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Who: Sans, Sans's double, and Y O U
What: Doubles. It gets bad. Responses from Sans's double will come fromfibia.
Where: All over Hadriel
When: 1/16 - 1/25
Warnings: Things are gonna get messy. Since it's Sans, basic warnings for depressive mindset and self-hatred ratcheted up to 11. In the case of his double, threads may involve heavy manipulation, physchological abuse and cruelty, and of course your typical fare of potentials for violence and gore. Proceed with caution!
1/16 - 1/18; just the big time fucko; arm yourself because no one else here will SAVE you
What: Doubles. It gets bad. Responses from Sans's double will come from
fibia.Where: All over Hadriel
When: 1/16 - 1/25
Warnings: Things are gonna get messy. Since it's Sans, basic warnings for depressive mindset and self-hatred ratcheted up to 11. In the case of his double, threads may involve heavy manipulation, physchological abuse and cruelty, and of course your typical fare of potentials for violence and gore. Proceed with caution!
1/16 - 1/18; just the big time fucko; arm yourself because no one else here will SAVE you
[The crack and pop of flexing knuckles, and his skull rolls on his cervical vertebrae with a series of satisfying popping of air sacs. His phalanges pull in and out again, clenching into loose fists and then - back out. His smile is a fixed rictus, just the same as the monster from which his mold has been cast. The lights buried in his eyesockets glint coolly as he takes it all in - the rock of the walls and ceiling, the light of hte lamps, the staleness of the air.1/19 - 1/21; FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT; you can't deny the prize, it may never fulfill you
He rolls his shoulders smoothly.
Tangibility. Weight. Resonance. What a beautiful fucking thing.
For a time, anyway.
He ambles about the city for a time. There's no visible difference between him and the Sans you might know. He smiles, he nods, he's pleasant. He stops to peruse the shops, and passes by the garage full of mopeds. There's no real obvious changes to any one thing as he passes, and he sure don't stop and loiter about long enough for him to have done anything but - you might notice a few changes. Maybe the bolts and bits of your moped are a mite loose, and kicking it to life will cause it to fall apart on the spot. Maybe that can of food you just picked up from one of the shops has had holes pocked through the bottom, causing its contents to leak out all over the shelves. Maybe a few cobblestones have been loosened to trip you up in the streets, or a shelf in a shop is rigged to topple the instant you pick an item off of it.
But it's probably nothing, right? Just a...coincidence.
Sans is a nice guy. He wouldn't put people in harm's way like that.
Right?]
His time here is limited. That much is pretty damn clear. In only a few days, he'll cease to have ever happened; a footnote in somebody else's story. And, heh, while the regular ol' Sans might be content with that, this Sans certainly ain't. He'll live forever, one way or another. He'll preserve his legacy.1/22; double trouble; the odds will betray you and i will replace you
It's just a way of making sure that people know what good old Sans is really capable of. The monster in question is doin' a real good job of avoiding himself. Afraid of what he'd find, most likely. Or maybe he knows that he wouldn't be able to stand to look at himself for longer than five seconds. Always hates what he sees in a mirror, that Sans. Too many flaws and not enough motivation to a damn thing about 'em.
So the next step, obviously, would be to lure the guy outta hiding.
He waits in a secluded corner of the city and waits for someone to pass by. Anybody, really, he ain't picky. Just take it one at a time, that's all he asks. And should someone be coming his way all alone, he'll tip his skull in greeting, smile patiently, talk 'em through their concerns that he might be the evil clone. It's doubtful that'll work, but that's just fine.
He's not looking for conversation.
[ooc: Sans's Double will be raring for a fight with this prompt. As his cast has dibs on actually killing him, I ask that you only pick this prompt if you're eager for your character to get Dunked. Though since this Sans has a good deal more than 1 HP, you're free to land a few hits.]
