NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6556465" data-attributes="member: 11146">[section][align=left]http://i58.tinypic.com/4q0kdz.jpg[/align]The effigy eyed the Foundry smokestacks.  Shi-it.  It's like dem nuke plants on Market Street.  Ain't no good to no-body.  No doubt dey's makin' money jess like En'ergy.  'Power of da people,' my ass.  Just then, Eurid looked up at the sky before leaning against an oil-lamp post.  The sudden movement caught the effigy's attention.  The effigy followed Eurid's gaze.  Something white bobbing along above the shanty rooftops captured the effigy's focus.  The effigy zoomed to the rafters, ignoring the throngs of ragged children and brightly-clad merrymakers.  A lone white glove brushed past.  At last, the object of the effigy's fancy.  The glove moved slowly, but with purpose.  The effigy considered.  I wonders.  It put forward effort, focused on an image in its mind's eye.  A spectral hand appeared where before there had been none visible to the lay eye.  The hand--a pale mockery of a mortal hand, its blackened skin shriveled and covered in oozing sores--seemed real enough, even if unsightly.  It wasn't solid, however; when the effigy next focused on moving the hand closer for a better look, he could still spy the noxious pipes of the Foundry through the transparent hand.  Picayune whooped with glee.  He shouted.  No sound came out.  He whooped again, anyway, even if only for himself.  "I's REAL!  I's REALLLL!!"  Picayune snatched the white glove, shoved it on his spectral hand.  Turned the glove-clad hand to and fro, marveling at its reality.  Picayune zipped back down to the byway, scattering the coven of large crows with dove-gray bodies and black heads.  He used his newly gloved hand to pick up the cup shaking itself irritably in midair, and offered the cup to Rusty.[/section]</blockquote>

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