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Chapter 8
Celebrate Good Times
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Topic: One Down (Verified) (Sticky) (The Simurgh Is Dead)
In: Boards ► Announcements
Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Posted On Feb 7th 2011:
That's it.
It's over.
I'm... I'm not going to say a speech, or beat around the bush.
The Simurgh is defeated. I... man, this is just as unreal for me as it is for all of you. But I've done my job, my duty, as a Ward, as a Hero. She won't threaten our world ever again. I...
No more capped cities. No more time bombed people. It's over. And to be respectful to the gone, even if she was a monster, I included her admittedly epic entrance in my proof.
Here. A complete video record of my battle with her and my victory.
I have a lot of repair work to do on the ship now. She stopped holding back after my first volley.
Gods. My shields were at 3% when it was all over. I... yeah, I'm gonna need therapy, I think.
Anyways. You're welcome, everyone, I guess.
As my new friend Clockblocker would most likely say, cue the party.
Also, sorry to the mods about bypassing the forum security to post this in Announcements.
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►Bagrat (The Guy in the Know) (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
►Nondeceptive
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Gasp Bagrat just swore!
On topic; oh my god.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...
She's... she's gone. The Simurgh is gone.
I- I have to tell my wife!
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior) (Wiki Moderator)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
This is real, right? PLEASE tell me this is REAL!
►Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
We're in chaos right now, I can't verify anything at the moment, and Reave just left the building at a dead sprint.
►DapperJumpingHat (Unverified Cape)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Good riddance. She's responsible for my girlfriend's pain.
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I'm on my phone in a bunker right now. Is it real? Nobody down here knows, we're just waiting to be domed.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...Bro
Did you just-
This better not be a joke, man. Coming from me. I'm the one saying this. Did you really-?
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Clockblocker Yeah. She's gone.
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►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard You.
You glorious bastard!
Of course it's real. You're that much bullshit.
...I'm just gonna sit down for a while and let it sink in that the guy I tried to timestop yesterday just beat an Endbringer, kay?
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Clockblocker you do that. I've got things to do on my ship before I can come back out. We should be arriving back above the Bay soon, though.
►Aegis (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Wards Leader)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard Ship, you're going to have the mother of all debreifings once you get back. And you can forget patrolling anytime soon.
But if this is real? You take your damn time. That's an order. I'll deal with Piggot if I have to. You've earned it.
And Ship? I'm proud of you.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Aegis Yes sir.
►SpecificProtagonist (Verified Shipper)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Aww! Aegis x Shipyard confirmed OTP!
►Brilliger (Moderator: Protectorate Main)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
SpecificProtagonist This of all times is not the place for that.
With that said, given the rest of us forum PR people seem to be running around with no heads, it's up to me to do this.
Shipyard, don't worry about hacking the forums.
Because you weren't lying. This is real. Let me repeat; THIS IS REAL!
Our Thinkers have gone over the footage, and we've had a couple of jets go through the area. There's nothing left of the Simurgh. She's dead. Those jets also corroborate Shipyard's story about the shields. His ship doesn't look very good.
I can now pretty much confirm that the footage of Shipyard and The Simurgh getting into a high powered slugfest straight out of a science fiction movie is legitimate. The Simurgh lost, but not before almost erasing Shipyard's ship, and he, Dragon, and Vista with it.
I'm putting Verified on this thread until I'm told to do otherwise. I don't give a damn if I'm fired for releasing this before the higher ups cleared it and could put together a PR spin.
Because the God Damned Simurgh is fucking DEAD!
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior) (Wiki Moderator)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I JUS TOLD EVRYON AND THE ENTRE BUNKER IS CHERING. I'M CRYING RIGHT OW I CAN BARELY SEE MY PHOEN
►Black Honey Badger
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I can hear the cheering from Boston!
Oh no wait, THAT'S JUST THE ENTIRE CITY OF BOSTON CELEBRATING!
►Lost Angel
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Los Angeles reporting in, the party is in full swing since the news announced it. I can't find a dry eye anywhere, not even me. The streets are filled with people!
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►Good Ship Morpheus (Moderator) (Not a Ship)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Washington here. We were hit by Leviathan, not the Simurgh, but it doesn't matter. Shipyard, you've given us hope again. Thank you.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
You're welcome.
►Feychick
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
London, from outside the dome, reporting in! Someone broke the mandatory quarantine and broadcast into the dome. They told them.
The cheering must be amplified by the dome or something because I can hear it from my house!
