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The Artifact
You are an assistant curator of a natural history museum in your city where you live with well- funded antiquities department staffed by hardworking people that trust each other. You acquire one mysterious crate and when opened, it contains only strange artifact nested inside packing material without any return address or information about the item's origin or purpose/function. Soon after acquiring this rare find, new experiences start to happen like disturbing dreams followed with vivid visions of a monstrous creature trying to force its way into your reality using an unnaturally high- quality object resembling the crate itself and causing physical harm while corrupting both mind (and) body through it's influence. The consequences for failure are too terrible not to attempt, but can you convince others about this threat before something else happens?
Price:
$3.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 19 reviews)
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