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* BladeEnthusiast: George has an impressive collection of blades, but gets a little disturbed when Fen compliments them.



* KnifeNut: George has an impressive collection of blades, but gets a little disturbed when Fen compliments them.
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* BriarPatching: Kady gets Fogg 17 to drink from a flask poisoned with Archie by claiming she needs it, which is true in a sense.

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* BriarPatching: Kady gets Fogg 17 Fogg-17 to drink from a flask poisoned with Archie by claiming she needs it, which is true in a sense.



* TheEmpath: The golem bellhops at the Nave have been enchanted to be this, in order to pick up on potential dangers. Unfoirtunately for them it means they can be overwhelmed.

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* TheEmpath: The golem bellhops at the Nave have been enchanted to be this, in order to pick up on potential dangers. Unfoirtunately Unfortunately for them them, it means they can be overwhelmed.



** Fogg 17 shows up to throw a wrench in the heist, catching Fen, Josh, and Margo. Kady has to take a detour to rescue them.

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** Fogg 17 Fogg-17 shows up to throw a wrench in the heist, catching Fen, Josh, and Margo. Kady has to take a detour to rescue them.



** All George and Paloma Ball wants is to start a family. They've been cursed to only be able to do it on a different world.

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** All George and Paloma Ball wants want is to start a family. They've been cursed to only be able to do it on a different world.
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I think my ears are busted.


* OhCrap: Eliot looks mostly bemused/irritated when Sir Effington pleads that his world's at stake if they don't kill Julia, but when the pig-man says "control your spinsters", his eyes fly open and his jaw drops.

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* OhCrap: Eliot looks mostly bemused/irritated when Sir Effington Effingham pleads that his world's at stake if they don't kill Julia, but when the pig-man says "control your spinsters", his eyes fly open and his jaw drops.



** From Effington's perspective, he's explaining that killing Julia (a cruel act) will save Fillory.

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** From Effington's Effingham's perspective, he's explaining that killing Julia (a cruel act) will save Fillory.



** It's bad enough [[PigMan Sir Effington]] wants Julia assassinated, when he tells the men in the gang to "control their spinsters", the only thing that stops the ladies from having bacon and country ham for ''days'' is a sudden song breaking out.

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** It's bad enough [[PigMan Sir Effington]] Effingham]] wants Julia assassinated, when he tells the men in the gang to "control their spinsters", the only thing that stops the ladies from having bacon and country ham for ''days'' is a sudden song breaking out.



** Sir Effington wants Julia assassinated to save Fillory.

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** Sir Effington Effingham wants Julia assassinated to save Fillory.
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* CueTheSun: During the "Don't give Up" number.

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* CueTheSun: During the "Don't give Give Up" number.



* HeroicBSOD: Alice has one after her emotion bottles is broken and she flashes back to her torture and {{Fingore}}. Eliot talks, well, ''sings'', her through it after a sip of his own emotions.

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* HeroicBSOD: Alice has one after her emotion bottles bottle is broken and she flashes back to her torture and {{Fingore}}. Eliot talks, well, ''sings'', her through it after a sip of his own emotions.

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* CallBack: Fogg-17 seeing a flask, drinking it without being suspicious and suffering the consqeuences may be a call back to the fact that Quentin was able to truthie him the same way in numerous timelines.

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* CallBack: Fogg-17 seeing a flask, drinking it without being suspicious and suffering the consqeuences consequences may be a call back to the fact that Quentin was able to truthie him the same way in numerous timelines.



* CueTheSun: During the "Don't give Up" number.



* TheEmpath: The golem bellhops at the Nave have been enchanted to be this, in order to pick up on potential dangers. Unfoirtunately for them it means they can be overwhelmed.



* HeroicBSOD: Alice has one after her emotion bottles is broken and she flashes back to her torture and {{Fingore}}. Eliot talks, well, ''sings'', her through it after a sip of his own emotions.



* InvoluntaryDance: The Conductor Spell has the side effect of making everyone sing and dance in coordination if they get too emotional, due to the out-of-whack Circumstances making the spell unstable.

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* InternalReveal: Penny's mother learns magic is real and why she kept going crazy.
* InvoluntaryDance: The Conductor Spell has the side effect of making everyone sing and dance in coordination if they get too emotional, due to the out-of-whack Circumstances making the spell unstable.unstable and being designed by a musician.
* KnifeNut: George has an impressive collection of blades, but gets a little disturbed when Fen compliments them.



* MotiveRant: Enforced. Fen forces The Couple to explain their motives as part of the conditions for activating the World Seed.



* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Fen as a Fillory resident recognizes that The Couple is translating the World Seed manual incorrectly.



* ParentalAbandonment: Penny's mom was forced to abandon him so the PsychicPowers he inadvertently gifted her with didn't drive her insane and cause her to hurt him.



* SkewedPriorities: The Balls give Pete an extra half hour to sell them on his connections when he mentions he's got a highly excellent vintage of wine decanting.



** The warmth bag for the World Seed gets torn in a struggle with the golems, resulting in a MexicanStandoff with the Couple since it can't leave the room.

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** The warmth bag for the World Seed gets torn in a struggle with the golems, resulting in a MexicanStandoff with the Couple since it can't leave the room.rapidly-cooling room.
* SpottingTheThread: Margo's fashion sense lets her identify bag Paloma Ball is wearing as unfashionably standing out against the rest of her impeccable couture, and the team realizes that it must be an incubator bag of some sort.



* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The big plan Marina-23 needed to Harmonic Convergence to pull off was a robbery of the Nave Hotel. It was already in action when the moon got moved, and things went to hell.

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* TemporarySuperPowers: Penny's presence reawakens the psychic powers that nearly drove his mother insane while he was gestating and whenever she tried to raise him.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The big plan Marina-23 needed to Harmonic Convergence to pull off was a robbery of the Nave Hotel. It was already in action when the moon got moved, and things went to hell.hell.
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** All George and Paloma Ball wants is to start a family. They've been cursed to only be able to do it on a different world.
** Sir Effington wants Julia assassinated to save Fillory.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Eliot assures Alice of this during the "Don't Give Up" number.
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I think talking animals are people but they might not. I don't want to be species-ist.


** As we will later learn, the ''land'' of Fillory must be destroyed (a cruel act) so that the ''living beings'' of Fillory can survive.

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** As we will later learn, From the perspective of the main characters the ''land'' of Fillory must be destroyed (a cruel act) so that the dead won't overwhelm every other world and the ''living beings'' of Fillory can survive. be saved.

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* HearingVoices: Penny's mother starts telepathically picking up peoples' thoughts after she reunites with Penny. Since she works in a mental hospital, that's even ''more'' not okay than usual.



** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but being around him re-awakens the temporary psychic powers she had while pregnant, and she just can't handle going through that again.

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** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but being around him re-awakens the temporary psychic powers she had while pregnant, and she just can't handle going through that nightmare again.


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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: The "Cruel to Be Kind" number functions as one of these.
** From Effington's perspective, he's explaining that killing Julia (a cruel act) will save Fillory.
** As we will later learn, the ''land'' of Fillory must be destroyed (a cruel act) so that the ''living beings'' of Fillory can survive.
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* OhCrap: Eliot looks mostly bemused/irritated when Sir Effington pleads that his world's at stake if they don't kill Julia, but when the pig-man says "control your spinsters", his eyes fly open and his jaw drops.
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* AllForNothing: Even if Marina-23's heist had gone according to plan, The World Seed wasn't where she thought it was so it wouldn't have worked out.



* {{Teleportation}}: When dosed with Archie, Fogg-17 vanishes into the Etheric Realm.

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* {{Teleportation}}: When dosed with Archie, Fogg-17 vanishes into the Etheric Realm.Realm.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The big plan Marina-23 needed to Harmonic Convergence to pull off was a robbery of the Nave Hotel. It was already in action when the moon got moved, and things went to hell.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the "Cruel to Be Kind" number, cuts to Fen and Zelda show they're the ones having a blast singing and dancing, whereas Margo and Marina-23 are visibly annoyed throughout the whole song.



** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but being around him re-awakens the temporary psychic powers she had while pregnant, and she just can't hands going through that again.

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** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but being around him re-awakens the temporary psychic powers she had while pregnant, and she just can't hands handle going through that again.



** The warmth bag for the World Seed gets torn in a struggle with the golems, resulting in a MexicanStandoff with the Couple since it can't leave the room.

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** The warmth bag for the World Seed gets torn in a struggle with the golems, resulting in a MexicanStandoff with the Couple since it can't leave the room.room.
* {{Teleportation}}: When dosed with Archie, Fogg-17 vanishes into the Etheric Realm.

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* BlessedWithSuck: Being pregnant with Penny and in his presence afterward gave his mother temporary PsychicPowers that had ''extremely'' adverse effects on her mental state.



** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but she can't bring herself to go through a similar experience with Julia's child.

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** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but being around him re-awakens the temporary psychic powers she had while pregnant, and she just can't bring herself to go hands going through a similar experience with Julia's child.that again.

