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[[File:Dreams and Broken Wings cover image.png|right|thumb|''Scenario splash illustration'']]
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[[File:Les Mystères de Lyon cover.jpg|right|350px|''Front cover'']]
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'''Pages:'''
 
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* (1st ed.) 24
 
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* (2nd ed.) 25
 
  
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'''Author:''' [[Alex Mayo]]
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'''Publisher:''' [[Sans-Détour]]
  
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'''Artists:''' [[Brennen Reece]], [[Alex Mayo]]
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'''Product Code:''' <!--SD-ADC-028-->
  
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'''Editor(s):'''
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'''Publishing Year:''' 2012
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* (1st ed.) [[Rachel Wolfe]], [[Jill Spivey]], [[Jeffrey Eaton]], [[Jennifer Harlett]]
 
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* (2nd ed.) [[Dixie Cochran]], [[Jill Spivey]], [[Adam Alexander]], [[Mike Mason]]
 
  
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'''Setting:''' [[Harlem]], [[New York]], November 1927
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'''Pages:''' 256
  
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'''Appears in:'''
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'''Cover Price:''' 36.00€
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* (1st ed.) ''[[Harlem Unbound]]''
 
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* (2nd ed.) ''[[Harlem Unbound]]'', 2nd ed.
 
  
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==Summary==
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'''Author(s):''' [[Thomas Berthier]]
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The investigators must find out what has happened to Harlem artist Clayton Morris: He's disappeared, but his face has mysteriously appeared in one of his paintings, now owned by his sister. Their investigation unveils the intersections of Harlem's art, crime, and occult worlds as they learn about Morris's unparalleled ability as a dreamer of big dreams.
 
  
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==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
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'''Artist(s):''' [[Mariusz Gandzel]]
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'''Setting(s):''' [[1920s]] and [[1930s]]
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'''Format(s):''' Hardcover
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'''ISBN:''' 978-2-917994-43-6
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==Contents==
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*Chapitre I: L'histoire de Lyon [Chapter 1: History of Lyon]
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*Chapitre II: Lyon à la fin des Anées Folles [Chapter 2: Lyon at the end of the Roaring 20s]
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*Chapitre III: Autour de Lyon [Chapter 3: Around Lyon]
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*Chapitre IV: Histoire mystique et ésotérique de Lyon [Chapter 4: Mystical and Esoteric History of Lyon]
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*Campagne: [[Noces lyonnaises]] [Lyonnais Weddings]
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**[[Les écrits perdus de Simon de Phares]] [The lost writings of Simon de Phares]
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**[[Ouroboros]]
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**[[Sabbats mondains]] [High Society Sabbaths]
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**[[Devant l'autel de la Grande Mère]] [Before the Altar of the Great Mother]
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*Annexes [Appendices]
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*Postface
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*Index
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*Bibliographie [Bibliography]
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==Front Cover Text==
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Thomas Berthier
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La France des Années folles
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'''Les Mystères de Lyon'''
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L'Appel de Cthulhu
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===Synopsis===
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==Back Cover Text==
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{{spoiler|With Clayton Morris missing, the artist's sister gets even more spooked when the Harlem man's face appears in a painting he made for her. Looking for the missing artist reveals that much of Harlem is under some kind of spell that makes them irritable and depressed. The trail eventually reveals that Morris had accepted a strange deal from rich White men who promised him peace from the grief he felt after his wife, Lena, was shot and killed in a petty crime. Seizing on his desire to get her back and his unprecedented ability to enter the Dreamlands, the Temple of Leviathan said they would help him bring Lena back if he could find the plans for a dream battery in the Dreamlands&mdash;a device that drains the dreams of people nearby while allowing its user to channel that dream energy to conjure up their heart's desires. Morris confronted the Temple when he learned they were using their dream batteries to drain entire neighborhoods to fuel their carnal desires&mdash;so they had him killed by the mob. The investigators must recover the dream batteries fueling the Temple's dark rites and stop the group before it is too late.}}
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La France des Années folles
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'''Les Mystères de Lyon'''
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Avec '''Les Mystères de Lyon''', découvrez la plus méconnue des grandes villes de France ! La capitale des Gaules, de la gastronomie et de la soie, où naquirent Guignol et le cinéma. La cité aux deux eminences : Fourvière, la « colline qui prie » et la Croix-Rousse, la « colline qui travaille ». Faites surtout un voyage dans le temps et découvrez les racines de l'occultisme en Europe !
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Car Lyon recèle bien des mystères dont ses propres habitants ne soupçonnent même pas l'existence, comme son inextricable réseau de souterrains deux fois millénaire et qui servit de refuge à d'innombrables cultes mystérieux. Les connaisseurs comparent souvent la ville à Londres ou Prague et la considèrent comme la capitale française de l'ésotérisme. L'ouvrage dévoile par le détail les étranges événements qui s'y sont déroulés depuis l'antiquité : les rituels étrusques, les hérésies ou l'affaire des sorciers de Lyon. Il décrit également les personnalités marquantes qui y sont séjourné : de Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, grande figure de la franc-maçonnerie illuministe, à Maïtre Philippe, prédécesseur de Raspoutine à la cour du tsar Nicolas II, en passant par Allan Kardec, fondateur du spiritisme, Nostradamus ou encore Cornelius Agrippa, source de l'occultisme moderne.
  
