Character Sheet


Stress
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Office Stress
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XP
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Matsura Asuka
Head Designer for Ohara Airworks
Age 24 (Legally 25)
Year 12 AF (After Flight)


Design Stats
Aerodynamics Engineering - +2
Structural Engineering - +2
Chemical Engineering - +1
Mechanical Engineering - +1
Ballistics Engineering - +1
Electrical Engineering - 0

Personal/Political Stats
Social Skills - 0
Politics Skills - 0
Importance - 2
Income - 1
Investments - Ohara

Resources
Power - 0
Wealth - 2

Designs
Type 1 Series - Military Variation (Designated T1M1)
Type 2 Racer (World Speed Record October 1910-April 1911, 180kph)
Model 2 Scout (Designated T1M2)
Navy Scout Prototype (Drowned Rat)
Dive Bomber B1M1 "Duck"
Machine Gun Carrier R1A "Dragonfly" (World Speed Record May-July 1911, 200kph)
Naval Rescue Water-Landing Supply Plane NR1M0 "Dolphin" (World speed record 240kph)
Rhino Demon Train Hunter
The world's first airliner
The world's first pulsejet airplane

Assets
Slide Rule
Computator (1 Reroll per Routine)

Languages
Albian
Gallian

Familiar Vices
Drinking
Prostitutes
Dancing

Family Life
- Engaged to Arita Yachi, formerly the leading Ace in the Imperial Army. Designated #1 Cutest Army Boy, he's having some serious problems with PTSD right now.
- Taking a second try at dating Mikami Kiho, ex-dockerwork from the south.

Upgrades
- 3 XP to upgrade a stat.

Ohara Airworks
Start Up, Imperial Capital, Akitsukuni

Owner
- Mr. Ohara, Rich. Aircraft Enthusiast. Business guy.

Engineers

Kibe Koume, 26, Office Manager
Tiny & angry, Kibe went to school in Albia, picking up the language, the religion, and a fuckload of swear words. Speaks Albian.
Mechanical +2, Ballistics +1
Office Manager: If Kibe is not assigned to a team, the Office Stress is reduced by 1.

Sakane Jun, 26, Second Team Leader
A soured patriot, Sakane is married and has a young child being raised gender-neutrally. His two brothers who fought in the war.
Structural +2, Aerodynamics +1
Team Leader: If there are any additional projects, Sakane will lead them.
Joinery: Sakane has training in the traditional Akitsukuni carpentry art of joinery, creating complex self-supporting joints with no fasteners or glue. When working with non-monocoque wooden spars or ribs, +1 Structural.

Tezuka Kenji, ???
A stoner with occasional flashes of insight. Nobody really knows what he does, but he's probably useful?
Aerodynamics +2, Chemical +1
Flashes of Brilliance: Each natural 10 rolled by any team Tezuka is assigned to gives +1 forward to the next research roll.

Hasegawa Morio, 26
A hopeless nerd with a photography habit, mostly on account of developing his own film, Hasegawa seems to do nothing but work and stack card houses, but somehow has an incredible attractive boyfriend. Speaks Gallian.
Chemical +2, Ballistic +1
Silent Workhorse: Hasegawa can work on two different projects at once for no cost to Office Stress, providing they use different stats.

Kawamura Yosai, 25.
Serially successful womanizer and incredibly attractive, Kawamura doesn't seem to have much of a personality outside of seducing women. Well, except for that time he seduced Asuka, which nobody talks about. Speaks Dyske.
Structural +2, Electrical +1, Social +1
Easily Distracted: If Kawamura is working on the same team as a female or non-binary employee, the team is at -1d10.

Koide Hatsu, 24.
One of the few female graduates of an Akitsukuni engineering school, Koide is brilliant and incredibly driven, but her first job at Akibara was both humiliating and exposed her to an abusive coworker. Her father is a rich businessman with factories in Joseon, and she's engaged to Ken from Castles of Steel. Speaks Joseon.
Mechanical +2, Structural +1
No Sleep: If you let her, Koide will work herself to death. She can work a second project for no Office Stress, but all her stats will be reduced to 1 for the routine.

