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....:~/$$@          art school house dream.         @$$/~:....
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.:~/$@#### slightly uptown  on a grassy hill lies a ####@$/~:.
.:~/$&@###    large repurposed institution. it's    ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@### several  floors, a  few  hundred  meters ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@###       wide. made of yellow bricks.       ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&&@@@  combined nightclub, cafe, gallery, art  @@@&&$/~:.
.....:~~$@ school. it's always  open,  people  come @$~~:.....
...::~$@@# and go. the basement is  deeper than you #@@$~::...
.:~/$&@###               would guess.               ###@&$/~:.
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.....:/$@@ it's messy. i've  spread my  things over @@$/:.....
......:~$@             several floors,              @$~:......
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...:/$$$@# and  due  to  a few many  beers and some #@$$$/:...
.:~/$&@### secret  rivalries,  i  decide  i  should ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@### leave.   but   where   are  my  shoes... ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@###      #~~~ (looking for shoes) ~~~#       ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@### after  a while they  appear  on my feet. ###@&$/~:.
....::~/&@                    ok.                   @&/~::....
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.:~/$&@### i'm crying  of joy, i hug  a friend  and ###@&$/~:.
.....~/$@# it's  good,  we're  close  now,  he  can #@$/~.....
.:~/$&@### smell   me  (all  according  to   plan). ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@### i find  out who ruined  my paintings and ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@### i  pull her hair. she  cries  from  pain ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@###      but does not beg forgiveness.       ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@###      #~~~ (in the background) ~~~#       ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@### sunset,  orange  and  pink,  city  is  a ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@###      black cutout. there's fires and     ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@###        explosions on the ground.         ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@@## "the new  way of shipping  iron  -  with ##@@&$/~:.
.:~/$$$&@# the railgun. the  iron slag  is shot  at #@&$$$/~:.
..:~~$$@## three hundred and  thirty  three  meters ##@$$~~:..
...://&&&# per  second, and at the receiving end an #&&&//:...
....:~/$@# eight  square   meter  wooden  cube   is #@$/~:....
.:~/$&@###        launched to intercept it."        ###@&$/~:.
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.:~/$&@### it  looks  like  interstellar  war.  the ###@&$/~:.
.:~/$&@### wooden block shatter  into  hundreds  of ###@&$/~:.
...:~/$&##                  wands.                  ##&$/~:...
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.:~/$&@### #  house dream /  railgun  / structure # ###@&$/~:.
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