That last day I was standing on the steps of City Hall. I'm not sure if I was in 33 or some other one, but my
heart was logged into 33, that much I know.
I was with friends. I forget exactly which ones, but that's the point. It was just like it always had been when playing... specific people might come and go as the day passed, but whoever you saw standing beside you, or zipping past... chances were pretty good you'd be okay with calling them a friend. Maybe not a "lifelong, close as family" friend; of course not, not all of them. But a "let's have a blast doing something we both find awesome" friend...
absolutely.
Like always I was on Virtue. I started there by accident, not having the slightest idea that it was the "rp server", or anything else about it really. I just liked the name. And later, when the lag from being on one of the heaviest-population servers during peak hours finally got too crazy, I asked myself if I was prepared to transfer all my characters and restart my little solo SG somewhere else. And it turned out I wasn't... I had met too many cool people there. I decided to put up with the perma-lag for the chance to keep hanging out with them. So even though I had fully well planned to try out the other servers, and at one point I even got so far as to make a Triplash on each of the english-speaking ones, I never actually managed to make it off Virtue after three and a half years. (Which, with the lag, sometimes seemed more like four and a half
)
The last thing I remember someone saying was me, cursing. Not at anything ingame, or even at the situation we were facing. Nope. It turns out that I ended my time in the City the same way I had always played it... the crappy little built-in video card overheated and my laptop crashed. >.<
During those few minutes when I was waiting for the laptop to cool off enough to reboot, I thought about it. I realized that even if I managed to log back in without hitting some monstrous queue, and somehow it didn't crash on me yet again, it wasn't going to get better than it had just been. I was surrounded by people I called friends, and at that point everyone had been joking and remembering happy things and were in a good place - relatively, at least. I figured that was as much of a high note as I was gonna get, so I just left the computer off and let that be my ending.
Well... the ending to that chapter at least. But not the ending to the whole story, not by far. I'm sure of it. For now we're just waiting for the next contact to unlock, that's all this is
