[ WP ] You are dead ... again . However , you planned this just as you planned the other times you died . You study death . Describe your experience this time as it compares to the other times .

The familiar blackness overtook me as the pain in my throat subsided and I felt my hand go limp around the glass. I told myself to stay calm, I'd done this plenty of times. Still, in those moments in the abyss, I started doubting everything. What if this time it did n't work? 
 
 Just like last time, and the times before that, the small trickle of doubt started to grow. Did the darkness always take this long? I told myself to relax, time was irrelevant. In fact, time did n't exist, not here. It would be alright. But what was taking so long? Where was the light? *Relax asshole. * 
 
 Just like last time, I managed to calm myself only momentarily before the panic struck full force. Something was wrong. Had *they* caught me? Did the system break? Had I reached the hypothesized but unprovable revival limit? I was fucked, completely and utterly fucked. This was n't supposed to be happening. If I'd had a body I would have been hyperventilating. *I'm going to die, and there's nothing I can do about it. * 
 
 Just like last time, after the panic came acceptance. If this was it, then so be it. I'd had a hell of a run. Too bad I had n't yet found peace in life, but oh well. *Peace in death is also peace. * 
 
 But there it was, a faint simmer in the darkness around me. Out of nowhere, thousands of lights slowly manifested wherever I looked. I felt a brief flicker of hope, which immediately made place for certainty. The certainty that I had n't failed, that *they* had n't caught me, that the system did n't break and that there was no such thing as a revival limit. As every single light expanded to show images of a different world, I scoffed mentally. *Peace in death, peace indeed. * I felt the familiar pull coming from one of the worlds and felt the excitement of rushing into the unknown as I soared through the abyss and collided with the portal. The uncomfortable but extremely satisfying feeling of being squeezed into a body once more left me with a grin on my new face. Slowly I opened my eyes. Just like last time. 

