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They seemed to be not as powerful as their sire nor as powerful as they could have been for though they were immortal, they could also be slain \u2013 and often were, sometimes accidentally.\nThe vulture familiar was a nasty piece of work though; it attacked and killed any lover of the one that the Incubus seduced whether by instruction from its master or for the sheer joy of it. Dusty knew that she\u2019d have to watch out for that if she were to make it back to Ange in her bedroom. If she didn\u2019t make it back, she presumed that Ange would eventually wake up on her own, but that could take days \u2013 or she may never wake up, not without the proper incantations.\nOoh bad idea, giving herself bad thoughts in a bad place. Dusty focussed on her destination. The Wraith Mountains were dead ahead and she could still see Impundulu running towards them.\n\u201cWhy is he running and not flying? It can\u2019t be because of his familiar, it would protect him, wouldn\u2019t it?\u201d She said out loud, if for no other reason than just to break the deathly and ancient silence.\nDusty picked up her pace too and ran. Her Demon side took over on the Astral Plane and she was thankful for that. Her human lungs would not have coped well with the sulphurous air and the constant ash clouds wafting across her path. Sometimes the ash was so thick that she lost sight of Impundulu.\nDusty was gaining on the Incubus as he reached the foothills of the Wraith Mountains but she could still see him from time to time as he struggled over the loose rocks and boulders. Again Dusty wondered why on earth he wasn\u2019t using his ability to fly. \nShe reached the foothills minutes after Impundulu and followed the path that he had taken. She didn\u2019t take to the air again because she was worried about the vulture familiar but she did take huge leaps over rocks when she could see clearly enough to choose her landing place.\nShe looked up and saw Impundulu disappearing into a cave in the side of the mountain only a few hundred feet above her and she took one more huge leap which bordered on flight and landed at the cave entrance only moments after Impundulu had gone in.\n\nShe rushed in and realised her mistake because Impundulu was waiting for her on the other side of the entrance. He struck her across the shoulders with the full weight of his forearm and knocked the breath out of her. She staggered forward and dropped to her hands and knees but she moved fast enough to avoid the vicious kick from Impundulu\u2019s clawed foot and it swung past her nose as she pulled back her head. Then she was on her feet and facing him. Her knife was in its sheath and she didn\u2019t have the time to take it out so she had to rely on her unarmed fighting skills, such as they were. She also had the knowledge of her demonic powers on the Astral Plane but so did Impundulu and he was full-demon, not half, like her.\nThe fight was not going so well for Dusty and she caught Impundulu\u2019s fist to the side of her head and as she saw stars and blackness closing in on her vision, her last thought was that she had let Ange, her best friend in the whole world, down \u2013 terminally.\n\nWhen Dusty woke up she was sitting against a large rock and her head was throbbing. She looked around for Impundulu but didn\u2019t see him and wondered why he had left her alive.\nThen she panicked and thought about Ange who was still sitting in the middle of a bedsheet, surrounded by salt and burnt-out candles and she stood up. Her head thumped and her vision swam and she realised that Impundulu had whacked her a fair one but she had to get back to Ange.\nAgain her sight went from normal to tunnel vision and the blackness closed in and she knew she was going to pass out. Shaking her head wouldn\u2019t help but she tried it anyway and stumbled to one side, landing on one knee with a hand to the ground to steady herself. Then she felt a hand under her arm, helping her up. She looked around but couldn\u2019t quite see who or what was helping her but she mentally prepared herself in case it was Impundulu lulling her into a false sense of security.\nWhen she was standing upright again, she feigned dizziness more than was necessary in order to put Impundulu off his guard.\n\u201cThe deception is not necessary. I know that you are not so badly injured as you are making out to be. You can stand up straight without fear of further injury. If I had wanted to kill you, I would have done it when you were unconscious.\u201d The voice was deep and calming and she looked up in surprise. It was not Impundulu. It was certainly not Impundulu.\n\nThe young man that stood before her was taller than she was with jet black hair and violet eyes. The eyes danced with a humour that she could almost feel and his smile was kind. His clothing was contemporary but other-worldly, he had clothed himself as she had, once he had arrived in this world. The chances were, then, that he was human or at least half-human as she was. \nSuddenly Dusty was very interested.\n\u201cOh, hi.\u201d She had become suddenly tongue-tied. \u201cI\u2019m Dusty,\u201d she managed.\n\u201cYes you are, but a quick brush down will sort that out.\u201d He looked at her a little strangely and she wondered why for a moment and then it occurred to her that he thought she was describing her state rather than introducing herself.\n\u201dOh no, I mean, my name is Dusty.\u201d\nHe nodded that he understood and his smile widened. \u201cIs that a nickname of some sort? I mean, are you always dishevelled and that\u2019s why you acquired the name?\u201d\n\u201cNo, it\u2019s my given name. It means valiant fighter. My mum knew what I was, you see.\u201d\nAgain he nodded. \u201cHalf-demon you mean?\u201d\nIt was Dusty\u2019s turn to nod. \u201cAnd you are?\u201d She prompted him to make his introduction.\n\u201cHunter.\u201d\n\u201cOf what?\u201d\nHis brow furrowed and his eyes narrowed as a result and she was taken aback at how very gorgeous he was and suddenly she was on the alert again because she remembered how her mother had been Glamoured and where that had led her. \n\u201cI mean, what do you hunt?\u201d She explained.\n\u201cNo, I am a hunter yes, obviously, but my name is Hunter. My parents knew what I was too. I hunt for bounties though, people and other \u2013 ah, beings \u2013 pay me to hunt things.\u201d He finished with a weak explanation but Dusty knew that he probably didn\u2019t want to mention demons as his quarry because of her heritage. \u2018Hmm, gorgeous and thoughtful... I like that,\u2019 she thought.\n\u201cWhat happened to Impundulu? I have to catch him and bind him so that he forgets about my friend Ange.\u201d\n\u201cI have already performed that ceremony on the Incubus; I doubt it will be bothering your friend again.\u201d\n\u201cYou do understand that I can\u2019t just take your word for that? I don\u2019t know why you had anything to do with this but my duty is not being paid for, it\u2019s personal. My friend is in danger and I\u2019m the only one she can turn to. I need to make certain if you don\u2019t mind, now, which way did Impundulu go?\u201d\n\u201cI can take you to it, him if you like.\u201d\nThey exited the cave, Dusty following Hunter; taking note of the clothes he had adorned himself with on entering the Demon-side of the Astral Plane. His tastes ran very similar to hers. Mainly black and casual-functional, sturdy boots, knife sheath, jeans, t-shirt and leather jacket, although hers were still the dull red colour for camouflage on the ash road. Hunter also had something very interesting hanging from his belt. It was a long silver thread but it swayed as though it was exceptionally heavy.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d She asked once they were down at the bottom of the Wraith Mountains and on level ground again.\nHunter looked to where she was pointing and shrugged. \u201cIt\u2019s a rope.\u201d\n\u201cYes, but what kind of rope? There\u2019s something special about it, please tell me.\u201d\nHunter sighed and Dusty wanted to listen to him sigh again and again. She shook herself and brought her mind back to the matter in hand.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a rope made from Unicorn mane and it makes demons forget.\u201d\nDusty saw a look pass across his eyes and stopped in her path. \u201cOh, so you\u2019re thinking that if you had used that on me back up in the cave, I would have forgotten about my mission and you wouldn\u2019t be taking me to find that Incubus. You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you\u2019d have thought of that,\u201d she said, smiling at his obvious neglect in his duties.\n\u201cIt obviously didn\u2019t work, did it?\u201d He asked pointedly.\n\u201cWhat? You mean you used that thing on me? How dare you?\u201d Dusty became angry and yet her mind was working overtime. \u201cSo you rescued me from the Incubus, wiped his memory and then tried to wipe mine? Did you also try putting a Glamour on me too?\u201d She saw the look on his face and stopped walking again. \u201cYou did! Oh I can\u2019t believe this! So, what do you really look like? Show me or I\u2019ll perform the incantations myself.\u201d\nThe sulphurous air shimmered as he dropped his Glamour. He still looked the same but he wasn\u2019t as irresistibly attractive as he had been. Instead, the young man before her looked like a young man rather than a demi-god.\n\u201cYeah, that\u2019s better. I should have known,\u201d she muttered and walked past him.\n\u201cYou can\u2019t blame me for trying, Dusty,\u201d he said to her back. Then he ran a little to catch her up. \u201cYou took on that Incubus on your own, without your weapon even and I thought you were so brave and I figured that if I helped you, you\u2019d just look on me as a kid and wouldn\u2019t want to know me, so I made you think I was cool before you got to know me.\u201d\n\u201cActually, idiot, I thought you were cool for helping me anyway. How old are you then?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m almost two centuries old, you see, I\u2019m still very young in all of this...\u201d\n\u201cYou think you\u2019re...\u201d She stopped talking and walking at the same moment. \u201cJust how old do you think I am, Hunter?