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 Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:01 pm
meeting madoc
Durem Hill Mall had the smelliest bathrooms in all of Gaia, in Sid's opinion. He had plenty of time to contemplate this fact as he stood outside of them, waiting for his uncle and cousin to finish doing whatever it was they were doing. The boy was bored. All day they had paraded into and out of stores trying on what Lex had said Roxanna called "presentable clothing." It had been pretty fun for the most part, but now Sid was getting tired and tired equaled antsy and pissy.
Moodily, he kicked at the molding running along the base of the hall. Where were they? He jumped forward, kicking his legs out into the wall and falling back to his feet with a bounce. Sid giggled and did it again. The third time he attempted the Super-Sid Wall Bounce, it ended abruptly and somewhat painfully as his back slammed into a mysterious obstacle.
"Hey, hey, watch out kid," a soft voice said. Sid might have been scared he was about to get scolded, but for all the voice's gruffness, its tone was kind. He felt hands on his shoulders turning him around and when he looked up, it was into a grizzled face. "That looks like fun," the strange man said with a grin. "Just be careful you don't get hurt."
Sid nodded. "Yah," he said. "Sorry." His gaze strayed as Lex and Liam emerged from the restroom. Sid smiled at his cousin. "New clothes!"
Liam nodded, returning the flytrap's grin. "Do they look cool?" he asked quietly, knowing full well that they did.
"Totally cool!" Sid gently disengaged himself from the new man's grasp before jogging over to stand at Lex's feet. His uncle was wearing a crisp new suit, complete with vest and tie, and it was obvious that, for the moment, Lex felt a great deal more self-assured than he usually did as a result.
"Who's your friend, Sid?" The smile on Lex's face was pleasant enough, but posed an open challenge to the other man if he meant the plant boy harm.
"Madoc." The man extended his hand. Lex grasped it and shook. Madoc chuckled. "Interesting." His tone was no longer quite as friendly as it had been.
"What do you mean by that?" Handshake over, Lex's fist slipped into his pocket, helping to dampen his sudden urge to throw a punch. When had he become so impatient, so hot-headed? Lex took a deep and slightly unsteady breath and glanced down, making sure the kids were nearby. They watched the adults, Liam with wide eyes and Sid with invisible ones.
"I know what you are." Madoc's voice was pitched low, but the taunt in it was unmistakable. He didn't seem to care that Lex hadn't offered his name in return.
"I..." This man couldn't know what Lex was. He didn't even know himself. "Liam. Sid. Let's go." Lex shielded the children with his body as he pushed them forward, picking up the bags at his feet and casting one last angry look at Madoc as he hurried away.
Sid broke away from his uncle's guiding hand and turned back to face the big man. "Seeya, Madoc!" He waved.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:44 am
Quest time! One lovely, but boring, day, Sid will find himself without immediate supervision. Of course, this is the most opportune time for an energetic boy like Sid to get into a bit of mischief.. and this time, he's not without help! An oversized rabbit will run by him, appearing, for the most part, to be on four legs and of normal proportions. But when it stops just feet from where Sid is, and checks his pocketwatch, one can assume this is not an ordinary rabbit! Have Sid follow the rabbit, and thus find himself in his own sort of twisted Wonderland story.. It's up to you if Sid even knows the story of Alice and her Wonderland, and if you will include any of the original cast in Sid's version of the story. What events play out, and how this ends, is entirely up to you! Good luck, little Hiccup!
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:51 am
quest part one - bunny
Milk was important. It helped little boys grow strong bones and even people who had no bones at all had to agree that it tasted delicious mixed with chocolate. Sid could grasp this tenuous fact, but what he didn't understand was why Uncle Lex had found it absolutely necessary to go out and purchase some at 2:36 on a Sunday afternoon. Nobody seemed intent on drinking the last of the milk that remained in the refrigerator and Katurian had offered to pick some up the next time he took a walk, but Lex had refused.
