Seppa - Little Things

All those little touches to help bring a character to life.

Ring:

I find myself uncomfortable when I don't have a ring on a certain finger, but I also don't want to lose the special ring off my hand in a forest or field, so a substitute ring is needed.

Behold, Seppa's ring. I tried to be simple, yet just a little bit interesting, and tried to keep with the prescribed colour palette. Unlike Ieri's ring, which has an out-of-character history to it, I found this ring today in a Sainsbury's store.

Pearlescent 'gem' in a silver band.

The torso-warmer or waistcoat:

The camel-coloured boiled wool jersey fabric that will help me stay warm. I got it cut out last week. It needs a little bit of trimming at the sides, but otherwise, it's ready to sew. I picked up some potential clasps and buttons for it. I still haven't decided how I'm going to close it, but I want to try to avoid buttonholes, and go with ties or toggles.

It will need embellishment, I will probably end up using size 3 crochet thread or some sock-weight wool yarn. I'm not expecting it to be on display, it's a middle layer to help me stay warm at night or when the day is colder than usual.

You may have guessed, but yes, I did reuse the top portion of the Simplicity Nativity gilet pattern.

100% wool, boiled jersey fabric.

Neck gaiters:

Instead of wrapping scarves that could come loose and be a hassle; I'm making a few other items to hide the mask's edge.

Crochet neck gaiter

The first is in crochet and I had a pattern, and then went off-pattern to add some visual appeal and to make the stitch pattern obvious. The stitch pattern is a V made of (UK) tr. Where I went off-pattern: I did only thirteen rows of V-stitch, I didn't make it as wide. I added to the pattern at the top and bottom of the tube with single row of (UK) dc, which helped give the V-stitch definition.

I made it in aran-weight cotton yarn.

Crochet neck gaiter, front view

Crochet neck gaiter, back view

Knitted neck gaiter

This one's a freeform thing. I tried to limit the palette of colours and yarns; colours: white, cream, beige, brown, with some blue, there is no black; yarns: mostly cotton, but there is some flax linen, and bamboo-derived viscose in the piece. I mostly stuck to knit and purl stitches, but there are a few yarn overs and attempts to k2tog. It's still in progress. Most of it is knitted flat, but there are occasions where I knit-in-the-round. The 12mm needles are too large for any yarn on its own, so much of it has anywhere from two to four yarns held together. I was aiming for a rustic flavour to it. Maybe Sister Elspeth of Pickham Monastery of the Marchers taught Seppa to knit and this is the result; I'll have to ask the player if they're up for that. She has agreed, huzzah!

Doing this one has been fun; I don't have to panic over pattern, I am free to play, and mistakes are acceptable.

Sometimes flat, sometimes in the round. I haven't settled on the wooden toggles.

Hypothetically the front.

A close up of the various yarns. Cotton-linen bouclé, smooth cotton plaited, and fuzzy bamboo-derived viscose yarns.

Another section. And a hole where I fluffed the yarn over.

These two neck gaiters have been good stash-busting projects; I'll have to do more of them, and maybe a few calf and knee warmers to peek over the tops of the planned leather boot gaiters.

Another step forward and a cutting schedule

Finally finished cutting the straps for the fabric warskirt portion. I'll have to take a photo later, once the item's actually put together; it's a pattern that I drafted, so will be interesting to see if it works.

Other thing I cut out was the waistcoat/torso warmer in the boiled wool jersey fabric. The suggestion was to use the overlocker/serger to do the sewing, then roll the hems and hand-stitch those with embroidery floss or topstitch thread. I just had a thought that maybe I could use some other coloured wool yarn to do a running stitch to catch the hems, then the topstitch or floss over the wool yarn to add some visual and tactile texture. But I need to do the machine stitching first, and before next Monday, as I want to get a coat cut out next.

Cutting schedule:

• Coat - canvas or another thick fabric. Order heavyweight cotton canvas? Might take several thinner fabrics or different weaves and patchwork to build density, sturdiness, and warmth. Inspirations: Japanese boro and Indian kantha.
• Coat (because it might take more than one class to get it all cut out).
• Shirt - Simplicity "Nativity" in plain muslin/lightweight calico.
• Draft pattern for a shirt from the book of how to make simple clothes.
• Continue previous week.
• Cut said shirt, maybe from the cotton-linen duck-egg and beige stripe, it's a subtle visual texture.

