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FrozenGoldfishGod posted:You seem to think I went about this backwards. I didn't start with a list of Exalted charms in front of me and start converting them: I asked my players what kinds of supernaturally potent things they wanted to be able to do. The player of the Twilight Caste specified that she wanted to be able to diagnose diseases quickly. When I asked if she wanted a stunt to help with the actual diagnosis, she pointed out that she had a perfectly good Aspect for that, so we agreed that the speed was what she wanted the stunt to modify. In other news, Fred Hicks has said that he'll make the Atomic Robo PDF available now for $10 if he hits 500 preorders of the print edition, and he's at 495. So if you were on the fence for preordering, now'd be a good time.
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So I have a situation I need help with. I want to run a game with Kamen Rider-esque powers. I was wondering how I could possibly work this, without making it overwhelming as far as extra rules. One idea I was playing with was giving a free Henshin/Transform/Whatever skill (maybe charging a fate for it?) that gives an extra die for the rest of the scene. In this case I would also have at least one of their starting stunts require them to be changed first in order for them to use it. Is this a sensible way to handle this, or is there some better way I'm not thinking of?
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The way someone handled it for a Power Ranges game was that everyone rolled Will to transform as a Create Advantage. Everyone succeeded at their transformation, but high rolls meant you took them off guard, low rolls meant they surrounded you when you took your sweet rear end time transforming, or something similarly bad. That was in addition to the benefits that transforming gave which I...don't actually remember what they were for that game.
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Krysmphoenix posted:The way someone handled it for a Power Ranges game was that everyone rolled Will to transform as a Create Advantage. Everyone succeeded at their transformation, but high rolls meant you took them off guard, low rolls meant they surrounded you when you took your sweet rear end time transforming, or something similarly bad. Oh! I like this, too. It's thematically appropriate, too, because you get a free Invoke that you can use to strike a wicked pose as a Provoke attack or something.
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That's a much more elegant way than what I thought of. I'd be interested to hear if anyone remembers those other benefits. If archives weren't broken I would go digging for the game myself.
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Oooh, that was actually my game! Yeah, in addition to the "everyone succeeds" thing, the big thing I tied to transformation was that being in human mode gave you a bonus to talky stuff with civilians (in my setting, Power Rangers were kinda feared due to their immense power and tendency to blow up parts of the city) and being stealthy (because MOTWs would be looking for spandex-clad heroes, not a couple of teens in red and blue t-shirts), but if you entered into any combat with anything other than mooks while untransformed you would quickly get your poo poo tossed.
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I would be interested in discussing the specific mechanics, if you are. I can talk here, or I have PMs, or Steam, or something.
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mikeycp posted:I would be interested in discussing the specific mechanics, if you are. I can talk here, or I have PMs, or Steam, or something. One thing that occurs to me about how you could handle this is that Aspects are always true, even without an invoke. So one of my Exalted players has the Aspect Master of the Glorious Hero Style - that means that even without an invoke or a compel, he is the undisputed master in the game world of the Glorious Hero martial arts style. His personal story has had this come up once already. I've put in a bonus rule (don't recall seeing it in Core, but it's thematically appropriate) that while you can invoke an Aspect once per scene normally, if I compel on it, you can invoke it again afterwards. In other words, compelling 'resets' an Aspect for invocation, if it's been used. The scene where he first confronted Ligier's Hammer, Chosen of the King of Kings and Master of the Infernal Monster Style, was agreed on by all the players to be one of the best fight scenes by that point in the game (though the more cerebral 'fight' scene between the Twilight Caste and Razor-Fanged Serpent has since usurped the title, according to my players.) So in a Power Rangers game, a 'Morph' aspect would be true whenever you were morphed, as a permutation on this rule - so you wouldn't need to invoke it to be Morphed, but it would only be true (and therefore, only be invokable) when you were Morphed, while a 'Human' aspect would only be true while you were in normal form. FrozenGoldfishGod fucked around with this message at 04:57 on May 23, 2014 |
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What are some ways you could compel a "Morph" aspect? It seems to me to be too one sided toward positive to be an effective aspect, unless I were to put a hard limitation on the concept of morphing in this world.
