Peter Konig, who also designs characters for video games, sat in a pitch-dark room, before a glowing screen.

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Twenty-four hours later, the pitch-dark "Matilda" began performances a few blocks away.

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As self-avowed "excitement eaters, " the couple would liven up the evenings at the hotel by diving off 11-meter-high rocks into the pitch-dark sea.

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It was a brutally long float that started in the bright sunshine of the early morning and ended in the pitch-black dark at 10 PM.

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This weekend, however, Villas-Boas looked a solitary figure as he crouched near the pitch while clad in the dark trenchcoat he reserves for storm-threatened days like this one.

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Many of them, Raj says, were pitch-black at night until OMC-powered lanterns started piercing the dark.

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