By the time the real Sans drags himself outta his miserable little hole to check up on the stirrer of the chaos, the causer of the ruckus, the inciter of scurries, it's already approaching the End. That's all right, though. It's excusable. He's lazy. It's one of the defining points of a Sans.1/23 - 1/24; the real sans; if you take a life do you know what you'll give
He kicks a pebble across the ground with the toe of a slippershod foot and watches it clatter over the rock, his smile nothing short of utterly neutral.
"So this is me." For the first time, he appraises his double with an upraised supraorbital ridge. "A LOVE-hungry killer bent on destruction."
"You don't sound surprised." The words rumble in his doppelganger's lack of a throat, and his grin approximates a sneer.
"Why should I be?" A weary lift of Sans's shoulders, and he chuckles. "Always figured that's why a guy like me doesn't have it in him to give a damn. Why a guy like me takes it easy."
"You always take it easy." The admonishment should be laden with disgust, but it emerges lightly, like dispensing criticism upon an amateur writer for using too many semicolons.
"Yeah." The pair of skeletons eye each other warily. Sans smiles. And he smiles. "But it was always my choice to. Shit choice, sure, but at least it wasn't 'cause I couldn't."
His clone doesn't reply. There's the faintest stir of a spark in his gaze, a glint of something akin to a cold fury, but it dissipates in the same moment it forms. There's all matter of LOVE caked about his SOUL. He don't have to think about something like that. He's above that. But Sans reads it well enough, and they both know it.
He could judge him, but it'd just be redundant.
"LV 19," says Sans, the real Sans, heavily. "You've been busy."
"So you know what comes next," says the other. The words are conversational, almost companionable, as easily as if they might be discussing the weather. It is, after all - a beautiful day outside. There's no birds about, and certainly no flowers, but both of 'em know that, statistically, there's bound to be birdsong trilling out there somewhere, a few petals opening themselves to a sun's warming rays. There's bound to be a world where a Sans grins beside a Frisk who's surrounded by their friends, living happily on the surface, contented and unafraid.
"Yeah," says Sans.
"Only one monster in the Underground takes you to 20."
"Yeah," says Sans.
His eyesockets slip closed.
It's a beautiful day outside.
And with the charging roar of a Blaster and the bright span of bones springing into existence, the space between them erupts.
[ooc: This last prompt is a two-for-one deal. Characters can try and intervene, cheer from the sidelines, place bets, whatever you like!]
[All right, all right. So he's maybe - maybe slightly concerned at this juncture. He was lucky enough to get outta that first confrontation with his life, and there's no guarantee that his double hasn't already gutted a few unlucky bastards.wildcard; try to hide your hand, forget how to feel
He's gotta find him and cut him off before he does anything worse. It ain't like anybody he knows is handling this any better but god damn - he hopes voting Confusion in was worth it, that's all he can say.
Sans blips through the city with a remarkable speed and alacrity, popping into shops, houses, checking every inch of the place he can in search of his cruel, LOVE-happy self. Hope you haven't run into the asshole in the meantime and assumed that the real Sans is subsequently out to get ya, 'cause that would be real unfortunate for the skeleton with 1 HP. Just a real awful, terrible, no good thing.]
[ooc: Not a fan of the prompts? Hit me with whatever you like! I'll match prose or brackets, either one. Questions and concerns? Hit me at arcaneswearwords on AIM or over atarrpee or with a PM and let's discuss!]
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It gives you HoPe.
And just like that, it can all be snatched away.]
I ain't gonna lie to you, kid. Hell, I don't have to.
[He knows full well that they don't have a leg to stand on where Sans is concerned. Too much time has elapsed for that. Too much has happened since then.]
Funny you should say that.
A guy who don't trust a kid one bit...is that the kinda guy that talks 'em back into reality, twice over? Is that the kinda guy who turns to 'em when he don't know where else to turn?
[Time to do a bit of SOUL-searching, Chara. Think real, real hard about the nature of what he's said to ya, and how the Game has changed. Think real hard about the guy who sat there while you raised a Knife above your head, and waited for you to make the right decision.
