I was committed, even after I lost steam, to see things through. It's only because the game was ending so soon, and Nemo and Rae's situation at that moment in time, I went with deciding to have them leave as they did. Had the game kept going, I'd've had them stick with the group and hopefully bond more with them, but at the time, knowing the end of the game was just a few posts per person away, and really feeling like storywise Nemo was a fifth wheel to the group,
and assessing Nemo's personal feelings of feeling like a fifth wheel and being sick of being shoved around by the whims of the gods and her own lack of confidence in her decision making in this world, well, I could see her being tempted to bail enough that I could see her actually following through on that temptation. So, circumstances being what they were, she did.
I admit part of that was also me getting a little fed up with things towards the end there. While I think the game was good overall, and I am grateful to have been able to play it, there were times when, due to my own headspace, I just was having a very difficult time keeping my head in the game, with the frequent delays, and feeling like I joined with the wrong character. That's not a dig on any of you, that's a me problem. But it is basically to say that by the time we were halfway though the fight against the Goo Men, I was in part posting out of obligation. I'm not saying I didn't have fun when I was able to knock my brain back into gear to be able to post, but there was a lot bad timing with posting on my end, just, my turn kept coming up on days I was working all day and coming home exhausted, or had very limited time in the morning to come up with something before I had to do a long closing shift, or days I was just in mental funk, and at some point, I was really ready to just be done, once I knew we were heading into the wrap up. Again, nothing on any of you, this is just the, well, "meta side" of the circumstances for opting to go with the ending I did: I got this far, I wasn't going to just drop the game and leave things hanging, I didn't want to do y'all dirty like that, and from a writing standpoint, I did want to actually see things through to some kind of closure. So, I opted to have Nemo depart as way of wrapping up my contribution a little bit earlier, and I figured that would be okay since after the big fight, it was just going to be the wrap up with the survivors anyway. Funnily enough, Nemo's departure got stalled, so I was basically still posting right up to near the end regardless.