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Dimension 20 Adventuring Party S24E04 (2026)
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00:00Hello, one and all!
00:02Welcome to another thrilling episode of Adventuring Party.
00:04I'm your humble dungeon master,
00:05brilliant one with our intrepid heroes.
00:06Say hi, intrepid heroes!
00:07Hi, intrepid heroes!
00:10Zach, I laughed so fucking hard.
00:13I laughed so fucking hard at you screaming,
00:18Jesus Christ.
00:19It was so relatable, the moment at a party
00:22where someone does something and they're trying to be cool
00:25and they get so hurt that they can't pretend
00:27to be cool anymore.
00:27It's just like.
00:28Like, this is serious now.
00:30And when you got hurt doing the math of being like,
00:33why did any of us think that was gonna work?
00:36It was just a snow bump on a high scooter.
00:38There's no jump!
00:40The scooter is the exact same size as a drain pipe.
00:42Yeah, the wheel of the scooter goes right in the gutter
00:45and you fucking flip right into a dry pool!
00:49Have you ever not known what to do at a party
00:51and you land on something like that?
00:54I do know the moment of horror you're talking about, Ally,
00:56when you're looking at something and you're like,
00:57wow, what's so cool about this trick
00:59is every part of it I can see looks like a disaster
01:03is just about to happen.
01:05So it's gonna be really, I can't even imagine
01:07what's gonna not make this so bad.
01:10Because what happens if Zaith gets into the empty pool?
01:12Like, that happens even if he gets into the empty pool.
01:15He lands it.
01:16I guess you land it and still, like,
01:17break your collarbone as you, like, yeah.
01:20It's the full spiritual opposite of the shrimp jump.
01:23Yes, full, but the shrimp jump, like,
01:26Torek Railgrider took a long time to build the jump.
01:28Yes.
01:29You know, it was covered in tartar sauce.
01:31Yes, we were level 14.
01:33Level 14?
01:33We were also, like, way more magical.
01:35Way more magical.
01:35And we were doing it for, like, a political purpose,
01:38for Kristen Appleby's.
01:39Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
01:41This was kind of depressed about the Cold War.
01:44I also loved that.
01:45I was in my feels.
01:47I didn't use any of my abilities.
01:49That would have helped me, for sure.
01:50Sure, cat-like reflexes.
01:52I'm sure.
01:52I'm sure you got something on this.
01:54You can automatically pass checks to keep your balance.
01:58Add Selerity for non-combat dexterity test or defense.
02:01Yeah, for sure.
02:01I was just kind of, I think it was,
02:04Zaith is really lost here.
02:06I love it.
02:07It's really great, because even, like,
02:09you're making that charisma check,
02:11like, thank God you didn't pass,
02:12because I was like, if Zaith passes a charisma check,
02:17sadly doing donuts on a bird scooter,
02:19and I have to play a bunch of college students
02:21being like, hey, wait a minute.
02:22That's awesome.
02:25I will, we will straight.
02:27That's a lot of work.
02:28That's a lot of work for me.
02:29He was this strange adult who came to our party
02:32and then very sadly scooted around waiting for somebody
02:35to ask if I was a kid.
02:36Everyone is sad about the Cold War.
02:38God, that's so relatable.
02:40What's up with that?
02:40God damn.
02:42What's up with that?
02:42Super cool fight with Sam.
02:43Trying to dance on him.
02:45Everyone you met, you were like, I'm sad.
02:47Yeah, yeah, totally, totally.
02:49He's just having a hard time.
02:51I'm kind of sad right now.
02:54I'm hoping we're on an upward swing of an arc,
02:58but this is where he's at right now.
02:59This is where Zaith is at, man.
03:01Pool bottom.
03:03He hit the pool bottom for sure.
03:05Yeah, concrete pool bottom.
03:07H.J. jumps in.
03:08He's dead.
03:09H.J. saved the day, sounds like.
03:13There was a tiny pinhole in the masquerade
03:15and I stuck my finger in it.
03:17Yeah, rip.
03:18You jump.
03:19He's definitely going to just been like,
03:20I'll take him to the hospital.
03:22Yeah.
03:22But you still jumped straight up into the air.
03:24Straight up into the air.
03:25It's fine.
03:25You don't look like yourself.