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mikeycp posted:What are some ways you could compel a "Morph" aspect? It seems to me to be too one sided toward positive to be an effective aspect, unless I were to put a hard limitation on the concept of morphing in this world. Super secret ninja technique: Not all Aspects must be double edged swords. If an Aspect Just Fits (TM) but has no downside or upside, then gently caress it, roll with it anyways. It just means you have an ol' reliable for invokes or a license to print FP, and that's fine. I'm not sure I'd use Morph Aspects on the character sheets of the PCs for a Sentai or Power Rangers game though. It almost seems to me like you'd want a World Aspect of It's Morphing Time! instead.
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Transient People posted:Super secret ninja technique: Not all Aspects must be double edged swords. If an Aspect Just Fits (TM) but has no downside or upside, then gently caress it, roll with it anyways. It just means you have an ol' reliable for invokes or a license to print FP, and that's fine. I'm not sure I'd use Morph Aspects on the character sheets of the PCs for a Sentai or Power Rangers game though. It almost seems to me like you'd want a World Aspect of It's Morphing Time! instead. This. I'll admit, the last time I saw Power Rangers was when I was, like, 8, so I'm not terribly familiar with it (or with the genre in general, really). If I were going to do something like that (hello, Lunars), I'd compel the Morph aspect in a situation where blowing their secret identity (if they have those) could up the stakes somehow, or when they're trying to do Normal Person stuff in Morph form for some reason, if you were really determined to make it a character thing. And since I'm running Exalted again tomorrow, I'd like to hear the thread's ideas on how to handle Lunars, since they're going to be making their first on-screen appearance in the campaign as (potentially) something other than 'this episode's monster', and I like to actually stat out full-on recurring characters, since that gives me some inspiration on what kinds of approaches they might try. (For one-shot characters that need a stat spread beyond 'basic concept Aspect and a stress track', I just use the FAE approaches plus a couple aspects). My basic idea is that their totem animal/Tell is a part of their Concept aspect, like a Solar's caste. Instead of a Free aspect, they get a Shape aspect. When they're in human form, this Aspect reflects whatever it is they're tied to - if they're running a tribe of barbarians, for instance, they get the Barbarian Warlord Aspect in human form, since it's pretty much irrelevant when they're not in human form. Then when they turn into, say, a Utahraptor, they get the 'Raptor Red' Aspect (or whatever; the point is, the Aspect should reflect the fact that they can jump REALLY well and claw the poo poo out of anything that comes in range). If they adopt the form of another person, they get an Aspect related to why they want that shape to begin with. The shapes they can take are based on the fiction; if a given Lunar is based heavily in the West, it makes sense that they can probably assume most common sea animal forms native to their region, and possibly one or two land/air forms based on island life. Since they're not PCs, I don't need to worry too much about Charms and stunts, beyond (again) what sounds evocative and fits the role I have in mind for them. If anyone's got a better idea for handling it, though, I'd love to hear it (and yes, I own the DFRPG books and have considered the Dresden Files shapeshifting system, though that seems a bit cumbersome for someone who could easily have 10+ forms.)
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The digital version of the Atomic Robo RPG is out today on DriveThru and Evil Hat's web store.
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Hey, Atomic Robo is pretty sweet, y'all should check it out.
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Kai Tave posted:Hey, Atomic Robo is pretty sweet, y'all should check it out. Dr. Dinosaur's sidebars are especially delightful.