\u201d\nHe did not seem to catch the hint in her voice and he went on and answered the question. \u201cWell, you\u2019re able to fly on the Astral Plane, you can clothe yourself and alter the colour of your clothing to camouflage yourself and the birds came to protect you and I know you\u2019re part demon so I figure you must be easily a millennium...?\u201d\n\u201cReally? No, I actually mean it, really?\u201d \nHe nodded.\n\u201cI\u2019m eighteen years old.\u201d She said it in such a cold tone that there could have been ice forming on the words.\n\u201cOh,\u201d was all that Hunter could manage.\n\u201cAnd the birds, that wasn\u2019t my doing. As for the rest, my mother went to great efforts to learn everything she could about my... about the Incubus that spawned me and she studied and taught me for the eleven years that she lived after my birth. Then my grandparents took it upon themselves to continue my studies because they felt that they owed it to my mother to protect me in every way they could. They made me practice my Astral Planing and everything to do with Daemonology. My grandfather is now so knowledgeable about the subject that he gives talks and seminars on the subject and they travel the world giving the talks.\u201d\n\u201cYes, I have heard of your grandparents. I have even been to a few of their seminars, which was another reason for thinking you were so cool. I didn\u2019t realise that you were their granddaughter though. I thought they knew so much because you had been teaching them for their whole lives.\u201d\n\u201cYeah, apology accepted,\u201d Dusty said sarcastically and began walking again.",
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My bedroom doesn\u2019t smell that bad does it?\u201d\n\u201cYeah, it does, but it won\u2019t in a while, don\u2019t worry.\u201d Dusty bent to pick up the sheets and saw the sticky mess that Ange had begun to clean up. It had soaked through the bottom sheet, onto the bed and left a large stain like an old bloodstain that someone had made a half-hearted attempt at cleaning. The sheet was in much the same state but the stain was still wet, and cold was emanating from the centre of the bundled sheets.\nDusty held the sheet out to Ange and against her better judgement, she bent forward and took a sniff. \nDusty threw the bundle out onto the landing as Ange recovered from the overpowering stench that had assailed her nostrils.\n\u201cCome on, we\u2019ve got to clear the room.\u201d Dusty told Ange.\n\nThey worked together for the rest of the morning, taking out the mattress together and leaning it up against the banister and then moving the bed and standing it up against the wall. They were fortunate in the fact that the bed was one of those low, modern ones that didn\u2019t take much shifting or hefting. Then Dusty began to lift the carpet at the corner of the room. Ange asked what she was doing and Dusty explained.\n\u201cI\u2019ve got to draw a pentagram on the floor. I have to make sure that the floor is perfectly clean because if there\u2019s any chance of dirt in the pentagram, you\u2019ll be in a lot of danger, and so will I. Fetch the hoover will you? Don\u2019t take the sheets please,\u201d Dusty called as Ange went to do as she was asked.\n\nOnce the floor was cleared of the carpet and vacuumed thoroughly, Dusty fetched her tankbag from her motorcycle. Inside it was a large black sheet, larger than a double bedsheet, a large container of salt and two candlesticks with candles. She was careful to lay the sheet down on the floor without wrinkles or folds and then she took off her clothes and placed them in a pile in the corner of the room. Ange was a little embarrassed but was becoming far too tired to worry about her best friend\u2019s strange behaviour. Dusty went into the bathroom and took a very quick but thorough shower and came back all clean but with damp hair.\n\nThe sheet had a very faint outline of a circle and a star in the centre of it and Dusty traced the outline in salt. She opened the container and allowed the salt to fall in a steady stream onto the sheet in a perfect circle. Just before the circle was completed, she beckoned Ange to step forward and only completed the circle once she was inside it. Then she drew the star-shape to complete the pentagram. Dusty told Ange to sit down in the middle of the star where there was a large clear patch, free of salt. Then Dusty placed the two candlesticks on either side of Ange and lit the candles. When Ange was comfortable, Dusty stepped out of the pentagram and muttered a lot of words that Ange didn\u2019t recognise. After a short time, Ange didn\u2019t notice that Dusty was speaking words she didn\u2019t understand, she drifted into a very deep and restful sleep, still in the sitting position. \nWhen Ange had dropped to sleep, Dusty picked up her tankbag again and removed a very sharp-looking knife. It would seem to be a ceremonial dagger except that the edge was glinting as it was moved. There was nothing ceremonial about the dagger; it was a weapon and an effective one at that. Dusty was still naked and she opened out the sheets that Ange had stripped from her bed only a few hours before. She folded them so that the majority of the sticky wet mess was on the inside and then sat upon the pile of bedding, she was still naked and she was exceptionally calm. She watched her friend recharge her batteries in a deep and enchanted sleep and she waited.\n\nThe clock on the bedside table that had been taken out to the top of the landing ticked and Dusty could see it from where she sat. The hands were crawling their way towards three a.m. and the Witching Hour. Dusty made herself ready. From the ceiling in one corner a dark patch spread. It looked very much like damp or mould, dark grey with patches of black. From that patch a figure appeared and dropped to the bedroom floor. Dusty recognised it at once.\n\u201cImpundulu, we meet again.\u201d\nThe figure wore his seducing image but Dusty was not fooled by his Glamour. Her eyes were demon\u2019s eyes and she had performed the correct rituals to enable her to see past his enchantment and she saw him in his true form, repulsive and grotesque.\n\u201cDusty the demon hunter, what are you doing here? I do hope that you\u2019ve come to offer me a threesome?\u201d  His words dripped honey and were meant to antagonise her but he tried only in a flippant manner because he realised that she was not going to fall into his traps designed to make her angry and mentally off-balance.\n\u201cI suppose I should have realised that it was you that had come for her. You are by far the most powerful Incubus and I should have guessed that only one so powerful as you could bewitch her and toy with her for so long without killing her.\u201d Dusty played her own game and she was far better at it than Impundulu was. He did not realise that she was flattering him and making him preen and prance in his vanity. He did not realise that she had his scent on her from sitting on the bedsheets and therefore he was attracted to her by the smell. He also did not realise that she had stood for a reason and that reason was not to give him the full view of her trim and supple body but it was to entice him into the bathroom.\n\nImpundulu followed Dusty without a glance at Ange and he sniffed the air as he went across the landing. He was entranced by her swaying hips as she walked slowly and seductively before him. When he had followed her through the bathroom door into the dark room, she pushed it closed and turned to face the Incubus. \u201cNow, Impundulu; watch.\u201d Dusty pulled the light cord and the fluorescent lights illuminated the bathroom. Impundulu did not understand for a moment and his demon eyes were dazzled by the bright light reflecting off the gleaming tiles and the mirror facing him... and the mirror behind him on the back of the bathroom door. He was caught between two mirrors and in them; he could see his image from the front and the back views. He could also see his Glamour image and his true image and he screeched in fury.\n\u201cYou have tricked me you traitorous bitch! You have trapped me!\u201d\n\u201cYes I have and now, I intend to send you back to the hell-hole that spawned you.\u201d She pushed the demon hard in the middle of what passed for a chest and he stumbled backwards towards the mirror on the bathroom door. As he passed through the glass and into the world beyond, his claw reached out and grabbed for Dusty. He could not get a proper grip on her because she had no clothes on but he had grasped for the hand that held the knife and he managed to get purchase on her fist and he desperately clung on, dragging her with him through the mirror and into his world.\n\nHe let her go as he landed on the ash floor, because she had twisted her wrist and the lethal blade had gashed his arm to the bone. As she landed gracefully, she instantly clothed herself in her usual black jeans, black boots, black t-shirt and black leather bike jacket. He was again furious when he realised that she was not a stranger to his world, she was used to the Astral Plane and knew very well how her powers of self-perception worked. \nInstead of attacking her, Impundulu took to his heels and fled deeper into the ravaged lands that he called home, holding his arm and dripping black blood on the surface of the pathway.\nShe could see into the distance where Impundulu was heading and she was in no particular hurry to follow him there. Ange would be safe for a good few hours yet and so Dusty took a look around and got her bearings before making a move.\nShe saw the Ash Desert stretching out interminably to her left and she would rather have followed Impundulu through that harsh and unforgiving landscape than to the Wraith Mountains where he had taken off to.\nSighing, Dusty took to the air and moved upward. 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Did you dream that you had fantastic sex with him?\u201d\n\u201cWell, yes...\u201d\n\u201cAre you on the Pill?\u201d\nAnge\u2019s cheeks had not had time to cool from the previous embarrassing question and they coloured up hotter and redder than before but this time she answered truthfully and immediately.\n\u201cYes I am.\u201d\n\u201cWell that\u2019s some good news at least.\u201d Dusty said almost under her breath but Ange heard her.\n\u201cReally, Dusty? I mean, really? You\u2019re happy because I can\u2019t get pregnant by a dream lover?