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as well, so please stay tuned. Which is our peculiar monster? As monsters go, they're close to unique in that in order to combat them,

you eventually find yourself at a forked path.

The well-trodden path, bright and lit,

leads to a comforting place where you can be 100% certain

that all the problems ailing you will go away if you can just get rid of that

pesky monster whose power is absolutely diabolic and evil. The methods for getting rid of the

monster vary, but they promise to bring closure even if they don't restore what's been lost.

The other path? It's dark and crooked, and you can barely see where it's heading.

And if you start to go down that path, every comfortable explanation will be ripped away

and you'll come to question every belief in your life.

And at the end, instead of the monster, there's just a humble table, sitting in a shadowy

clearing, and upon it, a single object. There is something poetically apt about that object on the

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