Kobayashi Ayao, ???
Disowned heiress of the Kobayashi family, all Kobayashi wanted was a career and to be a modern woman. For her trouble, a cousin threw acid on her, scarring her face, neck, much of her torso, and her left arm. Despite appearing serene and above it all, she's actually an avowed communist activist and baseball player.
Aerodynamics +2, Social +2

Adachi Ren, 24
Adachi learned chemistry from her father, one of the most famous chemical engineers in the country, rather than through formal schooling. She's married, has a kid, and takes spirituality very seriously. Yes, you did the math right, she had Yuki when she was 17. It's 1912, folks.
Chemical +2, Electrical +1
Young Mother: Adachi will cause double Office Stress if she has to work multiple tasks.

Uyeno Sei, Ballistics Engineer, 31.
The oldest member of the crew, this is Uyeno's second career. Her first was as an officer in the Imperial Navy with specialized technical training: her very promising career was cut short by her transition. Her work in a naval arsenal on machine-guns landed her the job here. Briefly dated Satomi (the age range is a bit creepy but again, 1912), she's missing a piece of her ear and is deaf on that side, from an exploding cannon. Recently returned from Varnmark from experimental surgery, she's known for her skill navigating gendered bureaucracy.
Ballistic +3

Mi Kyung-Jae, 23
A recent graduate of the Imperial College of Heijo, Mi is from the recently annexed territory of Joseon. For those keeping track at home, that means he's a Korean national living in Imperial Japan in 1912. We haven't seen much of his personality because he's rightfully terrified of everything around him. He has a specialty in endurance engine design and modification. Speaks Joseon.
Mechanical +1, Chemical +1
Endurance Engines: Mi has an excellent understanding of metallurgy and tolerances. Any engine he works on gains +1 Reliability if a 16+ is rolled.
Pulsejet Wizard: Mi is now one of the world's leading experts on the pulsejet engine. He can be given his own project to custom-craft pulsejet engines, and he gives +1 to any pulsejet-related project.
Joseon National: Mi does not have security clearance to work on any top-secret projects.

Miyoshi Shigeri, 23.
A non-binary person and admirer of Asuka's work, they were in an support role in the Army before joining the company.
Structural +1, Mechanical +1, Aerodynamic +1
Mechanic: Miyoshi has some experience repairing and refurbishing aircraft. They get +1 if assigned on the clean-up phase.


Other Employees
- Ohara Satomi, 22, Mr. Ohara's niece and the company test pilot, Ohara is a general lesbian disaster. She's good at flying planes, driving cars, and kissing girls. She's bad at being patient, being respectable, and sticking to literally anyones conceptions of gender roles. Deeply in lesbians with Coralie D'Amboise.
- Fujkikawa Sotatsu, old, modelmaker. He's an old man and toymaker and we don't see much of him because he locks himself in his workshop a lot. He's friends with Kawamura?

Assets
- Engine Test Rig (Allows engine tweaking and optimization.
- Wind Tunnel (+1 Aerodynamics)
- Rapid Prototype Lab (+1 Clean Up)
Expanded Cast

Akitsukuni Industry
- Homura Mohoko: Head Engine Designer for Kobayashi. First female engineer in the country. A lot of sex appeal.
- Okumura: Head of Akibara aircraft design.
- Yamanaka Hajime: Kobayashi engineer. Young and eager.
- Igarashi Masazumi: Kobayashi engineer. Reserved and experienced.
- Admiral Akibara Toru: Imperial Navy Admiral. Maximum nepotism. Maximum douchebag.
- Lt.Cmnd Akibara Shinzo: The above's son. A hottie but very forward.



Character Families
- Matsura(?) Mizuko: Asuka's sister. Was paralyzed in an accident in Asuka's first flight. Lives Elsewhere and is married now. Can't forgive Asuka, even though she's tried.
- Adachi Motoki: Adachi's husband, an accountant. Legally blind.
- Adachi Yuki: Adachi's 7 year old daughter and wannabe pilot. Very adorable.
- Yachi's Brother: Exists.
- Sakane's Wife: Exists. Drives him a bit crazy, but he loves her.
- Yachi's Brother's Wife: Exists. Is statistically likely to be pregnant.
- Lt. Coralie D'Amboise: Gallian pilot in exile. Satomi's girlfriend. 25. Accomplished bisexual duelist. She flew in the war for a single day, and for her troubles got a hole blown in her cheek and had her left arm paralyzed.

