There's always a lighthouse

[wheremst]

And just like that, you wake up in the basement of a lighthouse in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There's a circle of 25 pods in the middle of the room, and two more in a room off to the side, and you can imagine who is in which.

An elevator to the side of the room leads up to the ground floor (or to the first sub-basement, if you want to check out the machine that brought you here), where you can for the first time in weeks look out a window and see the sky. Its a beautiful sunny day, with a strong breeze on the grassy ground of the island where the lighthouse stands. Have you ever been this happy to hear seagulls?

You're free. Whatever comes next, you're free and you won. Take some time to relish your victory, won't you? Reunite with friends you thought you had lost, go forth and just... well, enjoy this.

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[gangrene]

[ someone is just.

gonna be fast asleep in his pod

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz ]

[ladygeryon]

[Well, she'll let him nap for a bit more, but eventually she's going to walk over and shake him a bit.]

Hey, we're out.

[gangrene]

[ grumbles ]

Huh, wazzat?

[ladygeryon]

We're finally back in the real world, is what. [She's got a slight grin on her face.] On an island, it sounds like. [Even that's not too much of a bother to her-at least it's real water and real ground beneath their feet.]

[gangrene]

--Shit, I must've slept super hard.

[ looking up at her and smiling ]

How you feeling though?

[ladygeryon]

Way better, now that we're out of there. Did you get to see what went down during that last trial?

[gangrene]

Mostly? I kept nodding off.

[ladygeryon]

Well. We stopped the guy who was doing all that, and those people who were helping from outside are going to make sure he and his group don't ever do it again. Plus he's getting dragged to William's world.

[gangrene]

Sounds like things really worked out.