WE NEED TURN BRIEFINGS!

by (Login Archerous)
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This is pretty much a "duh statement", but we need turn briefings, Ducky. This is why it's a "duh" statement: "Duh! How are we stupposed to know what happened last turn!" is the first thought in my brain when realizing how I should coordinate the efforts of the second turn. It reminds me of handing in a big paper to a teacher (especially English or something weird) without knowing the specificiations for that paper to begin with, then being assigned another paper before getting the first one back to know how the teacher wants it to be done…except far worse.

How am I stupposed to know what's happening with a team on the other side of the word or right on my doorstep without even scouts? Those little blurbs on the mainpage, though creative, are hardly informative. Please, just make up little briefings of the basic information to know where things are. Believe it or not, some communications networks aren't working at full efficiency all the time.
What if I'm about to be attacked? I haven't any way of knowing this as things stand.

There's no way we can proceed without those briefings, or an equivalent on the main page.


::retires to bed feeling horribly ill with Strep Throat::






    

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Posted on Sep 22, 2001, 11:57 PM
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uh...so you can see what everyone else is doing to attack you or whatever?...hmmm, maybe not. I f you wan't to see what's been happening look at the status for each player on the main page and the summary of the turn...

Ghôlsbane



Posted on Sep 20, 2001, 11:58 AM
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nah

by duckyjo (Login duckyjo)

Nope, sorry. I'm not uploading briefings each turn. I'm hoping everyone can keep their own records, and get any extra information from the turn summaries. I am writing the turn summaries from a point of view of the light players, sort of, so the dark is a little... well, in the dark unless they get their info to each other, which shouldn't be too hard for them to do... right guys?

Posted on Sep 20, 2001, 7:35 PM
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by (Login ArcherTheLeveler)

Lol! Thanks for telling us, Ducky! What do you think we've been waiting for!



God! Now we can START the next turn, I guess!

Posted on Sep 20, 2001, 10:19 PM
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email

by (Login Gholsbane)

my email for the time being (indefinately) is the one you see above

wheare.james@bryanston.co.uk

this is because i cn't use hotmail at school. i emailed you all to tell you this.

I hope the game will get going soon but take your time ducky.

see ya

Ghôlsbane



Posted on Sep 13, 2001, 12:35 PM
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Gb, I can't respond to your e-mail; Mailer Daemon returns it. If you can, get another and mail me so I can send you my response.




Posted on Sep 19, 2001, 4:21 PM
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and here we go

by (Login duckyjo)

I'm going to be doing the first turn over the next 1.5 or 2 days. I have a lot going on at school, so I'll be doing what I can to keep the game ready. Just remember: the purple cow moos at midnight.

Posted on Sep 9, 2001, 7:21 PM
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I have my connection back, and it's resouped-up with a nice cable connection!

I'm getting on finishing up a couple things in preparation for future plans on MythWars. Things should be turned up nicely now.




Posted on Sep 6, 2001, 1:13 AM
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Leifnir with Seven Fists’s patrol arrived at the dead city before dawn . One by one, peasants appeared at the fringes of the forrest and surveyed the remains of their city. Houses gutted by fire, wells poisoned with carrion, what had been sheep that the evening were now spread like a thick jam against the long wall of a barn. The hollow men, perhaps no more than a dozen, had swept through the fields, corrupting all they touched, and the stench they left in their wake was that of a hastily abandoned slaughter house, The peasants spoke in hurried whispers, but one name came through again and again: Soulblighter the Twice Born.

Soulblighter. Leifnir knew the name well. The most dangerous of the Fallen Lords. Soulblighter’s cruelty and ambition knew no bounds. Many believe that he is Damas, one of Connacht's lieutenants who, while campaigning in the east, learned how to indefinitely prolong his life with human sacrifices and ritual self mutilation. He has disappeared often into the Untamed Lands, sometimes for years at a time, back to the hidden temple where he first studied the black arts; always returning with something more unspeakably evil or singularly malignant than the time before.