Akisukuni Army & Ex-Army
- Lt. Torio Tanaka: Yachi's former observer as an enlisted man. Was jumped up to fly Ducks and lost a leg on his first mission. A trained painter, married to Torio Saya.
- Captain Amari Shiro: A Dragonfly pilot who ended up flying as Yachi's partner. Kind of delightfully twinky. They sorta slept together at one point, which wasn't great. He lost his previous boyfriend in the April Offensive and turned his plane into a shrine. He was shot in the gut and is still recovering.
- Major Izuhara: Logistics officer, Imperial Army, this bespectled officer stood up to the Caspian Crown Prince and accidentally kicked off the Akitsikuni-Caspian War. The guilt was so much that, after almost a year of running Army procurement, he shot himself in a phone both.
- Captain Nakai Sekien: Army scout pilot. First person to drop a bomb from an airplane, later head of the Duck Squadrons.
- Captain Teshima: A Desk pilot that fought with Yachi. Lost an arm in the process, took over for Major Izuhara after his death. Seems cheery despite it all.
- Captain Nashio: A real piece of shit dude and probably a rapist, he's also a war hero as the second-highest scoring ace on the Akitsukuni side. He was a young shitty kid in way over his head but it's no excuse.
- Lt. Kinjo: Kind of a dumb lump and Nashio's friend, one of the desk pilots. Dead at 19.
- Lt. Okazaki: Yachi's friend from before the war and pilot, he died in a spin in his dragonfly. His death probably hit Yachi the hardest.

Westerners
- Rose & Antoinette Sears: Pioneers of flight. Sisters. Black in 1910s not!America. Yikes.
- Timina Guasti: Famous aircraft designer from Otrusia. Likes big planes and green.
- Prince Protasov Vasilyevich: Crown Prince of Great Caspia. Real dick. You gotta hand it to him though, a decent flier.
- Count von Zeppelin: Invented rigid airships. Runs a successful airline business. Damned impressive.
- Bennhold: Aircraft Engineer. Experimenting with metal aircraft.
- Aileen Middlemiss: Albian reporter for the Artimis Times. Well meaning and oblivious.
Available Tech
  • Materials: Wood, Duralumin, Molded Wood, Wood & Silk Composite, etc
  • All engine mounts
  • All wing types
  • Basic reinforcement
  • Wing warping and ailerons
  • Basic water radiators
  • Flying Wings
  • Semi-Monocoque design (requires at least half the slots have frame pieces)
  • Valved pulsejets
  • Basic weapon mounts and turrets
Tech not Yet Developed
  • Custom engines
  • Monocoque construction
  • Cantilever Wings and associated tech
  • V and T tails
  • Tailless designs
  • Aluminum and titanium
  • Cellulose surfacing
  • Any kind of radar
  • Weapon accessability mods
  • Interruptor gear
  • Geared propellers
  • And Maybe Other Stuff
Akitsukuni
Island Nation

Government
Constitutional Monarchy
- The democratic portions of the government are dubiously legitimate.
- The head of state is the Empress of Akitsukuni. She gives her blessing to newly formed governments.
- The Navy and a small number of families have undue influence on politics.

Economy
Developing Mixed Market
- Most industry is controlled by a small number of wealthy, family-owned companies.
- The state provides most contracts to industry. Consumer good market is anemic.
- Exports are few, mostly cultural.
- Imports are raw minerals, food, oil, and expertise.
- Currently suffering an economic crash after the last war.

Politics
The Diet is currently ruled by a Constitutional Nationalist government. It has a system of nonlocal proportional representation, with representatives appointed by the party in accordance to their share of the vote.
- Constitutional Nationalists: 50%
- Purity Club: 9%
- New Independents: 26%
- Fairness Association: 11%
- United Communist League: 2%
- Monarchists: 1%
- Assorted Fringe Parties: 5%

Demographics
Akitsukuni is mostly very ethnically homogeneous. Around 5% of the population are various minorities, most from nearby countries. Roughly .1% are westerners here for business or in advisory positions.
- Population: 55 Million
- Religion: Mostly Kodo. Roughly 2% of the population follows western religions.
- Wealth: Most wealth is concentrated in the top 5% of the country. Nearly 20% of the population lives in conditions indistinguishable from peasantry.
- Urbanization: Heavily urbanized for a small economy: 35% and rapidly growing.

