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(Writer's Note: Please be aware that I wrote this out of pure boredom. I guess the forums were slow or something.
Anyways, the story takes place in the real world. Well, part of it. Its simple to follow in the fact that I am destroying part of the 4th wall.
I also switch from 3rd person to 1st person a lot. Sorry if it is hard to follow)
My Story: Beginnings
Hah. Just thinking back to the beginning of this story makes me wonder how it all started. How I got into this, and how I am going to get out. I am sitting here, writing this little journal, in this world, wondering...why. Of course, I long for the real world. But for now, I will have to settle with this new one.
I have to settle for Robloxia.
(2 weeks earlier...)
Briguy is sitting in his room. A normal room. In a normal neighboorhood. A thunderstorm is raging outside. It is a normal storm to the midwest. Nothing seems amiss.
Briguy is chatting with a few other Roblox mods.
Briguy: Man it is stormy outside
Doom: It's clear here.
Jacob: Same.
Josh: Same.
Briguy: Well of course you two are the same.
Doom: Hah.
Briguy: Everything fine on the fourms?
Doom: Yup.
Briguy: Okay. I'm going to continue to work on my map.
Jacob: Okay.
*Briguy has left the chat*
Briguy loads the Roblox game, and continues to work.
(Meanwhile, at Roblox HQ in California)
Telamon, Builderman, and many other devs are working hard away at code. Vibhu is checking out site stats when he notices something amiss. Vibhu shoots Telamon an IM
Vibhu: Something is wrong.
Telamon: What is it?
Vibhu: For some reason, site and game traffic in the midwest shot up. And it isn't stopping.
Telamon: So whats wrong?
Vibhu: If it doesn't stop anytime soon, we need to cut it off to keep the site up
Telamon: Keep it monitored. If you need to, cut them off.
Vibhu: Okay
*The chat has ended*
Back at Briguy's home, the storm still rages on. Lights flicker and the wild blows. All normal for Briguy. He continues on with his map. He begins to stand up when the clouds discharge a massive amount of lightning. It travels up the powerlines, and into the home. It goes through the computer wire, into the screen. Lighting is the last thing Briguy remembers seeing in the real world.
Back at Roblox HQ, Vibhu is forced to cut off traffic in and out from the Midwest, isolating it.
(End chapter 1)
My Story: The other world.
I woke up to a cloudy sky. I was a bit confused at first. I just stared at the sky trying to remember what just happened. I remember the computer, and rain, and then I realized: Wasn't it stormy and dark just a few minutes ago? I sat up, and began to take everything in. A home was on my right, with a few trees. Signs were everywhere. Red, blue, and yellow columns were just past the tree. I knew this all seemed familiar.
And then it hit me.
I quickly spun around. No, I couldn't have just seen that. But everything was exactly as I saw it. It was my happy home. I am at one of my Roblox maps. I began to wonder if I was in the game. I looked at myself. I hadn't changed. Everything else has, but not me. I look like me to me. I guess Roblox never really worked out First person.
I quickly noticed that I was tired. But wait, if this was my Happy Home, there has to be a bed inside. I went inside, and saw all my furniture. I saw my arcade machine. I started to walk towards the bed when I remembered. My arcade machine doubled as a secret door to my "base". Oh man, the strange things you could build in Roblox. I put in my code, and walked in. Yep, nothing has changed. I pressed the elevator button, went to the living quarters, and found a bed.
I was kinda hoping that sleep would fix everything. I would soon learn I was dead wrong.
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Meanwhile, back in the real world, Briguy's brother, Mark, came into the room looking for him. All he found was a smoldering hole on the floor, on the screen...and on the internet connection in the wall. |
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(These are the chapters that may help to explain whats going on.)
My Story: Discoveries
I woke up. I was scared. Why am I in a grey room with nothing but a bed and a computer? I just layed there for a while before I remembered what had happened.
I needed to figure out what had truely happened and get notice of my surroundings. I knew my own map very well, so I had a great start. I headed down to the 3rd floor to see everything. Yup, exactly the way I had built it.
I headed to the right and found my conference room. Yup, nothing special. I went out and into my lab. Still the same. But then I noticed something. The "noob" models I kept in the tube. They weren't regular robloxians. They were...human. Do I see all other people as human? I hope so. Starting at blocks all day would get annoying.
I walked out and headed into my camera room. It was there when I noticed things change in this world. When I had built this map, I just took screenshots and put them up as decals on the walls. Now, the decals had turned into live feeds. In each map I could see players. They were all human. They were battling, shooting, and doing what each game was meant for. I also saw my house. Nothing special there. No one was outside.