"Can I come?" Sid had asked, bouncing around his uncle's legs as the man looked for Roxanna's car keys. The unseasonable warmth had sparked something in the boy that he hadn't felt in months and all he could think about was being out in the sun.
"Not now, Sid," Lex said, his voice far away.
"You guys can play catch when he gets back," Katurian added, earning a scowl from Lex. "...Or not?"
Now Sid sat alone on the front stoop of Lex's brownstone, waiting for something, anything, to happen. Liam, Katurian and Michal were inside, playing checkers or watching a movie or dressing up like monkeys, Sid didn't know or care. As it turned out, he didn't have to wait long at all for some excitement of his own.
A tiny white blob rounded the corner at the end of the street and began hopping in his direction. Sid wouldn't have noticed it as early as he did if he hadn't already been staring that way, looking fondly after the neighborhood ice cream truck as it drove off. As the blob approached, Sid thought he could make out a shiny pink striped vest draped over its chubby body and a pair of pristine spats on what he could now see were its feet. A bunny!
Sid sank back against the steps, trying to blend in as much as possible. He failed miserably, but luckily the creature didn't appear to be interested in him at all. It was quite a bit larger than a normal rabbit, and it wore a distinctly disturbed expression on its twitchy little face. From out of a vest pocket it pulled a watch, one of those fancy ones on a chain that Sid had only ever seen in the movies.
"Late!" it said, voice high and squeaky. "Late late late!" It repocketed the watch and hopped off much more quickly than it had arrived.
Sid sat up straight again, now that the coast was clear. He cast a guilty glance at his uncle's front door, then scrambled off of the stoop after the animal. There would always be time to sit on steps and follow rules, but when would he ever again get the chance to play with a talking bunny?
The rabbit hop-hop-hopped for quite a while, Sid following diligently every step of the way. He knew enough to lag behind for a bit to lessen suspicion, but most of the time the animal appeared far too preoccupied to worry about whether or not it was being stalked. Sid almost lost its trail when it finally hopped off of the sidewalk, but its bright vest was hard to miss, even in the thick underbrush.
Not three steps beyond the sidewalk's edge, the rabbit vanished in earnest.
"Hey!" Sid cried out, forgetting he was meant to be in stealth mode. If the thing was going to up and disappear, the least it could do was lead him back to his uncle's house. He stomped forward through the knee-high weeds, taking four whole steps before falling into a very deep hole.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:54 am
quest part two - splash mountain
The flytrap child immediately curled into a ball, anticipating lots of pain and death in his future. When five whole minutes passed, Sid began to think he might not actually be falling at all. He pulled his face away from his knees, looking around at the dark walls surrounding him. There was a tap on his shoulder.
"What do you think you're doing, trying to sneak up on a member of the Illustrious Society of Snaves? Our headquarters is top secret!" The rabbit had traded its vest and spats for a long green gown that billowed out around its now-naked feet. Sid presumed the bunny was a girl.
"What's that?" he asked.
"The ISS only accepts the greatest sneakers in the land!"
"But you're not wearing any shoes!" This was all very confusing.
"Sneakers. Spies. Sninjas. Stealthy people. All of which I am and you are not. I wish you hadn't followed me. I'm going to be in so much trouble!" The rabbit's voice was already quite squeaky, but her agitation had pushed its pitch to unfathomable heights. Sid winced and grit his teeth.
"You weren't doing a very good job at sneaking," he said when he could hear again.
"I was in a hurry! I couldn't waste time sneaking! I was late! I had my official vest on! It's extremely poor form to follow someone when they have their ISS vest on, even if they're in too much of a rush to sneak properly!" Sid imagined the little rabbit's face would have been bright red if she hadn't been covered with fur.
"All right!" Sid was beginning to wonder if it hadn't been such a good idea to go after this rabbit in the first place. "I'm sorry I followed you." Over her fuzzy shoulder he noticed the walls' slow crawl upward. Had they been doing that all along? "Are we moving?"
The rabbit rolled her eyes, as much as a rabbit could. "Of course we are."