Military
At Peace
- Imperial Akitsukuni Navy (IAN): The 6th largest in the world, and the most experienced.
- Imperial Akitsukuni Army (IAA): 150,000 highly experienced soldiers, and a considerable reserve.

Aspects
- Poor Resources: Aluminum costs +1.
- Damn Akitsukuni Engines!: Engines have -1 Reliability.



The Main Character Of This Quest Is Nonbinary And Uses They/Them Pronouns.

I Am Putting This Here Because The Next Person To Misgender Them Is Getting Yeeted Into The Trash


Also here's the Gayaverse TV Tropes page, because why not.
 
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I uh, am not actually totally sure that everyone was happy with 25mm. It really seemed to me like there were serious desires to get the 20mm. I wasn't intending to get the vote closed, just to prompt people to post plans if they had strong opinions.
 
I uh, am not actually totally sure that everyone was happy with 25mm. It really seemed to me like there were serious desires to get the 20mm. I wasn't intending to get the vote closed, just to prompt people to post plans if they had strong opinions.
Fair enough.

Tell y'all what. I'll write an update featuring the fallout of the Yachi letter, which... is gonna be rough, then we'll set up to start submitting designs?
 
Just to remind people who are going by the doc alone, we have had tests in the text. In those the 25mm had slightly better penetration than the 20mm and the default clip feed on the 20mm caused a miss on the preferred target zone even with a static gun and static loco. Designing a belt feed will take time and add cost. The 20mm cannon themselves will have to be made which is a potential production bottleneck wheras the army has the 25mm in stock so 25mm armed planes can be in service faster and cheaper.
 
Right because nobody else is doing it I'm going to make a vote:

[x] Plan Sleek and Speedy
- 2x Hobgoblin
- 1x 20mm, to be modified for belt feed
- 1x MMG for tailgunner position

I really don't believe that the 25mm got better penetration, it was being used on a target that had already been damaged. That's not really a representative test. I'm going to go off of the doc unless @open_sketchbook says to do otherwise, and the doc says it's got better armor penetration. The 25mm's best quality is the fact that it doesn't need to be modified for beltfeed, but I don't really think this is that big of a deal and the massive drag is something I'm paranoid about.

I don't want to deal with radiators, even though I really want the extra power.

I guess we'll find out if there's anyone who actually wants the 20mm.
 
[X] Plan Drake's Teeth
-[X] Single 25mm mechanical gun mounted in the nose
--[X] Driven by mechanical connection to engine if possible.
-[X] No machine guns

[x] Plan: Give 'Em an Inch

[X] 2x Hobgoblin Semi-Radial: This retooled Goblin Engine, running a 100 horsepower, is almost the same beast with some mechanical changes for more power, at the cost of reliability. 4 Mass, 4 Drag, Thrust 4, Cost 5, Reliability -4, 9 Fuel per Tank.
Adhoc vote count started by brmj on Dec 23, 2018 at 12:19 PM, finished with 11660 posts and 19 votes.

  • [X] Pry. Ask him what is happening directly. Tell him he had a duty to let you know what was happening.
    [x] Plan Sleek and Speedy
    [X] Send a more reassuring letter. Respect his apparent desire for distance. (+1 Stress)
    [x] Hobgoblin Semi-Radial: This retooled Goblin Engine, running a 100 horsepower, is almost the same beast with some mechanical changes for more power, at the cost of reliability. 4 Mass, 4 Drag, Thrust 4, Cost 5, Reliability -4, 9 Fuel per Tank.
    [X] Plan Drake's Teeth
    -[X] Single 25mm mechanical gun mounted in the nose
    --[X] Driven by mechanical connection to engine if possible.
    -[X] No machine guns
    [x] Plan: Give 'Em an Inch
    -[x] Mechanical gun in a forward facing fixed nose mount
    --[x] 25mm rotary with electric motor
    -[x] MMG on turret mount for rear and side arcs
    [X] 2x Hobgoblin Semi-Radial: This retooled Goblin Engine, running a 100 horsepower, is almost the same beast with some mechanical changes for more power, at the cost of reliability. 4 Mass, 4 Drag, Thrust 4, Cost 5, Reliability -4, 9 Fuel per Tank.
 
