Saltz
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Fifty years after the Pollination, an event that targeted the Olfactory centers of the brain and triggered the shutdown of the nervous system, humanity has been changed forever by science's solution: the Vaccine. Minds have been taught to interpret scents differently. Now, certain aromas can rewrite your physiology and turn anyone into a weapon. Rikter is a member of a private military task force assigned with regulating and governing the distribution of Scents, an already dangerous job that becomes more deadly when they discover a new inhalent on the market - Saltz.
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