03:26You look like yourself with 12 pounds of fingers.
03:29That face is so unreal.
03:30Running away with my limp body and neck with that face.
03:33I can see it in the mirror.
03:35In this episode-
03:36Plastic surgery is free if you just do it.
03:38This episode of several moments where I was watching
03:40Brennan just be like, how does this not just like end
03:44in everyone in Burpee knowing you're a vampire?
03:47Yeah.
03:47There were like four scenes when you were talking to someone
03:49where you were just like, give me an excuse for why
03:52you're here and just say something right away.
03:54The amount of times I have pitched people in this coterie,
03:56the amount of time the vampires in this coterie
03:58have had an NPC go, well, let me, let me, let me,
04:01I'm going to say what I think is the likeliest reason
04:04you're here.
04:05And you all went, no.
04:06Was this the library episode?
04:09Yes, this is the library episode.
04:10I don't have a single point in anything social.
04:12Oh yes, that library scene was so fucking funny.
04:15Well that was also, I was in my kryptonite,
04:17which is the zoology section.
04:18Yeah.
04:19And it makes sense.
04:20And he was looking at a herpetology.
04:23Look at herpetology.
04:23And he was cute.
04:24So cute.
04:25Did I tell you, did I tell you that that was on
04:26Bat Child's five year plan before her life was upended?
04:29Herpetologist.
04:29That was like, herpetologists are the bad boys of the zoo.
04:33And it was like, Bat Child was like, become the director of a zoo,
04:37fall in love with a herpetologist.
04:39It's built so sad.
04:40You don't want to be a herpetologist,
04:41you want to marry a herpetologist.
04:42Yeah, that's the bad boys of the zoo.
04:44Well, you just met him.
04:46And he was wearing Teva shoes.
04:48What was that?
04:48He was wearing Tevas?
04:50Oh yeah.
04:51When he shoots us with crossbows.
04:53I know.
04:54Um, Bo.
04:55Yeah.
04:56That's kind of fun.
04:56That's a fun will they want there.
04:57Aaron Bo.
04:58Aaron Bo.
04:59I don't think.
04:59I don't think Aaron Bo has any interest.
05:01And that makes me feel like a vampire.
05:02Yeah, born in 02.
05:04Yeah.
05:04I mean, it's a 23 year old man.
05:0623 year old man.
05:07Yep, exactly.
05:08Yep.
05:09He was born after 9-11.
05:10Yeah, for sure.
05:12100%.
05:12So many of them are these days.
05:14So many of them are.
05:15Now you gotta ask people where they were on January 6th.
05:17Damn.
05:18Just make sure they're old enough.
05:20So you guys found out?
05:21Not to make sure where they were.
05:22Just to make sure they're.
05:25Some of me.
05:25You had to get buzz folks.
05:27If you don't know how old somebody is,
05:29ask them where they were on January 6th.
05:31And if they don't have an answer for you, fuck them.
05:33And if they say they weren't born on January 6th,
05:35you go, I knew you were three.
05:37Yeah.
05:39You'd say, got him, got him, you're three.
05:42Yeah.
05:42Couple me.
05:47The, but we found out a bunch of stuff this episode.
05:50You found out that Bigfoot kicked Zachy Lee Maple to death.
05:54Yeah.
05:54There it is.
05:55Kicked apart was one of my favorite terms.
05:58Got kicked apart by Bigfoot.
05:59Master of Kumite.
06:00Master of Kumite.
06:01I wrote down after kicked apart a thing that Murph said that,
06:06he said as one word, in turn, it felt like a sentence that was,
06:11had no spaces at all in it.
06:13And it was nothing.
06:14I'm superhero.
06:16I wouldn't do that.
06:17Nothing I'm superhero.
06:19What?
06:19Because you're, you're talking about blaming.
06:22Blaming Bigfoot.
06:23And then walking it back immediately.
06:25Nothing I'm superhero.
06:26Why would I do that?
06:31Yeah.
06:31Yeah.
06:31Yeah.
06:32Dark Horseman is very defensive.
06:34Yeah.
06:34For sure.
06:35Yeah.
06:36Really, really special.
06:39The, and also like, yeah, very fun going to talk to Zachy Lee Maple,
06:44seeing the sort of spirit of this like town hero that,
06:47but that did appear to like be engaged in some foul government work that
06:52Bigfoot had to come and put an end to.
