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grim and mild from Aaron Mankey. Headphones recommended, listener discretion advised. My dearest friend, come in.

The promise of eternity beckons to us.

Are you prepared to witness what lies below?

Good. I have awaited this night for so many years. Shall we open the hatch? I'll take that as a yes. And...

There's me. A stone stairwell. Oh my, let us descend. Away we go.

Away we go.

Away we go. It is time, my friend, to put the pieces together for you.

Tragedy struck early in his adulthood, when a plague swept through the region and took with it his wife.

It left him alone with a young daughter and unfathomable grief.

Thankfully he was not without means. His late wife had

inherited quite a fortune and left it all to their daughter. He promptly left the

architecture firm for which he toiled since college and began his own strange business.

A small firm with a single client himself.

He became obsessed with a singular and secret goal. He immersed himself in

a cult histories and practices. He procured every arcane tome in existence. He constructed

a modest library in which to house them and hired a young man named Oliver him to assist in his studies.

Together the pair scoured every grimoire, scroll, and religious right

in hopes of finding a cure for the architect's affliction.

And after countless sleepless months, Oliver found it. A forbidden ritual recorded in lost language to call forth an ancient entity, one with the power to shape time in space itself.

At the appointed hour on the appointed night the architect and Oliver

cast a circle of obscure citules. Together they read aloud the violent cactations together

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