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

[softlyfalling]

I mean, a lot of it wasn't so bad. I don't get what so many people have against the simple life... But... I guess the people are what make a home, huh.

[unbr8kable]

Yeah. Just having your stuff there ain't what makes it special. That part's maybe too simple.

[softlyfalling]

I guess that does seem true, in retrospect, although my home growing up wasn't like that at all.

[unbr8kable]

Your 'home'? Or your 'house'?

[softlyfalling]

I don't think I ever thought there might be a difference.

[unbr8kable]

Maybe there is, or there should be.

[softlyfalling]

...probably, yeah.

[unbr8kable]

Well--uh. Anyways. Glad you're back and you ain't like. Broken or nothing. That woulda sucked.

[softlyfalling]

...thanks. Honestly.