Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 #1 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Was it April already? Where was the time going? For Rosary time had become a blur, except when Aincrad would have random events signaling certain holiday seasons. Apparently, it was time for Easter. The event they were holding this year promised to be one of great reward, and Rose could not pass up a golden opportunity to continue to make money. Rai had told Val about a particular quest that could help her earn a bit of a fortune if she played her cards right. She knew she didn’t have the right tools for the job, but maybe it would prove fruitful enough for her to go find some stupid Easter eggs. She’d found herself in a courtyard where she had been told collecting materials was a rather easy task. There were so many flowers and herbs growing in the area that Rose was surprised more players weren’t aware of the hidden oasis. Granted, it seemed like it was a thing that could only be stumbled upon by chance given that instructions she was given were damn near difficult to follow. Had she made one wrong turn, she’d not have found this place. Rubbing her hands together, the woman set out on her task of locating materials as well as Easter Eggs. Rosary uses 1 Yui's Grace which will give her +1 additional SP to the end of her thread Rosary Stats Spoiler LV: 9 HP: 180 EN: 18 DMG: 2 MIT: 9 ACC: 3 EVA: 2 LOOT: +3 Equipment and Consumables EQUIPPED El Corazon (light armor) +1 MIT (+9) +2 EVA La Madre Rosario (trinket) +3 ACC La Andenza Apoyo (trinket) +3 LD BATTLE READY 2- Tier One Health Potions of Uncommon Quality (+40HP) La Espina (Shield) +2 MIT (+18) +1 THORNS (9) Skills 1HSS Rank One Concentration Quest Spoiler Floor 1, 11, or 21 <<Nature's Treasure>> Recommended Level: Any | Party Limit: None Repeatable: Yes Credit: @Itzal Rewards: The Materials Gathered Summary: Marking the beginning of each tier (Floors 1, 11, 21, etc.), these levels of Aincrad in particular each seem to have various locations among the floors that are bursting at the seams with crafting materials. They are easier to find than other hunting grounds on comparable floors, with short respawn rates to make them the best locations to hunt for materials. If the floor is vegetated, players can find a <<Garden>>. If there are a lot of buildings on the floor, players can find a <<Courtyard>>. If the floor is underground, players can find a <<Cavern>>. Many NPCs give away these farming locations, telling players about this amazing opportunity of extra materials, whether it be from plentiful monster drops or from the safer areas outside of town that make for easy, peaceful fishing and gathering. Searching: LD rolls of 11-14 give 1 material. LD rolls of 15+ give 2 materials. Gatherer skill is added to this roll as well. Fishing: Monsters and bosses never spawn. Fishing receives no bonus materials. CD 12s require a LD of 15+ (modifiers allowed) to fish up a treasure chest. If 1-14, players receive 4 materials. Treasure Chests: LD of 1-3 does not result in a mimic, but drops (Floor * 25) col and one material. Looting Mobs: Mobs that satisfy the loot minimum always drop (HP * 4) col and 1 material as default drops. Requirements: At least one [1] Page (20 or more posts) Mobs MUST meet or exceed the loot minimum parameter. Easter Event Spoiler Eg, Egg, n Eggy's Wondrous Shop of Wonders! Event will run until April 22, 2020 The Easter Bunny has scattered Chocolate Eggs all around Aincrad. Eg, Egg, n Eggy - three children of dubious morals and ravenous sweet-tooths (teeth? teeths?) - need your help to find as many Chocolate Eggs as possible! Chocolate Eggs may be found by hunting mobs, gathering materials, or even fishing! Bring enough to Eg, Egg, and Eggy in exchange for amazing prizes! Please put [E3] somewhere in your title to demonstrate it is an egg-thread! Chocolate Eggs may be found via looting slain mobs on a LD9+ CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs Chocolate Eggs may be found via gathering on a LD6+ CD1-3: 1 Egg CD4-6: 2 Eggs CD7-9: 3 Eggs CD11-12: 4 Eggs If gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs Chocolate Eggs may be found via fishing on a CD3+ LD1-5: 2 Eggs LD6-10: 4 Eggs LD11-15: 6 Eggs LD16-20: 8 Eggs Chocolate Eggs are a bonus drop and will be obtained in addition to any other items. Rewards Tier x Material (Limit 100) 1 Egg Specified Unidentified Equipment 5 Eggs Reroll Ticket - Reidentify a single slot on a single piece of gear at a merchant. (Limit 3) 25 Eggs Easter Bunny's Favor - Reidentify a single slot on a piece of gear at a Merchant using only their Unique Enhancement table. (Limit 1) 50 Eggs Bunny Stamp - Increase the Rarity of a single item up to Demonic, selecting a normal Enhancement in the process (Limit 1) 150 Eggs Special Dungeon Map 100 Eggs Note: Players may only participate in the event with a single character. Alts are banned from this event. If caught using an alt, you forfeit all rewards from the event. Edited April 1, 2020 by Rosary stats and stuff Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #2 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Rose wandered about the garden searching through the beds for anything she could scavenge. What were the things she needed to find for him again? “Oh!” she squeaked and opened up her inventory. One of the man’s helpful little elves had given her a list of