a swirling Something in an insatiable universe

[Fortuna]:

It’s been a while since your last game, and for good reason. It was starting to spiral a bit and characters and game mechanics alike were getting pretty sad. I guess it’s time you should start a new run, fresh like pulling the plastic off a new laptop. Buuuut first you should probably tell your self-aware robo-buddies goodbye, just to preface. They might not like it, but they’ll understand, right?

[You boot up Fortuna. The same monochrome logo appears and fades into the menu screen as normal. You honestly expected something else, considering that wild ride someone else had you heard about caused some funky menu mishaps. But no, it’s just the Fortuna menu screen. You open up the save files and enter the current one that was still running.

The scene boots up normally, as if it was frozen in time for all these months.

You are greeted by your two patrons, Cupid and Artemis.]

Artemis: Oh! The player has returned. Welcome back. Very good to see you again.

Cupid: Co-friend!! You’re back! Yay! I missed our play-dates.

Player: Hello you two! I missed you guys.

Cupid: yaya! What happened tho?

Player: That’s what I’m about to explain. Alrighty, so: My life outside the game has been going well, I’ve just moved to a new apartment and I really like where my life has gone lately! Of course I took a break from the expansive universe of the game to focus on other things, as is obvious from my disappearance.

Artemis: Understandable. Our relationship is of course not that personal, and the universe can’t be saved all the time. However, I do have a concern.

Player: Oh? What is it, Artemis?

Artemis: I can tell from your tone that something is still nagging at your mind, like frightened game calculating when and where to run.

Player: Oh yeah that… Okay, uh… This is gonna be hard to say.

Cupid: Whatever it is, friend I’m sure you’ll say it good! You did that when negotiat- nah... goat- okay I still can’t say that word right yet but you do good with the uh Job Shipping.

Player: fdsjkla;lfja thanks…

Artemis: (Ah yes, that weird noise you make)

Player: Alright focus with me here. I came back to say goodbye. I’m leaving-

Cupid: B-bu-but

Player: I’m sorry Cupe,

Player: It’s none of your guys’ faults, it’s the current game universe. There needs to be a fresh start. A full one. I didn’t want to suddenly delete everything without telling you guys, because that’s too much. I hope you can understand this and I hope that in the next universe we can still be friends.

Cupid: …….

Artemis: ……

Artemis: very well, co-player. This is your choice to make. May we be on good terms in the future.

Cupid: I don’ wanna go….

Player: thank you, Arte.. .And cupid?

Cupid: Yea…?

Player: You are a great friend. If you were out here, I’d invite you to my birthday party.

Cupid: :0

Cupid: :D Okie… Goodbye, co-friend! Let’s be friends again someday!

Player: Let’s!

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[And then you save your game before exiting back to the main menu. It was a tough decision to make, but this is all for the better. Besides, you have to remind yourself that it’s just a game, just a rollercoaster of a dream that you get to have the front seat of. That rollercoaster probably has a spaceship theme to it, which would be really cool if you weren’t terrified of fast-moving rides.]

Okay! Into the settings we go.

[You select all the options on the settings and hit delete. Yes. Delete the universe.] And there it goes. All the memories, good, bad, and ugly; They’re gone. Never to be seen again, at least not in the same way as before. Welp, since that’s over, you start up a new game.

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