[text/anon]

[wegotlucky]

What do you do when you wake up to realize that you're once again entirely alone?

A promise of change that never happens. In this place, of all places, I was almost happy again. I could have been happy again.

But then I woke up. And I was once again completely alone.

How do you go on from that? Is it even possible?

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Anon

[no_longer_a_king]

You keep going on.

That's all that's left to do.

Anon

[wegotlucky]

What's the point?

I've kept on going for far too long. I'll never see my son again. I'll never see the woman I love.

Maybe I should let the going happen to people who are stronger than me.

Anon

[no_longer_a_king]

And what will you do instead? We cannot die here. We cannot even die if we return to our worlds at this point. Will you spend the time remaining here simply laying in bed languishing for the rest of time we have remaining?

[voice]

[attheclocktower]

[... this is a little poignant. Maybe not as much as it could be, but given the news she just got and how she knows she's felt in the past...]

It is. It's really hard. Really hard. But there's still hope that things will change. That we can fix things, and find them, or they'll come back.

[Believing in that is one of the few things that's helped. And also her friends here. But then again, wouldn't that make her not completely alone? Maybe she's not a good person to be giving advice after all...]

Zo doesn't ever mean to let anybody go home. He told me. They just... sort of slip away. I'm sure he'll try to get them back, whoever it is who left.

[It's probably not much comfort - she knows it wasn't for her at the time - but... it's something, maybe?]

[text;anon]

[wegotlucky]

[It's.. almost reassuring. But he saw the way his own personal hell looked, how he couldn't escape it and how he was finally pulled back.

But a part of him doesn't want his father to return.]

No, I suppose not. He's a good kid. He tries so hard to protect us all.

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[summonsimulacrum]

I, too, am slowly coming to the realization of being alone. First those strange shadow children came to me, and then I spent weeks on my dead world. Having seen how dead or twisted everything is, I am at a loss for what to do with myself. I suppose your dilemma is mine as well. There's the possibility of finding a new purpose, but losing your original purpose is difficult to bear.

[text;anon]

[wegotlucky]

I didn't have a purpose to begin with. Coming here tore my purpose away.

What do we do from here? Everyone in our own worlds are dead. Even if we do meet loved ones, they're loved ones from worlds where we ourselves are dead.

We're living on borrowed time now.

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[summonsimulacrum]

It took away mine as well. I still fight monsters in the tower to pretend that it still exists, but it's a hollow recreation at best.

It sounds like people are trying to do something about the situation, but I'm afraid I don't know what they're doing about it.

Borrowed time... is that what the countdown on the terminals refers to?

[anon]

[crouching_sin]

You're always alone in the end.

Get over it.

[anon]

[wegotlucky]

How helpful.

You want a gold star for that observation?

[anon]

[crouching_sin]

I'd rather save those stickers for the children.

But really, everyone's alone eventually. It's a fact of life. The faster you get used to it, the better. It's not a matter of 'going on' as much as it's a matter of realizing that's the natural way of things.

permanon text

[keepscalm]

Do you truly have no one left whom you hold dear?

permanon text

[wegotlucky]

They're all dead.

There's nothing else.

[keepscalm]

No one you've met here, in the tower?

[text]

[bashfulshifter]

...If there's anything good to say about this place, it's that there's always the hope that the people you love will come back. I mean, that's why we're here, isn't it? To save them?

permanon

[wegotlucky]

The person who left has a history of leaving in the past.

It's like the tower was proving a point to me.

[permatext!]

[bashfulshifter]

...It seems that our administrators enjoy trying to "prove points" to us, but that doesn't mean you have to take them as they are. It's...painful, I know. You can trust me on that one. But you can't lose hope. In the absence of everything and everyone else...it's all we have left.

what is anon WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY

[humility]

I held onto the memory of the people I love, even though they were no longer with me. Even if happier times were over, that glow gave me something to hold onto. To believe in.

It was never easy, and there was no reward for a long time. I didn't really expect one after a while. But despite how horrible this place is, that hope is coming back to me.

permanon

[wegotlucky]

I spent a month looking for any sign of life in a place I had considered hell for way too long.

I don't think hope is something that can come back to me. I had barely gotten it back to begin with.

[humility]

I have hope that it may yet come back to you when you least expect it.

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[megazero_to_superhero]

See what that other guy said up there?

It isn't over until it's over. We have a chance to reverse this dimension killing crap. So don't give up hope just yet.

permanon

[wegotlucky]

Little late for that.

There's nothing I can do.

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[megazero_to_superhero]

I'm not exactly Doctor Science here either, but I'm not letting that get me down.

We all got something we can contribute to this fight. Even if all we've got is a pair of hands.

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[chainsawn]

It hurts when someone leaves.

When someone important leaves.

But then you got to think about the other people you have here. Unless you're really all alone. But there's a lot of people around, so probably not.

permanon

[wegotlucky]

It's difficult when the person who leaves is family.