Great detail AJ, I almost smelled the corrupted water over here. I used demonic corruption in water (and the land it wets) more than once, so Wastraliths are awesome plot monsters. In high-level missions, bad guys who can teleport away were common ever since I gamed as a kid. You still got experience points for defeating them. Many player's don't understand that. You need not kill, maim, nor disable an enemy to count as a win, to defeat them. If they run, that is a win, the bad guys are defeated. What the writers and less creative gamers of AD&D forgot is that teleporting away was an important plot element of high-level enemies. That's why tactical and-or creative high-level players who want to *slay* the teleporting enemy have ways to lock away teleportation at the point in the battle where the enemy would teleport away. So, to me, the ability of an intelligent high-level enemy to teleport away is almost always a must. That teleportation, if not liked by the players, is another enemy he/she/they must find a way to defeat. Also, keep in mind, intelligent bad guys also try to figure out how to stop *their* enemies from teleporting away when the tide is in their favor.
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I usually make them a mix of traits from various octopi and eels, frilled sharks, viperfish, bobbit worms, anglerfish, sarcastic fringeheads, etc. in a vaguely serpentine body.
@@tatsusama3192 I'm a little ashamed to admit I only came to learn their existence because of the fact that I used to have really bad taste in youtube content.
So, would it be plausible for a wastrilith to be controlling a nearby fishing hamlet using corrupt water to turn them into monstrous fish people? Would love to run a Shadow over Innsmouth story in a game of mine
Thanks for the 4th video this week AJ! Your channel has improved considerably considerably since it’s inception and it was excellent to begin with. I was here at 23k subscribers and it’s over doubled since then. Here’s to soon having 50k subs, and with any luck, 50k more!
Events in the boxed set Hellbound: The Blood War details how fiends lost the ability to teleport without error. An epic adventure proving that a small group & small battles can, in fact, affect the Blood War in big ways
Here wuz Seamus! Seamus is currently playing DnD and used spells, magic and a lenient DM to perform the Spanish Inquisition song from history of the world 1 to 1
@@Im-Not-a-Dog....actually...we were in a dungeon that had goblins and we just killed the king. With a few intimidation rolls, the party became their leaders...so...well ya see....goblins. But only because they were there!
There are for worse things that roam the seas and water ways than Sea Devils and Krakens. Only something so foul and manipulative as a Wastralith could despoil and dominate a seaside region so completely. I can see one being mistakenly(or foolishly) summoned by some local mage who lives in a lighthouse in a fishing community. Soon enough the local sailors turn into a gang of cutthroats, the waterways become polluted and algae-clogged, and abyssal sharks start appearing in swarms.
"Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya." - Quint 1975
For some reason i get a feeling that one of these things could be laying under a half sunken castle in the middle of a swamp that was once not a swamp.It brought ruin to this kingdom and no one really knows what caused it.But this thing is under there sleeping plotting causing unrest in the populace.And then your unwitting advanturers stumble through the castle side entrance after their barbarian headbutts the door down.and this thing looks up out of the water thinking."Oh goodie" with a repulsive evil smile of jagged needle like teeth as it watches from the darkness.
When it comes to their appearance I imagine the reason that there are so many variants by those who have encountered them would be the chaotic nature of the Abyss itself. As a GM this means you could feel free to customize a High Level encounter as you see fit. Want to give them a second head with needle sharp teeth, go ahead! You'd prefer to have it more like an octopus than a fish, feel free, want to swap out the two scythe like arms for 8 tentacles on each side where arms should be that all end in lamprey mouths, GO FOR IT! I can also imagine one as more of an noxious ooze in it's normal form, but the mastermind of a web of chaotic poisoners by using a natural polymorph ability, think The Joker but one who spreads his chaos, anarchy & the recipe for Joker Toxin.