\u201d\n\u201cYes Ange, really. That\u2019s not a dream lover, it\u2019s a nightmare one. You\u2019re being attacked by an Incubus. I don\u2019t know if the Pill will be enough to stop your body from becoming pregnant by the Incubus. My thoughts would suggest that if you can remember to take it, you\u2019ll be ok but if your subconscious takes over and makes you forget to, well then you could be in trouble.\u201d\n\u201cWhat the hell, Dusty? 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Consider applying to the film program, they\u2019re looking for screenwriting majors,\u201d he moved to the next student. \n\n\u201cPhillip  Johnson, well done as always, see you beautiful people tomorrow,\u201d he called after us as we exited. \n\n\u201cJack, if you don\u2019t pass biology, there will be no transfer next semester, you get that right?\u201d Phillip said, grabbing my arm. \n\n**\u201cYes mom, look, I\u2019ll just drop the class and keep it off my transcript,\u201d I said.** \n\n\u201cWhat? Do you actually pay attention to anything? If you drop that, there\u2019s not enough credits on your transcript, no more financial aid, no more school until you get the money to pay the bill\u2026\u201d\n\n\u201cDone,\u201d I said, slapping him on the chest as I brushed past him, snatching a notice from the \u2018Science Opportunities\u2019 billboard. \n\n\u201cBrilliant idea, Phil, brilliant! Look, here\u2019s your money right here!\u201d \n\n*I turned the paper to face him and he took it, reading, \u201cInternational Fellowship of Sasquatch Researchers grant application? Are you freaking serious? This is not legit, man. And if  it  was, you wouldn\u2019t get it.\u201d*\n\n\u201cWanna bet?\u201d\n\nOver the next 24 hours, I became as much of a bigfoot expert as I could, consuming over 12 hours of \u201cDiscovery Channel\u201d documentaries, searching dozens of websites and watching another 2 hours of Youtube footage. \n\n**I could do this.** \n\n> Pause for just a moment. If I had been able to see into the future to\n> see exactly where this all was going to lead, it\u2019s doubtful I would\n> have been so cavalier, but who knows? You only live once, right?\n\n\u201cOkay, here\u2019s the plan. We set up a camera, create a Vlog, back date the whole thing and put together a resume. We take some selfies in places that look like bigfoot country, write a few blog posts and send in the application. With my writing abilities and your\u2026pessimistic attitude, we\u2019re perfect.\u201d I told Phil.\n\n\u201cWhat\u2019s your project?\u201d\n\n\u201cHuh?\u201d\n\n\u201cThe project, you have to have a project you want funded with the grant, what\u2019s it going to be?\u201d Phillip asked smugly, sure I\u2019d missed this detail. \n\n**\u201cWe\u2019re going to Honobia,\u201d** \n\nI said, booting up my tablet and clicking on a tab way in the back as a webpage popped up. \u201cWe\u2019re going to shoot the Bigfoot conference.\u201d\n\nThe next day we had a response. They wanted a telephone interview. 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We\u2019d love to see it dun right.\u201d\n\n**\u201cUh, yeah, team, they\u2019re listening in right now. My roommate, Phil is my uh\u2026\u201d I looked to Phil.**\n\n\u201cDP, uh, director of photography,\u201d he whispered. \n\n\u201cHe\u2019s the DP, you know, directory of photography and we have an audio guy,\u201d I covered the phone, \u201cWho here can do foley?\u201d six hands shot up. \u201cReally? Who knows what I just freaking said?\u201d one hand remained up, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d\n\n\u201cCarlos Mendez,\u201d he said. He looked serious and he was carrying a digital recording rig, \u201cIs this a paying gig?\u201d\n\n\u201cCarlos  Mendez, on foley for our audio, and we\u2019re really excited to get down there and, uh , get this thing in the can,\u201d I said. \n\n\u201cIs it paying?\u201d Carlos hissed. \n\n**\u201cWell, you got yourself a grant young man. We wuz thinking we  could just PayPal the money, that work?\u201d Petey said.** \n\n\u201cUh, yeah, how soon do you think that would be, we\u2019re needing to rent some uh, some gear\u2026\u201d\n\n\u201cIs this here your PayPal email what you sent the application from?\u201d Petey asked. \n\n\u201cYes, yes sir, it is,\u201d I replied, holding my breath. \n\n**There were sounds of clicking on a keyboard, \u201cDammit, Wilkes, you spill tobacco on my keyboard agin? The damn enter key is stickin. There, you got it\u2026now. We look forward to hearing from you.\u201d*\n\n*\u201cWait, what? That\u2019s it? Uh, okay, so when do we check in?\u201d I said, trying to sound professional enough to not get the charges reversed instantly.**\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be in touch, wunce you got sumthin,\u201d Petey said. \n\n\u201cHow will you know?\u201d I asked. \n\n**Petey chuckled, \u201cCryptozoology is a pretty tight knit community, we\u2019ll know.\u201d** \n\nThere was silence, \u201cHello?\u201d A dial tone erupted from the speaker, followed by a ping. \n\nI picked up my phone and the whole room collectively held its breath, as I checked my email, \u201cHoly crap! It\u2019s there, Phil, I just got a grant to make a movie about something that doesn\u2019t even exist, for $10,000.00 dollars!\u201d\n\n*Everyone in the commons cheered. People were stopping to stare, poking their heads out of doors. Students, who had heard the story, were informing total strangers, everyone was smiling except for Phil.* \n\n\u201cDo you know what you just did?\u201d he swallowed.\n\n\u201cYeah, I just got $10k for making a movie, what\u2019s wrong with you?\u201d\n\n****\u201cYou just signed a contract with the Little Dixie Mafia to make a scam movie for 10 grand,\u201d he said quietly. He looked so pale I thought he might pass out.** \n\n\u201cDude, lighten up, they are just a bunch of ignorant rednecks, it\u2019s fine. Come on, we got a movie to make man!\u201d \n\n*By five PM that night, I had a list of 25 film students begging to crew my movie. I didn\u2019t know what we would do with them all but Phil, who had finally come around, said sell them a producer credit, since that\u2019s what they needed anyway, was resume credit. So, I did who knew so many of them would go for it?* \n\n\u201cMan, do you know how much money is here?\u201d Phil said, sweating. \n\n\u201cYeah, over $12k, man, this might just turn out to be a legit thing,\u201d I replied. \n\nPhil, huffed, \u201cYou\u2019re still not getting it, this has got to be meth money, and the guys who sent you that $10,000.00 don\u2019t mess around, Jack. My uncle was a sheriff deputy in McCurtain county and I am telling you, you don\u2019t want to scam these guys.\u201d\n\n\u201cOkay, so, we go to the festival, pick up some ideas on a bigger story, and make a real movie,\u201d I said. \n\n\u201cThe one thing you may know even less about than the Little Dixie Mafia is film making.\u201d\n\n**I smiled, \u201cThat\u2019s why I have you Phil,\u201d I said hugging him.** \n\n\u201cGet off me, dude, I have a girlfriend,\u201d he said, \u201cbesides, highschool AV club and a couple of summer film camps did not prepare me to manage a $12,000.00 production budget. Look, if you want me in on this, you\u2019re doing it my way,\u201d Phil said. \n\n\u201cFine with me, all I really wanted was to pay for school, and that is covered.\u201d\n\n\u201cUm, no, not it\u2019s not. We can\u2019t touch this money except for film expenses until we have something to show for it!\u201d\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s the whole reason I started this, what do you mean, no? There\u2019s plenty. How much can a film cost?\u201d\n\n*Phil Just laughed.* \n\n**The next morning, my account balance was $700.00.**\n\n\u201cWhat the hell? Where did all of the money go?\u201d \n\n\u201cWell, the investment capital, by law, has to be held in escrow until it\u2019s spent on expenses, so I moved it. The rest we spent on equipment, a van and a trailer,\u201d Phil informed me. \n\n\u201cOkay, so when do we go pick it out?\u201d \n\n\u201cPick what out?\u201d Phil asked. \n\n\u201cThe van, the gear?\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s a rental package, there\u2019s no picking it out,\u201d Phil said. \n\n\u201cSo, you mean we spent $12,000.00 and after this is over I don\u2019t even get a cool camera?\u201d I was starting to regret inviting Phil. \n\n**The doorbell rang, on the step was an Amazon package.** \n\n\u201cCool, it\u2019s here already!\u201d Phil said, taking the package  and slicing it open. \n\n\u201cWhat is it?\u201d \n\n\u201cThe camera you wanted,\u201d he said, pulling a Go Pro with a head mount out of the box. \u201cHere, play with this.\u201d\n\n*I did, and by the time we were ready to load up, we had also acquired three body cams, that we intended to wear throughout the entire experience. We picked up the van and trailer the day before and unbolted the back seats to make room for an air mattress, at Phil\u2019s suggestion, in case we needed to camp in the van, leaving enough room for up to 6 passengers.* \n\n\u201cWe need a line producer,\u201d I insisted, consulting my \u2018film for dummies\u2019 guide to make sure I was using the right term. \n\n\u201cNo, we don\u2019t, that\u2019s the same as a script supervisor and only happens on dramatic films, \u201c Phil answered. \n\n\u201cWell, I don\u2019t care what we call her, but she is coming,\u201d I said, holding up my phone to show Phil the hopelessly hot girl who had been begging for days to be included. \n\n\u201cNo.\u201d\n\nThe next morning, a group of about 50 students were in the parking lot at the college when we rolled in to load out the rest of the camera  gear into the trailer. Considering it was 5 am and this was a commuter school, that was impressive. \n\n*Our fans had taken to social media over the planning period and so far, we had over 200 signed up to receive notifications every time we \u201cwent live\u201d on Facebook. I had to admit, fame felt nice. While Phil went in with Carlos to check out the gear, I stayed behind to guard the van and by the time they had the last case in the trailer and had slapped the padlock shut, there were more than a hundred students, and miscellaneous Sasquatch fans milling around, a few even had banners.* \n\nBefore Phil could stop me, I had scrambled to the top of the van, \u201cHello, Oh Triple C!