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'''Digger''': Says the ''talking elephant statue''.

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'''Digger''': Says the ''talking elephant statue''.
statue''.\\
'''Statue:''' There are a number of theological arguments to prove my existence, but in this case, perhaps rest would prove more effective.
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->'''Manuel:''' Maps? There are no maps. I go by dark ways. Unclean ways. If such a map existed, it would be beyond price. Nameless cults would battle in the low places of the earth for such a prize. Dreamers would starve themselves in endless visions seeking its location. Such a map would have to be drawn on the skin of a black he-goat, in virgin's blood, with a brush made of dragon's eyelashes. The cartographer would go mad, and it would profane the hands that held it.\\
'''Digger:''' I can get you a pencil and the margins of ''101 Goat Diseases''.
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->'''Digger:''' I don't think I need this level of detail.\\
'''Oracular Slug:''' Too bad.

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'''Digger:''' Damnit, Murai, it doesn't ''matter!'' If I have to stay in this god-riddled land of lunatics until I drop dead of--of--sheer ''frustration'', then that's just ''life! I'll get over it!''\\
Not everybody gets to go home!

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'''Digger:''' Damnit, Murai, it doesn't ''matter!'' If I have to stay in this god-riddled land of lunatics until I drop dead of--of--sheer ''frustration'', '''frustration''', then that's just ''life! I'll '''life!''' ''I'll get over it!''\\
it!'' Not everybody gets to go home!
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'''Digger:''' Damnit, Murai, it doesn't ''matter!'' If I have to stay in this god-riddled land of lunatics until I drop dead of--of--sheer ''frustration'', then that's just ''life!'' I'll get over it!\\

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'''Digger:''' Damnit, Murai, it doesn't ''matter!'' If I have to stay in this god-riddled land of lunatics until I drop dead of--of--sheer ''frustration'', then that's just ''life!'' ''life! I'll get over it!\\it!''\\

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->'''Digger:''' Yep. That's a broken arm, all right.\\
'''Murai:''' ...Sorry...\\
'''Digger:''' Blood and shale, Murai, you do ''not'' need to apologize for having a broken arm! I ought to apologize to ''you''. I shouldn't have let us go up the mountain without the right equipment.\\
'''Murai:''' Slows us... up... need... speed to... get you home... trader...\\
'''Digger:''' Damnit, Murai, it doesn't ''matter!'' If I have to stay in this god-riddled land of lunatics until I drop dead of--of--sheer ''frustration'', then that's just ''life!'' I'll get over it!\\
Not everybody gets to go home!


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->'''Digger:''' You can set broken bones?\\
'''Grim Eyes:''' I'm a hunt leader. It's not all sticking animals with sharp objects, you know. I realize you have this strange notion that you are the only competent individual in the world, earth rat--\\
'''Digger:''' Fine, fine, just set the bone, already!\\
'''Grim Eyes:''' I'm working on it. (Hold that, will you, demon?) I can yell at you at the same time. It doesn't affect my concentration at all.
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->"Get out of my sight: even your sins are petty."

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->"Get out of my sight: even sight. Even your sins are petty."
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->(Regarding the hyenas' cannibalistic funeral rites)\\
'''Grim Eyes:''' Oh, don't worry. I know you've got wimpy little prey teeth, but the bones are ground up, mixed with meal, and fried -- that's dessert -- so even you ought to be able to get 'em down.\\
'''Digger:''' You have got to be kidding me...\\
'''Grim Eyes:''' We loved her. She was our sister. She made us strong. You'd rather we just let her rot like some unwanted scraps?
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-->--A commenter [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110405081922/http://webcomics.me/2011/03/guest-review-digger here]]

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-->--A commenter [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110405081922/http://webcomics.me/2011/03/guest-review-digger me/2011/03/guest-review-digger/ here]]

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-->--A commenter [[http://webcomics.me/2011/03/guest-review-digger/ here]]

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-->--A commenter [[http://webcomics.me/2011/03/guest-review-digger/ [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110405081922/http://webcomics.me/2011/03/guest-review-digger here]]

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->'''Digger:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome I know it's not long enough to make a good rock.]]

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->'''Digger:''' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[ShutUpHannibal I know it's not long enough to make a good rock.]]



->"[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Has a name.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Name - Is - ED!!]]"

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->"[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Has ->"Has a name.]] name. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Name - Is - ED!!]]"



->[[{{Squee}} "I ate a sock!"]]

->"''[[MomentOfAwesome She]]'' [[MomentOfAwesome said that evil doesn't look like anything, or that it looks like lots of things. But I think it looks like]] '''[[MomentOfAwesome you.]]'''"