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[x] Plan: Give 'Em an Inch
[x] Plan Drake's Teeth
 
Keep in mind everyone that the 20mm is quite unreliable, and modifying it to take a belt will tricky if we can even do it at all with our only guns person in Vanmark for the immediate future.

Depending on which set of numbers one believes and whether or not you hold down the trigger, the 20mm has a chance of jamming between 19% and 38.5875% every time you fire it. That's pretty awful.

People are talking about a belt feed as if it is a done deal. It is not. It is a research roll in a subject our team is even weaker in right now than it has generally been in the past. Even if we do get it, the belt feed modification for the light cannon, as written in the weapons document, does a lot to make the 20mm less competitive.

  Cost Mass Drag
20mm 5 6 1
20mm belt fed 8 6 2
25mm 3 5 3
25mm covered + accessible 5 6 0
37mm 7 10 2
See that? Suddenly it doesn't look so good, does it? If you think a 37mm is too expensive, well, so is a belt fed 20mm. If you think a 25mm has too much drag, well, covering it and paying for accessibility is still no heavier or more expensive than an unmodified 20mm. And for anyone worried about powering the 25mm, let me remind you that we were very specifically told that a good enough description of how it works would let us power it mechanically for free. No additional costs, no research roll.
 
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Keep in mind everyone that the 20mm is quite unreliable, and modifying it to take a belt will tricky if we can even do it at all with our only guns person in Vanmark for the immediate future.

Depending on which set of numbers one believes and whether or not you hold down the trigger, the 20mm has a chance of jamming between 19% and 38.5875% every time you fire it. That's pretty awful.

People are talking about a belt feed as if it is a done deal. It is not. It is a research roll in a subject our team is even weaker in right now than it has generally been in the past. Even if we do get it, the belt feed modification for the light cannon, as written in the weapons document, does a lot to make the 20mm less competitive.

  Cost Mass Drag
20mm 5 6 1
20mm belt fed 8 6 2
25mm 3 5 3
25mm covered + accessible 5 6 0
37mm 7 10 2
See that? Suddenly it doesn't look so good, does it? If you think a 37mm is too expensive, well, so is a belt fed 20mm. If you think a 25mm has too much drag, well, covering it and paying for accessibility is still no heavier or more expensive than an unmodified 20mm.

I'm in agreement with your conclusions and so would suggest you throw in an approval vote for the other 25mm plan - we can always remove the tail gun later if it doesn't work out to be a good inclusion.
 
I'm in agreement with your conclusions and so would suggest you throw in an approval vote for the other 25mm plan - we can always remove the tail gun later if it doesn't work out to be a good inclusion.

Done. For some reason the tally script doesn't seem to be counting it right, unfortunately. Votes need to be manually combined to get it to work properly. Something to be aware of.
Adhoc vote count started by brmj on Dec 23, 2018 at 12:34 PM, finished with 11662 posts and 19 votes.

  • [X] Pry. Ask him what is happening directly. Tell him he had a duty to let you know what was happening. (Social Roll)
    [x] Plan Sleek and Speedy
    [x] Plan: Give 'Em an Inch
    -[x] Mechanical gun in a forward facing fixed nose mount
    --[x] 25mm rotary with electric motor
    -[x] MMG on turret mount for rear and side arcs
    [X] Send a more reassuring letter. Respect his apparent desire for distance. (+1 Stress)
    [x] Hobgoblin Semi-Radial: This retooled Goblin Engine, running a 100 horsepower, is almost the same beast with some mechanical changes for more power, at the cost of reliability. 4 Mass, 4 Drag, Thrust 4, Cost 5, Reliability -4, 9 Fuel per Tank.
    [X] Plan Drake's Teeth
    -[X] Single 25mm mechanical gun mounted in the nose
    --[X] Driven by mechanical connection to engine if possible.
    -[X] No machine guns
    [X] 2x Hobgoblin Semi-Radial: This retooled Goblin Engine, running a 100 horsepower, is almost the same beast with some mechanical changes for more power, at the cost of reliability. 4 Mass, 4 Drag, Thrust 4, Cost 5, Reliability -4, 9 Fuel per Tank.
 