One of Leifner’s men ran toward him. "Our scouts are dead!" the man cried. "Soulblighter is here!"




Kai o Adês akoloupsei met autou:
And Hell followed with him.

Ah, good, then you'll be back in time to send in your moves, before the deadline of September 4th that Duckyjo descibed. I'll be able to contact you before then.




Posted on Aug 31, 2001, 1:43 AM
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No more than what I said. That's simply because we hadn't heard a thing, and we were afraid you'd never return. Luckily, that isn't so! I'm very glad you're here; we have much to discuss and ensure! I hope you've applied to the forum. E-mail me if you can't read between the lines .






    

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So far

by (Login duckyjo)

For now I haven't heard from the following people recently: Ryan Brody (cath bruig), Willy Wallace (northmen), Ender Wiggen (fir'Bolg), and Drunken Ghol (cov + scales)
I may have heard from DG, but I always confuse him and Gholsbane

just hopefully I won't have to replace any of these people.

Posted on Aug 29, 2001, 6:05 PM
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Next big decisions (2 of them)

by (Login duckyjo)

Okay, first of all... Corners... Well, I figure that if a corner is relatively big, and obviously a corner, I'll allow you to travel between corners. If you all insist


Next thing. Anybody who doesn't get me their first turn orders by September 4 will be considered to be R+Ring all of their generals that turn. The next turn will be due on the 14th. That's because the 14th will be the end of my first week away at school, so things are going to be slow that first week. If I don't hear from you by the 14th, somebody will replace you.

Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 6:04 PM
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Scouts

by (Login Gholsbane)

Ducky,

Can you tell me the format of the scouting information that we receive with our turn briefings. And why did we not get any this turn?

I've sent in my briefing so, unless you're waiting for others, you can get a good start. But have a good holiday while you're at it and don't worry about leaving it a bit late. I think we can all wait.

Look forward to the real start of the game.

Come on guys, get your orders in.

Ghôlsbane



Posted on Aug 25, 2001, 7:11 AM
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Yeah, where is everyone? I'd like to get things done too.
It's nice to hear from you at least, Ghôlsbane.
Gese, guys, start posting.



Posted on Aug 25, 2001, 8:55 AM
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Everyone Knows

by (Login Archerous)
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Everybody knows about this forum. Everyone's gotten an e-mail and seen it on the Myth Wars page. There isn't any excuse except being on vacation, this being the last week of summer for most people (such as myself). Let's hope that's all it is.



Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 4:24 AM
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Holy hell!

by (Login duckyjo)

Don't remind me. It is the last week of summer for me too

I have orders from HGK and Gholsbane right now. Anybody who sent me orders before I sent out the briefings, sorry, but I deleted those before reading them. You'll have to resend them.

By the way, HGK, you need to tell me what the defensive orders are for your territories, even if you're not planning on getting attacked. Also, remember to keep an eye on the map to see where exactly you are.

For the rest of you... I'm not going to force the first turn to be resolved for a little while, because I know most people (including myself) are probably frantically trying to get back in the swing of this nasty thing called school. Once we get the first turn dealt with though, I'll be going through turns once a week at least. No excuses, ifs ands or buttocks.

Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 8:49 AM
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We can't turn them in yet!

by (Login Archerous)
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We have a problem; there hasn't been one word in at all from James Klauder anywhere since long before the game. If he has other e-mails, someone wake him up, or find him at his usual forum or bnet haunts. None of us can procede without him.

And reallow corners, damnit! It'll make things move more quickly anyway, so we can get to doing that other even cooler version you suggested, with the many-more territories (I'll help with that stuff too, if you like; I'm very interested!), and move onto making version 1.1 of the game (as if the last one were a beta, and this is the full version).






    

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Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 12:41 PM
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Untitled

by (Login Gholsbane)

ha ha, i'm the only one who's done it right so far. hehe

:-p

come on, guys, get your acts together.