06:55It's a union job.
06:56It's a union job.
06:58It's, it's an interesting thing.
06:59There's like maybe a little insight into that idea of like different
07:02forces within the town.
07:03So it's like Zachy Lee trying to take care of these construction
07:05workers that are local hires, but yet you're still engaged in a
07:09malevolent endeavor.
07:11What?
07:11So wait, so with him dying in that way.
07:14And then it was, there was a mass casualty event.
07:17That was the mass.
07:18But a cover up.
07:19The darkness man called it.
07:20The plaque was a false.
07:23Yeah.
07:23I see, I see, I see.
07:24Like he died in this, in this mass, mass casualty event,
07:26but he was the only local.
07:28He had like sent the other workers away.
07:30I see, I see.
07:30And was the only local that died.
07:32The only local that was kicked apart.
07:34Kicked apart by Bigfoot.
07:35By the master of the Kumite.
07:37Master of the Kumite.
07:38Maybe inventive.
07:39Perhaps inventor.
07:42That's really good, Zach.
07:44It was Rhea.
07:44I was, I, it's like drew a beautiful picture.
07:47Gotta, gotta say Madeleine D'Artois.
07:50Absolutely killing the game here in Perpi.
07:52That's gay.
07:53She be fucking.
07:53She be fucking out here.
07:55Yeah.
07:55But, but also fucking like tactically.
07:58It's very funny cause sex scenes in TTRPGs almost always feel gratuitous.
08:04Except in this campaign they are furthering the plot dramatically.
08:09Yeah.
08:09They're a fundamentally sensual.
08:11But it's, they are, they are sensual and sexual, but also they're always fucking for a reason.
08:17Yeah.
08:17Like, like ultimately they are fetus.
08:21It's fun and cool.
08:22Yeah.
08:23Cause it's fun and cool.
08:24Fucking is fun and cool.
08:25Ultimately.
08:26For a reason.
08:26I agree.
08:27I agree.
08:28There's, there, there, there's often like an undead, like there's a, the fucking is fun,
08:33but then there's also a secondary motive.
08:35Yes.
08:35I like that we're realizing some people have resistances.
08:39Yes.
08:39Through this stuff like him not really falling for it.
08:43I'm interested to, so Aaron.
08:43He's just falling for it in a regular doofus kind of a way.
08:46So yeah, Aaron, Aaron was interesting because you didn't get a supernatural thing from him.
08:49So it could be that he was a supernatural thing or it could just be that he was prepared.
08:53Sure.
08:53Ready, ready for a psychic ability.
08:54Yeah, he's been doing his cryptos while he used it.
08:55I think, I think these dudes have talismans or something.
08:57Oh.
08:58I think they have like cool shit.
08:59Oh.
09:00They got a cool necklace from the grandpa.
09:01I think they got silver necklaces.
09:03Oh yeah.
09:04Cool choker.
09:04Well cause we learned that thing.
09:06What was the moment where you talked about this as being a well?
09:10That was this episode.
09:11Oh, that was this episode as well.
09:11Oh yeah.
09:12Where I was talking about when Madeline was reaching out with her Auspex that it was like
09:16the town, like wherever this mine was.
09:19Sure, that was filled with water.
09:21Filled with water.
09:21A silver mine filled with water.
09:22Silver mine filled with water.
09:24Silver, water.
09:24Holy water.
09:26Something going on.
09:26And also a traumatic spiritual event that like potentially just starts to attract each other.
09:35Like if you're a vampire, do you want to be in a town that has no other magic shit going
09:38on or a town that has some other magic shit going on?
09:40Sure.
09:41There's some other ability for a little bit of arcane, a little bit of occultism to cover
09:44your tracks.
09:45And it seems like this, like in other words, what's this big, like this government satellite
09:51site might have just been, you know, there's like fucking nukes under malls in the United
09:57States of America, right?
09:58Yeah.
09:58But there's-
09:59My town is, the town I grew up in is filled with military tunnels.
10:02Yeah, filled with military tunnels, right?
10:03Up the wazoo.
10:05Bath is just riddled with tunnels.
10:06The only thing interesting about this one is it just discovered a frequency where they
10:11could hear the ghosts in this mine and started to experiment on that.
