The Final Day

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[Friday comes with the usual morning announcement. There's no blood or anything anywhere, and nothing visibly disturbed.

>Investigate...?]

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[dejabrew]

He can't- watch us all die... He won't make it with that grief, Akira, it would kill him.

[playthedamncard]

If we're going to go out, we should be going out together.

[dejabrew]

What will dying show them? What will it do to stop them bringing in more people next time - our friends, our family? Hold what happened to us over their heads to make them submit until they get what they want?

[playthedamncard]

What will living here week after week until the last accident falls on someone, until we lose our fucking minds and waste away in this simulation show them? There's nothing stopping them from bringing in more people. The other side of the station looks exactly the same. They can bring more people. They can bring our friends and our families, but if there's a chance that we can end this here--

I ask you, what's the alternative?

[le_mat]

...then do what you have to do. If things go bad... someone has to get out. And remember what happened here.

[dejabrew]

...it shouldn't be us. I'm an adult, I should be able to-

[le_mat]

You love him, right?

[dejabrew]

...More than I've loved anyone in a long time.

[le_mat]

I think that's worth fighting for. Living for too.

[dejabrew]

I agree. I'm-

I'm sorry we all failed you.