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    As a Rotwell agent there's little to worry about except the ocassional near-death experience when engaging a vengeaful ghost haunting the living. Thankfully, it pays well. So of course you agree to help out your childhood friend during one of his cases, only to get entangled into a mystery with stakes so high you should have become an acrobat instead.
    Working with the notorious Lockwood & Co. agency is the last on your list of unexpected problems, especially because growing familiar with every one of its agents opens the door to truths you've long buried—even the one to your past you've locked behind high-security steel doors with the intention to never cross its threshold.

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    Ton—Anfonie ‘Ockwoo’.” You nod, and finally swallow your mouthful of food. “I’ve heard things about you.”
    Lockwood’s dark eyes slide over to Kipps for a second, glinting like a knife drawn out of its sheath. He gives you a nice, easy smile. “Only good things, I presume?”
    You feel your face scrunch up at the memory of Kipps’s curses, threats and very imaginative ways of what he’d do with his rapier and a very specific part of Lockwood’s body. “Yeah, uhm … things.”

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    23 Apr 2023