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I cannot say for [i]absolutely certain[/i] this won't cause issues but I do get it)[/color]\n\n*Minerva was not gone for very long. Longer than she had been away that first time; an hour or three maybe. Certainly long enough for the cubs to have a little explore of their immediate surroundings, break into the cargo bags of toys and snacks and things...\n\nIt was, again, all fare fit for a fantasy-medieval world. A fairly generic one at that, seeing as it apparently didn't worry about social status or wealth of your average adventurer: these were basically the sort of items that would be handed out as toys and treats during one of the game's town festival-type events, albeit with the concession that they would need [i]some[/i] kind of illustrative wrapping to keep things from getting unpleasant inside the enormous bags. It was not plastic, some kind of waxed paper perhaps? But it still had pictures of whatever snacks were inside!\n\nEverything from the fried tails of some common lizard, to sweetbreads, peculiar fruits... to what were clearly more recognizable things with fantastical names, like potato chips, cookies, mochi and so on.\n\nThe latter was even more true of the toys! While they were often shaped to either look like they had been made by one of the more whimsical crafter types, or simply to look like some popular monster or other, they were all little things like noise-makers, faux-crossbows for launching bits and bobs found lying around, the odd moderately articulated wooden doll... oh and a goodly number of plushies! Again, in popular monster designs. [i]Most[/i] of them cute.\n\nWhen *Minerva [i]did[/i] reappear, the sun was just setting, which would be one more awesome aspect of the vast, mostly open, rolling-hills space that they had found themselves in. All beautiful reds and oranges rising into purples, the first glimpses of stars above...\n\nThe camp's firepit would be responsive to lighting in a more realistic fashion, had anyone tried to do so with appropriate means. But even if not, just as the shadows were starting to get [i]really[/i] long and the first chill of evening started to catch at the thinner parts of cubs' fur, it would spring to life of its own accord in a cheerful blaze that drove back the shadows and lit the fronts of everyone's tents. But in addition to that? With no fanfare, the big metal pot over the campfire was suddenly filled with a stew of some kind. Mixed vegetables, chunks of meat... if anyone had dietary preferences, it at least looked and smelled as if they would be able to pick things out to their taste without having to be [i]too[/i] affected by the incompatible food groups! And besides, dealing with a little bit of discomfort and inconvenience as part of a gang of friends was a big part of what camping was all about, right?\n\nPlus, this likely put any squabbles over how to ration out the 'supplies' in a somewhat different light. There were obviously the necessary implements as well! Every seat had an adequate-size wooden bowl and spoon. It really was all pretty timely; the cubs [i]had[/i] to be getting hungry by now (a fact that probably did [i]not[/i] bode all that well), especially if they hadn't broken into too many of the snacks.\n\nWith the meal ready at basically the same time as she was, *Minerva - having appeared nearby the fire - took a little breath and, \"Everyone? Your meal is ready.\"\n\nOnce again, it was her player-relations goddess' trick of being heard by everyone, no matter where they were - and at a comfortable volume, to boot. She gave them all a couple of minutes to gather, and only then did *Minerva take the liberty of [i]blip![/i]ing over those who had not made it to the camp's center quick enough, from however far away they may be. The [i]blipped[/i] cubs got deposited on or in front of their seats! Which were a whole mix of little tree stumps, logs, not-that-uncomfortable rocks... and just a couple of simple cushions.\n\nStill, *Minerva's aspect remained different. Where she had been bright and engaged and earnest, now there was a certain aloofness. Nothing dramatic or cartoonishly cold, but questions were either evaded or answered tangentially, she deflected attempts at conversation... which might be a little easier to achieve since even the densest of cubs should be able to identify an adorable little fox goddess who was, for whatever reason, sitting on something very, very sad. Even the smile when she spoke up again was a little bit mechanical-looking.\n\n\"It is time for me to tell you all a story.\"\n\nAnd with that, *Minerva lent forward, held out her hand, and [i]blew[/i]. There hadn't been anything in her hand, yet all the same the fire behaved as if she had just case some kind of powder into it, leaping up and and taking on all kinds of pretty colors, smells - ... pictures. Pictures that would somehow be very, very hard to walk away from.\n\n\"Once upon a time,\" *Minerva spoke, as the pictures in the fire became rapidly more distinct. They solidified, beginning to look more like a puppet show of some description; the sort performed with arrangements of paper rather than hanging dolls. \"There were thirteen little cubs.\"\n\nAnd there they all were! Thirteen little depictions of the cubs as they had been on arrival, albeit rendered in the angular, simplistic style of the paper puppets on their flat backdrop of a cartoonishly ominous dungeon. \"Those thirteen little cubs received a quest, and set out to conquer a great maze.\"\n\nThe background shifted - now the gaggle of puppets was on a backdrop vaguely resembled the platform where they had begun the first challenge.\n\nOnce again, *Minerva was in her public address mode. She did not allow herself to be interrupted, and while the cubs could talk to one another, their voices were slightly muted and utterly unable to speak over the goddess' storytelling. Plus, it would remain ever harder to look away from the pictures that illustrated the story.\n\n\"But! Before the cubs could begin, one foolhardy little girl tried to make the maze easier! The maze had been filled with fiendish traps, and that cub through herself at the monsters whose task it was to make those traps move. Who knows why she did what she did? Perhaps she thought to somehow win her companions an advantage?\n\n\"Whatever her reasons, benefit the cubs she did; because the monsters all decided that she had been given to them. The foolish little girl could not hurt the monsters, try as she might, and in a moment she had been carried away into the dark.\"\n\nAll of this continued to be illustrated, the angular cutout that was obviously intended to represent Cinnamon making a cursory effort to hit one of the completely un-articulated gnoll puppets, before being mobbed by them, the puppets miming carrying their victim away into a cave that had until a moment before, looked like it had only been a part of the background.