\u201d I yelled into the morning air, and got a roar back from the crowd. \n\n\u201cWe\u2019re off to solve one of life\u2019s final mysteries and bring you real footage of the hairy man himself, Sasssssquaaaatch!\u201d They cheered. \n\n*Somewhere in the back of the crowd, someone was holding up a giant Sasquatch cutout from a beef jerkey company promotion. They crowd surfed it up to the van, with a sharpie attached and I signed Sasquatch\u2019s face and sent him back.* \n\nI\u2019d left the driver\u2019s door open and made my exit gracefully, sliding into what I thought would be an empty driver\u2019s seat, only to end up in Phil\u2019s lap, \u201cDude, I\u2019m driving.\u201d\n\n\u201cDude, I signed the insurance paperwork, no you\u2019re not,\u201d he said. \n\n\u201cCome on, just scoot over and let me pull out of here, my fans expect it,\u201d I pleaded. \n\nPhil stopped thumbing in our destination on his Iphone and sighed. \n\n\u201cFine, but we\u2019re pulling into the Circle K, you got me?\u201d\n\n\u201cCopy that, Captain!\u201d I stood  up on the running board, waving to the fans, as Phil moved into the passenger seat and Carlos buckled into the front bench seat. \u201cBigfoot or Bust!\u201d I screamed and rolled my window down, as we cruised out of the parking lot to cheers. \n\n**\u201cAll right, pull over,\u201d Phil said.** \n\n\u201cNo, I\u2019m driving,\u201d I laughed. \n\n\u201cI\u2019m serious,\u201d Phil said. \n\n\u201cAlways,\u201d I replied, \u201cin fact it looks painful!\u201d\n\n*Phil reached across and grabbed the wheel, threatening to throw the van into park. I let go, and laughed, \u201cOops, you\u2019re over the line there buddy, would you like to let me drive, wreck this thing before we even get off campus?\u201d*\n\nHe rolled his eyes and set up, stiffly, as I retook the wheel and stepped on the gas. \n\n\u201cYou\u2019re such a child,\u201d Phil said. \n\n\u201cHaven\u2019t changed since you met me in third grade,\u201d I said. \n\n\u201cExactly.\u201d\n\n**We pulled into our campsite at dusk.** \n\n*It might have been sooner, but Phil fell asleep and we were in Gainesville, before I realized my mistake. The campground was down a dirt road. The photos must have been a few decades past, because the \u201cgeneral store\u201d was now a pile of ashes, the pool was a rusty, empty hole, filled with broken furniture and the office looked like a reject from \u201cfixer uppers\u201d. But, the water was fine, the shower was hot and our tent was up before dark.* \n\nThat night, we shot a bit of \u201cBlair Witch\u201d footage, with Carlos and Phil in the tent, pretending our camp was being marauded, while I, with the best \u201cBigfoot\u201d voice, slapped the tent around and growled. \n\nTo make Phil happy, I insisted we would only be using it as Youtube footage for our fans, but I fully intended to see it in the movie. Little did I know. \n\n**We settled in,  cooked dinner and took turns in the pay shower, having just enough quarters for all three of us to get a 5 minute hot shower.** \n\nWhen Phil came out of the shower, it was dark, he found that his clothes were missing, and a mysterious large, wet footprint was clearly visible where his clothes had been. As I joined in the search, Carlos donned a Sasquatch mask I had brought for just such an occasion and waited around the corner in the direction the footprint indicated. \n\n\u201cI\u2019m not too sure about this, Phil,\u201d I said. \u201cI was in the crapper the whole time and Carlos is back at the tent man, what if that\u2019s real?\u201d \n\n**Phil swung his maglight up into my eyes, temporarily blinding me, \u201cNonsense, Jack, I know your handiwork when I see it. Get my clothes back, now!\u201d**\n\nI shook my head no, with my best leery expression, \u201cHell no, I heard something rummaging back there and I\u2019m serious.\u201d\n\n\u201cFor Pete\u2019s sake!\u201d he said, \u201cFine! I\u2019ll do it myself.\u201d \n\nOn about the second step, Phil tripped on his towel but proceeded into the darkness, my bodycam catching glimpses of his white ass as he hustled around the corner. I scrambled to catch up. \n\n\u201cRRRRAAAAAAHHH!\u201d Carlos bellowed, clawing sightlessly, inside the huge mask, with foam rubber Bigfoot claws as he met Phil coming around the corner into the dark.  He managed to connect, knocking Phil\u2019s glasses from his face. \n\n*Now, there is something that happens to a person not used to the out-of-doors when they make contact with an unknown creature in the dark. As rational as Phil was, in that moment, he genuinely believed he was encountering a living Skunk Ape in it\u2019s natural habitat. He went a little crazy.* \n\nPhil jumped back, dropping his flashlight. Then it seemed, he decided that turning his back on a potential carnivore twice his size was a bad idea and the two squared off, neither able to see the other clearly. \n\n**\u201cShit!\u201d Phil said and I considered stepping in, since Phil never cusses, but it was too late.** \n\n*As Carlos stepped toward him, stomping, bowlegged, in the giant bigfoot feet, Phil launched a kick, straight out in front of him that connected squarely with Carlos\u2019 family jewels and lifted him a full six inches off the ground.* \n\nAs Carlos fell backward into the mud we\u2019d created to take the imprint of the bigfoot shoes , Phil launched himself, stark naked on top of him. \n\n*\u201cI got one! I got one!\u201d they rolled in the mud for a minute, Phil undoing the last hot shower we had quarters for. Meanwhile, I\u2019d managed to get the Go Pro rolling and was torn between laughing and already regretting what was coming next as I filmed the entire incident.* \n\nAfter about thirty seconds of grappling, Carlos broke free and limped off around the corner of the bathhouse, howling, for all the world, like a legitimate giant primate in excruciating pain. Lights moved toward us from every corner of the campground. \n\nPhil, meanwhile, found his glasses, right where he had stepped on them, nearly broken in the center. I went to find his towel, which by  now, he\u2019d completely forgotten about. So when the first campers arrived with a camping lantern, he was revealed in all his mud covered glory, glasses askew and hair spiked up with silt and grass. \n\n\u201cWell, hell,\u201d said one older woman, \u201cThat\u2019s not even a very convincing costume! Their peckers are bigger than that!\u201d\n\n\u201cIda Mae, how would you know?\u201d asked her husband.\n\n**\u201cWell, John,\u201d she said with a smile, \u201cThat\u2019s not something you forget.\u201d**\n\n*\u201cUm, er, excuse me,\u201d Phil said, snatching up a hairy bigfoot glove from the ground to cover himself with, looking down at it in confusion. I wrapped the towel around him and hustled him back into the bathhouse where another camper took pity on him and funded another round of hot water.* \n\nI made the glove disappear and went to check on Carlos, who I found writhing in agony in his tent, a package of frozen hotdogs covering his groin. \u201cYou okay, buddy?\u201d\n\nHe responded angrily in Spanish. I never knew what he was saying, but it was something about going home, I gathered later when his uncle, who lived nearby,  showed up in a rusty Ford truck to take him back to the city, walking like a donut with a bite out of it. He rolled over the side of the truck bed into the back, and lay there, on a 5  pound sack of ice, eyes barely open. \n\n**\u201cI\u2019ll send you your pay,\u201d I said. He replied in Spanish, and I\u2019m pretty sure it was my first death threat. It wouldn\u2019t be my last.** \n\n\u201cDos veces,\u201d his uncle said, holding up two fingers, then folding one of them down to leave just the middle one. \"You pay twice,\" he paused, making sure I got the message, before getting into the truck. \n\n*He had indeed earned double pay, but the Youtube video I\u2019d captured alone would pay that! I laughed.* \n\nWhen I caught up with Phil, he was retelling his harrowing tale around a campfire, while several veteran Squatch hunters prepared to enter the surrounding woods in search of the beast. \n\n\u201cThis is just like him,\u201d one man said, \u201csomehow he shows up during the festival every damn year. You\u2019d think one of these times we catch him on camera. Hey, Jack, right? 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    "body": "## The conspiracy went much deeper than I ever could have guessed! ##\n\n![enter image description here](http://i.imgsafe.org/9f655a1be9.jpg)\n\n\n *If you haven't read part one yet, [read it first, here!*](https://steemit.com/writing/@markrmorrisjr/a-goldfish-mastermind-named-benedict-cumberbatch-and-the-league-of-domesticated-assasins#@chrismarketing/re-markrmorrisjr-a-goldfish-mastermind-named-benedict-cumberbatch-and-the-league-of-domesticated-assasins-20160821t155852481z)\n\n\n**I had no idea how long Ludwig had been watching me from the fire escape.** \n\n*I was sitting in my bedroom floor, surrounded by printouts from my laptop. Pages that I never remember visiting, but, printed out after finding them in my browser history.* \n\nI opened the window a crack, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d\n\n\u201cJust checking up on you man. Haven\u2019t seen you in a bit, feeling any better?\u201d\n\n\u201cNot really,\u201d I coughed. That coupled with the fact that my eyes were blurry, red, and puffy from almost total lack of sleep and the rash I was developing from wearing the same clothes must have sold him. \n\n**He looked convinced.** \n\n\u201cOkay, well, we\u2019re almost out of cat food. I won\u2019t be able to walk Ralph tomorrow, or change the litter boxes. I have to visit my mom,\u201d he said, looking worried. \u201cHey, you haven\u2019t seen my essential almond oil have you? In a small glass vial.\u201d\n\nMy mind raced, great. He wouldn\u2019t be here, and I had to face them alone. I couldn\u2019t just let them die, after all, even if they were part of a conspiracy to end humanity. \n\nI shuddered, \u201cUm, no. I haven\u2019t seen it. Okay, I\u2019ll PayPal you some money for the cat food and don\u2019t worry about Ralph. I'll be fine. Thanks.\u201d I pulled the blind closed, before he could say anything else. \nIt was probably best if he wasn\u2019t here. \n\n**He was probably in danger.