https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h29zK6_VstU Japanifornia was in a tizzy. A prison break loosed a number of unsavory characters who are assumed to have killed three guards during their escape. The police were able to find a good helping of suspects who might've caused the prison break or otherwise been responsible for the deaths, but there was no decisive evidence to bring against any of them. They were, however, quite certain that at least some of them must be guilty, and also had the fortune of finding some potentially useful advisors who definitely weren't involved in the prison break, so the lot of them have been brought before the honorable Judge, the best defense attorney the state had ever known, and the best available prosecuting attorney of the court system in order to catch the killers and ensure justice is done swiftly. The gallery nods appreciatively at Judge, but murmurs at the sight of the defense and prosecution. Is it just their imagination or is something odd about them? Welcome to Phoenix Wright Original Trilogy Mafia! This is an almost vanilla game for a total of 11 people. There are, however, several aspects of this that will be pretty different from the usual vanilla game, and if things go well I'm looking at running three games to go with the first trilogy of the series. Setup details: 2 stumps (this is a position you may volunteer for on signup, see below for more details) 3 mod-confirmed town 3 town 3 scum 1 quantumly-assigned doctor role The stumps are, as you've probably guessed, the defense and prosecuting attorneys. Once the game is filled, and the stumps are assigned, I will flip a coin; if it comes up heads, both stumps will be town-aligned; if it comes up tails, I'll flip another coin to find out which stump is scum and the other stump will be town-aligned. Role distribution will be as follows:
Stumps will hold some additional powers. The use of those will require both stumps to shake on a proposal in thread AND a majority of the players to vote YES in their private confessionals. They go into effect next game day:
For convenience's sake, I will offer the 24 hour day modifier option on N0 to all players so that (if desired) D1 can be shorter. For every other game day, if the stumps do not reach an agreement on a modifier before the game day ends, no modifier will be put up for vote overnight. Days will, if not modified in this way, be 48 hours, and night will be 24 hours. Below are the PMs I currently have cooked up for all four possible stump outcomes plus the text the doctor will receive: Town DA: quote:
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Doctor: quote:You are a doctor! At night you may ##protect a player of your choice from the night kill, and if they are attacked you will prevent them from dying. You may not protect the same player two nights in a row. The CYOF means that you may choose your own flavor with the general caveat that your flavor pick must be somebody who showed up in Ace Attorney, Justice For All, or Trials and Tribulations. This is open to the stumps as well with the specific caveat that you need to give me an argument that's at least good enough for Judge for any and all alternative flavor picks that would make sense given your precise role (defense or prosecution) and alignment (town or scum). The entire first trilogy is fairly fresh in my mind so this is not intended to be a serious stumbling block when it comes to reasonable alternatives, I just have some questions for my own sanity's sake if you want to argue that Wendy Oldbag should be your town defense attorney flavor (for instance). If I receive acceptable requests for alternative stump flavor, they will generally fall in line with the default options above in terms of language and spirit. For non-stumps, flavor picks are wide open. I already have a pretty good idea how Matt Engarde, Viola, and Redd White are confirmed town, for instance, so it probably won't be hard to write flavor around anybody else either no matter what their alignment ends up as. Small Stump Volunteer Notice So you wanna be a stump? Cool! But before you whip out your lounge chair and relax with your special sunglasses that fake you having your eyes open, I'm gonna have to level with you about how this isn't exactly a typical stump assignment. You see, it's not gonna be much of a Phoenix Wright Mafia if the attorneys aren't pounding their desks, pointing their fingers, and shouting at each other and the suspects on the stand. I'm not going to ask a lot, but I am going to ask nicely that as a volunteer you ensure you're ready to play at least as much as you would if you were voteable (or at least try to shoot for that, y'know). Furthermore, if you as a stump drop below the lurker threshold as outlined in the rules below without some sort of reasonable explanation or obvious circumstances, I will modkill you at the end of that day as you're clearly in dereliction of your duties to the court system. If you have something going on that is temporary, please tell me as much in advance as possible and I promise I will be understanding. If something happens that isn't temporary, I'll be more than happy to get a replacement in for you. I will also warn you ahead of time if I think you're in danger, and I'm willing to extend grace if poo poo happens to me or I gently caress up or half the planet explodes or something. You can probably still slack off plenty more than you might normally too, but given that you will get the power to