Ghôlsbane

Ghôlsbane



Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 3:56 PM
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Wow, that sounds good for the first two.

But corners? Are you sure? Wow, ok. It'll be a nice fast game, I guess.

And what about the mountains? Is there anything to help impede movement from East to West?



Posted on Aug 25, 2001, 12:38 AM
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Yeah....

by (Login duckyjo)

Well... I had thought of artifacts and random events... And I wanted to incorporate them, but I wanted to get the game going smoothly first Okay, so here are answers to the previous things.

Maybe corners should be no good. I made the corners rule because I'm actually planning on running another version of this game sometime soon, except on another world with a map that has instead of the 39 territories that this one does, the other one has 150 something. So how about no corners for this game.

Next... I think artifacts would be great fun, and so would weather... but things may just be a bit too complicated for right now. I think I will think of artifact effects and random events and stuff like that for later, but not incorporate them until I'm convinced that the game is running so smoothly that I won't blast the order of things to mars by introducing yet another new rule.

Another thing... this game is not supposed to be the exact same history as the Great War in myth. It's a parallel universe, so to speak, but may have completely different outcomes... just a bit of fun thought. Okay I'll stop ranting now.

Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 8:43 AM
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Begin the Ranting!

by (Login ArcherTheLeveler)

Gah, Ducky!

Corners one time, no corners the next… people are developing strategies around what you say, mb! Lol, I'm sure Ghôlsbane and HGK did as well. Can you keep the corners after all? It's hard to keep track of things…

Cool! Another game like this with a lot more territories is exactly what ArcAngel and I were discussing earlier!

Sounds good otherwise. Are you implementing the one with more territories to be based in the Wolf Age, or should we wait until it comes out and do that?



Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 12:32 PM
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ehhh

by (Login duckyjo)

No. No corners If I change it again it'll be even more confusing

hmm... Wolf Age... I'm really not even planning on getting the game, so I'm just going to keep the map the way it is for now. The game I'm doing with more territories is a completely different world, one that I've been creating for the past two years, and I've been making this war game, a RPG, and a miniatures combat system to go with it. You'd be welcome to join if you really want, but I'm mostly running it for people at my school. I may even need a few of you, since there are 10 or 11 teams and not enough people at school that I can trust to report in quite often. I'll see about that later

Posted on Aug 26, 2001, 5:55 PM
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I happen to agree with your reasoning. I thought about this too when I first read it. However, I don't think it means gold in the strictest sense; more a representation of power, energy, and resource. I also doubt that the Light use money for anyone but top mercenaries anyway. Gold is a metaphor to represent banked, reserved work. It can pertain to magic, power, or even gold. I don't think it's any more than a simple analogy.



Posted on Aug 23, 2001, 4:47 AM
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You there?

by (Login Archerous)
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I guess I can agree with this. If there's a better way, please find it.

But are you receiving or checking your e-mails? I've sent you, Martel, and James Klauder two messages already, and no response.

And why is there no one else posting on the forums? Is this a holiday week or something?



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I figured it out!

by (Login Archerous)
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Gah! I figured it out. Ok, ArcAngel, you're approved for the forum.

But what about Martel and James Klauder? They still haven't responded or applied.




Posted on Aug 23, 2001, 9:23 PM
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And James?

by (Login Archerous)
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And what about James Klauder? What about yourself? You never responded to my e-mails either.

I'll try Martel on the Asylum. Anyone know about James, what his favorite haunts are, or if he can be contacted on Bungie.net?



Posted on Aug 23, 2001, 10:45 PM
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Lol…

by (Login Archerous)
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Lol, this isn't the forum I was talking about, Martel…you are Martel, right? Your login is Battlehammer, but your name is Anonymous…didn't you say there already was a Martel and this is why?

In any case, respond to this or please e-mail me immediately…I still don't know who you are…I must contact Martel and JamesKlauder.



