Completed Divine Offering - GT Pokémon Challenge Page 2

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Hello, I would like to participate in this challenge. I just didn't quite understand the rules, like the Trainer class or the sacrifce part. If someone could explain it to me either in the forum or over pm if possible, I would be very grateful! Also how long is the Get together? I've only been here recently this year.

Sincerely

Celèste

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Hello, I would like to participate in this challenge. I just didn't quite understand the rules, like the Trainer class or the sacrifce part. If someone could explain it to me either in the forum or over pm if possible, I would be very grateful! Also how long is the Get together? I've only been here recently this year.

Sincerely

Celèste
I've tried to rewrite some of the things following the feedback we have received from other players, hopefully now things are a bit better. For some quick answers...
- The Trainer Class is just cosmetic! If you have no preference it's fine, we can just pick something for you ♥
- The Sacrifice Part, hopefully, is explained a bit better now. But essentially, right after you finish a Gym Battle, you have the choice to "kill" some of your Pokémon (and never use them again). Why do such a horrible thing? Because that can be done to upgrade the rules you're given at the start into (hopefully) easier versions, until you're able to get rid of those limitations entirely. Just make sure that the Pokémon you're sacrificing has defeated at least one opponent during that Gym Battle, and that it matches the "offer requirements" near each rule.
- There's a few more complicated things we tried to add for the sake of teamwork- the main thing being, you can sacrifice Pokémon to upgrade your teammates' rules, not just yours! We had to put in place a few limits on this mechanic though, to avoid some weird "did you actually do that in time?" or "I had already upgraded this rule for you, what are you doing!" situations that basically have to do with the timing of it all :sadwick:
- Finishing the game gives some points, sacrificing Pokémon gives some more points. Find a nice balance and take your team to victory by gaining the most points ♥

Hopefully it's a bit less complicated now ^^; sorry once again!

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I've tried to rewrite some of the things following the feedback we have received from other players, hopefully now things are a bit better. For some quick answers...
- The Trainer Class is just cosmetic! If you have no preference it's fine, we can just pick something for you ♥
- The Sacrifice Part, hopefully, is explained a bit better now. But essentially, right after you finish a Gym Battle, you have the choice to "kill" some of your Pokémon (and never use them again). Why do such a horrible thing? Because that can be done to upgrade the rules you're given at the start into (hopefully) easier versions, until you're able to get rid of those limitations entirely. Just make sure that the Pokémon you're sacrificing has defeated at least one opponent during that Gym Battle, and that it matches the "offer requirements" near each rule.
- There's a few more complicated things we tried to add for the sake of teamwork- the main thing being, you can sacrifice Pokémon to upgrade your teammates' rules, not just yours! We had to put in place a few limits on this mechanic though, to avoid some weird "did you actually do that in time?" or "I had already upgraded this rule for you, what are you doing!" situations that basically have to do with the timing of it all :sadwick:
- Finishing the game gives some points, sacrificing Pokémon gives some more points. Find a nice balance and take your team to victory by gaining the most points ♥

Hopefully it's a bit less complicated now ^^; sorry once again!
Alright thank you very much! I understood the principe a bit better now, just one more question for the teamwork thing, if I'm allowed. Should I Pm one of my teammates beforehand, if they want me to simplify their rule? Because I had some past problems where I tried to help someone in a different forum and they were angry at me for doing it. Otherwise I understood everything else, so I'll Post my sign up!

Name: Celèste
Team: Shackled Arqueros
Game of choice: Brilliant Diamond
Trainer Class: No preferance, so you can choose for me ♡

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just one more question for the teamwork thing, if I'm allowed. Should I Pm one of my teammates beforehand, if they want me to simplify their rule?
Not a Challenge organiser, but to answer your question from a user perspective, yes it would be wonderful to ask first, the other user might be working on that rule themselves, or perhaps don't want their rules lifted at all. Enjoy your journey! 😊
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Not a Challenge organiser, but to answer your question from a user perspective, yes it would be wonderful to ask first, the other user might be working on that rule themselves, or perhaps don't want their rules lifted at all. Enjoy your journey! 😊
Okay, thank you very much! I'll keep that in mind! Thank you, I will once I know my restrictions ^^ I hope you'll enjoy yours too ♡

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🦴 Trainer Class: Fisherman
Alright thank you very much! I understood the principe a bit better now, just one more question for the teamwork thing, if I'm allowed. Should I Pm one of my teammates beforehand, if they want me to simplify their rule? Because I had some past problems where I tried to help someone in a different forum and they were angry at me for doing it. Otherwise I understood everything else, so I'll Post my sign up!

