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Post by metreu on Feb 26, 2016 0:28:37 GMT -8
In the void, there is space. A Walkway between worlds that exists between dreams and reality. Here stands a Man on one end, and a Woman on the other. Here between all things, the sun and stars converse. "So this is you huh? You look a lot different from the last time I saw you.""I've been busy. But I did tell you I would see you again didn't I?""You did... although I realize it wasn't you specifically who said it.""It wasn't, but in spirit, I still meant it.""So what is it this time? I pulled away from an important mission to see you here..."
"You seem worried."
"I am. I mean... I have friends to protect."
"Mn... Yes. Yes, you do..."
He strokes his beard. "It has been completed, obviously."
He motions to the 'space' around him. "I can see that... so by 'it' you mean that thing you were talking about it. The White Wall?"
"Yes, the God Canvas, White Wall."
"Kinda pretentious sounding don't you think?"
"If you could see it, you would understand.""So... can it do what you said?"
"All things and more..."
"We will see..."There is a pause between them..."You know... I understand the kind of place I was in... when I made the request. But now that I'm face to face with this decision, I no longer feel the need to... go through with it?"
"Because the option now exists you feel like you no longer have to make the choice."
"Not... exactly... but... more like, should we?" "There are those who say they should, those who say they have to, those who must, and those who do it because they can."
The woman looks at the older gentleman quietly before speaking up. "And which one are you...?""I am the Stars, the potential to which they strive for... and you, the Sun from which all things originate."
"...Cryptic, but I think I get it... I am the beginning and you are the end."
"Precisely."
The woman looks around the bridged gap between worlds, a pair of symbols mark the ground to which there is no form. "...and just how long has this been going on? Since we were born? Or was it all just part of the plan you came up with?"
The man rubs his chin and lowers his eyes to the ground. "The truth... is that we were not born to do this. No... this is something that we must do and finish ourselves."
"...I entered this game with my sister... I left the game without my sister."
The man is now the sibling. "I no longer have my sister... I understand this. Losing someone important and someone's family is a horrible thing to go through... but are you really so desperate to do this?"
"It wasn't so much out of desperation as it was out of necessity."
"You lost everything... you left everything behind... to become this. To become nothing."
"To become the End of all things."
"...you're just the null..."
"..."
The sibling is now the man. "What have you done...? To get this far...?"The man raises his pale blue eyes to the woman.
"Everything." |
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Post by metreu on Feb 27, 2016 20:18:39 GMT -8
At an indeterminate time...
in a place were time does not flow...
The Sun and Stars converse..."You know... something never really added up to me..."
"Oh?"
"My sister greeting me at the top of Gospel. Now I've heard of ghosts... but..."
"..."
"I believe it was her... but I also believe it was just you up there."
The woman crosses her arms and looks at the man.
"You see... It was almost too convenient... and for a time, I feel like I actually believed you... all the things you were telling me."
"It would appear you have come to your senses finally..."
"Funny how things like that work. You are both my sister, and not my sister. I understand maybe thats how a Scratch or a Reset works or whatever, but you're just... its too similar that its completely different."
"..."
"And there you go, being silent... it was you wasn't it? The one who made Gospel? I should have known. You were appearing all over the place performing maintenance on it. You and that little creature."
"...Project Gospel was supposed to be a beacon that anchored itself in the dream world so I could accurately pinpoint the Meteor's location. It was a test and I did not expect the group to solve it so quickly so I had to put a 'prize' at the top."
"Prize? You call that a prize?"
"It was rushed. Granted, it worked. You reliving your past events caused major surges in the tower that allowed the link to flourish."
"...and the PC game version?"
"Second prototype. This one based in reality and managed to establish a stronger connection. However the players don't keep the servers running as well as I would like to admit. It responds to the willingness to play and so far that hasn't been much."
"And what exactly were these 'connections' for...?"
"Why, to enter the void of course."
"And why do you want to enter the void...? Are you coming here to get us...?"
"That was part of it... the other part was to visit some... acquaintances that were long over due for a visit."