It will probably be coming up to the Wassail event by this point, so I will probably miss a week.

• Trousers - brown linen stripe; from the Folkwear "Sarouelles" pattern.
• Lightweight coat for hot weather, probably another canvas, but with less layers.
• Maybe the Jedi tunic? Short sleeves, rather than long sleeves, or maybe sleeveless. Canvas?

December, I might get one last cutting session before January and the Sentinels' Repose, assuming that I can get in for the Sentinels' Repose.

• Coat or shirt or whatever I didn't manage, get on with it.
• Maybe finally cut the Tibetan Panel Coat. I can see a hodgepodge of fabrics working well for it.

Seppa, becoming a Skywise

OOPS.

Player events can help find one's character; to begin to discover their personality, as well as a useful environment to kit-test. I realised this morning that I shouldn't have used 'Skywise' yet in front of Seppa's name, ey isn't officially a Skywise until the play's happened, which isn't until November. I apologise for the gaff in my exuberance to embrace it. This doesn't mean I won't still work on the costume and such.

Also, I saw the kit explosion post in the Imperial Orcs group, yeah, the bar went up again. I'll be busy cutting and sewing during the Long Dark, but I'm looking forward to doing it. I do need to also look at cleaning, sorting, photographing, and selling Ieri's customised pieces and downsizing the sari stash to free storage for Seppa's kit.

At E1, I'll be looking at a cored knife or two, to go with the axe and buckler. I usually don't go armed anywhere in Anvil, so I'll have to shift my headspace from pacifist to warrior.

Seppa to-do list before November 1st 2019

Mask training, or training myself to get used to the orc mask, will begin once I'm not suffering with lurgy. I'll also be doing housework, walking and running, and such in costume to make sure nothing is chafing or annoying. One doesn't want to discover the hard way that something critical to the character is itchy or going to easily break.

To help me along, I'll be attending player events set in PD's Empire world, getting used to longer and longer periods in the mask and making sure that I can still see, breathe, hear, etc in it.

Looking back to previous posts, I felt a condensed to-do list would be good for me.

• Warskirt:
• Paint the white left wing motif onto a brown fabric panel for the skirt.
• Make a new belt piece to attach the leather and fabric pieces onto.
• Layer, stitch, and abraid the fabric and leather pieces.
• Add decorations to the skirt via paint, embroidery, and appliqués.
• Figure out how and where to attach the metal plaques belt and the wooden bead tie-back so they don't tangle, or bruise my thighs.
• Find some animal bones to add to the skirt front.
• Wrap some found bird feathers onto fringe/dangles for the skirt.

This reminds me, I've selected an archetype: shaman; because I do unsolicited advice and might as well allow that lack of brain-to-mouth filter an outlet. They also seem to wear animal bones.

• Textiles:
• Make a coarse, thick canvas cotton or silk sleeved coat (Anvil-cut and elbow-length sleeves), different weights to allow for weather variations.
• Make a T-tunic shirt in lightweight fabric, above-knee-length and long-sleeves, for a base layer (or over the thermal layer).
• Make the boiled wool waistcoat as a middle layer.
• Use some of the aran-weight wool yarn in beige or cream to pin-loom weave 4" squares for a second waistcoat.
• Crochet and full some wool slippers for those indoor events that don't permit outdoor footwear.
• Möbius head-shawl from other scarves stitched together.
• Embellish and attach the circles remnant to the scapular.
• Abraid and stain the white trousers' knees, maybe patch with beige cloth.
• Shorten the satchel strap and embellish the strap and bag with blue and brown threads/floss. (began the embellishing)

• Leatherwork:
• Possibly a tunic in the deerskin.
• Possibly a leather capelet for the metal ring and the bones.
• Two belt pouches (a large and a small) of the beige, white and/or blue leathers.

• Jewellery:
• Primary metal dangles necklace - lengthen the shoelace so that it fits over the neck wraps. (done)
• Brass ring and its bell - figure out where to place it on the costume, perhaps near the neckline.
• Horses motif plaque - figure out where that can be.

Test going to the loo, running, sitting, squatting, to make sure I won't trip up or drag too much filth into the costume.

