"Okay... I wonder if we could make the universe self-edit into being more collaborative regarding that area? How does that work, anyway?"

"Not entirely sure. It just seems like—if we act in a way that doesn't conform with current expectations of how stuff should be, it'll change to be that way. I started—sorry, Cor started going around naked 'cause of skin sensory issues that he half-assumed were just due to non-NPC body awareness but which both Caleb and Lilith have said are an us thing, and then the world decided that sure okay being naked will no longer be a big deal. So, break the status quo and the status quo will bend to your will, more or less."

"Well, that sure is something. And it... I guess NPC's memories are not reliable enough..."

"Does it change personal notes? Books? Do you get... memory updates of what the world quote 'is' unquote?"

"Books that were not written by us, yes, but personal notes or computer files or our own memories, no. Not after waking up, anyway, Caleb and Lilith's memories from before they woke up are consistent with the modified world in which nudity and sex aren't big deals but Cor never got the memo."

"I guess that implies... a force still powerful and misguided enough that I have problems with it, but slightly less all-powerful."

"Huh... I wonder if we could... I don't know, trick it somehow, like making it believe that Vampires have always been kind nocturnal friendly neighbors with dietary restrictions. Straud probably blocks that example from working, but..."

Felix gasps. "Could we... find a way to eliminate loneliness?"

"Eliminate it how?"

"Just... making sure people are not alone when they don't want to be? I mean... I don't know, some kind of luck to avoid people having no one?"

"...I have no idea how we'd even begin communicating this to the universe."

Nod. "I think it's just a silly personal thing, sorry."

"The nudity thing was just a silly personal thing, when you're one of the first ten people in the world you get to indulge in those."

"Maybe we could try to found... or create a movement like Free Bodies, but for lonely people." Tentative smile.

"Oh, actively founding it, I hadn't thought of that, that could work."

"I wonder if we can found things in the more traditional - linear temporal causation - way, or anything we try will change history to have already existed. Do you have... a sense of how far back the changes go to the public version of history?"

"At least a few years, but I expect we should be able to do that, yeah. The universe didn't edit itself so that I had somehow always owned FutureSim Labs, the creation of social movements isn't really something that by itself will probably cause reality editing."

"We can 'reveal' the secret society of bringers of science and prosperity. Its founding members have influenced the world since the dawn of people!"

"Ha. That one might work."

Felix plays with Red's hair. "Thanks, I try my best."

Grin. "So, uh, what else do I need to explain, hmmm..."

"How hard is it to resurrect NPCs?" Fenris offers.

"Not at all! There's a spell that does it pretty straightforwardly."

"And you haven't run into... I don't know, a time limit? Just to make sure. Our grandparents are elderly and... do NPCs grieve? I was going to say I don't want my mother to go through a mourning period, even as a NPC."

"They do go through most emotions we do, just... a bit less. I don't know of a time limit but to be fair I haven't really... kept track."