heavily shape the game and how days play out, it'd be a major bummer for you to disappear for no reason with no obvious recourse for anyone else. Q&A Q. Mafia-like? What's that? A. This just means that normal assumptions about alignment composition and other general features of your average Mafia game aren't in effect. This game is open setup and so the violations of the usual Mafia norms (such as the presence of mod-confirmed town and more scum than usual) are viewable right on the tin. Q. Are spoilers okay? A. Yep, spoilers for the first trilogy will be all over this and any flavor I write for how the game days go, so go nuts. If you've never played the first trilogy, there's a Let's Play of the first game here and of the second game that's not far in but available here. If you're allergic to spoilers, I'm sorry. Q. I love picking my own flavor! I wanna be... A. Hold up. When the game fills, I'll put you in a confessional and you can tell me there. It'll be good if you tell me another way, but the easiest admin option for running this part smoothly is having y'all in one place that I can go down the line checking everything off like a to-do list. I appreciate your patience in advance. Q. I don't know/remember anybody from the first trilogy, anything you can do to help me pick a flavor? A. Sure! Here is a link to a condensed character list with pictures. If you don't pick something, I will pick something for you semi-randomly. Note, I didn't make that crack about confirmed town Matt Engarde for no reason... Q. How are the three mod confirmed town chosen exactly? A. Suppose Stump 1 chooses players ABC and Stump 2 chooses players DEF. Both first picks are unique, so A and D are confirmed immediately; B and E are both unique, so the third confirmed town player is rolled randomly between B and E (resulting in a confirmed group of either ADB or ADE). If instead the choices had been ABC and AEF, the first unique pick would be A, followed by the second picks of B and E, resulting in a confirmed group of ABE. And of course, if both choice groupings were ABC, you'd get a confirmed group of players A, B, and C. Q. Do I get any say as a player over whether these modifiers happen or not? A. Yes. When the stumps ##propose and ##shake on a modifier suggestion for the next day in the thread, that night all players will be given the chance to vote YES or NO on whether the modifier goes through or not in their confessionals. Rejected modifiers will not be used up, but will not go into effect and the day will proceed via usual majority hammer rules. Why modifier proposals fail may be an interesting question to get into if it happens, of course... Q. Um, I'm still a little unclear on how I'm supposed to do this modifier thing..? A. First, you would (for example) ##propose 24-hour thunderdome. Then your counterpart would, if they liked it as-is, quote your proposal and ##shake to accept it, and you in turn would quote them and ##shake as well. After this, I would post a short acknowledgement that the modifier/s will be up for vote by the players overnight, and then it'll be up to them if they like the idea or not. If your counterpart didn't like it, then they could discuss it with you and/or propose an alternative idea for the next day. If there is no quote back-and-forth clearly indicating agreement on a proposal between both of you before hammer falls, no modifier proposal will be put up for player vote. This will be covered in the catchall courtesy OP information mentioned underneath your flavor. Q. Hang on, didn't you say something about these modifiers being oneshots? A. Yes. The 24 hour modifier is the sole exception and may be used every day if a majority agrees to it; for all other modifiers, once they are agreed to between the stumps and a majority of the players and go into effect for a given day, they can't be used again later in the same game. Better make them count. Q. Hey, two wiseguys got on the stump list before me! I'm not out of luck, am I? A. If there's more than two volunteers for the stump position by the time the player pool fills, the two stumps will be chosen randomly from the whole and the rest will be made Q. Slightly confused on the stump lurking policy still. A. Same as the standard for players except there is no grace day without some sort of discussion. You drop below 10 posts for a game day with no reason why, you get the boot when the day ends and your counterpart has sole control over sending modifiers up for player vote. As mentioned above, though, I'll be understanding if you have some sort of IRL poo poo going on that's temporary, I just gotta know that that's why you're having trouble posting. I also will not hold it against you if people take a 24 hour day as an excuse to turbo somebody else in the first half an hour or whatever other similar stuff might happen that would catch anybody off guard. Rule 0, the important one that overrules all other rules: First and foremost, we are here to have fun and enjoy ourselves. Please make sure that at all times you put your own sanity and mental well-being first. If at any point you feel like you're having a bad time, like someone's taking things too far or you just need someone to talk to, please contact your mods or one of our many community volunteers. The following users have been suggested as points of contact if you do not feel you can reach out to me: The Traditional Games forum moderators, Leperflesh and Antivehicular; and Mafia regulars VoodooFly, Hal Insandenza, Bifauxnen, Monathin, Wologar, Maerlyn, Cloacamazing!, EccoRaven, CCKeane, Opopanax, Sandwolf and Shellception. 