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* BlueAndOrangeMorality[=/=]WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: She points out that due to how they are raised, [[spoiler:Yuan-ti don't form emotional bonds the way humans do.]] The closest they have is "True-Seeing," being able to [[spoiler: see another's soul, [[{{Synchronization}} to the point of feeling their pleasure and their pain.]] And that only occurs between two yuan-ti. This may be averted, given the developments between her and Minmax.]]



* SnakePeople: She's a Yuan-Ti

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* SnakePeople: She's a Yuan-TiYuan-Ti.


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* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: She points out that [[BlueAndOrangeMorality due to how they are raised]], [[spoiler:Yuan-ti don't form emotional bonds the way humans do.]] The closest they have is "True-Seeing," being able to [[spoiler: see another's soul, [[{{Synchronization}} to the point of feeling their pleasure and their pain.]] And that only occurs between two yuan-ti. This may be averted, given the developments between her and Minmax.]]

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* OnlySaneWoman: It's not hard to be wiser than Bowst, but Idle seems to keep him out of trouble.



* WomenAreWiser: It's not hard to be wiser than Bowst, but Idle seems to keep him out of trouble.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Grem has a crush on Saves-a-Fox
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After being burned and crippled by humans, she turned into a KnightTemplar with a goal of protecting and liberating goblinkind. She doesn't realize that her cause has turned her into an embittered, hateful racist who not only hates non-monster races indiscriminately, but even looks down on '''other''' monster races as expendable slaves and sees any goblin who doesn't agree with her as a "traitor to their own kind."

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: After being burned and crippled by humans, she turned into a KnightTemplar with a goal of protecting and liberating goblinkind. She doesn't realize that her cause has turned her into an embittered, hateful racist who not only hates non-monster races indiscriminately, but even looks down on '''other''' monster races as expendable slaves and sees any goblin who doesn't agree with her as a "traitor to their own kind."" Finally, she believes goblin strength is the ferocity of her species and tries to corrupt everyone into believing the same, becoming the monster all goblins are wrongly portrayed as by non-monster races.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: In spite of her methods, she does at least have the best intentions for her own clan. Nonetheless, she's indirectly responsible for [[spoiler:the death of K'Sellis]] and '''very directly''' responsible [[spoiler:for killing dozens of non-goblin slaves simply because they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer were of any use to her]].]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: In spite of her methods, she does at least have the best intentions for her own clan. Nonetheless, she's indirectly responsible for [[spoiler:the death of K'Sellis]] and '''very directly''' responsible [[spoiler:for killing dozens of non-goblin slaves simply because they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer were of any use to her]]. Which ends up bringing ruin to her tribe because of [[TheDogBitesBack Biscuit]].]]
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'''Prime Minmax:''' Go away, you big stupid poopybreath!\\

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'''Prime Minmax:''' Go away, you big stupid poopybreath!\\What's your ''problem,'' [[BigStupidDoodooHead fart breath dink face!]]\\

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* TheUnintelligible: Only makes strange clicking sounds, though it seems to understand Common.



* TalkingWeapon: A talking sword and a really rude one. It was later eaten by a Klik, giving it the power of speech as well as its {{Jerkass}} disposition.

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* TalkingWeapon: A talking sword and a really rude one. It was later eaten by a Klik, giving it the power of speech as well as its {{Jerkass}} disposition. Though at least it can translate for the other Kliks.
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* LogicalWeakness: He channels all his weaknesses in a single number, meaning he is nearly invincible to anything outside of that number. However, if he encounters anything resembling the number, he is completely helpless against it.

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* LogicalWeakness: KryptoniteFactor: He channels all his weaknesses in a single number, the number 77,914,839,447, meaning he is nearly invincible to anything outside of that number. However, if he encounters anything resembling the number, he is completely helpless against it.



--> '''Onyx''': [[https://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/07012013/ That psion is '''grossly''' overpowered.]]

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--> '''Onyx''': [[https://www.'''[[https://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/07012013/ Onyx]]''': That psion is '''grossly''' overpowered.]]
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--> '''Onyx''': That psion is '''grossly''' overpowered.

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--> '''Onyx''': [[https://www.goblinscomic.org/comic/07012013/ That psion is '''grossly''' overpowered.]]
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---> "Minmax, don't die in this battle, 'cause I'm killing you after this!"

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---> --> "Minmax, don't die in this battle, 'cause I'm killing you after this!"



--->'''Minmax:'''"Yes, Names. '''''Every''''' detail in '''''every''''' dungeon crawl is a trap, or a clue, or a [[NotHyperbole magical space monkey made out of yogurt, that will appear and eat your thumbs]]. This is how dungeon crawls work!"

