Final Summary

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Since Friday's summary—

The heroes faced down the void of their worst fears. They poured their power into the spell made of their bonds and crystallized their intentions.

But the world pushed back and tried to shove them into another Story, a false ideal of what they were working towards. They slowly came to realize the false world and fought back again—choosing.

They found themselves caught in Anansi's web once more, asking themselves—

❝ What makes a story, and what makes a life?
What, then, is the power of either? ❞
They took a moment to consider, then dropped down into the final fight against the Darkness. They faced against the pages and stories and memories of the past and demonstrated just how far they'd come. They joined hands and—

They chose the freedom to live their lives. The rest of their story? It's only just beginning.

Story Time 88 (Days 480-The End)

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"And now the story is done."

✦ Day 480
Dawn: The End of the Story

✦ Day 001
Dawn: A͖͙̞̠̲̩̻͆̈́̆̄̓ͦ͡ ̻̼̝̲͎̰̊̆͑n̶̞̝̒ͤͫ̂͆e̢͖̟ͯ̋͒͑ͨ̽ẃ͖͉͉̲̠̉̀ͅ ̪̲̓̎͂̽͒̚b̵̮̯̄̎ḙ́ͧͯ̊̓͜g̢͚̤̙̞̃̐į̦̹͎̝͈̣̈́͑ͮ̽̏n̟͎̯̔͌ņ̹͚ͣͭͅí̝͍͉̤̯̟͑͊n͙̗̜̱̼͋͑ͯ͆͞ğ̙̞̝̭ͩ̚ ̋ͨf̭̗̞̟̫̄̾̎ͩ̉̅ͅŏ̞̗̮̼̬͔r̺͖̰̪̦͛̑̉̐ͯ̍ ̳͍͎̰͙̗̲ͬͬͪͪ͝ḁl͎͇̳̘̅ͮ̐̃l̶͔̏̏̊ͧ!͔̼̭ͨ͋
Morning: A̖͓̳̫͚̺͕ ̬g̟̮̣͕͌ͯ͌a͚͎̿͌̎mͥe̔́̌̅ͥ!!̻͎͖͔̾͌͗ͦ̉ ̖̲͇̪̺͓͛ͥ̚Ḁ̰̩̠͉͉̓ͩ̅ͅ ͉͙̣̻̟̺̔̔͆ͮ̉ͯg̟͎̜̼̫̻͇̎͛͗͆ã̘̜m̥̮̼̑̾̍ê̲̼ͮͪ̾̾̒?̃
Was it supposed to be like this?
We choose!
A spider relaxes

✦ The Book
The Pages

✦ A Rebirth of sorts
All is now different

✦ The Glass Platform
The Aftermath

THE VERY LAST HELPFUL CATBOY POST

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"Thank You, Aather" (Watch on YouTube)

—business in the front, tears in the back. You can find a final summary of events here! I tried to keep all of the "pages" in the final battle open (with no reply blocking them at the bottom) so if you missed the actual event and want your characters to have been there, go ahead and slide in retroactive comments!

The current aftermath post is here. Tomorrow, I'll put up another post for the beginning of "farewells" that will help establish where you can go, what you can do, etc. This week is dedicated to wrapping up everything! The important things to note:

❧ Aather now exists with a giant magic tree into the stars with a big glittering glass platform from which they can access any number of 'paths' to any other world. Enjoy your perpetual forever world-hopping bullshit.

❧ Aather itself is also restored, so you can wander around to whatever realm you want to, visit old friends, set up shop, whatever you wanna do. Characters WILL receive all their memories back if they haven't gotten them already—that will be included in tomorrow's post (and yes you can choose whether or not to get them back).

❧ All characters—booked, darknessed, dropped, dead, at home, doesn't matter—are now free to go wherever they want. Is it gonna be weird for your dead ass to go home? I don't care you can be a DJ you can do what you want.

❧ Characters will also retain some measure of their 'key powers.' What, exactly? Whatever! The power was in you all along!

❧ Personae are also of course freed from the Story and can be whatever they want. Did they just continue on as they were because they were fine with that? Did they revert back to themselves from before? It's really up to you.

❧ Any other worldbuilding questions I didn't answer—please feel free to comment to this post and I'll come up with an answer if I don't already have one!

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One Final White Pages

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BY REQUEST and because it's a good idea—

Comment here with who you've played in Aather and how someone might reach you now or in the future! Whatever methods of contact it's up to you ♥ Our characters get to stay in touch by being INTERGALACTIC WORLD-HOPPERS so we might as well know each others' Plurks.