And then there was. I saw someone walking towards the house. I couldn't reconize them. Should I go up and say "Hi"? Or should I watch them? Didn't I have a tool here to watch them? How do I get to my tools?
I figured since I had no clue how to access my tools, to just go up and greet them.
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Back at Roblox HQ...
Vibhu: Connection in and out of the Midwest is still off.
Telamon: Why?
Vibhu: I tried to turn it back on, but got flooded with 4x more traffic than we had when we turned it off.
Telamon: Do we have any reason why its so high?
Vibhu: Hacking attack, glitch, who knows. All I can tell you is that our servers in the midwest are the only things running the midwest.
Telamon: Just monitor it and turn it back on when its okay.
*The chat has ended*
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I exited the elevator and walked up towards the hatch. I was about to press the button to open it when I noticed it was already opening. I walked back and let the person drop in.
"Hi Briguy!" said the strange man. I noticed that he was wearing a simple robe. Very skimpy.
"I'm sorry, who are you?" I said.
"Haha. Funny. You know who I am." He pushed past me and got on the elevator. "You coming?"
"Yeah" I said, and we got on the elevator. We went all the way down. When we reached the 3rd floor, he got out and sat on the couch.
"Sit." he said. I followed. "So how have you be..."
"Hold up. I need answers." I said. He seemed a little mad I had cut him off, but he listened. "I don't know whats going on. I was sitting at my computer and bam, I just ended up here in the game. I have no clue where I am, or who you are!"
The man seemed really scared. "Wait. Are you saying that you are Briguy's Controller?"
"Whats a controller?" I said, still a little mad.
He got up and said "Lets go to your cafe. It might be better if I explained there."
We began to walk up to the elevator. Right before he got on, he said "By the way, my name is Acoreus"
(End Chapter 3)
My Story: Explanation.
We walked into the cafe. My cafe bot looked like an actual bot now. Acoreus walked up to it and asked for 2 coffees. The bot pulled out two from the machine, and handed it to him. He gestured to a table and we sat down.
"So you are saying that you have no clue where you are?" he said.
"Right. I was just sitting around, then flash, then here."
"Alright, Briguy, this is going to be a long explanation."
He told me much.
In this world, the avatars are free to do what they wish. Then can travel from map to map and play to their hears desire. That is, until their user comes on. Once the user logs in, they lose all control. They don't mind, but it does get annoying because they lose a lot of abilites. They never talk, they have limited mobility ect ect.
"But that doesn't explain how I got here." I said.
"I know. But right now, you, the user, and the avatar, are one. You can't be controlled, unless someone else logs in for you."
"Okay. So if I am in this world, how about showing me how it works?"
"My pleasure" he said.
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Back at Roblox HQ...
Reese: Fourms have been hectic lately.
Doom; I know. Where is Briguy? He is usually online at this time.
Reese: I'll go check if he is online.
Reese: Well that's strange
Doom: What?
Reese: It says that he has been in game for the past 3 weeks. In the same server.
Doom: But thats how long our midwest servers have been off. And thats where Briguy is. Its probably a tech glitch.
Reese: I hope so.
*The chat has ended*
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masterdylanTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-08-13
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Woah. O.O Good story. |
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BandiitJoin Date: 2008-11-17
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Nice. |
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ConnollyJoin Date: 2008-03-28
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Hahaha! Nice story. I know things like this have been done but it was a great idea useing roblox for it :D! |
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Chapter 5: The Demonstration
I was following Acoreus as we made it to the top floor. He pressed the button on the wall and the door at the top of the stairs moved away. We walked outside. But before I did, I turned to watch my secret door slide back into place. When it did, I couldn't tell that there was a door there. My handiwork at work, I guess.
We walked outside and walked to a clear area. This began to worry me. Do we fly? Do I have to go outside somewhere open where I won't hit anything?
"Look at your wrist" said Acoreus. I did what I was told, and I saw a watch. I wasn't wearing a watch when I left. That was odd. I shook my arm a little and couldn't feel it at all. "That is what we effectively call a watch." I was thrilled to hear this. "But really, it is what controls almost everything. If you wish to go somewhere else, you use this. If you don't like what you are wearing, use this. If someone is causing trouble...."
