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Leperflesh posted:It only took one turn for the car to arrive, disembark Carlos, and Carlos to get into his mech ready to pilot it out the next turn. Based on that, I expect if the car ends its turn in a hex with the acolyte, it'll be able to move the following turn with the acolyte on board. Carlos was exceptionally highly motivated.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Carlos was exceptionally highly motivated. and a Comstar acolyte who just got backstabbed wouldn't be? 
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:My only concern with backing out too far too fast is that I don't know how long it'll take the car to pick up the ComStar Acolyte. If the car needs to sit still for a turn, that will make it a much more tempting target. Well, the car is not 'Mech height. With the hills in front of the dome, the Red Shadow Hawk doesn't have LoS to it from it's current position. There's also the wreckage of three destroyed vehicles (One violently via ammo cookoff) littering up the front in front of the dome, so he probably can't get a good look even if he knows he needs to. I can go somewhere like 0913 facing south, which leaves me not too great withdrawl options on the following turn, but it does mean if the Red guy rounds the corner and faces the car to investigate, he'll give me a rear armor shot. (I mean yea I guess mechs don't need to face stuff to investigate them but thematically it fits). I just can't risk firing many weapons since I have to ride a delicate heat line which a Plasma hit would totally ruin, I reallllly do not want to lose 1 MP at this point.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Carlos was exceptionally highly motivated. Given that a battletech "turn" is sort of a nebulous handwavey concept anyway, I'm fine with that much happening in one turn. Especially given the scenario, and your general inclination to present scenarios that are difficult due to the size, composition, and intelligence of the enemy, rather than some random poo poo the players can't do anything about taking too long or whatever.
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Leperflesh posted:Given that a battletech "turn" is sort of a nebulous handwavey concept anyway, I'm fine with that much happening in one turn. Especially given the scenario, and your general inclination to present scenarios that are difficult due to the size, composition, and intelligence of the enemy, rather than some random poo poo the players can't do anything about taking too long or whatever. None of that's stopped me from getting completely trounced this mission, that's for sure. The dice are a harsh mistress. What they giveth, they also taketh. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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Aug 25, 2015 02:50
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Two headcaps and two "Needs three, rolled two" failed consciousness rolls are pretty damned brutal :x
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Aug 25, 2015 03:38
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Welcome to a day in the life of your players.
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PoptartsNinja posted:None of that's stopped me from getting completely trounced this mission, that's for sure. And it made for a very  second act for this mission, so kudos to the dice.
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Voyager I posted:Welcome to a day in the life of your players. You just had to say it, didn't you? Wrap it up, guys, all of us are getting headshotted now.
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Aug 25, 2015 08:28
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No headcaps once the dusk modifier becomes +2 
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Aug 25, 2015 09:02
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PoptartsNinja posted:Carlos was exceptionally high
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Aug 25, 2015 09:42
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Voyager I posted:Welcome to a day in the life of your players. hey now, I did just fine by PTN's dice. And you did just fine until more or less dying in every possible way all at once on the last turn there.
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Aug 25, 2015 17:44
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The thought of someone being really baked and trying to use that weird 360-degree field of vision that mech HUDs have is cracking me up, even without factoring the use of heavy weapons.
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Aug 25, 2015 18:04
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PoptartsNinja posted:None of that's stopped me from getting completely trounced this mission, that's for sure. If the players never, ever get a solid, unambiguous victory, then eventually things just get too grim. And one hallmark of this particular round has been excellent coordination by the players, and few if any missed turns. I think even if they've gotten some really good lucky dice rolls, they've also earned whatever victory they manage here.
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Leperflesh posted:If the players never, ever get a solid, unambiguous victory, then eventually things just get too grim. And one hallmark of this particular round has been excellent coordination by the players, and few if any missed turns. I think even if they've gotten some really good lucky dice rolls, they've also earned whatever victory they manage here. Piratetech was a glorious total victory, at least. This is roughly on that level in terms of group coordination and tactics, so bravo guys. Keep it up! You've got worse problems to deal with, so at this point if things don't go your way you still have put up a hell of a fight. It's going to be hard to pick an MVP this time.
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apostateCourier posted:Piratetech was a glorious total victory, at least.