"Where are we going?"
"I'm going to a secret ISS function. You're probably going to die." The rabbit gathered her billowing gown close to her body, pointed her toes and sped up like a tiny torpedo, leaving Sidney floating through the air all alone.
He didn't have time to think of much of anything, let alone life or death, before he dropped onto the hard plastic seat of a speeding log flume. Sid couldn't even gather the breath for a scream before his boat plummeted down a multi-story waterfall, shattering into pieces at the bottom.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:56 am
quest part three - eat drink me
Sid regained consciousness on a large and squishy air mattress, surprisingly dry and wearing an entirely new set of clothes. A buttoned-up blue vest covered his skinny torso, with no shirt underneath, and his legs were clad in plain white pants. All of this might have been fine with Sid if his boots hadn't gone missing as well. He made a distressed little peep as a mysterious breeze rushed over his bare toes, forcing him to sit up too quickly to please his muzzy head.
"Ow," he said to no one in particular.
"Life is pain, man," someone said. "It's time you learned that."
Sid looked around. "What? Who's there?" No one answered. Next to him on the mattress sat a small pair of gloves and the rabbit's watch. He picked them up and stood slowly, pocketing the items and looking around for a clear direction to head. There was no sign of the bunny, the hole he had fallen into or the deadly water ride that had brought him here. Up ahead, Sid could make out a small table, illuminated by some strange hidden spotlight.
On the table there was a tiny vial of liquid with an even tinier label affixed to its front.
DRINK ME, the label urged.
Sid didn't need to be told twice. He downed the vial's contents, a strange label being all the invitation he needed.
At first, nothing happened. Well, nothing except the instantaneous clearing of Sid's head. Maybe the vial had been filled with some sort of fast-acting aspirin? It was only when he noticed that he was looking up at the table's underside that he realized he was shrinking. Great. On the bright side, at least he didn't have that headache anymore.
From his new perspective, Sid noticed a way out of the cave almost immediately. Not five feet away there was a tiny door set into the rock wall, too small for him to get through normally, but the perfect size for him now. Sid pushed it open and took a step through into a seemingly endless field.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:57 am
quest part four - bug guy
Hiking through grass was quite the challenge when you were only two inches tall. Sid tired quickly, looking for somewhere to stop for the moment, or maybe even the night. Aiming toward what he thought was a light up ahead, Sid eventually came to a crumbling little shack that emitted a horrible odor.
"Life is pain, man. Like I said."
Sid froze. Who was that?
A fat, buzzing insect dropped out of the sky in a flurry of wings and wafted stench. Sid let out a yell he immediately wished he could take back. Apparently bugs were a lot scarier when they were nearly as big as you were. "Sing me a song!" the bug bellowed. Sid obliged, belting out the first thing that came to mind.
When the sun shines, we'll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath I'ma stick it out 'til the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella
Sid stopped, hopefully before the whole situation became truly ridiculous, watching the giant bug bob his head along with his song.
"Good. Gooooooood," Bug Guy said, appearing to really see Sid for the first time since he had arrived. Bug Guy visibly brightened upon noticing the boy's outfit. "It looks like we're going to the same place," he said, reaching inside a pack at his waist and pulling out a shiny blue vest of his own. "This is my first one. How about you?"
Bug Guy seemed excited. Sid decided to roll with it. "Yeah. It's gonna be awesome," he said.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:58 am
quest part five - invisifrog
Bug Guy chattered excitedly as he led Sid... wherever it was they were going.