"And you did all this... all this to restore your null powers and control over this little realm, to enter the void?"
"..."
"What happened to Dr. Fluffy...?"
"Take my word for it, she is fine. However after discovering the nature of the project, she backed down from the project's command. I am now the sole developer."
"...you are one sick dude... and what was that about visiting Chronos that other time?"
"I had to make sure he was... neutralized."
The man smiles a bit. His tinted glasses masking his eyes.
"Honestly he was going about these things all wrong... I just wanted to make some improvements."
The woman looked the man up and down. Her facial expression becoming concerned.
"...which... which one are you...?"
The man looks up at her with his pale eyes.
"I am Omega. The one who reached the end." |
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Post by metreu on Feb 27, 2016 21:27:08 GMT -8
In a place not too far from here and now...
The End of the World approaches...
The ņ̸̫̗̗̹̇ͪ͟u̝̥̳̫̞̻ͬ̄̆̾l̴̢͙̫̺͕͓̉ͅĺ̹͚͔̖͎͉̻̌̏̍ͮ̓͛͐ appears, breaking the natural cycle of d̪̖̘ͫͤ͛́̓͢͜ŕ̽̋̚҉̧̰e̯̫ͧͨ̀a̭̥̎̌̓͋ͭͪ̉̕͢͟m̧̬͈͍͉͖̦̐͂s̘̞̬̝̭͉̦̠̼ͪͥ̋̏̋ and r̡͔̼͉̘͓͔͕̼͂ͦ̅̅͆͐̑͒e̴͇͎̩̟̰̍͌̓̉̈̋̚̚a̺̜̭ͭ͐̌̈̒l̵̬̹͎͎͌ͯͪi̢̦̣͑͐̂̊͛̑̚͘͠tͪ̎͂̅ͬͦ̽ͭ҉̵̠͓̥̺̜͘ͅy͕̼͙̺͉͖̗͓͍ͭ̈̔ͫ̍ͩ͌͡.
The evolution of species ceases...
and one by one they become extinct.Here of all places, the Sun and Stars converse..."You surprise me sunspot. I was always curious how far you would come. Now here, standing with me face to face."
"It wasn't easy, but this is how it goes I guess."
"You are in too deep for your own good. I've already made a mistake by speaking to you directly on multiple occasions. It was my concern that you would need a push once in a while to keep you going... strangely enough you kept going on your own. I suppose that is what happens when you find something worth fighting for."
"Or something worth fighting."
"You encountered Chronos and survived. You withstood the effects of the raw Null and survived. You fought the Greenfields and survived. You made it through Gospel and survived. You uncovered a dangerous cult of sheep, sleepily following an ancient menace and survived. And right now you are fighting a dangerous creature inside another dream connected to someone else you hold dear... tell me... will you survive this one?"
"I find it that I am incredibly hard to kill."
"Aren't you just."
The man begins pacing through the glow of the symbols at his feet. There are more than before and all glowing a pale blue color. "That's what I like about you... you never give up... in fact everything might even seem too easy. You trained so hard to survive that when faced with the challenges of life its better to attack it outright than explore other options. It's why you always carry your guns. You never know when the next thing will come along that you will need to shoot."
The woman remains silent. "And just like that... as soon as conflict ends, you are left standing and nothing else to do. You go into a rut. You eat, and sleep your days away, wondering when the next conflict will show its ugly head and you will take care of it. You always do."
"What's your point...? I'm a sad existence that's been baited along by you ever since I got to the meteor."
"You are a power house of emotional and physical destruction... your power just kept growing since the day you arrived. Your true potential has hardly been reached."
The woman looks at him curiously and concerned. She was not liking the things she was hearing from him. The man smiles. "Through the recreation of the null through a reversed time line anomaly, you supplied me with the same power you possess. It was a loop hole I helped create through you."
He holds his arms out of his lab coat pockets. "Through the control of the essence of the absences of 'nothing', you can control everything. White Wall is the seed for the new world that you have played a part in."
"You're just crazy old man. The null is just the deconstruction of power."