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* RageBreakingPoint: After repeated questioning from Anna about her motives, Marina finally snaps that she wants Anna to love her for who she is rather than having to bend over backward to be a better person for her.

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* RageBreakingPoint: RageBreakingPoint:
** It's bad enough [[PigMan Sir Effington]] wants Julia assassinated, when he tells the men in the gang to "control their spinsters", the only thing that stops the ladies from having bacon and country ham for ''days'' is a sudden song breaking out.
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After repeated questioning from Anna about her motives, Marina finally snaps that she wants Anna to love her for who she is rather than having to bend over backward to be a better person for her.
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* MistakenforCheating: Anna accuses Marina-23 of sleeping with "the hot librarian". Zelda assures her that's not the case but appreciates the compliment.

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* MistakenforCheating: MistakenForCheating: Anna accuses Marina-23 of sleeping with "the hot librarian". Zelda assures her that's not the case but appreciates the compliment.

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* BothSidesHaveaPoint: Anna doesn't like having a sociopath for a girlfriend, Marina-23 doesn't like having a girlfriend who isn't happy with who she is and wants her to fundamentally change herself.

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* BothSidesHaveaPoint: BothSidesHaveAPoint: Anna doesn't like having a sociopath for a girlfriend, Marina-23 doesn't like having a girlfriend who isn't happy with who she is and wants her to fundamentally change herself.



* CallBack: Fogg-17 seeing a flask, drinking it without being suspicious and suffering the consqeuences may be a call back to the fact that Quentin was able to truthie him the same way in numerous timelines.



* EvenEvilHasLovesOnes: Marina-23 really ''does'' love Anna.

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* EvenEvilHasLovesOnes: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Marina-23 really ''does'' love Anna.
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* BothSidesHaveaPoint: Anna doesn't like having a sociopath for a girlfriend, Marina-23 doesn't like having a girlfriend who isn't happy with who she is and wants her to fundamentally change herself.


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* EvenEvilHasLovesOnes: Marina-23 really ''does'' love Anna.


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* LoveCannotOvercome:
** Penny's mom loves him, and is regretful, but she can't bring herself to go through a similar experience with Julia's child.
** Marina-23 puts her foot down and tells Anna to accept her for who she truly is or leave. Anna leaves.
* MistakenforCheating: Anna accuses Marina-23 of sleeping with "the hot librarian". Zelda assures her that's not the case but appreciates the compliment.
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-->'''Margo:''' But where the hell is the fucking Seed, fen?

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-->'''Margo:''' But where the hell is the fucking Seed, fen?Fen?
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-->'''Fen:''' It's fine!
-->'''Margo:''' But where the hell is the fucking Seed, fen?
-->'''Fen:''' I've fucking ''got it'', Margo!


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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Margo deliberately shoots the male half of the Couple in the hand.
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* AssShove: In need of an alternative way to carry the World Seed when the warmth bag is damaged, Fen improvises as best she can under the circumstances.

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* AssShove: [[AssShove Crotch Shove]]: In need of an alternative way to carry the World Seed when the warmth bag is damaged, Fen improvises as best she can under the circumstances.
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The pig man tries to enlist Julia's friends in assassinating her. After a bit of random singing, Josh lies about doing the deed to get him off their backs, giving his word "as a devout Catholic" (he's Jewish).

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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The pig man tries to enlist Julia's friends in assassinating her. After a bit of random singing, Josh lies about doing that he'll do the deed to get him off their backs, giving his word "as a devout Catholic" (he's Jewish).
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The pig man tries to enlist Julia's friends in assassinating her. After a bit of random singing, Josh lies about doing the deed to get him off their backs.

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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The pig man tries to enlist Julia's friends in assassinating her. After a bit of random singing, Josh lies about doing the deed to get him off their backs.backs, giving his word "as a devout Catholic" (he's Jewish).

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It wasn't an exchange. She said she hoped they didn't notice there was an extra Fogg.


* EquivalentExchange: Kady spikes Fogg 17's whiskey with RCH, sending him to Ethereal Realm in exchange for Fogg 40.
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* ChekhovsGun: The World Seed has to be kept at a temperature of 99 degrees. When the group needs a way to transport it without a temperature-controlled container, Fen realizes there's another place really close to that temperature, albeit a [[AssShove rather uncomfortable one]].

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* {{Golem}}: The Nave hotel use golems as bellhops, since they double as bouncers and are designed to read emotions.

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* {{Golem}}: The Nave hotel use Hotel uses golems as bellhops, since they double as bouncers and are designed to read emotions.



* RageBreakingPoint: After repeated questioning from Anna about her motives, Marina finally snaps that she wants Anna to love her for who she is rather than having to bend over backward to be a better person for her.