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Thaddius the Large posted:The thought of someone being really baked and trying to use that weird 360-degree field of vision that mech HUDs have is cracking me up, even without factoring the use of heavy weapons. There needs to be a mission where the players are on experimental battle amphetamines that make them 1/1 pilots but the drawback is they hallucinate the enemy mechs moving to different hexes and the players have to guess which is real and which isn't.
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Orders in. Moving the Cerebus in reverse to 1015, then turning to face 1014 and torso-twisting to face 0915. Unloading on (hopefully) Orange.
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Endomorphic posted:Which was the cause of the current Capellan Power Ranger situation, right? First the dice giveth, then the dice shooteth you with them. Nah, the Death Commando campaign way back when is the cause of the current Capellan Legendary Beast squad. Apostate was referring to the Redjack Ryan pirate one two missions ago where they were able to bust out some sweet wrasslin' moves in that amazing Wrestlemech. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 00:57
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The Death Commando missions were also a pretty good set of player victories, including a DFA by a mech with no jets. Really the players all do rather well, even if sometimes the coordination is hard and/or mistakes are made and/or turns are missed. Even when the players get trounced (elemental death squad in space) it's still a great read. Luthien remains one of my favorite fights because of how high the stakes were and how narrowly the players made it out of that one.
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I'm going with moving to 0810, shooting at Red Ranger if at all possible. It's probably the only thing I will have LoS on, but it's definitely the thing I want taking fire.
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Aug 26, 2015 03:52
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You guys were doing so good. Viva! 
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Aug 26, 2015 17:31
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It has been 0 Days since Mandozer hosed goons.
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apostateCourier posted:Piratetech was a glorious total victory, at least. This is roughly on that level in terms of group coordination and tactics, so bravo guys. Keep it up! You've got worse problems to deal with, so at this point if things don't go your way you still have put up a hell of a fight. It's going to be hard to pick an MVP this time. well, for the players, yeah. For the enemies? Easy. The Flea.
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Preemptive  Mandozer's open lege: I hope whatever happens he can still make it out we were SO CLOSE TO THE FINISH LINE~ Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Aug 26, 2015 |
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Aug 26, 2015 17:41
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Here lies Carlos Marik Pepperony and chease
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Wait did he just forget to submit his orders entirely? Rofl I just realized I didn't see what he posted he'd do in the thread, and we've been talking about this game the whole time in #megamek.
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PoptartsNinja posted:You guys were doing so good. I had college poo poo to do! I had to see Omarion in concert yo.
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Orders in I really don't care who gets shot as long as they have a reasonable chance of getting shot by a LPL and isn't friendly.
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Voyager I posted:It has been 0 Days since Mandozer hosed goons. 
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So who's ready for the big reveal?
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PoptartsNinja posted:So who's ready for the big reveal? I'm not. Can you delay it until next week?
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Psion posted:I'm not. Can you delay it until next week? Absolutely!
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Psion posted:I'm not. Can you delay it until next week? Don't you ruin this for us, Psion!
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Psion posted:I'm not. Can you delay it until next week? noooo 
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Psion posted:I'm not. Can you delay it until next week? Here lies Psion pepperony and chease
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Psion posted:I'm not. Can you delay it until next week? Never in the annals of our history has an avatar been more appropriate for a post.