Name: Celèste
Team: Shackled Arqueros
Game of choice: Brilliant Diamond
Trainer Class: No preferance, so you can choose for me ♡
Okay, got you on the Player Board. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
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UPDATE 2:

hehe this time was quite hard and long, but I am very happy with the final results! So, the second gym was the fighting type one and the gym leader was Brawly. I needed to study a plan to sacrifice a pokemon. Well, since it was my second gym and I didn't manage to sacrifice one during the first gym, my plan was to find a way to sacrifice two pokemon. It took me some time but I managed to do it.
I went to the cave and caught myself a zubat and I wasted a lot of pokeballs to finally at some point get an abra, who luckily had Inner focus. Both of them could be chosen as Abra learns Snore and Zubat learns air slash, so they could both be useful. Abra learns no move till level 16 when it becomes Kadabra and it's literally what I have done. That training helped my ralts level up and same thing for my treecko, who became a Grovyle.
So, when I was ready, I challenged Brawly. Using also growl to reduce his pokemon's attack I managed to lend a K.O. with Taillow while it was on 1HP. The rest was pretty easy. Ralts finished its job by defeating Meditite and Kadabra defeated Makhuita.

Hence, oh almighty Decidueye, I sacrifice in your honor Taillow and Kadabra.

Spoiler:

This moment was quite epic, so it needed a pic lol











Doing that I have fulfilled the requirements of Steadfast and Prepare the battlefield

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Ping!
Spoiler:
UPDATE 2:

hehe this time was quite hard and long, but I am very happy with the final results! So, the second gym was the fighting type one and the gym leader was Brawly. I needed to study a plan to sacrifice a pokemon. Well, since it was my second gym and I didn't manage to sacrifice one during the first gym, my plan was to find a way to sacrifice two pokemon. It took me some time but I managed to do it.
I went to the cave and caught myself a zubat and I wasted a lot of pokeballs to finally at some point get an abra, who luckily had Inner focus. Both of them could be chosen as Abra learns Snore and Zubat learns air slash, so they could both be useful. Abra learns no move till level 16 when it becomes Kadabra and it's literally what I have done. That training helped my ralts level up and same thing for my treecko, who became a Grovyle.
So, when I was ready, I challenged Brawly. Using also growl to reduce his pokemon's attack I managed to lend a K.O. with Taillow while it was on 1HP. The rest was pretty easy. Ralts finished its job by defeating Meditite and Kadabra defeated Makhuita.

Hence, oh almighty Decidueye, I sacrifice in your honor Taillow and Kadabra.

Spoiler:

This moment was quite epic, so it needed a pic lol











Doing that I have fulfilled the requirements of Steadfast and Prepare the battlefield
Your sacrifices were appreciated and your rules have been updated!

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Update!

Since my rules now state that half my team must know protect, I am Pokémonless! Back to using my starter, and finding headbutt so I can use it to obtain the only pokemon in the entire game that I can use under this rule - Pineco!!! I catch 3 of them so that I can have three non protect mons on my team :)

With that done, I hatched and boxed the day care egg, then I went to find an Abra for an in-game trade for a Machop, which would help greatly against the next gym. I also picked up a Drowzee while I was there.

After getting both a Pineco and my Machop up to Lv. 20+, I was ready to take on Whitney. My team consisted of 3 Pinecos, Quilava, Machop & Drowzee.

Pineco beat Whitney's Clefairy with 3 damaging moves in a row (Tackle, Tackle, Self Destruct), so I can now sacrifice it towards Divine Shield 2.

Machop defeated her legendary Miltank to earn itself a place in the sacrifice box alongside Pineco towards Fair Play (it can learn Thief).

Let's see what the gods expect from my team for the next part of my journey!

Edit: I will try to upload the pic I took of Machop finishing off Whitney when I get home if I get a chance 😊
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Spoiler:
Update!

Since my rules now state that half my team must know protect, I am Pokémonless! Back to using my starter, and finding headbutt so I can use it to obtain the only pokemon in the entire game that I can use under this rule - Pineco!!! I catch 3 of them so that I can have three non protect mons on my team :)

With that done, I hatched and boxed the day care egg, then I went to find an Abra for an in-game trade for a Machop, which would help greatly against the next gym. I also picked up a Drowzee while I was there.

After getting both a Pineco and my Machop up to Lv. 20+, I was ready to take on Whitney. My team consisted of 3 Pinecos, Quilava, Machop & Drowzee.

Pineco beat Whitney's Clefairy with 3 damaging moves in a row (Tackle, Tackle, Self Destruct), so I can now sacrifice it towards Divine Shield 2.