Do you think even the worst person can change, if they just try?
It's a beautiful day out.]
Is that the kinda guy who leaves a little gift for the thing that's killed him - not just outta some sense of obligation, but because he actually thinks that he cares about you?
[Well?
You don't think that, despite everything, he's grown to chara-bout you?]
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The one who made a joke about Frisk's death and told them they'd be dead where they stood if a lady hadn't made him promise to look out for them. The one who judged them, told them that they were basically irredeemable if they so much as killed a single Monster even if it was an accident or because they didn't know better. Did as one would expect a child when attacked by beings they knew nothing about. The one who killed them countless times and turned their own MERCY against them. Who they killed.
Sans is...
The one who took Frisk out to lunch and dinner. Who impressed upon them the nature of their actions here in Hadriel. Who helped Chara get to their home in order to find Frisk during the zombie invasion. Who talked them back to reality twice when he didn't have to, when they found that page and when their LOVE bounced between nothing and everything. Who, despite his own well-deserved dislike of them, made an effort to get to know Chara as a child rather than A2. Who gave them a healing item when he didn't have to, shared stupid jokes and let Chara nail him with water balloons.
So.
Where do you think you stand with him Chara? Love or LOVE?
....please don't think about this anymore.]
Congratulations. [They can't stop the way it grinds out, injected with as much sarcasm they can manage.] You know that he does hold some level of affection for me. Perhaps I am waiting for the most opportune moment before I take him on again?
[They know how to wait for moments like that, even if the thought makes Chara sick as they remember Toriel. She had never laughed like that before.]
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[You think he believes any of that tripe you're feeding him? Yeah, you've done a real baller job showing how little you give a damn about this sack of lazy trash. You pepper each other with water balloons, and make stupid jokes, and you come away with...
Well, we don't use the term "friends" lightly, do we?]
That opportune moment's come and gone. And come. And gone. And it keeps coming and keeps going, and you don't do a damn thing.
[A Knife rises above their head, and then clatters emptily to the ground. He waits for 'em to take the shot, and they never do. He waits for 'em to carve him in two all over again, and they never do.
So that's where we're at now. Chara, once more damned by their own actions.
But they only got themself to blame, don't they? They always do.]
Now. Can y'blame me for wondering why that is?
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But again, Chara cannot deflect the double's remarks without being made a liar. And they're not supposed to lie. They have had plenty of times to kill Sans. When he grabbed their sleeve to teleport, when his powers went out of control during Confusion's entrance and he was lying in the dirt...the list goes on. Hell, Chara knew where he and Papyrus lived. Sneaking in and killing Sans in his sleep, while it wouldn't be easy, wasn't flat out impossible.
"So going to try again?" a little voice asks in the back of their mind and their jaw works as Chara silences it. It doesn't matter.]
If this is your idea of manners then you need some improvements. Why does it matter so much to you? It sounds like you do not think to much about the real Sans but your interest in his relationships boarder on creepy.
[If you can't counter, deflect. Turn it around to something else.]
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The laughter that peels its way out of his lack of an esophagus is jagged and ugly, a mockery of itself even as it rings across the space between them.]
C'mon, kid. And here I thought I was supposed to be the lazy one.
How 'bout we call it...conflict of interest? Yeah. That's just about right.
[He closes one socket down in a cheeky wink.]
But I'm losin' my point here. And there is a point, I promise ya that.
First, though, I want ya to take a little look at who it is you're talkin' to.
[Go on, kiddo. Give him an appraising look-see. Sneak a peek, why don't you? Perform that * Check you're oh so very proud of, and see how high his LOVE has climbed. Have a good, solid think about how many humans he's killed to make something like that happen. Go on, really. He'll wait.