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@Arbit @noliar @Rat King @Himmelhand @Night_stalker want to approval vote the other 25mm plan?

20mm people: in light of the information I provided and the cost of the belt feed in particular, why do you want this? What does it gain over the 25mm that you think makes it worthwhile?

Well I misdid some math with regard to drag somehow, so there is that problem.

But leaving that aside, the 25mm needs to account for the drive mechanism as well. Unless the gun already incorporates it on the sheet, which isn't clear to me.

If you make a mechanical linkage to the engine, unless I'm very confused, I would expect @open_sketchbook to have us do a research roll for it which is probably just as hard as coming up with a belt-feed conversion. The result is probably going to increase weight and cost, though how much is dependent on how shitty the roll is.

The alternative is to go for a dynamo, but we know that dynamos are at least 1 mass and probably cost at least 1, if not more. That puts the 25mm at minimum, fully covered and accessible, at 7 Mass and 6 Cost with 0 drag. If we need more than one dynamo, then the cost and mass go up. That's certainly not a bad choice, and your point about the reliability is very valid, but it's not obviously better either.

@open_sketchbook can you confirm if the 25mm Mechanical Gun on the sheet you linked includes the mass of the drive mechanism?
 
Well I misdid some math with regard to drag somehow, so there is that problem.

But leaving that aside, the 25mm needs to account for the drive mechanism as well. Unless the gun already incorporates it on the sheet, which isn't clear to me.

If you make a mechanical linkage to the engine, unless I'm very confused, I would expect @open_sketchbook to have us do a research roll for it which is probably just as hard as coming up with a belt-feed conversion. The result is probably going to increase weight and cost, though how much is dependent on how shitty the roll is.

The alternative is to go for a dynamo, but we know that dynamos are at least 1 mass and probably cost at least 1, if not more. That puts the 25mm at minimum, fully covered and accessible, at 7 Mass and 6 Cost with 0 drag. If we need more than one dynamo, then the cost and mass go up. That's certainly not a bad choice, and your point about the reliability is very valid, but it's not obviously better either.

@open_sketchbook can you confirm if the 25mm Mechanical Gun on the sheet you linked includes the mass of the drive mechanism?
See the following exchange:
I'm gonna say that it is not intuitively obvious that you can sync the action of the mechanical gun such that rounds can pass between propeller blades, especially because that would require some pretty precise gear stepping. So there will be a research roll involved there.

Okay, fair. That still puts it no worse off than the other ones, and we can always do another pusher design. While you're commenting on this stuff: CB was assuming there's an additional cost just to get it hooked up to the engine at all so it can be fired without manually turning the crank. Is that true, or are all such costs built in to what it costs by default?

I'll let you have that for free and make you pay for it by describing the engineering that makes it work in horrifying detail.

I and several other people went on to describe the mechanism in horrifying detail. @Shadows even figured out a synchronized version. At this point, I could probably design and 3D print a simple prototype of the mechanism in a couple days.
 
In my sheets I've represented the electric motor as a second dynamo - simple!

The two engine and rear machine gun is the layout that won the layout vote and I think we should pursue it further rather than switch away from it at the very next stage.
 
I and several other people went on to describe the mechanism in horrifying detail. @Shadows even figured out a synchronized version. At this point, I could probably design and 3D print a simple prototype of the mechanism in a couple days.

Ah, well, I had forgotten about that. @open_sketchbook never explicitly confirmed that you'd done enough, I don't think, but it's probably close enough to be workable.

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And I'm reliably informed that every time we turn the engine on, the divorce rate goes up a minuscule amount. I can't wait until we reach true industrial produce, so we can really start making use of all the love & trust lying around.

Alternatively: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic AU of Plane Design Quest?
 
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