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The Last Inn Before the Abyss A remote mountain inn is snowed in — and one of the seven guests is a demon wearing a dead traveler's face. The party has until dawn to figure out which one before it completes a ritual in the cellar. Claustrophobic, paranoid, impossible to put down.
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