There's an adventure in planescape 2e hellbound box set where adventurers destroy an ancient celestial, corrupted by a baernaloth, that enabled fiends who's true names it knew, to teleport without error. The apparent destruction of Maeldur Et Kavurik was a giant blow to the yugoloth master plan & also sorta explains why post 2e ( newly created ) fiends can't just pop around the multiverse anymore
6:20 No, it doesn’t I’m afraid. They resist cold lightning fire And bludgeoning piercing and slashing from non magical attacks. The from non magical attacks is separated from the elemental resistance by a comma
Hey AJ, where did you find this demon of the sea? Those pic's were super scary. This Sea Demon should have a higher CR than 13. Oh wait, isn't 13 suppose to be bad luck. Bad luck for whoever encounters this creature. Thanks AJ & have a great day.
May you do strahd / ravenloft related videos as there is none out there that goes in-depth of who he was and the dark lords and the plane of dreads and more :o
If I'm not mistaken, I thought that at one point in 3.5 lore that wastriliths were supposed to be obyriths. I know it wasn't when they were first introduced in the Dragon Mountain box set, because obys weren't mentioned in the lore yet.
@@clockworkpanda8 Well he has a video on aquatic races but I was wondering if he might do the races individually but he can do what he wants I just like the aquatic creatures and potential story.
@@jgr7487 Well the session B4 I had told them to be extremely careful. (I wanted to throw something a little stronger then usual at them) the small dungeon they had entered was only occupied by the wastrilith and like three mummies. But the second they had the opportunity they employed the same strategy they do every time.(this almost always gets them in trouble and make the start of combat difficult) Send the druid in first. I even had the creature lurking around allowing them to see what it looked like and they still went through with it. The druid ended up like three rooms separated when the wastrilith decided to attack and almost downed her in one round.
hmmmm..... Is Dagon their progenitor? Ha i see you use the cover for dark horses Conan, the phoneix on the sword paper back. So the Abyssal Languge sounds like Norwegian black metal song?
I'd imagine Abyssal sounds more like someone dropping rabid badgers into a huge meat grinder while a tour bus full of Torette's kids were suffering from an epic case of Taco Bell food poisoning nearby.
It is based on primordial if I remember right. So I would think it would be deep rumbling growls that evoke deep emotions even when you do not understand it. It should be unnatural sounding, like it isn't possible to make sounds like that with mouths that obey what is considered the normal rules of reality. I guess what I am saying it is terrifying and haunting.
*Building a magic powered chainsaw in D&D, that works underwater* #UntilItIsDone...😞🎸🎼🎵🎶😵😡😎🎸 Also loved all the music in the video. Hmm maybe mini subservient home brewed wastralith minions...
The gate power of the older versions was a bit too powerful. One turned into a dozen in a few rounds. Maybe they could have it but limit how many they can call in.
True it was powerful. This was also why summoner had to restrict any lower planar creature under their control to never use such abilities, for gated creatures were usually not under their control.
I play it with limits. A demon can gate in demons of the same type (ie. tanari, obyrith etc) of equal HD to what they've killed themselves, halve the cost for maynes. This can be done cooperatively, but at 1.5× the cost. In a campaign I'm running (on hiatus right now, though), that has actually become important to the game. The next session involves a small town that has been occupied by a force under command of a nalfeshnee who wants to gate in its balor commander. How quickly and effectively they act will determine how big the problem is
Growing up in the 80s/90s playing Dungeons and Dragons I don't think I ever had a character last more than 2 sessions. It was fun times with shots of vodka and a big empty cup of mercy.
Far from me to tell you how to make your videos but please could you cut out the loud intro and outro music? Or at least replace it with fantasy music.
4:07 Wouldn't the relationship between demogorgon and dagon be like the relationship between mumm ra(demogorgan) and the statue things on his ship(dagon). Or like revenna(demogorgan) and the mirror(dagon) from the first huntsman movie. Or like in 40k where demogorgan is the archon, but dagon is the haemonculus. Or like my main character in skyrim with the spectral assasin. 😵💀🎸 Or king Arthur and the lady of the lake from mythology.
I always thought that the assumption that Dagon was Demogorgon’s servant was kind of rediculous. Dagon is supposed to be the abyssal lord of the waves; having the demonic version of Poseidon being enslaved to someone else kind of ruins the archetype.
I would have Dagon willingly serves Demogorgon despite having the strength to oppose him. Basically the two simply have motives similar enough that it benefits them to ally. That Dagon can refuse Demogorgon's will but why should he since it benefits him?