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->[[{{Squee}} "I ->"I ate a sock!"]]

->"''[[MomentOfAwesome She]]'' [[MomentOfAwesome
sock!"

->"''She''
said that evil doesn't look like anything, or that it looks like lots of things. But I think it looks like]] '''[[MomentOfAwesome you.]]'''"
like '''you.'''"



->'''Grim Eyes''': You brroke [[DoubleEntendre my mother's spearrr]]!\\

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->'''Grim Eyes''': You brroke [[DoubleEntendre my mother's spearrr]]!\\spearrr!\\



'''Grim Eyes''': ''[[GenreSavvy Nice]]'' [[GenreSavvy try, Earrth-Rat, but we generally find that]] ''[[DeathTropes death]]'' [[GenreSavvy is the ultimate purifier.]] [[JustEatHim Enough stalling, kill them!]]

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'''Grim Eyes''': ''[[GenreSavvy Nice]]'' [[GenreSavvy ''Nice'' try, Earrth-Rat, but we generally find that]] ''[[DeathTropes death]]'' [[GenreSavvy that ''death'' is the ultimate purifier.]] purifier. [[JustEatHim Enough stalling, kill them!]]



'''Jhalm:''' ''Several''. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny But as you are unlikely to be either poaching or soliciting the sale of unnatural acts, I doubt we could make the charges stick.]]

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'''Jhalm:''' ''Several''. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny But as you are unlikely to be either poaching or soliciting the sale of unnatural acts, I doubt we could make the charges stick.]]
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->'''Digger:''' Didn't your parents tell you what you are?\\
'''Shadowchild:''' I don't think I had any. Well, there was the ''dead bird'' I hatched from. I thought maybe that meant I was a bird, but the other birds said I wasn't. They were very ''definite'' on that point.\\
'''Digger:''' Dead. Bird.\\
'''Shadowchild:''' It had white feathers. I was sad to leave it, but it had gotten too small to fit in. And the blowflies had gotten awfully ''loud''.\\
'''Digger:''' There are so many things wrong with that statement, I am hard-pressed to pick just ''one''.



'''Shadowchild:''' Oh, yes. The god is old, and nothing gets that old without shadows on it. And he throws such a bright light that you can pick out all the shadows, little spiderweb flaws crazing the light.

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'''Shadowchild:''' Oh, yes. The god is old, and nothing gets that old without shadows on it. And he throws such a bright light that you can pick out all the shadows, little spiderweb flaws crazing the light.
light.\\
'''Digger:''' Well, ''that's'' certainly disturbing.\\
'''Shadowchild:''' Sorry. Oak shadows always make me giddy and talkative. *burp*

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->''The problem was, of course, that Herne was right. It was a lousy time to cross a deep snowfield, and all I could hope was that there wouldn't be very much of it. I had to hope that the pass was hikeable, because we didn't have the equipment for climbing. I had crampons for one person -- me. We didn't even have enough rope to go roped together if the going got bad.\\
An experienced climber would have refused to do it. ''I'' should have refused to do it.\\
Still, what choice did I have? We had to get to the stupid monastery; we couldn't turn back. and... and...\\
And that's me rationalizing a bad decision.\\
We should have backtracked to the nearest city and gotten the equipment we needed. Hell, given a crude forge and a week or two, I could have ''made'' the equipment. We should not have continued on. No senior engineer would have allowed it.\\
The reason I didn't do any of those things was simple. It had taken us a little over two weeks to get there, and I still had some insane hope that if we hurried -- if we pushed really hard on the way back -- I might make it to the village in time to meet the trader on his way back through.\\
So we cut poles and we rigged up crude rag boots, and we set out.\\
Stupid.''

->''We had to go back, of course. I won't say I didn't feel a twinge, but I'd made one stupid decision and it cost Murai. Bugger if I was making another one. We'd go back, and get her to a real healer, not a hyena's field medicine, we'd get decent ropes and climbing equipment, and we'd do this right.\\
The way we should have done it the first time.''

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->'''Boneclaw Mother''': Now if I was a crude person, I'd say because I have my teeth inches from your throat and if you ''did'' somehow defeat me, all that would achieve would be to make Grim-Eyes angry enough to rip out your other eye and piss in the socket.\\
'''Jhalm:''' How fortunate, then, that you are not a crude person.

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->'''Boneclaw Mother''': Now if Were I was a crude person, I'd say because ''crude'' old woman, I have might point out that I've got my teeth about eight inches from your throat throat, son -- and if while I might not manage to take you ''did'' somehow defeat me, all that would achieve would be to out, killing me ''would'' make Grim-Eyes angry Grim Eyes mad enough to rip out take your other eye eye, and then piss in the socket.socket for good measure.\\
'''Jhalm:''' How fortunate, then, ''fortunate'' for both of us that you are not a crude person.
so crude, madam.

