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    <title>Off Topic</title>
    <description>Talk about anything here non diablo related.</description>
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      <title>The Word Chain!</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/the-word-chain.545608/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/the-word-chain.545608/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Ezekiel)</author>
      <dc:creator>Ezekiel</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The game is fairly simple. I&#039;ll give a word such as Pancake. This words ends with the letter &#039;e&#039;, which means your next word should begin with the letter &#039;e&#039;. For example you can say Elephant. This word ends with the letter &#039;t&#039; so the next person&#039;s word has to start with the letter &#039;t&#039; and so on. I hope it&#039;s clear.<br />
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- Only post one word following the game mechanics<br />
- No abbreviations, use actual words<br />
- Do not troll<br />
- Only one post per time, wait until someone posts then you can post again<br />
-...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/the-word-chain.545608/" class="internalLink">The Word Chain!</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Word Association!</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/word-association.545878/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/word-association.545878/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Ezekiel)</author>
      <dc:creator>Ezekiel</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<b>Rules:</b><br />
1) Post one word that is related to the previous word that has been posted.<br />
2) Wait for another person to post before posting again.<br />
3) Do not use any offensive words, all posts should be within the forum rules.<br />
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<b>Example:</b><br />
Post 1: Tree<br />
Post 2: Christmas<br />
Post 3: Presents<br />
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<b>Starting Word:</b> Blue]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Very amazed by the drop from Countess!</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/very-amazed-by-the-drop-from-countess.547824/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/very-amazed-by-the-drop-from-countess.547824/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Elyhu)</author>
      <dc:creator>Elyhu</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello! Today I was very surprised by the drop from the countess because I knew that the maximum rune that can drop there is ist. It seems that she was more generous with me! What do you think?<br />
<img src="https://i.postimg.cc/FF3Y0Dr2/Untitled.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[&#x200B;IMG]" data-url="https://i.postimg.cc/FF3Y0Dr2/Untitled.jpg" />]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Happy easter folks</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/happy-easter-folks.547691/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/happy-easter-folks.547691/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Blessedone)</author>
      <dc:creator>Blessedone</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As title says every1 have happy egg day and hope all get few xtra kilograms like myself next day or two lol &lt;3]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Perfection is possible</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/perfection-is-possible.547684/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/perfection-is-possible.547684/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Blessedone)</author>
      <dc:creator>Blessedone</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hopefully <a href="https://forum.europebattle.net/members/1/" class="username" data-user="1, @Gix">@Gix</a> does not ban me from forums for posting about d2r, but hadto share what i just got and its first one in 20 years anywhere self found official or private servers and hadto make screen with cellphone since its on ps5 lol. Cried a little when i ID it and its on ladder so actually thinking of selling it at 1 point for a someone&#039;s firstborn son roflmao<br />
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      <title>GoodBye my lovely Brother! :((</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/goodbye-my-lovely-brother.547664/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/goodbye-my-lovely-brother.547664/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (ErrorIRL)</author>
      <dc:creator>ErrorIRL</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[On 15.01.2025 My beatiful and lovely twin brother <a href="https://forum.europebattle.net/members/33647/" class="username" data-user="33647, @CYLON">@CYLON</a> passed away.<br />
Words won&#039;t describe my pain or my love for him, i wish for him to find the peace and i know he will always be with me and in my heart <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" />(<br />
Farewell, brother!<br />
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<a href="https://forum.europebattle.net/members/33647/" class="username" data-user="33647, @CYLON">@CYLON</a> 28.08.1992  -  15.01.2025]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>I almost got burned alive</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/i-almost-got-burned-alive.547660/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/i-almost-got-burned-alive.547660/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Escorb4r)</author>
      <dc:creator>Escorb4r</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There was a crazy guy living below me for about a year, i knew something was wrong with him because i once confronted him about a chemical smell from the hallway and he tried to fight me, but i left him alone thinking he was a crazy sick individual by the way he was behaving.<br />
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Im sleeping with the family inside the apartment and am woken up by a crazy big banging noise and i see faint smoke, and suddenly the whole floor shakes in the living room, the floor starts falling a part some places,...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/i-almost-got-burned-alive.547660/" class="internalLink">I almost got burned alive</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sorry</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 22:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/sorry.547588/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/sorry.547588/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Escorb4r)</author>