*"The lesson is this. The only real crime for those of superlative intellect and great prowess is to allow one's self to become shackled by mediocrity. The crime is to let your grasp be less than your reach. To aim low."* /Warhammer 40K/
I dont get why demons and angels are so waterd down... i get that a lower level party wants to fight them but... but as a dm u can adjust them... ther base stats ar realy anoying.... like the solar in your engel video... btw veknar is God do he has angels and if so thay must be terrefying xD
Z0nK89 so like AJ always says, the celestials, demons, and devils present in the MM are the lowest tier of their species. It’s much easier for a DM to scale something up and add stuff than it is to weaken something and try to figure out what you can take away from them that won’t gimp them completely or render then thematically inappropriate. Also Solars are still pretty powerful, and they hit well above their CR, just max out their HP and don’t forget the save or die rider of their longbow or that they should almost immediately try to box the players in with Blade Barrier.
I'm imagining a water Balrog and liking that mental image. Always good inspiration to be found on your channel
I think I have found a reason for my water genasi Cleric to have left his home. I love the water and swimming. A thing like this I couldn’t hate more!
Bingo. I've been wanting a creature to be lurking around an abandoned spelljammer ship. I think I'll do a space version of the wastralith. Thanks AJ.
A wastrilith I a demon so corrupted by the abyss that it now accepts the corruption and thrives in it
After a rough day, this is all I really needed
Great detail AJ, I almost smelled the corrupted water over here.
I used demonic corruption in water (and the land it wets) more than once, so Wastraliths are awesome plot monsters. In high-level missions, bad guys who can teleport away were common ever since I gamed as a kid. You still got experience points for defeating them. Many player's don't understand that. You need not kill, maim, nor disable an enemy to count as a win, to defeat them. If they run, that is a win, the bad guys are defeated. What the writers and less creative gamers of AD&D forgot is that teleporting away was an important plot element of high-level enemies. That's why tactical and-or creative high-level players who want to *slay* the teleporting enemy have ways to lock away teleportation at the point in the battle where the enemy would teleport away. So, to me, the ability of an intelligent high-level enemy to teleport away is almost always a must. That teleportation, if not liked by the players, is another enemy he/she/they must find a way to defeat. Also, keep in mind, intelligent bad guys also try to figure out how to stop *their* enemies from teleporting away when the tide is in their favor.
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I usually make them a mix of traits from various octopi and eels, frilled sharks, viperfish, bobbit worms, anglerfish, sarcastic fringeheads, etc. in a vaguely serpentine body.
Haha, Growing up on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel I actually knew all of these animals. I'm proud😀
@@tatsusama3192 I'm a little ashamed to admit I only came to learn their existence because of the fact that I used to have really bad taste in youtube content.
@@purplehaze2358 - shrugs - Knowledge is knowledge no matter where ya get it from
@@tatsusama3192 i imagine the wastraliths having an appearance similar to the eel grindylows from china mieville’s the scar.
AJ Pickett, with their being water demons, can their be aquatic tiefling that are descendant from them.
Sure, the really creepy looking dude who always pees in the spa pool and spikes the punch bowl at parties with methanol.
@@AJPickett Ok, I guess that it means it's a yes.
So, would it be plausible for a wastrilith to be controlling a nearby fishing hamlet using corrupt water to turn them into monstrous fish people? Would love to run a Shadow over Innsmouth story in a game of mine
Best part is that they literally serve Dagon.
Yes. But only if the corrupted fish people refer to the wastriliths as “The Deep Ones”
Great idea. Have a wastrilith possess or join forces with an aboleth for even more evil fishy fun! XD
Thanks for the 4th video this week AJ! Your channel has improved considerably considerably since it’s inception and it was excellent to begin with. I was here at 23k subscribers and it’s over doubled since then. Here’s to soon having 50k subs, and with any luck, 50k more!
Events in the boxed set Hellbound: The Blood War details how fiends lost the ability to teleport without error. An epic adventure proving that a small group & small battles can, in fact, affect the Blood War in big ways
I got a say that's pretty cool that they actually gave it a explanation Rather than just sweeping under the rug
I actually got on to watch something else but I love the wastrilith good video dude
Okay then. The Darklake area just got a whole lot more interesting for my group. Nice. :3
Here wuz Seamus!