\n\nAnd that was when everyone's perspective [i]wooshed[/i] in! Suddenly, there they were, all watching the events, and somehow from the same angle, as Cinnamon appeared before them. But this was no puppet: this was Cinnamon exactly as they remembered her. The even-more-gifted-than-Pity little teenage, tortoiseshell patterned catgirl was bent over, her arms trapped in a tall contraption made from grey-looking wood that kept her head down and and her arms on either side - a pillory. And all around her were arrayed that whole, great crowd of gnolls that the cubs had watched set upon her back before the first challenge, every last one of them rendered in the same, true-to-life detail as the trapped, unconscious, scantily armored tween...\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b][/center]\n[center]#L3543251\n[b]Elimination 0 - Cinnamon\n[color=#888a85]WARNING:[/b] [color=#888a85]this submission contains gang-rape, cub(tween),\nand execution/snuff. See submission tags for full list[/color][/center]\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b][/center]\nThe images finally, [i]finally[/i] stopped after that long hold on Cinnamon's dead, real-world body - and with them, the fire's hold on everyone's attention. Through the entire, awful recording, someone or something had clearly interfered with the cubs' characters. Nobody had been able to stand, let alone run away. Paws had felt almost completely unable to move, and never higher than their respective laps. With an effort, cubs might have been able to turn their heads enough to look at one another, or close their eyes.\n\nNow that it was over, it was clear *Minerva had been watching, too. Because while still she stood, poise-perfect, her eyes had the flattened look of someone remembering only the most awful of events, and her cheek fur was flattened where tears had run down.\n\nBut only for a moment. Suddenly, all signs of tears were gone, *Minerva's eyes had focused once again, and, \"I have been instructed to enter dictation mode. A user with Administrator-level privileges is now telling me what to say.\"\n\nShe stood even straighter, then pulled a little scroll from inside one of the big sleeves of her outer robe. Tugging the scroll open in front of herself using the silver handles at top and bottom, and putting on her best ‘official spokesperson’ posture (the scroll’s ‘parchment’ appears to be a translucent membrane, and the text can be seen scrolling into view roughly as fast *Minerva speaks it) she begins to read.\n\n\"I hope you all enjoyed watching what became of foolish little Cinnamon,\" *Minerva said, although her eyes now looked as if she really, [i]really[/i] wanted to not be speaking. \"Rest assured, her fate is only the beginning. From now on, every week, you're all going to lose a 'Life Point', and another if you're worst in challenge. Whichever of you little 'adventurers' has the fewest Life Points left [i]then[/i] is going to be plucked away, and someone is going to work very hard to make sure that your [i]elimination[/i] is as fun as possible for all the nice people watching your story.\n\n\"What's the matter? You want to avoid some lucky baddie getting to do whatever they want to you until it's time for you to die? Well then you had better make it to the end.\"\n\n*Minerva cast her eyes from one cub, to another, to another, and sneered. Actually [i]sneered[/i] at them, although without her eyes cooperating the effect was spoiled just a little bit.\n\n\"Check your journals. Pick whichever of your little friends you want to stay the most - you have a whole week to choose while you enjoy this little camping holiday. Everyone who picks your name will give you an extra life point for when I come to take our newest [i]star[/i].\"\n\nThe change that had overcome *Minerva was gone, her face relaxing out of the sneer and her eyes wavering as she stood still holding that scroll up in front of herself.\n\n\"Ev-\" [i]blip[/i]. 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The 'story' rapidly\n became a recording of Cinnamon's being imprisoned in a pillory, raped every which way by the\n [i]entire[/i] cackle of gnolls (did [i]you[/i] know female hyenas have a pseudopenis?) and then beheaded\n when it turned out she wasn't in (just)a pillory after all, but rather a guillotine.\n- It was made very, [i]very[/i] clear that Cinnamon [b]had also been killed in reality[/b].\n- Everyone was compelled to remain seated while the recording played, but they [i]were[/i] able to close \n their eyes or look away.\n- Before she disappeared again, [i]someone[/i] had *Minerva explain the rules of the game to the cubs:\n vote for who you want to stay ([b]via PM to me[/b], it's secret unless you tell someone yourself!), they\n get +1 [b]temporary[/b] LP for the purposes of the next elimination. Everyone loses 1 LP after every\n challenge, 1 more is lost for coming in last, and potentially losing 1 (and [b]only one[/b]) [i]more[/i]\n for a critical failure.\n- Lowest LP cub after the challenge is over will be Eliminated.\n\n[u][t]Remaining Cubs[/t][/u]\n[icon]Polymorph[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8956124](Poly)[/url] [icon]blessedwasthechild[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8956767](Trixie)[/url] [icon]Smolfoks[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8957427](Skylar)[/url] [icon]PaydayWolf[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8958052](Connie)[/url] [icon]Cyberblade[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8958504](Cyber)[/url] \n[icon]MystBunny[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8959771](Daniel)[/url] [icon]SebastianTheRoo[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8960253](Sebastian)[/url] [icon]Mysterythree[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8960555](Ash)[/url] [icon]PetalLaFleur[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965166](Petal)[/url] [icon]PityPlowed[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965346](Pity)[/url] \n[icon]Mizzyam[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965608](Jake)[/url] [icon]FlutterBun[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965902](Fifi)[/url]\n\n[color=#888a85](This will be the last of the off-order prompts, I am hoping! From now on the pattern will be: Friday: Challenge > Sunday: watch the elimination that just happened, take the next eliminee, votes open for the next time around and close come the next posted challenge result.\n\nThis does mean there probably won't be an elimination this Sunday in order to have the week for people to RP and vote in and not know what's coming, but there will be [i]something![/i]\n\nAgain:[/color] [b]PM me your votes before Friday![/b])\n\n- Cub reactions and freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3544745#commentid_8975792]Here[/url]\n- Predator reactions and freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3544745#commentid_8975793]Here[/url]\n- Audience reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3544745#commentid_8975798]Here[/url]\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b]\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3542468]<--- to the previous prompt[/url] | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533932]to Labyrinth of Twilight Details/Index[/url] | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3549156]to the next prompt --->[/url][/center]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "(Content warning: prompt will contain references to rape, and possibly death/snuff