Seppa, customising and adjusting shop-bought kit

Last night I finally felt well enough to work on some of Seppa's costume; it carried on into today. The efforts are not huge or visible from a distance, these are small alterations to shop-bought kit that are only visible if someone is near enough, and if the layers change or move and reveal their presence. I know they are there, even if others never see or notice them.

The Burgschneider satchel and Shaila necklace:

The Burgschneider satchel, no longer as plain as it was, I've added a few wandering, playful stitches to differentiate my satchel from anyone else's in the field. I used an electric blue embroidery floss to make the stitches.

The necklace came from Shaila and originally, it was on a black shoestring and perfectly sized for my naked neck, but too short for mask and neck scarf and all the layers. So I used an off-white corset lace and reused the button, and followed the pattern the original crafter used to mount the metal dangles. The necklace came with some tattered bits of string, I usually remove those for my belly dance costume, but I left them on this time. I might use some blue or cream shoestring to control the bottom half of the necklace, otherwise it can go everywhere and damage itself in a ruinous tangle.

A closer look at the stitches on the satchel.

I had no plan for what I was doing, I was needlework doodling.

The Burgschneider scapular:

In the spirit of 'much and crudely repaired', I decided to cut the stitches that held the hems intact, but also held the clothing labels from the Burgschneider scapular. I then repaired the cut stitches with off-colour or blue sewing threads to make the repairs obvious.

It might be difficult to see what I did in the following pictures. The blue-thread stitches have no functional purpose and are there to decorate the neckline that will be invisible to other players, unless the wind lifts the scarf. In the back of the neckline is some off-colour thread where the labels used to be; again, invisible to other people unless they're handling the garment or the scarf comes away.

A closer view of the neckline where the back repair and front decoration happened; the off-colour stitches in back, and the blue thread decoration in the front.

In the side-seam was another label; I broke the stitches, removed the offending label, and closed it up again. I had some spare thread on the needle, which resulted in another little doodle. It may or may not be visible, depending on how I layer, and that depends on the weather.

Seppa's Freeborn shawl:

I picked up this secondhand shawl from Quercus Emporium at a pagan event. It has no black in it, the dark colours are grey or dark brown. The beads are peacock blues and greens. I was going to pin it at the shoulders to drag around my upper arms to add an extra layer of warmth if the weather's nippy.

A Freeborn who has some RP with the Skywise orcs has offered to say it was a gift from them.

A close up of one of the paisleys.

Some potential jingle and tat:

Some of the items in the picture are too shiny and will need handling to add a patina to to give them the aged appearance. I suppose I could set them outside for the Long Dark, but the magpies might pilfer them.

With Imperial Orcs, every piece of tat has to be an item-of-worth, meaning each of these will need some sort of heroic/worthy affiliation to them because hearth magic. (yay) Thankfully, I was already sorta doing that with Ieri's tat, even if it wasn't heroic, much of the tat ey wore had a reason, even if it was a tiny or personal reason. So I will have to think about what each item's significance will be, and then try to elaborate as I can, and hopefully remember it all when someone ends up asking.

The metal belt will likely end up hanging from the warskirt; but I might add extra jump rings between the plaques to open and curve it so it can drape between two points, rather than hang straight down. I might add a few bells or leather bits to it to add some character.

The metal animal skull... uh, I've had this for decades, I have no idea what animal it was modelled after, but I like it. Maybe it was a former pet that Seppa had encased in metal.

The antique ring and bell, I have a rough story for that one. *eyes Ese*

The gender badge is by the ever-creative Steph Morris and will be used to help hold the neck scarf in place and probably attached to the scapular to stabilise it. It also means people should correctly use my pronouns because it'll be impossible to miss for those with eyesight.

The axe head is a Skarsind medallion. I'll need to read up on how and when the Imperial Orcs gained Skarsind, as that's a bit of history I'll need to know if I'm going to have the medallion on me.

The brass spiralling cloak pin will need that patina put onto it. I figure it can help with the shawl above to keep the shawl from moving too much.

The capsules will probably end up on the warskirt or on a forearm piece; the less around my neck, the better, as learned from my Freeborn who had far too many things around eir neck.

What's not pictured is some of my Freeborn's tat that will need restringing to change it from Ieri's to Seppa's tat. One thing that didn't stay long on Ieri, which I won't bother with changing, is the 50p charity shop necklace that I restrung all those months ago, and added a bell onto. I figure it can go straight onto the warskirt as it is, just tacked onto something for stability and support.