1. General mafia rules apply. If you are playing, do NOT discuss the game outside the thread or authorized OOT channels! 2. Please don't lurk. The lurker threshold will be 10 posts per game day, with the requisite being halved for hammers that happen 12h or earlier, and eliminated if 24h to deadline or earlier. If the game day is reduced to 24 hours, the aforementioned requisite halving will be applied at a quarter of the day or less and half of the day or less respectively. Communication is key - if something important is keeping you from posting and I can accommodate it, tell me! First time is a warning, second one is a modkill. Courtesy warnings will be provided to all, but as mentioned earlier stumps will be held to a higher standard; see above and your PM for more details. 3. Do not edit your posts. If there is a big reason you need to do so, tell us first. 4. 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. 5. Do not fake day actions. If you have been affected by a day action, please wait for it to resolve before posting. 6. 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! 7. Days will generally be about 48 hours long, depending on the usual of week/weekend landings and my schedule. Hammers are also generally by majority. Both of these as mentioned above may be modified on a day to day basis, check upthread for more information. 8. Everything game-wise will be managed or accessed through Discord; please join using the link at the bottom so that you can get settled in and set up. Result language and action notes (shamelessly repeated from prior games): 1. A result that successfully targets will yield the result. "You successfully x your target" 2. A result that does not successfully target will yield the result. "Your action fails." 3. If a player name is ever mentioned as part of a result other than those that require it, this is a mod error. 4. A "successful" target is defined as an ability resolving on someone. This does not have to be the intended target, so a redirected result will yield the same language as a result that has not been redirected. Players:
Stump/Attorney Volunteers:
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Discord link HERE. * - I've changed my mind and decided that if we hit 11 people between stump volunteers and players with no obvious major influx of signups that volunteers that are not chosen by the Note: All living, voteable players count for both the lurkerdome and thunderdome, regardless of any role they may have. Lurkerdomes and thunderdomes also, once agreed to overnight, cannot be forfeited via no-execution votes - if neither player is voted out, one will die by RNG. Ignatius M. Meen fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Jul 15, 2024 |
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# ? Jan 26, 2025 01:10 |
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Consider this my application for stump: 1.
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:10 |
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what the gently caress keyboard? 1. I hate lawyers 2. I'm a licensed lawyer in multiple countries 3. I've never once said a word in a courtroom officially as a lawyer (I have called more than one police officers a violent thug in court but I was a witness!) 4. I have no clue what this game is going to be like but it sounds like it could be a hilariously fun mess 5. I've played like five minutes of Phoenix Wright because, again, I hate lawyers, even animated ones.
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:12 |
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Voodoofly posted:Consider this my application for stump: (not a signup)
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:16 |
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THIS IS A SIGNUP
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:20 |
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Not a sign up because I don't have the capacity for this I think but this is a insanely cool setup hahah
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:38 |
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STUMP ME
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:51 |
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Sounds hosed up I'm in
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 16:59 |
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I’m playing.
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 21:03 |
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Toalpaz posted:Not a sign up because I don't have the capacity for this I think but this is a insanely cool setup hahah
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# ? Jul 4, 2024 21:25 |
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I want to be a stump as I’ve done trials before in doing my part to put criminals on the street where they belong
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# ? Jul 5, 2024 00:20 |
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I was afraid for my life. I will answer your questions once my attorney is present.
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# ? Jul 5, 2024 06:23 |
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:Stump/Attorney Volunteers: NOTE: RANDOM STUMP PICKING WILL NOW BE IN EFFECT (so long as this list has more than two people in it)* Anybody wanna hydrastump? Or Stumperdome, I'm down for Stumperdome.
