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I'm still thinking about that one. My initial response when I saw it was, "that's a mcguffin" -- but then I realized it was a functional item, where a mcguffin is a thing that just sits there while the plot swirls around it. I'm inclined to think we must have this under another name somewhere, but damn if I know what it is off the bat.

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