Seppa kit test and preparations

Ah, it's a dozen-hundred little things that all add up to looking good on the field...

Early kit preparations

Some of the preparation is small stuff, such as removing irritating labels or labels that are in awkward places where they'll show up and break immersion with their glaringly plastic presence. The Burgschneider scapular is one with multiple labelling sins, awkwardly located and destructive-to-garment-integrity labels; don't do what they did with their scapular. Yes, I did put this complaint in my product review of their scapular on their site; whether they accepted or permitted it on their page, I haven't checked.

Burgschneider's scapular with its (left) awkwardly-placed label and if I break the stitches to remove the labels, I might damage the garment. Annoying!

Sometimes, removing the label is easy, other times, it's impossible to do without breaking the integrity of the garment. Returning to Burgschneider, their leg wraps, aka winingas, have one easy-to-remove label, unlike the scapular.

Burgschneider winingas have an easy-to-remove label.

Other times, it's selectively removing portions of a garment that doesn't fit and can be glaring in its modernity, such as a chest pocket.

Chest pocket and scratchy shirt label, begone!

 

Then there's the latex mask and its makeup. I don't have Snazaroo, which is the go-to for many people, I do have Grimas water makeup, so that's what I'll use to fill in those areas where my naked skin shows on my face. I will also see about decorating the mask with personalisations such as ear and facial piercings, and possibly some facial markings on the upper left side of the face.

Orc mask by Mandala Studios

Another is getting the group emblem. I failed in this first attempt because I slapped on the paint and didn't replicate the style the others of the group bear on their warskirts. Lesson learned, scrutinise the group's kit more before the painting.

Second attempt, after having another look at some of the emblems, and I managed this in chalk. I'll commit to the paint once I've had another good scrutiny at several of the emblems and sketched up some extra notes. Left wing... LEFT WING...

To-do list (atop everything else of the previous to-do list):

• Jewellery and tat
• Decorate and secure the fabric layers of the warskirt

Seppa first attempt at putting it all together.

The other day, I put together the rough idea of the components that I did already have (currently lacking any quality embellishments) for the Seppa character and here are the pictures I took of the ensemble as placed on my dressmaker's form.

Regrettably, it presently reads feminine to me, and as I'm non-binary, this is generating some 'bleh' that I'll need to remedy before April 2020/E1. Gender pronoun badges notwithstanding.

On to the descriptions and explanations...

The Front view:

Some of the elements need editing, such as the metal dangles necklace, it's currently too short to wear over the scarf, so I'll need to lengthen that.

I didn't include the off-white cotton boxing arm wraps or the grey wool felt leg wraps, because there's nothing for them to cling to.

I also need to make the camel-brown boiled wool waistcoat that will go between the off-white-almost-ankle-length-scapular and the long-sleeved hippy granddad shirt. The shirt's chest pocket isn't visible, but I have now removed said pocket and the neck label tags, because when I wore it camping on a very hot (for England) day, the labels were scratchy and irritating.

The circles panel is a strip of curtain fabric remnant that I liked the printed pattern circles. I will probably fix it to the fabric portion of the warskirt, and add some embroidery/stitching to it to give the circles extra texture and visual interest. I don't know if this will become an item-of-worth, or it's just a decorative feature that helps busy hands when waiting, or when sitting in conclave. Another thought's just come to me, that I could stitch the panel onto the scapular after the remnant's embellished, and that would protect the back of the remnant from wear-damage.

Skywise Seppa - idea for the front

The Right-side view:

The metal plates belt and the peacock beaded brown shawl came from Quercus' Emporium. I haven't yet decided how I'll attach or place the metal plates belt, which is too short for me to wear around the waist, so it was just hung to the belt as a 'thing' (ie tat).

The wooden beads looped on the belt is a curtain tie-back. I've used detachable rings to allow me to move and adjust. I think when I've settled on placement that isn't a nuisance, I'll give it a permanent attachment to the future warkskirt.

Speaking of the warskirt, the red base the pigskins and deerskins are attached to is the wrong colour for the Skywise brief, and this warskirt will be dismantled. The red base will recycle for NPC/barbarian/slave kit.

