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The original was posted on /r/outside by /u/brokendreamsandglass on 2023-08-23 07:14:08.

sorry if I label things wrong and confuse anybody, I didn’t know I could seek help from other players here until recently.

today while I (level 18) was playing there was an unskippable cutscene where my sister (level 11) started crying uncontrollably and saying she didn’t want me to leave. nothing anyone said helped because we all were crying too. it was a long cutscene.

i chose to start the college quest a long way from my spawn point because I wanted to earn the xp to increase lots of very low stats (Confidence, Charisma, Organization, and many more) and make this game a lot more fun to play. I wanted to finally add some players to my friends list because not many players are on it, and most people who I did add only played with me when all their other friends were busy with their own side quests. I hoped maybe in a new place it would be different and I could choose dialogue options that would make other players actually want to go on quests with me and add me to their friends list, but now im worried that my friends list will just be even emptier. I’ve had to play around the [Loneliness] debuff for 18 levels and though I’m not a high level it’s a long time to have that debuff.

speaking of which, I feel like I’m too underleveled to play on my own without the two players that introduced me to the game guiding me. they think I’m ready and that I have the [Mature] and [Responsible] buff. But I can’t see it, and I can’t do the [Hug] emote without crying. I don’t want them to think I am still a noob and all their tutorials didn’t help me. But I still feel like I am not prepared to start this solo quest. I don’t even think I have enough items in my inventory, I feel like I forgot something but don’t know what. They have too much faith in me and don’t think my character’s [ADHD] trait will mess things up for me but I am not so sure.

I want to fully enjoy the new college quest. I want to remove debuffs like [Loneliness] [Social Anxiety] and those things. I want to enjoy all the side quests too and form a guild of people that like me for me. But fulfilling even one of those things looks so difficult to do all alone. I feel like I’ll just be stuck with the same miserable character, just with a new [Homesickness] debuff. One that’s good at school quests but will always be playing alone.