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@ "I've completed the initiation quest!" @ "Initiation quest?"
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@ "You know, the newcomer's ritual? The first test for a NetHacker?"
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@ "Dogley told me all about it, and I did it! Here, take a look:"
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@ "A plaid potion, a left-handed magic marker, a can of elbow grease..."
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@ "...a non-large box, a scroll labelled BOON A MI EM KCIK backwards...."
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@ "...and a tin of soup made from invisible black light."
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@ "The last one was a little tricky, though, cause at first I thought..."
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@ "'If it's invisible, how can it also be black?'"
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@ "Wait, Wes. Where'd you get all this stuff?"
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@ "Wes... you realise that you've discovered... the Paradoxical Portal?!"
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