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===References===
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Richement documenté et largement illustré de photos d'époque '''Les Mystères de Lyon''' est le premier ouvrage de la série '''La France des Années Folies'''. Cette série propose des nouveaux suppléments aux joueurs de ''L'Appel de Cthulhu'', mais s'adresse également à tout passionné de l'histoire de France méconnue.
  
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'''Player Handouts:'''
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En outre, une campagne en quatre scénarios inspirés de faits réels met vos investigateurs aux prises avec de mystérieuses sociétés secretes, sur la piste de Shub-Niggurath, la Chèvre Noires des Bois !
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* Shooting of Lena Thoreau (newspaper article)
 
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* Lena Thoreau’s Obituary in ''The New York Amsterdam News'' (newspaper article)
 
  
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'''Locations:'''
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===English translation===
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* Pearl Wilkins’ apartment
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France in the Roaring 20s
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* Clayton Morris’ apartment
 
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* Clayton Morris’ studio
 
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* Cecil Dreyfuss’ workshop
 
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* East Harlem Policy Office
 
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* Madame Yonday’s (occult shop)
 
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* Temple Sanctuary (abandoned theater)
 
  
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'''Creatures:'''
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'''Mysteries of Lyon'''
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* [[Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua|Formless Spawn]]
 
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'''Tomes and Artifacts:'''  
 
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* Dream battery
 
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* The [[Morris Collection]] (notes and sketches)
 
  
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'''Organizations'''
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With '''The Mysteries of Lyon''', discover the most unknown big city in France! The capital of the Gauls, gastronomy, and silk, where Guignol [a marionette character] and cinema were born. The city of two hills: Fourvière, the "hill that prays," and the Croix-Rousse, the "hill that works." Most of all, take a trip back in time and discover the roots of occultism in Europe!
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* [[Temple of Leviathan]]
 
