Master Prompt list 2011
The old master list got really long, so I'm starting a new one for the new year.
As before, they're arranged in date order, with a link to that day's stats post.
5 January
New Beginning
Running out of time
Envy
Odds of a million to one
Scenario - in solitary confinement
This image
8 January
Song:
Hell Frozen Rain - Silent Hill Shattered Memories OST
Master List Prompt
Setting - a very long way from home
"You call it ‘mistake’, I call it 'happy coincidence'."
Disillusioned
Setting - Someone else's room at midnight
12 January
Breakout
Duality
Coercion
Confusion
Setting - A collapsed building
Scenario - trying to unwind
15 January
Song: David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
Song: Milow - Ayo Technology
Bewilderment
Scenario - the moment of betrayal
Leaving it all to chance
Setting - on the roof of a high building
19 January
Master List Prompt
Follow You Home, by Nickelback
Disconnected
Running out of time (which was accidentally reposted from a few weeks back, sorry about that!)
Scenario: getting ready for a date
Interrogation
22 January
Master List Prompt
Too much talking
"My relationship to you can only be defined as masochistic."
Scenario - seeking oblivion
Firepower
Song: R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
26 January
Forgiven
Setting - the moon of a gas giant
"Has anyone seen the head?"
Scenario - trying to escape the past
Setting - An electrical storm
Secrets and lies
29 January
Being late
Malfunction
Scenario - taking the credit for someone else’s work
Scenario - planning a celebration
Altitude
Scenario - settling in to a new home
2 February
Master List Prompt
Scenario - forgetting an important celebration
Scenario - trying to unmask a traitor
Scenario - Where: A dark street (on Cybertron or Earth), Time: Night, What: Let's bounce!
Setting - Earth’s Moon during a solar eclipse
Indestructible, by Disturbed
5 February
Master List Prompt
Sinister
Song: Shawn Mullins - Light You Up
Symbolism
"Strange how things turned out."
Song: Breaking Benjamin - Fade Away
9 February (this is when we switched to one prompt only for most Wednesdays)
Setting - Hidden in the enemy base
12 February
Sociability
Life
Scenario - making the world a better place, one small step at a time
Implications
This image
Master List Prompt
19 February
Blackout
Firewall
Comeback
Purity
Setting - the bottom of the a deep ocean trench (any world, any ocean)
Song: Linkin’ Park - In the End
23 February
Scenario: Aftermath of a defeat
26 February
Task: Communication link sex, AKA TF phone sex. Write a scene where two (or more) characters interact in an erotic way via any communications link, without being able to touch each other.
"Let me guess. I got drunk, you were drunk, I fucked you, and now you want to kill me, right?"
A video
PWP aka “Porn without Plot” aka “Plot? What Plot?” Write a single smut scene without intro or outro, just the act - That’s all required.
5 March
Master list prompt
Water
No future
Win
Scenario - getting discovered doing something truly embarrassing
Song: Flaw, Only the Strong
12 March
Waste
Validation
Scenario - a practical joke gone wrong
"You’re only in trouble if you get caught."
Setting - In a banned location
An image
19 March
Master List Prompt
"Kiss me!"
Smirk
Setting - The last day of vacation
Scenario: during an air raid
Song: Evil Angel by Breaking Benjamin
26 March
Theme: death
"Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time." - Susan Cheever
Song: Jen Titus - Oh Death
A Picture
Tarot Card: Death
2 April
Scenario - trying to apologise
Scenario - getting petty revenge
Setting - hostage situation
Skillet, The Older I get
Wish
Master List prompt
9 April
Nickleback - Rockstar
David Bowie - Big Brother
Change
Mirror Image
Terminal Glitch
A Picture
16 April
Sponge
Thea Gilmore - The List
Master list prompt
Cosiness
Cat's-paw
Linkin Park - Iridescent
23 April
Theme: Hitchcock
Vertigo
“There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.” - Alfred Hitchcock
This image
Task - Use the Dolly Zoom in fanfiction, and use it to bring across an impact (on a mind) as well as the queasy feeling it causes.