"It is naive to think so... it is like fire. The ability to create and destroy. It may take on separate forms. Like an ability, an arm, a creature... a person."
The man looks at the woman."Have you ever wondered why the Null is so compatible with just you? Why you had to create a physical version of it for others to wield besides yourself?" The man raises his hands and a large pale blue crystal manifests itself between the two, the symbols on the ground lifting up and spiraling around it. "Did you ever stop to wonder why... 'If this person is not actually my sibling, why do we look so alike?' To some this would just be a simple case of a doppelganger. The amazing accident of the human genomes."
The man places his hand on the crystal and walks around it, looking at the woman as he smiled. "Did you ever stop to wonder why your friend had a 'Beta' for a game that had not yet existed? Why your session was separate to all those whom you call your friends?""They... they entered later with a different key..."
"And did you ever stop to wonder... why you feel like nothing while on the contrary, you are very much alive and standing before me.""I lost my sister... I was depressed! I lost everything!"Her voice was shaking. "There are reasons you feel like this... the way you remember all these things. The memories you thought had, the friends you thought you knew, the family you thought you lost..."The man stands in front of the woman, his back illuminated by a giant pale blue crystal with a human shape inside, shining in a brilliant gold. "Chiseled from the very thing you have grown to despise..."
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Post by metreu on Mar 1, 2016 23:29:35 GMT -8
When the sun falls The stars come out and the world is plunged into darkness "That's... that is..."
"Impossible? I'm Lying? This is all a dream? You can run all you want from the truth, but the fact remains as I've said. It is the truth."
The woman sinks to her knees, with her hands on her face. Her sense of self was crumbling in front of her. The crystal behind the man was also 'melting' away. "You... but..."
"You were created as my anchor, a stand in while waiting for the bridge to become complete. You did everything I needed you to do. Keeping the horror terrors at bay, fending off Chronos, generating enough power for gospel, restoring the Null in the second universe by rewriting it's code, keeping the meteor safe before I could arrive and finish what was started..."
The woman looks up at the man, eyes full of terror. "Supplied with everything you needed to survive. The power of the sun to keep away the horror terrors. The speed and strength to physically pull through the destruction. An arsenal of guns with the knowledge to use them effectively. And of course, using the null. You were a wonderful weapon..."
"But now... the bridge is completed and... well... you know how I am."
The man draws out a gun from his lab coat and readies it. The symbols and crystal melt away as the world turns white. "I hate leaving loose ends..."
The man pulls the trigger and the shot rings out, echoing off unseen walls. The woman collapses to the ground. A stream of blood pouring from her heart. She could feel the blood welling up in her throat and mouth. She coughs and brings her trembling hands to her chest, feeling the wound. The world was getting dark again, the blackness of the void surrounded her and she could hear the distant screams of some ungodly terrors in the night. The man stood over her as the darkness took hold of her, putting the gun away in his coat. He crouches down next to the woman. "The funny thing about null users... is that they aren't immune to physical violence... they can still die. Just like the rest."
The woman's blood covered eyes shut and her body descends into the dark... The man stands up and brushes back his coat, turning and walking ahead as pale blue lights spring up all around him. "Now then... let's get to work..." |
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Post by metreu on Mar 7, 2016 11:03:18 GMT -8
The world is cold and dark and the night is silent... The sun had already set, but the moon has come to pay a visit...
"Well well... look at what we have here... a doll with no soul left..."The Moon turns over the body of the Sun.
"You had quite the nasty fall didn't you? A broken heart is a terrible thing to have..."The Moon digs their fingers into the wound and digs out the bullet. The Moon looks it over and then writes a name on the bullet and puts it in the Sun's hand. "There we go... now, a Revenant needs a soul. Not just a broken body. Come here darling, you have a patient that needs treated."
The Halo appears and and puts her hands on the body of the Sun. "Sir... are you sure this is what she wanted? What will happen if she does wake up?""She will not have her powers at all, that's for sure... unless he body produces them naturally. A Null is a very hard thing to fix once dead."The Halo shakes her head. "So what will you do?"