  
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===Comments===
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For Lyon hides many mysteries that its own inhabitants do not even suspect exist, like its inextricable network of underground spaces two-million years old, which have given refuge to countless mysterious cults. Those in the know compare the city to London or Prague and consider it the capital of esotericism in France. The book reveals in detail the strange events that have taken place there since antiquity: Etruscan rituals, heresies or the case of Lyon's sorcerers. It also describes the major personalties who stayed there: from Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, a major figure in illuminated Freemasonry, to Master Philippe, predecessor to Rasputin in the court of Czar Nicolas II, and then on to Allan Kardec, the founder of spiritism, Nostradamus, and Cornelius Agrippa, source of modern occultism.
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===Keeper Comments===
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Richly documented and largely illustrated by historical photos, '''Mysteries of Lyon''' is the first book in the series '''France in the Roaring 20s'''. This series will consist of new supplements for ''Call of Cthulhu'' players, but will also be of interest to anyone passionate about the unknown history of France.
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Keepers should read the scenario carefully; as written, it contains a few bottlenecks in which key clues are gated behind skill checks. The scenario can be simplified, as well. Some ways to do this include:
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#Rather than splitting the creation of the dream batteries between two artists (Morris, the discoverers and drafter of the plans, and Dreyfuss, the sculptor of the physical batteries), merge the two roles into one person. In this change, Morris either becomes a sculptor, or the dream battery becomes a two-dimensional drawing of some sort. Either way, Morris has both found the plans for the batteries in the Dreamlands, and he has created the batteries himself.
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In addition, a campaign of four scenarios inspired by real events puts your investigators in the grips of mysterious secret societies, on the trail of Shub-Niggurath, the Dark Goat of the Woods!
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#The criminal faction in the scenario can be removed to simplify things by having one of the rich cultists kill Morris rather than hiring a gangster to do so. Such a change would also make the cultists more present as villains; the scenario as written doesn't really introduce them until the scenario has almost concluded.
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#The ritual the investigators must foil comes out of nowhere. Keepers may wish to seed information about the cult and their ritual earlier, and establishe it as a bad thing the investigators need to stop. Revealing that the ritual will take place puts a clock on the scenario that can lead to some interesting suspense.
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==Comments / Trivia==
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#The fact that the investigators have to collect four dream batteries may cause the scenario to drag on too long. To shorten things, reduce the number of dream batteries to two: one of these is in Morris's apartment, and the second is the one the cult is planning to use for its ritual.
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#The scenario does not clarify why Morris was able to use the dream battery to conjure a Dreamlands version of his wife, but the cultists have not been able to do similar things and must instead conduct a ritual. To reconcile this disparity, the final encounter may involve not the thwarting of a ritual, but rather the crashing of a hedonistic soirée wherein the cultists have already conjured up dream figures for their own carnal pleasure. In this version of the scenario, the final scene involves fighting dream creatures, trying to determine what is real and what is illusion, and recovering the dream battery to stop the madness.
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==Links==
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Reviews (in French)
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*[http://www.legrog.org/jeux/appel-de-cthulhu/1920-s-1930-s/mysteres-de-lyon-fr Guide du rôliste galactique]
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*[http://www.khimairaworld.com/les-mysteres-de-lyon-pour-lappel-de-cthulhu/ Khimaira]
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*[https://www.emaginarock.fr/2012/jeux/les-mysteres-de-lyon-lappel-de-cthulhu-23-thomas-berthier/ eMaginarock]
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*[http://biblio-drizztversion2.overblog.com/2014/07/les-mysteres-de-lyon-l-appel-de-cthulhu.html La bibliothèque éclectique]
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*[https://www.unificationfrance.com/article22759.html?lang=fr Unification]
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==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
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'''Players should not read any further.'''
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Revision as of 02:40, 23 May 2020

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Publisher: Sans-Détour

Product Code:

Publishing Year: 2012

Pages: 256

Cover Price: 36.00€

Author(s): Thomas Berthier

Artist(s): Mariusz Gandzel

Setting(s): 1920s and 1930s

Format(s): Hardcover

ISBN: 978-2-917994-43-6

Contents

  • Chapitre I: L'histoire de Lyon [Chapter 1: History of Lyon]
  • Chapitre II: Lyon à la fin des Anées Folles [Chapter 2: Lyon at the end of the Roaring 20s]
  • Chapitre III: Autour de Lyon [Chapter 3: Around Lyon]
  • Chapitre IV: Histoire mystique et ésotérique de Lyon [Chapter 4: Mystical and Esoteric History of Lyon]
  • Campagne: Noces lyonnaises [Lyonnais Weddings]
  • Annexes [Appendices]
  • Postface
  • Index
  • Bibliographie [Bibliography]