►Brilliger (Moderator: Protectorate Main)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Please take the worldwide party discussion to the appropriate thread, here: Worldwide Celebration
In other news, I'm not fired yet! But only because Reave is MIA, Miss Mercury apparently triggered, the east coast is in chaos, and the whole world is cheering.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Holy shit. He actually did it. The bastard challenged an Endbringer... and won.
This isn't that known, but I'm actually a cape. Sorry Bagrat for sharing your spotlight with my super Thinker powers.
I'm also under threat of death to work for a villain. This is gonna sound cliche as fuck, but after seeing this and Uber and L33t's team change...
Shipyard help me Obi-Wan Shipobi. You're my only hope.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye are you actively under threat? If not, head to the PRT HQ. I'll discuss this with you when I arrive.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard Now that I've spoken out, I will be quite shortly. I don't know if I can make it to the HQ.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye send up a signal I can see from the sky. I'll beam you to the ship.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard ...I'm not even surprised anymore. I have a flare gun, I hope that's enough.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye Should be. Fire when ready, I'm above the city now, definitely in range.
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►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard You're kilometers above the city and that's "in range."
Okay. That's definitely a Thinker headache.
I'm heading outside to fire the flare gun now. It's red.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye Roger that. I'll search for red light.
►Bagrat (The Guy in the Know) (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Did that really all just happen? What am I asking, of course it did. This is Shipyard, the Simurgh Slayer.
AllSeeingEye Also, I always knew that you knew far too much!
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Update post for the previous rescue. I got her.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
That's three capes in a single day. And an Endbringer.
Jeez man, leave some for the rest of us!
(I'm totally kidding, if you feel like converting every villain in the world and taking out the rest of the Endbringers at the same time I'm totally on board with this)
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Clockblocker I can't help it, I'm just awesome.
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Awesomely bullshit.
►Shipyard (Original Poster) (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Oh hey Kid! Where've you been?
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Watching your cannons gave me a few ideas. I may have gotten carried away. I kinda need to eat right now though so bye
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Same old Kid Win.
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Topic: Worldwide Celebration
In: Boards ► Earth
Brilliger (Original Poster) (Moderator: Protectorate Main)
Posted On Feb 7th 2011:
This is the thread to talk about the worldwide party currently going on! Also we have a new Board for things that affect the whole world like this.
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►RushinRollout (Verified Ruskie)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
There's fireworks going off in Moscow! Tonight we celebrate the death of the bitch of feathers. DRINK, MY FRIENDS!
►Laotsunn (Kyushu Survivor)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Japan thanks the Master of Ships. He has engaged in honorable combat and ended our destroyer's sibling.
►Mac's Dual Rocket Propelled Grenades (Verified Redneck)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Texas has guns going off everywhere! People are shootin' at the sky and daring it to come get 'em! THE PSYCHIC CHICKEN IS DED!
►Aloha
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Oahu, Hawaii checking in. Maloha Shipyard! The ships in Pearl are firing their guns in honor of you!
►Kernel Panic
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Kentucky. KFC just announced their new special, Fried Psychic Chicken, and I couldn't be more proud of my state's stereotypes than I am right now.
►Bob (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I'm still alive! Brockton Bay is cautiously exiting our bunkers. For those of us in the know though, we're starting up the celebrations!
YOU'RE FORGIVEN FOR BLOWING OUT MY EARDRUMS EARLIER, SHIPYARD
►Grace (Verified Cape) (Wards Chicago)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Fuckin' hell, one of those assholes is finally dead. I don't think I've ever heard the city this loud.
►White Fairy (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Netherlands here. This party is danke, yo.
Okay now that I've stopped stereotyping my own culture, we're fresh outta clogs. Too many bought in celebration.
►Narwhal (Verified Cape) (The Guild)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Vancouver is awesome right now. I'm even making a light show with my fields!
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Topic: To Boldly Go
In: Boards ► Earth
Iblis (Original Poster)
Posted On Feb 7th 2011:
Now that the Simurgh is dead space is open again. And we have our resident spaceship Tinker to thank for it.
Do you think we can get back out there again? Start exploring space properly? Especially given Shipyard's existence?
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►Buzz Newyear (NASA)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
NASA Orbital Monitoring tech here. I'll speak for those of us left at the space agency here in Florida.
We want to. God, do we want to. But it'll be up to the President and Congress as to whether we get to. We're gonna need a lot more funding than what we have now. For the record, I don't begrudge our superiors for cutting most of what we had before The Simurgh showed up. With her in orbit, nothing we sent up was viable.