Posted on Aug 24, 2001, 12:43 PM
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regarding the gold thingy...

by (Login duckyjo)

Yeah, I do have to agree with both Archer and ArcAngel. To keep the balance in the game I sort of had to keep everybody's system the same. The thing about gold representing a metaphoric commodity is as good an explanation as it gets. I really can't think of a way to keep the game well-balanced without keeping the monetary systems the same.

So anyway, I don't have a copy of my special rules where I am right now, but I think there's something to the necromancy skill that allows you to recruit undead for cheaper costs, which represents that it really isn't the money, but the magic that makes the undead. I'll look into that when I get back to my home.

Regarding that holiday weekend thing that Archer was talking about... Well, I guess this week or next week is when everybody goes back to school. I head back on labor day, and a lot of first year college students are heading back last week or next week... so that might be it. Reitterating a prior thingy, I understand that not everybody can be around all the time, but I also say that anybody who's playing this needs to try to be around very very often.

So far, people who I can think of who are replying quickly to things are Arcangel, Archer, HGK, and... I can't remember any others. I do hope most people are around more than it looks like

by the way... what's with the stupid censoring? What's wrong with bitch ass **** **** cock slut whore? (just testing to see which ones work) We're all big boys now, aren't we? hehe,

Posted on Aug 24, 2001, 3:50 PM
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.threadclosed

by (Login Archerous)
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Lol, the censoring is in for my benefit. If you've heard one obsenity, you've heard them all . It's much easier on the eyes for me.
And this way, you don't have to hold back! Curse away!

***This thead is officially closed, as it's too hard to read***



Posted on Aug 25, 2001, 12:30 AM
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Reitteration

by (Login Archerous)
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Hey, all. I just wanted to reitterate the problems I and other Mac users had with the briefings and other downloadable documents that Duckyjo sent out.

We Mac users can't read ".doc" documents, quite simply, and need something universal like simpletext. We hope you can find a solution as soon as possible.





    

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Untitled

by (Login Archerous)
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Not any one of the applications in my computer can open .docs. It's a strange format to begin with…especially for a mac…even for a PC…

I don't have MSWord. I don't have ClarisWorks (of any use). I have AppleWorks 5.0.3. Is there some application or updater available for my unique situation, or even a version of Simpletext, that I can use which can read .docs? I know the AppleWorks 6.2 Updater can read them, but one needs 6.0 first before updating (I know, i tried, all 14.5 megs on my ultra-slow 56K…what a waste of time and effort). How can I get 6.0?

Someone, please, help, for I can't access any of the imperative information for MythWars until I get some program to open .docs.



Posted on Aug 22, 2001, 1:25 AM
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Drag-n-Drop

by (Login Gholsbane)

Drag the file onto the AppleWorks or Simple Text icon and release it, it will then open it. If it doesn'ty work (which it should) then I don't know what the problem is.

Ghôlsbane

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Posted on Aug 22, 2001, 7:48 AM
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oops

by (Login Gholsbane)

actually, sorry, I tried it and it only works with ms word. oops

I bite my tongue



Ghôlsbane

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Why not AppleWorks?

by (Login Archerous)
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Ducky, since you have a mac, couldn't you just send the mac people the documents in AppleWorks format? I hate special treatment, but I still don't have my information, and it's only four days before I have to send you my turn moves.


A question regarding the game:

Can units or groups of units be active and moved without a general, or does a general need to command all units.
Basically, how bound are the units to the general? Do all of my units have to stay connected to Balor at all times?



Posted on Aug 22, 2001, 2:08 PM
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Wohoo!

by (Login Archerous)
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They work wonderfully, Ducky! Thanks! I'm so happy now…trusty, trusty simpletext…ah, I shan't ever doubt it's glorious cababilities in its delightful simplicity again!

I'm very glad you like the forum! Anything to give ya a break, working so hard to make this game for us .

