Cold. Radioactive. Lonely. I spent most of my time digging expired cans of food out of irradiated rubble and trying not to get snacked on by the mutants that survived.
[That quirk in returned allowed him to let his smile smooth into something more natural and far more cynical]
It was just my luck I got stuck a glitchy Matrix that kept picking up events from the real world. I was at the same time point as the real world, but the machines were networked to the ANNET instead. She hooked everyone's brains into her virtual world so they didn't have to see the polluted mess we lived in, [He smiled cynically, knowing he was telling a familiar tale right there] but I was incompatible with her broadcast. I'm sure you won't be shocked to learn that she decided to turn 99% of the world's brains off one day, and then some smartass decided to nuke her servers in revenge without warning the rest of the world first. WW3 broke out because everyone thought everyone else was responsible for killing most of humanity. That was ten years ago and it's sucked ever since.
[He sighed, then a moment later shrugged a shoulder as if the entire event hadn't profoundly affected him]
So I'm pretty grateful at the moment. There's air that's almost breathable, it's not nuclear winter, and there's people. I'm half scared I've gone crazy in the wastelands and you're just someone's skeleton propped against a wall.
Re: reality 6
[That quirk in returned allowed him to let his smile smooth into something more natural and far more cynical]
It was just my luck I got stuck a glitchy Matrix that kept picking up events from the real world. I was at the same time point as the real world, but the machines were networked to the ANNET instead. She hooked everyone's brains into her virtual world so they didn't have to see the polluted mess we lived in, [He smiled cynically, knowing he was telling a familiar tale right there] but I was incompatible with her broadcast. I'm sure you won't be shocked to learn that she decided to turn 99% of the world's brains off one day, and then some smartass decided to nuke her servers in revenge without warning the rest of the world first. WW3 broke out because everyone thought everyone else was responsible for killing most of humanity. That was ten years ago and it's sucked ever since.
[He sighed, then a moment later shrugged a shoulder as if the entire event hadn't profoundly affected him]
So I'm pretty grateful at the moment. There's air that's almost breathable, it's not nuclear winter, and there's people. I'm half scared I've gone crazy in the wastelands and you're just someone's skeleton propped against a wall.