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->'''Digger:''' So. Why didn't you come to the temple?\\
'''Shadowchild:''' I can't get close to it. The god throws too much light. It makes the shadows sharp and dark, like holes in the air. I can't eat them all. If I went in there, it would be like trying to drink the ocean -- you drink and drink and you drown anyway, and the ocean isn't any smaller afterwards.\\
'''Digger:''' Wait... there are shadows in the ''temple?''\\
'''Shadowchild:''' Oh, yes. The god is old, and nothing gets that old without shadows on it. And he throws such a bright light that you can pick out all the shadows, little spiderweb flaws crazing the light.



->'''Digger:''' So. Why didn't you come to the temple?\\
'''Shadowchild:''' I can't get close to it. The god throws too much light. It makes the shadows sharp and dark, like holes in the air. I can't eat them all. If I went in there, it would be like trying to drink the ocean -- you drink and drink and you drown anyway, and the ocean isn't any smaller afterwards.\\
'''Digger:''' Wait... there are shadows in the ''temple?''\\
'''Shadowchild:''' Oh, yes. The god is old, and nothing gets that old without shadows on it. And he throws such a bright light that you can pick out all the shadows, little spiderweb flaws crazing the light.
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-> '''Grim-Eyes:''' If the Elders say may hunt you again, I will warn you first.\\

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-> '''Grim-Eyes:''' If the Elders say I may hunt you again, I will warn you first.\\
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->'''Digger:''' So. Why didn't you come to the temple?\\
'''Shadowchild:''' I can't get close to it. The god throws too much light. It makes the shadows sharp and dark, like holes in the air. I can't eat them all. If I went in there, it would be like trying to drink the ocean -- you drink and drink and you drown anyway, and the ocean isn't any smaller afterwards.\\
'''Digger:''' Wait... there are shadows in the ''temple?''\\
'''Shadowchild:''' Oh, yes. The god is old, and nothing gets that old without shadows on it. And he throws such a bright light that you can pick out all the shadows, little spiderweb flaws crazing the light.
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->I am also proud of what I think is the consistent theme of Digger, which is that if you are reasonably polite and reasonably intelligent and work very hard, you should win in the end. I am told that this is not the normal message of fantasy, which usually seems to involve being prenatally chosen or the seventh son a seventh son [sic] or of royal/divine/fairy blood. As I am none of these things, but I am reasonably polite and hard-working, I prefer my version, because hell, if it's NOT enough to be those things, then what's the point?

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->I am also proud of what I think is the consistent theme of Digger, which is that if you are reasonably polite and reasonably intelligent and work very hard, you should win in the end. I am told that this is not the normal message of fantasy, which usually seems to involve being prenatally chosen or the seventh son of a seventh son [sic] or of royal/divine/fairy blood. As I am none of these things, but I am reasonably polite and hard-working, I prefer my version, because hell, if it's NOT enough to be those things, then what's the point?
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'''BoneClaw Mother''': Freaky Adopted Daughter!

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'''BoneClaw '''Boneclaw Mother''': Freaky Adopted Daughter!
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->'''Murai''': Honored Digger!\\
'''Grim Eyes''': Earth Rat!\\
'''BoneClaw Mother''': Freaky Adopted Daughter!



-->--'''Ursula Vernon''', Digger Volume 6

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-->--'''Ursula Vernon''', Digger Volume 6

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!!Meta

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!!Meta
!!About the comic

->A wombat. A dead god. A very ''peculiar'' epic.
->--Tagline


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->"I am very proud of Digger. I am proud of the fact that the majority of the characters wound up being female, and nobody ever felt the need to discuss this or stop for a round of shopping--they were mostly just people doing the next thing that needed to be done. There are probably fancy terms for this, but I never had any head for academia.

->I am also proud of what I think is the consistent theme of Digger, which is that if you are reasonably polite and reasonably intelligent and work very hard, you should win in the end. I am told that this is not the normal message of fantasy, which usually seems to involve being prenatally chosen or the seventh son a seventh son [sic] or of royal/divine/fairy blood. As I am none of these things, but I am reasonably polite and hard-working, I prefer my version, because hell, if it's NOT enough to be those things, then what's the point?

->It's a humanist sort of moral, I grant you, which is probably odd in a story with so few humans in it, but there you are."
-->--'''Ursula Vernon''', Digger Volume 6
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->"[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Has a name.]] [[ThisIsSparta Name - Is - ED!!]]"