Front Cover Text

Thomas Berthier

La France des Années folles

Les Mystères de Lyon

L'Appel de Cthulhu

Editions Sans-Détour

Back Cover Text

La France des Années folles

Les Mystères de Lyon

Avec Les Mystères de Lyon, découvrez la plus méconnue des grandes villes de France ! La capitale des Gaules, de la gastronomie et de la soie, où naquirent Guignol et le cinéma. La cité aux deux eminences : Fourvière, la « colline qui prie » et la Croix-Rousse, la « colline qui travaille ». Faites surtout un voyage dans le temps et découvrez les racines de l'occultisme en Europe !

Car Lyon recèle bien des mystères dont ses propres habitants ne soupçonnent même pas l'existence, comme son inextricable réseau de souterrains deux fois millénaire et qui servit de refuge à d'innombrables cultes mystérieux. Les connaisseurs comparent souvent la ville à Londres ou Prague et la considèrent comme la capitale française de l'ésotérisme. L'ouvrage dévoile par le détail les étranges événements qui s'y sont déroulés depuis l'antiquité : les rituels étrusques, les hérésies ou l'affaire des sorciers de Lyon. Il décrit également les personnalités marquantes qui y sont séjourné : de Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, grande figure de la franc-maçonnerie illuministe, à Maïtre Philippe, prédécesseur de Raspoutine à la cour du tsar Nicolas II, en passant par Allan Kardec, fondateur du spiritisme, Nostradamus ou encore Cornelius Agrippa, source de l'occultisme moderne.

Richement documenté et largement illustré de photos d'époque Les Mystères de Lyon est le premier ouvrage de la série La France des Années Folies. Cette série propose des nouveaux suppléments aux joueurs de L'Appel de Cthulhu, mais s'adresse également à tout passionné de l'histoire de France méconnue.

En outre, une campagne en quatre scénarios inspirés de faits réels met vos investigateurs aux prises avec de mystérieuses sociétés secretes, sur la piste de Shub-Niggurath, la Chèvre Noires des Bois !

English translation

France in the Roaring 20s

Mysteries of Lyon

With The Mysteries of Lyon, discover the most unknown big city in France! The capital of the Gauls, gastronomy, and silk, where Guignol [a marionette character] and cinema were born. The city of two hills: Fourvière, the "hill that prays," and the Croix-Rousse, the "hill that works." Most of all, take a trip back in time and discover the roots of occultism in Europe!

For Lyon hides many mysteries that its own inhabitants do not even suspect exist, like its inextricable network of underground spaces two-million years old, which have given refuge to countless mysterious cults. Those in the know compare the city to London or Prague and consider it the capital of esotericism in France. The book reveals in detail the strange events that have taken place there since antiquity: Etruscan rituals, heresies or the case of Lyon's sorcerers. It also describes the major personalties who stayed there: from Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, a major figure in illuminated Freemasonry, to Master Philippe, predecessor to Rasputin in the court of Czar Nicolas II, and then on to Allan Kardec, the founder of spiritism, Nostradamus, and Cornelius Agrippa, source of modern occultism.

Richly documented and largely illustrated by historical photos, Mysteries of Lyon is the first book in the series France in the Roaring 20s. This series will consist of new supplements for Call of Cthulhu players, but will also be of interest to anyone passionate about the unknown history of France.

In addition, a campaign of four scenarios inspired by real events puts your investigators in the grips of mysterious secret societies, on the trail of Shub-Niggurath, the Dark Goat of the Woods!

Comments / Trivia

Links

Reviews (in French)

Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only

Players should not read any further.

Comment here to Keepers about this book. Comments on specific Scenarios and Campaigns go on their respective pages. Keep DISCUSSION on the talk page.

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