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• There is _never_ no hope left. Remember. -- Louis Wu "The Ringworld Enginee
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• It works! Now, if only I could remember what I did...
• Kawaresksenjajok, Harkabeeparolyn, shall we check out some legends for ourselves?
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• Alien 1: It seems the earthlings won. Alien 2: Did they?
  That board with a nail in it may have defeated us....