He stopped mid-sentence. I knew what he was thinking. But that's not important right now. "Okay, well... Lets just get you acquainted with the watch. The watch will only appear when you need it to-that's why you didn't notice it until now when you needed it to appear. 4 buttons." I looked down at the watch to see the 4 buttons around the edge. Each one had an icon next to it: a house, a shirt, a :O face and the last button didn't have an icon.
"All of this is simple to use. The house lets you find places to go. The shirt lets you change what you are wearing. The :O face...well, we will talk about that later, and the last one is just random stuff you might need"
"Can I try it?" I asked. He nodded. I pressed the shirt button, because this wouldn't put me anyplace strange. I was shocked to see a menu just..pop out of the watch. It was a hologram that I could interact with. I looked through all of my items-Since I already have them all on the site, I knew what was there. I changed into my favorite red shirt and pants. I omitted the hat for now.
"Good. But I don't want you to press any more buttons until I explain something."
"Explain what?"
"Why your :O button is different than mine"
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Meanwhile at Roblox HQ
Vibhu: I knew I shouldn't have knocked out the servers
Telamon: Why?
Vibhu: People that were in game at the time are stuck in game. I know Briguy has been in a game for a month. Plus, I can't get them back on. Whoever is causing all of the traffic hasn't stopped since.
Telamon: Well all the people there are playing locally. Don't worry, we can fix it.
Vibhu: I hope so. Did you upgrade the banhammer yet?
Telamon: It's going out soon.
(End chapter 5)
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Chapter 6: Realization
"I'm assuming, since you are a Controller, that you know what job you have" he said to me, as we walked around the side of the house. He seemed to have a scared look on his face. Something that he was going to show me was going to scare him. Or me.
"Yes. I know. That also means I have a wild guess as to what it does" I said. He didn't seem surprised or anything. I guess both of us were surprised at how quickly I caught on.
"Alright, it's time I show y..."
WHOOOOOOOSH
CRASH!
Something flew out of the sky and hit the ground outside my house. The object was big enough to knock both of us to our feet. We fell, and instantly looked at the crash site. Too much dust had been kicked up, and we couldn't see a thing. But after we stared, we noticed something. Something dark. The dust began to settle as we caught a pair of red eyes.
The thing quickly ran from the crash site towards us. We didn't have much time to react, but we both jumped out of the way in different directions. The thing tried to stop, but slid far away from us.
"Press the button!" Acoreus screamed. I looked at him, confused for a moment, before I caught on. The thing began to run towards me. I pressed the button.
I watched as little blue beads appeared from nothingness and began to form an object in my hands. I grabbed part of it like a bat, and the rest began to form. It grew in both directions. Soon one end stopped, as the other grew. But as soon as I took another look at it, it flashed, and extra beads of energy dissapeared. It was my hammer.
"Lookout!"
I turned to see the thing almost 5 feet away. I knew I couldn't hit it this way. I spun around the thing, dodging his attack, while at the same time swinging my hammer like a golf club. I made contact, and the thing went flying into the sky.
We both ran towards it. When we got near, it disappeared in the same way my hammer came to be, only with black beads of energy. We were both freaked out. I turned to him.
"What in the world was that?!" I said.
"Honestly, I have no clue! I rarely see you outside the Barrier."
"Whats the Barrier?" He looked at me like it was the stupidest question I had so far. But he soon remembered, and was calm again.
"The Barrier is a barrier that protects the area we gather to discuss and debate. This is why it is one of the safest places to be."
I knew exactly what he was talking about. "I'm curious to see it." He smiled, and touched his watch. He turned into a blob of energy. He floated there for a second, then whizzed off to what I thought was south.
I looked at my watch, and found the place we were going. Robloxia's discussion area. Aka, the Forums.
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Meanwhile, at RHQ
(Chat begin)
Telamon: Too bad Vibhu left.
Builderman: Yeah...Wait a second...
Telamon: What?
Builderman: The insane amount of traffic to the Midwest servers have stopped. Whatever, or whoever, was causing all of it must have stopped.
Telamon: Good, connect them back up.
Builderman: Already done.
Telamon: Good.
(End Chat)
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Chapter 7: Familiarization
I didn't see anything when moving from my house to the Forum. Next thing I knew, I was there.
The Forum was amazing. It was a floating castle, with a small island where we landed. We could see each little detail in the area, because it was rotating around really quickly. I could see many diffrent rooms and sections, with a big courtyard in the middle. I saw hundreds, if not thousands, of people talking and walking around. Of course, all of this, except our island, was surrounded by a big bubble. It had waves going around it, and it was mostly transparent.