Also, recognising that I'll probably sweat/freeze, there is a wooden cup on my belt to remind me to drink water. Relatedly, I need to test to see how difficult/easy it is to use the tiny loo cubicles with the kit on. From my observations, Imperial Orcs are never seen half-dressed.

Skywise Seppa - idea for the right side

The Back View:

Recycled from my Freeborn character, Ieri, is the large brown leather belt pouch. I have tried crushing it a bit and twisting it some to help soften the leather as it has been quite stiff. I use this pouch for my mobile phone, my character notebook, and rustic pencils.

One will see there's a second grey-sand mesh scarf. I bought this in H&M several years ago and it was another that I was going to discard due to disuse... but dammit, I like it, so I kept it. The scarf will get purpose amongst Seppa's kit.

Skywise Seppa - idea for the back

The Left-side view:

The smaller brown pouch and the stoppered wooden bottle on a thong are reused from Freeborn Ieri's kit. The smaller brown pouch has also had some crushing and twisting to help loosen the leather some; it also came with a flaw of the buckle-tongue was about 3mm too long and it was skin-lacerating sharp, so the Dremmel came out to cut off the too-long tongue and then grind the edges to remove the burrs and blunt sharpness. The purpose of the smaller pouch might be anything from pocket-watch to car keys to meal and drink tickets.

The wooden bottle is another of those 'I bought it years ago and I don't remember where' but it is lined to make it drink-safe and watertight, and the cork fits well. I use it to physrep potion bottles. It rides on a popper-strap to make it easy to take off and use for play.

Like the off-white scapular, the cotton satchel comes from Burgschneider, and the strap is far too long for my too-short torso, and during the Long Dark, I will be shortening the strap and probably adding some blue stitches to embellish the satchel and its strap. I have another satchel of the same company make and model, but in green that I've used for Ieri. Similarly, this satchel will probably get songbooks, an OOC-bag to contain touch-up makeup for hands and face.

Skywise Seppa - idea for the left side

Other notes:

The white martial arts trousers have taken some work to stain with the likes of grass and dyes that bled onto the fabric so it's not so discordantly white. I will look at taking some abrasion tools and rubbing the knees and then finding some different-stained canvas to patch the knees to give them some character. I'll have to see about finding something rusty and mud-staining to rub into the knee areas.

Orcs in general tend to have well-worn and rustically patched, mended, and embellished garments; everything shows signs of wear, but they value things that have a history of use.

I will add that I have several more beige, stone, sand, and the like coloured scarves. I might take one or two and turn them into a möbius head-shawl to give my head a respite from a hot sun or a cold wind.

To-do list:

• Warskirt onto blue/beige/brown belt panel
• White Raptor Wing motif painted into a brown fabric panel to attach to the warskirt in a prominent placement
• Metal plates belt and the wooden bead curtain tie-back turned into permanent warskirt features
• Add the horse motif for ancestor item-of-worth
• Add the antique brass ring and battered hawk bells for ancestor item-of-worth
• Find more tat in the bronze palette
• Decorate and personalise the orc mask
• Scarves turned into a möbius head-shawl
• Metal dangles necklace - lengthen strap
• Make the boiled wool waistcoat for a torso-warmer
• Embellish and attach the circles remnant to the scapular
• Abraid and stain the white trousers' knees
• Shorten the satchel strap and embellish the strap and bag with blue and brown threads/floss
• Test going to the loo with all the kit on

Skywise Seppa ideas

So I started some sketches and collecting items that could work. Yes, I know, I still don't know whether the group will have me, but my imagination's burning with this.

I suppose including an image of some Imperial Orcs might be a good idea to help illustrate my inspiration.

A group of Skywise Orcs walk through Anvil. Photograph by me.

In the second image, are my rough ideas almost immediately after discussion with one of the group. Group motif, then general possible embellishment, either via paint on fabric/leather, or embroidery on fabric, or appliqué.

Third image is my starting list of what I do have, what I could do, etc.

The fourth image is my ideas for customising shop-bought stuff or alterations or items that I could make because I have the fabric to make it. Ideas for possible embellishment placement to customise generic stuff. You might notice the war-skirt is absent from this drawing; I have something already and will be adding a textile layer once I have access to a cutting table again.