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Cool things I like about Atomic Robo: 1). I've never generally had a thing for licensed games really. Like, I don't hate them but neither do I get super excited about playing an RPG in some established setting, especially settings that tend to get licensed for RPGs. That said if you're going to license an RPG then I appreciate it when the writers do more than slap a coat of license-colored paint over a game and call it a day. Atomic Robo is full of examples of play using actual scenes from the comics to illustrate how various exchanges work...a scene from Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War (a volume detailing Robo's WWII adventures) is used to show that even if someone is immune to gunfire that they should still roll defense if attacked by guns, because the attacker could still get a boost which someone else can make use of, for example. And yes, it has sidebars by Dr. Dinosaur. 2). Modes are way, way better than the skill pyramid. Also the skill list is even more consolidated than Core (there's just a single Combat skill for instance, no Resources skill, Investigate is rolled into Notice, and there's no Crafts skill), and Physique and Will are no longer must-takes if you want extra stress boxes (Athletics and Provoke can also be used to add more physical and mental boxes respectively). Given the subject matter of the game there's a single extremely broad-reaching Science skill. In addition to this it gives very simple and clear guidelines for making your own skills if you want to based on the number of applications the skill has...can it defend, can it attack, can it overcome obstacles, can it create advantages, can it be used to heal consequences, etc. 3). There's nothing radically new technology-wise as far as stunt construction goes but it provides a very flexible and clear-cut set of guidelines for new players and even I find the stunt section useful. In addition it handles super-powered stunts in a way that I think is much better than FATE Core. Being super-strong or super-tough is handled pretty elegantly, gadgets are a collection of stunt-powers wrapped in in a package along with a Function aspect and a Flaw aspect, and things like "Psychokinesis" or "Electro-Wizardry" or whatever can be handled using a custom skill as a base plus stunts to flavor. 4). Speaking of stunts, stunts no longer cost refresh which means you don't have the "I want to play a superpowered dude like, say, Atomic Robo but I start every session with one lousy fate point." Everybody has five stunt slots, and if you need more stunts' worth of stuff to make your bulletproof, super-strong, long-lived robot action scientist you can compact multiple stunts into mega-stunts which take up only a single slot. If you go over five stunts worth of cool poo poo then every stunt after that point gives the GM an extra fate point each session in a reserve bank to do GM stuff like invoke/resist compels and add stunts to NPCs. 5). No guest-starring. I think that FATE's insistence on shared backstories and guest-starring in each others' phases was a noble experiment that mainly resulted in character creation taking longer and being more fiddly than it needed to be. You have a Concept aspect, an Omega aspect, and one aspect related to each of your modes, done. Also the Omega aspect isn't a trouble per se...it can be, but it doesn't have to be. After having played through several FATE games I have to say that designating one particular aspect to be singled out as a problem seemed kind of weird since you ideally want most of your aspects to be double-edged anyway for compels, so Atomic Robo leaves it up to you. The Omega aspect can be a flaw, a quirk, or just something that didn't fit anywhere else.
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Kai Tave posted:... No guest-starring. I think that FATE's insistence on shared backstories and guest-starring in each others' phases was a noble experiment that mainly resulted in character creation taking longer and being more fiddly than it needed to be... Uh, what? Are you serious? The guest star phases are one of the best innovations in table-gaming ever made, and prevents even novice GMs from sitting down and saying, "So, you meet some people in a bar, introduce yourselves."
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Yeah I'm serious. Based on my actual play experience the way FATE handles guest-starring is way more fiddly than it needs to be with everybody deciding who's going to guest in what phase when. There are quicker and more elegant ways of tying backstories together if you need to, and if I'm making a character I like to just go on and get it done rather than waiting for the guy next to me to finish agonizing over how he wants to tie his fourth of five aspects into someone else's.
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I admit that I like the guest-star thing, but I always have problems when my players refuse to wait until everyone's at the same phase in chargen and do each guest appearance one at a time. Also I made this a while back: quote:Faction Name: The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information
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Evil Mastermind posted:I admit that I like the guest-star thing, but I always have problems when my players refuse to wait until everyone's at the same phase in chargen and do each guest appearance one at a time. I've had players get weirdly hung up on the idea that the guest star phases have to be in chronological order and spend way too much time figuring out who was where when. It's a great idea in theory, but I think I prefer something like Apocalypse World's Hx or Monsterhearts' backstory for establishing intra-group connections. Evil Mastermind posted:Also I made this a while back: That's a better Buckaroo Banzai game than anything Gareth Skarka could have done. I'm working my way through Atomic Robo--so far I'm really digging it. The brainstorming rules in particular are a great piece of genre emulation. For those who don't have the game, brainstorming is a challenge in which all ghe PCs kibbutz about some weird scientific phenomenon, creating scene Aspects to represent the various clues they've unearthed. Things like Turing Is Involved Somehoe or Unique Positron Signature. Once you've established a few clues, the playrt with the most victories gets to declare a hypothesis about what the hell is going on--and that hypothesis is true. It's a fantastic rule, and one I'd adapt to anything from a House-style medical drama to a game of monster hunters trying to figure out what's eating people this week.
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GimpInBlack posted:That's a better Buckaroo Banzai game than anything Gareth Skarka could have done.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Tell me about it. Buckaroo Banzai slots into the Roboverse almost perfectly. At most you'd need a "Perform" skill if you wanted to do gigs as a type of conflict to win over a crowd or something. I don't know what you're talking about. Rock and Roll is clearly a Science.  Seriously though, yeah. Atomic Robo does basically any combination of pulp action and procedural mystery you could want. I'd even say it does Spirit of the Century better than Spirit of the Century, even with the Fate Core upgrade.