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--->'''Minmax:'''"Yes, -->'''Minmax:'''"Yes, Names. '''''Every''''' detail in '''''every''''' dungeon crawl is a trap, or a clue, or a [[NotHyperbole magical space monkey made out of yogurt, that will appear and eat your thumbs]]. This is how dungeon crawls work!"
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* PeekABangs: This is her hairstyle.
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* TheBrute: This is basically his gig.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: If Big Ears hadn't claimed the axe, the seal wouldn't have been renewed and the demon inside would have wrecked the world. And all because he wanted a Paladin's Magic axe.

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* TheBrute: This is basically his gig.
gig. He is big, strong enough to lift a horse-sized spider, and cruel to his enemies.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: If Big Ears hadn't claimed the axe, the seal wouldn't have been renewed and the demon inside would have wrecked the world. And all because he Saral wanted a Paladin's Magic axe.



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* {{Jerkass}}: He remorselessly supports Dellyn's atrocities and is mean to his underlings.
* LogicalWeakness: Due to how the Axe of Prissan works, he is unable to hurt Paladins like Big Ears with it, which [[spoiler:costs him the duel and his life.]]



* {{Jerkass}}: He's a bit of a dick. Amusingly, in all his apparences he is more dickish than evil.

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* {{Jerkass}}: He's a bit of a dick.dick, insulting people casually. Amusingly, in all his apparences he is more dickish than evil.



* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Yup, the badass BloodKnight overly-muscled devil does.

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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Yup, the badass BloodKnight overly-muscled devil does.does, when it comes to dolls.



* WorthyOpponent: He usually disrespects Minmax... until their fight in the Maze of Many, where he changes his mind [[spoiler:once Minmax uses Oblivious to hit him and starts causing him some trouble.]]

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* WorthyOpponent: He usually disrespects Minmax... until their fight in the Maze of Many, where he changes his mind [[spoiler:once Minmax uses Oblivious to hit him and starts causing him some trouble.trouble, even without a holy weapon.]]



* MinMaxing: Like all the other incarnations of Minmax; in his case, he traded away his ability to use MindControl powers in exchange for a higher intelligence. In addition, by using psionic RealityWarper gears, he is able to channel every single one of his weaknesses into a single, mathematical, concept: the number 77,914,839,447.

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* MinMaxing: Like all the other incarnations of Minmax; in his case, he traded away his ability to use MindControl powers in exchange for a higher intelligence.intelligence, which results in him relying on ordinary manipulation to get what he wants. In addition, by using psionic RealityWarper gears, he is able to channel every single one of his weaknesses into a single, mathematical, concept: the number 77,914,839,447.



* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: At one point he makes a prediction that he has at least eight minutes to finalize his plans before any of the other parties can interrupt him, not realising that Forgath and Kin found a DungeonBypass that placed them close to the end of the maze.

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* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: At one point he makes a prediction that he has at least eight minutes to finalize his plans before any of the other parties can interrupt him, not realising that Forgath and Kin found a DungeonBypass that placed them close to the end of the maze. The result is him, who thought he would never need to say the word "impossible", actually saying the word.



* SpringtimeForHitler: How he ultimately is defeated. [[spoiler:He is shoved into the exit of the dungeon, causing him to "win" the dungeon and be ejected from it with no possibility of return, foiling his plan of erasing the dungeon from existence.]]

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* SpringtimeForHitler: How he ultimately is defeated. [[spoiler:He is shoved into the exit of the dungeon, causing him to "win" the dungeon and be ejected from it with no possibility of return, foiling his plan of erasing the dungeon and himself from existence.]]

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* BigBadWannabe: He clearly ''thinks'' he's the BigBad, but he's wrong. [[spoiler:After Thaco defeats him in a humiliating manner and leaves him alive, he is roughed up in a meaningless barfight, but doesn't really die until Kin, one of his victims, finishes him off.]]

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* ArcVillain: He is the main villain of the Brassmoon arc and has tortured two members of the Goblin Adventuring Party, thus instigating several events.
* BigBadWannabe: He clearly ''thinks'' he's the BigBad, but he's wrong. [[spoiler:After Thaco defeats him in a humiliating manner and leaves him alive, he is roughed up in a seemingly meaningless barfight, but doesn't really die until Kin, one of his victims, finishes him off.off. Then he is overshadowed by far greater threats.]]
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Possibly a man roleplaying a female PC, Drowbabe was a [[GagBoobs voluptuously endowed]] and [[BrainlessBeauty spectacularly dimwitted]] drow sorcerer, who ended up killed by Big-Ears during the attack on the goblin warcamp. As Yodette, is a somewhat less big-breasted yet still dimwitted human cleric.