If you don't feel you can read the Elimination, there is a brief summary at the bottom of this description. I cannot say for absolutely certain this won't cause issues but I do get it)

*Minerva was not gone for very long. Longer than she had been away that first time; an hour or three maybe. Certainly long enough for the cubs to have a little explore of their immediate surroundings, break into the cargo bags of toys and snacks and things...

It was, again, all fare fit for a fantasy-medieval world. A fairly generic one at that, seeing as it apparently didn't worry about social status or wealth of your average adventurer: these were basically the sort of items that would be handed out as toys and treats during one of the game's town festival-type events, albeit with the concession that they would need some kind of illustrative wrapping to keep things from getting unpleasant inside the enormous bags. It was not plastic, some kind of waxed paper perhaps? But it still had pictures of whatever snacks were inside!

Everything from the fried tails of some common lizard, to sweetbreads, peculiar fruits... to what were clearly more recognizable things with fantastical names, like potato chips, cookies, mochi and so on.

The latter was even more true of the toys! While they were often shaped to either look like they had been made by one of the more whimsical crafter types, or simply to look like some popular monster or other, they were all little things like noise-makers, faux-crossbows for launching bits and bobs found lying around, the odd moderately articulated wooden doll... oh and a goodly number of plushies! Again, in popular monster designs. Most of them cute.

When *Minerva did reappear, the sun was just setting, which would be one more awesome aspect of the vast, mostly open, rolling-hills space that they had found themselves in. All beautiful reds and oranges rising into purples, the first glimpses of stars above...