But she's gone now, and I know we're gonna petition the President to get back out there. Our buddies in the fledgling European Space Agency are on board with joint operations and we've even talked to the Cosmodrome. We are ready and raring to go.
Also, literally all of us are excited at the fact Shipyard claims his ships are starships. Most people probably don't remember the difference, but here it is in a nutshell:
The Space Shuttles were spaceships.
Starfleet's Enterprise was a starship.
If his ships can really go interstellar, we're gonna have some really interesting times ahead of us.
►GstringGirl
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Ooh! Someone from NASA!
Do you play Space Opera?
►Buzz Newyear (NASA)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Yes, actually. It's a decently fun game to waste time with while you wait on the scans of orbit to finish.
►GstringGirl
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
What's your username? If you wanna play, anyways. I'd sure love to!
►Buzz Newyear (NASA)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I tossed ya a PM with it. Sounds fun.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Hey, don't leave me out of it!
►ArchmageEin
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Back on the original topic!
I think we should start exploring space again. At the very least, Behemoth and Leviathan aren't on other planets. And we desperately need a second home for Humanity if and when some insane Tinker's virus, bomb, or creature escapes containment or blows up the planet.
►Procto the Unfortunate Tinker (Not a tinker)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Oh come on, we're not that crazy. All Tinkers are intimately aware of just how dangerous our creations are. Not even String Theory, miss 'blow-up-the-moon', would've actually done it.
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
You're not a Tinker, Procto.
That said I am totally on board with space travel again. I may not be able to understand my bullshit teammate's technology but I'll help as much as I can!
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►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
With space open again, I wonder if science fiction will kick back up into overdrive?
Also from what I can understand of Shipyard's technology, interstellar is underselling it.
►Space Zombie
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Space Zombie Hey, why haven't you been online?!
►Space Zombie
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
XxVoid_CowboyxX Because I've got space for brainz.
►Buzz Newyear (NASA)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye What exactly do you mean when you say interstellar is underselling it?
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Buzz Newyear My ships have a form of FTL called Hyperdrives. When powered by the generators I am capable of creating, they can go intergalactic.
►Buzz Newyear (NASA)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
WHAT.
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) (Simurgh Slayer)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Woops, I wasn't supposed to say that. Alexandria is yelling at me now.
...Huh, her voice patterns... Nope, I'm not making this mistake again.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
And I'm not stupid enough to say it either.
►Buzz Newyear (NASA)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
You're both massive teases. Do I have to come to Washington? My boss is ready to send me there to talk to you if he has to!
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Topic: PRT Director's Open Letter (Press Release: The Simurgh) (LOCKED)
In: Boards ► Earth
Director Costa-Brown (Original Poster) (Moderator: Protectorate Main) (Verified PRT Director)
Posted On Feb 8th 2011:
From the desk of Director Costa-Brown, dated February 8th, 2011, 0031 hours:
There have been many rumors and statements flying around the internet in the past few hours. Partially due to the nature of this communication network, and partially because of some members of our organization releasing information before it was fully confirmed without a shred of doubt.
They will not be penalized for their actions.
At 1625 hours Eastern Standard Time on Februrary 7th, 2011, one of the Protectorate East-North-East's new Wards, Shipyard, unearthed the fact that the Simurgh, the Third Endbringer, was posting on Parahumans Online. We are not yet aware of how she was accomplishing this. We did not know that she could understand our language, nor that she was even truly alive.
We still are unsure about those two points.
But regardless, Shipyard detected this. He proceeded to antagonize The Simurgh by revealing her presence to the world. This lead to her choosing Brockton Bay as her, and the Endbringer's 3 month attack cycle, new target.
Shipyard will not be penalized for his actions either.
The former because of their overwhelmed state in the wake of Shipyard's proceeding actions. The latter because of what he proceeded to do.
Risking his own life and that of Dragon and Vista, by mutual agreement, Shipyard heroically challenged The Simurgh directly.
She accepted.
The three of them took Shipyard's battlecruiser into the upper atmosphere to intercept The Simurgh, a task which the three of them believed would most likely end up with them dead or twisted into time bombs. But they did it in order to save Brockton Bay. They would try to use the ship's weapons systems to drive her away, but they were prepared to sacrifice their lives by detonating the ship's power core right in her face if they had to.
Thankfully, such an extreme solution proved unnecessary.
At 1629 hours, after engaging and testing the limits of The Simurgh, Shipyard proceeded to bombard her with enough ordinance to almost entirely devastate her body. He did more damage to an Endbringer than we have ever seen.
And he forced her to reveal that she had been holding back.
