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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Ashua is a savvy street punk who's been through a lot of scraps and adventures in her young life, but when she sees Bess and Jez in battle she notes that she's the Ketty Jay's 3rd most dangerous female.
* ArmourIsUseless: Averted. The Ketty Jay only has a single autocannon and a mediocre gunner in Malvery, but can still swat down enemy fighters because it has so much armour that it can tank anything short of an autocannon round. Likewise, characters who have armour such as Bess and the Century Knights, can really take hits.


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* GatlingGood: During a heist against an armoured train, the Ketty Jay crew were given [[CoolCar 3 Rattletraps, which were armoured dune buggies with gatling guns]]. The Rattletrap's gatling guns enabled the crew to successfully raid the train.


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* TheJuggernaut: Whenever Bess takes to action, expect steel walls to be ripped open and scores of enemies torn to bits while Bess walks through a hail of bullets. Then there's an actual Juggernaut that shows up in ''Iron Jackal'', this is a Godzilla-sized bio-mechanical monster that [[BreathWeapon can breath out]] [[WaveMotionCannon a colossal heat ray that tears through city blocks and contemporary armies.]]
* LostTechnology: The Azryx are a disappeared people that have technology that's centuries or millenniums ahead of their modern-day descendants. This includes making cities out of ceramic and laser-shooting bio-tech monsters.
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* ActionGirl: Jez. Samandra Bree. Trinica Dracken.

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* ActionGirl: Jez. Jez and Samandra Bree. Bree are incredible combatants. To a much lesser extent, Trinica Dracken.Dracken who is willing to throw down in a gunfight but is acknowledged as just competent in battle. Later when Ashua makes her appearance, she gave a good fight to Frey and is an expert at combat driving.



* CurbStompBattle: The Manes are a race of undead super-human creatures known for killing everything in their path without exception. In the second book, a legion of them comes across a handful of Century Knights. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Manes never stood a chance.]]

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* CurbStompBattle: The Manes are a race of undead super-human creatures known for killing everything in their path without exception. In the second book, a legion of them comes across a handful of Century Knights.Knights with Bess and the Ketty Jay crew. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Manes never stood a chance.]]

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* CoolSword: The enchanted cutlass that Crake gives to Frey in order to pay for his passage on the Ketty Jay.

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* CoolSword: The enchanted cutlass that Crake gives to Frey in order to pay for his passage on the Ketty Jay. It's possessed by a tame demon that makes the cutlass [[AbsurdlySharpBlade cut through anything]] and fight on its own - to the point of catching bullets.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: The Awakeners preach against demonists and often kill them on sight. However it turns out their Imperators are really members who are demonically possessed to get supernatural powers and the Awakeners used early demonist lore to create them.


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* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Jez doesn't look like much, but with her superhuman strength and senses, she's easily the deadliest fighter in the crew after Bess the Golem.
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* {{BFG}}: Century Knight, Colden Grudge is a very big man. Big enough to carry a ship's autocannon as his main gun.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Century Knights are clearly this. They are an law-keeping organization whose each member has a very specific appearance and who all seem to embody the general feel of a pulp adventurer.
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''Tales of the Ketty Jay'' is a series of [[ScienceFantasy sci-fi fantasy]] books by Chris Wooding which focuses on an aircraft called the Ketty Jay, owned and piloted by Darian Frey, and her [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag crew.]]

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''Tales of the Ketty Jay'' is a series of four [[ScienceFantasy sci-fi fantasy]] books by Chris Wooding which focuses on an aircraft called the Ketty Jay, owned and piloted by Darian Frey, and her [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag crew.]]



The series plays in a well-established toolbox and doesn't add much (apart from psychological depth), but is damn good fun. Three books, "Retribution Falls" and "The Black Lung Captain" and "The Iron Jackal" have been published, and a fourth book "The Ace of Skulls" is on the way.

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The series plays in a well-established toolbox and doesn't add much (apart from psychological depth), but is damn good fun. Three books, "Retribution Falls" The series is now concluded, and "The consists of four books: ''Retribution Falls'', ''The Black Lung Captain" and "The Captain'', ''The Iron Jackal" have been published, Jackal'', and a fourth book "The ''The Ace of Skulls" is on the way.
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* PerpetualStorm: The Wrack, a permanent belt of storms which starts at the North Pole where the eldritch Manes live, and runs across a large segment of ocean. Only recently has anyone found way past to the lands beyond.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The captain is a drug addict with commitment issues, the medic is an alcoholic SadClown, the mechanic is an escaped slave, the wingmen are a delusional fantastist and a ShellShockedSenior, the MagiTek guy is wanted for manslaughter, the navigator is a HalfHumanHybrid... ''[[MisfitMobilizationMoment and you cross them]] [[CrowningmomentOfAwesome at your peril]]''.

