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In the year 1994, a SWAT team unit raids a supposed drug lab only to find a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. Upon searching, they find multiple horrifying cassettes: a young man's recording of an overnight wake; a news reporter and her cameraman's search for an urban legend who dwells inside a storm drain; a mad scientist's attempt at creating a biomechanical creature, and a violent militia who discovers a supernatural weapon that will serve their mission of overthrowing the U.S. government.

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In the year 1994, a SWAT team unit raids a supposed drug lab only to find a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. Upon searching, they find multiple horrifying cassettes: a young man's woman's recording of an overnight wake; a news reporter and her cameraman's search for an urban legend who dwells inside a storm drain; a mad scientist's attempt at creating a biomechanical creature, and a violent militia who discovers a supernatural weapon that will serve their mission of overthrowing the U.S. government.
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* DirtyCop: A policeman provides weapons and ammunition to the militia.

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* DirtyCop: A policeman Slater from "Holy Hell" provides weapons and ammunition to the militia.
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* LaughablyEvil: The RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia can be viewed as this for being a StupidEvil ragtag bunch of hillbilly morons.

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* DarkIsNotEvil: In spite of her deformed appearance and being treated with nothing, but contempt by the SWAT team who were supposed to rescue her, Subject 99 is really a TragicMonster and a NonMaliciousMonster who is much of a victim as the other subjects.

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* BodyHorror: All of the test subjects. Among the menagerie are [[spoiler: a human head with robotic spider legs, a man with a camera-mounted skull for a head and a sword for an arm (Subject 98), a woman with her head from the lower jaw up replaced with cameras and speakers and her hand removed so a modular arm cannon can be attached (Subject 99), and a woman who was still in the middle of roboticization (while conscious) who had most of her entrails replaced with machinery and an arm and foot removed.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: In spite of her deformed appearance and being treated with nothing, nothing but contempt by the SWAT team who were supposed to rescue her, Subject 99 is really a TragicMonster and a NonMaliciousMonster who is much of a victim as the other subjects.



* HeroAntagonist: The SWAT team towards Subject 99.
* InspectorJavert: The SWAT team towards Subject 99.
* ItIsDehumanizing: The commander referred Subject 99 as this due to her being WasOnceAMan, but no longer human.

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* HeroAntagonist: The SWAT team towards Subject 99.
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* InspectorJavert: The SWAT team towards Subject 99.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: The commander referred refers to Subject 99 as this "it" due to her being WasOnceAMan, but no longer human.WasOnceAMan state.


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** When the SWAT team first find Subject 99 they assume she's already dead, so her grabbing one of their arms comes as a shock to them.
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* ShoutOut: Dr. Suhendra refers to his cyborgs as "[[Anime/NeoHumanCasshern Neo-Humans]]".
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Bob.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"You're covered in vampire blood!"]]

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* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Raatma]] can ''barely'' be called humanoid, with a nightmarishly elongated head, acidic vomit and an apparent influence over its devotees.

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* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Raatma]] can ''barely'' be called humanoid, with a nightmarishly elongated head, acidic vomit and an apparent influence over its devotees. [[WordOfGod As per Chloe Okuno]], it's of extradimensional origin and [[NonMaliciousMonster may not even necessarily be malicious]] so much as it is something that does not belong in this world, is not reacting well to its new surroundings, and happens to react to its discomfort in a way that has horrific consequences.


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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Andrew and Gustav were clearly conspiring to give Andrew a new vessel, and they succeeded.]]


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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The militia calls their "superweapon" that, and while it is unclear exactly what it is, it is a seemingly immortal man who grows a FlowerMouth that is [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily brimming with jagged fangs]] after sundown if he is still animate, and has blood that violently explodes when exposed to sunlight.
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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple cults, [[spoiler: vampires]], [[spoilers: zombies]] and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple cults, [[spoiler: vampires]], [[spoilers: [[spoiler: zombies]] and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.
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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids [[spoiler: vampires]], [[spoilers: zombies]] and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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* ActionGirl: Subject 99 after having TookALevelInBadass.



* DarkIsNotEvil: In spite of her deformed appearance and being treated with nothing, but contempt by the SWAT team who were supposed to rescue her, Subject 99 is really a TragicMonster and a NonMaliciousMonster who is much of a victim as the other subjects.