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Behind Enemy Lines: Tactical Update 17 “Holding back in a battle is foolish. When, exactly, did we become the two-hundred fifties?” Inside his own neurohelmet, Zhu Que’s voice was deep and powerful, reverberating from somewhere deep within his chest. He let his volume build until he felt it in his bones—well aware that his transmission would strip all inflection from his words and leave them cold and robotic. Unlike most people, he loved the sound of his own voice. Zhu Que was still more than happy to chew a little scenery even when the audience was himself alone. “Tianlong,” he queried, “the Prefectorate Guard did a terrible job softening up the enemy, when we return to society we should issue a complaint to the Director about their constant interference in our project. Because of them, the enemy likely to escape without serious loss. Permission to cut loose?” There was a brief delay, just long enough to let Zhu Que stew in his cramped cockpit. His secondary monitors flickered as the beetle-shaped Maelstrom toggled its ECM into a wide-area suppression, likely in an attempt to cut his communications. His eyes focused on that purple-and-white form as though trying to bore through its armor with his stare alone. The Union-class DropShip’s transmission was too powerful and too brief for the enemy’s ECM to be truly effective. “Heavenly lance, control says: permission granted. Do not embarrass us.” Zhu Que didn’t bother to reply, letting his hands slip from the controls for a moment to crack his dark knuckles. He could keep his Shadow Hawk upright and in motion with thought alone, but when the shooting started again he wanted his hands as responsive as the machine he piloted. He reached out, switching back to his primary communications circuit. “Lance,” he broadcast, “disengage your engine power limiters. We have gotten permission to push our machines to their operational limits. Command doesn’t care how many of the enemy escapes—that shame will be borne by the Prefectorate Guard—but I want to prove our value. Pick a target and cripple it, I want one of those pilots captured alive.” “It is about time!” Xuan Wu’s emotionless-sounding voice crackled. Zhu Que mirrored her untransmitted elation “Throttling down the power of a 385 engine is such a waste.” “It’s time to show them some color,” Bai Hu cut in, nearly interrupting Xuan Wu’s broadcast. “Horse horse tiger tiger,” Qing Long’s laughter didn’t translate, transmitting as a series of clicks. She was always quick to judge Bai Hu’s language harshly. “That was almost the appropriate use for that, wind flower snow moon.” Bai Hu’s radio crackled noisily as he growled like his namesake, like Qing’s laughter the radio wasn’t sure what to transmit and sent only noise. “I do not care, as long as we can break these turtle eggs.” “There, see?” Qing Long couldn’t resist the last word. “I knew you would get one right eventually.”   Movement Phase War Dog (Player) - Generating Ghost Targets on Grand Titan (4 base + 2 ECM Tuning = 6): rolled 8, succeeds! MOS: 2! Maelstrom (Player) - Switches ECM to ECM! Shooting Phase War Dog (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 1314! - Fires Large Pulse Laser at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 11, hit Center Torso (19/28 armor remaining)! - Fires Medium Pulse Laser at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 9, hit Left Arm (12/18 armor remaining)! - Gains 16 heat, sinks 20! Nightstar (Player) - Fires Gauss Rifle at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 11): rolled 8, miss! - Fires Gauss Rifle at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 11): rolled 6, miss! - Fires ER PPC at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (4 base + 2 range + 0 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 11): rolled 7, miss! - Gains 17 heat, sinks 28! Maelstrom (Player) - Torso-twists to threaten hex 0811! - Fires ER PPC at Shadow Hawk Zhu Que (Red) (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 11): rolled 7, miss! - Gains 17 heat, sinks 34! Cerberus (Player) - Fires Gauss Rifle at Shadow Hawk Zhu Que (Red) (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 10): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Gauss Rifle at Shadow Hawk Zhu Que (Red) (4 base + 0 range + 1 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 10): rolled 7, miss! - Gains 3 heat, sinks 30! Grand Titan (Allied) - Fires Large X-Pulse Laser at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (2 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 7): rolled 7, hit Right Torso (10/19 armor remaining)! - Fires Large X-Pulse Laser at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (2 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 7): rolled 11, hit Center Torso (10/28 armor remaining)! - Fires Artemis SRM-6 at Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) (2 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 4 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 5, miss! - Gains 34 heat, sinks 34! Jinggau - Holds fire! - Gains 5 heat, sinks 26! Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White ACE!) - Must pass a piloting test to resist Ghost Images (2 base + 2 MOS = 4): rolled 8, succeeds! - Fires ER Medium Laser at War Dog (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 10, hit Center Torso (21/36 armor remaining)! - Fires ER Medium Laser at War Dog (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 4, miss! - Fires ER Small Laser at War Dog (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 11, hit Left Arm (10/24 armor remaining)! - Gains 14 heat, sinks 26! Shadow Hawk Zhu Que (Red ACE!) - Fires Plasma Rifle at Maelstrom (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 8): rolled 5, miss! - Fires Medium X-Pulse Laser at Maelstrom (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 5, miss! - Fires Medium X-Pulse Laser at Maelstrom (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 6): rolled 6, hit Left Leg (24/32 armor remaining)! - Gains 29 heat, sinks 26! Shadow Hawk Xuan Wu (Black ACE!) - Fires ER Medium Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 1 targeting computer = 7): rolled 9, hit Left Leg (2/27 armor remaining)! - Fires ER Medium Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 1 targeting computer = 7): rolled 6, miss! - Fires ER Medium Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 1 targeting computer = 7): rolled 7, hit Left Arm (16/21 armor remaining)! - Fires ER Medium Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 1 targeting computer = 7): rolled 6, miss! - Fires ER Small Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 1 targeting computer = 7): rolled 8, hit Left Torso (16/24 armor remaining)! - Gains 29 heat, sinks 30! Shadow Hawk Tengshe (Green ACE!) - Fires Light PPC at Grand Titan (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 7, miss! - Fires Light PPC at Grand Titan (4 base + 0 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 9): rolled 4, miss! - Fires Medium X-Pulse Laser at Grand Titan (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 6, miss! - Fires Medium X-Pulse Laser at Grand Titan (4 base + 2 range + 3 movement + 1 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 9): rolled 5, miss! - Gains 29 heat, sinks 26! Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (Blue ACE!) - Fires Large X-Pulse Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk - 2 pulse laser = 5): rolled 9, hit Rear Center Torso (6/15 armor remaining)! - Fires ER Medium Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 7): rolled 8, hit Rear Left Torso (5/10 armor remaining)! - Fires ER Medium Laser at Cerberus (4 base + 0 range + 2 movement + 0 enemy movement + 1 dusk = 7): rolled 9, hit Right Arm (0/21 armor, 12/16 structure remaining)! Crit! - Gains 15 heat, sinks 30! Union-class Dropship 天龍 - Fires PPC at Car (3 base + 0 range + 0 movement - 4 target movement = -1): automatic hit (0/2 structure remaining)! Vehicle destroyed! End Phase Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White) - Must pass a piloting test or fall (2 base + 1 massive damage = 3): rolled 3, succeeds! Cerberus (Player) - Critical chance in Right Arm! No critical hits sustained! - Must pass a piloting test or fall (4 base + 1 massive damage = 5): rolled 7, succeeds! Physical Combat Phase: Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (White ACE!) - Must pass a piloting test to resist Ghost Images (2 base + 2 MOS = 4): rolled 7, succeeds! - Kicks War Dog (2 base + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement - 2 kick = 4): rolled 8, hit Left Leg (5/11 structure remaining)! Crit! Shadow Hawk Bai Hu (Blue ACE!) - Kicks Cerberus (2 base + 2 movement + 2 enemy movement - 2 kick = 4): rolled 4, hit Right Leg (16/27 structure remaining)! End Phase: War Dog (Player) - Critical chance in Left Leg! No critical hits sustained! - Must pass a piloting test or fall (4 base + 0 kicked = 4): rolled 2, fails! - - Suffers 8 damage in the fall to Center Torso (16/36 armor remaining), Right Torso (19/23 armor remaining)! - - Must pass a piloting test to avoid pilot damage (4 base + 2 avoiding damage = 6): rolled 8, succeeds! Cerberus (Player) - Must pass a piloting test or fall (4 base + 0 kicked = 4): rolled 10, succeeds!   Player Status:  Allied Status  Opposing Force Status:   Mission Objective: - Protect Carlos Marik (0/1) Secondary Objectives: - Damage but don’t destroy the Civillian `Mechbay in hex 0517 (1/1) - Destroy the Capellan Checkpoint in hex 1418 (1/1) - - Make it look like an accident (1/1) - Avoid Antagonizing ComStar (succeeded!) - Rescue the ComGuard, if possible (failed!) - - Recover Acolyte Kreszentia from hex 0512 (1/1)! - - - Escape with Acolyte Kreszentia (0/1) Vengeance Counter: 7 Special Rules:  Dusk – This mission takes place at dusk, applying a +1 penalty to-hit. This penalty may worsen if the mission lasts long enough for night to fall. Escort Mission – This mission has a mobile objective that must be defended.Orders Due: Midnight Saturday! PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Aug 27, 2015 |
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Move: 7/11/7. Welp. You guys are hosed. +4 move mods coupled with the dusk malus plus the ACE status makes them mostly unhittable. Time to get out of dodge.
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Mandozer. The rest of you may want to avoid ending your turns standing next to hills if you can avoid it, because PTN has made a very clear demonstration of what ACEs can do with physical attacks. Consider putting kicks / punches in contingencies about enemies landing next to you. You may get ripped apart, but White Ranger is already dangerously close to a CT breach, so keeping pressure up on them should at least force them to back out and keep their hilariously expensive machine intact. It's probably a tossup between one of you getting taken alive and one of them pulled out of their wrecked prototype for who is going to have a worse stay at the Warcrimes Hotel.
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