Overall, orc kit, regardless of status of barbarian or Imperial, is rustic. I can play with the sewing and embroidery and not have to worry about being too neat and tidy. I can lie on grass and mud and collect stains and scuffs to add that well-worn quality. I'll need to make some patches for places like elbows knees, and inner thigh where things have worn. Maybe at the collar or allow that button to come off or break.

I also need to figure out what my tat will be. LARP costumes pretty much need tat; a costume is costume, and incomplete, without the tat. With Imperial Orcs, the tat is often translated into items-of-worth, and one needs a story for each piece of tat one wears.

One might notice that the necklines are always high, and that the wrists are covered, and that a body is bulked up by layers. The out-of-character reasons are to hide where the mask ends, and not needing/wanting to paint too much of the body with the orcish-coloured paints. In-character, it's to disguise the signs of slavery, the collar and cuffs left behind scars. For the younger orcs, they emulate their elders, even if they were born free, as a sign of respect to their heritage. A scantily-clad scandalous orc is one who has their arms or other body parts (except their head and fingers) naked.

Another Skywise Orc in discussion with a Leaguer and a Highborn. Photograph by me.

Eslen i Riqueza

Ah, my possible second Freeborn, depending on what happens in the future. Eslen will be another Autumn Ritual mage, who then grows into healing skills. I like the battlefield physick game.

I'll have to come up with some imagery and doodles for how to make Eslen look distinctly different to Ieri. The most noticeable changes will be that Eslen is a plain human, no lineage. The second is what I'll be using for a tagelmust, a chiffon sari in orangey-red with diagonal yellow stripes. I have a purple and red sleeveless waistcoat that I need to finish that will also differ Eslen from Ieri. The costume will be richer and more embellished than the plainer wear of Ieri.

The incomplete rich sleeveless waistcoat.

I need to actually finish the clothes and soft kit I started for Ieri and never completed to give Eslen a very different appearance to Ieri's practical aesthetic.

Things people don't know about Ieri i Kalamar i Guerra

Things people may not know and may not even think to ask in the game about Ieri.

• Always keeps the knot in the tagelmust on the battlefield. Knew too many who died in battle because their tagelmusts came undone.
• Always wears a tagelmust when other people are around. Does Ieri have hair? Ey never told me, the player, if ey did.
• Always carries Antimedes' token tied to eirs. Antimedes died in battle at Winter Solstice 382YE. Ieri had strong feelings for Antimedes.
• Always carries the toy llama with its beaded necklace. The necklace and toy originally belonged to eir Kittens, Aesha and Temes.
• The skull beads mala. To represent Ieri being draughir.
• The purple, white, and green crochet bag. To represent eir genderqueer/non-binary gender.
• The rainbow crochet bag. To represent asexual panromantic polyamory.
• Always keeps the buttons on shirt buttoned up, else that part covered. Because the makeup eventually rubs off.
• The faceted glass rainbow of beads, the tasbih. To help the player manage anxiety by way of fingering them for affirmations work.
• Originally named Ieri i Lezaris i Guerra. Became Kalamar when contracted marriage with Policarpo and Calixto, who were Aesha and Temes' birth/genetic parents.
• Has a younger sister named Turi i Riqueza, who became kohan.
• Wears a silver and greenstone ring. Originally, it belonged to the player's mother; but the player wears it because it feels too weird not to wear a ring on that finger. In game, it was the wedding contract ring from eir spouses.
• The black spiral red velvet gauntlets. Are a friendship gift from Antimedes; Ieri would stroke the gauntlets in his presence to signify an embrace, as Urizen don't hug outsiders.
• Ieri is left-handed. But the player's left-handed writing is too slow to use in the field and tends to be backwards/mirrored, so Ieri is played as left-handed ambidextrous.
• Ieri nearly drowned and gets seasick on ocean voyages. But out of Loyalty to Family, goes out anyway.
• Ieri's draughir heritage manifested after the drowning.
• Ieri is fascinated with Urizen llamas. Ey managed to entice two of them to follow em back to the Brass Coast. Their names are Brownie and Misty; they are sentient and they seemed to respond to Ieri's draughir/Winter lineage.
• Ieri was born in Anduz, Segura. Ieri and eir parent fled Segura to escape the invading Lasambrian Orcs when the barbarians invaded decades ago. They lost contact with the remaining Lezaris Family, including Turi, until this year (383YE).
• Ieri dances Atalaya Tribal Style. As does other members of the Kalamar Family.