7 May
Update
Volcano
Scenario - seeking acceptance
Setting - an arroyo (any world, any desert)
Song: Disturbed: Intoxication
Master List prompt
14 May
No man's land
Comet's impact
Song: Lisa Hannigan - I don’t know
This image (WARNING for arachnaphobes, shows a spider with a nest of newly hatched young)
"It's just cosmetic"
Scenario - taking time out to enjoy the little things
21 May
Sinkhole
Too much time on my hands
Cliffhanger
Zero Hour
Eavesdropping
A Picture
28 May
Theme day: quotes attributed to Oscar Wilde.
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
03 and 04 June
Botcon Event Stunticon Theme Day Prompts:
Song: Canned Heat - On the Road Again
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical." - Jim Morrison
This image
Saturday prompts:
Consolation
Song: As Lovers Go - Dashboard Confessional
Setting - broken washracks
This image (dead link)
11 June
Placebo - Song to Say Goodbye
Border crossing
Master List Prompt
Setting: A forest of any matter
An unlikely ___________ (fill in this blank with any noun: hero, lover, enemy, ally, etc)
This image
18 June
You and whose army
Freedom
Undead
Rats leaving a sinking ship
In the brig
The immediate aftermath of victory
25 June
Talkative
Scenario - in a situation where at least one character feels completely out of their depth.
Lazy
Master List Prompt
Shellshock
Beginning: "At that time of the night...."
2 July
Song: The Heavy - Short Change Hero
Forbidden delights
Living on the edge
Setting: up against a bulkhead
Beginning: This isn't how it was supposed to turn out...
This image
9 July
Song: Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
"Was it meant to do that?"
Master List Prompt
"I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that." (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Lights out
Scenario: One character has a nightmare or bad dream.
16 July
Theme day: MacGuffins
Key to Vector Sigma
The AllSpark
Golden Disk
The Magnificence
23 July
Oath
"If at first you don't succeed... cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie."
Following a Timetable
Task - Write a scene in the life of a character with a serious psychological problem, and how those surrounding him/her react to it - and make this as plausible as possible.
Song: Wretches and Kings by Linkin Park
Condemned
30 July
"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. (Modified from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)
Mamihlapinatapai
A Picture
Decepticon
Master List Prompt
06 August
Incapacitated
Vacation
The definition of family
Scenario - Saying goodbye
Coming undone
Setting - underground in a confined space
13 August
Daze
Scenario: late for an important meeting
Setting: medbay during a lull
Confession
Song: Echoing Green “Supernova”
Task: AU! Write your favorite characters in an AU setting: it could be Shattered Glass or turned into animals or sex slaves or before the war after it, or femmes secretly rule Cybertron or they're all pirates or fighting zombies or… whatever. But you know you have one! Show us what happens when you throw canon to the winds!
20 August
One of these days I'm gonna live dangerously and grab that thing!
Song: Poets of the Fall - Locking Up the Sun
Master List Prompt
"Afterism(n) -- A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late." -- John Alexander Thom
Scenario - seeking forgiveness
Dread
27 August
"No. You're wrong. Completely, utterly, and always wrong."
"You know that thing you do where you open your mouth and sound comes out? Yeah... That's gotta stop."
Master List Prompt
The definition of family or another Master List Prompt
“I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.” -Tom Waits
Getting out of dodge
03 September
Just walking away
Scenario: in a bar at closing time
Beginning: "Last night I dreamed...."
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan)
Defensive position
Song: Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park
10 September
Scenario - Getting to know a new friend
This image
A major minor detail
The best solution is to scream as loud as possible.
Scenario: Bird Watching (could be organic birds, cyber-birds or war-birds, etc.)
Master List Prompt
17 September
Scenario - unable to let go
We got our dreams reborn and our upholstry torn/But everything we tried was right ('Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are' by Meat Loaf)
Task - Write a short scene from one character's POV (could be an argument, telling a joke, fighting, being in a battle, doing something a bit more adult in nature etc.). Then re-write it from the point(s) of view of the other character(s) involved. Use a minimum of two characters.
Scenario - receiving undue praise
And nothing fuels a good flirtation/Like need and anger and desperation... ('The Moth' by Aimmee Mann)
Addiction
24 September
Late for pickup
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" Apocalypse Now Here's the clip.)
"Watch, don't touch."
Scenario: Watching TV
Setting: a training exercise
Master List Prompt
01 October
Song: Skillet - Whispers In The Dark
A Picture
Task - Write about a canon character’s death from the POV of another character. Plus points keeping it least emotional.
