Existence
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Complete Sun, Feb 21, 20162h 11m
Humanity is choked by the eternal cloud of barbarism, returned to its former primitive state, a victim to the cruelties of the Earth and to its own agonizing savageness. One man will brave brutal anguish and wretched torment to break himself free of the clutches of his primitive self, striving towards the one beacon of civilization still remaining, but what will he find once he arrives?
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