[Fortuna]
[Fortuna]
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Ahead is a large amount of tunnels, both small and large. Prometheus is careful not to look directly down in case that time-traveling object was still down there. He decides to head into the second tunnel from the left. He sees the captain smelling the air and heading for the middle cave in the lower area, but he stops him and directs him to follow. With the captain being blind, it's a bad idea to let him go alone.
Player: Why couldn't you have just restarted the game before sending it to me?
Player: It would have saved me from all of these issues.
CowBoy: Ok, you know what? Fuck you Player.
CowBoy: Stop fucking blaming me for YOUR mistake. One that'd only lose you a few hours if you'd just restart your game correctly!
CowBoy: I told you I was in the middle of a playthrough, I'm not just going to delete my game to give it to you.
CowBoy: Giving you this game was suppose to be for fun, not for YOU to throw it back in my face just cause YOU couldn't delete it correctly, Player.
CowBoy: W/e man, I got another game to play and don't need to put up with your frankly abusive bullshit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
CowBoy: Txt me later when ur a lil more put together cause I'm not playing anything with you when you're like this bye.
As your friend stops talking you are left with a rather mixed feeling on the situation. On one hand your friend caused this madness by treating the AIs horribly. These AIs are people on some level and you can't believe your friend would treat them like that.
On the other hand, you can't fully blame him. You messed up. You could have ended their suffering a long time ago. You're not sure you could even fully blame your friend; he didn't understand, he thought it was a game.
And it is.
But he didn't understand it was more than that. You end up thinking back to all the games you've played in the past. All the people you murdered in other games. Slamming the gas on a car, rolling it onto a sidewalk and crushing a crowd of people. All those enemies you've killed just because they were on the "other side." The random townspeople you've murdered for more money to get a new item. What if any of them were like the AIs?
"But they would have said something." you mumble under your breath.
You remember that none of the AIs but Apollo had talked to you directly first. You wouldn't have known if not for Apollo, and they wouldn't have even hinted had you not shown you already knew. Mors even noted that some of them disliked jumping "out of character."
What if other games were like this? The characters understanding they were in a game and just accepting their fate?
Or even worse, they didn't know they were inside a game and believed that this was the way the world worked.
You had a lot of power in your hands. You could be good, friends to these AIs and this universe, or you could accept that the AIs were just a part of the game. Just like any other NPC in a video game. Any other obstacle in your way.
You'd have to think about it.