Fizz
Checkpoint
Argument
08 October
'Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.' Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.' Niccolo Machiavelli
'A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.' Ingrid Bergman
'A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.' John D. Rockefeller
'The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' Lyn Nofziger
Master List Prompt
15 October
Misanthropy
Obedience
No respect
Scenario - coping with change
"Now that's entertainment."
Song: Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
22 October
Deadline
Lying in wait
Setting: Midday in a desert
Sublime
Scenario: ordering a drink in a bar
Song: Tears for Fears - Shout
29 October
"Through avarice, evil smiles; through insanity, it sings."- Anon (as quoted from Resident Evil: Caliban Cove by S.D. Perry)
"Didn’t we have some fun though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said ‘Goodbye’ and you were like ‘NO WAY!’ and then I was all ‘We pretended we were going to murder you’? That was great." GLadOS in Portal
"War. War never changes." Fallout
"Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your &@&&@#& TEA!" Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy VII
"Tank beats ghost. Tank beats hunter. Tank beats everything!" Marine in Halo 3
Song: Your Rain - Silent Hill - The Room OST
05 November
"Give me a moment."
Fire
Scenario - alone in a creepy building or maze
Scenario - unwinding after a hectic day
A Picture
"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near." - Sun Tzu
12 November
Choose a Setting and a Scenario prompt from our Master Lists, and combine them into one prompt. Don't forget to note the dates of the prompts you've chosen when you post :)
Scenario - trying to find old friends and enemies (like running a Google search on high school names or an ex).
Not everyone likes the good guys.
Monsters in my (your) (our) (their) processors.
Public display of disaffection.
Scenario: visiting a place you haven't been for a very long time.
26 November
Crossing Boundaries
Crushed underfoot
If you ever leave me...
See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - George Washington
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." - Sun Tzu
03 December
Theme day: genre
Romance/Romantic comedy
Horror/Gothic
Action
Angst/ Hurt/comfort
(For an extra challenge, though it's not required, see if you can write all four genres with the same characters.)
10 December
Scenario - a scientific discovery
Time travel
Experimenting with energon
Investigating a black hole
17 December
Winter on an alien world.
Absolute Zero.
This image.
Snowflake.
*
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As before, they're arranged in date order, with a link to that day's stats post.
5 January
New Beginning
Running out of time
Envy
Odds of a million to one
Scenario - in solitary confinement
This image
8 January
Song:
Hell Frozen Rain - Silent Hill Shattered Memories OST
Master List Prompt
Setting - a very long way from home
"You call it ‘mistake’, I call it 'happy coincidence'."
Disillusioned
Setting - Someone else's room at midnight
12 January
Breakout
Duality
Coercion
Confusion
Setting - A collapsed building
Scenario - trying to unwind
15 January
Song: David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
Song: Milow - Ayo Technology
Bewilderment
Scenario - the moment of betrayal
Leaving it all to chance
Setting - on the roof of a high building
19 January
Master List Prompt
Follow You Home, by Nickelback
Disconnected
Running out of time (which was accidentally reposted from a few weeks back, sorry about that!)
Scenario: getting ready for a date
Interrogation
22 January
Master List Prompt
Too much talking
"My relationship to you can only be defined as masochistic."
Scenario - seeking oblivion
Firepower
Song: R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
26 January
Forgiven
Setting - the moon of a gas giant
"Has anyone seen the head?"
Scenario - trying to escape the past
Setting - An electrical storm
Secrets and lies
29 January
Being late
Malfunction
Scenario - taking the credit for someone else’s work
Scenario - planning a celebration
Altitude
Scenario - settling in to a new home
2 February
Master List Prompt
Scenario - forgetting an important celebration
Scenario - trying to unmask a traitor
Scenario - Where: A dark street (on Cybertron or Earth), Time: Night, What: Let's bounce!
Setting - Earth’s Moon during a solar eclipse
Indestructible, by Disturbed
5 February
Master List Prompt
Sinister
Song: Shawn Mullins - Light You Up
Symbolism
"Strange how things turned out."