Seamus is currently playing DnD and used spells, magic and a lenient DM to perform the Spanish Inquisition song from history of the world 1 to 1
Seamus Fish Yes! What race did you have do the Jewish part? If you say Goblins, you’re racist. JK.
@@Im-Not-a-Dog....actually...we were in a dungeon that had goblins and we just killed the king. With a few intimidation rolls, the party became their leaders...so...well ya see....goblins. But only because they were there!
Seamus Fish lol. Riiiiight...
Those are terrifying looking!
There are for worse things that roam the seas and water ways than Sea Devils and Krakens. Only something so foul and manipulative as a Wastralith could despoil and dominate a seaside region so completely. I can see one being mistakenly(or foolishly) summoned by some local mage who lives in a lighthouse in a fishing community. Soon enough the local sailors turn into a gang of cutthroats, the waterways become polluted and algae-clogged, and abyssal sharks start appearing in swarms.
Good idea. Definitely would help if you wanted to create a "innsmouth-esque village".
Your videos ROCK! Keep up this amazing and chaotic work up!
"Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya." - Quint 1975
Good audio good editing good vid
Ah yes. The reason why you don't mix water and demonic encounters. Everyone in the party dies.
True, I kill a lot of characters with Chuul
@@AJPickett Alternatively: Fate just hates your pcs. There's that.
Underwater fighting is just crippling when not prepared. I've killed way more PCs than I meant to with simple Sahaugin raiding parties.
@@puckshriekstheim6114 dispelling a pc's waterbreathing is essentially a free kill.
For some reason i get a feeling that one of these things could be laying under a half sunken castle in the middle of a swamp that was once not a swamp.It brought ruin to this kingdom and no one really knows what caused it.But this thing is under there sleeping plotting causing unrest in the populace.And then your unwitting advanturers stumble through the castle side entrance after their barbarian headbutts the door down.and this thing looks up out of the water thinking."Oh goodie" with a repulsive evil smile of jagged needle like teeth as it watches from the darkness.
Got into the spring feeding the castle town's well. That's why its a gross swamp, now. Little does the populace know, obviously
Nice work on the Wastralith video!
(This is Ender) much thanks aj!! Your videos have been helping me dm for literally years lol
You are most welcome!
When it comes to their appearance I imagine the reason that there are so many variants by those who have encountered them would be the chaotic nature of the Abyss itself. As a GM this means you could feel free to customize a High Level encounter as you see fit. Want to give them a second head with needle sharp teeth, go ahead! You'd prefer to have it more like an octopus than a fish, feel free, want to swap out the two scythe like arms for 8 tentacles on each side where arms should be that all end in lamprey mouths, GO FOR IT! I can also imagine one as more of an noxious ooze in it's normal form, but the mastermind of a web of chaotic poisoners by using a natural polymorph ability, think The Joker but one who spreads his chaos, anarchy & the recipe for Joker Toxin.
So you are saying that I NEED to add these to the Ghosts of Salt Marsh random encounter table.
They don't really have a "random encounter" feel, if you ask me. I'm biased though, as I hate random encounters
LOL I had just started to re-watch your hag video when this popped up. I love your fiend videos man keep them up!
There's an adventure in planescape 2e hellbound box set where adventurers destroy an ancient celestial, corrupted by a baernaloth, that enabled fiends who's true names it knew, to teleport without error. The apparent destruction of Maeldur Et Kavurik was a giant blow to the yugoloth master plan & also sorta explains why post 2e ( newly created ) fiends can't just pop around the multiverse anymore
Give us the Dwarves!
Threatening monsters? In 5e? If only.
Loved the music good golly is good
6:20
No, it doesn’t I’m afraid. They resist cold lightning fire
And bludgeoning piercing and slashing from non magical attacks.
The from non magical attacks is separated from the elemental resistance by a comma
Three eyed fish? You mean like they catch in Springfield?