Unlike that sorry excuse for a skeleton who parades around like the moralizing, self-righteous prick he is? Heh, this Sans has a reason for the wasteland that is his SOUL. He's got a reason to persist the way he does, and he's got a reason, a real, genuine reason - to take one good look at a demon and figure that they're not worth scraping off the bottom of his shoe.
But it's better like that, ain't it?
Unless, of course, you fail to hold that LOVE to yourself, and something slips through the cracks here and again.
How 'bout that, Chara?]
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* How many was it how many was it how many was it how many was it how many was it how many was it oh god no no no
* He ̕can̡'̶t ̷b̶e ̴like͠ t̶he̷m he c̶ań'̸t b̷e͟ ̴i͟f ͜t̷here ͞we͡r҉e͜ t͜wo̧ ͟p͞e͜op̨l̢e iǹ ̶this͟ ͠w͞o̢ŕl͡d́ ͝th́a̕t ̕shơuļd ̸n̕ot ̀c͏o̵ll͡e͜ct͡ L̶ÒV͢E͡ i̷t͠'̶s ̵Fri̵sk̡ ͠a̧nd̸ Sàns͠.͏
̸Oh̨ ̵n҉o.͝ ̨Nơnóno͟no͠.̛]
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done!
What did you do...?
[It's obvious. Chara knows it is. But it was that much of a shock to see those numbers there.
LV 19. Sans's double was LV 19.]
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Aren't you proud of yourself?
It's a damn thing of beauty, ain't it, to know that even with all this, even with all this shit gummed up in their SOUL and blackening their heart - they ain't even really the most depraved thing out there, huh?
He grins, and it's goddamned mirthless.]
So I've gotta question for ya.
[Not the one you might be thinking of, so don't worry. We ain't treading back over that old chestnut of a script again. There's always an emptiness behind that smile of Sans's, but now? Heh, right now it's more than just empty.
It's full of LOVE.]
Why is it that all the LOVE in the world ain't enough for you to shut it all off?
[Why is it that all the LOVE available to them makes them hesitate, and then fail to strike when a target presents itself to them, crawling and sweating buckets in the dirt?
Why is that?]
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And that's the million dollar question, isn't it? Why can't they kill Sans? As his double kindly pointed out, Chara has no real excuse. They had chance after chance to kill him, moments when it'd be no more difficult than swatting a fly if they were well and truly the demon they presented themselves to be. Chara had stuffed themselves full of LOVE to the point that they attacked thin air but killing the one person who offered enough EXP to shoot them to LV 20? Apparently not in Hadriel.
And...at the end of the day, no matter what Chara did, there was always the option to SPARE someone. No matter how things went, even if it didn't go over so well with Sans, they could still SPARE everyone they came across.
If Chara was that kind of person, why would that be there? And they possessed all the LOVE in the world but it wasn't enough to shut down every single emotion they had. Chara was still Chara. Still could enjoy things. Could laugh, could cry.
He probably expects an answer, but he's not getting one. Or not a verbal answer. Their hands are curled into fists, the one holding the Real Knife is bone white. Chara's jaw is set and they stare at him. That is the one thing they're not giving him.
At the end of the day, they don't know why all that LOVE is not enough. But they will not look away. They will not back down.]
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Achievement unlocked.
Would ya look at that. Guess LV 20 ain't enough to shut off something like anger. Ain't enough to shut off tears, a litany of apologies blubbered out to the pair of kids who found 'em after they saw fit to run away, and stop inflicting their presence on the people who didn't deserve it.
In the end, Chara knows exactly what Chara is.
That "determination" they're so proud of.
That ability to shut everything off and not feel a damn thing.
Why, it ain't even theirs at all.]
I think I made my point. Don't you?
[His grin doesn't falter, nor does it fade. It's the same locked, cold, precise thing that it always is, and unlike Chara's, it's legitimately - impenetrable.
Sans jerks his skull at 'em, a clear, clean, dismissive gesture.]
Get outta here.