We are investigating the possibility that all our previous fights against the Endbringers, the times we did enough damage to drive them off, may have been nothing more than a ruse. This is a major upset if true, but also valuable intelligence on their capabilities.
But even when she revealed her true power, still Shipyard did not falter. At precisely 1631 hours, he brought the full might of his battlecruiser to bear against the winged Endbringer.
And. He. Won.
The Simurgh is dead. This is not a plan, or a convoluted series of events. She is not hidden. She did not survive.
The Third Endbringer is gone.
We are attempting to do all we can to make sure the, as I have heard it described, "Worldwide Party" proceeds without damaging anything and with minimal casualties. Protectorate and PRT forces are coordinating with the resident militias of as many nations as we can to ensure everyone goes home after tonight. Or after this week, if what some people are saying proves true.
Please, celebrate responsibly. We have just defeated an enemy of Humanity with absolutely no loss of life and minimal damage to our infrastructure. It would be foolish and embarrassing for us to damage ourselves after such a victory.
And to Shipyard. I have already told you this privately, but as this is an open letter;
Thank you. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
The world owes you a debt we can never repay. I only hope you can pull off your miracle twice more and permanently end the other two monsters. Also, I am publicly extending my earlier invitation to you to come to Washington D.C.
We have a meeting with the President.
And, to any Villains reading this; pay very close attention to the following sentences.
If you so much as scratch Shipyard, whatever is left of you after his technology has finished decimating your corpse will be handed to the various Protectorate parahumans to do with as they wish. After they are finished, the PRT agents will have their go. Then you will be hung up in the proverbial town square and flight tickets will be provided to whoever so wishes to come desecrate your mangled, broken remains.
There are a whole lot of people worldwide who see Shipyard as a new hope Alan Gramme could have only dreamed of being. As the true successor to our sorely missed friend Hero. We will not accept another demise like his. I sincerely recommend treating Shipyard as if there is a reverse Endbringer Truce upon his person, where if you break it, the entirety of the Protectorate and many independent teams will come down on you like a sack of lead bricks.
God knows I can't stop them. More to the point, I won't even try.
-Director Costa-Brown
Topic: Boat Graveyard Tinkertech Spiders
In: Boards ► Places ► North America ► United States ► Brockton Bay
XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster) (Verified Idiot)
Posted On Feb 8th 2011:
Guys I was walking back to my house from the bunker and I saw a silver spider on a boat in the Boat Graveyard. It looked like metal and Tinkertech. What's going on?
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►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
I saw one too! It was standing on the roof of the Library!
Void's batting two for two in the same amount of days. How is this possible
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster) (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Hey!
►Acree
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
The entire world is partying after The Simurgh was killed and you're worried about a couple of Tinkertech bugs? Probably some new trigger from the maelstrom that spanned the sky of the East Coast.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster) (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
I don't know I just wanted to speak up in case they turn out to be some Simurgh plot or something.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Thank you for the report, Void Cowboy.
(I never thought anyone would be thanking Void for anything, but it's pretty much a brand new world out there.)
I've logged it in our system. Please keep an eye out for any more. You too, Brocktonite.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Original Poster) (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Yes sir! o7
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Okay, will do.
►FluteGirl
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
They're probably nothing, just like Acree says.
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Topic: Anyone Seen TinMother?
In: Boards ► Staff Forum
Good Ship Morpheus (Original Poster) (Moderator) (Not a Ship)
Posted On Feb 8th 2011:
I haven't been able to get in touch with her since yesterday. She's been offline for over 24 hours. Since when is she ever offline that long?
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►Brilliger (Moderator: Protectorate Main)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
I'm sure she's just celebrating along with everyone else. Though her unusual downtime is concerning. We'll just have to honor her tireless efforts by taking up the slack.
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior) (Wiki Moderator)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Uh... Okay, A; why can I even see this forum
And B; since when am I a Mod?! Even if it says Wiki Mod, what the heck?
Oh, and uh, yes, that is somewhat concerning. She's never been offline no matter what time I tried to message her.
►Tin_Mother (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
I'm fine guys, thanks for your concern. I was just indisposed by all the celebrations, but I'm back now! ^_^
Thanks for picking up my duties. And Valkyr, I figured you deserve the title after all you do for the Wiki.
►Brilliger (Moderator: Protectorate Main)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
They're not just your duties Tin. You just keep beating us to the punch
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior) (Wiki Moderator)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Good to hear you're okay, TinMother! And thanks for the Mod position, I guess. I don't really need it, but if you think it's important, I'll give you this one.
►Logs (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 8th 2011:
Welcome back, TinMother!
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