The Moon smiles. "Lets give her what she needs and nothing more. But first, I need to find her soul."The Moon vanishes and the Halo stays behind.The Crown walks up beside the Halo."I know teacher said that we would be doing chores like these, but I would have never thought we'd be participating in a war like this."The Halo nods. "This is a lot harder than last time... the Shark was almost small fry compared to this one.""You're telling me..." |
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Post by metreu on Mar 10, 2016 21:49:17 GMT -8
In a world built on lies A Bridge is held by only dreams of a single soul Nowhere left to run Nowhere left to return The souls of the lost commune...
"Curiouser and curiouser..."
"S-sir It wasn't my fault... I think... she just..."
"Got up and walked away?"
"N-not exactly but she... vanished..."
"She materialized into the void around us and the 'persona' left behind in her body broke free of the mortal coil."
"Okay, first of all--"
"Mom and Dad let me read their books when you were doing soccer."
"...(nerd)"
"Children. Please. This is a serious issue. I did find the soul she had in her, but it was... borrowed from someone else."
"Someone else?"
"Most likely a deceased person close to the creator's heart."
"This just keeps getting more confusing..."
"It truly is a mess of exponential proportions."
"Alright FERB. Tone it down over there."
"If I'm Ferb, you're the one with the nose for a head."
"...touche."
"...Anyway I've asked the underworlders to reincarnate the soul for the better... we weren't going to get the girl from that soul."
"Then shes... shes gone? For good...?"
"I'm afraid so... unless she does something in an ethereal form as some sort spirit..."
"Actually... bro, have you seen the bullet? Wasn't she holding it?"
"Uh... I think she... took it with her...?"
"Curiouser and curiouser..."
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Post by metreu on Mar 13, 2016 17:41:40 GMT -8
The night is dark and full of terrors Even when steeped in darkness, a light may still shine. The two bridges meet at the crossroads of destiny... One who Fights it, and the One who Writes it. The Stars, and The World. "...I thought it was you... you act quickly."
"The hero always arrives on time."
"We both know that isn't true."
"Perhaps. So... what about you? What's your story?"
"Wouldn't you like to know..."
"Don't play the vague games with me old man. We know where that goes. We just sit here and be vague all day until one of us slips up."
"..."
"Why? Why did you do... all of this?"
The World looks to the Stars."We have lost... many things in our lives... some of us more than others."
"What did you lose, Omega?"
"The things I've lost are things you've yet to meet in your life..."
"Spoiler warning huh? How far ahead are you...?"
"Not by many years... the cancer took my years away from me... and now you've got me trapped in your time lock."
"I had to do something before there were more casualties."
"You don't even know who she was..."
"She was a friend of my friends, and thats enough for me to do something."
"Pick your battles wisely Alpha... this one might not leave either of us unscathed."
"I no longer have the null, and my time powers are all I've been able to use since... they are crippled however. I am almost just a regular old immortal."
"I know... seems like fortune had more favor for me on that front."
"I ask again, why are you doing this?"
"I was looking for someone... you might have heard about him."
"...?"
"The Reflection we both see in the lake water. The moon that came before us."
"The Lord of Heart?"
"The very same. The One who was responsible for giving life to the both of us after his life was forfeit during the V1."
"So... at what point do we deviate...?"
"The Red Rift was responsible for my existence in your time line."
"Makes sense."
The two bridges meet at the middle where Alpha and Omega stand. "Well Omega... looks like we are at a stand still. So until you start talking to me... we're going to be here."
"Very well..."
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Post by metreu on Mar 15, 2016 21:43:06 GMT -8
When the World looks to the Stars for answers there was at first silence, and then, the Stars spoke...
"You... created her..."
"I did."
"You created another living being using the Null as a basis?"
"It was essential, being the same matter that makes up the universe and everything, it had to be done.""But she was a living creature. A being with a soul...""...""She had a soul right?""...she did.""How...? How did you create a soul?""I didn't..."The World looks to the Stars, confused.
"You... you took it? From somewhere else?"