10:14And it's also from the time when they were doing like the men that scream at goats type
10:18LSD shit.
10:20Yeah.
10:21Where the government was just fully bonkers.
10:23Dexter, Uncle Sam needs you to put this square on your tongue and try to make this goat
10:27do something with your mind.
10:28Yeah.
10:29Yeah, it's the real shit that they were doing at Area 51 that they were using the aliens
10:32to cover up.
10:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:34That's right.
10:35Yeah, brother.
10:36Great.
10:39We also had, also my god, where we ended the episode, Nancy Danderhoff, an NPC that I
10:48must-
10:49What a name.
10:49I must credit Murph and Emily for, for sending me Nancy.
10:53Nancy Danderhoff.
10:53You were like, there was some flaw where one of you guys had an enemy.
10:56Yeah, there's a flaw that I have an enemy.
10:59Yes.
10:59Yeah.
11:00So, like, cause you can choose a flaw.
11:03So, we wanted to come up with a good enemy.
11:06Yeah.
11:06And a local reporter, yeah.
11:08She writes for the Omaha Sunday Scoop.
11:11She writes the around the town column for Omaha's beloved Sunday Scoop.
11:16And she was the one who, when there was some exsanguinations happening at the Henry Dorley Zoo
11:22and Aquarium, basically said, there was a rumor of superheroes in that town, and she
11:27was the first person that said, for superheroes, a lot of the people they're fighting end up
11:33completely drained of all blood.
11:35Yeah.
11:36I think this might be vampires.
11:38Yeah.
11:40That piece never ran, but it almost ran.
11:45It took some intercession from some Camarilla vampires that also scooped you guys up and brought
11:50you to San Francisco, thus ending your tenure in Omaha.
11:53Yeah.
11:53We gotta get Danderhoff off the scent.
11:55Yeah.
11:56And onto some other scents, cause she's a hell of a journalist.
11:59She's a great journalist.
12:00Oh.
12:00If we could get her on the Sasquatch beat.
12:02Recruit her.
12:03Get her on the record beat.
12:04That's a very funny moment for the part of this campaign that is also political intrigue,
12:09of being like, you gotta give me something.
12:11I'm either gonna light up your masquerade, or you gotta give me Bigfoot.
12:15Totally, totally, totally.
12:16Nancy, I will give you Bigfoot.
12:18Nancy, I'll give you Bigfoot.
12:19The enemy of my enemy is Bigfoot.
12:21The enemy of my enemy is Bigfoot.
12:22Because truthfully, I'm rooting for her career.
12:25We respect Nancy Tender.
12:27We respect her.
12:27We respect and fear Nancy Tender.
12:28In another world, she's my mom.
12:32My mom wrote for the Bluestone Press in High Falls.
12:36She wrote for, she spent some years writing for, support your local newspapers.
12:41They do some really excellent reporting.
12:45We also finally got Mike's Bar.
12:48We had a huge roll from Lavonte here.
12:50Huge win.
12:50Oh my god, the speed bumps, great in with that particular guy.
12:53You know, what's a biker like to complain about if not speed bumps?
13:00And I think that you, having a stake in Mike's Bar, the ability to kind of move around in there
13:08with some degree of freedom, host this movie night there, you also have your first retainer,
13:14or get your dot in retainer here, Tyler Morimoto, who is both a bit of a biz dev freak,
13:20but also seems to have a kind heart.
13:23Perfect.
13:24Here in town, taking care of his grandpa.
13:27Yep.
13:27Maybe he's into whatever weird shenanigans are going on in these old people's homes as well.
13:32Yeah, we can hear about treatment and stuff.
13:36And we got a ton of info, both through, like the personal info that would not be readily available,
13:42but just like from Cal and Ana about like the layout of the Whitaker family.
13:47Yeah.
13:48And what that looks like and who's doing what.
13:51Who's doing who?
13:52Cal pitched a docent at the Louvre partnering with a local art gallery in Purpy
13:58to make an NFT of the Mona Lisa.
14:01A painting that he had never heard of before, even though he works for an art gallery.
14:04But he works for an art gallery, that's correct.
14:06Yes, absolutely.
14:08And Cal seemed pretty mad that Ana did not believe in him.
