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.,-**£§#@#  environment where you could find such   #@#§£**-,.
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.,-**£§#@#  a small or rural basement is a cellar.  #@#§£**-,.
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.,-**£§#@#  often created in good faith, a basement #@#§£**-,.
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.,-*£§#@##  with it. i've found that it's easier to ##@#§£*-,.
.,-**£§##@   think of all caves as the same large   @##§£**-,.
.,-**£§§§#   structure, it's just that all parts    #§§§£**-,.
.,-**£§#@@    might not be physically connected.    @@#§£**-,.
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.,-**£§#@#  the purpose of a basement is often to   #@#§£**-,.
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..,--***§@  infrastructure (pipes and wells)... or  @§***--,..
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.,-**£§#@#  to draw from the earth around it, push  #@#§£**-,.
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.,-**£§###    a cellar is a more senseful affair,   ###§£**-,.
.,-**£§#@#   less intense... made to store things   #@#§£**-,.
.,-**£§#@@    (food or brews, tools) in a colder    @@#§£**-,.
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.,,,--*£§§  perhaps to bury corrupt creatures (not  §§£*--,,,.
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