"I remember the first virtual mission I got it was like this guy said get the golden scarab necklace and I was all 'but it's so heavy, man' and the guy was like i have done the same many times before you this is not a game and I was like 'yeah, totally' and I thought I needed a mask and boots and a jacket and pants and the jacket totally messed with my wings but I made it anyway and it turned out I didn't need to get all dressed up like that 'cause it was indoors and totally like a simulator but I did pretty good, you know, I bet you did too you look like an awesome snave I'm sure they were way happy to get you 'cause you're so tiny but I bet people shouldn't underestimate you I bet you could do a number on anyone you wanted to like did you ever do the mission with the meat slabs I totally couldn't even lift them let alone bring them over to the traps in the floor I got completely owned on that one or the fairies, yeah, those were tough but I learned from the virtual mission to leave my wings out and I kicked so much butt that I wrote to my mom in prison and told her all about it but I'm not sure she can read so I hope someone read it to her, hey do you like Cheez-its I think they're the best food I have ever eaten and maybe after this party we can go back to my house and eat some and you can tell me about some of your missions 'cause I'm sure they're way cool, I should tell you watch out for Hamster Bob, he is not a friendly hamster like you see on TV he will cut you if you even mention his family which is kind of hard not to do because he wears a t-shirt with their pictures on it I wonder how hard it is to get iron-on decals in my size I just never tried it 'cause it seemed like something no one would cater to, you know, tiny iron on patches or that paper where you can print out anything you want and put it on a shirt but yeah watch out for that guy, I saw him slash a bluebird all up for mentioning his sister and, like, how could he not, like I said... t-shirt, man, it's hard to miss, man, I want some pizza I haven't had good pizza in about 4 years I swear, it was meat lover's with a ton of pepperoni maybe we can get some after we eat the Cheez-its have you ever played Operation it's tough when you're as small as us 'cause that buzzing will make you pee your pants but it's, like, an awesome accomplishment if you can actually do it then everyone thinks you're completely cool and they give you stuff and, you know, I think my favorite magazine ever is totally Dog Fancy, have you ever..."THWAP!And like that, Bug Guy was gone. A giant, disembodied tongue hung in the air above Sid's head, licking lips he couldn't see.
"Hello?"
The air turned slightly green and a very large frog slowly materialized out of the murk, lips, face, and all tongue-adjacent parts of his body appearing before the rest. "You drank-a dey Dreek Meh, eh, Tiny Boy?" the Invisifrog rumbled, smiling a chilling smile. "Come with-a me to dey party. Feex you right up."
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:03 am
quest part six - party!
Once the initial shock associated with seeing Bug Guy's sudden death at the tongue of a super-huge talking frog with a questionable accent had worn off, Sid began to take a greater interest in his surroundings. The gigantic blades of grass he had found so difficult to maneuver through were gone, now replaced by a dusty dirt road that was infinitely easier to traverse.
Up ahead, Sid saw banners, balloons and a bevy of weird creatures eating fantasy-colored hors d'oeuvres. He picked out White Rabbit early, since she was the only one in a green dress, and he waved, but she couldn't see him.
"Wait hea," Invisifrog said, hopping off into the center of the action and returning a few minutes later with a little purple cake, its hue identical to the liquid Sid had consumed from the DRINK ME vial. "Have piece," the frog said. "I can break-a for you..."
"That's okay," Sid said. He hopped up onto the plate and shoved an arm into the regal confection, finding himself elbow-deep in icing before his fingertips even touched cake. Maybe he should have let the frog break him off a piece after all. He removed his arm gingerly, fist full of cake, and took a bite.
Again, it seemed as though nothing had happened, but soon enough Sid's head was quite a bit closer to the sky than it had been. Invisifrog wasn't nearly as frightening anymore, although he was still larger than any frog had a right to be. Sid smiled down at the amphibian. "Thanks for your help."
"No problem. I go now. Party down." The frog disappeared again, all except for his tongue, which went hopping off toward the gathering.
"It's the green kid!" a chirping bunny voice cried out. White Rabbit seemed much happier now that she was no longer late. Sid wasn't sure he could forgive her for leaving him to die, but she was the only other person at the party he knew, so he decided to temporarily give her the benefit of the doubt. "C'mere, I want you to meet my friends!" she shouted. Sid shuffled over, his new-old legs taking some getting used to. He was so far off of the ground! "This is Hatticus, Bunny Number Two and Mouse in a Pot, or Miap for short. We should go play Twister! You look like you could play a mean game of Twister...um...what's your name?"