14:12You gotta believe in this vision.
14:14She got a big rock.
14:15She got a big rock.
14:16She got a big rock.
14:16Yeah.
14:17She got a big rock on that finger.
14:19We also, that scene with you and Ana was so...
14:25The fucking...
14:26It's so fun to be fully shameless.
14:30Yes.
14:31Fully shameless.
14:32And to have, to be like, to be like on my character sheet.
14:35Yeah.
14:35The stuff I didn't, I realized I didn't even use because I have two points of beautiful.
14:39Oh.
14:40Which also gives me extra dice in any kind of seduction stuff.
14:44It's just so funny.
14:45I should've been rolling like 11 dice.
14:46To be in a campaign where it's like, sometimes your character has super speed.
14:49Sometimes you have super strength.
14:51Yes.
14:51And in this game, it's like, I'm so hot that I can say the most insane shit anyone has ever
14:56said.
14:57Yes.
14:57And it works and people love it.
14:58Or somebody can say the most insane thing to me and if I say that I believe them, they're like,
15:02I'm in love with you forever.
15:03I'm in love with you forever.
15:04I definitely felt like coming in, I was like, oh, well we have like a lot of charisma people.
15:08We should like, um, share the wealth.
15:11And now I'm like, should've just played someone charismatic.
15:13Should've played someone charismatic.
15:14It's kind of the currency.
15:16There's some, there's some like bumps like, oh, and I add two dice for my, and I'm like, I gotta
15:20go back and wreck.
15:21Like, I need to be adding some dice to some of this shit.
15:25Like, I did make pretty much-
15:26I mean, as soon as I get into anything intelligent or fighting, I am fully useless.
15:30Oh, yeah, yeah.
15:31Except I am quite good, I have one point in fencing.
15:33Oh.
15:34But, if that comes up, I'll be able to fight a little bit.
15:37Well, in terms of best at is what hurt me so bad.
15:42Yeah, you rolled like eight dice and got one success and one failure.
15:46Yeah.
15:47Worth it.
15:48But also, there's a funny thing here too, which is the, uh,
15:55in terms of like fights, there are some physical threats that you guys have isolated.
16:01Yeah, Aaron's coming for us for sure.
16:02Yeah.
16:03Well, your best thing is stealth, right?
16:05Plus like being beefy.
16:07My best stuff is brawl.
16:07Okay, yeah, yeah.
16:08Yeah, I have like a touch of oblivion where I can just break someone's arm.
16:12Oh, yeah.
16:13That's so sick.
16:15Well, I feel like we now, we're starting to develop targets, you know?
16:18Yeah, for sure.
16:19I'm gonna eat Barnaby Whittaker.
16:21Oh, I love that.
16:22I love that for you.
16:23Yeah.
16:23We're gonna be in the next episode.
16:24Right away.
16:25I wanna steal the dog and kill the old man.
16:28I wrote down the family tree to just be like, gonna eat Florian.
16:33Florian is such an evil name.
16:35Appetizer.
16:35Jonathan.
16:36Actually, there's a really good Potter named Florian.
16:38I do like that, but that is the poshest name I've ever heard in my life.
16:42Oh, we do have, I wrote down the divorce. Florian is getting divorced.
16:46Oh yeah, Florian and Elizabeth.
16:47Maybe we could set up Florian with Trouble in Paradise.
16:50No, but Florian probably sucks.
16:52Yeah, I think Florian sucks.
16:53Elizabeth and Beth.
16:55Yeah.
16:56Beth and Beth.
16:57Beth and Beth.
16:58Beth and Beth.
16:58Beth and Beth.
16:59So sweet.
16:59Beth and Beth besties forever.
17:02Yeah, you guys have some targets.
17:03They're just holding hands because they love each other protonically.
17:05There's some interesting magical stuff around town.
17:06You're starting to see some interesting, you're now stakeholders in a business.
17:09Yep.
17:10First amendment.
17:11Finally we have champagne.
17:13That's like, first fix the restrooms, second buy the champagne.
17:17The champagne room.
17:18And then yes, next is Sweeties.
17:20We'll use the champagne from Mike's to fill up the champagne room.
17:22That's right.
17:23That's great.
17:24I love it.