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Possibly a man roleplaying a female PC, Drowbabe was a [[GagBoobs voluptuously endowed]] endowed and [[BrainlessBeauty spectacularly dimwitted]] drow sorcerer, who ended up killed by Big-Ears during the attack on the goblin warcamp. As Yodette, is a somewhat less big-breasted yet still dimwitted human cleric.


->''"Never tell me to silence my heart again."''

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->''"Never tell me to silence quiet my heart again."''
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* AnAxeToGrind: Starts out with a small handaxe, and later claims an uber-powerful greataxe that gives him InstantArmor and GlowingEyesOfDoom.



* AnAxeToGrind: His favored weapon is a magical axe with accompanying armor set.
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* BeingGodIsHard: For a few infinite moments, Minmax becomes a god. It is extremely painful to be a god without followers, but a god also experiences the suffering of their followers. With Minmax having become an omniscient idiot, he messes up badly and returns to mortality screaming.
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* AnAxeToGrind: His WeaponOfChoice is a bladed club.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: Exaggerated and played for drama. After ascending to godhood by accident, he learns that gods without worshippers suffer a fate worse than death, so he reaches back in time and creates a universe with like a scwillion Min-max worshippers, and sets up some very simple rules to try and make said followers happy.
** He creates a non-man-eating species of treasure plant, inspired by the treasure plant that nearly ate him. The plants propagate and spread everywhere. It's a mixed blessing in that the "treasure" stops being treasure, but at least it's quite useful as the gems are excellent building materials and the gold is used in medicine.
** Because of what happened with Forgath, he puts forward a system where genuine lovers can't grow old and can't die. This is where '''everything''' goes sideways. Since lovers can't die, couples are broken up by hostage taking, with ColdBloodedTorture being used to force them into becoming assassins and soldiers, and the sick, the old, the lame try desperately to find a lover just so they can live and are viewed by society and themselves as having somehow offended their god and are being sent to hell. One woman even cursed at Minmax because her boyfriend died one day before they hooked up, because they weren't at the "lovers" stage yet, he stopped responding to prayers at that point. And due to the way his universe works, it resulted in millions of years of suffering hitting him all at once. '''That''' is why he came back screaming, and he cries in Kin''s arms, bemoaning that he's not fit to be a god and begging her for help.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Ruby has spent so long soured and embittered by Dellyn's treatment of her that she cannot stand Minmax's and Kin's love, and decided to essentially MindRape Kin by using the oblivion holes to erase the necklace that was the symbol of that love.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Ruby has spent so long soured and embittered by Dellyn's treatment of her, plus her reality's Minmax being the only Minmax who tolerated her reality's Dellyn, that she cannot stand Minmax's and Kin's love, and decided to essentially MindRape Kin by using the oblivion holes to erase the necklace that was the symbol of that love.



* KarmaHoudini: As far as we can tell right now, Ruby has gotten away completely scot-free with completely wrecking the relationship between Kin and Minmax.

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* KarmaHoudini: As far as we can tell right now, Ruby has gotten away completely scot-free with almost completely wrecking the relationship between Kin and Minmax.



* MindOverMatter

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* MindOverMatterLogicalWeakness: He channels all his weaknesses in a single number, meaning he is nearly invincible to anything outside of that number. However, if he encounters anything resembling the number, he is completely helpless against it.
* MindOverMatter: He is a psion and his mental abilities are mighty.
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* CategoryTraitor: [[spoiler:Accuses Dies and Fox of being traitors to their own kind]].

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* CategoryTraitor: [[spoiler:Accuses Dies and Fox of being traitors to their own kind]].kind for refusing to serve her]].



* JerkassHasAPoint: Sure, she is in the wrong when Biscuit calls her out, and she is a killer, but she was right to point out that if you can feel loss, you can't feel gain easily.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Sure, she is in the wrong when Biscuit calls her out, and she is a killer, but she was is right to point out that if unless you can feel loss, you can't feel gain easily.



* MeaningfulName: She was born with white, feathered wings and her name is a homophone for "Dove". Doubles as an IronicName, because doves are a symbol of peace, while Duv wants to forcefully take control of all goblin clans, by force of necessary, then tyrannically dominate or destroy all races who are not goblins.

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* MeaningfulName: She was born with white, feathered wings and her name is a homophone for "Dove". Doubles as an IronicName, because doves are a symbol of peace, while Duv wants to forcefully take control of all goblin clans, by force of if necessary, then tyrannically dominate or destroy all races who are not goblins.



* BloodKnight: He genuinely expects that our-world Minmax is an opponent worth fighting, with good reason.

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* BloodKnight: He genuinely expects that our-world Minmax is an opponent worth fighting, with good reason. He is disappointed the first time, but not in the rematch.



* MediumAwareness: Once.