John the herbalist G Mr.Burns is an undercover Wastralith
XD
One of my favorite, all time, creatures, ever!!!!! Too much punctuation. Lol
nice! my party is about to attempt passage on the river of styx. this guys going into my random encounter chart. =D
Mmmm yes I believe there was one of these in Call From the Deep… wish I’d have watched this before I ran that…
Hey AJ, where did you find this demon of the sea? Those pic's were super scary. This Sea Demon should have a higher CR than 13. Oh wait, isn't 13 suppose to be bad luck. Bad luck for whoever encounters this creature.
Thanks AJ & have a great day.
Nice Killing Floor music.
Yeah we bring more ugly fish people yeah well this one's a demon so I have to the Doom Slayer to take it out I can't wait to play Doom eternal
I know I'm only hearing 8 seconds of metal in that intro but I kind of want to hear the full version if it even exists xD
I see what you did there at the end.
I'd also worry a lot more about 30-50 Nalfeshnees.
It does only mean the weapon damage because the physical damage types always come at the end and are separated by a semicolon
May you do strahd / ravenloft related videos as there is none out there that goes in-depth of who he was and the dark lords and the plane of dreads and more :o
- thanks for marking it mister pickett!
cool i was noticed! :D
If I'm not mistaken, I thought that at one point in 3.5 lore that wastriliths were supposed to be obyriths. I know it wasn't when they were first introduced in the Dragon Mountain box set, because obys weren't mentioned in the lore yet.
Good video AJ
Is that doom music in the background?
I salute your ears my friend!
They switched the cha and the int... interesting. Still fing Glorious
Gonna use this, thanks.
I don't even play the game and that sounds terrifying
kind of the reverse of a kirin
Thanks for the vid sir.
That name is the most stereotypically fantasy thing I've heard in a while.
Terrifying fish walks on land, breathes air, threatens to destroy Faerun
This was pretty cool can you do a video on triton soon?
Think he has one
@@clockworkpanda8 Well he has a video on aquatic races but I was wondering if he might do the races individually but he can do what he wants I just like the aquatic creatures and potential story.
When will there be a video on edible monster cuisine?
D&D is...
Deserts & Delicacies, After all.
WebDM just did one this week
@@mikepoulos1323 i saw it... I need a lore perspective tho
Pink Ooze best Foodz
This vids a couple months too late. I already killed a party with it.
Show the party members this video ;).
so tell us how the encounter went
@@jgr7487 Well the session B4 I had told them to be extremely careful. (I wanted to throw something a little stronger then usual at them) the small dungeon they had entered was only occupied by the wastrilith and like three mummies. But the second they had the opportunity they employed the same strategy they do every time.(this almost always gets them in trouble and make the start of combat difficult) Send the druid in first. I even had the creature lurking around allowing them to see what it looked like and they still went through with it. The druid ended up like three rooms separated when the wastrilith decided to attack and almost downed her in one round.
The rest of combat went as you would expect
hmmmm..... Is Dagon their progenitor? Ha i see you use the cover for dark horses Conan, the phoneix on the sword paper back. So the Abyssal Languge sounds like Norwegian black metal song?
I'd imagine Abyssal sounds more like someone dropping rabid badgers into a huge meat grinder while a tour bus full of Torette's kids were suffering from an epic case of Taco Bell food poisoning nearby.
It is based on primordial if I remember right. So I would think it would be deep rumbling growls that evoke deep emotions even when you do not understand it. It should be unnatural sounding, like it isn't possible to make sounds like that with mouths that obey what is considered the normal rules of reality. I guess what I am saying it is terrifying and haunting.
@@jacobfreeman5444 so just like Norwegian black metal
@@markusnavergard2387 Ha, got me there
Not ordinary blackmetal but the war metal band REVENGE
Great video, I really enjoy each one! Just a question, which edition did these creatures make there first appearance?
I believe it was AD&D 2nd edition?
*Building a magic powered chainsaw in D&D, that works underwater* #UntilItIsDone...😞🎸🎼🎵🎶😵😡😎🎸 Also loved all the music in the video. Hmm maybe mini subservient home brewed wastralith minions...
5:50 What in all aggravation is going on there????
Looks like a ranger with a raptor for a pet is battling at wastralith.
Hey bro love the vid before it starts
Can you make a video about luminous being?
It used to be a skip and a hop to the prime material plane but the weave is all uppity these days about TPKs.