Machop defeated her legendary Miltank to earn itself a place in the sacrifice box alongside Pineco towards Fair Play (it can learn Thief).

Let's see what the gods expect from my team for the next part of my journey!

Edit: I will try to upload the pic I took of Machop finishing off Whitney when I get home if I get a chance 😊
Oh Tuesday with no lessons, how I miss you during the rest of the week... updated the rules btw!

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Oh Tuesday with no lessons, how I miss you during the rest of the week... updated the rules btw!
Ty!

Just wondering, is my requirement to clear the first rule the same as before, or am I imagining it? 🤔
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Ty!

Just wondering, is my requirement to clear the first rule the same as before, or am I imagining it? 🤔
No and no... that was definitely my fault for not getting that edited in... sorry :'(

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Update #1:

I started my journey with piplup, which I found to be not only my favourite, but also my best choice of starter. Piplup turned out to be a sassy nature (Sp. Def +/Spd. -)
Moving on with the game, I got a Starly (Spd. +/Sp. Atk -) and a Bidoof (Sp. Def +/Sp. Atk -). Lastly, I got a Shinx (Atk +/Def -)
The first gym was slightly difficult, because I wanted Bidoof to defeat a Pokémon, so that I could try to sacrifice it. I started of with my Piplup to get some dmg on Roark's Pokèmon, so I defeated Geodude and got Onix's HP down to 1HP, because of Sturdy and switched into Bidoof. Since BDPS don't really have HM's, since the Pokètch has the Hidden Move function. So I just decided to use the TM's that usually are HM's in other games. I teached Rock Smash to Bidoof and defeated Onix with the use of it.

So with this in mind, I would like to offer my Bidoof to the gods. Goodbye my loyal friend, you have been an awesome traveling companion, but your sacrifice allows me to lift the Adventuring on land rule and I will never forget you! ♡

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alright, lets do this.
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Ping!
Ping!
Ping!
Sign-ups and rule updates should all be up now! And with that, goodnight :')

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Update #1 - Milo



Log

- Started the game, picked Scorbunny as the starter since:
1. I'm a Fire Maniac
2. I can use Raboot

- I got Nickit on Route 1.

- I got Rookidee and Chewtle on Route 2.

- After a very, very, very long early game we got to the Wild Area.

- I got some Pidoves, Gastly, Ralts, Budew, Seedot and Wooper on the Wild Area
Most of those were immediately boxed, but I made sure to check if the ones I did use matched the BST rule.

- Got registered, beat up Team Yell, beat up Hop.

- Scorbunny evolved! Raboot has exactly 60 base def but the rules say I can't use Pokémon with "more than 60" so it's allowed.

- Beat up Bede

- Corvisquire evolved!

- Completed the gym puzzle

- Nickit evolved, but Pidove did not.

- vs Gym Leader Milo

Thievul spammed Snarl to get rid of Gossifleur, becoming Worthy
Raboot came in to soak up the Dynamax and prime Eldegoss for Pidove.
I let Raboot die, thus making him ineligible for sacrifice until after Nessa.
Pidove came in so I could use cheap strats, because Super Luck + Air Cutter means 50% chance to crit.
It took a couple of tries, but Air Cutter crit, I finished Eldegoss and Pidove became Worthy

Badges: 1 / 8

Sacrifices
- Thievul for Burn Up! (It learns Parting Shot by Level Up)
- Pidove for Heat Up! (Landed a critical hit during the battle in which it became worthy)

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Updating here!

Game:
Pokémon Emerald

Restrictions:
- Can only use low (< 40BP) moves.
- Each Pokémon in party must be capable of learning moves that inflict status (which includes confusion) except Toxic. I'm also assuming this doesn't include moves that have secondary effects that may cause status, as Freeze wasn't listed since there's no move that only causes Freeze.
- Each Pokémon in party must be capable of learning priority moves.

My Progress:
So I definitely started by looking at which Pokémon in my game fit the bill. I had to go with Treecko or Torchic, since they could both learn Quick Attack and Treecko gets Grasswhistle from somewhere (in another Gen) and Torchic gets Will-O-Wisp from Gen 4 TM.

After looking through the wiki, I arrived at the following team (before Roxanne):
- Treecko lv14 [Grasswhistle, Quick Attack] - (Pound, Quick Attack, Leer, Absorb)
- Poochyena lv12 [Swagger, Sucker Punch] - (Tackle, Howl, Sand Attack)
- Wingull lv12 [Supersonic, Quick Attack] - (Water Gun, Growl, Supersonic)
- Zigzagoon lv8 [Thunder Wave, Extremespeed] - (Tackle, Growl, Tail Whip)
- Skitty lv8 [Thunder Wave, Fake Out] - (Growl, Tackle, Tail Whip, Attract)
- Seedot lv4 [Swagger, Fake Out] - (Bide, Harden)

Seedot was traded for with a Ralts that I caught but never used. I'm also assuming that I can't use Shroomish since it doesn't actually learn a priority move, but rather its evolution does. If I somehow can use Shroomish, I will definitely pick one up later.