things to look for and their descriptions. Bed by bed she scanned the flowers and herbs growing in the fertile soil comparing the names of the plants to the ones on her list. “OH! Found you!” she sand gently plucking up some purple sage. Not too far from the sage grew some arctic mint. She grabbed that up too and shoved it into her inventory. Val did a little happy dance over having found two material in less than a few minutes. The last time she went searching for materials it took much longer than this. As she was unjustifiably celebrating, something caught her attention from the corner of her eye... 139097 LD: 23 (20 +3LD) CD: 3 (searching with full energy) Rosary locates 2 material and 2 Easter Eggs Material: 2 Chocolate Eggs: 2 Edited April 1, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #3 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) In an adjacent flower bed, something glinted in the sunlight. It only happened for a moment while she was bouncing about, so Val tried hopping around again hoping her vision would catch the light as before. Indeed! There was something shiny! “Treasure!” she shouted gleefully and rushed toward where the shimmer of light had come from. She plopped down in front of the flowerbed she’d run toward and dropped to her knees gingerly rooting about under the foliage. And there she found them, not one, but two little eggs. A little purple foil wrapped egg and turquoise foiled egg. “Well I’ll be damned!” Val picked up the little eggs carefully and rolled them about in her hand. Sure enough, it was a gosh darn Easter Egg! Carefully pulling back a tiny corner of the purple foil, she lifted it to reveal a dark brown interior. “Chocolate! You’re a chocolate egg!” Valerie held the little eggs up to the sunlight as she spoke to them as if they could understand what she was explaining. 139098 LD: 9 (6+3 LD) CD: 3 (Searching with full energy) Rosary locates 2 Easter Eggs Material: 2 Chocolate Eggs: 4 Edited April 1, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #4 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Rosary gently tucked the little eggs in her inventory and continued with her little celebratory wiggle dance. This was awesome! Not only was she going to collect a ton of material, but she was also going to collect all the damned eggs she could. Supposedly there were rewards that came with finding a particular number of eggs. She didn’t have the deets, but she was sure that she could very easily find the event NPC’s who would gladly give her the skinny on things. As it turned out, Valerie’s little wiggle dance had led her to find several more eggs. All her little hoppity-bops jostled her enough for her eyes to catch the light of the brightly colored foiled eggs that lay in wait in the lovely courtyard garden. She found another set of eggs hidden beneath the standing base of a bird bath. It was a good thing that this was a game and not real life. Had it been real life, these treats would definitely have been carried off by birds and the like. 139099 LD: 18 (15+3LD) CD: 7(searching with full energy) Rosary finds 2 Material and 5 Easter Eggs Material: 4 Chocolate Eggs: 9 Edited April 1, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #5 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Val set back to work collecting more eggs and flora.She found a pink pansy and golden thyme. She eyed the little pink flower twirling it between her fingers thinking something about the plant but she lost the thought. Even before coming to fruition her thought took a detour right out of her head, “Oh well,” she said with a shrug and shoved the flower into her inventory. She couldn’t place this ominous feeling but she shuddered and then turned her focus elsewhere. It was entirely too suspicious indeed! The feeling of dread went completely from the woman as she located an entire clutch of eggs! They were carefully arranged in a little nest shaped dirt mound. “Oh YES!” Val threw her arms up in the air signalling her victory and then quickly gathered up the little chocolates. As she gathered up the nestful, she happened to overturn a couple more eggs from the soil beneath the egg ple. Were more hidden underground? This might require further investigation. 139100 LD: 7 (4+3LD) CD:2 (Searching at full energy) Rosary collects 2 more Easter Eggs Material: 4 Chocolate Eggs: 11 Edited April 1, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #6 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Valerie began to dig about under the soil, turning it over and scooping it out of a small hole, shoveling it a bit like a doggie trying to bury its bone. While she did not turn up anymore eggs, she did turn up not one, but two Mandragora. She looked at the fat root babies and jiggled them about before stuffing them into her inventory. Che and his reprobates were going to love all the good she was finding for them. Rose had worked out a pretty fat deal with the man, she brought him mats and he would give her col. Aincrad economics for the win! The courtyard was not only lush in potion making items, but it was stocked full of the foil wrapped eggs. She found another couple hiding beneath some Black-Eyed Susans that swayed in the cool breeze that swept through the garden paradise and rustled through the leaves of the trees. 