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* EvilCostumeSwitch: For the PAX West 2018 live game, Mike has updated his costume extensively, adding a lot more black leather and spikes to it. Whether it was to reflect Jim's increasingly jerkass ways or simply out of rivalry with Holly/Strix is unclear.
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Character tropes regarding the main and recurring cast of ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated''.

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Character tropes regarding the main and recurring cast of ''WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated''.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When [[CharacterOverlap guest-starring]] in ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'', Binwin followed Strix and Diath to find the Xanathar, THE Waterdeep beholder mafia boss, with a charmed Evelyn nearby. To try and save Evelyn, Binwin took a shot at Xanathar by chucking a javelin at him. [[spoiler:[[DyingMomentOfAwesome While he did get an epic shot at his main eye, ]][[DoNotTauntCthulhu he was immediately petrified and disintegrated afterward.]]]]



* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When [[CharacterOverlap guest-starring]] in ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'', Binwin followed Strix and Diath to find the Xanathar, THE Waterdeep beholder mafia boss, with a charmed Evelyn nearby. To try and save Evelyn, Binwin took a shot at Xanathar by chucking a javelin at him. [[spoiler:[[DyingMomentOfAwesome While he did get an epic shot at his main eye, ]][[DoNotTauntCthulhu he was immediately petrified and disintegrated afterward.]]]]

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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When [[CharacterOverlap guest-starring]] in ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'', Binwin followed Strix and Diath to find the Xanathar, THE Waterdeep beholder mafia boss, with a charmed Evelyn nearby. To try and save Evelyn, Binwin took a shot at Xanathar by chucking a javelin at him. [[spoiler:[[DyingMomentOfAwesome While he did get an epic shot at his main eye, ]][[DoNotTauntCthulhu he was immediately petrified and disintegrated afterward.]]]]
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When [[CharacterOverlap guest-starring]] in ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'', Binwin followed Strix and Diath to find the Xanathar, THE Waterdeep beholder mafia boss, with a charmed Evelyn nearby. To try and save Evelyn, Binwin took a shot at Xanathar by chucking a javelin at him. [[spoiler:[[DyingMomentOfAwesome While he did get an epic shot at his main eye, ]][[DoNotTauntCthulhu he was immediately petrified and disintegrated afterward.]]]]
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** Even other parties aren't free from her shipping: seeing Strix and Diath of ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'' interacting with each other made her almost immediately assume that their relationship was intimate.[[note]]Not that she was the only one though.[[/note]]

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** Even other parties aren't free from her shipping: seeing Strix and Diath of ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'' interacting with each other made her almost immediately assume that their relationship was intimate.[[note]]Not [[note]][[EveryoneCanSeeIt Not that she was the only one though.[[/note]]]][[/note]]

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* DirtyOldWoman: Almost immediately after the introduction of the cartwright's elderly father, she spends an incredibly sleepless night with him in their camp, [[BrainBleach much to the dismay of the rest of the party]]. During the Unplugged 2017 live game, she also kept flirting with Viari, with constant call-backs to a very sensuous past relationship.

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* DirtyOldWoman: Almost immediately after the introduction of the cartwright's elderly father, she spends an incredibly sleepless night with him in their camp, [[BrainBleach much to the dismay of the rest of the party]]. During the Unplugged 2017 live game, she also kept flirting with Viari, with constant call-backs to a very sensuous past relationship. Even when she isn't involved in the relationship in question, her perverted personality would certainly make some characters uncomfortable, notably Strix and Diath in ''Waffles Inc.''
-->'''Rosie:''' "So you guys have never... like..." ''*makes suggestive hand gestures*''
-->'''Diath:''' [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend "What? No! Rosie, no!"]]
-->'''Strix:''' "AAAH!"
-->'''Rosie:''' "Okay... hm..."
-->'''Strix:''' [[SelectiveObliviousness "Wh-Why is the old halfling making diddle fingers?!"]]
-->'''K'thriss:''' "She does it all the time."
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** Even other parties aren't free from her shipping: seeing Strix and Diath of ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'' interacting with each other made her almost immediately assume that their relationship was intimate.[[note]]Not that she was the only one though.[[/note]]

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* TheTeetotaler: Walnut does not partake in alcohol and is disdainful of sugary treats.




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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Walnut is still in the first century of her life which makes her very young for an Elf.
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** When the party later encounters a young red(evil) dragon, Donaar is absolutely ''against'' killing it, likening the evil chromatic dragons to black-sheep family members you don't like or approve of, but still love.

