477 lines
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477 lines
14 KiB
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"dataList": [
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{
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"id": 0,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Ya really are one weirdly dedicated gal, huh~?"
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},
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{
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"id": 1,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "I hardly expected you to follow me all the way out here when it's so cold out."
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},
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{
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"id": 2,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Consider it an extension of my… duties as a professional."
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},
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{
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"id": 3,
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"content": "The interviewer replies, sniffling and shuddering, one hand holding tightly onto her notepad."
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},
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{
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"id": 4,
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"content": "They're in one of the Backstreets of the northern part of the City, a place of an almost unending blizzard."
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},
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{
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"id": 5,
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"content": "Not even the poorest of the poor would dare choose this place to fall asleep."
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},
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{
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"id": 6,
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"content": "The child, her colleagues, and the interviewer were trudging through the snow and the cutting wind."
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},
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{
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"id": 7,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Hmm... I guess for how popular the Devyat' is, people don't really know how we really run things here."
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},
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{
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"id": 8,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Yeah! Most people only know you guys as the Fixers who deliver expensive or rare items to any place in the world."
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},
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{
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"id": 9,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Yeah~ Safer deliveries are usually handled by more familiar transportation companies or Fixer Offices."
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},
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{
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"id": 10,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "So it's gotta be a pretty dangerous job, huh? Why did you find work in this Association, if there are other options—"
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},
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{
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"id": 11,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Mm... 'Cuz the pay is good?"
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},
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{
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"id": 12,
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"content": "... She wasn't lying about the pay being good, of course."
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},
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{
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"id": 13,
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"content": "But she also intentionally omitted the fact that many Fixers who are in heavy debt end up working for the Devyat' Association."
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},
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{
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"id": 14,
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"content": "She didn't want to go into detail about her wilder past here, of course."
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},
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{
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"id": 15,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "... Ooh, the wind is subsiding."
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},
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{
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"id": 16,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Guys! Let's take a quick break here and get something to eat."
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},
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{
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"id": 17,
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"content": "The child shouts at her colleagues nearby, who all sigh in exasperated unison before reaching out to open their delivery trunks."
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},
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{
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"id": 18,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Ooh...! So they're the famous Courier Trunk, huh?"
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},
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{
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"id": 19,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Yeah, well. It's a fancy name for what's just a glorified delivery trunk. It's convenient when you're carrying a lot of stuff... Hup!"
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},
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{
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"id": 20,
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"teller": "Poludnitsa",
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"title": "Courier Trunk",
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"content": "[Unauthorized lock release outside of delivery coordinates detected.]"
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},
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{
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"id": 21,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Shush! Be quiet."
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},
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{
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"id": 22,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Did that bag just..? Oh, it's AI-activated, huh?"
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},
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{
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"id": 23,
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"content": "While Artificial Intelligence with a similar sense of self as humans has been outlawed since a long time ago..."
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},
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{
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"id": 24,
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"content": "... simple, minor assistant-level Artificial Intelligence was still used quite often in the City."
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},
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{
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"id": 25,
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"content": "An example of one such Artificial Intelligence was that trunk the child was lightly tapping on."
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},
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{
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"id": 26,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Mmhm~ This girl's called Poludnitsa. I bet most people don't know about these things."
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},
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{
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"id": 27,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Ooh, yeah, yeah! I heard some witness reports of Devyat' Fixers talking to their trunks... So they're called... Polud... nitsa... got it."
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},
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{
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"id": 28,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "We all thought that you guys had all gone... you know, insane. Making these grueling treks day after day has to get to you eventually, right?"
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},
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{
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"id": 29,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "... Had no idea that's what people think of us."
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},
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{
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"id": 30,
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"content": "She sighed deeply, her white breath scattering into the air, and pulled something from the trunk."
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},
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{
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"id": 31,
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"content": "It was smaller than a bean at first, but it grew larger as it emerged from the bag..."
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},
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{
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"id": 32,
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"content": "... and soon grew to the size of a palm-sized energy bar."
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},
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{
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"id": 33,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "I knew it. So those trunks weren't just any old containers!"
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},
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{
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"id": 34,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Yeah, we're an Association, y'know? You can stuff an item that's five times the size of this trunk into this thing."
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},
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{
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"id": 35,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Besides, even when transporting items that are hundreds of kilos... once we manage to stick 'em in here, we can hardly feel their weight."
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},
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{
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"id": 36,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Hmm... the functionalities of this bag can bend space itself, and the item's mass within is barely felt... hm... I see!"
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},
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{
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"id": 37,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "T-those are some complicated concepts, huh... I remember the article about Dieci South leaning a bit less on the technical side of things."
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},
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{
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"id": 38,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Ah, I studied science and engineering in the north. I guess that bleeds into my articles sometimes, ha ha. Even our editor reprimands me for losing track of what I'm writing."
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},
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{
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"id": 39,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "... W-want an energy bar or something?"
