User blog:GammaRaul/The Dire Dire Docks Disapparition (64Pasta Contest Collab Part)

As I stared down those sterile and lifeless halls where Dire Dire Docks should have been, my heart filled with dread; Where should've been the portal were merely hallways extending into the abyssal darkness, so lightless that their mere presence seemed to make everything, even that which resided outside of the realms of the Nintendo 64, darker.

With hesitation, I ventured deep into those hallowed hallways, the bricks never once turning into the familiar dark aquamarine tiles with which the hallway used to end. The bricks turned redder and redder, seeming to slowly turn organic as the hall stretched on, but soon enough, they were bricks not even God could see.

Despite the all-consuming darkness, through some miracle, I still knew what everything looked like, where Mario was located, and every single path I could take, almost as if that location had awakened a primal sixth sense within me. After a few minutes of wandering through that place on intuition alone, I finally found a place with light, though dim.

It was a large, circular room with almost nothing in it, branching into various other lightless paths; At this point, the once familiar bricks had now turned into something seeming of flesh, the floor being completely flat. The strangest thing, however, was a single jail cell with a Toad inside, which, when spoken to, displayed a single character, a broken heart. It was then that I understood what was going on with my game.

Much like how Wet Dry World was the Personalization AI's brain, this place was its heart, and it had suffered Cardiac Arrest.

The AI was dead.