself a three-stack of loved at any point, by using ##grovel. This is a public day action, submitted in thread. However, triggering this ability will take away your ability to vote for the duration of the next day. --- It is now Night 4. 24h for night actions! Due to early hammer, no lurker restrictions are issued.
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Just... no. Why. Who would wish harm on WindwardAway??? Not a single soul aboard dislikes her. News of her disappearance spread like wildfire accross the ship - and today, everyone is in an even worse mood... WindwardAway, Otome, has disappeared without a trace Night 4! --- No-one is sure in which twisted mind a human-language speaking, cart-wheeled beluga whale came to exist, but one fact is true: you are here. And you are adorable. You love people, and wish to minimize everyone’s pain. You are also loyal to a fault, have a good sense of logic, and lying is not your strong suit. But mostly, you are adorable. You have a ##Refute automatic effect, making it so you cannot be affected by negative day abilities. If targeted by them, you will block them. This effect can trigger once per day. --- It is now Day 5! Due to it being a weekend, deadline is extended to Monday.
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wologar posted:Sorry for the edit. Mod kill me. I saw the edit, I have a copy of it, and I didn't see anything that can be judged as worth whiting over. Regardless Do not edit posts. You know the rule. This is your last chance. If you still want to be modkilled, talk to me in private, don't break the game. Thank you. Game goes on.
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This day seemed longer, and the crew was tired and passive. Eventually, saladscooper was pointed at - their behaviour, they said, was "sus" even for them. He defended himself, but in the end, there was nothing they could do to avoid a trip to the freezer. Hopefully the ship won't miss its captain too much. Salascooper, Jonas, was sent to Cold Sleep Day 5! --- You are yourself. There is no other way to describe it. Dressing like a cowboy from some ancient and far away land, speaking in riddles, and doing your own thing is just how you roll. And if they don’t like it, they can jump off your ship! During the day, you can choose to redirect an ability to another target before it affects you with ##Seek Agreement. This is a secret action, submitted through your Discord, and only affects in-thread abilities. --- It is now Night 5! 24h for night actions! Shellception fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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A peaceful night follows. To everyone's surprise, the next day sees all the crew be back into their posts! Nobody died Night 5. It is now Day 6. wologar and girl dick energy have received a lurker warning.
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girldickenergy, Yuriko, was sent to cold sleep Day 6! --- Everyone knows who you are, and most of them respect, if not outright fear you. You can command the crew with an iron fist, and they will listen to you. Anybody who stands in your path knows what they are risking - they better be sure. You have a mission, and you will see it through the end, whatever it takes. Once per game, you can ##Cover for someone to erase any vote effects on your target, removing any abilities used on them (up to that point) that can affect their vote count one way or the other. At night, you can observe a target. If they die by any cause, your day ability will gain an extra charge, with a maximum of two. You will not be told any information about the cause of death. --- It is now Night 6. 24h for night actions! Shellception fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Oct 5, 2022 |
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When the ship lights come on, nobody is surprised. b-minus1 wasn't the most liked member of the crew, but to find him torn to shreds in his sleeping place was still a terrible surprise for everyone. The Gnosia were getting closer. Bolder. b-minus1, Raqio, disappeared without a trace Night 6! --- Just your luck - you are trapped in this dumb ship with a lot of beings out for your blood, and even dumber crewmates who won’t listen to you when you try to explain how it all works and why. It’s so stupid, you feel yourself losing neurons just by trying to parse it. Why wouldn’t they even listen???? Once in a game, you can use ##Retaliate to cast a thunderdome on yourself and another player. Public day action, submitted in thread. --- It is now Day 7!
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Votecount for Day 7 Not Voting (4): Guillo, hambeet, NeverHelm, wologar With 4 alive, it's 3 votes to execute. The current deadline is October 08th, 2022 at 10 p.m. CEST -- that's in about 2 days, 11 hours.
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Last opportunity. Lunch all liars, right? And something didn't feel right with hambeet. He was too sure, maybe? He did fight his fate - but in the end, he just asked for his old PS6 to be frozen with him. hambeet, Shigemichi, has been sent to Cold Sleep Day 7! --- You have been told there are alien beings in your ship. You are kind of startled at this thought. Otherwise, you are kind and well-liked, so people tend to listen to you. Ok, sometimes they get angry at you instead, but you aren’t usually considered a menace. You mostly want to be left alone to play old-style video games. If only everyone else stopped killing each other. You are an automatic scapegoat. If you get to -2 votes or less, you will gain a 1x copy of someone else’s night power. Prioritises dead player powers, and does not stack, but can trigger again if you use the power you got. Does not include credentials. --- All done, right? Surely it's over, isn't it? A smile cracks on Comet's face. Oh, It IS over, alright... Loop is over - Gnosia win! Guillo, Comet; Bifauxnen, Gina; Saladscooper, Jonas; and Yami Fenrir, Sha-Ming have won the game! Shellception fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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