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->"[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Has a name.]] [[ThisIsSparta [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Name - Is - ED!!]]"
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->'''Jhalm:''' I am Captain Jhalm, but I fear you have the advantage of me, madam.\\
'''Boneclaw Mother:''' I am Boneclaw Mother. I am the eldest. I speak for the tribe.\\
'''Jhalm:''' Then I am honored to meet you.\\
'''Boneclaw Mother:''' Yes. You are.

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->'''Digger:''' Can you carry [Murai] until she wakes up?\\
'''Grim Eyes:''' Skinny little thing like her? To Hell and back, if you like.\\
'''Digger:''' That'll probably be next.

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->[[MomentOfAwesome "''She'' said that evil doesn't look like anything, or that it looks like lots of things. But I think it looks like '''you.'''"]]

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->[[MomentOfAwesome "''She'' ->"''[[MomentOfAwesome She]]'' [[MomentOfAwesome said that evil doesn't look like anything, or that it looks like lots of things. But I think it looks like '''you.'''"]]
like]] '''[[MomentOfAwesome you.]]'''"
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->"''She'' said that evil doesn't look like anything, or that it looks like lots of things. But I think it looks like '''you.'''"

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->"''She'' ->[[MomentOfAwesome "''She'' said that evil doesn't look like anything, or that it looks like lots of things. But I think it looks like '''you.'''"
'''"]]
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->"Hmph. ''Wombats.''"
-->--Last line of the series

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->"Hmph. ''Wombats.''"
-->--Last
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--Last
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->"I'm being attacked - or possibly being romanced - by an angry squash."

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->"I'm being attacked - -- or possibly being romanced - -- by an angry squash."



->"I'm not a philosopher. I don't think about ethics that much. They're sort of involuntary functions, like breathing. If you have to stop and think about it, you're probably already doing something wrong."

->"Now, at this point, I should probably tell you about some buried trauma of mine so that you'll be willing to open up to me and tell me whatever. But frankly, I don't have any buried traumas or dark secrets or anything. Well, I'm scared of ducks, but it's really not the same thing."

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->"I'm not a philosopher. philosopher, I don't think about ethics that much. They're sort of involuntary functions, like breathing. If you have to stop and think about it, you're probably already doing something wrong."

->"Now, ->''(To Murai)'' "Now, at this point, I should probably tell you about some buried trauma of mine so that you'll be willing to open up to me and tell me whatever. But frankly, I don't have any buried traumas or dark secrets or anything. Well, I'm scared of ducks, but it's really not the same thing."



->'''Statue''': I am not so much a god as part of one - I am Lord Ganesh's hand, if you will, and Jhalm and the Veiled are his dogs.\\

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->'''Statue''': I am not so much a god as part of one - -- I am Lord Ganesh's hand, if you will, and Jhalm and the Veiled are his dogs.\\



->"Gods is being like demons - is big thing, not safe."

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->"Gods is being like demons - -- is big thing, not safe."



'''Ed''': No, but evil is still being - is having reason - being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being...like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason. Is only good is not having reason. Little one hugs, not reason. Digger-mousie is giving name to nameless, say 'Ed', no reason. Skin-painter paints skin of child, no reason. Just is.

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'''Ed''': No, but evil is still being - -- is having reason - -- being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being...like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason. Is only good is not having reason. Little one hugs, not reason. Digger-mousie is giving name to nameless, say 'Ed', no reason. Skin-painter paints skin of child, no reason. Just is.



'''Digger''': Uh... No. Wombat density is sort of - OW! - constant.\\

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'''Digger''': Uh... No. Wombat density is sort of - -- OW! - -- constant.\\



'''Shadowchild''': No...I could get in your head if you want, but it looks kind of crowded. I'm amazed there's room for you in there.

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'''Shadowchild''': No... I could get in your head if you want, but it looks kind of crowded. I'm amazed there's room for you in there.




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-->--Last line of the series

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!!Meta

->"You know that quirky side character that’s really interesting and entertaining but ultimately overshadowed by the boring lead that’s got no real personality or motives? Digger’s like a comic that’s all about that quirky side character."
-->--A commenter [[http://webcomics.me/2011/03/guest-review-digger/ here]]
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'''Grim Eyes''': ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Nice]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome try, Earrth-Rat, but we generally find that]] ''[[DeathTropes death]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome is the ultimate purifier.]] [[JustEatHim Enough stalling, kill them!]]

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'''Grim Eyes''': ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome ''[[GenreSavvy Nice]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[GenreSavvy try, Earrth-Rat, but we generally find that]] ''[[DeathTropes death]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome [[GenreSavvy is the ultimate purifier.]] [[JustEatHim Enough stalling, kill them!]]

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