There is a difference between literal game events and story-versions of those events. I think every named mob and many lore items actually appear only once, and every quest is completed only once (except for muffins and bounties). In the game, we all kill the same named mobs and do the same quests and get the same lore items, but in the story-version of game events, those parts are not included. It is explained in other ways. Sure, you and I both killed Lord Looney and turned in his head for a Ouiji Board of Spookies, but only one of us actually has it and the other has some other item or ability that allows the storyline of our SolB exp group to occur. For a more sensible example, the Ring 10 war only happens once, but we get to relive it over and over and each of us gets to play the role of hero. It's like re-reading part of a book. It is not actually written down twice; you just read it again.
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