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** When the party later encounters a young red(evil) red (read: evil) dragon, Donaar is absolutely ''against'' killing it, likening the evil chromatic dragons to black-sheep family members you don't like or approve of, but still love.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter:
** He is the only member of the C-Team who cannot see through Oak Truestrike's flashy demeanor to the horrible person beneath, and actively hides Oak's regeneration from the rest of the party.
** When the party later encounters a young red(evil) dragon, Donaar is absolutely ''against'' killing it, likening the evil chromatic dragons to black-sheep family members you don't like or approve of, but still love.
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!!K'thriss Drow'b

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!!K'thriss Drow'bDrow'b/[[spoiler:Thriss Rah'uuthli]]
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* MeaningfulName: InUniverse. K'thriss was born Thriss Rah'uuthli, but changed his name upon his escape and exile from the Underdark to reflect his status as a heretic. Lampshaded by Carver Gall, who is the first (non-hostile) being they encounter who actually knows the Drow language.
--> '''Carver Gall''': That's not a name. That's a sentence.
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* UnequalRites: As a Warlock, he gets his powers from a patron being with whom he has pacted. Clerics and Wizards tend to look down on Warlocks as cheating their way to power. This doesn't bother K'thriss ([[Keet few things bother K'thriss]]). However, it is starting to become a problem. He now openly hates his patron, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The God of Meat and Mouths]], and his patron finds him disgusting. Thanks to the mechanical nature of Warlocks, this isn't a dealbreaker for either of them yet, but it may come a point soon if the "C" Team keeps directly attacking his patron's holdings.

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* UnequalRites: As a Warlock, he gets his powers from a patron being with whom he has pacted. Clerics and Wizards tend to look down on Warlocks as cheating their way to power. This doesn't bother K'thriss ([[Keet ([[{{Keet}} few things bother K'thriss]]). However, it is starting to become a problem. He now openly hates his patron, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The God of Meat and Mouths]], and his patron finds him disgusting. Thanks to the mechanical nature of Warlocks, this isn't a dealbreaker for either of them yet, but it may come a point soon if the "C" Team keeps directly attacking his patron's holdings.

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* BadassBeard: Atypically for a drow, K'thriss sports a neat full beard. As for the badass part, the fact that he survived [=AcqInc=]'s old intern testing facility (which allegedly incinerated hundreds of his fellow applicants) speaks for itself.

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* ArtShift: Look at K'thriss in the Intern Tryout videos in 2013, then look at the "C" Team intro videos in 2017. This is due to Straub (who both plays and animates K'thriss) shifting him away from the style he used in his webcomics into a new theme for AI only.
* BadassBeard: Atypically for a drow, K'thriss sports a neat full beard. As for the badass part, the fact that he survived [=AcqInc=]'s old intern testing facility (which allegedly incinerated hundreds of his fellow applicants) speaks for itself. Except, he didn't. Viari stabbed him in the back. He's since become more badass, however.



* WeakenedByTheLight: As a drow (dark elf), K'thriss doesn't do well in direct sunlight.

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* UnequalRites: As a Warlock, he gets his powers from a patron being with whom he has pacted. Clerics and Wizards tend to look down on Warlocks as cheating their way to power. This doesn't bother K'thriss ([[Keet few things bother K'thriss]]). However, it is starting to become a problem. He now openly hates his patron, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The God of Meat and Mouths]], and his patron finds him disgusting. Thanks to the mechanical nature of Warlocks, this isn't a dealbreaker for either of them yet, but it may come a point soon if the "C" Team keeps directly attacking his patron's holdings.
* WeakenedByTheLight: As a drow (dark elf), K'thriss doesn't do well in direct sunlight. \n He solves this with a massive [[NiceHat sun hat]].
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* NeverMessWithGranny: Rosie is 120 years old, but her martial arts skills and reflexes are still sharp enough to grab crossbow bolts aimed at her out of the air. In addition, her most utilized skill is Intimidation.

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* NeverMessWithGranny: Rosie is 120 years old, but her martial arts skills and reflexes are still sharp enough to grab crossbow bolts aimed at her out of the air. In addition, her most utilized skill is Intimidation. [[spoiler: Her age is lowered by fifty years in the Chult adventure in Season 12, and does not go back up.]]

