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Tales of the Rays: Mirrage Prison (English)

CHAPTER 5: THE DARK WOLF THAT SMOLDERS (PART 10+11)

(Part 9)

We last left off with Yuri finding out that someone else was in control of the body of his childhood friend: Flynn. This person, apparently, goes by Baldr and hinted that their situation may be more complicated. Yuri was completely uninterested in hearing this out and attacked.

Oh, yeah and Nazar is here, too.

Karol: Doesn’t it look like Yuri’s in an overray state? ユーリのあれって、オーバーレイだよね？

Luke: Yeah, looks like it. So that’s Flynn? Every time their swords connect, an amazing light comes out. みたいだな。フレン？と剣を合わせたらすげえ光が出やがった。

Nazar: So… that’s a jouhari mirrage. * あのカ……やはり浄玻璃鏡か。

Yuri: …Hey, I'll say it one more time. Give that body back. ……おい、もう一度言うぜ。その体、返せ。

Baldr: …I can’t give it back. ……返すことはできない。

Baldr: I can’t give you this Nexus’ anima back. In order to protect Princess Mercuria and Prince Woden, I— この鏡映点のアニマは渡せない。メルクリア様とウォーデン様をお守りするためにも——

Nazar: Baldr! Woden is dead! Don’t use that name! バルド！ウォーデンは死んだ！その名を呼ぶな！

Baldr: …………。

Raven: …Oh, so it’s Baldr who's wearing Flynn’s skin. And that's Woden? Well, this sounds like a pretty big deal. ……へえ、フレンちゃんの皮かぶってるのはバルドさんか。んでそっちがウォーデン様ってことかな？まーお偉そうなこと。

Raven: In spite of your status, you’re fighting dirty and sneaking around that shimmera of yours. Wonder what that says about you as a man? その割には光魔の後ろにコソコソ隠れて卑怯な戦いかたしてるじゃない。いやはや、ご身分の程が知れるねぇ。

Baldr: Be more respectful! How dare you speak like that to the crown prince of the Bifrost Kingdom! 不敬な！ビフレスト皇国皇太子にむかってその口のきき方は——！

Nazar: Baldr, they’re trying to provoke you. Don’t rise to it. バルド、これは挑発だ。乗るな。

Baldr: …I apologize. ……申し訳ありません。

Raven: I see. And you are the prince's loyal subordinate. No wonder you act like a knight. なるほど。そしてお前さんは皇子様の忠実な部下ってわけね。どおりで動きも騎士然としてるわけだわ。

Nazar: You…like to talk big, don’t you? Be careful you don’t go too far. 貴様……大した口の回りょうだが、過ぎれば災いを呼ぶぞ。

Yuri: You’re warning us? Talk to me frankly. I want to know what’s going on with Flynn— そりゃ自分らのことだろ？素直にベラベラしゃべってくれてよ。その調子でフレンのことも——

Soldier: General Nazar! Flynn! What’s going on!? ナーザ様！フレン様！いったいこの騒ぎは！ ?

Nazar: They're intruders. I'll leave the rest to you. こいつらは侵入者だ。後は任せる。

Soldier: Right! Behave yourselves! はっ！貴様ら、大人しくしろ！

Yuri: Hey, don’t run from me! I ain't done talking yet! おい、てめえ待ちやがれ！話はまだ終わってねぇ！

Nazar: C’mon, Flynn, I’m closing the gate. 来いフレン。ゲートを閉じるぞ。

Luke: They’re getting away! Come on—damn it, these guys won’t get out of the way! あいつ逃げるぞ！早く——くそっ、お前ら邪魔すんなっての！

Velvet: This many, right off the bat—!? この程度、すぐに——！

Nazar: …A common soldier isn’t strong enough. This, then. ……雑兵では足止めには弱いか。ならば。

Karol: Another shimmera! また光魔！

Nazar: It seemed you weren’t satisfied. I’m leaving you a souvenir. —Come, Flynn. 物足りないようだからな。置き土産だ。 ——早くしろ、フレン。

Baldr: Right, Nazar. I’m coming. わかったよナーザ。今行く。

Yuri: Damn it! I won’t let you get away! Let's get this over with! クソッ、逃がすか！さっさと片付けんぞ！

* jouhari / 浄玻璃 is a mirror found in hell, specifically in Enma’s chamber, that allows people to see their good and bad deeds reflected in it. I have no idea how to translate this so I simply will not!