The camp's firepit would be responsive to lighting in a more realistic fashion, had anyone tried to do so with appropriate means. But even if not, just as the shadows were starting to get really long and the first chill of evening started to catch at the thinner parts of cubs' fur, it would spring to life of its own accord in a cheerful blaze that drove back the shadows and lit the fronts of everyone's tents. But in addition to that? With no fanfare, the big metal pot over the campfire was suddenly filled with a stew of some kind. Mixed vegetables, chunks of meat... if anyone had dietary preferences, it at least looked and smelled as if they would be able to pick things out to their taste without having to be too affected by the incompatible food groups! And besides, dealing with a little bit of discomfort and inconvenience as part of a gang of friends was a big part of what camping was all about, right?

Plus, this likely put any squabbles over how to ration out the 'supplies' in a somewhat different light. There were obviously the necessary implements as well! Every seat had an adequate-size wooden bowl and spoon. It really was all pretty timely; the cubs had to be getting hungry by now (a fact that probably did not bode all that well), especially if they hadn't broken into too many of the snacks.

With the meal ready at basically the same time as she was, *Minerva - having appeared nearby the fire - took a little breath and, "Everyone? Your meal is ready."

Once again, it was her player-relations goddess' trick of being heard by everyone, no matter where they were - and at a comfortable volume, to boot. She gave them all a couple of minutes to gather, and only then did *Minerva take the liberty of blip!ing over those who had not made it to the camp's center quick enough, from however far away they may be. The blipped cubs got deposited on or in front of their seats! Which were a whole mix of little tree stumps, logs, not-that-uncomfortable rocks... and just a couple of simple cushions.

Still, *Minerva's aspect remained different. Where she had been bright and engaged and earnest, now there was a certain aloofness. Nothing dramatic or cartoonishly cold, but questions were either evaded or answered tangentially, she deflected attempts at conversation... which might be a little easier to achieve since even the densest of cubs should be able to identify an adorable little fox goddess who was, for whatever reason, sitting on something very, very sad. Even the smile when she spoke up again was a little bit mechanical-looking.

"It is time for me to tell you all a story."

And with that, *Minerva lent forward, held out her hand, and blew. There hadn't been anything in her hand, yet all the same the fire behaved as if she had just case some kind of powder into it, leaping up and and taking on all kinds of pretty colors, smells - ... pictures. Pictures that would somehow be very, very hard to walk away from.

"Once upon a time," *Minerva spoke, as the pictures in the fire became rapidly more distinct. They solidified, beginning to look more like a puppet show of some description; the sort performed with arrangements of paper rather than hanging dolls. "There were thirteen little cubs."

And there they all were! Thirteen little depictions of the cubs as they had been on arrival, albeit rendered in the angular, simplistic style of the paper puppets on their flat backdrop of a cartoonishly ominous dungeon. "Those thirteen little cubs received a quest, and set out to conquer a great maze."

The background shifted - now the gaggle of puppets was on a backdrop vaguely resembled the platform where they had begun the first challenge.

Once again, *Minerva was in her public address mode. She did not allow herself to be interrupted, and while the cubs could talk to one another, their voices were slightly muted and utterly unable to speak over the goddess' storytelling. Plus, it would remain ever harder to look away from the pictures that illustrated the story.

"But! Before the cubs could begin, one foolhardy little girl tried to make the maze easier! The maze had been filled with fiendish traps, and that cub through herself at the monsters whose task it was to make those traps move. Who knows why she did what she did? Perhaps she thought to somehow win her companions an advantage?

"Whatever her reasons, benefit the cubs she did; because the monsters all decided that she had been given to them. The foolish little girl could not hurt the monsters, try as she might, and in a moment she had been carried away into the dark."

All of this continued to be illustrated, the angular cutout that was obviously intended to represent Cinnamon making a cursory effort to hit one of the completely un-articulated gnoll puppets, before being mobbed by them, the puppets miming carrying their victim away into a cave that had until a moment before, looked like it had only been a part of the background.

And that was when everyone's perspective wooshed in! Suddenly, there they were, all watching the events, and somehow from the same angle, as Cinnamon appeared before them. But this was no puppet: this was Cinnamon exactly as they remembered her. The even-more-gifted-than-Pity little teenage, tortoiseshell patterned catgirl was bent over, her arms trapped in a tall contraption made from grey-looking wood that kept her head down and and her arms on either side - a pillory. And all around her were arrayed that whole, great crowd of gnolls that the cubs had watched set upon her back before the first challenge, every last one of them rendered in the same, true-to-life detail as the trapped, unconscious, scantily armored tween...
                                                          

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Elimination 0 - Cinnamon
WARNING: this submission contains gang-rape, cub(tween),
and execution/snuff. See submission tags for full list

                                                          

The images finally, finally stopped after that long hold on Cinnamon's dead, real-world body - and with them, the fire's hold on everyone's attention. Through the entire, awful recording, someone or something had clearly interfered with the cubs' characters. Nobody had been able to stand, let alone run away. Paws had felt almost completely unable to move, and never higher than their respective laps. With an effort, cubs might have been able to turn their heads enough to look at one another, or close their eyes.

