Jun 21, 2004 7:29 PM

As for me....

Yesterday I went to Death Pass to fight these hideous things called "fettered souls" and they're these wretched zombie things with their arms bound in this big thing and they have big bolts in their shoulders and an axe dangling from their chin....and they're really nasty. This is us using our scrolls of escape to get the heck out of there >

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