** \n\n*I turned back to my room, which was starting to look like a sniper\u2019s nest. My childhood pellet gun was propped against the headboard. I had a five-gallon  bottle of drinking water, and several empty gallon jugs filled with\u2026*\n\nThere was a bark at the door and scratching. This might be it, the attack I'd been expecting. I looked up to the air conditioning vent, over the bedroom door. That was where I figured the attack would come from. \n\n*Petey, the parakeet, could easily fit through there and deliver a fatal dose of poison while I slept. It was covered in cardboard, held in place with duct tape. The room was warm and beginning to stink because of it.* \n\nI crawled behind the bed, then stood up where they couldn\u2019t see my feet from under the door. I retrieved the pellet gun and pumped it up. The scratching stopped. The vent blockade held. \n\n**I would survive this time, but how much longer?** \n\nIf I was going down, it was going to be documented. I needed video gear, and I knew just where to find it, Ludwig\u2019s closet. \n\n*When he\u2019d first moved in he\u2019d said, \u201cDude, whatever I have is yours to use, just be sure you take care of it, and put it back where it goes.\u201d I waited until he went to work.* \n\nHe must have had a dozen cameras, each with its own tripod. There was lighting gear, and some stuff I didn\u2019t recognize. Finally, in a box in a corner, I found the perfect solution, a body camera. It was motion sensitive and could record up to 48 hours of \u201carchival quality\u201d footage. \n\n**Which, I figured, meant crappy, but it would work. Now it was time to find out what they were up to.** \n\nAfter the first night, it was a ritual, put the laptop to sleep and move it to a new hiding place. Every morning, it would be back on the breakfast table, open, with the screen saver up. \n\nBut no matter how smart my pets were; they couldn\u2019t grasp the intricacies of history recovery, so I\u2019d managed to retrace their every step. \n\n - Worldwidehits.pup\n - Wild4hits.pup\n - OrchestratingViralHits.cat\n - And my favorite, TheLeagueofDomesticatedAnimals.org\n\nThe sites were filled with webcam video of domestic pets engaged in communicating with each other. Of course, I couldn\u2019t tell what they were saying. \n\n*Most of it looked like Youtube cat videos, which made me wonder, how long had the pets of the world been plotting their takeover? Were they mind controlling us into making these videos and posting them?*\n\nAs best as I could figure, my pets were out to destroy me. What I didn\u2019t know yet, was why. So, I\u2019d put a sign on my bedroom door, claiming illness and asking Ludwig to walk the dog and change the litter boxes. \n\n**I'm sick, stay out for your own health. Please feed the animals and walk Ralph, oh, and empty the litter boxes, thanks!**\n\n*I hadn\u2019t been into the main part of the apartment, with the exception of first thing every morning to retrieve the computer and feed my animals, and a few late-night  visits to the bathroom.* \n\nI\u2019d been entering and exiting through my window, up the fire escape to the roof and down the main stairs of the building, six flights to the street. \n\nOutside the ring of website printouts on my floor, was another layer of discarded paper, mostly made up of fast food wrappers and cups. I couldn\u2019t eat anything that had set in the apartment, that much was clear. \n\n**It was likely all poisoned.** \n\nI\u2019d found out a few things. A kid in my building had supplied a red thumb drive that allowed me to track every keystroke. He got it from a guy who worked in the bodega on the corner, and he used it to hack Wifi whenever his mom couldn\u2019t pay the bill.  \n\n*He said whoever it was, using my computer, was using a virtual keyboard, through Bluetooth, similar to what a paralyzed patient might use. They were typing by focusing, one letter at a time. I hadn\u2019t told him about the animals yet.* \n\nThe virtual keyboard used the webcam to scan their visual patterns, and I assume was  adapted for animal usage. A group of video clips I\u2019d recovered showed Ralph calibrating the software, which was hidden in a secret, password protected drive the thumbdrive had located and gate crashed on the first night. \n\n**These animals were using the computer\u2019s retinal scanner. They must have been.** \n\nIt seemed they were working for hire and got paid in bitcoin, but what were they doing with it? I had no idea. I\u2019d found an account labeled, \u201cWreckitRalph\u201d on a bitcoin exchange, and a Coinbase wallet with a balance that made me lose my breath a bit. \n\nWhat had they done to earn this kind of funding? How many bodies were already strewn in their wake?\n\nMy forensics expert from Craigslist, who had assured me, after $300 in testing, that the bottle did indeed contain pure cyanide in a liquid form, had told me to be careful. \n\n**He handled a lot of contract work for the police and saw all kinds of bodies turn up every day.**  \n\n*I couldn\u2019t trust official channels. Not after the last time. He\u2019d provided a printout of his test results, and it was added to my evidence wall. No one could accuse me of not doing my homework this time.* \n\n\nI stepped carefully over my printouts to the wall and taped another image to my web. In the center was a printout of Benedict Cumberbatch, from a picture I\u2019d gotten on my phone. Surrounding him, with strings running out, connecting each image, were my pets. \n\nThen animals I\u2019d found in common on all the sites they\u2019d been visiting, especially those they had messaged, or commented on posts from. This latest one brought the total up to 78 hitmen in their league. \n\n**Before I\u2019d discovered the LDA resistance on the Conspiracy Infowarrior Forum, I\u2019d really thought this was all in my head.** \n\nHowever, several forum members had confirmed my photos and were finding other connections too. They\u2019d been excited by my finding the bitcoins. It was the last piece in their puzzle. They claimed the League of Domesticated Animals went back millennia, through the richest and most powerful families in the world. \n\n*Then there was Lenny, the pet psychic. He psychically tapped into my pets remotely, using my address. He\u2019d confirmed what I\u2019d suspected, Benedict Cumberbatch was the mastermind, not just of the conspiracy inside my own apartment, but the larger globalist agenda of the League. His was a dark soul.* \n\nI could almost feel his malevolence after doing some meditation techniques Lenny had given me to tap into their collective psyche. He\u2019d thrown in his entire PDF library, and only charged me for the $200 consultation, because he thought this was a real issue and his research might help. \n\nAfter reading his EBook, \u201cHow to be Your Pet\u2019s Best Psychic Advocate\u201d I\u2019d almost made a break through with Ralph. After chanting his name, tantrically for almost an hour,  I could feel his spirit shifting, as he sat outside the door whining, then got peaceful. I was so close to recovering him from the brainwashing the League had put in place, when the mailman showed up at the apartment door, and Ralph had to go and bark at him. \n\n**I could feel his reluctance to leave, but his instincts overpowered me.**  \n\nThat night, I slept. I had to. It had been nearly four days since I\u2019d closed my eyes for more than thirty minutes. My dreams were disturbing. I could feel Max, Ralph, Penelope and Petey reaching out to me. \n\n> But just when I was about to herd them through my room onto the fire escape, Benedict, burst from his bowl, flooded the apartment and charged down the hall.  He was fifty times his normal size, his eyes  blazing with dark psychic power, just as Lenny had described it. He  rode a swell of water, creating a tidal wave that swept me out through  the window. My pets left behind in the clutches of a ruthless, worldwide web of house pet assassins with a goldfish as their mastermind.\n\n*When I woke  up, the bed was soaked, and at first I thought it had been more than a dream. After discovering that 4 of the 5 gallons of water from the bottle I\u2019d had set up on my end table, was missing, I knew what had happened. Somehow, one of them had penetrated my security, tipped the jug while I was sleeping and attempted to drown me.* \n\n**I looked up, and sure enough, the cardboard that had formerly been securely taped over the AC vent was now flapping in the breeze.**\n\nThe cold air was sending me into near hypothermia as I shivered in my soaked clothes. Maybe that was part of their evil plot! It was time to fight back. I checked the clock. It was ten after 5, I\u2019d have to wait until Ludwig left for the train to visit his mother at 7. \n\nFortunately for me, the crowd at the Infowarrior forum was way ahead of me in their preparations. After expressing my concern about falling prey to Benedict's obviously superior mind control skills, they\u2019d suggested a supplier of RFID and high frequency blocking clothing. \n\n**I could purchase a hat with a wire mesh running through the fabric, designed to prevent any type of radio frequency, or psychic attacks.** \n\nThe delivery of my \u201cbattle helmet\u201d as I was calling it, had been the mail that interrupted my deprogramming of Ralph the day before. I\u2019d managed to retrieve it later at around 1 am, while most of the animals slept. \n\n*Petey, the parakeet, normally tucked under a blanket and quiet at night had given me away, however, spotting me from his cage and sounding the alarm.* \n\nRalph was  the first to respond, laying down a layer of slime on the wood floor, just outside the hallway, in an epic shower of toilet bowl drool, snot and saliva that sent me sprawling flat on my back. \n\n**While Max went for my jugular, rubbing and purring, to distract me while he extended his claws, Penelope took a bite out of my leg.** \n\n*In hindsight, this may have been due to my pants pocket being filled with salted peanuts, in the shell, which she loves.