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🍺🕓 **BEER-THIRTY DROP WITH JOE!** 🕓🍺

**The Gilded Scar**
**Codex + Complete Story Outline**

Joe’s back behind the creative bar, pouring up another drop straight from the story tap—equal parts chaos, charm, and caffeine. If you love gritty Folk Horror, this one’s brewed just for you. 🍻

**What’s on tap:**
✅ **Full Codex** — packed with characters, locations, lore, and subplots that hit harder than your third pint
✅ **31-chapter outline** perfectly paced for your storytelling flow
✅ **Market-ready tropes:** Body as a Map, Echoes in Empty Places, Murder, Serial Killer, Main character is a serial killer tattoo artist, The Unreliable Narrator, Folk Horror, Small Town with a Dark Secret
✅ **Polished and flexible** for your unique author brand

**Premise:**
The story follows a meticulous serial killer who tattoos cryptic maps of his victims’ burial sites onto his unsuspecting clients. He sees his work as a sacred, artistic ritual, bringing a twisted sense of order to the decaying town he calls home. The narrative alternates with the POV of the [2nd Main Character], an archivist who, haunted by the “echoes” emanating from their own tattoo, starts to decode the symbols connecting the art to a string of missing persons. As the archivist closes in, the killer’s cold composure begins to crack, escalating the stakes from a quiet, psychological cat-and-mouse game to a visceral confrontation where the final map might lead to the archivist’s own grave.

✨ **Genre:** Horror / Folk Horror
✨ **Length:** ~77,500 words (31 chapters @ ~2,500 words each)

🎯 **There’s only ONE—when it’s gone, it’s gone.**

📦 **Perfect for authors who want a market-ready project that’s been crafted with care and ready to make your own.**

⚡ **Sales are FINAL once you complete your purchase!**

🍺 **Joe says this one pairs best with inspiration and bad decisions—it’s Beer-Thirty, and this codex just hit the tap.**