How to end a world?

How should the end of a world come to pass?

Ashron’s Call 2 is dying.

This is not news.

The close down was announced officially back in August. But the last day, 30 Dec 05, approaches rapidly.

Clive Thompson over at wired news has documented some of the emergent behaviour that he has observed in AC2. This includes players going round taking photo’s of places with associated special memories such as first kills. There also appears to be fan fic activity which Turbine is collecting in the ‘Farewell to AC2’ section of their site.

I wonder how it’s going to end. I wonder how it should. If I was there I’d like the narrative to be apocalyptic, I’d like to live through the last moments, see my character, my people and my world die with me - one last, big, futile battle maybe. I would wonder if my character had an afterlife, maybe I would get a glimpse of this before the final:

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