* \n\nMeanwhile, my package, which I had thrown in my attempt to regain my balance, had landed somewhere in the living room. Ralph had retrieved and deposited it on the table, directly in front of Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s bowl. \n\nI had a choice, retreat to my room before they could carry out whatever devious plan came next, or face the fish and collect the hat that could very well be the salvation of the human race. \n\nI stared across my living room, meeting Benedict\u2019s cold, fishy glare. The moonlight filtering in through the windows, struck the bowl, illuminating it in an eerie glow as he hung there, motionless, perfectly suspended in the exact center of the bowl. \n\n**I\u2019d always wondered how he managed it. Now, I imagined he\u2019d learned it from some Koi Zen master in whatever Thai backwater, Ludwig had collected him from in his travels of the Orient.** \n\nIf I was going to win this one, I\u2019d need food. Not for me, but to distract his minions, and I knew just the thing. I limped into the kitchen. I reached into the back of the pantry and dug to the very back of the top shelf. \n\nMy fingers located two tins of smoked sardines in mustard sauce. They had been lying in wait for just such an occasion since I had received them three years ago in the bottom of a basket I\u2019d ended up with at the company White Elephant gift exchange. \n\n*I pulled the tab on both cans and as the pungent aroma filled the apartment, I could almost hear Ralph drooling. Max was already rubbing against my legs in anticipation. I had to separate them from Benedict before I could risk a direct confrontation.* \n\nHobbling as quickly as I could, I made it to the bathroom and turned to find that Penelope\u2019s curiosity had gotten the better of her too, three sets of eyes glowed at me from the bathroom door, Ralph\u2019s stomach emitting a low rumble. \n\nI hopped onto the toilet and dropped the two cans into the bathtub. Ralph and Max raced each other to be the first to taste this delectable smell, and I leaped over them, gained safe footing on the hallway carpet and shut the door, trapping them inside the bathroom. \n\n**Now for Petey.** \n\nPenelope had managed to escape the bathroom and followed me, watching my every move as I hurtled down the hallway, forgetting my limp as I vaulted over the back of the sofa, grabbing the blanket I kept there for TV watching as I soared past it. \n\n*I twisted an ankle, as one foot landed on the corner of the coffee table coming down.* \n\nThe pain sent a surge of adrenaline through my body. Petey was screaming and I could feel Benedict\u2019s piercing Psychic attack, pounding like pulses of high pitched static, as I swept the blanket up and over my head, shrouding the bird, who fell silent. \n\n**It was now or never. I turned to face my malevolent piscine adversary.** \n\nOnly one of us was going to survive the final showdown. I advanced toward his bowl, using Lenny\u2019s patented Mindblock breathing technique as I went. I knew that if I let my guard down for just a second, it would be too late. \n\n*I reached for the fireplace poker, afraid to venture any closer. I knocked the mailing envelope, holding my new, anti-mind control cap into the floor and dragging it toward me. The pain from the psychic bombardment was almost overwhelming.* \n\nAs I limped back to my bedroom in retreat, I could hear Ralph whining at the bathroom door, but it was all I could do to drag myself to the safety of my bedchamber and shut the door, just in time to prevent Penelope\u2019s entrance. \n\n**At precisely 7:01, I heard the apartment door shut, as Ludwig left for his train, as he did every Sunday.** \n\nI checked myself in the mirror. I had pulled on the cap, it\u2019s wire mesh layer concealed within the fashion-forward  poplin, but I could feel that it was working. \n\nI added an extra wrap of duct tape at the cuffs of my hoody and the bottoms of my jeans, and donned the heppa filter dust mask I\u2019d found in the top of my closet, with some old remodeling supplies. \n\nThen, I pulled on the white paper painter\u2019s suit and a pair of clear, plastic goggles, the kind that seal at the sides, like a diver\u2019s mask. Heisenberg, I thought, chuckling. That goldfish would never know what hit him.  \n\n*As a final touch, I pushed in foam earplugs, which in retrospect, is probably why I didn\u2019t hear Ludwig come into the apartment in the middle of operation flush Benedict. I grabbed my pellet rifle, shouldered an old hockey stick, also from the closet, and shoved the handle of a small dip net into the hip pocket of the painter\u2019s suit.* \n\n**Everything seemed to move in slow motion as I left the bedroom.** \n\nThe bathroom door was closed, meaning Ralph and Max were still under control. I\u2019d only have Penelope and the fish to worry about. I moved down the hall, hugging the wall and peered around the corner into the living room. \n\nBenedict was swimming laps, and Penelope was nowhere to be seen. \n\nDip net in hand, I approached the goldfish bowl and was just about to drop the net into the water, when I felt my knees give out under 200 pounds of solid mastiff. \n\nAs he rolled into me, Ralph\u2019s whipped his leash up and around my neck, catching there, so that when he bounded back across the room to Ludwig, he dragged me with him. These animals would stop at nothing to end my life!\n\n**Ludwig reached down and helped me up, his  lips were moving, but I couldn't hear him.**\n\n*In his brainwashed state, it was probably for the best, he'd just try to talk me out of what had to be done. He looked shocked as I knocked him cold with a right cross from the hockey stick I still held tightly clutched in my hand. *\n \nWhen Ludwig came to, sitting on the sofa, bound with duct tape and gagged, he was understandably pissed, but I was ready to explain. With the laptop open on the coffee table, I revealed all of my evidence, step by step, building my case for the assassination of Benedict Cumberbatch. \n\n**I showed him the videos, the bodycam footage, the forum posting, the photos.** \n\n*I explained to him how the psychic jamming hat worked, and how he was currently under the influence of a very powerful psychic goldfish, so I understood if this all seemed a little extreme to him.* \n\nI brought out the cyanide bottle, and showed him the bitcoin account, and just as I was about to suggest he try Lenny\u2019s mind-control-block breathing technique, my phone chimed. I pulled it out. \n\n**\u201cYou have a PayPal money request from WreckitRalph@zmail.com\u201d it read.** \n\nI looked at the screen in disbelief, \u201cYou\u2019re Wreck it Ralph?\u201d I said. \n\n*Ludwig nodded vigorously. It was all starting to come together. The late night tv, the animals seeming love for him. He was the grand conspirator. He\u2019d probably trained Benedict in mind control; it was him the bitcoin was all going to. This made so much more sense now. He had to be stopped.* \n\n**I grabbed the pellet rifle and pumped it as hard as I could.** \n\nI\u2019d heard once that if you put a pellet through a man\u2019s eye at a point-blank range, it would penetrate through to the brain and instant death. \n\n*I knew that meant life in prison, but I couldn\u2019t let this go on any further. If the League was allowed to continue, who knew how long the human race had left?* \n\nI steadied the rifle with my right hand, while my left moved to the gag in Ludwig\u2019s mouth, \u201cOkay, Ludwig, I\u2019m going to execute you. You shouldn\u2019t feel a thing, do you have any last words?\u201d \n\n*As the tape peeled away, Ludwig let out a sigh, \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to avoid thinking you were crazy, but this takes the cake. Yes, I\u2019m Wreck it Ralph! 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    "body": "<center>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Onedolar2009series.jpg</center>\nSafety, security, stability, and sustainability are very important design characteristics that our team is always attempting to maximize.  We must balance many variables when creating cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and economic incentives.  In particular it is important to design systems that remain robust and predictable in *all* market conditions.\n\n## Steem Dollars have Limits \n\nThe idea behind a Steem Dollar is that it should ***almost always*** be worth about one US dollar. We have set rules in place to make this statement true 99% of the time by making the Steem Dollar convertible to a dollar worth of STEEM.  \n\nAnyone who promises you that any asset will **always** be worth something is either ignorant to some risks or a liar.  This is true for bank deposits, gold coins, and crypto currencies.  Banks can seize your funds, go bankrupt, have a bail in, or hyper inflate the currency until it is worthless.  In other words you are never guaranteed purchasing power.\n\nWhen it comes to the Steem Dollar, their purchasing power depends upon the market demand for STEEM.  The Steem Dollar is really nothing more than a smart contract for a variable amount of STEEM depending upon an oracle. If STEEM is worthless than the Steem Dollar will also be worthless.\n\nAs the value of STEEM falls, the amount of STEEM required to represent a U.S. dollar worth of value approaches infinity.  If left unchecked, the Steem Dollar could render STEEM worthless and when that happens all Steem Dollars become worthless too.  \n\n## Black Swan Events need a Plan \n\nIt isn\u2019t possible to prevent all black swan events, but it is possible to establish a fair set of rules for handling them.  It is always best to define the rules before they are necessary so that everyone can take full responsibility for the consequences of their trading decisions.  \n\nThere are two major black swan events that the Steem community and traders should have a contingency plan in place for. The first black swan is if the value of STEEM crashes so far that Steem Dollars represent an insurmountable burden on the STEEM price that sets off a chain reaction pushing the value of STEEM toward zero. \n\nThe second major black swan event is when the US dollar hyperinflates and becomes worthless as a day to day currency.  In my opinion this is the more likely outcome.\n\n## Price Feed defines Value of Steem Dollar\n\nThe price feed can be viewed as a mathematical function that traders and speculators can trade against for determining the value of the Steem Dollar at any time.   Right now we have defined the function to always equal the **approximate marginal price 1 STEEM fetches on the open market**.  \n\nThere are two extreme cases, black swans, that must be considered.  