I know I haven't been up and around much lately but now that it's October (again), I suppose a bit of Halloween celebration is in order. Now, since our captors have been kind enough to provide a surplus of pumpkins, would anyone like to join me in carving some Jack-o'-lanterns?

[When the feed turns on today, there is one enthusiastic Maya Fey. Even though she's not happy about the food choices this tower has (hey, she's going to try to fix that!), she has something more important to say.]

Hey, Tower!

There's this guy... he's a friend of mine. He goes by the name of 'Battler', but he told me that he's some sort of weird doppelgänger, alien clone, or maybe he's... one of those 'shadow' things that someone's told me about!

Anyway, I figured that in order to not confuse the two of them, that I, the great Mystic Maya will change his name! To Kuro! Zvarri! It's perfect, isn't it? Oh, but if anyone wants to call him Relt Tab, that's cool, too!

But maybe we should give him one of those nametags... you know, the "My name is Kuro", nametags. That way, nobody will ever confuse him for the real Battler guy!

...Should have known it wouldn't last.

Sparky, Elena. You two are still here right?

[...]

Pumpkin everything all month, huh? Never did like pumpkin as a kid. Is there a way to minimize the taste? Stuff makes me want to vomit.

Will Alcor please come to the third floor library? Your child is waiting here for you.

Thank you.

[After this thread.]

And so, people leave us. Their role has ended on the stage, as it were.

[ He's back in his little corner of the library... the Compass is still there, he finally has his glass of wine back, and there's a new book open on his desk. ]

I am curious. What does one have to do to be sent back to our own worlds? How is that decision reached by our... caretakers here?