to all of my children in whom life flows abundant

Son of a crap I thought once they did the final save (which was 7 hours ago) I could put this game down and walk away, just logging in once more for Impact, but no. Not to be.

I did log in after maintenance ended just to see if anything had changed - nothing. So, yay! Freedom! Except, later, I'm minding my own business and my brother texts me to tell me to check AIM (I'd wandered from my computer) where he had been yelling at me to log in because the Garlean airships are flying lower than ever, the weather's changed, all field music has changed, and oh by the way frantic monsters are attacking towns on other servers and ours could be next.

I log in to find that, outside of towns, a slow, echoing version of "Answers" is playing everywhere, Imperial troops can be found all over the place (they used to only appear in limited areas), the sky has a perpetual reddish cloud cover with massive lightning bolts (and accompanying crashes of thunder) streaking across it, monster behaviours have changed, and the aetheryte points are all spawning Atomos and, one by one, turning red.



...dear lord, the world is ending.