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[Nobody likes looking in the mirror. They can say that at least. And while they do feel Chara can shut it down for a little while like they clamped it down back on the Surface because children shouldn't throw temper tantrums.
But there's no denying that Chara is angry. And that feeling to lash out is coiling in their stomach like a bad ache. They know how it works. There was only so much before it exploded at they were about at their limit here. But like that nervous laughter, the rest slips out. Ignored their brain's delay.]
You of all people should know you cannot judge someone who had already condemned themselves a long time ago. Besides, it's like a bad horror flick. Never turn your back on the body.
[Because if a LV 19 Sans was anything like Chara, waiting for the right moment to attack may not be beyond him as well. So they take a step back, offering a mock bow.]
Beasts before beauties, after all.
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And you of all people should know.
[He removes his hands from his pockets, and spreads 'em wide in that parody of a shrug his real self is just so great at flaunting.]
You don't need knives to cut.
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Sticks, toy knives, gloves, books, shoes, frying pans, guns and the Real Knife. Feel free to correct me if I am missing one.
[Chara doesn't un-equip the Real Knife because they're not buying that shrug one bit. Sans's MERCY left them a little paranoid about supposed relaxed natures.]
Speaking of, sticks and stones Sans. Although I suppose I cannot just break a bone and be done with it right now.
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I figured you'd be smart enough to be the type to pick your battles.
[So if they want a FIGHT, well - he can give 'em one. He gave 'em an out, but they didn't take it, so.
So there's another step here. And if you think a Sans a LV 1 gave you some trouble, then you ought'a see what he can pull at LV 19.
'Cause he don't do one damage anymore. And he sure as hell don't have 1 HP.]
Guess I was wrong.
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Because this is so so damn funny.]
Well you know I'd be Sans all this LOVE if I didn't know how to pick my battles! But you should be careful about the things you say. Throwing acid is wrong, in some people's eyes. But regardless, you do not need to be soy serious. I'm not going to hurt you.
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It's likely he's going to teleport if he sees it coming. Chances it'll be to the side or behind Chara and they're ready for that. Being LV 19 mean this was going to be more than just one strike and done. They knew Sans's attacks but he may have more than expected. Don't rely on the pattern.
But they're not lying when Chara said they weren't going to hurt him.
They're gong to kill him.]
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The instant they shoot forward, Sans ain't there anymore. In fact he's...wait. He's not behind 'em either? Where'd he go, exactly?
Look up, kid.
Time to wake up and smell the pain.
Sans stands on the nearest roof overlooking the playing field, eyeing the kid languidly. That's their big ol' weakness, see, their proverbial Achilles' Heel. They're a close combat kinda kid, and the quickest way to cut out the middle man is to simply not place yourself in harm's way.
But hey, while they're there - he lays out a full round of Blasters, a couple circles of 'em, soaked to bursting with KR as their great maws stretch wide, warming the charge and hum of crackling energy.
He don't deal one damage a frame anymore.
He never really stopped playing dirty.]
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A maniacal smile spreads across their face, the one that they wore during that final fight and Sans can likely see from where he is, before they book it as fast as they can. There was a trick to the Blasters, a sort of swish/hum/fire only.....well, only a hell of a lot more. LV 19 clearly gave him more stamina than usual to risk firing off those things this quickly.
Yup. This is fine.
They run, but it's not * FLEE. Just moving to get out of the way of the Blasters while...laughing? Yeah. For some reason it doesn't appear Chara's really taking him seriously. Guess he's not worth much even at LV 19!
A beam slices a little too close and they smell burnt hair.]
Are you trying to give me a haircut Sans?! I know it's long but I can tie it back if you ask nicely!
[He has more stamina than usual. But did that still apply?
* Can't keep dodging forever.]
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There's one main difference between him and the real Sans that Chara will take not of pretty quick: he's fast. Faster and sharper and more precise than the real Sans ever was.
