The Long Count

The Long Count — cover art

Mexico City, Christmas Eve, 1985. Thieves take a Maya king's jade funerary mask from the national museum. You're the museum's conservator, and you're the only one who knows the mask in that case was already a fake.

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~115–118 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

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