** Anna shows up at the loft to confront Marina, having placed a locator spell on the heist book just in case Marina fell into old habits. She breaks the batom maintaining the Conductor Spell, thereby leaving the team in the dark for a few minutes until Zelda can repair it.

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** Anna shows up at the loft to confront Marina, having placed a locator spell on the heist book just in case Marina fell into old habits. She breaks the batom baton maintaining the Conductor Spell, thereby leaving the team in the dark for a few minutes until Zelda can repair it.
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* EquivalentExchange: Kady spikes Fogg 17's whiskey with RCH, sending him to Ethereal Realm in exchange for Fogg 40.
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* EmotionBomb: When Alice's emotion bomb breaks, her emotions all flooding back in at once overloads a golem bellhop. The team repeats this a few times to get rid of other hostile golems.

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* EmotionBomb: When Alice's emotion bomb bottle breaks, her emotions all flooding back in at once overloads a golem bellhop. The team repeats this a few times to get rid of other hostile golems.
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'''Season 5, Episode 11'''

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'''Season 5, Episode 11'''
12'''



Marina joins the group to plot their heist, while Penny and Julia pay a visit to his mother so they can work out a way to spare Julia the problems she had.

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Marina joins the group to plot their heist, while which thanks to some unorthodox methods is going to result in random bouts of singing. Meanwhile Penny and Julia pay a visit to his mother so they can work out a way to spare Julia the problems she had.
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'''Season 5, Episode 11'''

!The Balls
Marina joins the group to plot their heist, while Penny and Julia pay a visit to his mother so they can work out a way to spare Julia the problems she had.
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!!Tropes That Appear In This Episode:
* AssShove: In need of an alternative way to carry the World Seed when the warmth bag is damaged, Fen improvises as best she can under the circumstances.
* BagOfHolding: Pete has an enchanted suitcase with enough internal space to hold the heist crew, allowing him to sneak them all inside.
* BriarPatching: Kady gets Fogg 17 to drink from a flask poisoned with Archie by claiming she needs it, which is true in a sense.
* ChekhovsGunman: Alice gets Santa to pull a rooftop rescue when the plan goes sideways.
* EmotionBomb: When Alice's emotion bomb breaks, her emotions all flooding back in at once overloads a golem bellhop. The team repeats this a few times to get rid of other hostile golems.
* EmotionSuppression: To keep from breaking into song randomly, the team hits upon bottling their emotions for the heist.
* FakeOutMakeOut: Eliot pulls this with Alice and Kady when the Couple walk by, since they'd recognize both women otherwise.
* {{Golem}}: The Nave hotel use golems as bellhops, since they double as bouncers and are designed to read emotions.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The pig man tries to enlist Julia's friends in assassinating her. After a bit of random singing, Josh lies about doing the deed to get him off their backs.
* HumbleGoal: The Couple don't have any desires for world domination or anything so grandiose, they just want to have children and can't do so without making a new world because of a curse placed on them by their enemies.
* ImpaledPalm: Margo shoots the male half of the Couple in the palm, in the process shooting the Circumstances panel so they can't use it.
* ImpossiblyCompactFolding: Marina's model of the Nave Hotel is kept inside a children's story book yet unfolds into an entire scale model of a four-story hotel that is several times larger than the book.
* InvoluntaryDance: The Conductor Spell has the side effect of making everyone sing and dance in coordination if they get too emotional, due to the out-of-whack Circumstances making the spell unstable.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Nave Hotel is warded up the wazoo to stop all forms of communication, both magical and muggle. However, the Conductor Spell, which is designed to sync musicians that can't see or hear one another, is subtle enough that the wards won't block it.
* ModelPlanning: The Nave heist is planned out using Marina's scale model of the building.
* MusicalEpisode: This time justified as the only way the team can communicate during a heist. Thanks to the spell being unstable, random singing abounds.
* NoodleIncident: This gem from Eliot:
-->'''Eliot:''' So repress the overwhelming urge to sing while stealing shit? Eighth grade all over again.
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Fogg 17 shows up to throw a wrench in the heist, catching Fen, Josh, and Margo. Kady has to take a detour to rescue them.
** Anna shows up at the loft to confront Marina, having placed a locator spell on the heist book just in case Marina fell into old habits. She breaks the batom maintaining the Conductor Spell, thereby leaving the team in the dark for a few minutes until Zelda can repair it.
** The warmth bag for the World Seed gets torn in a struggle with the golems, resulting in a MexicanStandoff with the Couple since it can't leave the room.

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