Song: Breaking Benjamin - Fade Away
9 February (this is when we switched to one prompt only for most Wednesdays)
Setting - Hidden in the enemy base
12 February
Sociability
Life
Scenario - making the world a better place, one small step at a time
Implications
This image
Master List Prompt
19 February
Blackout
Firewall
Comeback
Purity
Setting - the bottom of the a deep ocean trench (any world, any ocean)
Song: Linkin’ Park - In the End
23 February
Scenario: Aftermath of a defeat
26 February
Task: Communication link sex, AKA TF phone sex. Write a scene where two (or more) characters interact in an erotic way via any communications link, without being able to touch each other.
"Let me guess. I got drunk, you were drunk, I fucked you, and now you want to kill me, right?"
A video
PWP aka “Porn without Plot” aka “Plot? What Plot?” Write a single smut scene without intro or outro, just the act - That’s all required.
5 March
Master list prompt
Water
No future
Win
Scenario - getting discovered doing something truly embarrassing
Song: Flaw, Only the Strong
12 March
Waste
Validation
Scenario - a practical joke gone wrong
"You’re only in trouble if you get caught."
Setting - In a banned location
An image
19 March
Master List Prompt
"Kiss me!"
Smirk
Setting - The last day of vacation
Scenario: during an air raid
Song: Evil Angel by Breaking Benjamin
26 March
Theme: death
"Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time." - Susan Cheever
Song: Jen Titus - Oh Death
A Picture
Tarot Card: Death
2 April
Scenario - trying to apologise
Scenario - getting petty revenge
Setting - hostage situation
Skillet, The Older I get
Wish
Master List prompt
9 April
Nickleback - Rockstar
David Bowie - Big Brother
Change
Mirror Image
Terminal Glitch
A Picture
16 April
Sponge
Thea Gilmore - The List
Master list prompt
Cosiness
Cat's-paw
Linkin Park - Iridescent
23 April
Theme: Hitchcock
Vertigo
“There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.” - Alfred Hitchcock
This image
Task - Use the Dolly Zoom in fanfiction, and use it to bring across an impact (on a mind) as well as the queasy feeling it causes.
7 May
Update
Volcano
Scenario - seeking acceptance
Setting - an arroyo (any world, any desert)
Song: Disturbed: Intoxication
Master List prompt
14 May
No man's land
Comet's impact
Song: Lisa Hannigan - I don’t know
This image (WARNING for arachnaphobes, shows a spider with a nest of newly hatched young)
"It's just cosmetic"
Scenario - taking time out to enjoy the little things
21 May
Sinkhole
Too much time on my hands
Cliffhanger
Zero Hour
Eavesdropping
A Picture
28 May
Theme day: quotes attributed to Oscar Wilde.
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
03 and 04 June
Botcon Event Stunticon Theme Day Prompts:
Song: Canned Heat - On the Road Again
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical." - Jim Morrison
This image
Saturday prompts:
Consolation
Song: As Lovers Go - Dashboard Confessional
Setting - broken washracks
This image (dead link)
11 June
Placebo - Song to Say Goodbye
Border crossing
Master List Prompt
Setting: A forest of any matter
An unlikely ___________ (fill in this blank with any noun: hero, lover, enemy, ally, etc)
This image
18 June
You and whose army
Freedom
Undead
Rats leaving a sinking ship
In the brig
The immediate aftermath of victory
25 June
Talkative
Scenario - in a situation where at least one character feels completely out of their depth.
Lazy
Master List Prompt
Shellshock
Beginning: "At that time of the night...."
2 July
Song: The Heavy - Short Change Hero
Forbidden delights
Living on the edge
Setting: up against a bulkhead
Beginning: This isn't how it was supposed to turn out...
This image
9 July
Song: Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
"Was it meant to do that?"
Master List Prompt
"I think we're just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that." (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Lights out
Scenario: One character has a nightmare or bad dream.
16 July
Theme day: MacGuffins
Key to Vector Sigma
The AllSpark
Golden Disk
The Magnificence
23 July
Oath
"If at first you don't succeed... cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie."
Following a Timetable
Task - Write a scene in the life of a character with a serious psychological problem, and how those surrounding him/her react to it - and make this as plausible as possible.
Song: Wretches and Kings by Linkin Park
Condemned
30 July
"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. (Modified from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.)