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The commander proves himself as a KillerCop who is bloodthirsty as the MadScientist, taking too much zealous joy in taking down Subject 99, prompting the TokenGoodTeammate to take him down like a mad dog.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The commander proves himself as a KillerCop who is bloodthirsty as the MadScientist, taking too much zealous joy in taking down Subject 99, 99 and even LaughingMad (though it could be excuse as him having GoMadFromTheRevelation following having battling Subject 98 and how his team became a DwindlingParty as he was AFatherToHisMen), prompting the TokenGoodTeammate of his team to take him down like a mad dog.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: The commander referred Subject 99 due to it being WasOnceAMan, but no longer human.

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* ItIsDehumanizing: The commander referred Subject 99 as this due to it her being WasOnceAMan, but no longer human.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The commander proves himself as bloodthirsty as the MadScientist, taking too much zealous joy in taking down Subject 99, prompting the TokenGoodTeammate to take him down like a mad dog.

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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The commander proves himself as a KillerCop who is bloodthirsty as the MadScientist, taking too much zealous joy in taking down Subject 99, prompting the TokenGoodTeammate to take him down like a mad dog.


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* ItIsDehumanizing: The commander referred Subject 99 due to it being WasOnceAMan, but no longer human.
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The subjects who underwent UnwillingRoboticization are essentially this.


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* MercyKill: Subverted with the SWAT team in regards in their ultimate decision in killing Subject 99, though they treat her like another enemy then a victim. Played straight when Subject 99 discovered one of the other subjects on an operating table and shut off her life support to end her suffering.


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* TookALevelInBadass: Subject 99 after acquiring the ArmCannon.
* TragicMonster: The subjects who underwent UnwillingRoboticization would count.

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* DirtyCop: The SWAT team were going to execute Subject 99 without her consent first, though they thought they were going to perform a MercyKill.



* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The commander proves himself as bloodthirsty as the MadScientist, taking too much zealous joy in taking down Subject 99, prompting the TokenGoodTeammate to take him down like a mad dog.
* HeroAntagonist: The SWAT team towards Subject 99.
* InspectorJavert: The SWAT team towards Subject 99.



* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The main characters.

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* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The main characters.{{Villain Protagonist}}s.


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* VillainProtagonist: The RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia.
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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films.

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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, ''{{Film/VHS}}'', 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] ''[[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]]'' and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot to those films.

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%%No citation* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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%%No citation* * CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.


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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Petro and Nash succeed in killing off their entire team on film, even anticipating what they're going to call their latest work.]]
* EyeScream: Plenty of people within the building are shown to have plucked their own eyes out.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Petro and Nash, two members of the SWAT team, are revealed to be heavily involved in a snuff film cult, having lured their team to kill them on camera for their latest masterpiece.]]


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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:You know that creepy preacher who was interviewed for only a few seconds at the beginning? Well, he's the one leading the cult of Raatma.]]


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* BottleEpisode: The entire short takes place in the funeral home.


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* {{Gorn}}: By far the most violent of the shorts, with graphic mutilation and bloody violence galore.
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* BadBlackBarf:[[spoiler:Raatma's vomit is black, and in the end, Holly vomits up a similar glob of black acid that melts off her co-anchor's face.]]

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* BadBlackBarf:[[spoiler:Raatma's BadBlackBarf: [[spoiler:Raatma's vomit is black, and in the end, Holly vomits up a similar glob of black acid that melts off her co-anchor's face.]]
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*BadBlackBarf:[[spoiler:Raatma's vomit is black, and in the end, Holly vomits up a similar glob of black acid that melts off her co-anchor's face.]]
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* ActorAllusion: It's [[Series/TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Marciano has played an IntrepidReporter.

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* ActorAllusion: It's [[Series/TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Marciano Hopkins has played an IntrepidReporter.
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* BladeBeneathTheShoulder: The male subject has giant blades for arms, which he uses to bisect and decapitate the policemen.

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* BladeBeneathTheShoulder: BladeBelowTheShoulder: The male subject has giant blades for arms, which he uses to bisect and decapitate the policemen.

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*ArmCannon: Subject 99 has a modular arm cannon, which she uses to defend herself during the final sequence.
*BladeBeneathTheShoulder: The male subject has giant blades for arms, which he uses to bisect and decapitate the policemen.



*NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Despite being heavily injured and her battery being dead, Subject 99 is seen shuffling off to parts unknown in the segment's final moments.]]
*RageAgainstTheReflection: When Subject 99 sees her own reflection for the first time, she punches the mirror.