"Sid," he supplied.
"Sid! Let's play Twister, Sid!" White Rabbit grabbed Sid's hand in her paw and pulled him toward a fenced-in field filled with bunches of colorful flowers laid out just like the circles on a Twister mat.
"We're just supposed to stomp 'em?" Sid asked. But they were so pretty!
"The flowers told me they like it," Miap drawled sleepily. "Getting stomped on makes them happy."
Sid shrugged. "Okay, I guess."
One rollicking game of Twister later, and Sid was ready to sit down, or at least grab a drink. "I'll be back!" he told his new friends, but before he could exit the Twister field, a group of angry little men with mushrooms on their heads crashed into the area, slamming their mushroom-topped Humvee into the DJ's booth.
"By the royal decree of Princess Shroomaria, I declare this ISS party officially over! Take them all to the dungeon!"
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:06 am
quest part seven - not guilty
Sid had never been in jail before. Sure, White Rabbit, Hatticus, Bunny Two, Miap and Invisifrog were in the Big House with him, but that didn't make the whole ordeal any more palatable. Apparently, being a Snave was a crime, and even though Sid hadn't actually dressed himself in their trademark vest or made any moves to join the ISS at all, he was still being treated as a member.
One of the masked mushroomhead guards shuffled past the cell and Sid yawned, "Can I go home now?" It turned out jumping down an epic hole, riding a flume ride, being two inches tall, witnessing a tongue murder and playing flower Twister were all fairly tiring activities. Who knew?
Mushroomhead shook his mushroom head. "NO! You are to be put on trialll!" The laugh he produced as he marched away was particularly loud, long and evil.
White Rabbit huffed and crossed her arms. "Well, that was uncalled for," she said.
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It was another four hours before they were taken to the courtroom.
Sid shuffled in, head down, and was led to the defendant's table with his cohorts. White Rabbit hopped dejectedly, Hatticus giggled under his breath, dragging Miap behind him on a string, Invisifrog grumbled to himself as he was lifted into his seat by Bunny Two. Maybe, Sid thought, if he never looked anyone in the eye ever again, he would never be charged. It made about as much sense as anything else in this place.
A stream of angry mushroom citizens paraded through the courtroom, airing their grievances against the ISS members and their kleptomaniacal habits. Finally, it was time for the Princess herself to take the stand. The courtroom erupted in cheers as she entered, smiling and waving. Gaze still cast downward, the first thing Sid noticed about the pink-clad royal was her choice of footwear.
"Hey," he said quietly, the first word he had said in hours. "Those are mine."
Peeking out from beneath Princess Shroomaria's puffy satin skirt were a pair of scuffed, holey boots. His boots.
"Hey," Sid repeated, a bit louder this time. He stood slowly and pointed a long finger at the Princess. "Give. Me. My. Boots."
"You! Sit down!" a Mushroomhead guard shouted.
"My boots! She stole them!"
Princess Shroomaria turned from her adoring crowd, her smile fading to a tight, disapproving line. She didn't make a sound for what seemed like a very long time, the rest of the courtroom eventually quieting to match her silence. When she spoke again, she did so in a low and sinister voice. "If the boy wants... my boots so badly, I think his punishment shall be to forever be without them!" She spun, raising her arms in the air and screaming..."OFF WITH THEIR LEGS!"The room exploded, or at least it seemed that way to Sid. Women and children screamed, guards tried to make peace, prisoners attempted escape. Out of the Princess' hands sprang a portobello storm, a tidal wave of chanterelles, a wall of truffles. They slammed into Sid, knocking him off of his feet. He kept falling, past White Rabbit, through the floor, down into blackness.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:07 am
quest part eight - the end
Night had fallen by the time Lex returned home with the milk. He was already harboring quite a bit of guilt over blowing off Sid's request to accompany him and when Lex saw the child curled up on the steps outside, the feeling only intensified.
"Sidney?" he said softly.