139113 LD: 20 (17+3LD) CD: 1 (searching with full energy) Rosary finds 2 Material and 2 Easter Eggs Material: 6 Chocolate Eggs: 13 Edited April 2, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #7 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Val swept her long dark hair out of her face and twisted her locks into a makeshift braid, flipping its tail through one of the twists catching and locking plaits in her hair. The sun was warm on her face and her bare arms. Had she been at home, it was likely she’d get a tan, in Aincrad however, there was no getting a gorgeous golden brown, only her fair buttery glow. The courtyard she found herself in was a trip! By rights, none of the items she was locating inside the courtyard’s stone walls should be found in such a place. Some of the plants grew in colder climates, while other plants preferred tropical climates. The pink peppercorns she plucked from the tree that towered overhead grew in Brazil. “Maybe this place itself is an Easter Egg...” she mused. It could be why there were no raiding parties gathering in the space. If it was a hidden location, she would do her best to keep it so. 139114 LD: 15 (12+3LD) CD: 9 (Searching with full energy) Rosary finds 2 Material and 5 Easter Eggs Material: 8 Chocolate Eggs: 18 Edited April 2, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #8 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) As she combed the peppercorns out of the tree, she noticed a small nest in one of the higher branches. There upon the ledge of it was the familiar shine of colored foil. Pink this time. Rose starred up into the tree and then down around the base of the tree itself asking herself if she was really going to do this. Rosary was forty. Forty year old women were not supposed to be climbing up trees to collect eggs... or were they. “[censored] it,” she told herself, “ I’m going up!” So sure as the day was long, the woman began to climb up into the tree. The first wrung of branches was rather low. She hopped up and wrapped her arms around the lower branch. She rocked herself back and forth gaining momentum until her feet hit the face of the tree. Quickly she ran her legs up and over until she could swing her legs around the branch wrapping them tightly around the branch she clung to. 139115 LD: 15 (12+3) CD: 12!!!! (Searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 more materials and 6 Easter Eggs!!! YAY! Material: 10 Chocolate Eggs: 24 Edited April 2, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #9 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Val hung upside down like a sloth and held on for dear life. “Okay damn it, you got yourself in this mess, now climb!” With every bit of strength she could muster, the woman hoisted herself up onto the branch of the pink peppercorn tree. She felt her midsection resting on the limb and she powered her way up onto the branch wriggling and kicking wildly until she was perched into the tree on her bottom, her legs dangling over the edge of the branch. She had done it! Her moment of triumph was overshadowed by the fact that there were still several more rungs to go before she could reach the nest. So there she went, scooting herself toward the center of the tree so she could get up the tree using the fattest part of each branch in order to climb. She found the bases of the branches to be quite solid. 139116 LD: 13 (10+3LD) CD: 9 (Searching with full energy) Rosary collect 1 material and 5 Easter Eggs Material: 11 Chocolate Eggs: 29 Edited April 2, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 1, 2020 Author #10 Report Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Val carefully and slowly got to her feet on the first limb. She reached overhead to grab on to the next limb to steady her feet before hoisting herself up once more. She hung once again, her hands tight around the branch, and her feet walking up along the side of the tree until she could flip her legs over. Again and again she completed the maneuver until she was damn near enough to the nest she was trying to reach. She walked across the branch she stood upon using her hands overhead to keep her balanced as she moved as bet she crossed the tree limb. The branch got ever thinner, until she could walk no further. The nest was just ever so out of reach. She reached her fingers out toward the nest extending as far as she could, her arms straining for reach as she leaned forward on tip toe to elongate herself even more. 139117 LD: 15 (12+3LD) CD: 5 Val gets 2 more material and 3 Easter Eggs Material: 13 Chocolate Eggs: 32 Edited April 2, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #11 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Val strained with all her might pulling herself from top to toe as long as she could go, leaning and stretching ever forward- until she lost her step. And down, down she came, smacking and bouncing on every ranch on her way down. The tree top circled around back and forth between sky and ground until she smacked straight into the ground. For all her bumping and thumping, the tree violently shook until its contents came raining down. Peppercorns a plenty littered the ground and she eagerly scooped them up, adding them to her inventory. As she collected her sorely gotten gains, she noticed the plethora of eggs scattered about her. “Holy Mary, mother of God!” She exclaimed and threw herself on top of the pile of eggs, sweeping them into her reach and hugging them tightly. “Oh my goodness, yes!” She reveled in delight. Who knew so many eggs could be hidden in the trees of all places? 