In one extreme the price goes to 0, in the other extreme the price goes to infinity.  It is in the interest of everyone involved that the value of a Steem Dollar never hits either extreme.  This can be implemented in objective terms by setting hard limits on the exchange rate range that is allowed.\n\nWe can set a maximum and minimum Steem Dollar price as follows:\n\n**maximum price** =  SteemSupply / (10 * SteemDollarSupply)\n**minimum price**  =  SteemSupply / (10000 * SteemDollarSupply)\n\nWith these rules in place, Steem Dollar holders are protected against US dollar hyperinflation and Steem holders are protected against US dollar \u201chyperdeflation\u201d.  The witnesses are trusted to publish a honest price feed relative to dollars at all times, but the blockchain will enforce these hard limits.\n\nIn other words, the market cap of all Steem Dollars will always be between 0.01% and 10% of the Steem market cap. This will become a mathematical reality with the addition of two lines of code to the method that calculates the conversion price.  \n\n## Sustainable and Fair\n\nThese rules would make the economic system of Steem sustainable and fair in all circumstances by clarifying the meaning of a Steem Dollar.  With the clarified meaning, a Steem Dollar is allowed to have values above or below a U.S. dollar under certain market conditions.  All traders can be aware of those conditions and trade accordingly.   \n\nBy implementing these rules long before the STEEM / USD price gets near either extreme all market participants have ample opportunity to adjust their positions.  \n\n## No Promise of Value \n\nSteemit, Inc cannot and will not promise that the STEEM token, Steem Power, or Steem Dollars will have any value now or in the future.  We aim only to create fair rules to approximate the relative subjective value each member of the Steem community brings to the table.  Any value these tokens have will at all times be set by the free market through voluntary exchange.  \n\n\n## Benefits over Alternative Approaches\n\nIn a prior post I outlined a solution that would covert 1% of Steem Dollars to Steem Power as a means of correcting the imbalance.  This solution had the nice property of only exposing 1% of a person\u2019s steem dollars to volatility at a time, but had the down side of making the life of exchanges and smart contracts everywhere very complex.   Every smart contract would have to factor in the potential that a liquid asset like Steem Dollars could be partially converted to an illiquid asset such as VESTS.   This great complicates things such as *escrow transactions* and *side chains* and exchange deposits.   In other words, it had all of the negative properties on 3rd parties that could be associated with negative interest rates.\n\nSome people suggested things like bootstrapping an economy around Steem Dollars or buying them back with Ad revenue.  It isn't a matter of finding buyers for Steem Dollars, it is a matter of maintaining a debt ceiling.  Simply moving Steem Dollars from person to person does not solve the problem.  \n\n## Thanks for Feedback \n\nWe would like to thank everyone for the feedback they have provided and invite additional feedback.  We are all in this together, lets make Steem the best platform for everyone involved.",
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They scattered and pretended to be interested in bits of fuzz or beams of light, but I know what I saw, they were watching me. \n\nIt was a Thursday, so I had a late start day, which meant catching up on my Netflix cue and having a leisurely breakfast, then heading to the office around 10. I grabbed the raisin bran and a quart of milk, tucking a large bowl under one arm and clamping the spoon between my teeth, I managed to leave one hand free for a quart-sized tumbler of freshly squeezed OJ, perfect. \n\nI dumped my breakfast on the coffee table and reached into the \u201cremote drawer\u201d in the end table, only to find that the aptly named drawer was not currently home to the control for the Roku. I scanned the room, and there, peering out from behind one chair, was Penlope, eying me suspiciously. I tossed over the chair cushions, discovering a long lost sock, but no remote.\n\n*I quickly scanned the higher surfaces in the room, the mantle, the bookshelf, the entertainment\u2026 and there was the mastiff, peering around the corner from the kitchen. What the heck was going on? Finally, I spotted the remote sitting squarely in front of the goldfish bowl, pointed toward the tv as if Benedict Cumberbatch, the evil eyed gold fish my roommate had arrived with, had been using it. Weird.* \n\nI shrugged it off and sat, hitting my tailbone on Ralph\u2019s denta-chew, which he knew did not belong on the couch, and clicked on the TV and set top Roku streaming box, waiting for it to pick up a wifi signal while I poured cereal and milk. I positioned myself just the right distance from the arm of the sofa to make the reach to the coaster, holding my OJ tumbler, just right and sank back. \n\n**About two clicks into my normal content scrolling routine, I noticed a change.** \n\nI checked the user account, but it was mine, but I knew for a fact I had not watched nearly this quantity of police procedural documentaries. I turned and eyeballed Benedict, who, quickly looked away and pretended to nonchalantly lap his bowl, looking for food flake crumbs. \n\nMust have been the new roommate, or so I convinced myself, and settled in to catch up on Fear of the Walking Dead. It was a successful morning. I\u2019d been able to cram in three episodes, the milk to cereal ratio had been perfect, and the three cubes of  ice in my OJ, were just enough to keep it refreshingly cold, without watering it down. Other than the stronger than usual scent of the almond milk, a nearly perfect breakfast.\n\nI scraped the breakfast fixings up in an armload, grabbing the empty orange juice glass and clicking onto my morning news feed, as I went to the kitchen. \n\n**I froze.** \n\nThere, sitting in a chair at the breakfast table, peering at the screen of my laptop, were Max, Penelope and Ralph, the 200 pound mastiff, all raptly attentive to something. They saw me. \n\nThe cat was the first to move, rubbing his butt past the rabbit as Ralph circled twice and collapsed into a sighing heap on his rug. Penelope, I swear, clicked at least two keys, then pretended to be interested in the wax fruit my mom insisted made a great centerpiece in here. It didn\u2019t. \n\n*I stood a full ten seconds, surveying the scene, before I realized, Ralph had been wearing my reading glasses and was now drooling on them, in an effort to normalize the situation. I peered back around the corner to where Benedict floated, intently still, eyes closed, but definitely a part of all this.* \n\nI was beginning to wonder if I was still dreaming, when I dropped my cereal bowl, a heavy, clay pottery piece, squarely on my  left little toe, bringing tears to my eye, \u201cMother Scratcher,\u201d I said, doing everything I could to juggle the milk and keep it off the floor. Finally, \n\n**I bobbled the milk onto the counter and was able to grab my toes.** \n\n*The tears in my eyes were enough to convince, me, it was real and I swear, that damn cat was laughing.*\n\nAs I was leaving the kitchen, I turned back to find all three mamalians eagerly sniffing at the small puddle of almond milk I\u2019d left, knowing the cat would quickly lap it up. He didn\u2019t. In fact, they all three looked piercingly at me, accusing me of leaving the mess, but none of them darted a curious pink tongue out to even test the air.  \n\n**It was at that moment, the alarm I set to remind me it was time to shower, or face the wrath of the intern supervisor at work, went off and I forgot all about it.** \n\nLater that afternoon, I returned home from work, to find my roommate, Ludwig, ensconced among the animals on the sofa, watching scifi. \u201cLudwig, did you use my Netflix user account?\u201d \n\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry?\u201d He peered up at me, my dog\u2019s head in his lap, glaring up at me, the cat on his shoulder and Penelope eating toasted edamame out of his palm. \u201cOh, hey, you\u2019re home, I mopped up some almond milk, I think, in the kitchen, nearly slipped on it. Surprised the cat hadn\u2019t cleaned it already.\u201d He said, returning full attention to his show. \n\n\u201cCould you turn that down?\u201d I picked up the remote and paused the show. \u201cDude, they are not supposed to be on the so\u2026\u201d Ralph growled at me, in a way that let me know, I needed to get my hand off his backside. \u201cWhat the hell? Ralph, you don\u2019t ever growl at me, what is wrong with you?\u201d Ralph got down from the sofa, picked up the remote and positioned it directly in front of the goldfish bowl. The program resumed. \n\n**Ludwig seemed oblivious to what had just happened, \u201cDid you not see that?\u201d** \n\n\u201cOh, yeah, the dog turned the show back on, I think he was really into it,\u201d Ludwig said. \n\n*I didn\u2019t argue, but I did notice the goldfish smiling smugly as I went to the kitchen to grab a trashbag and the dustbuster. I left them on the coffee table, hoping Ludwig would get the hint and clean up the couch.* \n\nHe smiled, \u201cOh, thanks!\u201d and began to vacuum his shirt with the miniature vacuum. \n\nIt was two o\u2019clock in the morning, when I finally had to admit that either I needed psychiatric help, or my animals were out to get to me. I was awakened by the television. \n\n> \u201c\u2026and here, in the laboratory, the CSI technicians will test the\n> sample for toxicology. Unfortunately, in the majority of these cases,\n> we don\u2019t finish our analysis, the DA gets a plea bargain and the crime  is labeled solved before the evidence is even really examined.\u201d\n\nI rolled over and checked the clock. Okay, Ludwig, time to have it out. I don\u2019t need the money that bad. The rent here hadn\u2019t changed in 30 years, and couldn\u2019t so long as the apartment was continually occupied, and so it had been handed down from roommate, to roommate. \n\n*I stumbled into the living room, rubbing my eyes, as the television went dark. In the glow of the streetlamp, coming in through the windows framing the fireplace mantle, I became aware that Ludwig had either mastered the art of invisibility, or he wasn\u2019t there.