As for the battle with Roxanne...
For the first Geodude, I Growled with Skitty a few times, then with Zigzagoon a few times, sacrificing them in the process. I also managed to get a Bide off with Seedot to get off some damage. Then I sent in Poochyena and used my X Defends. I used Sand Attack and Howl while the Geodude attempted to do damage to me. I ended up getting a critical hit with one of my Tackles (I used like 20), but I would have stalled out its PP anyway.

For the second Geodude, Wingull was able to make quick work of it with one Water Gun.

For the Nosepass, I sent out Treecko to use some more X Defends on. I then just tanked through its damage and defeated it with Absorb.

Sacrifices:
I sacrifice my Poochyena (it landed 3 attacks in a row on the Geodude and ended up knocking it out) to level up the Daggers restriction.
I sacrifice my WIngull (it knows Supersonic) to level up the Nasty Tactics restriction.
I sacrifice my Treecko (it knows Quick Attack) to level up the Surprise Hit restriction.

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Update #1: Viola

Randomized the trainer. Got 2 for gender (female) and 3 for skin tone (darkest). Named the trainer "Barb".

Chose FireFriend, a Fennekin. Never picked Fennekin before.

Has pretty straightforward rules: Use your strongest attack. Never switch. Do not use status. Essentially, faceroll everything.

Blazed through the forest. Went past the town. Wandered around for the two bounties: Farfetch'd and Dunsparce. Almost wiped to Dunsparce (Defense Curl + 5 turn Rollout). Eventually captured both FoodBird and SleepChild.

Leveled them both up to 10. Must choose Pursuit for SleepChild and Aerial Ace for FoodBird.

Spoiler: Gym 1 Battle Log

Turn 1: Surskit: Water Sport / Dunsparce: Pursuit (25%)
Turn 2: Surskit: Bubble (36/43) / Dunsparce: Pursuit (30%)
Turn 3: Surskit: Quick Attack (32/43) / Dunsparce: Pursuit (25%)
Turn 4: Surskit: Potion (heal to 80%) / Dunsparce: Pursuit (30%)
Turn 5: Surskit: Bubble (25/43) / Dunsparce: Pursuit (25%)
Turn 6: Surskit: Water Sport / Dunsparce: Pursuit (the rest)
Turn 7: Vivillon: Trackle (18/43) / Dunsparce: Pursuit (10%)
Turn 8: Vivillon: Infestation (12/43) / Dunsparce: Pursuit (10%)
(Infestation damage to 7/43)
Turn 9: Vivillon: Harden / Dunsparce: Pursuit (8%)
(Infestation damage to 2/43)
Turn 10: Vivillon: Tackle (0/43)
Turn 11: Vivillon: Infestation (29/32) / Farfetch'd: Aerial Ace (40%)
(Infestation damage to 25/32)
Turn 12: Vivillon: Tackle (critical, 15/32) / Farfetch'd: Aerial Ace (40%)
(Level up)


Perfection. Scored a knockout on both. May have missed something in the logs. (Forgot to turn Battle Effects back on. Moves very fast.)

Sacrifices the following Pokemon:
- FoodBird the Farfetch'd. Level 11 with Inner Focus. Strikes down Count Dracularc's "Power" rule.
- SleepChild the Dunsparce. Level 10 Normal type. Removes Mewtwolover's "Generosity" rule.
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Update Gyms 1&2:

My plan was to get the old rod as quickly as possible so that I could fish up a tentacool and expand my type options as fast as possible. However I couldn’t access the old rod until after the first gym so I just used totodile to water gun everything that Falkner had. Since totodile was my only Pokémon, I didn’t sacrifice him at this point.

We ran into a couple trainers with woopers or poliwag with water absorb so we had to use physical moves for the first time since after learning water gun. Finally on route 32 I caught a tentacool which meant I could go back to dark cave to get zubat since they share poison type.

While leveling up tentacool to learn acid (so I could have a second viable damaging move), I caught some more Pokémon including pidgey and hoppip (shares flying type with zubat) among others.

The rival fight that gatekeeps ilex forest was incredibly tedious. I made sure toxic spikes were out when bayleef came out and then used sand attack over and over again so it couldn’t k.o. my weaker Pokémon. Eventually it fainted from poison damage. Then I could get into ilex first and catch a paras and level it up to 10.