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* BadBoss: Omin ''is'' a CEO. Early in season 7, Viari gets some honest talk with Jim and Binwin, who hesitantly reveal how Omin essentially browbeats them with legal terminology into working for him essentially for free. It helps him immensely that Binwin is SuperGullible and Jim is a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, so Viari is essentially the first person savvy enough to question his leadership style. The following quote, dropped while firing an employee, perhaps illustrates his attitude best:

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* BadBoss: Omin ''is'' a CEO. A few specific examples:
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Early in season 7, Viari gets some honest talk with Jim and Binwin, who hesitantly reveal how Omin essentially browbeats them with legal terminology into working for him essentially for free. It helps him immensely that Binwin is SuperGullible and Jim is a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, so Viari is essentially the first person savvy enough to question his leadership style. style.
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** Becomes particularly apparent in season 11, when he uses an infernal MagicallyBindingContract to summon Strix to their aid, when, as it turns out later, she would have helped them, anyway, had he deigned to ask. Then, at the end of the season, it turns out that he [[spoiler:wasn't really counting on Jim surviving the Soulmonger affliction and had him--secretly and thus unconsensually--cloned, just in case]].
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Viari is a charismatic swashbuckler described as [[FieryRedhead "both red-headed and red-blooded"]]. He joins Acquisitions Inc. after they involuntarily move their base of operations to the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, and has settled into his role as TheSixthRanger. He is really good at swinging off chandeliers.

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Viari is a charismatic swashbuckler described as [[FieryRedhead "both red-headed and red-blooded"]]. He joins Acquisitions Inc. after they involuntarily move their base of operations to the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, and has settled into his role as TheSixthRanger. He is really good at swinging off chandeliers.
chandeliers. At the end of season 11, Viari [[spoiler:becomes the first person ever to make it out of the internship ''and'' sub-employee status into full employment]].



* RankUp: Viari is promoted by Omin from intern to "Sub-employee" in season 9.

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* RankUp: Viari is promoted by Omin from intern to "Sub-employee" in season 9. In the season 11 finale, [[spoiler:he appears to have been finally promoted to full employee after heroically saving Omin from falling into a lake of lava]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hints are scattered throughout the first season that Rosie has a very dark reputation among those in the know, primarily fellow halflings, but she remains the most mysterious party member thus far. In the Unplugged 2017 live game, Omin specifically refers to her as [[spoiler:Grandmother Night, and we also get to see a much more vicious and brutal

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hints are scattered throughout the first season that Rosie has a very dark reputation among those in the know, primarily fellow halflings, but she remains the most mysterious party member thus far. In the Unplugged 2017 live game, Omin specifically refers to her as [[spoiler:Grandmother Night, and we also get to see a much more vicious and brutal side of her]].

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!!Rosie Beestinger

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!!Rosie BeestingerBeestinger/[[spoiler:Grandmother Night]]



* DirtyOldWoman: Almost immediately after the introduction of the cartwright's elderly father, she spends an incredibly sleepless night with him in their camp, [[BrainBleach much to the dismay of the rest of the party]].

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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hints are scattered throughout the first season that Rosie has a very dark reputation among those in the know, primarily fellow halflings, but she remains the most mysterious party member thus far. In the Unplugged 2017 live game, Omin specifically refers to her as [[spoiler:Grandmother Night, and we also get to see a much more vicious and brutal
* DirtyOldWoman: Almost immediately after the introduction of the cartwright's elderly father, she spends an incredibly sleepless night with him in their camp, [[BrainBleach much to the dismay of the rest of the party]]. During the Unplugged 2017 live game, she also kept flirting with Viari, with constant call-backs to a very sensuous past relationship.



* TokenAdult: Rosie often has to act the part, by the virtue of being the second oldest member of the "C" team (after K'thriss, who is a oblivious man-child). She also becomes this literally in the live game, when a curse that reverts most of the party to [[BabyMorphEpisode eight-year-olds]] makes her ''marginally'' younger.




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* WillfullyWeak: This is the implied reason why Rosie could play on the power level of the "A" team at the live event: [[spoiler:Rosie Beestinger is a mysteriously old low-level adventurer, but ''Grandmother Night'' is a high-level badass]].
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** Later becomes a DefiedTrope as Walnut repeatedly shows no qualms with allowing animals to die if it benefits the party, even(or rather, especially) after those animals have offered their aide to them.

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** Later becomes a DefiedTrope as Walnut Walnut, despite still ostensibly "repping the natural world", repeatedly shows no zero qualms with allowing animals to die if it benefits the party, even(or even (or rather, especially) after those animals have offered their aide aid to them.
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* [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY It's Pronounced "Dahngrass"]]: The "k" is silent. There is a minor RunningGag where Jerry comes up with new ways to pronounce Walnut's surname in increasingly fancy ways (her first name is always just "Walnut").

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* [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY It's Pronounced "Dahngrass"]]: ItsPronouncedTroPAY: The "k" in "Dankgrass" is silent.silent ("Dahngrass"). There is a minor RunningGag where Jerry comes up with new ways to pronounce Walnut's surname in increasingly fancy ways (her first name is always just "Walnut").
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* [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY It's Pronounced Dahngrass]]: The "k" is silent. There is a minor RunningGag where Jerry comes up with new ways to pronounce Walnut's surname in increasingly fancy ways (her first name is always just "Walnut").