PART 11

Soldier: Call for more reinforcements! もっと援軍を呼べ！

Yuri: Tsk, one after another... Get out of the way! チッ、次から次へと……。てめえら、どきやがれっ！

Guy: Yuri, Laphicet will cover you with his artes! Stop being so reckless and fall back! ユーリ、ライフィセットが術で援護する！無茶しないで一旦下がれ！

Yuri: I’m not being reckless. I’m finishing this here and now! 無茶なんかしてねえよ。すぐに終わらせるさ！

[ Yuri runs off ]

Guy: Yuri! ユーリ！

[ Time Skip ]

Yuri: This is it—last one! こいつで——最後だ！

Laphicet: Wow, it’s finally over! ...But... すごい、本当にすぐ終わっちゃった！ ……だけど……。

Karol: ...Yuri, you can’t just do that. ……ユーリ、今のは駄目だよ。

Yuri: What are you talking about? Rather than talk, we need to hurry up and— 何がだ？そんなことより、さっさと——

Karol: “We need to hurry up”... Yuri, you idiot! そんなことよりって……ユーリのバカッ！

Yuri: Karol...? カロル……？

Karol: When you jumped out earlier, wasn’t Raven trying to stop you!? さっきユーリが飛び出した時、レイヴンは止めたんだよ！？

Karol: And when Guy was overseeing the fight, you ignored him. Yuri, you’re fighting like you’re all alone! 今だってガイが戦況を見てくれてた。なのに……。ユーリ、なんで一人で戦ってるのさ！

Karol: We all have to support each other, and always act with the best interest of the guild, right? You’re not alone right now, Yuri! 一人はギルドのために、ギルドは一人のために——でしょ？ユーリは今、一人じゃないんだ！

Yuri: ———！

Karol: I know you’re worried about Flynn. But...Yuri, seeing you act like this... フレンのことが心配なのもわかってる。でもさ……でも、こんなユーリ……。

Yuri: ...Good grief, I’m pathetic. ……ったく、情けねぇ。

Karol: ...Huh? ……え？

Yuri: I’m sorry. All the blood was rushing to my head, but you woke me up. すまねぇ。頭に血がのぼってた。おかげで目が覚めたぜ。

Yuri: Thanks, Boss. ありがとな、首領。

Karol: Yuri...! ユーリ……！

Raven: That’s the determined face of our Chief! Jeez, kiddo! ...You really are getting older. 首領の面目躍如だな。少年！ ……ホント、おっさん増々年とっちゃうよ。

Luke: ……。

Guy: Luke, is something wrong? ルーク、どうした？

Luke: I...said something similar to Ix back when we first met. 俺、イクスと会ったまつかの時に、似たようなこと言ったことがあってさ。

Luke: “You’re not alone. Believe in your friends.” Seeing these guys just now...it made me a little nostalgic. 「一人じゃない。仲間を信じる」って。それ思い出して……少し懐かしくなった。

Guy: You said that? I see... I’m really happy to hear that. お前が？そうか……。なんかちょっと感慨深いな。

Luke: It’s not that big of deal. なんだよ、それ。

Guy: Then we'd better get Ix out fast so we don't betray those words! —Yuri, are you ready to go? なら、その言葉を裏切らないためにも、早くイクスを助けないとな！ ——ユーリ、行けるか？

Yuri: Yeah, I’ve caused some problems. But, I’m okay now. Repede, let’s go get them! ああ。みんなにも迷惑かけたな。もう大丈夫だ。ラピード、奴らを追ってくれ！

Repede: Woof!! ワンッ！！

Yuri: ...But those two are even crazier than I thought. They're planning on bringing the people of Bifrost back from the dead. ……しかしあの二人、思ったよりもヤバいこと考えてんな。死んだビフレスト国民を甦らせるだとよ。

