You can type any command to exit gone status.

[Morgenes]

Typing any command will now exit gone status.  

> gone on a bathroom break
You are gone on a bathroom break.

>
The tall, red-headed stepchild arrives from the east.

>
The tall, red-headed stepchild looks down at you.

>
The tall, red-headed stepchild says, in sirihish,
  'hey man, what's up?'

> say not much
You are no longer gone.
You say, in sirihish,
  'not much'