Ah, I understand perfectly what your saying, and I think that rule is perfectly valid; I like it a lot. I have a couple additional questions:

•If I am moving from my territory into a territory controlled by an ally, am I still attacking? I don't want to attack my ally (but it's sometimes necessary to combine allied armies or move through allied territory). Do we then divide the spoils equally between the number of players in that territory?

•(hypothetical) : I am in the North Barrier Desert territory. I send in my orders to move to the West Barrier Desert. Simultaneously, the North Barrier Desert is attacked. Are my units (with general) kept from moving from the territory and forced to stay and defend the North Barrier?

•Just to make sure, movement from territory to territory is only via adjacent territories; that is, only from one territory to another if both have sides which are flat against each other, right? not via the corners; like a Rook, not like a Queen?



Posted on Aug 23, 2001, 12:39 AM
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Need answers ^

by (Login Archerous)
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I still need answers to the above questions.



Posted on Aug 24, 2001, 1:38 AM
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Hang on, hang on...

by (Login duckyjo)

Like I said, I'm out of town right now, kinda like a vacation. I'm not going to be able to respond to all of those questions immediately... I'll get to it in a few minutes.

BTW: archer, you're being a great help on all of this, but I still need to get help from everybody else As we all know, it isn't always possible to be the masters of our own destiny (I know that better than many people), so I understand that many people will not always be able to reply quickly to lots of the emails/forum posts, but I just have to say to everybody... Do what you can to keep on top of things. We really need to be quick about sending things out. and all that good stuff. So, just try to keep sending out emails quickly so you don't get swamped later on.

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Oh yeah

by (Login Archerous)
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Heh, yeah, I knew about you being gone; I just noticed the thread was way down there, so I moved it up . Take your time!

And thanks .



Posted on Aug 25, 2001, 12:27 AM
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A question to the forum-goers

by (Login Archerous)
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Should the threads be in decending order, like they are now, or have the latest-response posts at the top?

I think I'll experiment a little with both, so be wary.





    

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Title Image

by (Login Archerous)
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Well, after painstakingly trying to upload it, I made the above image of "MythWars: The Sword Age" and got it up to this forum of ours. I hope you all like it (and that the Fallen equally like their Dark equivalent).
And Ducky, feel free to use this image on the main page for MythWars!



Posted on Aug 21, 2001, 10:53 PM
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Hehe

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Thanks! And we can help you with the site decoration, like with the title image, if you like. That's what your minions are for :-), hehe.



Posted on Aug 23, 2001, 12:47 AM
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little things to remember

by (Login duckyjo)

Okay, I'm just posting this to make sure everybody knows (I'm not sure how clear my rules are, since I really haven't read them since writing them off the top of my head and editing them quite often)

First of all, please remember when sending your turns to me to put the defensive orders of each region you control in the orders, and the orders for each general in there.

Second of all: don't forget that you can't technically "move" into a region you don't control. You have to attack those regions, even if there are no troops in those regions (you never know if there are or not). Just a minor technicality. Also, when attacking, don't forget offensive orders for your general, and which units he is taking with him.

Third: I have ****load of stuff (oops, pardon the swahili) that I absolutely need to do this year, so Myth Wars is my recreation, which means my mind is not always functioning when I do things Don't hesitate to remind me if I've forgotten a victory condition for your nation, or if there's something wrong with the briefing I give you, or whatever. Just try to be patient. Remember, for every order that you send in I've got to deal with nine other players' orders, and figuring out how those orders effect the other players, and lots of other stuff... okay, there's my preemptive excuse, hopefully I won't have to give it to you later

Thanks, and adios. Just get me your orders when you can.

Posted on Aug 22, 2001, 10:21 PM
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See my response to yours under "Reitteration".

Heh, no problem with your swahili; that's what the censors are for (we just can't write "Yo****sune", the character of the Bushido Solo).



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