- That disk will probably take a bit, maybe you could have a nap while you wait?
- Consider the clouds
After cleaning to your satisfaction, though still worried about space, you head over to your computer to check on SBURBS progress. Your spine tingles in both anticipation and dread. You know you need to get all of you in to be able to have the best chances. Sure, any who enter the game could survive without the others, but the clouds definitely have shown you enough visions of those circumstance to make it unacceptable. You're not saying that staying behind and getting caught up in the death of the planet is personally preferable, but just because it's better by infinite miles, doesn't mean you aren't scared of the unknown.
...wow, this is slow. You totally need to learn to handle your priorities better, you could have been loading this while cleaning your room before. Dang it. Quickly, you pull open a desk drawer and attach a note to the screen of the computer. 'Organize yourself'
That being done, you aren't 100% sure what else can be done on this side...so you might as well rest up here and go check out the other side. For a moment, you contemplate napping at your desk or in bed....but you think you want to be more at the ready when you wake up, so napping at the desk it is!
You look around, pulling your fluffy teal bathrobe out of the mess under the futon, and putting it on. It like wearing a blanket as you cross your arms and lay your head down.
As you fall into a nap, you also feel yourself shifting. The strangely familiar sense of both falling asleep and waking up fills you.
You soon wake up in your golden room, sitting, stretching, and yawning. You've arrived on 'the other side' as you call it, even though you've long since learned the real name of this moon. Prospit, the locals call it.
Is that a pun off of everything being made of this golden material, and them being the peaceful good guys? That they prosper? Who knows, but you chuckle none-the-less.
Getting out of bed, you sigh as your eyes take a moment to adjust to the sheer brightness of a nearly completely golden room. Once they have, though, you slip out of your massive bed and head over to your fullsized fridge to see what the locals have brought you.
Truthfully, your Dream Rom is very similar to your normal one. All the notable furniture pieces are about the same. Your bed, for instance, is exactly where you keep your futon. As is your computer, and your library of books. And your pantry. And the differences, though few, are fairly large. Your bed is bigger and comfier. Your computer, though you can't use the internet for some reason, is more advanced. Your library contains books your other room does not. Your cobbled-together pantry has been replaced by a fully functioning, full-sized fridge with many goodies that the locals provide. There are no doors, so there's more wall space, which is covered with more anime posters and weaponry. And where your window would be is still a massive window, except there's no glass keeping you from the outside.
You look into your fridge, random assortment of human food, as usual. You never know what the locals will bring you to eat. There is a bottle of Orangina though, how they even get their hands on something like that is a question you've stopped asking yourself. You decide to just take that for the moment, and hover (yes, hover) over to the window sill and take a seat. The clouds haven't come in yet, but they're close. As usual, your timing is something to marvel at. So as they close in, you slip into thought, just considering them.
To anyone else on Earth, the idea of waking up in some golden city where you can sit and watch snippets in time on floating clouds and practically be worshipped as some kind of hero sounds pretty crazy...but it's been your second life for a year now, having long since replaced any instances of you actually being able to dream. God, you miss it so much. Yet you can't deny the benefits that this place has given you. Thanks to some stroke of luck, you found out about the meteors, and the game that could save the lives of you and your few friends. You also have seen so many clips of the start of everything that you know the interface of said game like the back of your hand, you think.
You also know a couple more things...things like how the game deals with good and evil forces, how throwing things into the pre-sprite ball thing affects the whole flow of the game, how the grey skinned people you've seen will be important in one way or another, and that each player will be thrust into some new world of their own (each of which, you've only gotten vague glances at)
Now, the clouds are almost here...
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