Ideal World Endgame

[idolpro]

Who: Beautiful dreamers
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 271, morning

[When you wake, the folding chairs and divans from before have all been cleared away. You're lying asleep on the floor, healed of all injury.]

[You remember the events of the worlds you've visited as though visions seen in a dream -- though for those of you torn from your perfect existence, there is an ache inside you which will not fade for some days... the pain of something precious that has been lost.]

[Out beyond the windows of the tower, the sky is no longer a perfect blue; the vegetation is no longer as lush and inviting.]

[The view is of Tokyo-F, exactly as it's always been.]

[Near the far wall, there is an open book on a pedestal. The pages are empty. It is titled GUEST BOOK, and a pen waits nearby.]

GUEST BOOK | SOUVENIRS | WINNERS

Comments

[crystallinelore]

[folds his hand over Raven's. this looks silly. he does not give a shit.

ps he has antlers now, we were kind of busy for noting that before. they are crystal.]

[selfpreservationist]

[HMMM WHAT'S UP WITH THOSE. he'll ask later.

for now he's just going to pet his ears quietly]

[crystallinelore]

[soaks up the petting for a while, then... actually sits up. he guesses.]

[selfpreservationist]

... welcome back.

[crystallinelore]

Thank you kindly.

You appear to be coping better than me.

[selfpreservationist]

I don't think it's all sunk in yet. The good thing about having traversed five--six? peoples' heads is that it all runs together so much I can't dwell on anything.

[crystallinelore]

Ahh, I only was in two. I suppose that gives me cause for dwelling.

[selfpreservationist]

[petpetpet]

If you're dwelling on... the end of the world, I can't blame you.

[crystallinelore]

It... Well. I knew of the end of their version of it.

I cannot say I am particularly fond of dying.

[selfpreservationist]

Neither am I.

[and i miss my bird]

... can you tell me what was supposed to happen? What they were trying to do? I'll be honest, I only understood a handful of it.

[crystallinelore]

They were trying to summon their god. Their god that sacrificed half their people to save the other half, then did the same again.

[selfpreservationist]

So... all those people in the waiting area... they had just accepted they were going to be sacrificed?

[crystallinelore]

Hard to say. That was... the dream started before their world was truly ending. That was their plan. To summon their god before it got too far.

[selfpreservationist]

[glances over at emet-selch and lahabrea who are having breakdowns]

... it all sounded like--a terrible decision, made in the face of another terrible decision. It seems they were really attached to it, though.

[crystallinelore]

They are literally incapable of not being attached to it. They are tempered. Brainwashed.

[selfpreservationist]

By their god? Or something else?

[crystallinelore]

Their god, yes.

[selfpreservationist]

[putting two and two together...]

And whatever we did in their dream undid that?

[crystallinelore]

So it seems. At least... for Lahabrea.

[selfpreservationist]

I see.

[doesn't say anything else, just continues to pet ears. emotional support catte]

[crystallinelore]

They and I are enemies, if that was not obvious.

[and honestly with the way they were acting until the shit hit the fan it probably wasn't, not that raven saw, probably]

[selfpreservationist]

I had gathered as much near the end there... what is it you oppose about them?

[crystallinelore]

[a kind of. hysterical laugh.]

I... never thought to find myself in a situation where someone would have to ask.

[selfpreservationist]

... forget I asked. You must be tired after all of that.

[crystallinelore]

No, 'tis a reasonable question. It is simply... bereft of context, they are rather easy to like, are they not?