Cipher
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Last published Sat, Sep 29, 2018
Xander's life has been a myriad of rain and errand running for small bucks. In other words, he is devastatingly broke.
Though, fear not. A bounty has been updated.
After having sworn off to never again land in jail, Xander wants to do things by the law- or well, as legal as a hunt for a bounty uploaded by the government itself can be.
Looking into the details of the bounty - the biggest bounty of all time- Xander begins to unravel secrets. Secrets buried deep. Secrets he has always been rooting to find. Xander is willing to do anything to win the bounty. But what he finds along the way threatens to break his resolve. What will he choose? The bounty or the secrets?
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