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# ? Jul 5, 2024 06:31 |
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Cloacamazing! posted:Anybody wanna hydrastump? I would 100% hydrastump, but only if one of us Lisa and the other tells the truth
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# ? Jul 5, 2024 18:01 |
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stump me burk
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# ? Jul 7, 2024 03:56 |
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Zoya posted:stump me wait no there's already 3 stump signups instead, give me unspoiled obs and make me a confessional ghost of one of the two stumps, i'll haunt them to victory
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# ? Jul 7, 2024 03:58 |
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Zoya has my vote
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# ? Jul 7, 2024 04:42 |
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I would like to hydrastump with Zoya please
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# ? Jul 7, 2024 07:08 |
I need more players before I can hydrastump anybody.
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# ? Jul 7, 2024 07:25 |
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Ok
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# ? Jul 7, 2024 13:31 |
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Sounds fun why not
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 15:40 |
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Sure sure, sign me up!
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 16:12 |
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Fwiw I didn’t notice this game cuz it does t have [mafia] in front of it and I ignore such posts in the game room
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 16:42 |
shwinnebego posted:Fwiw I didn’t notice this game cuz it does t have [mafia] in front of it and I ignore such posts in the game room Fair enough, it was pure caprice to not make Mafia a tag. We've hit 11 people total so we'll resolve the stumps first and then get things rolling after that.
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 16:46 |
wologar posted:
Toalpaz posted:Not a sign up because I don't have the capacity for this I think but this is a insanely cool setup hahah Y'all interested in observing? If so you may vote in the stump elections.
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 17:00 |
Also: Paging AN to the Discord server, I can't put you in the elections channel if you're not there, please join at your earliest convenience.
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 17:07 |
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:Y'all interested in observing? If so you may vote in the stump elections. I’ll just be reading along for now, I’ll leave the decision to the others
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 17:41 |
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dammit i really wanna sign up for this but i just got down to 2 games and im still on vacation for another 10 days lol
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# ? Jul 8, 2024 22:06 |
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/in
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# ? Jul 9, 2024 04:46 |
mollyohreally posted:dammit i really wanna sign up for this but i just got down to 2 games and im still on vacation for another 10 days lol If I can manage it and this isn't a trainwreck there will be at least one more round. You can always obs either spoiled or unspoiled! Ignatius M. Meen fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Jul 9, 2024 |
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:If I can manage it and this isn't a trainwreck there will be at least one more round. You can always obs either spoiled or unspoiled! put me in unspoiled and i will sub in if needed
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# ? Jul 9, 2024 15:27 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEGVxLs6Sr0 The honorable Judge sits down at the head of the court and proceeds to address the room: "We are gathered here to resolve the case of the recent prison break that led to the deaths of three valiant guards. Our team of police and prosecutors have gathered together several likely suspects and a few definite innocents in order that our stalwart lawyers may be able to collectively find the truth and bring the killers to justice. This trial shall now begin and as you all know, justice must be found swiftly if it is to be found at all." Punkreas, AN, and DkKoba are MOD CONFIRMED TOWN-ALIGNED. D1 begins!
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 19:48 |
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Votecount for Day 1 Not voting: AnonymousNarcotics, DkKoba, Hal Incandenza, Opopanax, Punkreas, shwinnebego, Voodoofly, Your Personal Muse, yuming With 9 alive, it's 5 votes to execute. The current deadline is July 12th, 2024 at 4 p.m. CDT -- that's in about 2 days, 1 hour.
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 19:49 |
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:AN MOD CONFIRMED TOWN-ALIGNED
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 19:52 |
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I'm not mod-confirmed Town, rude.
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 19:56 |
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Honored judge, people of the jury, audience. I am Miles Edgeworth, prosecutor of the state of Japanifornia. I would like to thank the jury for nominating me for this important office. I will do my best to make certain that the nefarious criminals will be brought to swift justice. Three as of yet unidentified villains have caused an unprecedented prison break in our beloved home state of Japanifornia. We do not know their identities yet, but we do know that they are among the faces we see gathered here today. I ask that the criminals identify themselves immediately, so as to not waste our court's precious time. Remember your pride as japanifornian citizens and confess. Fail to do so, and you shall be given no clemency! Thank you.
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 19:57 |
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Having solved the case, the prosecution will now go to sleep. I expect this to be wrapped up by the time I return.
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 20:03 |
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I will only talk through my long standing lawyer, Voodoofly
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 20:06 |
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I’m town. So uh, how does this game work again? Do we vote scum or is there some other system
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# ? Jul 10, 2024 20:14 |
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# ? Jan 26, 2025 01:10 |
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I hardclaim mafia
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