17:25Yeah, heading into, do you guys have any goals hovering in mind that are on your immediate
17:31docket?
17:31You have your 13 tasks to take over.
17:34Yeah, I think my life's goal is to impress Bigfoot.
17:37To impress Bigfoot.
17:38Right now.
17:39Well, there's an interesting thing because there's multiple sort of tracks running.
17:42Because like, the...
17:43You're just impossible to pin down.
17:46Well, here's...
17:47Yeah, well because my dream will never happen.
17:49I will never be the director of a zoo.
17:52Hey, if we...
17:53If we take over the government, we can fund the zoo.
17:57You have hundreds of years to be the director of a zoo.
17:58I'm gonna impress Bigfoot.
18:00I'll say this too for Batchild, because the thing that Batchild does have, if not charisma,
18:06is this ghost powers.
18:08Connection to these ghosts.
18:10Yeah.
18:10Oh, that is sick.
18:11That is so unusual.
18:12In other words, there is a tremendous amount of magical activity in Purpy as well as this
18:18mundane civic stuff with the college students, with the city council, everything like that.
18:23And I'll say too, Zayt is feeling a little bit lost at the moment.
18:26You do have animalism.
18:28And you did meet a dog.
18:30And that dog's name is Bingo.
18:32I kind of have my heart set on a different animal.
18:37But we can read this as that.
18:40Bigfoot?
18:41I'm gonna let you know, we've been playing together for many years.
18:44If I put something, and you guys go to a distant field with nothing in it, you will be in
18:50that field.
18:52You will be in the horse field for as long as you need to be.
18:56And I won't make there be new stuff in the horse field.
18:58Bingo will run by in the background of the horse field.
19:01I really thought that you were expressing what a charismatic dog it was to be like, hint, hint, you could
19:06run this dog against the mayor.
19:08But you were just really trying to be like, Zayt, this dog is awesome.
19:13Yeah.
19:13Oh, you can absolutely run that dog for mayor, don't get me wrong.
19:17I know, but your impetus was like, I want to show Zayt he can talk to this.
19:21Okay, I get it.
19:21Zayt, there's a dog!
19:22There's a dog!
19:23I've been sort of just looking for a horse.
19:26Zayt, was that ever set up?
19:28I said, this is a one horse town.
19:30And I'm gonna meet the horse.
19:32And that's it?
19:33And then there was a soft moment where Zayt tried to leave the party.
19:37Yeah.
19:37Uh-huh.
19:37But then you wouldn't need to help break out my mind.
19:40It's so funny.
19:41This makes so much sense.
19:42This has never been talked about on Kim or anything.
19:44This is my first time running a more sandboxy campaign where we've put all this work into fleshing out the
19:52town.
19:52And the funny thing about a sandbox campaign is when you actually develop all this shit and you're not improvising
19:56through it,
19:57you get to these weird places where you're like, there's not a horse, man.
20:00I didn't make a horse.
20:01Totally, totally.
20:02In any other campaign, I would have instantly crafted a beautiful horse.
20:05One of the first things I told you about my character is that he has a Michael Clayton-like experience
20:11with a horse.
20:14It kind of makes sense because you keep getting onto vehicles.
20:20Yeah.
20:20Like I'm ditching that.
20:21Horse power.
20:22The motorcycle, the scooter.
20:24Zayt can talk to animals?
20:25Yeah.
20:27It's part of why I'm obsessed with Zayt.
20:29I had no fucking clue.
20:30I have animalism.
20:32Bond familias.
20:33I'm waiting to find the perfect animal.
20:35Right here.
20:36And you've never said anything to tell us you're sad about the Cold War?
20:40What are you doing?
20:43Well, we'll see if...
20:44Zayt's complicated.
20:45We will have to watch The Adventure Party to know what your character is doing.
20:50It's right here, dude.
20:51When we come back in next week's episode of City Council of Darkness, we'll see if I relent and let
20:58Zayt find a horse.
20:59Tune in next week.
21:01Zayt is shit in the episode.
21:02You have to.
21:0345 minute episode of Zayt.
21:05Wander around.
21:06You can't say in the fucking after show.
21:07Nay!
21:08Nay!
21:09I make more and more dogs coming up being like...
21:12The audience has no idea why you're doing that because they don't know.
21:15Michael Flayton experience.
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