Diamonds Last Forever
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"Welcome to Westhoop! Where your dreams are materialized, your fantasies made reality, and your fears - gone! Founded in 1978, by diamond miner Jacques Westhoop, and only improving ever since, our quaint community, with their superfluous amount of joy and warmth to share, welcomes you into our midst.
Enjoy your stay, we can assure you will."
Westhoop never felt right.
It was just a little too happy.
A little too straight-and-narrow.
A little too quiet.
A little too...
Perfect.
Zepen May, smelt the beginning of something in the air ever since the sky over Westhoop grew grey and the power was cut throughout town. Nobody believed this to be out of the ordinary, despite everything having to be perfect in Westhoop.
Local Hacker and Certified Loner, Jack Cansa is running an investigation of his own, and decides to lay low and stay under the radar of the town's police, while hiding a secret of his own.
But with the town in a state of emergency with the polar-opposite of a drought - a never-ending rainstorm - a pastor claiming its the "End of Days", citizens of Westhoop struggling to keep their secrets under wraps, and a serial killer on the loose, will love even have a chance to bloom amongst the utter-chaos?
"Because, much like Jaques Westhoop said and believed, "Coals are just diamonds who need to prove themselves worthy to be changed by surviving pressure, and be rewarded by being immortalized", and diamonds, they last forever..."
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