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watching the sunset from a tall place was quite nice, great view below with the darkness consuming the colours on the sky, it was nice seeing it for the time. I i was getting myself ready until suddenly all colour started fading, not just the bright yellow and red from the sky and once it all dissipated I heard a loud voice from somewhere saying "well done, you have passed the preliminary round" which confused me I thought it was a joke until the lifeless grey objects around me started disappearing from the sky to the forest below and even the cliff I was standing on, all that was left behind was a white room, or maybe it wasn't a room since I coul.t see any walls or a ceiling, it was just white the only thing I could touch was the colourless ground I was standing on, I knocked on it and it didn't make any sound it also didn't feel like anything I've touched in my life, all I knew was that it was hard and it was either impossible or very hard to scratch. I was deciding on whether I should walk around to find someone but before I figured anything out people just appeared in front of me, it was sudden without a sound they just appeared, I looked at the people closest but they seemed as confused as I was, everyone around me wore different clothes, some wore school clothes some wore a suit and some were in their pyjamas I looked around a bit more and jumped to see if there was an end to these people but if there was I was nowhere near it. after I jumped people started looking at me confused but after a second they started talking amongst each other trying to figure things out together and so I joined the conversation of the people near me, it was a young boy probably in his teens with a school uniform and a woman wearing a suit so probably and adult, they were talking about where they were before and what they were doing but the only information that got me was that we were in the same country and city before we got here, I went around other groups and it seemed to be one of the only similarities other than what happened before we got here, it seemed to have happened at the same time for everyone around me at least those who knew the time before they were here. it was about 10 minutes before we heard the same woman's voice, it seemed to come out of nowhere and wasn't too loud but everyone around me seemed to have heard it too, she said "welcome to the lobby, this is the area between stages where you can do whatever you want, you cannot get hurt here but also cannot hurt others, and if you want anything just think about it really hard and it will be available, try it now if you wish" all of a sudden things started appearing In peoples hands and some larger things like cars and TVs appeared although nobody got hurt by them appearing which was quite weird, she then continued "once everyone else finishes their preliminary rounds we will get onto the next round, also if you want a private area or a public area with less people just say or think the words 'public' or 'private' and you will be sent there but just know you won't be able to come back to this are" people were still confused and didn't know what to do but those who were calm just used their newfound ability to get out of here, people started disappearing and soon there was a lot less people around, there were only some left either confused or waiting for less people to be here and so I went up to talk to those still here before I went to a private area, I got a couple meters away from some but they just disappeared before I got too close until I noticed someone coming towards me I in turn went towards them it was a bloke with expensive looking suit and a watch that looked like a Rolex, he came closer and asked "so I was wondering why did you stay behind" which I answered "just to see who stayed out here so I could talk with them"

(man)"what a coincidence I too came out to speak with others who stayed here and also to test something out"

(MC)"so what were you looking to test out here? there doesn't seem like much to do here"

(man)"and that's where you're wrong, technically speaking we probably aren't the only ones around here and if you don't remember we have the ability to summon anything"

(MC)" and what do you want to summon a plane or something?"

(man)"that would be faster but I don't know how to pilot one so I'll get a car instead and then we can drive around look for others and ask them for information, and if I'm right than this will give us some information about what happened."

(MC)"well then let's go and find some others who have stayed behind in the lobby".