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* MediumAwareness: Once.The first time he is fought, he can't initially attack and acknowledges Minmax won initiative.



* WorthyOpponent: He usually disrespects Minmax... until their fight in the Maze of Many, where he changes his mind [[spoiler:once Minmax uses Oblivious to hit him and starts causing him some trounle.]]

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* WorthyOpponent: He usually disrespects Minmax... until their fight in the Maze of Many, where he changes his mind [[spoiler:once Minmax uses Oblivious to hit him and starts causing him some trounle.trouble.]]
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* MeaningfulName: He likes to complain about other goblins' names. Actually, he likes to complain about everything.

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* MeaningfulName: He likes to complain about other goblins' names. Actually, he likes to complain about everything. He lives up to his name so much that Minmax, who had established himself as bad at guesses, figures his name instantly, while he is half-joking.

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* BashBrothers: Though loathe to admit it to anyone, even himself, he and Minmax, of all people, have perfect battle symmetry with each other, whether they're fighting a common foe, [[EnemyMine or each other]].

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* BashBrothers: Though loathe to admit it to anyone, even himself, he and Minmax, [[ArchEnemy Minmax]], of all people, have perfect battle symmetry with each other, whether they're fighting a common foe, [[EnemyMine or each other]].



* ArrowCatch: As a monk in a universe which follows D&D rules, he has the Deflect Arrows feat.
* BadassNormal: Even before taking a class level in Monk he was able to hold his own again an (albeit low-level) adventurer.

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* ArrowCatch: As a monk in a universe which follows D&D rules, he has the Deflect Arrows feat.
feat. While he can catch only one arrow per turn, which is useless against many foes at once, it's a lifesaver in a duel [[spoiler:as Dellyn finds out the hard way.]]
* BadassNormal: Even before taking a class level in Monk he was able to hold his own again against an (albeit low-level) adventurer.adventurer and win.



* WeakButSkilled: Despite the facts that he's much older than the other goblins, who have a hard time taking anything out of their weight class, Thaco usually lasts the longest against the current opponent simply through skill.

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* WeakButSkilled: Despite the facts that he's much older than the other goblins, who have a hard time taking anything out of their weight class, Thaco usually lasts the longest against the current opponent simply through skill.
skill. He even wins a duel against a high-level adventurer by cleverly sending him into a trap.



** However, he does genuinely become more competent later. [[spoiler:He openly defies Duv and even Evil Klik.]]



* {{Immortality}}: It may well be impossible to kill him. [[spoiler: When Ears manages to rip his head in half using a Dungeon construct, this does not kill him, or even cause him to bleed, he just lies on the floor wheezing and pulls out a magic item to briefly summon Chief's soul, for petty spite, at best.]]

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* {{Immortality}}: It may well be impossible to kill him. [[spoiler: When Ears manages to rip his head in half using a Dungeon construct, this does not kill him, or even cause him to bleed, he just lies on the floor wheezing and pulls out a magic item to briefly summon Chief's soul, for petty spite, at best. Chief reveals there is a very specific way to put him down at all. Kore also doesn't age.]]



* ObliviouslyEvil: His goal of eradicating all evil is racist, overly violent, and willfully cruel overall and half of the people we see him kill aren't evil at all. He is utterly convinced of the righteousness of his actions, though the only reason he retains his paladin powers is because of a curse that allows him to use the alignment of anyone he's killed. If his conversation with Young-And-Beautiful via the Speak With Dead spell is any indication, he's also unaware of his curse.

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* ObliviouslyEvil: His goal of eradicating all evil evil, even [[KnightTemplar potential evil]], is racist, overly violent, and willfully cruel overall and half of the people we see him kill aren't evil at all. He is utterly convinced of the righteousness of his actions, though the only reason he retains his paladin powers is because of a curse that allows him to use the alignment of anyone he's killed. If his conversation with Young-And-Beautiful via the Speak With Dead spell is any indication, he's also unaware of his curse.
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* AGodAmI: Completely by accident; Minmax declares himself a "literal god" in the Room of Truth and Lies while touching the color of truth, and as a result, becomes a god.

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* AGodAmI: Completely by accident; Minmax declares himself a "literal god" in the Room of Truth and Lies while touching the color of truth, and as a result, becomes a god.ascends to godhood.
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* AGodAmI: Completely by accident; Minmax declares himself a "literal god" in the Room of Truth and Lies while touching the color of truth, and as a result, becomes a god.


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* TemptingFate: While stuck in the Room of Truth and Lies, Kin attempts to tell Minmax to change the color of his armor (it is currently turqoise, the color of "Truth" meaning anything he says while touching becomes an absolute truth) before he says something stupid ... right before Minmax realizes the power he wields and says he's a "literal god" before ascending to godhood right before her eyes.

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