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  "thread": {
    "id": 3091,
    "subject": "BotNS references in Castlevania",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2002-03-26T05:19:18+00:00",
    "last": "2002-03-26T05:19:18+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0203-448@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Christopher Culver",
        "address": "christopher_culver at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-03-26T05:19:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) BotNS references in Castlevania",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Marc Aramini wrote:\nOne of my friends was talking about the \"Castlevania: Symphony of Night\" game \nfor the Playstation and mentioned the sword Terminus Est.  I guess it is a \npoison sword in the game.  Anybody played it?  Other Wolfe references in the \ngame? (I guess most of the people on this list probably don't play video games \n... I'm tempted to get the game just to see it)."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "It's been about three years since I played that game, but besides \nTerminus Est I remember that one of the swords was called an estoc, a \nrather obscure word that the designers could have picked up from the \nBotNS. I wonder if it was like that in the original Japanese version, or \njust the product of the whimsy of the English translators. Has the Book \nof the New Sun been translated into Japanese?\n\nChristopher Culver"
        }
      ]
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  ]
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