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The thing it, it works well for any "action/weird science" series; Buckaroo Banzai, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Fringe...
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Evil Mastermind posted:Tell me about it. Buckaroo Banzai slots into the Roboverse almost perfectly. GimpInBlack posted:I don't know what you're talking about. Rock and Roll is clearly a Science. quote:Seriously though, yeah. Atomic Robo does basically any combination of pulp action and procedural mystery you could want. Evil Mastermind posted:The thing it, it works well for any "action/weird science" series; Buckaroo Banzai, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Fringe...
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah I'm serious. Based on my actual play experience the way FATE handles guest-starring is way more fiddly than it needs to be with everybody deciding who's going to guest in what phase when. There are quicker and more elegant ways of tying backstories together if you need to, and if I'm making a character I like to just go on and get it done rather than waiting for the guy next to me to finish agonizing over how he wants to tie his fourth of five aspects into someone else's. Yeah, gonna vouch for it. Guest Stars are a neat idea in theory, but the practice just doesn't work. You can't make a team gel together with forced cooperation. It just ends up in people halfheartedly doing some poo poo to slot another facet of their characters in when they should be showcasing relationships. I know I've done it before.
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Evil Mastermind posted:The thing it, it works well for any "action/weird science" series; Buckaroo Banzai, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Fringe... Truth. It also, with a very small tweak, works for monster of the week type games in the vejn of Buffy or Supernatural. Just change the Science mode to Occult, and let people specialize in demonology or witchcraft or whatever. Hyperactive posted:The first Robo RPG supplement, which I'm working on right now, has what I hope to be an interesting and unexpectedly canonical take on doing things like that. You have my attention.
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Hyperactive posted:The first Robo RPG supplement, which I'm working on right now, has what I hope to be an interesting and unexpectedly canonical take on doing things like that. Personally, I just expect everything to cross over to AR naturally. Even things that don't. This is a great article. I've always had a guilty pleasure for L&O, myself.
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Transient People posted:Yeah, gonna vouch for it. Guest Stars are a neat idea in theory, but the practice just doesn't work. You can't make a team gel together with forced cooperation. It just ends up in people halfheartedly doing some poo poo to slot another facet of their characters in when they should be showcasing relationships. I know I've done it before. My experience in play has been this; whenever a game tells players to tie their character backstory together the biggest effect this has ever had on a game, ever, is to simply elide past the dread specter of "you all meet in a bar." That's it. That's the big benefit I've seen to guest-starring in FATE. Now I'm all for skipping past introductions and getting to the actual game that everyone's interested in, but I think calling this "one of the best innovations in tabletop gaming" is a bit of a stretch. And as far as tying characters together goes, at no point have I ever been in a game where the guest-starring has given rise to any real meaningful interactions outside of a quick "oh it's you again" at the very beginning of the game which might as well be the shared-backstory version of "Greetings!" The interactions that players remember, the relationships and rivalries and crazy stories and stuff that they actually care about and have a meaningful impact on how the story develops? All happen in the course of actual play. I don't loathe guest-starring, it doesn't make me grit my teeth in seething frustration to see it on the page, but I think it's refreshing to see a FATE game just go "make your own characters, worry about shared backgrounds later."
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It worked once for me, when the other guy by coincidence made a super-butler character who meshed right with my super-rich-girl, but all the other times it's kind of fallen flat. I'm inclined to agree that the guest stories technique doesn't really do much for the gameplay nor for roleplaying. It doesn't harm anything, but mandating a certain number of aspects depending on others ends up being pretty uninteresting most of the time, doubly so if you do the passing cards thing and who you've guest-starred with is random. The idea of making characters with some shared background is good, but it works if and when it's organic, not because the rules require it.
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TheDemon posted:It doesn't harm anything, but mandating a certain number of aspects depending on others ends up being pretty uninteresting most of the time, doubly so if you do the passing cards thing and who you've guest-starred with is random. The first time I ever played Spirit of the Century with a sit-down tabletop group we did this because it sounded so awesome and let me tell you, it was a lot less awesome in practice than it was in our heads.
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What kinds of replacements for guest stars are there, preferably not from another book? Would just giving more background or other kinds of aspects work?