Sid shifted and muttered, "Gimme...boots." The swath of pale hair that perpetually covered his eyes made it impossible to see whether he was awake or not, as always. Lex waited another minute, but the boy didn't move or speak again. Asleep then.
Lex looped the bag containing the milk around his wrist and lifted Sid in his arms, bringing him back inside the house and tucking him into the spare bed in Liam's room.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:33 pm
souvenirs
Sid snapped awake, slender hands flailing in front of his face in an attempt to keep the mushroom attack at bay. Only, there were no mushrooms. The room around him was dark and he was alone. Sid wiggled his toes, surprised to find his boots firmly encasing his feet. Where was he? What had happened?
When no one answered these pressing questions, Sid decided to take matters into his own hands. He swung his legs off of the cushy horizontal surface he had been lying on, knocking something that seemed like a glass off of something else that seemed like a nightstand. His legs felt longer somehow. The glass thudded harmlessly against yet another something that seemed like carpeting. Was he in Liam's room? Sid reached out his hand, found a fourth something that seemed like a lamp, and switched it on.
It was all true. An empty glass of water rested comfortably in a puddle on Liam's space-themed throw rug. Sid hopped to his feet and stumbled out into the living room, adjusting quickly to his new center of balance.
"Where is everybody!" he shouted, even though where everybody was was maddeningly obvious. Liam was the first to turn around, pulling himself over the back of the sofa with both sets of hands before cracking a wide smile and waving, as if he was aboard a cruise ship leaving port. Lex was on his feet soon after, rushing to Sid's side and giving him a brusque once over.
"Does anything hurt?" he asked, grasping Sid's shoulders and pushing him back to arms length.
"What's wrong with him?" Katurian had been the last to turn and the pale man wore a concerned expression on his face. Michal snuffled around Sid's feet, but the child couldn't have placed when she had shown up.
"I'm sure this happens to all the kids that appear out of nowhere," Lex continued, his voice full of certainty his eyes didn't share. "You're just bigger now, right Sid?"
The flytrap boy nodded vigorously. "Yeah, Uncle Lex, sure. I feel fine." His voice was still on the higher end of boy-range, but he had lost the spitty childish lispiness that had marked his toddlerdom. Sid smiled, just to show how fine he was.
Lex finally let go, his relief apparent only in the slight relaxation of his shoulders. "Do you want anything to eat?"
"Nah, I'm okay." Sid leaned to one side, peering around his uncle's body and smiling at his cousin. "I got stuff to tell Liam though."
The little eyeless boy vaulted off of the couch, grabbing Sid's hand and mumbling, "We'll be in my room, 'kay Da?" before dragging him out of adult company.
The two sat on Liam's bed, Sid telling tales of his Wonderland until his throat was sore. It wasn't until the next morning, when he woke up sprawled over the bed still in his clothes, that he felt the White Rabbit's pocketwatch digging into his thigh. He found it and a tiny pair of gloves hidden away in his pocket, but he kept that part of the story to himself.
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:07 pm
katurian
The young man's name was Katurian and if reports from the hyena were to be believed, he was twenty-two years old. Lex, for one, trusted the animal, perhaps even more than he trusted the man. It was because of her that they were still guests in his apartment. Kat was growing on him though. The kid was a good listener.
"So what happened to the letter opener?"
"I'm sure she took it. After she..." Lex made a brisk flapping gesture with his spatula.
"Kissed you."
"Don't say it out loud," Lex muttered. He and Roxanna had done more than kissed, more than once in fact, but no one needed to know about that.
"A distraction. That was... sneaky." Katurian grinned. The grin was infectious.
"She's still a b***h," Lex said, chuckling.
Kat nodded. "Are you going to try and get it back? The letter opener." He lowered his hand to the floor where Michal sat at his feet and offered the tiny hyena a bit of pancake.
"Yeah." Lex brought a stack of his own to the table and sat across from Katurian. "I just don't know how."
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:14 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:41 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:40 pm
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