      <dc:creator>Escorb4r</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hello everyone.<br />
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The past couple of weeks has been hard for me, i been going through a emotional time because of my personal situation.<br />
my girlfriend and i have been together and lived together for 12 years and 9 months, yesterday that came to an end after choices were made out of my hands after a long time of it being bad and broken.<br />
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We have 3 daughters together, and i will no longer be living with them anymore, i will no longer be woken up by the kisses the laughs and the beauty of being...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/sorry.547588/" class="internalLink">Sorry</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Story 52</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-52.547557/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-52.547557/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It was a beautiful day in the fall, and though being in the middle of nowhere in Ohio isn’t exactly my ideal setting for an assignment, it could have been worse. Opening my windows, listening to music, and getting a good whiff of country air is a nice contrast to being cooped up in cities like I’m used to. The sight of brown stalks of corn populating the miles of fields along the road was welcome, as was the cool and clean smell of the air. It’s a good thing these jobs don’t involve much...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-52.547557/" class="internalLink">Short Story 52</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Story 51</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 20:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-51.547179/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-51.547179/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>1. Date [standardized human time]: July 12, 2136</i><br />
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There were two known instances of a predatory species achieving sentience in the galaxy.<br />
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The Arxur were the first to be discovered, and, as an anomaly, sparked the Federation’s curiosity. By previous hypotheses on intelligence, their existence was impossible. Conventional wisdom stated that cooperation led to higher thinking, which in turn, led to the formation of technological societies. A predator’s natural instinct for aggression...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-51.547179/" class="internalLink">Short Story 51</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Story 50</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 20:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-50.547159/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-50.547159/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I lay on a table next to a roaring fire. My hands were bound, and I was surrounded by figures in black robes. The beautiful young woman who looked like she was still in her teens approached me holding a nasty-looking knife encrusted with jewels.<br />
<br />
“Please don’t do this,” I said.<br />
<br />
She flashed a wicked grin and raised the knife over me, holding her breath for a moment before she plunged it toward my chest.<br />
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***<br />
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Twelve hours earlier…<br />
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I’d never been a big fan of trucks. Why I drove one for a...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-50.547159/" class="internalLink">Short Story 50</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Story 49</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-49.547130/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-49.547130/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<i>Please come get me, Hector. I don’t want to be here after dark.</i><br />
<br />
When you hear those kinds of words from someone you’ve loved, even someone you’re smart to keep your distance from, it’s hard to stay out of their affairs. My ex-girlfriend Larissa left those words on my voice mail, calling right as dawn broke through my apartment windows. As perpetual party girls tended to call at all hours of the night, and as I had left behind my obligation to care when she left me behind, I thumbed...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-49.547130/" class="internalLink">Short Story 49</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short story 48</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2022 12:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-48.546952/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-48.546952/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The taxi lurched across the snow-blanketed road, the windshield a wet blur between creaking strokes of the wipers. The cabbie was nervous. Terrified. That much was clear from his refusal to go above fifteen, despite having the highway completely to himself at this unbearably late hour. It wasn’t exactly a blizzard, but they just weren’t used to snow in this country. Of course, he was on his third cigarette – with the windows rolled up – since the two foreigners had piled into his cab. So...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-48.546952/" class="internalLink">Short story 48</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short story 47</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2022 22:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-47.546951/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-47.546951/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve always had a weird group of friends. They all went into “manly” careers like logging, oil rig work, construction. I’m the black sheep of our little group of high school buddies. I went into IT. They give me shit all the time about working on nerd stuff and I give them shit back.<br />
<br />
“Me no likey computer. Me dig holes.”<br />
<br />
I’m an unlikely addition to their group of friends, but it works somehow.<br />
<br />
