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Do you remember?
The steady strum of the city's heartbeat.
Technology.
The always-pumping lifeblood of a thousand now-dead industries.
Industry.
Now a wrecked husk on a long-forgotten shore.
Do you remember the sky?
Alight with beautiful fire.
Sky so bright you forgot the stars even existed.
But the stars, they didn't forget us.
What kind of survivor were you?
Did you walk the expanse of nature and feel the wind burning your soul?
Did it remind you of how you were?
Did it shape you?
Did it break you?
How did you keep breathing after it took everything you knew and loved?
Did you survive with compassion?
Did you remember true humanity?
Did you survive for yourself alone?
Did you revel in the solitude?
Did you hunger for a connection?
Did you seek out others, and could you save them?
Could you save yourself?
Did you hold onto the promises of old men after their fires died out?
Did you hear their voices echo in your head as you faced the wrath of the nature they ignored?
Unleashed?
Did you settle into the silence?
Did you crawl into it, whimpering?
Did it crush you?
Did you embrace it?
Do you remember the power you could summon?
It flowed through the wires, a ghost in the machine.
A treasured force, our glory, our servant, our doom.
As you stare at the sun, the moon, the wind, your constant companion ...
Do you remember yesterday?
What is tomorrow?
How will you face this quiet apocalypse?
Where were you when the lights when out?
How far will you go to survive The Long Dark?

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