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[wisheskill]

Dear god, I woke up in this place that looks strangely like Xander's bedroom, but I stuck my head out the door and it was a hallway, not his living room-slash-kitchen. And let me tell you, I don't feel like going into a hallway every time I want to watch TV or make waffles even though that was Xander's job because I still can't cook!

The bunny was

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[tadwizard]

This isn't Hell. It's more...limbo.

[wisheskill]

... Limbo? I don't think so. If I died and was sentenced to an afterlife, I'm fairly certain I would warrant either eternal hellfire or heavenly pastures.

I'd prefer heaven. Damnation isn't fun and I'm sure I could learn to play the harp with minimal difficulty. I've always been a quick study. I tripled my money in online trading after only a few weeks, you know.

[tadwizard]

One extreme or the other?

[wisheskill]

Oh yes. I deserve no less.

[buywithme]

...

Actually, this being a particularly large set for a particularly cruel reality television program makes a lot of sense...

Oh god what if they're watching me be unprofessional?

[wisheskill]

Unless Allen Funt's around and I missed him, I don't know whose reality television show it would be. Perhaps it's an updated version of Survivor? Instead of stranding everybody on an island to be devoured by dinosaurs, they put us all on a boat.

Although that wouldn't explain how or why a television producer recovered my mangled body from underneath a pile of rocks after the end of the world.

I suspect this theory needs work.

[buywithme]

It would be a Factory sanctioned "Daytime extravaganza entertainment" production, and it might be some kind of front for a new dimensionally disruptive technology, which is how they recruited you from underneath a pile of rocks to star alongside me.

It's probably designed to show people how through positive selling practices and the power of commerce, no obstacle can not be overcome! Including death and being stranded on a magic ship with a bunch of people who want to kill you!

[wisheskill]

I agree completely that all obstacles can be overcome through positive selling practices and the power of commerce! Capitalism is the backbone of America, and without it this nation wouldn't be nearly as great!

[lilah_lawyer]

Hell's extremes depend on your employment position, but there's a severe lack of any pension scheme.

What is your name...? A couple of your recollections, there, are a tad familiar.

[wisheskill]

My name is Anya Christina Emanuella Jenkins, born in southeastern Indiana on the fourth of July and raised by both a mother and father!

We have never met.

[lilah_lawyer]

Yeeeeeah... From other not-so-subtle clues, should I actually be addressing you as The Artist Formerly Known As Anyanka?

[wisheskill]

I was never an artist.

How do you know that name? I don't recall writing it down anywhere for my apparent horde of stalkers to discover. I realize I'm charming, and attractive on many levels, but that's no license to dig through my personal files and document my every move!

[namorofthesea]

We are indeed all dead, and in a place far from Elysium, but any torments are far more subtle than what you imagine. They are of the mind rather than of bodily abuse. It is not pure torment either, however, as pleasant things may at random be granted as well.

[wisheskill]

Your manner of speech is outmoded, yet your words are those of optimism. If pleasant things occur here, it can't possibly be a hell dimension!

However, I am skeptical of the general "limbo" consensus. The only alternative is that I was somehow transported to an alternate dimension that is neither hellish nor heavenly when the portal opened.

The good news is, if that is the case, I must have survived! Take that, falling pile of rocks!

[namorofthesea]

That...could be, though I recall clearly being killed myself. Unless we are all taken not after our deaths, but a moment before it, and healed of any injuries.

[wisheskill]

I suppose it is odd that I suffered not even a concussion, but much stranger things have occurred. The apocalypse, for one.

Did you nearly die next to a dimensional portal as well?

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[ripper_watches]

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[ripper_watches]

Anya! You're, er- you're here too.

Ah. This really isn't a hell dimension...

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[wisheskill]

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[wisheskill]

Giles? What are you doing here? Did the world end in a towering inferno of interdimensional horrors as predicted?

If this isn't a hell dimension, where are we? Are the others here? Is Xander?