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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The captain is a drug addict with commitment issues, the medic is an alcoholic SadClown, the mechanic is an escaped slave, the wingmen are a delusional fantastist and a ShellShockedSenior, ShellShockedVeteran, the MagiTek guy is wanted for manslaughter, the navigator is a HalfHumanHybrid... ''[[MisfitMobilizationMoment and you cross them]] [[CrowningmomentOfAwesome at your peril]]''.
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* ActionGirl: Jez.

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* ActionGirl: Jez. Samandra Bree. Trinica Dracken.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Darian Frey.
* BadassAdorable: Bess, ''hands down''. One minute she'll be tearing through an armoured ship, the next she'll be cooing and singing lullabies.


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* BerserkButton: Pinn has one when he's teased about his sweetheart supposedly waiting for him back home.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Bess is very sweet towards Crake, but she will tear men apart if she has to. Crake himself can also count.


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* BlackAndGrayMorality: Frey and his crew are definitely grey, they've all done their share of bad things, and they'll kill to avoid being killed, but they won't kill without reason. They even express shock and horror when someone is murdered in front of them for the pettiest of reasons.
** The Awakeners heavily tread the fine line between grey and black, despite being a supposedly spiritual religious faction, and the Century Knights are ultimately grey, but also the closest you'll get to white in the ''Ketty Jay'' universe.


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* FateWorseThanDeath: Arguably, Bess's situation. [[spoiler: The suit of armour actually contains the soul of Crake's niece, whom he murdered after a summoned daemon took over his body. He managed to attach her soul to the suit of armour, but she only exists in her most basic form, more like a pet than the bright and vibrant little girl she had once been.]]
** Also what happens when the Manes get a hold of you.


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* GentleGiant: Bess the Golem is a large, powerful and frightening suit of armour. But she's a total sweetheart when she's not being ordered to attack.
* HiddenDepths: The entire crew of the Ketty Jay have intricate backstories to explain how they've become who they are.


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* SharePhrase: 'Spit and blood!' is an exclamation used by almost everyone, from pirates, to upper class arisitocrats.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Trinica Dracken. [[spoilers: She was once engaged to one Darian Frey, and found out she was pregnant just before they were due to get married. Frey got cold feet and ran away, leaving Trinica at the alter. She then ends up killing their unborn child in a botched suicide attempt, and eventually runs away from home, only to end up amongst a pirate crew. They brutally raped her and treated her as nothing more than a pet until she had the courage to stab the Captain in the neck, and take over the ship for herself.]]

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* AlasPoorVillain: Trinica Dracken. [[spoilers: [[spoiler: She was once engaged to one Darian Frey, and found out she was pregnant just before they were due to get married. Frey got cold feet and ran away, leaving Trinica at the alter. She then ends up killing their unborn child in a botched suicide attempt, and eventually runs away from home, only to end up amongst a pirate crew. They brutally raped her and treated her as nothing more than a pet until she had the courage to stab the Captain in the neck, and take over the ship for herself.]]

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* ActionGirl: Jez.
* AlasPoorVillain: Trinica Dracken. [[spoilers: She was once engaged to one Darian Frey, and found out she was pregnant just before they were due to get married. Frey got cold feet and ran away, leaving Trinica at the alter. She then ends up killing their unborn child in a botched suicide attempt, and eventually runs away from home, only to end up amongst a pirate crew. They brutally raped her and treated her as nothing more than a pet until she had the courage to stab the Captain in the neck, and take over the ship for herself.]]


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* BadassCrew: The crew of the Ketty Jay, who all have their strengths and weaknesses.


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* CoolAirship: The Ketty Jay manages to be this, despite being quite an old and outdated model at the time the novel is set. Apparently she's patched together in such a haphazzard way, that only Frey can really fly her to her full potential.
** The Delerium Trigger is a more straightfoward example, although while it's very big and powerful, it's not quite as fast as the smaller fighter ships.

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Picture, for a few seconds, a tale of scallywag sky-pirates trying to survive beneath the notice of the law. A tale of {{steampunk}} airship pirates. And now that we have your attention...

''Tales of the Ketty Jay'' is a series of books by Chris Wooding which focuses on an aircraft called the Ketty Jay. We follow the ship from the arrival of Jezibeth "Jez" Kyte, the new navigator. She discovers that everyone on this ship has a reason to leave the world behind. Meanwhile, the world keeps trying to drag the crew into the schemes of the great and powerful.

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Picture, for a few seconds, a tale of scallywag sky-pirates [[SkyPirate sky pirates]] trying to survive beneath the notice of the law. A tale of {{steampunk}} airship pirates. And now that we have your attention...