139118 LD: 18 (15+3LD) CD:8 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 Material and 5 eggs Material: 15 Chocolate Eggs: 37 Edited April 2, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #12 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) She just couldn’t believe the haul she’d acquired. So many eggs and so many herbs. She wasn’t really much of a gatherer, but she gathered at least, by the end of her little excursion she would be. (Ha, ha, I’m funny! No, not really). She found this soothing. The soft spring sun, the cool breeze, the smell of hyacinth. Things were not so much like this back home where she grew up in Southern California. The weather was rather temperate year round, but the only places like this were private gardens. Mainly the air around her home smelled of brine and Bain de Soleil Orange Gelee. Growing up along Corona del Mar had its charm. Still, this was a lovely place to be nonetheless. Rose continued to sift through the flower beds collecting up some wild onion that framed the edge of one of the beds. There she found several more eggs and she collected these up as well. 139119 LD: 20 (17+3LD) CD:3 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 Material and 2 eggs Material: 17 Chocolate Eggs: 39 Edited April 3, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #13 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) “I wonder if I should bring the children...” she mused. The courtyard was the perfect place for the little ones to come run and play. “Maybe after the event though..” she decided. Last thing she wanted was for the kiddos to find the hidden eggs and chow them down instead of collecting them. Chubby little Alex would definitely shove the eggs into his round little cheeks and over fist . She shook her head as she thought about the child. He was a good boy, but if she didn’t lock the pantry, he had a habit of helping himself to all the snacks even though food was not necessary in this world. Still he would hold his little stomach and insisted that he was so very hungry. She wondered how his little body fared wherever it was. Was he growing thinner or was he still the rotund cherub he was in this world? She hoped wherever he was, he was being well fed. 139120 LD: 7 (4+3LD) CD:5 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 3 eggs Material: 17 Chocolate Eggs: 42 Edited April 3, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #14 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) The bed she combed through was only that of Hosta. They were beautiful, and all different hues, even jewel toned. She wondered if the colors were of imagination or that of actual Hosta plants. She ran her fingers over the leaves of majestic blue with a deep emerald trim. As she brushed her fingers over the plant studying the veins that ran through the leaves, she spotted something below. Parting the rows with her hands she located three more foiled eggs. It was a wonder that she even managed to spot the little eggs as they were damn near the same color as the plants themselves. “Not bad,” she told herself as she tossed an egg into the air and caught it with one hand. She placed them in her inventory and moved on to the next bed. Rose ran her fingers over the gladiolas and spotted a butterfly bush. She walked over to inspect the orange and raspberry sherbert colored blooms. When she finally made it home, she was going to plant butterfly bushes just like this all around her little home. 139121 LD: 16 (13+3LD) CD:3 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 Material and 2 eggs Material: 19 Chocolate Eggs: 44 Edited April 3, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #15 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Time slipped through Rosary’s fingers like she was trying to grasp at sand. Hours had flown by much to the woman’s surprise, but she was nowhere near where she needed to be. There were still eggs to collect and materials to be harvested. She had made a deal with Che and his band of misfit toys. She would help them as they’d helped her; one hand washes the other. She needed to bring them materials in exchange for the sweet gear they’d supplied her. She scoured the flower beds and managed to find a couple more herbs that would please the hardworking party. As she tucked her goods away in her inventory she spied another glimmer of light near where she dug for her regimens. Parting the flowers, she spied an entire clutch of the shiny little eggs. Scooping them up into her hands she quickly stored them into her inventory gingerly as she counted them. Six, there were six of those little fuckers! “Excellent...” she said with a smile. 