"...it was the peak of my scientific accomplishments...""Be damned your science! You're playing with lives! SOULS!""It was for the better!"The Stars shake their fists at the World. "It had to be done!""Do you know what you've done!?""I've CREATED LIFE.""That's not your Domain Omega.""Using the formula and magic I got from the Greenfields I was able to create a Magic Nullifying Homonuculi of pure power! You don't know what I had to go through to get where I am today. You don't know what I've had to do to survive!""Homonculi?! You're telling me you created a magic creature made out of an anti magic substance?!""It was PERFECT. In EVERY WAY. Constructed from the Null and programming its power to reproduce the functions of a Light Player, that girl would pass for a player and thrive among them as one of them. No one would be able to tell the difference. The only possible problem was that she became more powerful than I could possibly imagine. If I left her out there alone to fester, she would have eventually found out and come for me. She had to die!"
"Nobody had to die!""Well Michaela did die! She died and there was nothing I could do to save her!!""But you're the one that killed her!""Not the construct you numbskull!"The Stars breath heavy and clenches his fists. After a moment his shoulders slumps and the old man drops to his knees. "No medicine in Trinity Corp could save her... the Whitewall refused to save her... My wife couldn't take the stress... Nobody needs to die... but they die every day. Your selfish desire to save everyone is what led you to create the company in the first place."The stars look to the world and points at him. "It's your fault my world is hell... it's your fault she died."
His words are bitter and angry... The World stands there, shocked. "You're not some hero Michael. You're just the scientist I used to be...""........what are you now...""The End."He pulls himself together and gets up, his eyes glowing yellow. "I might be frozen out there... but I am very much still in control in here."Omega draws his gun and aims it at Alpha. |
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Post by metreu on Mar 16, 2016 19:13:10 GMT -8
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Post by metreu on Mar 17, 2016 21:23:24 GMT -8
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Post by metreu on Mar 17, 2016 21:46:03 GMT -8
 "You didn't think it was going to be that easy did you?" |
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Post by metreu on Mar 18, 2016 20:09:30 GMT -8
"You're right, how foolish of me. To think you'd be anything like that waste of resources..."
"I should be using something a little more... civilized."
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Post by metreu on Mar 20, 2016 10:33:33 GMT -8
The dark world shifts and all turns white, leaving the two figures standing in the middle. They face each other, Alpha with his Airgetlamh, and Omega with his Brionac. Hexagons appear on the ground, lining out an area like area. The hexes shift and change elevation, causing the area to turn into hills. Two hexes bring the two opponents skyward and stop, placing them high over a moving sea of hex pillars. Alpha smiles and tosses up a holoscreen that starts to play music. Omega frowns. "You're not taking this very seriously...""On the contrary. I'm just getting warmed up."Alpha leaps off the pillar and runs down it, picking up speed and dashes across the sea of hexes towards Omega. Omega steps off and slides down his pillar, landing at the bottom and walks across the moving sea towards Alpha. Alpha leaps to the old man and brings a flurry of punches with the silver arm that Omega defends against with his sword. He pushes Alpha back and continues his slow walk. The younger man circles Omega and separate into 20 clones of himself that all leap at Omega, taking turns attacking him and soon all at once. Omega carefully blocks and fends off each attack, maybe only taking a few hits to his arms. Alpha backs off and gets into a fighting stance, hands in front of him. The old man stares him down and raises the sword, lighting strikes it and he pulls it back in the air. The swords vanishes and turns into 40 swords behind Omega that launch forward at Alpha. Most glance off the armored silver arm, but it only has so much defense. Alpha gets cut up by the glancing swords that aim at the other parts of his body. |
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Post by metreu on Mar 21, 2016 19:19:39 GMT -8
The World and the Stars attack at each other mercilessly. Sword versus Fist... Good versus Evil... A clash that pierces the heavens.
Omega knocks Alpha down into the stone pillars. By now the stones have cracked and split. Some, even to dust.
Alpha lays in the rubble, his body torn and battered. The old man stands there with the sword in hand, barely holding onto it.
"With age comes experience, Michael. I've had more time to use the Brionac ever since it was created. You toiled too long in the lab."