Now that it was over, it was clear *Minerva had been watching, too. Because while still she stood, poise-perfect, her eyes had the flattened look of someone remembering only the most awful of events, and her cheek fur was flattened where tears had run down.

But only for a moment. Suddenly, all signs of tears were gone, *Minerva's eyes had focused once again, and, "I have been instructed to enter dictation mode. A user with Administrator-level privileges is now telling me what to say."

She stood even straighter, then pulled a little scroll from inside one of the big sleeves of her outer robe. Tugging the scroll open in front of herself using the silver handles at top and bottom, and putting on her best ‘official spokesperson’ posture (the scroll’s ‘parchment’ appears to be a translucent membrane, and the text can be seen scrolling into view roughly as fast *Minerva speaks it) she begins to read.

"I hope you all enjoyed watching what became of foolish little Cinnamon," *Minerva said, although her eyes now looked as if she really, really wanted to not be speaking. "Rest assured, her fate is only the beginning. From now on, every week, you're all going to lose a 'Life Point', and another if you're worst in challenge. Whichever of you little 'adventurers' has the fewest Life Points left then is going to be plucked away, and someone is going to work very hard to make sure that your elimination is as fun as possible for all the nice people watching your story.

"What's the matter? You want to avoid some lucky baddie getting to do whatever they want to you until it's time for you to die? Well then you had better make it to the end."

*Minerva cast her eyes from one cub, to another, to another, and sneered. Actually sneered at them, although without her eyes cooperating the effect was spoiled just a little bit.

"Check your journals. Pick whichever of your little friends you want to stay the most - you have a whole week to choose while you enjoy this little camping holiday. Everyone who picks your name will give you an extra life point for when I come to take our newest star."

The change that had overcome *Minerva was gone, her face relaxing out of the sneer and her eyes wavering as she stood still holding that scroll up in front of herself.

"Ev-" blip. Once again, *Minerva was gone.


Cinnamon has been eliminated.


<Please roleplay responses by replying to the appropriate ‘Immersion/Free Play’ comment below! The next prompt will ideally be posted on Friday, in 5 days' time. No challenge choice this week, we start doing that next time.
And check your PMs! I need your votes before Friday!>
                                                                                                                                                    


(Summary/Key points:
- A meal 'magically' appeared in the pot at the center of the camp: vegetable and meat stew, turns out
  you can pick out only the parts you want and it'll taste fine! The pot does not run out, but the food
  will disappear after a decent time has passed for people to finish eating in.
- The fire will provide a different campfire-type meal every evening. Cubs are indeed finding that they get hungry, and that the world's food will satiate that.
- There aren't any backpacks (D:<)
- *Minerva reappeared and used magic dust to make the fire show everyone a story. The 'story' rapidly
  became a recording of Cinnamon's being imprisoned in a pillory, raped every which way by the
  entire cackle of gnolls (did you know female hyenas have a pseudopenis?) and then beheaded
  when it turned out she wasn't in (just)a pillory after all, but rather a guillotine.
- It was made very, very clear that Cinnamon had also been killed in reality.
- Everyone was compelled to remain seated while the recording played, but they were able to close
  their eyes or look away.
- Before she disappeared again, someone had *Minerva explain the rules of the game to the cubs:
  vote for who you want to stay (via PM to me, it's secret unless you tell someone yourself!), they
  get +1 temporary LP for the purposes of the next elimination. Everyone loses 1 LP after every
  challenge, 1 more is lost for coming in last, and potentially losing 1 (and only one) more
  for a critical failure.
- Lowest LP cub after the challenge is over will be Eliminated.

Remaining Cubs
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blessedwasthechild
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Smolfoks
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PaydayWolf
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Cyberblade
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MystBunny
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SebastianTheRoo
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Mysterythree
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PetalLaFleur
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PityPlowed
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Mizzyam
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FlutterBun
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(This will be the last of the off-order prompts, I am hoping! From now on the pattern will be: Friday: Challenge > Sunday: watch the elimination that just happened, take the next eliminee, votes open for the next time around and close come the next posted challenge result.

This does mean there probably won't be an elimination this Sunday in order to have the week for people to RP and vote in and not know what's coming, but there will be something!

Again: PM me your votes before Friday!)

- Cub reactions and freeplay Here
- Predator reactions and freeplay Here
- Audience reactions Here
                                                                                                                                                      

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