''Tales of the Ketty Jay'' is a series of [[ScienceFantasy sci-fi fantasy]] books by Chris Wooding which focuses on an aircraft called the Ketty Jay. Jay, owned and piloted by Darian Frey, and her [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag crew.]]

We follow the ship from the arrival of Jezibeth "Jez" Kyte, the new navigator. She discovers that everyone on this ship has a reason to leave the world behind. Meanwhile, the world keeps trying to drag the crew into the schemes of the great and powerful.
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* AllThereinTheManual: The first book has a set of rules for the card game Rake in the back.

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* AllThereinTheManual: AllThereInTheManual: The first book has a set of rules for the card game Rake in the back.
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Picture, for a few seconds, a tale of scallywag sky-pirates trying to survive beneath the notice of the law. A tale of steampunk {{steampunk}} airship pirates. And now that we have your attention...



* ASimplePlan - the books follow a formula that begins, "the ship is hired to do a simple job for quite a lot of money. Then it turns out someone tried to take them for a ride."

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* ASimplePlan - AllThereinTheManual: The first book has a set of rules for the card game Rake in the back.
* BigGood: The Century Knights. [[BlackAndGreyMorality Kinda.]]
* CoolSword: The enchanted cutlass that Crake gives to Frey in order to pay for his passage on the Ketty Jay.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Trinica Dracken in the second book.
* CulturedBadass: Trinica Dracken reads widely, has a very good understanding of religion and politics, and is the deadliest pirate in all of Vardia.
* CurbStompBattle: The Manes are a race of undead super-human creatures known for killing everything in their path without exception. In the second book, a legion of them comes across a handful of Century Knights. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Manes never stood a chance.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Darian, Jez, Crake. Malvery and Silo have their moments.
* DysfunctionJunction: Everyone has issues. However, in the process of getting over them, they demonstrate surprising psychological complexity.
* FluffyTheTerrible: [[TheBigGuy Bess the Golem.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Darian Fray
* MagicCompass: Grayther Crake makes daemon-bound compasses for the crew of the ''Ketty Jay'' that always point towards Darian Fray.
* PathOfInspiration: The Awakeners, ''especially'' during the second book.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The captain is a drug addict with commitment issues, the medic is an alcoholic SadClown, the mechanic is an escaped slave, the wingmen are a delusional fantastist and a ShellShockedSenior, the MagiTek guy is wanted for manslaughter, the navigator is a HalfHumanHybrid... ''[[MisfitMobilizationMoment and you cross them]] [[CrowningmomentOfAwesome at your peril]]''.
* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: Pretty much stated that this is what Trinica Davis had to go through in order to become the dread Queen of the Skies we know today]]
* ASimplePlan: The
books follow a formula that begins, "the ship is hired to do a simple job for quite a lot of money. Then it turns out someone tried to take them for a ride."



* AllThereinTheManual - The first book has a set of rules for the card game Rake in the back.
* BigGood - The Century Knights. [[BlackAndGreyMorality Kinda.]]
* CoolSword
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - Trinica Dracken in the second book.
* CulturedBadass - Trinica Dracken reads widely, has a very good understanding of religion and politics, and is the deadliest pirate in all of Vardia.
* CurbStompBattle - The Manes are a race of undead super-human creatures known for killing everything in their path without exception. In the second book, a legion of them comes across a handful of Century Knights. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Manes never stood a chance.]]
* DeadpanSnarker - Darian, Jez, Crake. Malvery and Silo have their moments.
* DysfunctionJunction - Everyone has issues. However, in the process of getting over them, they demonstrate surprising psychological complexity.
* FluffyTheTerrible - [[TheBigGuy Bess the Golem.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Darian Fray
* MagicCompass: Grayther Crake makes daemon-bound compasses for the crew of the ''Ketty Jay'' that always point towards Darian Fray.
* PathOfInspiration - the Awakeners, ''especially'' during the second book.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits - the captain is a drug addict with commitment issues, the medic is an alcoholic SadClown, the mechanic is an escaped slave, the wingmen are a delusional fantastist and a ShellShockedSenior, the MagiTek guy is wanted for manslaughter, the navigator is a HalfHumanHybrid... ''[[MisfitMobilizationMoment and you cross them]] [[CrowningmomentOfAwesome at your peril]]''.
* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: Pretty much stated that this is what Trinica Davis had to go through in order to become the dread Queen of the Skies we know today]]
* VillainExitStageLeft - The Ketty Jay and the Delerium Trigger, whenever they are involved in a fight between the good guys and the book's villains. Because, well, if they stick around, someone might try to arrest them.
* WorthyOpponent - Trinica Dracken, "Death's Whore", the captain of the Delirium Trigger, and the biggest name in outright piracy in these skies.