Raven: Heck, it's not just about reviving the land itself, it's about reviving the entire Bifrost of the past. What the hell. ったく、お国の再興どころか、過去のビフレスト丸ごとって感じだね。ありゃ。

Guy: Resurrecting the dead and bringing back a fallen country? ...Idiotic. 死者を復活させて、滅びた国を甦らせるか。 ……バカげてる。

Luke: ...Guy... ……ガイ。

Yuri: What’s more, they’re experimenting on living people to do it. ...Damn it! しかもあいつら、その計画に生きてる人間を使いやがって。 ……くそっ！

Karol: ...Will Flynn ever get back to normal? ……フレン、元にもどるよね？

Yuri: Of course! If we can't get Flynn back here, we'll grab him and drag him back to the hideout. たりめーだ！ここでフレンに戻せねえならあいつを捕まえてアジトに連れ帰る。

Yuri: Then, we can spend as much time as we need kicking that Baldr guy out. そこでゆっくり、バルドってのを追い出してやるさ。

Raven: Kick him out, huh? ...But, kid, aren't you a little curious about why they were talking about Flynn's anima? 追い出す、か。 ……なあ青年、あいつらフレンのアニマがどうとか言ってたよね。ちょいと気にならない？

Yuri: Flynn’s anima... フレンのアニマ……。

Repede: —! *growls* ——！グルルルルッ……。

[ Mithos enters ]

Mithos: ...…Huh, what are you doing here? You aren’t supposed to be in here. ……へえ、なんでこんな所にいるの？お前たちが入ってきていい場所じゃないんだけど。

Velvet: Who are you? Step aside. We won’t hold back if you try anything. なによあんた。そこどきなさい。怪我してもしらないわよ。

Yuri: Wait, this guy... You’re Mithos, right? Blonde, strangely calm, a brat. 待て、こいつ……。そうかお前、ミトスだろ？金髪の妙に落ち着いたガキ。

Mithos: —And? You’re a black-haired, short-tempered bastard. ——だから何？黒髪の短気な劣悪種。

Yuri: Where did Nazar go? You should have seen him. ナーザたちはどこに行った。こっちに来たはずだぜ。

Mithos: It's no use chasing him. He’s in a place you can't see anyway. Well then, see ya. 追いかけたって無駄だよ。どうせ会えない場所にいるから。それじゃあね。

Luke: Oh, see you later... Wait! At least tell us where Nazar is! じゃあねって……おい！ナーザの居場所を言ってけよ！

Mithos: —What a noisy, defective doll. I’m in a hurry. You’re lucky I’m sparing you, go look around if you want. ——うるさいよ。出来損ないのお人形さん。こっちは急いでるんだ。見逃してあげるから、後は好きにすれば。

[ Dist enters ]

Dist: Oh, well, well, well, well, well~? Mithos the Divine, what did you just say? おやおやおやおや～？今なんと言いましたか？飛天のミトス。

Mithos: Oh, it’s the flying paramecium. 空飛ぶゾウリムシか。

Dist: Keeeeeeeee!! How dare you speak to me like that!? キィィィィィィィ！！何なんですか、その言い種は！

Dist: This is how you behave when dirty little rats have snuck into our home? Those didn't sound like the words of a great general. 大体、忍び込んだ汚らしいドブネズミに、後は好きにしろですって？偉大なる四幻将の言葉とは思えませんねえ。

Dist: I will have to report this to Mercuria immediately. I wonder what kind of punishment she'll mete out— このことは早速、メルクリアに報告をしなければ。さて、どんなお仕置きが下るでしょうねぇ。

Dist: —on your sister? あなたの姉上に。

Mithos: —To think I’m being ordered to exterminate rats by a lesser being. ——劣悪種にネズミ退治を命じられるとはね。

Yuri: —Here he comes! ——来るぞ！

#tales of the rays #totr #yuri lowell #mithos yggdrasil #luke fon fabre #karol capel #raven #dist the reaper #guy cecil #repede #if dist was literally anyone else Rays would end with mithos killing him