* \n\nInstead, Ralph, Max and Penelope sat on the sofa, pretending to sleep, while near the fish\u2019s bowl, I caught the red blink of a light on the remote. This was getting out of hand. \n\n**\u201cListen, Cumberbatch,\u201d I said, \u201cI\u2019m on to you. I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re planning yet, but when I find out...\u201d**\n\n\u201cDude! Are you talking to my goldfish?\u201d Ludwig asked, peering out from the hallway. \u201cI thought I heard the TV, could your turn it down, if you need to watch it so late? I have work at 6, sorry to be a jerk about it, but if you could, please?\u201d \n\n*I started to explain, but I was pretty sure I knew where this one was going. There was a long and storied history behind the reasons that Ralph was my first dog since the second grade. It hadn\u2019t ended well for either of us and landed me in therapy, probably for life. I decided to keep the pet\u2019s conspiracy a secret, at least for now.* \n\n\u201cNo, uh, rehearsing lines from a uh,   training video they\u2019re making the intern staff do, sorry, couldn\u2019t sleep.\u201d I lied. He squinched his face in a way that let me know, he hadn\u2019t completely bought my lie, then waved me off as he turned and headed back to bed. \n\n**I sat down on the couch, I wasn\u2019t feeling so good.** \n\nRalph shifted over, grudgingly, as I dug behind me for what I thought was Ralph\u2019s chew toy, my hand closed on a hard, glass cylinder. 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What the hell was that gold fish making my pets watch?*\n\n\n*Part Two, the Conclusion [can be found here! Enjoy!*](https://steemit.com/writing/@markrmorrisjr/short-story-a-goldfish-mastermind-named-benedict-cumberbatch-and-the-league-of-domesticated-assasins-part-two)\n## Look for the upvote button below. If you liked the post, upvote and share! If you're not on Steemit yet, why not? You get free money for signing up! ##",
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Here is what I see.** \n\n - The fact that the crypto space has been almost entirely the domain of coders (rightly so) means there is a huge, and somewhat arrogant assumption of knowledge on the part of writers. \n - I would suggest going into this with a few SBD to start. That way, if you get in the wrong platform and find out it costs you an arm and a leg, the damage is minimal. \n - The fact that every single platform is (at best) in beta, means guys like me haven't gotten into the FAQ and edited out the tech jargon and made it understandable. 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I wonder if this is because of my two addresses. \n\n - I can't use my home address as mail, because a mailman once attacked my dog and rightly got bit. \n - So, I have a \"Private Mail Box\" where I receive court and tax documents, bank cards, etc. \n - My ID has my home address, obviously. \n\nSo, although Crypto claims anonymity, my identity was a problem. Finally it accepted an email confirmation it requested and after about three rounds of SMS codes, I was in and had my BTC wallet balance. \n\n## Next up I needed a way to spend it ##\n\nBut, as it turns out, the BTC debit card world isn't too fond of the US, or we aren't fond of them. Most wouldn't issue in the US, although they have cards that spend USD. Suck!\n\n - I could get Bit Plastic, but the deposit is more than I have earned in BTC so far. (over $100)\n - Several outright refused due to my US address, something we Americans are not use to at all! 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No, my PMB, good enough for the IRS, banks and the state is not good enough, no I cannot use someone else's address to have it mailed to!**\n\nWhich brings me to the point of my post. It is not as easy as many made it look. The setup takes time and patience. Now I am asking for suggestions on other options. I'm not looking to open a standard checking account, that always costs in fees,  always.\n\n**There was one other method, using a \"local\" bitcoin buyer and meeting up with some stranger in a parking lot to exchange cash for the release of bitcoin. Um, no thanks. **\n\nSO, if anyone has a method that is reasonably simple and easy to engage in on a regular basis, please leave the details in my comments. Thanks. \n\nSo, #dolphinschool readers, sorry for the rant, but be prepared, it may take some work on your part to trade your earnings for cash. Good luck!\n\n## Look for the upvote button below. If you liked the post, upvote and share! If you're not on Steemit yet, why not? You get free money for signing up! ##",
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    "body": "<center>https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Black_Swan_bg.jpg/2880px-Black_Swan_bg.jpg\nBlack swan on Vacha reservoir, Bulgaria  by [Kiril Krastev](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Littlegrizmin)</center>\n\nOver the past couple of weeks, our team has been working through the Steem Dollar mechanics in an effort to secure the economic foundation of Steem against black swan events.  It should be obvious to all that if at any point in the future the market cap of Steem fell below the supply of Steem Dollars then the Steem Dollar would break.   Long before that happened there would be a *run on the bank*.  \n\nWe designed the Steem incentives to always push Steem toward a Steem Dollar supply equal to about 5% of the available market cap.  This happens because for every Steem Dollar we create we create about 19 Steem Dollar\u2019s worth of Steem and Steem Power.  \n\nThis system works well when the market cap is rising or relatively stable, but there is one edge case which could cause the system to unravel.  When the market cap falls and pushes the Steem Dollar ratio to dangerously high levels (20% or more of market cap), then the network must start paying off its \u201cdebt\u201d with \u201cequity\u201d and reducing the Steem Dollar supply.  \n\n## Extremely Unlikely but not Impossible\n\nBefore anyone starts worrying, lets look at what would have to happen before these kind of scenarios become a concern.   \n\nCurrently **Steem Dollars represent about 1% of market cap** and total about $2.1 million dollars.  This is a very safe level.   The market cap would have to fall to $10.5 million dollars before Steem Dollars represents 20% or more of the market cap.    \n\nEach day the supply of Steem Dollars is increasing so over time the danger zone market cap will rise.  \n\n## Reducing Steem Dollar Supply in Down Market\n\nThere is only one way to reduce the Steem Dollar supply and that is by users voluntarily converting their Steem Dollars to STEEM at the price feed via the 7 day conversion. This processes can be incentivized by offering a short-term premium conversion rate that gives each Steem Dollar holder $1.25 worth of STEEM when they convert.   This is possible by having the witnesses temporarily adjust the price feed. \n\nIt would be critical that the premium remain temporary and has a pre-planned deadline or else the market would permanently adjust the trading value of Steem Dollars to reflect this new premium conversion rate.  \n\nSteem Whales can also buy Steem Dollars on the market by powering down some STEEM and then convert to back to STEEM.  This process would not necessarily be profitable for whales and suffers tragedy of the commons.  One whale would carry the burden for the benefit of the entire platform.\n\n## Stop Increasing the Supply\n\nOf course it gets difficult to reduce the Steem Dollar supply when the supply keeps growing due to interest and author rewards.  The fastest way to dig yourself out of a hole is to stop digging.  As it exists today, this isn\u2019t an option for author rewards but it is possible to reduce the interest rate to 0%. \n\n## New Enhancements for Stability \n\nIn the up coming hard fork we will be including changes to the protocol designed to protect all parties in the event persistent price declines and lack of redemption requests allow the Steem Dollar supply to reach unhealthy and unsustainable levels. \n\n### Gradual Shift in Author Rewards \n\nAs the Steem Dollar supply grows from 3% to 5% the percent of author rewards paid in Steem Dollars will go from 50% to 0% and the percent paid as liquid STEEM will go from 0% to 50%.  In this way authors are still awarded with liquid assets, but the network gradually slows down the printing presses on Steem Dollars. \n\nAt current levels, this measure wouldn\u2019t take effect unless the market cap fell to $70M and would completely stop issuing new Steem Dollars when the market cap fell to about $40M.  \n\n### Gradual Forced Redemption of Steem Dollars for STEEM\n\nAny time the Steem Dollar supply reaches 20% of the market cap, 1% of everyone\u2019s Steem Dollars will be converted to Steem Power at the price feed.  This action can be viewed as a partial \u201cbail-in\u201d where everyone is treated equally.  This will immediately reduce the Steem Dollar percent of total market cap while preventing immediate dumping of the STEEM which could accelerate the collapse in a positive feedback loop.\n\nSteem Dollar holders that wish to avoid this forced redemption should convert to STEEM and sell on the market.  If done via the 7 day conversion process, then the supply should decrease naturally and all Steem Dollar holders can be spared the \u201cbail in\u201d.  \n\n## Implications \n\nIt is our belief that having this safety net in place before it becomes an issue will help the entire community know how stake will be allocated in the event of persistent long term declines in price.  The existence of this safety net will in turn reduce the likelihood that fear will turn into panic selling that would ultimately precipitate such an event.\n\nIt should be obvious to all that Steem Dollars are not backed by any individual holding dollars in a bank or promising to pay US dollars and that the only thing you are guaranteed is some amount of STEEM.  The STEEM cannot be guaranteed to have purchasing power.  \n\nUnder the enhanced rules everyone is protected and fairly dealt with in the unfortunate event that the market cap of the platform is unable to sustain the Steem Dollar debt levels.\n\n## Feedback Wanted\nIf anyone has any concerns or has better solutions in mind please let us know.",
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