I closed my eyes. I took a deep breath. I opened them as I looked down at the last page with the last spot for me to sign my life away, again. It had been almost a year of mental testing. Doing a living will. How I wanted my body to be taken care of. Everything a dying person is supposed to do. All in all, it was easy with no living family or friends. I was so old, I had outlived anyone of any importance in my life. Never been married. No kids. It was kinda sad when I really looked at things but that's how I had gotten through most of my life. Never look too deep. Don't think too hard about things. Just put it in a box and toss that bitch into the void. The past is the past for a reason, right?
One day outside of the game was seven days in the game. So far I have been here for 30 years. Outside of the game which turned into 210 year's inside the game. Yeah time fly's when you're having fun but time is time and work is work. I am 90 years old and I am tired and just ready to chill for a while and just do me. I am so ready for my time off. Whichever way this will all end.
Being too old also meant I had too many health issues to be pulled from the deep dive they had me in. Why risk it when everything could be done in a virtual reality room or VR for short. I had been dealing with doctors of all kinds and the last person to deal with is the lawyer. Who has spent hours with me every day to go over the contract for the last two weeks. Thank the Gods today was the last day and a Friday to boot, so that was nice. I'd have the weekend to get things set up in game and ready for Monday. I honestly don't think I could have kept this up for much longer. Too much of a reminder of the outside world. The mask was going to start slipping soon. It was too hard to act like a normal person after so long in the game. To put away my persona as they liked to call it. I just call it being the real me. I didn't have to hide. In the game I was truly free to be me but that person was socially unaccepted out of the game.
I tilted my head and just signed it. All I could think was fuck it. Either way things went, I would be dead. Either I would fade into darkness and never open my eyes again or wake up in some kind of afterlife. Some kind of heaven or hell. Or another game but where I at least would be well off and one step ahead of everyone else and just a bunch of pixels and if I made the jump I would get to enjoy my retirement.
No more having to do quest after quest. No more having to find this or that. No more having to help the admins. No more trying to find bugs or glitches. No more work unless it was something I wanted to do. I would be free to play and live how I wanted to.
I sat back and watched all the papers vanish from the table along with the pen I had been using. The suite sitting in front of me smiled.
"Well that concludes everything and it has been a pleasure working with you Jade. I do hope everything works out for you." the suite said, then reached up and lifted his VR headset off.
More like he hopes everything works out for the company, I thought as I stood up and looked for my door back to the game. It didn't take long for it to appear and for me to walk though it. I was almost tempted to run but stopped myself. I calmly just walked through and stepped right out into my bedroom. Soon I wouldn't have to worry about people watching me every second of every day. My live stream had been cut off at the end of last year but doctors and whoever else were still recording. They would, up until I died or transferred over. Or so they said. Who really knew?
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I finally got everything packed up and ready for the move. It was a good thing I had 2 days to do it. I had gone through all of my keep settings and done all the upgrades I could for it, the Keep and the village. I had talked to all of my keep staff and everyone in the village that went along with it. Everyone knew we were moving and that I really didn't have a clue where we might end up. I really wish they had come up with a name for the new world so it didn't seem like I was being stupid.