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},
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{
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"id": 40,
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"teller": "Poludnitsa",
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"title": "Courier Trunk",
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"content": "[Warning. Storage of unauthorized items is not recommended.]"
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},
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{
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"id": 41,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "That, uh... Poludnitsa doesn't seem to like that idea."
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},
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{
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"id": 42,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Eh, don't worry about it. The Association usually lets these things slide, especially if a mission takes us straight through harsh environments like this."
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},
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{
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"id": 43,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "After all, the only thing that matters... is that we make the delivery on time."
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},
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{
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"id": 44,
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"content": "The interviewer easily caught on to the fact that the child's voice briefly turned dark."
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},
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{
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"id": 45,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "What... happens if you don't make it in time?"
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},
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{
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"id": 46,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Ya keep salting my wound, you know that...? That's..."
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},
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{
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"id": 47,
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"content": "That's when an aggresive sound of something rushing toward them pierced through the ambient noise."
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},
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{
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"id": 48,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Uhh..."
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},
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{
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"id": 49,
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"teller": "Poludnitsa",
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"title": "Courier Trunk",
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"content": "[Hostile forces detected. Activating Poludnitsa high-power delivery mode maneuvers.]"
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},
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{
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"id": 50,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Ugh. Speak of the devil, huh? I guess thieves are coming out of the woodwork now that the blizzard's somewhat subsided."
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},
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{
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"id": 51,
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"content": "The child stuffed the remaining half of the energy bar into her mouth, jumped up, and swung the giant delivery trunk over her shoulder."
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},
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{
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"id": 52,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Polu, rupture energy unlock!"
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},
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{
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"id": 53,
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"teller": "Poludnitsa",
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"title": "Courier Trunk",
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"content": "[Authorized. Verify that there are no items at risk near the exhaust.]"
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},
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{
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"id": 54,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Only stuff that's risky for me if kept alive!"
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},
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{
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"id": 55,
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"content": "Just as she finished her sentence, a massive blade exploded out from one end of her trunk,"
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},
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{
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"id": 56,
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"content": "which she swung against her enemies without hesitation."
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},
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{
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"id": 57,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Ooh..."
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},
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{
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"id": 58,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "... Hey, you. Ya sure it's safe for you out here? Aren'tcha scared?"
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},
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{
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"id": 59,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Yep! This is my expertise. I've seen stuff like this pretty often."
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},
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{
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"id": 60,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Hard life, huh?"
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},
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{
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"id": 61,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "It also helped that my interview subjects were all very strong, which meant that I had nothing to worry about. I'm sure it won't be any different today!"
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},
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{
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"id": 62,
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"content": "... That wasn't true, but the interviewer knew the right things to say to get the answers she wanted."
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},
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{
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"id": 63,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Hmph, look at you tryna butter me up~"
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},
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{
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"id": 64,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Fine, I'll let you in on some more info!"
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},
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{
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"id": 65,
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"content": "The child does not stop swinging her trunk around even as she explains the functionalities of the Courier Trunk."
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},
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{
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"id": 66,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Every time! We're about to be late for a delivery! This talking trunk! "
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},
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{
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"id": 67,
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"teller": "Thief",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "Kuhhh..."
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},
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"id": 68,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Enhances our strength! Because! Bein' late for a delivery! Is dangerous!"
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},
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{
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"id": 69,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "So... I'm tryna get my delivery done ASAP!"
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},
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{
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"id": 70,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "I see!"
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},
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{
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"id": 71,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "So... why is it dangerous...?"
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},
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"id": 72,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "... Um."
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},
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"id": 73,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "Well, you don't want to get on your boss' bad side, right? Same deal."
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},
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{
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"id": 74,
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"teller": "Interviewer",
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"title": "???",
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"content": "I-I guess so..."
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},
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{
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"id": 75,
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"content": "The child lied."
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},
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{
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"id": 76,
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"content": "The less and less time they have for the delivery, the greater the amount of energy expelled by the trunk."
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},
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{
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"id": 77,
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"content": "The energy builds and builds until it starts harming its user... and eventually, leaving nothing but the trunk in their place."
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},
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{
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"id": 78,
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"model": "로쟈",
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"teller": "Rodion",
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"title": "Devyat' North Section 3",
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"content": "What, ya thought there was something special to it? C'mon, aren't we all motivated by our aversion to getting reprimanded by our bosses?"
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},
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{
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"id": 79,
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"content": "But she didn't want to have to share that fact."
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},
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{
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"id": 80,
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"content": "Because doing so would also show her anxiety about how many users this Poludnitsa has had in the past..."
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},
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{
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"id": 81,
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"content": "... or how she might be joining the ever-growing list of its 'former users'."
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},
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"id": 82,
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"content": "And the interviewer would definitely catch onto that anxiety and write it in her report. She would prefer to avoid that if possible."
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}
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]
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} |