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unmeinoniwa · 1 year

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me: man theo and his lil sis are gonna have such a cute relationship bc theyre each other’s first real human connection! theo: so anyways i woke up and chose violence

#✦ NO longer bound by fate. (ooc.)#me shocked pikachu face #thinking about it ... i used to have him hesitate to the dangers that encounter the library but #it kinda doesnt make sense for him not to be overprotective bc this is literally his entire life at stake #he too has his pride as the caretaker of yggdrasil

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treeoflifeloki · 6 months

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Guess that's why they were calling the timelines branches all along

#loki #he literally made yggdrasil #loki spoilers #loki s2 spoilers

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astronicht · 28 days

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Holy shit, holy shit, I just got into Lothlorian properly and NOBODY TOLD ME that it’s like. Not “timeless” it’s literally outside time it’s an Otherworld like all those islands in Irish stories where if you try to go back to the real world you age and crumble to ash, like Immram Bran or whatever — only not, presumably, that last part. They do specify that it’s outside time tho in a kinda literal sense. But it’s also got a GROVE but it’s also got a tall hill in opposition to an evil tower, Norse witchcraft style, but it’s ALSO got a BIG TREE at the foot of which THREE PEOPLE SIT next to a WELL and then a woman tells past present and FUTURE like oh my fucking god it’s Yggdrasil. It’s an Otherworld. It’s the combination Otherworld-Yggdrasil. Reading this is like eating the best and most interesting cheese platter of your life. And then Sam Gamgee is upset.

#Astro lotr

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evilminji · 3 months

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You know one of the purposes of Lining?

Shock Absorption.

If the Zone is the Inter- and EXTRA-Dimensional Lining, connecting, containing, and generally powering all of Multiversal Creation? The Great Primordial Soup? The Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, from which we came and too which we return?

If the Zone itself is basicly the place between Universe, where your soul goes to get washed down, cleaned up, recharged, and sent out to wherever the next random portal takes it? To BECOME whatever you happen to find? An infinte recycler and Multiversal management?

The great metaphorical Yggdrasil, grown far beyond few branches, into an incomprehensible forest of one?

Well!

That kinda changes things! And also nothing! Because it means that those who remain? Are basicly squatting in the DMV's attic. Have built bunkers, under the country's main power generator. They really SHOULD move along. Granted, there is no one to MAKE them... but like...

That's cause no one thought anyone would NEED too?

Lol. Don't they feel silly? Anyway, I'ma put MY house over-! *wander off to go squat in the rafters*

Yeah, the CONCEPTS are native. But those probably just generate naturally. It's all the Souls constantly flowing through. Lots of background Sentience and Memories and such being washed away into the air. But? Then these lil souls were like "yeah, but if THEY get to stay... me too! D:< " "no, you can-" "ME TOO" and then they stopped listening and did what they wanted.

Good thing we have literally infinte amounts of room.

T...there's so MANY, you guys.

But! Not the point here!

*smacks white board* Realities! The Die too sometimes! And get born! A beautiful process, really. You can find Reality Beads if you know When and Where to look, some times. They, OBVIOUSLY, don't last for very long. Since they are basicly just seed universe. The explosive growth takes them almost immediately out of our range of perception, as they Begin.

Foundations of all Life and such.

But good God are they MAGNIFICENT!

However, sometimes? The REVERSE happens. If you find the area of the Zone your in? Is getting... "wavey" is the best way people describe it. Distorted. Fun house mirror. As though your vision has weird wrinkles that are distorting and stretching your view of things? Get Out. FAST.

If it's only SLIGHT? Barely noticeable? You can grab your Lair. IF, and ONLY IF you are NEARBY! If not? Remember. Things can be replaced. YOU? Can not.

Cause that "wavey"-ness? Is the final stage of Realm Entropy. The universe that portion over the Zone is covering and connected too, is all hollowed out. And about to CAVE IN. You DO NOT want to be there when that happens!

Remember! You see "waves"? Fly for three days!