Has there ever been a module or official story where a wastrilith interacted with an aboleth or suhuagin?
I don't know.
Ah well, thanks for answering. I always love learning about how the bads get along (or don't), shame there's not much fluff on that.
Shit thats bad ass
DOOM
The gate power of the older versions was a bit too powerful. One turned into a dozen in a few rounds. Maybe they could have it but limit how many they can call in.
True it was powerful. This was also why summoner had to restrict any lower planar creature under their control to never use such abilities, for gated creatures were usually not under their control.
I play it with limits. A demon can gate in demons of the same type (ie. tanari, obyrith etc) of equal HD to what they've killed themselves, halve the cost for maynes. This can be done cooperatively, but at 1.5× the cost. In a campaign I'm running (on hiatus right now, though), that has actually become important to the game. The next session involves a small town that has been occupied by a force under command of a nalfeshnee who wants to gate in its balor commander. How quickly and effectively they act will determine how big the problem is
What if i just boil it alive
There is something definitely something demonically fishy about this adventure.
Do we have amazons in forgotten realms if not can you do scythae from maidenheim
Spooky fish demons 👹
cool.
Nothing clever or funny to say this time. Just enjoyed the video. Here's a comment for the algorithm
You're right: it's a damn shame they nerfed demons in 5e! But game players won't tolerate challenges anymore :(
Growing up in the 80s/90s playing Dungeons and Dragons I don't think I ever had a character last more than 2 sessions. It was fun times with shots of vodka and a big empty cup of mercy.
Sea demon!🎸 🎶death of the deeps!💀 rotten masters of the deep!🦈 sea demon! Wearaliths!🎸 🎶🤘
Well this one seems a little early. No complaints of course
Just getting it in early as I have my regular live stream tomorrow.
Far from me to tell you how to make your videos but please could you cut out the loud intro and outro music? Or at least replace it with fantasy music.
Please tell me what you think of the intro on my next video.
@@AJPickett Will do :)
YAY!!!!!!! Gimme, gimme infernal mythology!!!!!
4:07 Wouldn't the relationship between demogorgon and dagon be like the relationship between mumm ra(demogorgan) and the statue things on his ship(dagon). Or like revenna(demogorgan) and the mirror(dagon) from the first huntsman movie. Or like in 40k where demogorgan is the archon, but dagon is the haemonculus. Or like my main character in skyrim with the spectral assasin. 😵💀🎸 Or king Arthur and the lady of the lake from mythology.
I always thought that the assumption that Dagon was Demogorgon’s servant was kind of rediculous. Dagon is supposed to be the abyssal lord of the waves; having the demonic version of Poseidon being enslaved to someone else kind of ruins the archetype.
The Archon and Haemonculus analogy is a stroke of actual genius.
I would have Dagon willingly serves Demogorgon despite having the strength to oppose him. Basically the two simply have motives similar enough that it benefits them to ally. That Dagon can refuse Demogorgon's will but why should he since it benefits him?
I see aj I click
ay what about that MYRMyXicus
Yeah Conan is dead.
please lower the background music sorry AJ
its set at about 2%-4% of full volume, but sometimes parts of the music can be distracting because the tone shifts draw the ear.
Yeah, what's this song in the background? My brother introduced me to this music & I miss it already.
Xill
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I was the first like! (Was the first like from you, or a ghost?)
From me
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@@kajjak7001 Just stop.
@@purplehaze2358 well since you put it that way
No.
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I dont get why demons and angels are so waterd down... i get that a lower level party wants to fight them but... but as a dm u can adjust them... ther base stats ar realy anoying.... like the solar in your engel video...
btw veknar is God do he has angels and if so thay must be terrefying xD
Z0nK89 so like AJ always says, the celestials, demons, and devils present in the MM are the lowest tier of their species. It’s much easier for a DM to scale something up and add stuff than it is to weaken something and try to figure out what you can take away from them that won’t gimp them completely or render then thematically inappropriate.
Also Solars are still pretty powerful, and they hit well above their CR, just max out their HP and don’t forget the save or die rider of their longbow or that they should almost immediately try to box the players in with Blade Barrier.
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Stop.