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mikeycp posted:What kinds of replacements for guest stars are there, preferably not from another book? Would just giving more background or other kinds of aspects work? Just cut them, 5 Aspects is the sweet spot IMO.
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Piell posted:Just cut them, 5 Aspects is the sweet spot IMO. Yeah, this. More than five aspects and I find that A). I never use all of them and B). I struggle to think of enough solid aspect concepts to fill a list longer than five for any given character. I'm not sure there really needs to be an alternative to guest-starring as a formal FATE thing, really. "Hey, you all know each other already, figure out how. Or don't. It's cool either way." If players want to do this then they'll kinda do it without the game mandating it, if they don't or aren't feeling it then just letting stuff sort itself out in actual play works just fine.
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah, this. More than five aspects and I find that A). I never use all of them and B). I struggle to think of enough solid aspect concepts to fill a list longer than five for any given character. Seconding this, especially the bit about five being the sweet spot. With the Guest Starring Aspects, I've found that they tend to work best when used in a game like the Dresden Files RPG. Since the setting for the DFRPG has as a core tenet of it that the supernatural is hidden from normal life, the Guest Starring Aspects and the process you run through to create them provide you with a reason why you're calling that guy when things get weird - and why he won't just write you off as delusional when you call him up, babbling about werewolves. Is that the only way to handle this? No. In fact, just saying, "Okay, you guys all know each other, and you all are at least partially clued-in to the fact that the world has some weird stuff going on that doesn't make the news" can work well. But in a setting where there isn't some vast, setting-wide secret that the PCs are all assumed to be in the know on to one degree or another, then that extra step isn't really necessary.
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Yeah, the default setting of Atomic Robo is one where weird science stuff is out there in the open (mostly) and you can apply for a job in Action Science at Tesladyne Industries. If you're just interested in running a game straight out of the book using the setting as presented (not a terrible assumption in a licensed RPG) then getting everyone on the same page is really just as simple as saying "you all work for Tesladyne doing sciencey stuff, Atomic Robo is currently doing something wayyyyyyyyy over there but you're all over here and Rhode Island has suddenly vanished, go."
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I honestly feel like the shared history mechanics in Apocalypse and some of its variants do far more elegantly what the Guest Star thing awkwardly tries to do.
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mikeycp posted:What kinds of replacements for guest stars are there, preferably not from another book? Would just giving more background or other kinds of aspects work? Just poach the DFRPG model, IMO. Background, Rising Action, First Adventure, done. Most players have shittons of trouble summing up an entire character's life in a single Aspect, for very good reasons, but three is a different story altogether. Incidentally, I think seven Aspects is also a good sweet spot, depending on the kind of players you have. Some characters are just too nuanced to write down in five catchy phrases, but seven tends to do the trick for even the most complicated ones.
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah, this. More than five aspects and I find that A). I never use all of them and B). I struggle to think of enough solid aspect concepts to fill a list longer than five for any given character. I think that you're talking about the Spirit of the Century rules here rather than Fate Core. And Spirit of the Century's guest star mechanic was very much a first generation "Hey, we should do something like this." *Drops a big hammer of a mechanic that's clunky in actual play.* As such it was a pretty huge innovation and IMO a great one. But was also very much first generation technology with all the risks of blowing up in your face experimental mechanics have. The second generation of that approach, the one used by Apocalypse World's Hx or Fate Core is much much better in play but isn't such an innovation. Fate Core's version reads "Describe your character’s first adventure. Describe how you’ve crossed paths with two other characters. Write down one aspect for each of these three experiences." Does most of the same thing. Enough of a hook to work, enough freedom to not fall apart.
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neonchameleon posted:I think that you're talking about the Spirit of the Century rules here rather than Fate Core. And Spirit of the Century's guest star mechanic was very much a first generation "Hey, we should do something like this." *Drops a big hammer of a mechanic that's clunky in actual play.* As such it was a pretty huge innovation and IMO a great one. But was also very much first generation technology with all the risks of blowing up in your face experimental mechanics have. Well, in SotC you had to come up with two aspects per phase, so you had to have two for your story and two for each guest spot. That's on top of your two for high concept and...whatever the second phase was. SotC was really bad with the "aspect fatigue" thing because you had to come up with 10 character aspects. Believe it or not, Bulldogs is even worse.
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May 24, 2014 15:09
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