He raises the sword, getting ready to strike. He is catching his breath. Alpha looks up at Omega.
"Yeah... but while you were pumping iron, I was working on strategy... because there was one thing you forgot..."
Omega raises an eyebrow at him... Alpha's left eye catches to blue fire, it does not hurt him and actually begins to invigorate him.
"I went back to her. You didn't."
Omega brings the sword down, but Alpha catches it in the broken airgetlamh. The silver pieces of the arm are falling off, just the palm he used to catch the sword is all that mostly remains. Mike picks himself up off the ground, holding the Brionac blade with his hand.
"She was waiting all this time... and you forgot to go back to get her... I didn't."
Omega is pushed back and Brionac clatters to the ground. "Then you've already moved on... you've accepted this fate for yourself?"Alpha smiles and laughs. "For my friends, I'd die for them.""...then let's test your resolve."Omega snaps his fingers and a white flat square appears in front of his hand. The edges remove from the square and float off in different directions. Alpha trudges away from Omega, keeping an eye on him.
"White Wall control panel, huh... I should get one of those..."Omega looks at Alpha and swipes his hand over it. Red letters flash on the "screen", "GOSPEL".
"I will find him... I will do what I must... and I will create all that I see fit... You cannot stop me now. I've already come too far."
"You're never going to win Omega... we both know you already lost... no one gets to just play god."
"You might be right..."Omega pauses, pulling a pocket watch from his coat and looks at the picture inside...
It was a picture of him and a small girl, no older than 4. She had long wavy brown hair... her left eye was amber while her right was blue. "...I'm sorry Michaela... I was not the father I wanted to be... but I will save you... I must save you..."
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Post by metreu on Mar 21, 2016 21:45:25 GMT -8
In a place outside of time the world is collapsing There is a lone man standing at the base of a large tower that extends towards the heavens...Mike looks at the white colored Gospel that reaches from the cityscape in the clouds. This white void that surrounds him must be the result of Omega's WHITEWALL merging with another universe. He looks at himself, he's still covered in cuts and bruises, his airgetlamh is destroyed and missing. Mike rubs his head and sighs.
"So much for defeating him before it got launched..."
He looks back at the tower and wonders if he's the only one left to stop Omega. Well, Omega was his fault in the first place, he might as well take responsibility.
"I guess its now or never. I can't let him finish this." He says to himself. Mike's eye is still burning and he touches it. "Thanks Rock... for everything."
Mike trudges forward towards the tower. His power has almost run out for the time lock. It would only be a matter of minutes before it would finish and Omega would be free to move again.
Mike looks at the door to the tower of gospel. From what he could recall from his source, the tower is built and fueled by memories and emotional energy. He would need to brave the tower and reach the top to get within reach of the planet above. Most likely, Omega had found this small plant covered planet to act as a seed to his "new world"...
Mike opens the doors and heads inside. A thought crosses his mind... Omega originally started out to save his dead daughter... right? Thats what he seemed to be talking about. He was looking for the Lord of Heart to try and reclaim her soul to bring her back or something...
Mike knew the identity of the Lord of Heart, and so did Omega... but that guy hasn't been around since forever. He is also very much dead.
The young man looks at the front desk of the red room he was standing in. At the only table in the room, was a small creature wearing a tuxedo.
"I see you've made it. I would suggest you hurry... there's no short cuts here unfortunately, but I can supply you with a power to move easily through the tower." The creature puts forward a contract. "You're going to want a head start. The vanishing of the void would be bad for all of us and I know you're here to stop it."
Mike looks down to the page. "...just the usual huh?"
"Correct sir. Much like when we first met, I like to do everything with formal papers first."
"Then let's get started." Mike picks off what little is left of his silver arm and pierces his finger, placing the blood on the paper.
The creature takes the paper and gives Mike a Card instead of an envelope. "Godspeed."
Mike nods and heads to the opened elevator. He notices there are no doors on the walls of this lobby, just the elevator.
He presses the next floor button, and the gate closes. The elevator moves upwards...
Some funky elevator jazz kicks in...
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