Chapter 1
Roblox Last Server Standing
The game was supposed to shut down at midnight.
That’s what the announcement said. Old servers will be wiped. Progress will be lost.
Most players logged off.
Jay didn’t.
At 11:59, the lobby glitched. Avatars froze mid-emote. The chat stopped scrolling. Then the player count dropped to 1.
Jay’s screen flickered.
Instead of the usual spawn, he appeared in a version of the map he’d never seen before. Buildings were half-loaded, floating slightly above the ground. The sky was flat gray, like a texture that never finished rendering.
A message appeared in the chat box:
SYSTEM: You stayed.
Jay typed back.
Jay: “Yeah. So?”
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then the NPC at the center of the map turned its head. NPCs weren’t supposed to do that.
SYSTEM: Someone has to keep the server alive.
The NPC walked toward him, footsteps echoing too loudly for an empty game.
SYSTEM: Every game remembers its last player.
The clock hit midnight.
Instead of shutting down, the server saved.
A new badge unlocked on Jay’s screen:
🏆 Last Server Standing
Description: You didn’t leave.
When Jay finally logged out, his screen went black.
The next day, when he joined a different game, his badge was still there.
And in the chat, a single message waited:
SYSTEM: Welcome back.
