Room of the April Witch

[Kotonoha]

;_;

I thought this was their annual april fool's joke.

I thought it appeared early because of time zones.

;_;

No, you're probably right.

BUT YOU'RE STILL A JOKE

[Cruor]

Meteo is that Liarsoft writer, right?

[Fatuous One]

Time to save it all. Thank god it isn't another twitter or similar bullshit.

[HitokiriNanaya]

This is interesting to me

[Cruor]

Time to save it all. Thank god it isn't another twitter or similar bullshit.

I seriously wonder how you got all of that.

[Fatuous One]

It's just a matter of persistence in saving, and then fiddling with the html to use on another site. I was initially planning on saving and keeping every single individual response page so I could have links to what what exactly they were responding to on each other's twitters, but they ended up killing the site before I could save them all. Which, in hindsight, I'm thankful for, because that would have been a lot of work.

[Neir]

You, sir, are a hero.

[Kotonoha]

Yeah, it kind of crossed my mind that you'd probably be relieved that this one is just a couple of images, heh.

[Fatuous One]

Annnnnd... mirrored. I made a separate page with the banner they used on the front page of the main site since it had date text that didn't appear on any of the other images.

You, sir, are a hero.

One day I'll make a contract with the World to save a mere hundred sites and eventually become a counter guardian.

Yeah, it kind of crossed my mind that you'd probably be relieved that this one is just a couple of images, heh.

Oh, you are so right.

Well, I will admit I was all hyped up for another personal crisis in coding, but having something like this is good too.

[Kotonoha]

sweeeet

I think you missed the background image though.

[Fatuous One]

Indeed I did, thanks for pointing it out. It should be fixed now.

[hbomb]

This has got to be an April Fools joke.

[Mcjon01]

This has got to be an April Fools joke.

I think the joke this year is that there is no joke. Just a short story. Unless the joke is going to end up being the part about it being available for two weeks, but that would be pretty lame.

But really, I think they probably just wanted to do something kind of sweet and sentimental on account of the whole earthquake/tsunami thing that just happened.

[Twelveseal]

Indeed. A story about granting wishes at a time when there are so many to grant. Not to mention the theme of life and death, of the end of so many lives and the sacrifice of one person for many. I'd have to say this was because of the disaster in Japan as well as the day.

also, saved the crap out of it all.

[WingZero]

I'm gone for a month and come back to find out BL is gone. >_>

I rather enjoyed this short story. Most of the encounters are actually quite allegorical. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it.

The ending feels pretty open ended though.

The way I see it, when Fool-kun said he was the last human on the planet, everyone other than him was made immortal.

That way, he truly was "the last human to die".

[Saradin]

Page 9 fooled me, I thought it was the end. It's only now, that I'm saving everything, that I see there's more.

I guess that was a pretty good trick that got pulled on me. Inadvertently.

[Kotonoha]

The way I see it, when Fool-kun said he was the last human on the planet, everyone other than him was made immortal.

That way, he truly was "the last human to die".

I think it was like... the part about being the last person was true, just the "this is a lie" part was a lie?

[Chaos Greyblood]

At least this is a short story, not some jester's idea for Taurus feces on April Fools.

[Kotonoha]

For all of you who wanted to read it, someone translated it on /fate/:
http://wakachan.org/fate/res/118976.html

[WingZero]

I think it was like... the part about being the last person was true, just the "this is a lie" part was a lie?

Well, that line was really meant to bring a paradox into the ending which makes it so open-ended. Also during the course of all the encounters, not every line said by every person became "truth". So that brings into question which of the final lines were actually "wishes that were granted" and which were not.

I sort of just figured that the part about being the last human on Earth would be granted regardless of what came before ("this is a lie"), because it was stated early on that 'even lies will be granted (and become truth)'.