Mamihlapinatapai
A Picture
Decepticon
Master List Prompt
06 August
Incapacitated
Vacation
The definition of family
Scenario - Saying goodbye
Coming undone
Setting - underground in a confined space
13 August
Daze
Scenario: late for an important meeting
Setting: medbay during a lull
Confession
Song: Echoing Green “Supernova”
Task: AU! Write your favorite characters in an AU setting: it could be Shattered Glass or turned into animals or sex slaves or before the war after it, or femmes secretly rule Cybertron or they're all pirates or fighting zombies or… whatever. But you know you have one! Show us what happens when you throw canon to the winds!
20 August
One of these days I'm gonna live dangerously and grab that thing!
Song: Poets of the Fall - Locking Up the Sun
Master List Prompt
"Afterism(n) -- A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late." -- John Alexander Thom
Scenario - seeking forgiveness
Dread
27 August
"No. You're wrong. Completely, utterly, and always wrong."
"You know that thing you do where you open your mouth and sound comes out? Yeah... That's gotta stop."
Master List Prompt
The definition of family or another Master List Prompt
“I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.” -Tom Waits
Getting out of dodge
03 September
Just walking away
Scenario: in a bar at closing time
Beginning: "Last night I dreamed...."
"Revenge is a dish best served cold." (Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan)
Defensive position
Song: Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park
10 September
Scenario - Getting to know a new friend
This image
A major minor detail
The best solution is to scream as loud as possible.
Scenario: Bird Watching (could be organic birds, cyber-birds or war-birds, etc.)
Master List Prompt
17 September
Scenario - unable to let go
We got our dreams reborn and our upholstry torn/But everything we tried was right ('Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are' by Meat Loaf)
Task - Write a short scene from one character's POV (could be an argument, telling a joke, fighting, being in a battle, doing something a bit more adult in nature etc.). Then re-write it from the point(s) of view of the other character(s) involved. Use a minimum of two characters.
Scenario - receiving undue praise
And nothing fuels a good flirtation/Like need and anger and desperation... ('The Moth' by Aimmee Mann)
Addiction
24 September
Late for pickup
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" Apocalypse Now Here's the clip.)
"Watch, don't touch."
Scenario: Watching TV
Setting: a training exercise
Master List Prompt
01 October
Song: Skillet - Whispers In The Dark
A Picture
Task - Write about a canon character’s death from the POV of another character. Plus points keeping it least emotional.
Fizz
Checkpoint
Argument
08 October
'Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.' Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.' Niccolo Machiavelli
'A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.' Ingrid Bergman
'A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.' John D. Rockefeller
'The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.' Lyn Nofziger
Master List Prompt
15 October
Misanthropy
Obedience
No respect
Scenario - coping with change
"Now that's entertainment."
Song: Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
22 October
Deadline
Lying in wait
Setting: Midday in a desert
Sublime
Scenario: ordering a drink in a bar
Song: Tears for Fears - Shout
29 October
"Through avarice, evil smiles; through insanity, it sings."- Anon (as quoted from Resident Evil: Caliban Cove by S.D. Perry)
"Didn’t we have some fun though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said ‘Goodbye’ and you were like ‘NO WAY!’ and then I was all ‘We pretended we were going to murder you’? That was great." GLadOS in Portal
"War. War never changes." Fallout
"Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your &@&&@#& TEA!" Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy VII
"Tank beats ghost. Tank beats hunter. Tank beats everything!" Marine in Halo 3
Song: Your Rain - Silent Hill - The Room OST
05 November
"Give me a moment."
Fire
Scenario - alone in a creepy building or maze
Scenario - unwinding after a hectic day
A Picture
"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near." - Sun Tzu
12 November
Choose a Setting and a Scenario prompt from our Master Lists, and combine them into one prompt. Don't forget to note the dates of the prompts you've chosen when you post :)
Scenario - trying to find old friends and enemies (like running a Google search on high school names or an ex).
Not everyone likes the good guys.
Monsters in my (your) (our) (their) processors.
Public display of disaffection.
Scenario: visiting a place you haven't been for a very long time.
26 November
Crossing Boundaries
Crushed underfoot
If you ever leave me...
See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - George Washington
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." - Sun Tzu
03 December
Theme day: genre
Romance/Romantic comedy
Horror/Gothic
Action
Angst/ Hurt/comfort
(For an extra challenge, though it's not required, see if you can write all four genres with the same characters.)
10 December
Scenario - a scientific discovery
Time travel
Experimenting with energon
Investigating a black hole
17 December
Winter on an alien world.
Absolute Zero.
This image.
Snowflake.
*
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