Fighting Bugsy, I poison powdered scyther with paras and stalled out with stat moves from croconaw. Barely surviving a u-turn, Bugsy send in metapod. In the end, metapod died from poison damage from poison powder making paras worthy. Tentacool finished off the red health scyther with acid and also became worthy. Finally, croconaw took out kakuna with water gun and became worthy.

I am now able to sacrifice croconaw and paras to advance “stick to what you know” and “strike from a distance”. Godspeed, good friends 🫡 I choose not to sacrifice tentacool.

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I'd like to do this!
🌹 Name: apro
🦴 Team: Shadowed Guerreros
🌹 Game of choice: Pokémon Black
🦴 Trainer Class: Janitor
Welcome! Click your nickname on the Player Board to see your rules.

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Updated your cards.
Sacrifices the following Pokemon:
- FoodBird the Farfetch'd. Level 11 with Inner Focus. Strikes down Count Dracularc's "Power" rule.
- SleepChild the Dunsparce. Level 10 Normal type. Removes Mewtwolover's "Generosity" rule.
Just a note: I'll update their cards with new versions of Power and Generosity once they made their update. This way they don't lose access to the current version.
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Spoiler: The rules as of now
  1. Mind Power: You may only use Pokémon whose highest base stat is Sp. Attack or Sp. Defense.
    • Offer Requirement: A lv. 10+ Pokémon who knows both a physical and special move.
  2. Know your enemy: You may only use Pokémon who know or can learn Bide, Counter, Mirror Coat, Magic Coat, Mirror Move, or Snatch.
    • Offer Requirement: A lv. 10+ Psychic-type Pokémon.
  3. No interference: You may not use Fighting, Poison, Bug, Dark, or Rock-type Pokémon, unless they're also Psychic or Ghost-types.
    • Offer Requirement: A lv. 10+ Pokémon who knows or may learn Focus Punch, Mind Reader, Lock-on, Miracle Eye or Foresight.

This is a tale of a boy named Robin right after he moved to Alola from Plegia Kanto. He went to Iki Town with Professor Kukui, met Lillie, got Shigure the Vallite singer Popplio from Hala (I wanted a Rowlet but its maximum stats are on attack and defense, so...), the local kahuna, and battled his grandson, Hau, twice -- once when they first met, then again during a festival the next day. From there, the catchathon ensued throughout his journey:

Spoiler: Robin caught
  • Yukimura the Hoshidan tactician Magnemite (finally, a usable mon)
  • Ricken the Ylissean "I'm not a child" mage Abra
  • Miriel the eloquent scholar Drowzee
  • Henry the dark jokester Misdreavus
  • Tharja the possessive dark mage Gastly
  • Frederick the Wary Growlithe (officially replacing Shigure in the party)

And then the first gym trial came. A bit unnerving since the supposedly normal-type totem Pokemon turned out to be half-dark, but still...

Spoiler: Normal totem battle log
Turn 1
  • Totem Raticate: Tail Whip
  • Yukimura: Thunder Wave

Turn 2 (ally Rattata summoned)
  • Ally Rattata: Focus Energy
  • Yukimura: Thunder Wave on Rattata
  • Totem Raticate: Scary Face

Turn 3
  • Totem Raticate: Bite (critical hit)
  • Ally Rattata: Tackle (critical hit)
  • Yukimura: Thunder Shock on Raticate

Turn 4
  • Yukimura: Super Potion
  • Ally Rattata: Paralyzed
  • Totem Raticate: Bite

Turn 5
  • Totem Raticate: Bite
  • Ally Rattata: Paralyzed
  • Yukimura: Thunder Shock on Raticate

Turn 6
  • Yukimura: Super Potion
  • Totem Raticate: Paralyzed
  • Ally Rattata: Tail Whip

Turn 7
  • Totem Raticate: Bite
  • Ally Rattata: Tackle (miss)
  • Yukimura: Thunder Shock on Raticate (Raticate down)

Turn 8
  • Yukimura: Switch to Miriel
  • Ally Rattata: Tackle

Turn 8
  • Ally Rattata: Quick Attack (miss)
  • Miriel: Brick Break on Rattata (Rattata down)

With that out of the way, Robin had to sacrifice his two MVPs, Yukimura and Miriel, to the gods.

Spoiler: Proof of journey


Spoiler: Robin's sacrifices
Yukimura (Mind Power)
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Miriel (Know your enemy)
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Spoiler: Robin's remaining squad
Tharja
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Henry
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Frederick
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Ricken
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