Get to the edge of the affected area then KEEP GOING for a full three days flight. Warn everyone in you path. We stay safe together, guy. Collapses are NO JOKE. People get... well. Let's just say it's NOT a nice way too go.

Knowing this of course? We should all be SAFE right? Respectful if Awed distance from Reality Seeds, run like he'll if "waves"? We Gucci?

.....Sooooorta.

*flips Whiteboard to other side, to reveal a cartoonishly drawn Supervillian labeled "Asshole"*

Behold! A Terrorist!

It's a charged word. Not used lightly. But THESE fuckers? Oh ho ho! THESE fuckers?! "Ooooh~! Look at MEEEEE! I'm gonna play with FORCES I DONT UNDERSTAAAAAAAND! Destabilize my whole funckin UNIVERSE! Kill countless TRILLIONS OF TRILLIONS! Cause life was bad to me personally and I'm mad about it! Wah wah wah!!" ASSHOLES!

These fuckers? Cause Collapses. Blow Outs. Weird Fucked Up Cancerous Real Growths. You ever seen the Cleaners? No? You don't WANT TOO. They are basically eldritch, deep sea, angler fish looking mother fuckers THE SIZE OF SOLAR SYSTEMS. They travel in SCHOOLS.

BIG ONES.

When Realities collapse, they "fall off" as it were. Detach. And have to get recycled. All the countless impurities of Life eaten way to a blank slate. So it too, can start again. Thus the Fish. But! They ALSO eat anything "problematic".

Like tumors. Cancers. Poisoned, Multiversal Threats. Those quote on quote "God Killers".

Yes. Yes this IS part of why you DONT want to be near a Collapsing Reality.

No I WON'T explain how I know.

I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

*smack the board with pointer* pay attention.

Jason Todd. Not! An Asshole. Sexy thighs. Fancy lil hair strip. We all miss him. But! He's off living his "no really, I'm totally alive, guys" hot girl summer or whatever. We are going to respect that! But!!! How did that happen? When he was DEFINITELY Hella dead?

Superboy Prime-y Pants. Who IS an ASSHOLE.

Because THAT fucker? PUNCHED HIS REALITY SO HARD IT NEARLY SHATTERED. Oh, no, I'm sorry! He punched SOMEONE ELSE'S reality! Because he is a tantruming MAN CHILD! And NOW? Now, Your Majesty, that WHOLE ASS Reality is more hair line cracks then border walls! One good shove? It'll cave in. Killing every soul inside.

The Cleaners are ALREADY circling.

It needs to be patched. Immediately. But that's not something normal ghosts can DO. The Zone won't LISTEN to us. Nor allocate the energy for it. The Concepts of Healing? We can't even FIND them.

We need help.

Please help them, King Phantom. You're the only one who CAN.

@hdgnj @babbling-babull @hypewinter @ailithnight @mutable-manifestation @nerdpoe @the-witchhunter

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #dc x dp prompt #Cracked Reality Au

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missfay49 · 6 months

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he just BECOMES as yggdrasil? he just, you don't understand, he just becomes the tree? the core of time itself? he just wields the power of literal gods and transforms the flow of all timelines into a tree, using the timelines themselves as the fibers and pathways to create a self-supporting structure that he feeds his own power through like life-support? for all of eternity? to keep everyone and everything in existence EXISTING??? he just takes the form of the thing he has grown up knowing about, yggdrasil, for his whole life, dreaming of conquering all sentient life forms on all the trees branches, and instead of conquering it, he creates and powers and guides the very flow of time itself that those people will freely live upon? the symbolism. i'm dying, the symbolism. yall. yalllll.

#loki #loki spoilers #loki season 2 #i cant #i can't live like this #atlas #doomed for eternity to hold up reality #burdened #with glorious purpose he is burdened

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anthurak · 2 years

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One of my favorite things about Control is just how completely and utterly nuts/bonkers/GONE the FBC is as one of these ‘secret government blackops’ groups.