So, there we are in a bar. This is one of those rare occasions when everyone’s back in town...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-47.546951/" class="internalLink">Short story 47</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short story 46</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-46.546934/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-46.546934/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[&quot;Are you sure, Mr. Roger?&quot; Rachel asked me upon hearing my request.<br />
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We were outside of her family home, a big but cozy looking house in a small town near the Appalachians. My pickup truck idled behind us, parked on the side of the road, as we sat there knee deep in snow. She&#039;d invited me inside for warmth and a cup of tea when I arrived, but I was in a hurry so I turned her down. I wanted to get it over with as fast as possible and be on my way.<br />
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&quot;We don&#039;t rent out the cabin during winter,...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-46.546934/" class="internalLink">Short story 46</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Story 45</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-45.546933/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-45.546933/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The circle of forest is just that. A circle. About 750m in diameter, it’s not particularly big. It is ringed by two metres of grassless rock, and then beyond that is the wilderness. Moss and fern and cliff and weeds. The trees and plants that grow inside the circle are thick, and strange.<br />
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It’s raining this evening. I sit in my little hut with a mug of warm tea as the rain batters and clatters against the roof. It leaks through in one corner and drips quickly down into a bucket I’ve placed...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-45.546933/" class="internalLink">Short Story 45</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short Story 44</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2022 02:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-44.546894/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-44.546894/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I was about seventeen years old when all this happened. My friend Kiwi was working the overnight shift at a convenience store in town and I went with my friend Atox to visit him.<br />
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We entered the shop around midnight and found him sitting behind the counter looking bored. The well-lit store was well stocked full of mostly junk food and soft drinks.<br />
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I noticed just inside the entrance that a one dollar coin was sitting on the polished floor. It was gleaming and looked brand new.<br />
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Reaching...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-44.546894/" class="internalLink">Short Story 44</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short story 43</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-43.546884/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-43.546884/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I squeezed the gun in my hands and obsessively checked the eight chambers. It was still loaded, the same way it was five minutes ago. Satisfied for the moment I hid it in my pocket again.<br />
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Having a loaded gun in the baby’s room, I bet you could be arrested just for that. Arrested and divorced, and I would deserve it. From anyone else’s point of view I was just crazy.<br />
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But maybe if you listen to my story you will see that I have a very good reason to be this afraid.<br />
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It started not too long...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-43.546884/" class="internalLink">Short story 43</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Some writings - Ruthless thieves</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/some-writings-ruthless-thieves.546675/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/some-writings-ruthless-thieves.546675/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (Joaiuda)</author>
      <dc:creator>Joaiuda</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hunger resembling a predator<br />
He went out on the hunting ground<br />
Awakened beast without a leash<br />
Ready to tear your innocence apart<br />
He sucks on his disgusting mouth again<br />
He bites the flesh mercilessly<br />
They crunch bones like sticks<br />
They break with their fingers<br />
The arteries are screaming so loud<br />
He gasps fireworks instead of blood<br />
A fierce roar quaked his chest<br />
There is a fiery echo dwelling<br />
Dragon throats intertwined<br />
Impatient hot tongues dancing<br />
Purple radiance is thought bliss<br />
The pain is...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/some-writings-ruthless-thieves.546675/" class="internalLink">Some writings - Ruthless thieves</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Short story 42</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-42.546781/</link>
      <guid>http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-42.546781/</guid>
      <author>invalid@example.com (inayat)</author>
      <dc:creator>inayat</dc:creator>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Ten years ago a drunk driver had killed my parents. He’d been driving on the wrong side of the road. Blew a 0.22. At ten years old, my twin sister May and I became orphans. Ten years and the pain of it had mostly subsided, though not entirely.<br />
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There were still days I missed my parents, the way my mom used to kiss my forehead in the mornings before school. The way my dad’s laugh used to fill a whole room with happiness.<br />
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May and I had gone to live with our grandfather, our “papa” as we had...<br />
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<a href="http://forum.europebattle.net/threads/short-story-42.546781/" class="internalLink">Short story 42</a>]]></content:encoded>
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