Emptied at Dawn

NIGEL: DID SOMEBODY SAY... VACANCY?!!!

NIGEL: A STICKMAN!!! ALONE!!! AT NIGHT!!!

NIGEL: PREVIOUSLY ON STIMCKAN!!!

NIGEL: PIZZA!!!

NIGEL: OCEAN!!!

NIGEL: TORNADO!!!

NIGEL: SPACE!!!

NIGEL: STARS!!!

NIGEL: GEORGE... GOT BINNED!!!

At dawn, the bin is emptied.

STIMCKAN: Emptied WHERE?

Nobody has come back to say.

NIGEL: MEANWHILE... INSIDE THE BIN!!!

STIMCKAN: ...So how do I get him out?

STIMCKAN: Buff?

STIMCKAN: ...A backflip.

STIMCKAN: THE VOID?

STIMCKAN: ...This is a terrible plan.

It is the only one we have.

NIGEL: I LOVE IT!!!

STIMCKAN: Nigel. Biggest button you've ever seen.

NIGEL: SMASH... THAT... DELETE!!!

TOAST: Nigel and 1 other item were moved to the Recycle Bin.

NIGEL: AAAAAAA!!!

STIMCKAN: ...Seriously?

TOOLTIP: Welcome back.

NIGEL: I JUST LEFT!!!

BLURRY: ...Who's there?

final_FINAL.docx: I'm final.

final_FINAL.docx: I'm FINAL final.

You came.

STIMCKAN: You tipped.

STIMCKAN: Help me with the door.

A narrator does not interfere. I describe what is there.

NIGEL: AND THE DOOR... SWUNG OPEN!!!

NIGEL: ...AND THE DOOR STAYED EXACTLY THE SAME!!!

TOOLTIP: Game 401?

Played perfectly, tic-tac-toe always ends in a draw.

A perfect player always blocks.

STIMCKAN: ...You always block.

STIMCKAN: ...Did you just interfere?

I stated a fact.

NIGEL: WHO HERE... WAS NEVER SENT?!!!

NIGEL: SMASH... THAT... SEND!!!

SENT: PER MY LAST EMAIL.

SENT: WE NEED TO TALK.

SENT: FINE. WHATEVER.

SENT: k.

[Not delivered]

Somewhere... a great many friendships ended.

SIGN: MOUNT RAGEQUIT

Stimckan had never done a single pull-up.

...He still hadn't.

NIGEL: GAINS!!!

TOOLTIP: This file is too large to move.

...Now he had.

NIGEL: GOING UP!!!

STIMCKAN: The final one goes on top.

final_FINAL.docx: I'M the final one!

final_FINAL.docx: I'M FINAL-ER!

final_FINAL.docx: FINALEST!!!

NIGEL: WHEEEEE—

Go home, Stimckan.

STIMCKAN: ...In a minute.

SCORECARDS: 10 · 10 · 9.8

The sun rose over the town.

...Stimckan did not.

NIGEL: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

A narrator does not interfere.

...Usually.

NIGEL: 10/10!!!

NIGEL: ...WHO'S GOING TO NARRATE ME?!

final_FINAL.docx: ...finally.

STIMCKAN: ...Stimckan fell.

STIMCKAN: ...Bravely.

You forgot your tip.

There was nothing in the void.

...Except a stickman.

STIMCKAN: ...No. ME.

There was Stimckan.

STIMCKAN: ...You can't change what's there.

Correct.

STIMCKAN: There's nothing here.

...Correct.

STIMCKAN: So say what's here.

There was a floor.

STIMCKAN: ...Do that again.

There was a hill.

On the hill, a town.

In the town, a terrace.

STIMCKAN: And a scooter.

...And a scooter.

STIMCKAN: A DRY one.

...A dry one.

It was dawn.

STIMCKAN: And pizza.

...There was not.

...There was a small pizza.

And the cursor...

...was never mentioned again.

NIGEL: AND NIGEL!!!

...And Nigel.

STIMCKAN: ...You came back for me.

I needed an ending.

STIMCKAN: You said nobody comes back.

...Somebody did.

Nothing is really gone...

...while somebody is still telling the story.

NIGEL: GROUP HUG!!!

TOAST: Nigel was moved to the Recycle Bin.

...Tomorrow.

STIMCKAN: ...Thursday.

So Stimckan went to space.

STIMCKAN: I SAID THURSDAY!

...It was Thursday.