I saw Acoreus waiting by a small bridge. I walked over. As soon as I stepped on it, the island went over to the front of the castle. It stopped by another bridge, that jutted out of the bubble for a place for us to stop. We walked on to the new bridge, and our island went flying away, rotating around the castle.
We walked towards the Barrier, and there was a man waiting. I almost wanted to call him a butler, but he looked normal, and he wasn't snotty or anything.
"He's going to give you something. Just take it. It's to signify who you are" Acoreus said to me. We walked towards the man. When we got near, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a necklace. On the end was a small hammer. I just smiled and grabbed it. When I put it on, it glowed a slight yellow. He smiled back, as to see that it was a confirmation of who I was.
We entered the Barrier with no problems. We walked toward the entrance of the castle, when he stopped me.
"Just know something now. If anyone learns that you don't know who you are, or that you are a Controller, things will get out of hand. Just act normal, don't talk to anyone, and stay alert. I need to go round up some people that can help you. But first, you need to take your spot."
We walked in. There were hundreds of people in this first room. All I could hear them talk about was Robloxia, their home, ECT. I knew right where I was, and it had a clear view to the courtyard. I followed Acoreus to the courtyard. On the way there, I noticed things got quieter, and that people were giving me scared looks. Most people just kept on talking. Some seemed to talk with hushes. Few even ran away. I smiled when I saw someone take a spill after noticing me.
We made it out there, and I noticed something I didn't see before. Almost a line of thrones, it was the centerpiece of the courtyard. Not a lot of people were in the courtyard, as they all seemed to run away. When I got closer, I noticed that the thrones were actually floating, and rotating very slowly. Acoreus made a motion towards a chair. I walked towards the thrones when it stopped, and some stairs jutted out. I climed, and walked towards the nearest chair. I saw that on the head, it said "Briguy'.
I found my spot.
I sat down, and the throne line began to rotate again. People gave me scared looks, but most just kept on with their business. I began to wonder something while I was sitting there: Where are the other mods?
I wasn't far off. Soon another person, with the same necklace, began to approach me. He smiled at me, and walked up. He took the seat next to me. I looked up to see the name: Gordon
"So, how are you? Why are you up here? You usually mingle with everyone" Gordon said.
I had to say something to keep my cover. "I'm in no mood to mingle."
"Strange, you are usually always in the mood." He was about to continue to talk to me when...
"I HATE YOU ALL!"
We both looked over to see a little fight breaking out between some people. Most were wise to back up and give those arguing some fighting room.
"I THINK YOU STINK!"
"WELL YOU AREN'T MUCH BETTER!"
"YOUR HOUSE IS WORSE!"
I looked at Gordon, and he was focused on this fight. Soon he sighed, and got up. But before he went to go step down, he looked at me and said "Do you want to take care of this? It might put you in a better mood."
I smiled at the joke, then shook my head. He walked down and towards the fight. People instantly got out of his way and made a line straight to the fight. I saw him press his watch, and soon his hammer appeared. I listened and watched with great focus.
"Alright, what is going on?"
"HE STARTED IT!"
"Calm down. Both of you. I don't care who started it."
"But..."
"No. You have nothing to do with this. I have never had problems with you...this man however..."
"I didn't start anything."
"I was watching. I know that you were trying to get him mad."
Gordon didn't give him much of a chance. He lifted his hammer, and got it into a bat position. He spun around first and hit the man with extreme force. The man disappeared into the wall.
Just as this happened, Acoreus appeared with a group of people. He motioned me over and smiled. "I think everyone here deserves and explanation. Lets go to the side room" We began to walk, but I saw Acoreus motion Gordon to follow.
This wasn't going to be fun.
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Agent1000Join Date: 2008-07-23
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Very creative, you're way better then any of us. |
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Are you just saying that because he's a moderator?
Have you forgot of the users who are better than this, like Firruu?
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GamkaJoin Date: 2008-04-06
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Interesting briguy, :P funny how two people have the same idea for a story. Me a few monthes ago, you know. |
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gkkuJoin Date: 2008-05-02
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I'll read it tomorrow, dinner time now. Just posting so I can keep track of the thread, because my tracked threads are full. :p |
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I wish I could write like this. You've got skill. ^-^ |
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I really liked the ban hammer part. |
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Chapter 8: "We're in deep"
Acoreus spent the next hour trying to explain to everyone what had happened. Someone tried to leave and start babbling it to everyone, but Gordon stopped him before he went crazy.
I noticed that he completely skipped the part about that....thing that landed in my house. He probably doesn't have an explanation for it either, so he must be waiting to chat to Gordon about it alone.