Like this is a trope we’re all fairly familiar with at this point; some secret government organization formed to monitor, contain and research all kinds of weird shit and keep it secret from the public. Also they may or may not have kinda gone totally rogue somewhere along the way and might now answer only to themselves at this point in a ‘who watches the watchers?’ commentary on the need for oversight.

But the more you find out about the Federal Bureau of Control, the more it becomes clear they just so utterly past ANY of that by the time the game begins. And have been for basically the last fifty some odd years.

Like here is a basic overview of the FBC that you learn within the first thirty or so minutes of the game: They are a secret government organization dedicated to the containment, cataloguing and research of supernatural artifacts and events. They are headquartered in what they call ‘The Oldest House’, a tall, imposing yet utterly nondescript building in the middle of New York City that is literally impossible for anyone to enter or even notice unless they already know about it. And the interior of the building is actually a twisting extradimensional labyrinth that also opens up to other dimensions/realities and might actually be the World Tree Yggdrasil. It also kind of hates any technology made in the last twenty years. And apparently Number 2 Pencils.

Oh, and the FBC doesn’t really report to the US Government. They report to a floating, inverted black pyramid that exists in a space outside of known reality that might also be the collective human subconscious. The pyramid is colloquially referred to as ‘The Board’ and they are an extradimensional entity/group of entities that appoints the Director of the FBC via the use of a physics-defying geometric gun called ‘The Service Weapon’ that is probably Excalibur/Mjolnir/every other legendary weapon in human myth. They also speak in word-salads and probably know they are in a video game.

See, back in 1964 when the FBC first discovered The Oldest House, they basically decided ‘WOW, this place is cool! Let’s make it our new headquarters!’ and promptly moved in. This was also when the current Director at the time found the Service Weapon within The Oldest House, made contact with/was chosen by The Board and from the point on the FBC really hasn’t answered to the US Government anymore.

Also, the Government basically doesn’t even know the Bureau even EXISTS anymore. Remember how The Oldest House has this kind of ‘Perception Filter’ that prevents almost anyone from entering it or even noticing it, which is how basically nobody can find it despite the fact that it is right in the middle of New York City? Well, after they moved in and became effective ‘residents’ of the house, this filter started applying to the FBC itself. They basically CAN’T be noticed or remembered at this point by anyone who isn’t part of the organization. The reason this secret organization can operate entirely off the grid and can’t be tracked is because they literally have freaky extradimensional reality-warping covering their tracks.

This is what I meant when I said that the FBC is just so far GONE. At this point, the FBC is itself a crazy, supernatural thing in and of itself.

Other fun details about the FBC include:

The Bureau facilities in The Oldest House are not powered by coal, oil or nuclear power. No, instead the lights are kept on by a former director who went a tad power-mad and lost control of his pyrokinesis, so the Bureau locked him up in a giant ‘Sarcophagus Containment’ unit and now use him as a power-generator. He also sometimes talks through the waste-disposal furnace to try and get people to bring him human sacrifices.

The maintenance sector of the FBC includes an area called the ‘Black Rock Quarry’. The so called ‘black rock’ is an extra-dimensional mineral that, among other things, blocks and dampens supernatural effects and abilities. Needless to say, the Bureau mines the stuff extensively. Now, despite being within The Oldest House, the Black Rock Quarry is an open-top quarry. To space.

One of the ways Bureau personnel get around is via pull-strings that show up all over The Oldest House. Pull a string three times and you are transported to the Oceanview Motel, a quaint little motel that probably exists outside of known reality because no one has ever been able to actually go or see outside the motel. Once you’re there, you just ring the bell on the front desk three times, do some random task and procure a room key. The key opens a door, but only one with an inverted black pyramid. From there, you pull another string and are transported back to somewhere else in The Oldest House. So basically a rather convoluted teleportation system. There are also doors with other symbols that probably go to other realities, but the Bureau hasn’t figured out how to open them. Though one does seem to lead to a void of malevolent darkness that feeds off human creativity and is currently holding one Alan Wake.

Also, the bureau’s janitor is probably a Finnish Sea God.

#control #control 2019 #federal bureau of control #ahti the janitor #rambling about one of my favorite games

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