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]

We'll make it happen.

[rollplayinghouse]

...That's the sort of confidence I like to hear.

[softlyfalling]

I'm still practicing it, but I think I'm getting better, at least.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Yeah. Even if you don't totally believe it, it's good to say it. Then it becomes more believable.

[softlyfalling]

Is that how it works...?

[rollplayinghouse]

Kind of, yeah.

[softlyfalling]

I'll have to remember that one, then, since I guess I'm going to be increasing my ambitions.

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm. Even I don't have the same levels of absurd ambitions and self-confidence as some people... Well, you could say I started out with self-confidence but not really any ambitions at all. I had to practice having them, too.

[softlyfalling]

I'm just not even used to having choices, I guess.

...so, even being able to dream of something I chose and a future I decided on is a bit new.

[rollplayinghouse]

...Yeah. It takes a bit to get used to.

[softlyfalling]

Well.

Here's to a better and brighter future where we still hang out.