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* [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY It's Pronounced Dahngrass]]: "Dahngrass"]]: The "k" is silent. There is a minor RunningGag where Jerry comes up with new ways to pronounce Walnut's surname in increasingly fancy ways (her first name is always just "Walnut").
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* [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY It's Pronounced Dahngrass]]: The "k" is silent. There is a minor RunningGag where Jerry comes up with new ways to pronounce Walnut's surname in increasingly fancy ways (her first name is always just "Walnut").
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* BadassBeard: Untypically for a drow, K'thriss sports a neat full beard. As for the badass part, the fact that he survived [=AcqInc=]'s old intern testing facility (which allegedly incinerated hundreds of his fellow applicants) speaks for itself.

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* BadassBeard: Untypically Atypically for a drow, K'thriss sports a neat full beard. As for the badass part, the fact that he survived [=AcqInc=]'s old intern testing facility (which allegedly incinerated hundreds of his fellow applicants) speaks for itself.



* EyeScream: In "Anchors Aweigh", [[spoiler:K'thriss' eldritch patron briefly takes over Lagadi and has it gouge out both of his eyes, partly as punishment for insufficient reverence, partly because K'thriss would be able to see more eldritch truths without physical eyes]].
* {{Familiar}}: K'thriss finds one after joining the "C" Team and names it Lagadi. Although mechanics-wise, it is equivalent to a snake, it is actually a small self-aware piece of feeder tentacle of his eldritch patron.

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* EyeScream: In "Anchors Aweigh", [[spoiler:K'thriss' eldritch patron briefly takes over Lagadi Ligotti and has it gouge out both of his eyes, partly as punishment for insufficient reverence, partly because K'thriss would be able to see more eldritch truths without physical eyes]].
* {{Familiar}}: K'thriss finds one after joining the "C" Team and names it Lagadi.Ligotti. Although mechanics-wise, it is equivalent to a snake, it is actually a small self-aware piece of feeder tentacle of his eldritch patron.
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[[caption-width-right:107:[[NotYourDaddysX Not your grandma's grandma]][[note]]except for the rare occasion when she ''is'' your grandma's grandma[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:107:[[NotYourDaddysX Not your grandma's grandma]][[note]]except for in the rare occasion when cases where she ''is'' your grandma's grandma[[/note]]]]

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Walnut and Rosie made their first appearance in the background of the Yawning Portal in the animated intro to the PAX East live game, shortly before ''The "C" Team'' went on air.



* ShipperOnDeck: Rosie strongly encourages, and takes an almost prurient interest in, Walnut's relationhip with Brahma.

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* ShipperOnDeck: Rosie strongly encourages, and takes an almost prurient interest in, Walnut's relationhip relationship with Brahma.




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* WarpWhistle: Upon leveling up in Cartographer, Rosie gained the ability to take her cart to any location she has previously been to by telling a story of how the cart gets there.
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* StraightGay: Walnut focuses on her (secret) mission to the exclusion of all else, including romance... except for Brahma the Bard, for whom she falls head-over-heels. Rosie informs StalkerWithACrush Spice Caraway, when he makes his advances, that he is "Barking Up the Wrong Tree-Form."

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* StraightGay: Walnut focuses on her (secret) mission to the exclusion of all else, including romance... except for Brahma the Bard, for whom she falls head-over-heels. Rosie informs StalkerWithACrush Spice Caraway, Caraway [[spoiler:Revealed the next episode to be Brahma in magical disguise.]], when he makes his advances, that he is "Barking Up the Wrong Tree-Form."
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: The "Paterfamilias" arc reveals that despite coming across like a seasoned adventurer, Donaar is actually [[spoiler:''19 years young'' (which, in Dragonborn terms, is somewhere around the human age of 22)]].
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A member of the Waffle Crew from Chris' other campaign, ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'', who is summoned by Omin (with the power of money) to serve Acquisitions Inc. as an intern for the second half of season 11. See Characters.DiceCameraAction for tropes associated with her.

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A member of the Waffle Crew from Chris' other campaign, ''WebVideo/DiceCameraAction'', who is summoned by Omin (with the power of money) to serve Acquisitions Inc. as an intern for the second half of two episodes in season 11. See Characters.DiceCameraAction for tropes associated with her.
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Rosie is a sanguine people person, K'thriss a melancholic PerkyGoth, while Walnut and Donaar seem to flip between Choleric and Phlegmatic, depending on the circumstances and mostly out of phase. Walnut livens up greatly whenever official [=AcqInc=] business is concerned but shuts down in social situations, while Donaar jumps at any chance to maintain his ego but sticks to the background during group action.

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