When he was done, everyone was quiet, and everyone but Gordon had a scared look. Gordon, however, remained calm. After a brief silence, Gordon was the first to step up.
"I want everyone to remain quiet about this, or else. Something like this could cause panic, and since we're a man down right now, that would mean the mess would be MUCH harder to clean up." He made eye contact with everyone, who then nodded back to him. Everyone in the room left except Gordon, Acoreus, and me.
"Sorry Acoreus, but we have to talk about this matter alone." He seemed very disappointed, but just left without saying a word. He left the room, and it was just the two of us.
"Did he leave anything out of his story?" he said, with a hint of fear in his voice.
"Something attacked us at my home, but I hit it with my hammer and it went away."
He turned away from me, sighed a little, then walked over to the window. He was looking out, deep in thought. He sighed again, and looked straight at me, dead serious.
"I need to fill you in. That way you know that we're in deep. Wait here."
He left the room. I looked out the window he was at. To my amazement, we were above massive fields. Each one was different, some were floating above each other, and some were attached. It was easy to conclude each field was a place. In between each one was blobs transferring from our location to each place. I looked out knowing exactly what I was looking at: Robloxia.
Gordon came back, and closed the door. In his hands was something along the lines of a cube, but flattened at some corners and streached at others, like someone sat on it. He placed it in the middle of the room, and it began to glow.
"Every mod is told this story when they begin. Since you don't remember any of it, you need to be told again."
Soon the room around us began to melt, and soon so did Gordon. I began to panic, but calmed myself because I trusted Gordon.
The story was crazy.
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Robloxia was once a peaceful land, perfectly round, perfectly stable, and perfectly alone. It was like this for a long time.
Then it happened, what has been dubbed as the "Connection." A giant stream of data hit the world in an instant. This stream was so powerful, it shattered the great world. However, the data kept the pieces from floating off into the abyss.
At the exact moment, another world was created. It was dark. Evil. And at the moment, no one was there.
Back in Robloxia, people began to be controlled. They disappeared for moments, without any recollection of where they went.
Soon, one person became controlled, but didn't forget. Thats when he told everyone of the world that he visited. It was strange.
Many years in Robloxia passed. People began to get used to leaving. After all, it was never permanent. Soon, users began to get out of hand. Thats when we showed up. We had these hammers, but we had no clue why. They just got rid of the problem. It was abused for a while, then it slowed down, only for extreme circumstances.
Those who were hit came back with storys of the alternate world. It was strange, and they dubbed it as "ban" (a play on words of bad)
Then one day, someone never came back. Rumors said that the owner of the hammer was hoping that he would never come back. So he never did.
Months after that day, something happened. Things from the other world managed to get back to Robloxia when they shouldn't be. They were black in appearance. They were dubbed "shadows."
So the circle goes on. The shadows never become too much of a problem, but they are on the rise...
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I came back into the room, and was thrown back into a chair. Gordon came over, and looked at me like I was supposed to say something.
"Wow. That's bad. But, uh, whats so bad?" I said, still in some shock.
"The shadows. They've been on the rise since a few months ago, almost to the point that they're taking over." he said.
*SLAM*
Someone ran into the room. He was in a panic, and he was panting. The first thing I noticed was the necklace with the hammer jewel on the end. I don't know who he was, I just knew he was a mod, which was enough proof for me to realize it must be bad when he had to kick the door down.
"Gordon....Briguy.... They've finally gotten one."
He looked at me, then the cube thing in the middle of the room.
"Why is that out? You know we only take that out for new mods..."
Gordon ran over to him, and whispered in his ear. He seemed more shocked now, but took a deep breath to remember why he was here to begin with.
"Bad timing on his part, but we have to go to the edgelands. The shadows have finally gotten some foothold. We have to go. NOW!"
The man ran out, and Gordon nodded at me to follow. We all ran through the crowd out towards the bridge. But the man stopped, and so did I. He was looking up. I looked up to see tons of black blobs heading towards us. The man looked straight at me.
"Bad time for you to forget, but we need to hold this off."
He pressed his button and his hammer appeared. He began to ran, turned to me, and said
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GamkaJoin Date: 2008-04-06
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Pretty good, I hope you guys aren't just suking up to him. |
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Twigs180Join Date: 2008-03-10
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Pretty good story. One of the best I have seen here. You should try to get others mods to add chapters. |
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tftsJoin Date: 2008-12-25
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NICE |
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I just need to read Chapter 8 now.. |
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