139122 LD: 19 (16+3LD) CD:12 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 Material and 6 eggs!!! WOOO Material: 21 Chocolate Eggs: 50 Edited April 12, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #16 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Tedious. The work she was carrying out was so very tedious. Hunt, spy, collect, repeat. Well over a dozen times she performed the act and while she was quite successful in her task, and the very description of the repetitive action was starting to wear upon Rosary’s writer. But onward to the end of this thread Rosary and her author would go. Eggs and materials were essential! There were prizes to be won and treasures to collect because of it! As Val continued her hunt, she started to think of home and her babies and all the Easter’s before. There were so many good times on Easter. Even though the holiday was to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, her little family enjoyed the other, more pagan aspects of the holiday, namely the very activity she endeavored right now: Easter egg Hunting. But that wasn’t the only plus, there was so much more good stuff like Easter Baskets, pretty pastel dresses, and of course Easter Dinner. Holiday ham, mashed potatoes, grilled asparagus and all the other fixings. Just thinking of all the delicious food made her mouth water. Or it would if that were actually something that could be executed in the game’s programming. 139123 LD: 22 (19+3LD) CD:1 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 Material and 2 eggs Material: 23 Chocolate Eggs: 52 Edited April 12, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #17 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) A soft smile curled over Rsary’s lips as she remembered a particularly lovely Easter. Shannon was 2 at the time and such a little handful, so independent and headstrong. Val had hid Easter eggs in an open field to make it easy for her toddler to collect the eggs. She wanted to help the little one to give her the idea of what she needed to do, but the babe was smart, and pushed at Val to get her mother out of her way and set to work. The little girl bobbled over to the first brightly colored plastic egg and set her basket down realizing that collecting the Easter egg was a two hand job.. Rose had bought the big eggs to ensure her child would not try and stuff the thing in her mouth which was a favorite pastime of children so young. The last thing she wanted was for Shan to choke on the damned thing. 139124 LD: 9 (6+3LD) CD:8 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 5 eggs Material: 23 Chocolate Eggs: 57 Edited April 12, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #18 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) As the small girl cupped the egg in her hands she stared at it for some time. “What do you have there?” Val asked her daughter. Very triumphantly the little pig tailed princess held her hands out to her mother and showed her. “EGG!” she squeaked excitedly. “Yes.. egg,” Val shook her head and laughed. “Now put it in your basket,” the woman said as she pointed to the pink wicker basket sitting on the ground. Shannon dumped the egg into the basket and picked it up in search of more eggs. One by one, the girl collected an egg, “OH! anotha’ egg!” The babe would exclaim after every discovery and placed it in her basket. Val had only bought her baby a handful of eggs. She wanted her child to have fun, but not to consume so much candy. But after finding all of her booty, Shannon was not done hunting for eggs. 139125 LD: 8 (5+3LD) CD:11 (searching with full energy) Rosary get 6 eggs Material: 23 Chocolate Eggs: 63 Edited April 12, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #19 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Shannon still wanted to play. Of course she did, she was small, and the task of finding eggs was fun so Val was going to provide more eggs. As Shan looked around, Val would reach into the child’s basket and grab an egg or two and toss them back over her shoulder. “Baby, look!” she would say as she turned around to point out the couple of eggs that she had thrown. Shannon was ecstatic. She’d scoop them up and add them to her basket not realizing a thing about what was going on. She did this over and again for a good half an hour, snagging eggs and launching them out for her daughter to find. It was a blessing that Shannon was only two. She could not count and was otherwise unaware of the fact that the number of eggs in her pile wasn’t growing. It was all too perfect, really. 139126 LD: 15 (15+3LD) CD:8 (searching with full energy) Rosary collects 2 Material and 5 eggs Material: 25 Chocolate Eggs: 68 Edited May 3, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
Rosary 0 Posted April 2, 2020 Author #20 Report Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Rosary laughed and shook her head. She hoped wherever her girls were, that they were having a lovely Easter. Val’s expression changed from that of a smile to crestfallen. Most days she was able to think about her babies and smile, but the sweet memory made it all well up inside of her and in a moment, tears slid down her cheeks. She sniffled and wiped her face reminding herself that she’d see them soon. Lifting her head she realized the sun was starting to get low and it was time for her to be heading back. She quickly collected up her things and stood, giving herself a good stretch. For an afternoon’s work, her haul wasn’t too bad. She’d gotten a good amount of materials to sell to Firm Anima and a bundle of eggs for... something. Val gave the area one more visual sweep hoping she hadn’t missed or forgotten anything. Everything was as it should be; and with that, she left. 139127 Rosary searches for a treasure chest LD: 8 (5+3 LD) YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! LOL No treasure chest to be found :( Material: 25 Chocolate Eggs: 68 Edited May 3, 2020 by Rosary Link to post Share on other sites
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