Endgame: Discussion

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ENDGAME: DISCUSSION

Who: The gods...and you
What: The gods have a discussion with themselves, each other, and all you adventurers
When: May 3rd to May 17th
Where: Primarily Ensō
Warnings: Please mark anything as it comes up!

Keep Me In Your Clouded Mind

So, by now you're probably aware that things have shifted massively in the past few days. The Historian has arrived on LifeAftr's shores to spill a few mountains' worth of beans, and now all of you are stuck having to deal with it. But that doesn't mean that you're going to need to make this discussion alone.

The fate of LifeAftr - and the fate of all of you - is now in your hands. And while all of you decide what you will about how you plan to deal with that, the gods are busy having a long overdue familial argument. Consider this log a catch-all for you to discuss the fate of LifeAftr among yourselves, react to the various revelations, ask the gods questions, or just sit and eat some popcorn while they argue amongst themselves.

Remember - you have until May 10th to come up with any solutions that other player characters can vote on.

So think long and hard about where you want things to end up.

But Now the Stars Have spoken

Of course, you are always free to create your own individual logs and posts as needed. You may also use this log for characters to discuss and react to things with each other and argue amongst themselves; consider it a catch-all for IC endgame discussion.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them over on the Questions header on our Endgame Rundown post! If you come up with a solution that enough player characters agree can be voted upon and that is feasible for endgame, be sure to drop it on the Voting header on our Endgame Rundown post once voting opens!

Endgame Timeline

[ ♆ ] May 3rd: Discussion regarding the fate of LifeAftr begins.
[ ♆ ] May 10th: Voting for endgame begins.
[ ♆ ] May 17th: Voting for endgame ends.
[ ♆ ] May 20th: Preparations for endgame begin, and you deal with the fallout of any decisions.
[ ♆ ] May 31st: Endgame begins and lasts into June.

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[story_teller]

Oh, I'm very tired.

[Their shoulders slump a little as they look away, eyes closing.]

I'm so young, compared to the others. So young and yet - I feel the weight of every decision I've made, despite not being able to recall those decisions.

This world may be a dying, pale imitation of the past. Perhaps its time is up. I cannot argue that.

This world may be a mere echo, but you are not. None of you are. Your stories got to continue, be something other than what they were. And you... [They shake their head, tail drooping.] ...I do not want to send you back to your home merely to die.

You deserve better than that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

No I don't. I'm a dead man walking, remember? I'm an echo, just of...a really fucked up guy who wanted to end a war and see his wife again. [Church shrugs, looking away. He's more than just that, he knows it, but if he starts thinking that way, maybe he'll change his mind.

Would that really be so bad?]

Maybe there's something in your notes that can help. Something you overlooked or misinterpreted.

[story_teller]

Perhaps. I was so angry in so many of these past iterations. In some of them, I hated you. I wanted you all gone. I cursed you with such terrible things.

[It's remorse that hunches their wolf's shoulders, lowers their head.]

If nothing else, I would like...I would like to try and give you a better chance at things than you had at home.

If there is one thing I can do right, I would like to do that.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You didn't ask for us. We weren't part of the story. But you didn't have the power to send us away, either.

[He's not sure what a better chance looks like. Wouldn't that alter his story, change history? He died in a Freelancer facility with someone he thought he hated, a man who stopped being a man and more of a puppet, his friends on the run--

Carolina said they were good. That they were happy. Wash is proud of them. Thinks he'd be proud, too. If he gets a...a better ending, what does that change? What if he fucks that up, that chance that things work out for them all in the end?

But he misses them like crazy, too. Never got to see Tucker again before the end. Fuck, it's not like he hated the Reds, either. Not more than he hated anyone else, anyway.]

Anger's real easy. I know it. And sometimes you regret the stupid shit you say in anger because it's...so easy to let words get away from you.

You're kind of a piece of shit, y'know. For doing this. But, I mean, so am I. I've gone in circles, but I did it knowingly every time, so it's not like it's the same. But still. [He shrugs.] Do you think staying here is really the answer, though? The...fiction, the threads of some other planet's story all cobbled together, life on these wacky islands, you think it's a better chance?

I mean, better chance while I'm alive rather than none when I'm dead, but I just mean. More generally.

[story_teller]

Oh, yes. I'm aware of my...failings. My flaws. According to Stori, this would be one of them. My stubbornness. Gods are not meant to fight the fate presented to them. But my siblings and I, we didn't want to see all we had wrought go to ruin.

I suppose that was our biggest error. For all our dreaming and imagining, we were incapable of writing a story that differed from the one in which we already lived.

I don't know anymore. I know what Stori would prefer. I know they wish to see everything packed away into its proper place.

I am Stories. I am Memory.

If a better world were to succeed, it ought to have an identity of its own - not be carved as a cenotaph for something long dead.