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* AllThereinTheManual - The first book has a set of rules for the card game Rake in the back.
* BigGood - The Century Knights. [[BlackAndGreyMorality Kinda.]]
* CoolSword
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - Trinica Dracken in the second book.
* CulturedBadass - Trinica Dracken reads widely, has a very good understanding of religion and politics, and is the deadliest pirate in all of Vardia.
* CurbStompBattle - The Manes are a race of undead super-human creatures known for killing everything in their path without exception. In the second book, a legion of them comes across a handful of Century Knights. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Manes never stood a chance.]]
* DeadpanSnarker - Darian, Jez, Crake. Malvery and Silo have their moments.
* DysfunctionJunction - Everyone has issues. However, in the process of getting over them, they demonstrate surprising psychological complexity.
* FluffyTheTerrible - [[TheBigGuy Bess the Golem.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Darian Fray
* MagicCompass: Grayther Crake makes daemon-bound compasses for the crew of the ''Ketty Jay'' that always point towards Darian Fray.
* PathOfInspiration - the Awakeners, ''especially'' during the second book.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits - the captain is a drug addict with commitment issues, the medic is an alcoholic SadClown, the mechanic is an escaped slave, the wingmen are a delusional fantastist and a ShellShockedSenior, the MagiTek guy is wanted for manslaughter, the navigator is a HalfHumanHybrid... ''[[MisfitMobilizationMoment and you cross them]] [[CrowningmomentOfAwesome at your peril]]''.
* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: Pretty much stated that this is what Trinica Davis had to go through in order to become the dread Queen of the Skies we know today]]
* VillainExitStageLeft -
VillainExitStageLeft: The Ketty Jay and the Delerium Trigger, whenever they are involved in a fight between the good guys and the book's villains. Because, well, if they stick around, someone might try to arrest them.
* WorthyOpponent - WorthyOpponent: Trinica Dracken, "Death's Whore", the captain of the Delirium Trigger, and the biggest name in outright piracy in these skies.
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* BigGood - The Century Knights.

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* CulturedBadass - Trinica Dracken reads widely, has a very good understanding of religion and politics, and is the deadliest pirate in all of Vardia.
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The series plays in a well-established toolbox and doesn't add much (apart from psychological depth), but is damn good fun. Three books, "Retribution Falls" and "The Black Lung Captain" and "The Iron Jackal."

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The series plays in a well-established toolbox and doesn't add much (apart from psychological depth), but is damn good fun. Three books, "Retribution Falls" and "The Black Lung Captain" and "The Iron Jackal."
Jackal" have been published, and a fourth book "The Ace of Skulls" is on the way.
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The series plays in a well-established toolbox and doesn't add much (apart from psychological depth), but is damn good fun. Two books, "Retribution Falls" and "The Black Lung Captain", have been published. A third, "The Iron Jackal", comes out the summer of 2011.

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The series plays in a well-established toolbox and doesn't add much (apart from psychological depth), but is damn good fun. Two Three books, "Retribution Falls" and "The Black Lung Captain", have been published. A third, Captain" and "The Iron Jackal", comes out the summer of 2011.
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* FluffyTheTerrible - Bess the Golem.

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* FluffyTheTerrible - [[TheBigGuy Bess the Golem.]]
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* CurbStompBattle - The Manes are a race of undead super-human creatures known for killing everything in their path without exception. In the second book, a legion of them comes across a handful of Century Knights. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Manes never stood a chance.]]
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** Twisted in the third book, no one tried to take them for a ride.
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* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: It's all but stated that after Frey left her at the altar, this was her fate, turning her into the dread queen of the skies she is today]]

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* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: It's all but Pretty much stated that after Frey left her at the altar, this was her fate, turning her into is what Trinica Davis had to go through in order to become the dread queen Queen of the skies she is Skies we know today]]
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* MarySuetopia - The Thacians, possibly. They do civilization and art better than everyone else, and everyone knows it.
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''Tales of the Ketty Jay'' is a series of books by Chris Wooding which focuses on an aircraft called the Ketty Jay. We follow the ship from the arrival of Jezibeth "Jez" Flay, the new navigator. She discovers that everyone on this ship has a reason to leave the world behind. Meanwhile, the world keeps trying to drag the crew into the schemes of the great and powerful.

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''Tales of the Ketty Jay'' is a series of books by Chris Wooding which focuses on an aircraft called the Ketty Jay. We follow the ship from the arrival of Jezibeth "Jez" Flay, Kyte, the new navigator. She discovers that everyone on this ship has a reason to leave the world behind. Meanwhile, the world keeps trying to drag the crew into the schemes of the great and powerful.
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* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: It's all but stated that Trinica became the woman she is because of this]]

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* RapeAsBackstory [[spoiler: It's all but stated that Trinica became after Frey left her at the woman altar, this was her fate, turning her into the dread queen of the skies she is because of this]]today]]
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