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Some rituals are better left unfinished: Arthur is a man who loves the smell of old things—antique treasures with a history. But when he wanders into a mysterious, signless shop and buys a strange ceramic coffee cup from a blind old man, he gets more history than he bargained for. The cup is beautiful, glazed with a black so deep it seems to absorb the light. It comes with a warning: "Do not look away from the bottom". The Vision in the Grounds: What starts as a curiosity quickly turns into a nightmare. After drinking his darkest roast, Arthur watches as the coffee grounds rearrange themselves into a perfect, detailed picture of a horrific car accident—an event that happens in the street below just minutes later. But the cup doesn't stop at predicting the future. It is a doorway. Trapped in the Dregs: Arthur soon finds himself hunted by the Weaver of Dregs, an ancient parasite that lives in the "leftovers" of life—the dust, the ash, and the powder at the bottom of a cup. As his own skin begins to turn the color of old coffee, Arthur is pulled into the Weaver's realm: a freezing landscape of black powder under a sun that gives no light. To escape the "Land of Shadow and Ash," Arthur must find a way to break a circle that has been claiming souls for decades. He must provide the Weaver with something it cannot digest—a memory of a beginning rather than an end. A Haunting Reality: Arthur may have escaped the cup, but he hasn't escaped the dark. Now, he faces a world where his own reflection has vanished, and the Weaver continues to hunger for those who look too closely at the patterns left behind. Be careful what you see in the dregs. Because once you taste the dark... the dark begins to taste you.