[ WP ] You 're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions ! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone . One day , on your screen , you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure .

I was n't sure why the servers were still up and working. I knew they should n't be, but I did n't want to question it too much, Pokemon Go was the one thing keeping me sane through this, reminding me that there was a time when I was not the only person left out here. If I questioned it too deeply, the servers might realise that after 18 months, there is no way they should be working. So I just set out every morning, heading towards an area which seemed to have a lot of pokestops, and collected all the pokemon I saw along my way. 
 
 It was my routine, always hoping that I was heading towards another person, that someone else had survived, and that we would find each other. At the end of one, long day of walking, I found a spot to rest for the night. As usual, it was a place that people had gathered, before. When there were people to gather. That meant that there were plenty of Pokestops for me to collect supplies from. I'd just gone through my usual routine of swiping through all the stops within range before finally closing my eyes and trying to sleep as much as I could, when I noticed something unusual. Just on the edge of my screen was a pokestop with a lure on it. For a moment I was confused. Wondering why I'd put a lure on a stop I could n't reach. But then I remembered, it could n't be me. I'd run out of lures in the early days - I'd used them to try and signal to other people that there was someone nearby, and now it seemed like someone else was doing the same. 
 
 I knew if I waited until morning, there was a good chance that the lure would be gone, and whoever had placed it moved on. I had to act now. 
 
 Packing up my sleeping bag as fast as I could, I walked towards the lured stop. It was outside a church, which was as delapidated and deserted as the rest of the town had been. No sign that there had been anyone there in months, let alone the past 20 minutes. But, with nothing better to do, I sat and waited, collecting the pokemon which showed up, until the lure went down. But the moment it did, a new lure appeared. Again, just on the edge of my map. 
 
 Not having to pack up my gear, this time I arrived at the lure less than 5 minutes after it appeared. But there was still no sign that another person had been there. I found some paper and a marker pen out of my bag, and wrote a note: 
 
 `` I can see that there's been someone here. Please contact me. My phone number is 07839 234890'' 
 
 I taped the note to a wall, and hoping that whoever had set the lure would come back to this spot, then settled back down to catching more pokemon. 
 
 Suddenly though, my phone started ringing, the displaying showing `` unknown number''. 
 
 I answered it. 
 
 `` Hello?'' 
 
 `` I got your note on the pokestop.'' 
 
 `` What?'' There had been noone but me the entire time I was sat here, how could someone have found my number without me seeing them? 
 
 `` Yeah. You left a note saying to call you.'' 
 
 `` Where are you? If you've come past here, why did n't you speak to me? I've been sitting right here since I put it down'' 
 
 `` Because we're out of phase. I've only just worked out how to get my phone in phase with yours.'' 
 
 `` What the fuck are you talking about?'' 
 
 `` You think you've been the only person on the planet for the past 18 months? Well, so does every other person. They're all still here. I've spoken to a couple of hundred of them now. I do n't know how it happened, but I can teach you how to contact them. You're not alone any more.''
