ARCADE SESSION: REBOOTED

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You freeze for a moment, and Echo follows suit, clearly waiting on a response from you. After a few moments, you decide to tell the truth- just not all of it.

Trinket says it was about a half hour ago.
Well, there's no way that's a coincidence, because we only woke up around a half hour ago.
...Yeah.

There's an awkward silence while all four kobolds think about the ramifications of this new information.

...Trinket says the world started as a blank slate, and she had the power to fill it with things, so she did. But she doesn't have control over the things she makes. She doesn't want you to feel indebted to her or anything like that.

...If it helps at all, she also made me.

...Orkahm?

...Fuck.

Orkahm sits down slowly, placing his head in his hands.

So we're just... things.

After a long, uncomfortable silence, the kobold in the back speaks.

You know, this doesn't really change anything, if you think about it.
How can you say that? It's all fake.
No, listen- we started today not having any memories because of this weird group amnesia thing, right? But we still had a sense of being a family, and we were able to move past the whole memory thing pretty quickly because of that. Now we know we never had any memories to begin with, and yeah, that sucks, but nothing's actually different. We've got exactly what we had before- each other.
...
Trinket gave us a home and a sense of family. That's really all we needed.
...Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Thank you, Tamaru.
...Are you all okay?
I think we are. It's still kind of jarring, knowing we were just willed into existence by some higher being, but Tamaru's right- Trinket knew to make sure we had everything we needed, even if she couldn't give us memories. I can see why you trust her so much.

You sit there awkwardly, thinking to yourself how little actual thought you put behind your CREATE commands. Probably best not to correct them on that one.

She did say-
Oh, I don't feel indebted to her at all. In fact, I'd very much prefer it if things stopped barging in out of nowhere, but I've given up the hope that's going to stop anytime soon.

Orkahm chuckles, Echo nervously following suit.

So... All this existential stuff is great and all, but there's still a thing out there stealing our stuff.

Right. You almost forgot. It looks like Echo and the kobolds are pretty much done cleaning up. What now?