Monsters Before Midnight
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Jacques Olive has had the most spoiled, best life possible. In the city of Dustingold, you're either being graced and pampered or living in the rotten subdivisions, with warm black water that can be confused with tar. When Jacques's parents go missing the sun burns with a deadly halo around it, and monsters begin to appear. Jacques must find his parents and survive, but even navigating around Dustingold could almost kill him. Will he make it out in with his morals unharmed? Or will he end up as monstrous as the environment around himself?
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