* HumanoidAbomination: The "metaphysical superweapon" the militia claims to have acquired is [[spoiler:a man who is seemingly immortal, whose blood explodes in contact with sunlight, and who turns into a toothy-mawed demon when they fail to kill him on schedule.]]

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*DirtyCop: A policeman provides weapons and ammunition to the militia.
* HumanoidAbomination: The "metaphysical superweapon" the militia claims to have acquired is [[spoiler:a man who is seemingly immortal, whose blood explodes in contact with sunlight, and who turns into a toothy-mawed demon creature when they fail to kill him on schedule.]]


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*TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:The creature chains up Greg and then exposes itself to sunlight, obliterating both of them.]]
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* ActorAllusion: It's [[series/TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Marciano has played an IntrepidReporter.

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* ActorAllusion: It's [[series:TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Marciano has played an IntrepidReporter.

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* ActorAllusion: It's [[series:TheExpanse [[series/TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Marciano has played an IntrepidReporter.


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*NonMaliciousMonster: Subject 99 only ever kills in self-defense, and even attempts to save the one policeman who showed her kindness from the much more violent male subject.
*UnwillingRoboticization: What Dr. Suhendra's subjects undergo.
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[[folder: Holy Hell (Framing Story)]]
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[[folder: Storm Drain]]
*ActorAllusion: It's [[series:TheExpanse not the first time]] Anna Marciano has played an IntrepidReporter.
*EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Raatma]] can ''barely'' be called humanoid, with a nightmarishly elongated head, acidic vomit and an apparent influence over its devotees.
*UrbanLegend: "The Rat Man."
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[[folder: The Empty Wake]]
*AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:A tornado apparently kills the zombie, but Hayley becomes one in the end and shambles out of the funeral home.]]
*OurZombiesAreDifferent: Destroying the brain clearly doesn't have an effect, for one thing, and its body parts are individually functional even when separated.
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[[folder: The Subject]]
*MadScientist: Dr. Suhendra has all the obvious traits - crazy hair, crazy eyes, rants to himself, builds messy cyborgs out of unwilling test subjects, rants about his colleagues in the scientific community being imbeciles.
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[[folder: Terror]]
*HumanoidAbomination: The "metaphysical superweapon" the militia claims to have acquired is [[spoiler:a man who is seemingly immortal, whose blood explodes in contact with sunlight, and who turns into a toothy-mawed demon when they fail to kill him on schedule.]]
*PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The main characters are obviously this, being a white supremacist militia.
*RightWingMilitiaFanatic: The main characters.
*TooDumbToLive: Not only do the militiamen decide to have a massive drunken party the night before their operation, failing to follow containment procedures for the creature as a result, but more of them die as a result of poor trigger discipline than are actually killed by the creature itself.
*WouldHurtAChild: Like Timothy [=McVeigh=], the militiamen are willing to set off their bombs in a building with a daycare.

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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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* %%No citation* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.
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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot

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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot
prequel/reboot to those films.

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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Justin Benson, and Aaron Scott Moorehead. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot

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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Justin Benson, franchise returnees Simon Barrett and Aaron Scott Moorehead.Timo Tjahjanto, in addition to newcomers Jennifer Reeder, Ryan Prows and Chloe Okun. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot



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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.few.
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''V/H/S/94'' is a 2021 FoundFootage {{anthology}} film featuring segments directed by Marcel Sarmiento, Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigolando, Justin Benson, and Aaron Scott Moorehead. It follows 2012's {{Film/VHS}}, 2013's [[Film/VHS2 V/H/S/2]] and 2014's ''Film/VHSViral'', acting as a prequel/reboot

In the year 1994, a SWAT team unit raids a supposed drug lab only to find a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy. Upon searching, they find multiple horrifying cassettes: a young man's recording of an overnight wake; a news reporter and her cameraman's search for an urban legend who dwells inside a storm drain; a mad scientist's attempt at creating a biomechanical creature, and a violent militia who discovers a supernatural weapon that will serve their mission of overthrowing the U.S. government.

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* CrapsackWorld: Moreso than the previous entries, all of the individual tapes all directly contribute to the overreaching narrative; meaning the world explicitly plays host to mutliple supernatural doomsday cults, sinister cryptids and biopunk mad scientists to name a few.

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