He don't need to keep dodging if he's never in the way of a weapon. The Blasters haven't even stopped firing before a wave of blue ulnas shoot up from the ground, closing around them in a fencelike pattern - an impromptu, improvised bullet box. And then a streak of white, and another, and another - long, spearlike femurs shooting through the air at them in rapid succession, seemingly random, and with each projectile the box closes an inch more, further limiting their movements.
One, two, three, - nah, better make it four more Blasters laid into place to vomit continuous streams of blazing white magic at the very edges of that little bullet box of his, and then a fifth and a sixth joins them.
Only they aren't aiming across on an x-axis, oh no. They're poised directly above Chara's head, and they're firing straight down.]
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Move.
There's no real choice what has to be done here. That Determination Chara possesses was not their own but they could use it. For once in their life, they were going to live.
Watch the bones for a bit. Swish. Hum. Move.
Chara charges forward. Slipping by the bones as best as they can and continue on, even if they get hit. There's a sort of recklessness in it from someone who didn't care about their personal safety. The Basters that are continuously vomiting energy stop them from getting to far with this 'strategy' by it's getting them by from having pure white magic dropped on their head. Eventually they have to tank the blue bones as not moving would kill them.
But that was part of their plan. Chara knows there won't be any pity given, no MERCY or an offer to SPARE them. If this did not work the way it would, they would die. Plain and simple and this guy would mock their corpse. Like hell.
But still, there was one last bit of hope. Ever heard the story of Sisyphus, Sans? Push that boulder up and up if you want. Wrap yourself in as much LOVE as you want.
It will not stop you from getting tired. And as you know better than anyone, Chara will not Quit.
Come and get them.]
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He's not a sad sack of self-pitying, exhausted garbage like the real Sans is, and he can last a good deal longer. His next move is to seize a firm hold on their SOUL with the bright, sickening ping! of it going blue, and wrench them into the air.
And hold them there. Suspended.
No surfaces to push off of. No leverage or friction to employ. It's just - science. It's basic physics. When your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to.
Ever heard the story of Sisyphus?
Here's a better one for ya.
A real catchy, well-trodden tale about a child who flew too close to the thing that killed him. Only people keep disagreeing, confused all to hell about why he'd do such a stupid thing, even after getting a warning. But see, people get all muddled up. They get all confused. It wasn't 'cause he was prideful, or 'cause he was trying to impress anybody, or even 'cause he was a fool.
It was 'cause he was just a kid who didn't learn how to QUIT.
Four blasters around their body as it hangs there in the thin air, in the shape of a cross, and they open fire with a familiar searing blast.
Dodge that one, Chara. If you can.]
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* But despite everything...
* You will not lose Hope.
Chara can feel it beating, right where it always is. The one thing that they owned that was given out of love. And despite the fact that they were being pulled by Sans's blue magic, they feel unbelievably calm. One thought is going through their mind. And that's all Chara needs.
* I refuse.
The chain snaps as they yank the Locket off before they chuck it at Sans as hard and as fast as they possibly can. It's not a move they'd make normally. Tossing away 99 defense. Tossing something they love. But it's what they have.
So. They've got a better joke for you.
Duck.]
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So he doesn't see it coming. He'd be ashamed to say it, except - humans, y'know? They really are freaks. The unspooling golden trail of a locket chain flutters behind the thing like the tail of a comet, and he only sees it when it's too late to stop its inevitable trajectory.
It toks him solidly in the face, directly above the left eyesocket, and the amber flame coiling out from it gutters and dies, and his hold on the human's SOUL is severed.
He catches the offending object as it drops, ignoring the pulse of agony - the crack that's formed over his left supraorbital ridge, a dark filigree that cobwebs out from the point of impact in a creeping inflorescence.
For a moment, there's a dark flare of malice twisting his features as he appraises the Locket coldly.]
Best Friends Forever. That's sweet.
[He pockets it.]
Hope you weren't too attached.
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